I don’t know how to respond. Eh, isn’t this place supposed to be an area where they train the Sacred Gear possessors……? I come to witness the situation of each room as I progress through the corridor……
Just like the iron ball and the mysterious surgery, there are other rooms such as someone being drowned in water while carrying weights, and an operation room with drills and saws!
“U-Umm, Barakiel-san, what is this place……?”
I ask him timidly. That’s because I’m clearly stepping foot inside a place which doesn’t seem like the one he explained earlier!
“Yes, this is the training floor. You should take a look. In order to make themselves stronger, they came to receive training from the Grigori.”
They are receiving it!? Eeeeeeeh…… No, no matter how I look at it, it’s clearly a torture room and punishment room….. My uneasiness gets stronger, and there are nasty sweats coming from all over my body. If I think about it, this is the institute that is being operated by Azazel-sensei’s organisation.
……Saji was also taken to the Grigori’s headquarters at that time against Loki, and I heard that he received training there…… Even if I ask Saji about back then, he simply says “I don’t want to remember it!”, and shivers……
For some reason my bad feeling increases. When these things happen, I always gets dragged into weird things and meet weird people.
Barakiel-san explains it to me who is carrying unexplainable uneasiness.
“We invite or take in possessors that have no family and are left alone while having the power. This research institute is used to teach them how to use their powers.”
I see. ……But is this what the scenery where they are teaching them how to use their power should look like……? I only see it as a torture…… Oh, but if I think about it, I also received a training that was like torture from Azazel-sensei.
I think having a lifestyle where I was chased by a Dragon in the mountain is even harder.
That’s how I feel while putting on a fake smile. —Well, leaving that aside, I should ask Barakiel-san about my doubt since this is a good occasion.
“What will the people here do in the future when they learn how to use their power?”
My question. I think the Grigori’s research is something where they can lighten the suffering of Sacred Gear possessors they will be facing one day. However, are these people waiting for something to happen when that time comes? I’m concerned about it.
“Previously—before the alliance of Three Great Powers, we allowed experienced possessors to remain within the organisation in order to avoid other factions gaining powers. However, it’s different now. If there are those seeking to have a lifestyle of a normal person from the ones who can control their power, then we came to allow their desire, though it will come with several restrictions.”
That’s how Barakiel-san answers.
Putting the past aside, they can have a normal lifestyle now. It truly is an interesting circumstance.
I really do want to know more about it. I’m a Sacred Gear possessor myself, and there are also people around me who are also possessors. When I was thinking of asking a bit more about it, someone who speaks to Barakiel-san appears.
“Oh, if it isn’t Barakiel. Guhahahahaha!”
A thick voice with a heroic laugh. When I look towards the voice, there’s a man with a good physique that showed up from the room we just passed.
……But I can’t help myself but to put on a sour look after seeing the man’s appearance.
He’s wearing armour, helm, and a cape. He has an eye-patch and he has a wildish beard. But for some reason he has a shield on his left hand and an axe on his right hand! His helm seems like it has a motif of either a hawk or eagle, and his shield has the same mark on it!
Judging from his look, he looks like a leader from the enemy organisation in a tokusatsu hero programme! Except he has a design from the old generation! Rather, he’s just a weirdo!
“Oh, Armaros. So you were here.”
Barakiel-san welcomes the weirdo cheerfully! He knows him!? So he’s a staff member here despite looking like this! Barakiel-san introduces him.
“He’s one of the leaders of the Grigori, Armaros. He’s mostly researching about attacks against magic, the anti-magic.”
“Guhahahahaha! If it’s anti-magic, then leave it to me!”
So this weirdo is one of the leaders! Actually, their Governor is a weirdo himself!
Rather, this old man is wearing something that is so not anti-magic! Isn’t your fashion too far off from anti-magic!? I mean, he has an axe and shield!
“Armaros, this is Hyoudou Issei-kun, the Sekiryuutei.”
Barakiel-san introduces me to him. I also have to give my greeting to this tokusatsu leader as well.
“Umm, nice to meet you, I’m Hyoudou Issei—”
Saying it till there, the tokusatsu leader Armaros-san suddenly swings his axe at me! Owa! What’s this, all of a sudden!? I avoided it by instinct, but this old man suddenly attacked me! Armaros-san shouts while pointing his axe at me!
“I know about you, damn Oppai Dragon!