The villainess shall be mine

After talking to his parents, Adam was determined to find some strategies or some tools that could help him increase his strength because, and considering the circumstances, there was nothing much he could do apart from that.

'I tried to float but I couldn't do it anymore?' Adam thought to himself. 'There must be something that I don't understand completely about my power, and the answer is somewhere inside my head, but there is just too much information that I have just acquired. I need time..'

He believed that just training his physical strength was not going to do much because there was not much time, so he decided to visit the only place where he could probably find such a thing, the research department.

When he entered the research department building, the first thing he saw was a woman that he vaguely remembered.

"Good morning, Ca-Carlie…?" Adam muttered, although he sounded unsure, as he looked at the brown-haired woman with ample chest.

The woman shot a piercing glare at Adam.

"Ha? Are you trying to make a funny joke, or did you finally become senile?" She said, looking at Adam tiresomely, and dark circles were apparent under her eyes. "Anyway, don't talk to me now, I am going to sleep."

Adam didn't say anything to Carlis and just looked bewildered. She was always like that even though she know Adam's status.

'This place is a mess as always.' Adam thought, seeing the room, and likely the entire building, that was filled with failed prototypes, junk metals, paper sheets, books of all sorts, and other unknown materials.

It looked more like some kind of a mad scientist's dungeon than a proper laboratory.

Seeing Adam's reaction the woman remarked something. "What's wrong with you? You look so… I don't know, different?"

"Well, I..."

Adam saw a confusing scene flashing back inside of his mind. However, all he was sure about was that he needed to do something about himself.

Before Adam could say anything, the woman looked at him and made her point.

"Is it because of what happened yesterday? Honestly, I didn't think that something like that would affect you." She scorned, looking at Adam as if she was trying to settle an old grudge. "Thinking back about how you looked so confident every time you came here, treating me like an amateur and looking down at me with these red eyes, I never thought that you had stage fright..."

"What? Red eyes?" Adam looked confused.

"Mm? Whatever. I got no time to comfort you if that's what you came here for… Unlike you, I am a full-fledged scientist. But for now, I gotta sleep," the woman said, but she was mumbling rather than talking, and then disappeared somewhere inside of one the room inside the building.

"What's up with her?" Adam wondered out loud.

"Don't mind her, Caroline is just trying to cheer you up in her way." A voice came from behind him before he could understand what Caroline meant.

'So her name was Caroline,' Adam thought to himself.

The person who talked to Adam was a common-looking man in his thirties, and he had this aura screaming that he was a scientist just from the look on his face and the glasses that he was wearing.

Adam greeted the middle-aged man. "Ah, Good morning…. Mr…?"

"Haha, Good morning, it's Joshua. You are still as uninterested in people's names as always, young Lord. But I am glad that you are still your usual self after yesterday's incident," the man said, and unlike his appearance suggested, the man had a deep and manly voice.

"Haha.." Adam let out a dry laugh.

"Anyway, I will ask you again if I have some questions related to that project. For now, I need to focus on my research… Hehe," Joshua said, and an ominous smile appeared on his face as he walked away.

Adam was seriously confused by how these people treated him.

'This is a little bit annoying. I can remember the existence of these people but some details don't match up with my memories. What kind of person was I in these people's minds?' Adam thought.

Every time he reflected on something, his mind became an encyclopedia.

If someone has written about Adam's story and readers could see what was happening inside of Adam's head, then they might think it was a bad joke and the author tried to force them to read a reference book.

Still, Adam knew that it was dangerous to leave things to luck when his life was at stake, and even if he didn't do anything, the world would still move forward with or without him.

But people hesitated when confronted with doubt and uncertainties, and sometimes, it affected their decision and even their personality.

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:::[Adam's POV]:::

The research facility should be familiar to me, yet everything felt foreign when I took a closer look at the surrounding.

I looked around the room and inspected every corner of every closet.

'It feels like I didn't come here for a while,' I thought

When I thought about the reason for all of this, then all I could think about was what happened yesterday.

'Why I can't remember about these things though?' I contemplated, but I decided to not think about too much stuff at the same time. 'Still, at this point, I don't even know what I should expect.'

I walked around the building for a while and finally arrived in front of a room that I was familiar with.

I opened the door, using a key that I only possessed, and then entered the room.

"What the hell is all of this?" I said.

The scene in from of me was just too startling, so I was more stunned than I expected.

The room was packed with a lot of futuristic-looking gadgets that, lying around almost in every corner room.

"Did I create all of this?" I wondered out loud and picked a cube-like object on the table and examined it. I knew that I worked here for a long time but not enough to create all of the things that I saw in front of me.

"It seems like I am faced with another mystery. As if what's happening inside my head wasn't enough," I said to myself, but I knew that there was an explanation for all of it, but I just couldn't connect the dots yet.

Nonetheless, I was excited to see all of the high-tech stuff inside the room.

The first thing I needed to do was to examine all of these gadgets and understand their functionality.

Also, I needed to distinguish the prototypes from the useful ones.

There was a lot of work to do.

For these past fifteen years, it felt like everything was easy and going smoothly, but after what happened, I knew that my efforts weren't enough.

"So first, what is this cube? It looked important because it was left on the table and not on the floor like everything else…" I wondered and examined the black cube. "I can somehow remember everything else, but this one... Mmmm, I can't remember when I created this. Or does it belongs to someone else? Well, that's unlikely."

The surface of the cube was metallic, and when I took a closer look at it with a microscope nearby, I found out that the cube was not a chunk of some kind of metal, instead, it was the product of the assemblage of tiny little fragments.

"Nanotechnology?" I said out loud.

The cube was something made with extreme precision and a lot of attention the detail.

As a whole, it was perfectly shaped without any flaw, and every component that constituted it was perfect without even one single flaw.

I placed the cube in front of my face, trying to find out if it had other functionalities.

'Pzzz!'

Suddenly, a faint red light was projected from the cube and scanned my face. Then a female voice, which sounded emotionless but also convincingly real, spoke to me.

[Scan completed. Activation of the system. Welcome back, Master.]