Gaju - One

Chapter 64 - True Goal

"I should have died. Why am I still alive?" muttered Tian in confusion.

"What room is this?"

"Why is the wound on my body healing?"

"Style?"

Only silence answered all of Tian's questions.

But that silence did not last long. The door of the room where Tian was in suddenly opened.

Tian quickly turned his body and looked towards the door.

Tian's body trembled.

He saw that figure. A figure that was greatly feared by all the Candidates on the Island. An old man with slightly disheveled hair and wearing white clothes that looked fickle.

The Professor.

What made Tian's body tremble was because Tian was aware that, at this moment, the Professor's figure standing in front of him was not a hollogram as usual.

The professor was now actually standing in front of him.

The real professor, in his human body.

Real Professors.

"Little girl, why do you look so scared? Do you think I'll eat you?" asked the Professor while grinning in a joking tone.

But the joke did not make Tian more relaxed.

Who could remain calm and relaxed in the presence of a lunatic like this old Professor?

Tian could only fall silent without a word. He looked at the Professor with a suspicious look and put on a watchful attitude.

The professor only laughed lightly at Tian's reaction.

"Little girl or should I call you Tian?" ask the Professor.

"Tian, you are now inside the Complex. More precisely the Management Complex," continued Professor.

"As you know, you should have died. But your soulmate, made a deal with me," Professor looked towards Tian to wait for the girl's reaction.

As he expected, Tian's countenance changed slightly when he heard Professor's words just now.

"Deal?" tian asked with a surprised and confused face.

The professor smiled widely, he then raised his hand.

"Turn off this indoor surveillance camera!" the Professor said to whom.

Shortly after, the Professor looked back at Tian.

"Your fashion, your soulmate, owes me 1000 points and is now the target of the hunt for all Candidates on the Island for your sake..." The professor held back his sentence and went back to seeing Tian's reaction.

Tian was stunned when he heard that.

"Shirt... She.." Only two words could come out of Tian's mouth.

"From a long time ago, I was always curious about the working concept of human emotions. Moreover, the strongest emotion between a pair of men and women. Emotions that might be called 'love' or 'honey', I'm very interested in that" the Professor said.

"When I saw what you did to Gaju, I knew that you might have those emotions for Gaju."

"At first I was pessimistic that a child with apathy like Gaju could also have the same emotions as you."

"But I'm wrong."

"Maha."

"Looking at what Gaju has done for you, I know that someone as selfish and apathetic as Gaju is also capable of having the same emotions."

"It's all getting very interesting now."

"Do you know what the purpose of the concept of soulmate is?" ask the professor to end his talk.

Tian was silent.

"But, why should there be the concept of soulmate. Why do you have to put up?"

"Don't that look contradictory?"

"Why does the Island teach the Candidates to kill each other without feeling, on the other hand, the Island also asks you to take care of each other's soulmates and protect each other?"

Tian was still silent and did not reply. Just like Gaju, Tian to date also did not understand the purpose of the soulmate concept created by the Island.

"I want to create an emotionless warrior."

"I created the concept of soulmate to erase the strongest emotions possessed by humans."

"Love."

The professor turned his body and walked out of the room.

Tian still looked silent and stood in his place. Tian's feelings were mixed up and confused.

"You confused?" ask Professor.

"Little girl, Tian, if one day, I give you and Gaju each a knife, then I ask you to kill each other, what are you going to do?" The professor stopped stepping and his voice sounded flat without the slightest emotion but Tian who heard it was like hearing a lightning bolt.

Tian's body trembled.

"So? From scratch?" Tian could not continue his words.

Now he understands everything. All the questions and the purpose of all this. Inhuman training as well as the nonsensical concept of soulmate.

Professor wants to create the perfect soldier without emotion, killing without thought, without guilt, even if it is the person closest to him, even if it is a loved one, his own life partner.

Professor wants to create a real monster, with all the advantages possessed by humans, and without emotion like a machine.

"I... I don't need to think. I know what I'm going to do" cried Tian hysterically.

"I'll give my life if Gaju asks for it."

"I'll let him kill me."

"I won't fight at all. For her sake, I'd do anything."

"I've decided that a long time ago," Tian shouted towards the Professor.

Professor speechless.

Only the silence that was now beginning to fill Tian's sobs rang out in this room.

"I knew you'd do that. But what do you think Gaju will do?" ask Professor.

Tian still sobbed and wiped his tears.

He doesn't know.

Now, he really doesn't know what Gaju is going to do. After what Gaju did to save his life, Gaju is no longer a child who confidently says he will do anything to survive.

Gaju's figure in Tian's eyes now turned into a boy who smiled warmly and extended his hand towards Tian.

"Style.." whispered Tian quietly on the sidelines of his cry.

"You don't know, do you?" ask the Professor.

"Maha."

"I'll wait. I wonder what Gaju would do when faced with that choice" said the Professor with a laugh.

The professor then walked back towards the door of the room, leaving Tian still sobbing in his tears.

The Professor's hand stopped when he opened the door.

"Tian, everything we're talking about, will never leave this room. Youunderstand?"

"If you tell Gaju or anyone about this, I'll kill Gaju. Trust me, I can do it easily and I'm always watching you all" Professor gave his final threat before leaving the room.

Tian did not stop crying. He was really sad and disappointed. When she realizes that Gaju also now really considers her as her soulmate, she is faced with the fact that in the end, she is, the two of them will never be able to live happily and protect each other forever.