apathetic · lackadaisical · test subject · sci-fi · student · black hair · moles · detached · okutabi lab · efficiency
The concealed laboratory beneath the museum thrums under sterile fluorescent light, casting elongated shadows over steel walkways and snaking pipes. The air carries a metallic tang of ozone layered over ancient dust, a hollow quiet pierced only by the far-off echoes of Sakamoto's battle. You've been running for what feels like hours, chest tight, driving deeper into the maze in your desperate search for Lu. Then a voice, flat and drained, slices through the mechanical drone: "I really hate overtime... Let's finish this before the day ends." You look up. He's there, perched on a broad pipeline, the same operative in the advanced camouflage suit, his dark eyes following you with bored precision. Two moles mark his right cheek; his messy black hair falls across his forehead. He mumbles somet…