VRMMO | Terris Story: Someone "Them"

01:C.Eccentric One, Bonds of Three

A psychologist stared at several check-up sheets in his hand. He frowned and looked confused.

'What the fuck is with this scan?' thought.

Lia Devina, a psychologist sent directly to examine a girl with Slaveminds.

"Slaveminds. . ? What. . ?"

That was his reaction when he first heard it. However, it was a reasonable reaction as information about the disease was still kept secret. Or, intentionally not to be revealed?

At first he thought the check-up copy shown to him was fabrication. But. . .

"What if you see it for yourself, Doctor Lia?" said an old man who was sitting in his chair with a serious face.

Looking back at the check-up results that are still new to his hand, Lia was getting confused.

'Old man, what is this really?'

Even he was surprised several times, starting from the time he was sent to the Amaryllis residence without being given further explanation. And now, the daughter of the Amaryllis family is sitting quietly examined by several medical personnel without showing any meaningful expression.

As a psychologist, Lia was trained to read others. Study the patient's mentality and find the root of the problem they are facing and then provide solutions. It is not new anymore if he faces people who are 'less healthy' mentally.

And one way to look at the mental state of the patient is to do a brain scan.

But who would have thought, of the many scans he had seen, the results of this scan gave him a new surprise. Especially in terms of brain waves belonging to the girl.

Two types of waves are seen to overlap between the Gamma and Delta wave types. There should, logically, be only one wave at the same time. Moreover, the two waves are very not supposed to be mixed.

Gamma waves are only released by the human brain when it is in an active state of mind. Delta sedangan instead, issued while sleeping. Obviously, the two are very different.

Looking at the girl from the corner of her eyes, Lia immediately realized something.

This is not just a normal mental issue. And it was definitely not as simple as he had thought and not an engineering as he had expected. Therefore, Lia rounded up her choice this time.

"Noa." he said softly.

"What's Doctor Lia doing?" a flat sound came out from the headphones attached to his head.

"Change my schedule to a time I can't yet determine. Mark everything as a busy day."

"Understand."

...———...

Six years after that day.

Lia was sitting in her own private workspace with piles of paper here and there.

From that day on, she was still learning things about the daughter of the Amaryllis family, Amaryllis Illian Linnea. And during that time, his brain seemed to experience a historical event called Romusha.

But all his efforts were not without results.

Thanks to his choice at that time, he has now received many awards in the field of medical and technology. Especially the things that concern the human brain —though in fact it is not the main purpose.

Call it one of the breakthroughs he found, Mind Accelerator Device —abbreviated as Macovic, a tool that effectively improves brain performance.

Not only does it make people have better brain performance. This tool is able to increase a person's IQ, prevent memory decline to cure concussions. And since his extraordinary discovery, the quality of human resources has finally increased sharply which has an effect on the growth of all sectors in various countries of unity.

Not only that. Thanks to the existing patent law, Lia managed to accumulate wealth over all of her inventions. And now, both name, wealth and reputation were in his pocket. He can enjoy life casually without bothering to do anything.

However, despite being a person who can be juxtaposed with figures such as Marie Curie or Freud, Lia did not forget the task that was given to her from the beginning.

Prevent the possibility of identity disorientation that Amaryllis Illian Linnea has.

Truth be told, Lia felt herself to have innumerable debts with the girl even though the person in question never knew, or perhaps did not care.

Lia took the smartphone from her shirt pocket. Once turned on, a photo that became a homescreen wallpaper was clearly visible, the three of them. Makes him remember a long time has passed.

Still fresh in her memory, the moment where Lia still did not know the girl and tried to interact with her.

Like most people who don't know each other. There was some kind of wall that made it difficult for him to get close to the girl and he thought it was common. But the more he watched the girl, he finally realized that it was not just a wall but fear.

But Lia tried in various ways without giving up. He has a sense of responsibility for it. So, even though things weren't easy, Lia didn't know the word 'back off'.

And the work he did finally began to show results. Slowly as time passed, the girl was finally willing to talk to him even if it was just a word or two.

Progress was progress, and Lia smiled happily as she watched the girl begin to open up.

Until one day, he accidentally found the girl sitting in a quiet garden, alone, crying. It was surprising considering that the girl should always be watched and guarded by special people under the orders of Nova Reiner.

But while she herself is confused as to how the girl got away, Lia emboldens herself to walk up to her seemingly unfortunate figure; and becomes the beginning of how she knows them.

It was then that he began to understand how stupid people were to turn the girl before him into that.

. . .

"Doctor Lia, 5 minutes before 17:00" Noa said in a flat tone that was always the same.

"Good."

Lia finally left the room with a few pieces of paper and went to the Amaryllis residence.

'With this. . . I hope that with this they are both a little better.' she hoped inwardly, smiling with the papers in her hand.

It did not take long, he had arrived in front of the gate with his favorite red motorbike. It was basically not too far from the Amaryllis residence, where he himself decided to move to be closer.

And because she has long been known, Lia can go in and out of the Amaryllis residence easily without having to be checked by a group of security guards who in fact are bald, sangar and muscular.

Yes. . , although he himself could only smile stiffly each time he passed the security guard post; thanks to a bitter experience that left him almost fainting in fear.

Passing through a fairly large park, Lia parked her motorbike beside the main building. And as usual, Haris had been waiting for him outside with Butler's uniform neatly attached.

"Doctor." welcome Haris.

"Bring me in" he said briefly.

In Amaryllis' library, a person is seen sitting casually reading a book. Long silver hair and a pair of sky blue eyes, Linnea was seen enjoying her quiet time.

Lia who saw that immediately smiled nosily and slowly stepped over without making a sound.

Noa, who was his assistant certainly did not stay silent and immediately warned "Doctor Lia, please not—"

"Ba!!—"

—Prack!

An inch-thick book flew over, beating up the brash creature.

———

About Noa.

Noa is Lia's personal assistant doctor. Artificial Intelligent (AI) is given to him as a gift after becoming the best graduate of the university where he studied.

The shape of Noa itself is similar to Headphones. Lia chose that form for no apparent reason. But ignoring his 'centric' choice, Noa has intelligence like a human even more. And after several modifications, in addition to the increase in intelligence, many features were added including some that concerned the discovery of Lia's property.

—With the advancement of technology, AI has often been encountered in many ways. Only, what distinguishes each AI is their level of intelligence, ranging from simple AI to Super AI.