Chapter 12 - Bio-genetics
"Dr. Touka would you please" Prime Minster Kiyoshi said to the woman seated beside him, on a lab coat, wearing a slender black grown beneath.
"Yes, Kiyoshi-sama," Kimi Touka said, she had short light indigo hair, shorten in style, her dark yellow eyes averted to the kids.
"My name is Dr. Kimi Touka and I will give you a briefing of the virus!" she began.
"The Sp-virus from our discovery known as 'Synthetic Proliferation' is a deadly virus that causes unimaginable mutation to the human cells, it's deadly to a point that it destroys all body cells in an instant, crumbling the body into nothing but molecule wastes. Although it destroys body cells it reacts differently to the different immune systems of the human body and you kids are proof of that theory. The Bio-genetics".
"In what we have been able to discover the Sp-virus has 4 stages. In the first stage known as Sp1 which is the early stage, you all experienced symptoms of coughing and bleeding from the mouth, eyes, ears, and nose. In the second stage, Sp2, your cells were altered, thereby mutating and changes of your cellular structure. The third stage, Sp3", she paused for a minute, as her expression.
This gained the attention of the kids. Touka's eyes averted to the other scientist, on a lab coat also, wearing a button brown shirt and black pants and shoes. He gave a slight nod getting her look.
"While testing your blood cells we found out that you kids have evolved into something beyond our wildest imagination," Dr. Ichigo Hachiro said, adjusting his medicated glasses, he had grey messy hair that suits him and brown eyes.
"We haven't been able to identify it completely but in due time we will, when we begin procedure" he adds certainly.
"We are certain your cellular structure were altered thus the name Bio-genetics," Touka said.
"This is getting too much to handle," Ryoji said holding his head like he was losing it.
Daiki shakes his head negatively.
"Daiki doesn't get it," he said, he turned to Kaname, who had a dark expression, his body trembling continuously, a frightened smile against his lips.
'A virus that mutated our cellular structure?' Ten thought with trembling eyes. 'Out of millions of people, we survived the virus, just us kids'. Ten's features form in a scowl. 'Our bodies were able to withstand the virus, but...' Ten glasses turned blank white.
"But there is one thing," Touka said.
"You're just kids ranging from 8 to 11, so the virus in your body is too much to handle, we were able to slow the fast spread with a synergy we developed, known as SPS. Synthetic Proliferation Serum. You will have to be injected with it regularly to reduce the virus spread to Sp4".
'Just as I thought, an unknown virus and we were exposed to it and survived, we are just kids. We may be young and healthy but a virus is something our body can't withstand, even though it altered our cellular structure'. His glasses cleared, he rubbed his chin in deep thought, all this news was a bombshell, but he wasn't gonna allow that to stop him from thinking. 'Our cellular structure was altered but still, as kids our body has a limit of which our body can withstand the virus, that's where this their so-called serum comes in, but still... What is that Sp4 stage the serum is preventing us from entering?'.
"Excuse me, Miss!" Ten squeaks raising his hand, their attention averted to him.
"How could he possibly keep asking questions in this situation," Akimoto Asano said a bit annoyed by Ten constant outbursts.
Nagami Yuki seated beside her just blinks, showing no emotion of loss or pain, her looks were neutral as she paid excessive attention to everything.
"What happens when we cross to Sp4?!"
"Death" Hachiro said darkly, adjusting his glasses.
The kids paled in shock.
"You're joking!" Yumi said closing her ears, crying. She didn't want to hear more, it was enough to hear she was now an orphan, she won't see her parents or her big brother again, and that alone was a knife to her heart and now this.
'The limit is death?! The Sp4 stage is death?' Ten thought rhetorically, with trembling eyes, deep down he didn't agree with it, but the scientists like they said have studied the virus, enough to make a serum for them and able to detect the effect of the virus on their bodies, he didn't have the evidence himself to object to what they said.
"We are on death's door," Kaneki said as his whole body trembles.
"Rest assure the process will be slowed as long as you take the SPS" Kiyoshi said.
"We are unable to find the cure. In other words" Touka said closing her eyes for a brief second and then opening it.
"There is no cure!"
The kid's expressions darken, processing all this was too much to handle.
'SPS'. Ten eyes trembled.
"A virus unknown now discovered and you have something to slow down the process that quickly!" Ten spoke up, his body trembling in shock and fear.
Prime Minster Kiyoshi, Touka, and Hachiro's eyes averted to him.
"It would have taken a great amount of time for testing and procedure".
Hachiro's expression changed knowing the kid figured it out. Touka looked away as she bit her lip. They planned to keep it a secret but Ten's curiosity was a bombshell.
"How long did it take?!"