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> Help Se-young clean your mess. Talk during it. (75)
> Insist she eats them. That's why you came here. Leave it for her if she refuses.
> Ask about your future. Strategize together. Talk of escape, the Black Market, Omina, Natalie and and the changing events in the school.
You can't just stand out there while Se-young toils. There is too much of those fluids and scales all around for her alone, and her being stubborn about it doesn't help anything. In a way she's kinda like Jaq.
Although Jaq was probably vengeful as a distraction for her power grab...
Hastily, you drop to the ceramic floor and grab a cloth of your own. As you start mopping the carpet, Se-young gives you a deathly glare with her cold eyes.
You shudder and quickly blurt out. "You told me not to, but I wouldn't be a cleaning club's president if I just stood there! Look, I know you can do it yourself..." It's a lie, but Se-young slightly relaxes her gaze. "...but I want to talk with you too."
"What do you want to talk about?"
"Is the future alright?" You say with a small smile, which takes her aback. "We survived the last time, now it's time to pick ourselves up and plan next course of action."
"Indeed." She says seriously, but gets back to cleaning. "We need to plan our escape. Last time can't... It can't happen again."
Happy with her renewed willingness to cooperate you go on. "Can I ask for help with something?"
Immediately, she nods. "Of course, Aki."
The name doesn't slip your attention, but you continue anyway. "Well, one thing led to another, and I ended up in a place called 'Black Market'."
"There is such a place?" Her expression furrowing. "It wasn't in the documents."
Well, no wonder no student told her of it's existence...
"Anyways, there I met a biological female calling herself 'Omnia'. Do you know about her?"
Se-young shakes her head. "I'm afraid such alias slipped my attention."
Undaunted you continue the story. "Okay. Do you know of a girl named 'Natalie'? I have her document and found... *Cough* some other things."
Stopping her cleaning, she brings her hand to her chin in thought. "Yes, there was a girl named 'Natalie' in the council documents. Before this place, she was a prodigy in medicine in the high-end British university. However, she gave up studying there and, for some reason, applied into this facility together with a much less impressive girl... I think her name was Olivia or Olga."
Then she gets back to her task. "Mind you, I advise to stay away from the biological girls. The school keeps them docile by keeping them privileged over the boys. All they do is play their petty clubs and gorge themselves in luxuries and illusions of grandeur, meanwhile they are prisoners all the same. With a fraction of their privileges we would already be free."
"...Or we would end up just like them." You say warily.
"I suppose. The school made sure to disincentivise any principles they could have. To them, it's all just games. Remember that."
