Chapter 120: The Giant, The Daughter, The Beast
"You don't have to do this."
"Yes, I do." River looked past the window she stood in front of, her eyes focused on the young child in the other room. "If I don't, then he wins."
"The Emperor doesn't win just because you don't take care of his experiment." Jill scoffed.
"His kid." River corrected.
"His experiment." Jill doubled down.
River just sighed and shook her head. "You just don't get it."
"You're right. And God, do I hope I never do. That man was a monster. It would only be fitting if his spawn vanished off the face of the earth, never to be seen again."
They were in a hospital. It had been less than five years since the Emperor was finally defeated. After raiding some of the final bases he had left behind, the Victorian had uncovered a dark truth about the former Lord of the Land and Life. He had a daughter. The monster that had nearly ended all life on earth and successfully killed Full Monarch had a child with someone—or at least he had made it look like he had a child.
In reality, the girl's DNA was a total mess and filled with dozens of errors. She was basically just a monster that was grown from nothing with bits of the Emperor's cells, as well as the cells of three other people in that bastard's army.
They brought her to a hospital which had been conducting a few tests on the young girl to make sure her cells wouldn't simply give out and combust. Now that they found out she actually had a shot at life and would most certainly go on to awaken her powers, the argument about what to do with her had begun.
"So, your solution when faced with a child is to just kill her?" River asked, clenching her fists a bit and allowing water to swirl around them.