Chapter 93
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Before the regression.
“Surveillance again? I’m sick of it.”
When I was first dragged into the underground laboratory, the very first person I met was Chloe.
“All the experiments are done by the high priests, and all the grunt work is dumped on us. It’s so annoying.”
Chloe muttered with a sour expression, her tone lazy and disinterested.
“What’s the point in risking our lives and succeeding in the experiments if it’s this hard to rise in rank? So it turns out there’s no real need to change our appearance? Damn it, then that means just showing a bit of talent might be enough to become a high priest—so why isn’t that opportunity coming to me...?”
Pinned to her priest robe was a glittering butterfly brooch.
“Hey.”
She looked down at me with clear displeasure and spoke.
“Do you know Priest Yuta?”
...Yuta?