@jell_o_jello: we'll see how that pans out
@KPOPJPOP and WMatsui: Thnx
@leeway: well Yuki's death was a main goal because Mayu has to figure out why she Yuki knew her through thoughts
Chapter 2
The haunting message lingered in her mind with the body’s imprint still fresh from removal. A slight stench fumed within the room, pondering the mind of the doctor. The assistant observed the doctor many times usually confused but Jurina felt a solid piece fell into her intestines and walked over to Mayu with steady steps.
“Doctor, are you okay?” She asked with her eyes concentrating on the clock to the right of her.
“Jurina, let’s go to the dorm.” Mayu replied with her eyes fluttering fighting the diminishing energy within.
The assistant swiftly left the laboratory, forgetting about the doctor still staring at her desktop. Her curiosity grew with the item on the screen. She clicked it once, highlighting the item. Mayu had her pointer on the left button of the mouse ready to click it again. Then, she saw the drawing of the woman to the right of the mouse and grabbed it instead. A slight draw came from her stomach to her throat but slowly went back down.
Her drawings were of pleasure rather than obsession but this one caught her eye as the details masked the true beauty she had seen a few hours earlier. It was the first time she had drawn a deceased subject and she made her eyes look bright despite not knowing the color of them assuming it was brown as all others she had seen before. Mayu rarely appreciated what she drew but it seemed 3D to her as she wrapped her arms around the pad.
“Why did you pass on? You had so much to face in your life.” She mumbled to the pad as she had her arms wrapped around it.
“Dr. Watanabe, we need to leave.” Jurina informed the doctor as the clock struck ten, their curfew time.
Mayu shut down the computer and left the room with the drawing pad in hand. She closed the lights and door behind her before heading toward the dorms. It was a long corridor filled with doors of other scientists as they stayed shut. She wasn’t sure if all followed curfew but she never wanted to test that and took a right after the final laboratory and opened a door to the bridge that connected to the other building.
Jurina led the duo to other side where a red light was on and both hurried to their room on the other side of the hallway. Mayu busted through the heavy door and waved to her assistant before the door closed behind her. The doctor flipped open the lights revealing the anime posters plastered on the walls. Her fandom never got in the way of her studies but her status as an otaku was highly considered in many circles.
She walked over to her laptop in sleep mode and turned it on with notifications of twenty emails. Many were going to be deleted but the most recent one seemed to catch her eye. It was from colleague in the AI department, Matsui Rena. She grasped her cell phone and called the number realizing it was her office but it went to another phone and a voice came from the other side.
“Rena, are you sure?”
“We can collaborate on this project and if it works out, we can get that prize for ourselves.” She explained.
“What about Jurina?”
“She wants to be part of it…”
“You spoke to her?” Mayu asked as she looked at the cc field of the email.
“Remember I’m her girlfriend.” She replied with a high-pitch shrill.
“Oh right… Jurina rarely talks about you.”
“Ehhh~ That girl is your assistant and doesn’t talk about the fun events we go.” Rena said with irritation running high.
“I guess we are so busy that she forgets, although she was excited about the date for the weekend.” Mayu interjected hoping Rena would calm down.
“Date? She wants to go out this weekend? Oh god I have to decline.”
“She only spoke of it just recently, please don’t kill it.” Mayu pleaded.
“Dr. Watanabe, you are so kind to her. That girl will never understand my feelings for her.”
“I wish I had the same feelings for someone.”
“Dr. Watanabe is lonely? You can hook up with anyone here.” Rena said with a slight uplifting tone.
“I could but I feel my colleagues are colleagues rather than a lover.”
“I guess I can make a cyborg for you.”
“Let’s go back to business. Do you want my media?”
“I guess so… I can make it in a few months and we can test it.”
“Sounds fine. We shall continue this later on, I need to review my next subject.”
“I heard she was a cute subject.”
Mayu smiled at the statement. She was indeed cute but to hear how she passed on ruined the moment and held the phone next to her ear. “Yes, but I really need to go.”
The phone clicked off and placed the cell onto the table. She scanned through her unread mail before deleting them out of her inbox. Mayu laid her head onto the pillow and closed her eyes, opening her mind to the dream of her once again but it never came again. In exhaustion, the bed comforted her into a deep sleep.
She awoke next morning to knocking on her door. Mayu rolled out of bed and answered the door to Yuko, who had a wide smile on her face. She quickly rubbed her eyes and stepped out of her room.
“Mayu, we need to go to the auditorium.” She insisted as Jurina came out from her room.
“There is a big announcement.” She said happily, leaving Mayu to drag her body to the meeting place.
As she entered into the auditorium, the people sat still until Mayu took her seat and everyone stood and clapped as a video came onto the screen.
“Welcome everyone.” He greeted with a booming voice.
“I want to make an announcement that we are getting money to fund a project.” The crowd cheered.
“A joint project between Dr. Matsui of AI and Dr. Watanabe of Memory Development will develop a cyborg.”
The spotlight shined over both of them and the two headed up to the stage. The two gave a deep bow to the crowd before turning toward the video.
“Our two of the youngest scientists will work on it for the next year in hopes of developing a working cyborg for the award show.” He proclaimed with the crowd responding back with applause.
Mayu, still groggy, walked back to her seat with a half smile on her face. Jurina quickly congratulate the scientist as she lounged back to her seat. Rena came from behind and wrapped her arms around her girlfriend.
“I heard we are going on a date this weekend…”
“I’m planning it but who told you?” Jurina asked as she quickly looked at the tired doctor.
“I can’t go anyway so if you want to reschedule, next weekend is fine with me or at least the next year.” She said happily as Jurina took her seat.
“Mayu, let’s go to the laboratory.” She grabbed the doctor and dragged her into the room.
Topic: Memory no Kizuna Chapter 4 7/16/2013 (Read 3771 times)