Badou stared, mostly at the back of Alle's head. This wasn't a bad sort of surprise.

"That's actually pretty sweet. I wonder if you're the only one." Maybe that was why the institute had started flipping out. And if so... maybe that was why he only saw monster corpses in the halls. No dead patients to be dragged off and eaten or anything, just a lot of fodder for some really powerful, really pissed off people.

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