Silas raised an eyebrow. "Meiko Fujii claims she was raised by Frederick Vane and was just following his orders."
"Is that what her file says?" Claire asked, her curiosity piqued.
Silas nodded. "Yes, before coming here, we pulled all her exchange student records from The Cabinda University."
"She's an orphan, adopted by Vane."
"I suspect Vane isn't her real mentor," Claire said, frowning at Silas.
Silas froze. If Meiko's teacher wasn't Vane, then what was her actual motive for being here?
Was all that acting with Vane just a ruse to lure Claire back to Sundara?
"Do you have any proof of this?"
Without evidence, it was dangerous to jump to conclusions.
Claire recalled Meiko's intense fascination with medical science. "She's a doctor
with a deep interest in traditional medicine."
"That means her true mentor must at least be a medical professional."
"Foster—I mean, Vane—that old bastard clearly isn't a doctor."
"He's a physicist."
"I can buy that he's Meiko Fujii's adoptive father, but there's no way he's her teacher."
"Besides, when I mentioned earlier that Vane's condition was incurable, he didn't seem all that concerned."
He wasn't worried about being incurable, yet he was obsessed with getting Claire to treat him. Was the man delusional?
"Why wouldn't he be worried? Is he not afraid to die?"
Silas asked instinctively.
But the answer clicked into place a second later.
Did someone in Sundara have a cure for him?
"I accidentally provoked him earlier, and he claimed his body could be sacrificed for medical science."
"It sounded like he believed he could swap bodies-maybe even transfer his brain."
"He's obsessed with my mathematical genius. I think he planned to use some twisted procedure to steal my body for himself!"
Silas stared in sheer disbelief. "The man is an absolute lunatic."
In this world, physical reconstruction existed in the form of plastic surgery.
But swapping brains to steal someone else's natural talent was scientifically impossible.
Unless―
He looked up at Claire, who nodded back. They were on the exact same page.
Sundara was conducting horrific, illegal experiments aimed at genetic and physical consciousness swapping.
Could they actually use extreme medical procedures to transplant one person's innate genius into another?
Wait, no. Based on Vane's reaction, the procedure was a Neural Consciousness Transfer-putting his mind into Claire's body.
He would secure a healthy vessel while hijacking Claire's unparalleled intellect.
My god, the people of Sundara were psychotic!
Claire and Silas shared the exact same horrified realization.
The fact that they dared to run experiments like this proved they hadn't changed since their days of biological warfare. They were utterly Inhuman content
"If what you're saying is true, I need to report this immediately!" Silas bad originally thought this was just about catching a traitor who had been on the run for decades.
Who knew it would unravel a conspiracy this massive?
Claire shrugged. "It's just a theory for now. Interrogate them thoroughly, and you'll get your answers."
"Oh, by the way. That Meiko Fujii? She's given birth before."
Claire casually dropped another bombshell.
Shock rippled across Silas's face.
Meiko was an exchange student. She was supposed to be twenty.
That was what her forged paperwork claimed, anyway.
In reality, based on Claire's medical assessment, Meiko was already twenty-two.
She wasn't a student at that
exchange university at all. Her entire
presence in Solenia had been
ously orchestrated just to get
close to Claire.
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"Even though her real age might be twenty-two, Meiko Fujii must have been under
eighteen when she had that child."