The wind rustles as rushing footsteps run through the dry leaves at the heart of the forest. He was catching his breath as he thumped his foot on the ground. The forest was full of everlasting tall trees with no sight of safe ground. All he could see was an ever-lasting hallway for him to run and he could also hear the rustling wind that was chasing him. He already couldn't feel his feet running on the ground. He felt like he was running in the wind due to his pace and if anything hit him he was sure that he would stumble. It was a harsh wind, an icy wind that he did not want to be apart from.







Rugged and icy fog came out of his mouth as he took a breath.







'I'm going to make it," he says in a slow voice while catching his breath. Trying to convince himself that he is not going to die. Not today and not tomorrow, but not until he saw that thing out there, his knees were weaken

There were a lot of questions running in his mind. How on earth would he ever take the lead on his brother in this kind of situation? He looked like shit and couldn't even think straight. What will happen to him now and why does he look like a puppet?











He looked again at his reflection in the mirror and averted his eyes back. He couldn't stand what he was looking at. He wanted to scream for help. The place that he is at is surely hell. He was in deep thought and he could even hear his heart beat thumping so fast. He was afraid and he admitted that. He is alive but it looks like he was sent to hell to live because he doesn't know when.











A noise of scissors like it was sharpening it. Footsteps approaching where his direction is. It was echoing in the whole room and he thought that the room was just a small corner, but there it was dark, so he was not sure. It was not a 

WIC Company







WIC is an acronym for Welfare and Institutions Code, which is managed by the government and scientists. It was originally built in Arizona, United States, but the government expelled them due to their insane experiments. So the WIC Company lay dormant for at least eight years, and no one has heard of them since. And the years that passed were spent in military service. In Japan, the WIC rebuilt their company. People out there were glorious at first because they could have a better job with a higher-paying salary and benefits, but as time passed, Japan itself had lost men.







Many young boys and old men had been missing since they had been working at that company. People began to protest about their concern about the government putting the company in prison. But because the WIC Company was strong to the government, they all closed their ears to the plea of the people. Since the government is also preparing for a war and the WIC Company is the only key to their success. Having an astral soldier means victory for a war for them and Japan will lead the whole world.







The WIC Company was, after all, an asylum apart from what the people knew. What people know is that the WIC is a medicine company that was built at the heart of the forest. So the reason for the missing workers of the WIC is because maybe they have been lost or probably eaten by a wild animal while going home. The WIC also pays every family that has lost their loved one at least two million, two hundred fifty thousand seventy-four yen (2,2550,74 yen). Some families get the sum of money and some do not. WIC expects it already to happen that someone will object and run a rally. So, in the end, the WIC company gave them a sample so that nothing could be traced to them. The leader of the rally was put into silence. That was Rolando, the head of a family who planned to hold a rally. Of course, the family suspected it was the WIC who had done it and they reported it to the police. But they were asked for evidence but they got nothing, so the case was dismissed with no justice.















The company holds men who are in different cells. The cell was specially made for every person they got. It was a circle made of glass and had a virtual television inside for the subject. The vision itself is to hypnotize the subject with a logo and come up with an experimented vial for each subject. The subject is totally naked on the globe and suctioned with different wires. Three in the head and three at their backs that connect their spinal cords.







The wires that connect the spinal cords are red, black, and yellow.







The red one controls the body movements and functions. Signals from the subject's brain to other body parts control the subject's movements. It also directs autonomic (involuntary) functions like breathing rate and heartbeat. The WIC had given the idea which resulted in a vial of medicine that could help strengthen and double or even triple the stamina of the subject. Because once the stamina of the subject is down, then the astral will vanish. The red wire helps the scientist to look at every subject's data in the system to see if it is working well. Also, it has a dangerous part for the subject's body. The subject may cause a lot of complications due to the experiment and because of the medicines that the subject is taking, but the WIC does not care. They can easily abrupt the subject and change into another one. But they are sure that they can use the subject for at least two to five years, depending on the subject's will to live.







The subject can definitely see their own body on the globe and has the consciousness that it was them, but they have no control of their body even though they want to escape. The WIC controls them. Every day and every hour that passes, the subject's body becomes weaker and weaker.











The second one is black. It reports senses to the subject's brain. Signals from other parts of the subject's body help the brain record and process sensations like pressure or pain. The black wire sends a dosage of morphine to every subject to respond to pain. But if the morphine is overdosed on the subject, it depends on the dose. The subject may feel weak, the heartbeat will slow, the skin of the subject will become pale, but the scientists will not let that happen because it is their soldiers and they make it to be perfect. The first and only astral that will go to war.



Yes, the soldiers are astral but if they are hit or have been targeted, it will directly impact the subject's body, which the scientists are still working on how to dwell on. But all along, the WIC was perfect for war combat.







Lastly, the yellow wire manages the subject's reflexes. The spinal cord controls some reflexes (involuntary movements) without involving the subject's brain. This is the fun part because it can be controlled by someone, who can be taken by all of the soldiers simultaneously. If that person kicks the soldier, or even just a soldier can kick. It can be piloted by someone and it can also do it on its own.







There are some cases in Arizona which make the WIC project go into horror. The three sample subjects with different styles of experimenting came to failure, which went the subjects in extreme cases. The number one subject was a professor who works part time at the WIC Company as a scientist because he studies biology and is in love with science, so he became the first Project Wilson of WIC. They named the project, Wilson, because it was named after the father of the creator, Dr. Vega Gambit. The professor goes insane and turns into a brutal killer, but even though he was kept because he is a great soldier, they do get the project to perfection. That professor was Mr. Samson, he was a famous teacher at the college where he was working and liked the girl students and even his co-workers. So his missing news spread like a fire and was also controversial in Arizona.







The second subject was a student of the University of Arizona. He is a nerd guy and does techy stuff and also works at WIC part time. He was paid highly due to his techy stuff and input a lot of codes that the WIC did not know. So then Dr. Vega was interested in this guy named Albert. Albert was used to creating a formula that helped to formulate Wilson's project to perfection. The subject number two became a calm psycho guy. He is still alive and well taken care of by Dr. Vega because of his brain. Since he was a nerd guy, he didn't get really controversial but someone was still looking for him.







The third subject was an old man who was an enemy of the Gambit. It was not intentional for him to be one of the subjects to be experimented on, but that man named Mr. Ibiza is a wealthy man and an opponent of Mr. Wilson Gambit in the business industry.















Dr. Vega was a genius man and he idolized his father's work. His mother died when he turned five. It was a controversial death of the Gambit family. It was his father who had come into the idea of the astral but he didn't yet know where to use it. It was at first an impossible thing to do and I imagined an astral body using it for war.







The astral means a mystical or out of the body experience wherein the spiritual traveler leaves the physical body and travels in her or his subtle body into higher realms. And that is when Mr. Wilson has created numerous logos that will hypnotize a subject and put it to sleep but its body is still conscious. He also tried it for himself to know what it really feels like. Until he had made the perfect logo for himself. He saw himself sleeping and he was like floating in the air and the feeling was like light and he felt like he could do so much more that was out of his mind. He can do more, like he can rub a bank, sneak out, or something more. But that experiment was still not perfect because an astral cannot carry a thing. It is like the astral was smoke and you can't even touch things. So he had to find out more.







Because of the anticipation of finding some formula and investigating how it would be perfect, one of the men of Mr. Ibiza planted a bomb in Mr. Wilson's car which he used that day. Mr. Wilson died on the spot, leaving his son Vega under control of everything. He was then an eighteen-year-old boy but he had kept up with his father all of the way. He had known things even at a young age. At a young age he had promised, at the grave of his father, revenge. Everything was in the plan but it was the bait who walked down the aisle of the prey. Dr. Vega took the chance and in the end he was experimented.















And now that they are in Japan, Dr. Vega feels like it was his home for preparation for war. Not just like taking the lead of the people, but also making the government kneel on their knees for their soldiers. He had power and wealth.











Dr. Vega still cannot forget what his father said to him when he was young and his heart was a pure innocent one. He didn't understand all of those words that his father had said to him. He thinks it was crucial and not the right thing.











'Son, do you know what is more powerful?" His father asked out of the blue while they were in their garden taking some air. It was his father's free time and he was happy to spend time with his father.







Even though his father was already in their house, there was always security who guarded them.







Vega looked at his father with full confidence and answered, 'Knowledge, papa."







His father slowly shakes his head and pinpoints his finger at a guard and at him. Vega did not know what was going on but the guard was slowly walking in his direction and, once, he was in front of him. The guard grabs the young boy's neck and lifts him. He was choking and in a second his father snapped his finger. The guard carefully put Vega where he was seated and got back to his position, but Vega noticed that the guard was sweating and looked cold.







Vega was keeping his breath and looked terrified as he looked at his father. It didn't answer in his mind what just happened. He touched his neck and he could still feel the grope in his neck and as if he was still losing some air. He feels like he is going to cry for no time.







'Did the knowledge help you out there my son?" his father asked, and as Vega looked at his father he couldn't seem to know if the person in front of him was his father or not. Because his aura had changed to something like a devil's person and he was terrified. But later on, his father smiled and patted his head gently.











'Son, the most powerful thing here on earth is power. Just look at what I just did… to you," he said and his eyes were piercing as he looked at his terrified son, but he knew it would pass by. Mr. Wison wants his son to learn fast.











'In this wretched world, nothing ever goes as planned, and the longer you live, the more you will learn that the only things that genuinely exist in this reality are misery, sorrow, and despair. Listen, wherever there is light in this world, there will always be shadows to be discovered, and as long as there is a concept of victors, there will also be vanquished. There are nexuses casual relationships that cannot be separated because the selfish goal of wanting to preserve peace causes conflicts and hatred is born in order to protect love."











His father withdraws something from his hand and from what Vega knows it was a gun, which makes him more shaky. He slowly lifted the gun to where the guard was. The guard that choked vega.











'M-master, I was just following your order a-and-," he didn't finish what he was about to say when a loud bang echoed which caused a ring in Vega's ears. It was painful.







His father pulled the trigger.











Vega was shocked and traumatized at the sudden image of what he had witnessed.











There is so much that he finds it difficult to process for him.











'Clean it," he said as he ordered, and looked at his gun and smiled.











'Wake up to reality, my son."



















So now he knows what those words really meant and he is living for it. Every person that was captured inside the asylum had nowhere to escape. It is either they run, hide and survive.







On every occasion, there is a person that was born that is fascinated by humans. Fascinated by science. Fascinated by blood. Fascinated by taking the world. There is always darkness in light.

The wind rustles as rushing footsteps run through the dry leaves at the heart of the forest. He was catching his breath as he thumped his foot on the ground. The forest was full of everlasting tall trees with no sight of safe ground. All he could see was an ever-lasting hallway for him to run and he could also hear the rustling wind that was chasing him. He already couldn't feel his feet running on the ground. He felt like he was running in the wind due to his pace and if anything hit him he was sure that he would stumble. It was a harsh wind, an icy wind that he did not want to be apart from.







Rugged and icy fog came out of his mouth as he took a breath.







'I'm going to make it," he says in a slow voice while catching his breath. Trying to convince himself that he is not going to die. Not today and not tomorrow, but not until he saw that thing out there, his knees were weakened by the horror that he had witnessed.







If only he had listened to his brother and he sensed 

Chapter 6