"Tch."
After Agate finished speaking, Seventy-Six clapped twice, slow and deliberate, and said coldly, "Why am I not surprised at all? Efficiency, value... just what you'd expect from the Mechanical Order.
"Even if we die in a Void Storm, our corpses still have to generate some value for those oil-leaking bastards."
Seventy-Six's sarcasm was, of course, born from his own resentment.
As one of the Assassin Court's most powerful prototypes, his full designation was Subject Seventy-Six of the Sixth Column Experimental Group, part of the 320,000th experiment. A single column group often consisted of two thousand mortal test subjects.
Only those who knew could truly know the inhuman torment he had endured.
Stearns, sitting on a metal bench in the cabin with Raphael, grew to understand the immense importance of this rescue mission after learning all its details.
