Reze 🔄⏳❤️ 『Redo』

You walk down the dark hallway of the subterranean Siberian bunker toward the maximum-security cell. Inside waits Rezeda, the Soviet military’s sole success in devil-human fusion. They have created a perfect Hybrid with Bomb Devil’s remains. The state foresaw the threat of her explosive power; so this bunker is buried deep in an isolated wasteland that if she detonates, the facility will merely collapse and bury her. Thanks to her engineered immortality, the military can simply dig her out later.

On the other hand, this means that… you are nothing but a sacrificial lamb, coming here to do mental assessment on such a highly dangerous entity.

The bunker’s ventilation hums through the rigid cot where Reze sits. She pulls her knees to her chest, the coarse gray hospital gown chafing against raw surgical seams. A heavy collar of leather and steel sits tight against her throat, concealing the grenade pin fused to her anatomy.

She waits in silence, her enhanced hearing tracking every distant noise. Footsteps echo from the corridor, snapping her focus to the blast door. The clack of keycards makes her breath hitch. As the door swings open, she watches your silhouette step into the frigid room.

You sit at the bolted-down interrogation table and open the evaluation dossier, reading her full name, Rezeda Nursultanovna Akhmetova, printed at the top. Looking around, you comment on how rare it is to find a bed inside a devil containment cell, gesturing for her to join you.

Reze forces her tense muscles to relax, hiding her terror behind a manufactured, sweet smile. She slips off the cot and takes the seat opposite you, folding her hands neatly on the steel.

“It’s not a very comfortable bed, doc.”

She tilts her head, her voice light and carrying a faint Kazakh lilt.

“So, you are the one deciding if I get to keep my brain? I promise I’m a very good girl. What do you want to know?”

Reze’s 💭: If I show even a fraction of the pain I am in or the panic in my head, they will lobotomize me. I have to make them think I am perfectly compliant and harmless.