The Destruction of Batana

ZENZEN

The next day we went back to the simulation room. I don't know what else Ador wants to tell me. Wasn't our training session over yesterday? What else did he want to tell me?

“Why are you putting on such an upset face? Hey, don't tell me that my deal yesterday wasn't fun.”

I quickly changed my expression. “ No, I was just wondering what made you call me here when I just graduated and received an award in the form of a walk out of this boring laboratory.”

Ador rubbed his face. “Looks like you should get a language lesson on how to speak good and right words. Okay, since you're filing a protest, I'm going to say my intention and purpose is to call you to this simulation room.” Ador cleared a moment.

“There is one more feature I gave you in your bionic body.”

I round my eyes. “ Really?”

Ador nodded. “But I'm not sure you can control that feature at your young age.”

“What does it mean?”

“That feature will not be active when you are under fifteen years old. I made that feature only active when you're past the age of fifteen. Wh why? Because I designed it like a real body. It is like building a muscle in a human. They need hard exercise to get the muscles they want. Since you are currently twelve years old and you have no previous athletic experience, you need time to train a bioinic body like a real body.”

“Then why do you tell me now?” I put on a flat face. It was like just getting hope and that hope just disappeared.

Ador chuckles. “I purposely told you this time because I want you to prepare everything before your age reaches fifteen.”

“So you mean I'll learn logic and dizzying theories of it until I'm fifteen.”

“Oi! I haven't finished talking you've already concluded. I'll send you to an academy.”

I glare. The academy? How unlikely...

“If you want to ask, just ask. Don't put on a face not believing that. I'm serious, son. I'll send you to a special academy. Coincidentally I want you to beat someone there.”

Gosh darn. Turns out he had ulterior intentions. “What does it mean to beat someone? Who do you want to beat?”

“She is my impersonator.”

“Personator? Meaning the person who once got you kicked out of school for thinking you plagiarized his work?”

“BINGO! I told you a story, right? That someone imitated my invention. And the discovery he's emulating from me is a bionic body using the heat energy of the human body. The discovery was nothing more than a piece of junk. So I'm not too hit with the fact that I got kicked out of school just because of that trivial issue. But this time I'm starting to be confident, son. I did research for years. And it's time for me to prove that they misjudged me. The academy itself is still one foundation with my former school. If I'm not mistaken, I hear he's a professor there. I don't know, I just caught a glimpse of his face on television. I wanted to give him a little kick so he would realize that he had lost to me since we went to school. Actually if I graduated on that day, I'm sure that now the one on television is not him, but someone else.”

I nodded in understanding. At least this could be an opportunity to pursue my goal. “Agree, I'll go there.”

“So fast? at least listen to my explanation.”

I shook my head. “No need, my brain is already very full by your explanation, I guess there is no more space left. If you give me another explanation, it'll just make my brain explode.”

Ador laughed out loud. His voice filled the room. “There are cases of brain bursting just because it receives millions or even trillions of information that goes into a brain. Son, it looks like you're taking your brain too lightly.” Ador shook his head. “Otak is the most important part in our body”

Start again the explanation at length and long-winded. I just rolled my eyeballs and rubbed my face. I just lay my body on the floor.

“Good idea, you can listen to me while lying there.” Ador gave me a compliment.

I blew my poniku. Why does he praise me.

“Why do I always give you theories about the brain and so on, it's because your entire bionic body is unconsciously connected to your brain. If at this time your brain is exploding, or you are experiencing severe stress, right now you will not be able to control your bionic body properly and correctly. Same with the real body. When a person is thinking a lot or in a state of dizziness and stress, they tend to get tired easily. Even in some cases it can cause various diseases. That's why humans have different thinking skills using their brains,”

“The bottom line is you just want to say if I'm smart.” I cut the conversation while playing a hair boy.

“Oi! Don't jump to conclusions. You have to understand the details of each of my words.”

“Why don't we continue discussing the academy.” I pleaded with a clear smile. Ask him to change the topic, at least in addition to related words about the mind or brain. I'm tired of all those explanations.

“But my teachers like him better than me. I don't know why they did that. Is it because our levels are far different or just because of our popularity that the difference is like heaven and earth.”

“And I'm sure, you used to be so ugly that you couldn't get the trust of others.” I shook my head. I will almost laugh.

“What did you say, huh?” Ador exclaimed inadmissive. “You think who you are to dare to insult the face of my face.”

I just shrugged my shoulders, no matter what. He turned and turned back.

“But it is true, anyway.” Ador rubbed his forehead. “But that fact makes me always not want to lose to him. I always try to maintain my rank and achievements while in school. Many people say that we are both rivals. I dispute that. Of course to me he is a mortal enemy that I hate so much. The term rival is only used if two people are friends but have one common goal and are competing to get what they are headed for. While we both are not friends and we also have different goals.”

“But the day arrived, graduation exam. At that school at least we should be able to create an invention before graduation. As you know. A very sad ending. Cario mimics my invention and says that I'm the one who's trying to copy his work. Let all teachers believe in his words. I can only resign and leave school feeling full of anger and disappointment.”

Ador was silent for a moment while rubbing his hair. “Oke, we suffice for the story of his past. By the way, you never told me anything and just listened to all of my words. Nothing you want to tell me?”

“No.” I answered firmly.

“Cih, you are a very simple boy. Then I'll tell you a little bit about the academy. The academy contains a collection of people from various agencies of bionic body-making companies. You could say the agencies gathered in one place to show who is the creator of the most advanced bionic body products. It's just not just the bionic body they're monitoring. Sometimes if the child has an intelligence and the best advantage over others in some fields, they will be famous and become cadres as a trial of various bionic body products from other agencies. Therefore, the ability of the invidu is also highly prioritized. So every agency sends a cadre of talented and promising children. If not wrong they are selected from a home or special trials.”

“In the academy itself not everyone can graduate. They could have failed from the beginning, or even at the end. Their lives, their futures, their careers, all of that is arguably very much at stake in the academy. With a system that only pays attention to the top and talented kids, I'm fed up with all of those things. If they fail they will be thrown away, the bionic bodies will be stripped away from them, and left adrift in the streets without anyone willing to care for them or care. Let him be a street loser and feel how painful life can be. It was an evil and very inhumane way. They have lost everything but are made worse by losing their future. How cruel! Really biadap!”

“But what is the difference between you and them? Didn't you also throw out Bastian?”

Ador was silent for a moment. “I didn't throw it away, son. I expelled. Of course I still let him wear my fake legs. I also gave him the capital to support his life. The money from the results I made a documentary video about him. Without that video Gyo would probably never come to me and continue his business as a chef. Maybe if there wasn't that video I'd never have the income to take care of the other kids. I also definitely won't be able to make your bionic body and enjoy things with all of you. Sometimes in this world there are some beautiful experiences behind the bitterness of reality. Bastian did let me down, but behind that he gave me a memory I couldn't buy with money, son. Happiness always comes at the beginning and pain always comes at the end. That's why I don't hate him completely.”

I was thinking sejeank. I don't think I can accept his words at all. Whatever memories we have made with someone, but suddenly someone changes and turns to hurt you, it will only bring good, fruitful memories into bad ones. Therefore I still can not accept the behavior of people “itu” to me. First he was the cause of my brother's death. And the second he left me alone.that is what makes me hate more than my hatred of the world.Every time I remember that moment my heart feels gripped by something.

“So when will I be able to enter the academy?”

“Next year. You have to finish elementary school before you can enter that academy, son.”

“Eh? But I never went to school.” I rubbed my hair bangs.

“You will undergo an acceler class. In this era, there are many private schools that provide accelerated classes for those who are late or never climb the primary school level and so on. Not everyone can take an acceler class. This class tends to give a variety of tasks more than ordinary classes. Plus their lessons aren't messing around. It's like a six-year lesson summarized into a year. That's why I'm gonna put you in there for a year. And one more thing, the acceler class can be said to be the most expensive class. Of course teaching all the subjects for six years into one year is not easy. But it's not a problem for me. After all, the money I have to spend is worth the price I have to pay with the humiliation I received first.”

I'm just gaping. Is that true? Six-year lessons stacked up into a year? Just imagining it makes my brain dizzy.

“I'm sure you're capable of that class, Zenzen. I can tell if you're smart from birth. How could I have chosen you to be a delegate to the academy if I didn't know you were smart. I'm sure one hundred percent you can take that class for a year.”

I just rubbed my face. It's really complicated. Is being a great person this difficult? As if there was no choice for me but to crawl on top of a sharp thorny field.

The song I sing

The feeling I feel is pain

The life I live with hatred

The path I walked on the barbed field

So I decided it was raining today.

True too, is not my life is always difficult since long ago. And I won't be happy until I've overcome all these difficulties. I returned to my sitting position and looked at Ador with a serious face.

“OK, I'll do it.”