Chapter 207 Recollections of the Past
Tips before writing: I heard that you are anxious to see the reunion, but I accidentally opened my mind. So... The next chapter breaks the original plot setting. The Miyano couple died not long after Shiho was born, but the time of death set here is around Shiho's six years old. If you feel that the change makes you unhappy, OK, just skip it. It doesn't matter. Anyway, it's the product of opening my mind.

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Chapter 208: Recollections of the Past
My name is Miyano Shiho. I was born in a happy and perfect family, but I live in the painful abyss of hell.

From the day I could remember, I learned that the environment I was in was a terrifying place called "the organization". All the people here wore black clothes and had cold faces. They didn't smile or talk, and everyone looked so scary.

That year, when I was four years old, I followed my father into a room full of glass bottles for the first time. There were colorful liquids in those bottles, and some square things that played strange pictures. Many uncles and aunts were surrounding those big square-like things, and many strange pictures appeared on the screen. At that time, I had no idea what they were looking at.

"Dad, what is this?" I was only four years old, and I seemed to be curious about all unknown things. But such a sentence attracted the attention of everyone around me. The indifference, disdain, irritability and anger all made me feel scared. However, my father smiled and ignored other people. He answered my questions one by one with a smile. So, when I was four years old, I knew that those glass bottles were called test tubes and beakers. I knew that the liquid inside was called chemical molecular elements. I knew that those square objects with colorful pictures were called computers. Because of my father's existence, those who looked cold at me turned their eyes away, and my father's smile made me no longer feel afraid. So, the endless questions and answers began again. Until one day...

It was a winter day before my fifth birthday. On that day, my father and I came to the room full of test tubes and computers again. But my father seemed a little different today. He did not answer my questions as usual, but looked at a pattern on the computer composed of circles and thin brackets with a sad face. Through my father's explanation to me some time ago, I know that this thing is called a molecular formula model, which is obtained by the decomposition and recombination of atoms and molecules under certain conditions. And my father seemed to be using this model software to piece together an extremely complex molecular group. Although there are too many conditions involved that I cannot understand. However, judging from the pattern, my father's progress seems to be not smooth. I thought that the pattern should be pieced into a group under certain conditions, but there are obviously many small branches in front of my father that have not been pieced in.

"Shiho, please sit here for a while. Dad will go to the library. Don't touch those things." Dad said to me helplessly. Then he left in a hurry.

Watching my father leave, I could only sit in the chair in a daze. I turned around and looked at the complex molecular formulas on the computer screen, as well as the conditions listed next to them.

"Hmm... If I help dad put this dumpling together, will he not be so distressed?" At that time, I didn't understand what the so-called molecular formula was. I just wanted to help my dad, so I started clicking the mouse. How could I, naive as I was, know what kind of molecules and what kind of reactions would occur under what conditions? Haha, just with the idea of ​​helping, I started clicking randomly on the molecular formula. If one connection failed, I would switch to the next one. If one condition failed, I would switch to another one. I recalled what colors of dumplings my dad had put together, and I did it. If I forgot, I would keep changing the conditions and molecules. In this way, time passed by.

"Hmph, look at that kid." Behind me, a woman in a white coat was saying something to a man in glasses in a voice I couldn't hear. "If she keeps doing this recklessly, Dr. Miyano will definitely teach her a lesson when he comes back."

"Haha, isn't this exactly what you wanted to see?" The man pushed up his glasses and laughed. "But that's good, this way, the annoying little girl won't come here anymore."

"Let's go and see what she has done to Dr. Miyano's data." The woman walked towards me with a look of sarcasm on her face, but I was so focused that I didn't notice anything.

"Hey, have all the molecules been messed up?" The woman standing behind me squinted at the computer screen, then said in a low voice to the man next to her with a sneer on her face.

"Hush... Keep your voice down, let this kid continue, the more chaotic the better. This way we will have a chance to step on him. The man laughed coldly. Then he and the woman returned to their seats and continued to work. I, however, was unaware of all this, and was just concentrating on piecing together the pieces.

Time passed, and my ball grew bigger and bigger, but no one knew about it, until a male doctor walked by my back and accidentally saw my computer screen. He just flashed and walked over, but suddenly he stopped and looked in the direction of my screen again. He was stunned for a few seconds, then turned back and walked forward again. However, before he took a few steps, the man stopped and thought for a long time. He finally came back behind me, stood still, and stared at the ball of molecular formula that had basically taken shape. There was an indescribable astonishment in his eyes, and even the other members were attracted by his surprised expression, looking at me one after another, and then it was difficult to move a step.

"Huh? What are those people doing?" The woman who mocked me also became confused.

"Go and have a look." The man stood up and walked towards me. But when they saw my screen, surprise was not enough to describe their expressions. Yes, in front of my computer screen, an almost complete molecular model was flashing with a bright green light. Under the model, there were only two unfinished chemical bonds. This achievement has long surpassed Dr. Atsushi Miyano who was thinking hard.

"Shiho! What are you doing!" A slightly angry voice suddenly sounded behind me. I turned around in shock, but saw that there were already many people gathered behind me, and in the middle of the crowd, my father was looking at me with anger on his face. He walked towards me quickly. "Didn't I tell you not to mess with my computer?" As he spoke, my father's voice became softer, and then his eyes kept widening, almost as if they were about to pop out.

"Shi...Shiho, did you do this?" Dad looked at me in disbelief.

"Yeah..." I responded a little scared. After all, I didn't listen to my father and used his computer privately. I was really afraid that he would be angry with me. But, unexpectedly, my father was not angry with me. Instead, he took me down from the chair and then nervously focused on the screen in front of him. He kept operating it with his hands and kept taking notes with a pen and a notebook. About ten minutes later, I saw my father excitedly slap the table and stood up.

"Good! Great! This molecular formula can be used! Our research has finally made progress!" Dad shouted like he was cheering, and then he began to give orders to the people in the department. The uncles and aunts here also started to work. And I could only watch quietly from the side. I didn't dare to disturb Dad's work at all. I don't know how long it took, but Dad suddenly laughed, very happily, very happy.

"Shiho, tell me how you figured out this molecular formula?" Dad asked me excitedly. I just shook my head, saying I just pieced it together randomly.

"Coincidence? Hehe, but that is also a kind of talent. Your dad has spent a whole week and still hasn't been able to put this thing together. God knows, hydroxyl and hydrocarbon groups can be... Haha, you won't understand even if I tell you, but, Shiho, you really helped dad solve a huge problem, no matter if it's a coincidence or something else. This is the great luck given to me by God. This is a combination of dozens of elements. The probability of being able to put it together randomly is less than one in ten thousand, haha, hahaha. My Shiho is a genius! A great genius!" Dad happily lifted me up high and kept turning around the room. Seeing Dad's smiling face, I also laughed happily, thinking to myself, I finally helped Dad. In this way, will Dad have time to play with me in the future? I thought happily. But I never thought that such a smile and such a thought would completely turn into the beginning of a nightmare the next day.

————The smell of orchids, the smell of lavender, the smell of home & the wings of angels, the wings of demons, the wings of guardians————The next day, when I woke up, my father was no longer by my side, and I didn’t know where my mother and sister had gone. Even the place where I slept was no longer the small bed I used to have, but a two-bedroom suite. But there was no decent home furnishings.

I stood up and tried to call my parents, but there was no response. Until I walked out of the door in my pajamas, standing at my door was a woman I had never seen before.

"Miyano Shiho? Is that you?" I couldn't tell what the woman's voice was like because it was completely emotionless. "Yes, who are you?" I asked fearfully.

"From today on, I will be your teacher. You will learn from me. Your parents are very busy with work and have no time to visit you. Your sister will live next door to you from today on. If you still want to see your parents, learn quickly and then go back to their office to help. Do you understand?"

"Why! Why should I listen to you! I want to find my mom and dad! Sister, sister!" After losing my mom and dad, fear took over my heart at the first moment.

Snapped!
I cried and screamed, but what I got in return was a big slap in the face. For the first time, the burning pain made me freeze in place.

"You little brat, be quiet!" The woman seemed very annoyed. "Want to see your sister? Sure." After saying that, the woman grabbed my arm tightly and dragged me to the next room. She kicked the door open and pushed me in desperately. In the room, I saw my sister Mingmei, who was lying on the ground with bruises all over her body.

"Sister, sister!" Seeing my sister lying on the ground, I ran up to her hurriedly.

"Hmm..." As if she heard my voice, Sister Mingmei groaned in pain and opened her eyes. "Shiho..." Sister's eyes flashed a little softly. "You're okay... Really... That's great..." After saying that, the hand that just slid across my cheek fell again.

"Sister, sister!" I cried and shouted, trying to wake up Sister Mingmei again, but no matter how I shook her, I couldn't get any response from Sister Mingmei.

"She won't die yet." The woman said coldly. "Little ghost, remember, from today on, you have to study hard with me to let you and your sister survive in this place. Otherwise, don't even think about seeing your sister again, let alone your parents!" The woman's face was full of ferocity. "Now, wipe your tears and follow me. If I see you cry again, you won't be able to eat today!" Ignoring me, the woman walked out directly. Holding my sister Mingmei who had fainted again, tears always kept falling. Why? Why did that woman treat me like this? What did I do wrong? I don't understand, and I don't understand. But now I know that if I don't want to be hungry, if I don't want my sister to get hurt again, I have to wipe my tears. Catch up with that woman, study, study hard. Then, I can see my parents earlier. So, I held back the pain, wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes, exhaled a long breath, and caught up with the woman.

In this way, I spent a year in painful learning. Here, I learned how to live on my own, and knew what life and death, blood and tears were. I understood the consequences of obeying orders and disobeying orders. I understood that in this world, except for my sister and my parents, perhaps no one would like me. And... I forgot what happiness was.

Gradually, I found that I no longer had a smile on my face. When I walked or stood, I could not see any expression on my face. Indifference and silence became my code of conduct. Except for my sister, I was unwilling to say a word to others. And the name Miyano Shiho was completely forgotten, replaced by a code name that sounded beautiful but had a dark meaning. Sherry. Only then did I know that in this terrifying organization, only people with status can have this code name replaced by the name of wine. People without code names are people of a lower level. My code name is because my parents are scientists with status in the organization, so there is such a code name specially reserved for me. And in this branch base where I am in this organization, there are three highest-level managers. They are Gin, Vermouth, and Margarita. No matter which time these three people walked by me, I would shiver uncontrollably. Especially Vermouth, for some reason, every time I walked by her, I would feel the terrible breath directed at me. There were several times when I felt suffocated. I couldn't breathe a sigh of relief until she left.

The guy who lives opposite me is called IceWine. Oh, it's okay if I don't mention him, but when I mention him, I feel cold all over. It was a few months ago when he first moved opposite me. It was just because there was a guy living opposite me, about 16 or 17 years old. It was unexpected, so I subconsciously looked at him more, but what I got was a hard kick. I was kicked out.

"Humph! Just a descendant of a dead scientist can actually have a code name. It's really annoying. I went through a lot of hardships to get here!"

"What did you say?" I was suddenly stunned after hearing his words. Not because of the pain, but because of his words. The descendants of a dead scientist? Dead? Mom and Dad? Dead?!

After that, although I tried every way to ask about my parents, no one paid any attention to me. My sister just said that my parents were too busy and I would be able to see them when I made progress in my studies. But every time she said this, tears could be seen in her eyes.

Without any clues about my parents, I had to study every day. I studied hard because I would not be able to eat for a day if I fell behind. IceWine seemed to be sent by the organization to make things difficult for me. Whenever I returned to my room, I would always see him, and then he would beat and scold me for no reason. Until he broke my arm once, he restrained himself a little after offending the dignity of the organization. Then, I spent another year in such a muddle-headed life.

Time passed quickly under endless learning. In the blink of an eye, I was almost eight years old. I had long been accustomed to being bullied by IceWine. I began to learn to fight a time war with him and try my best to avoid him. Although such days were a bit tiring, at least it could reduce the number of times he beat me, and I got used to it over time. Sometimes, I would laugh at myself, when would such days end? There were even many times when I thought about dying. However, because my sister was still by my side, I couldn't die. Because if I died, the protection given to her by the only code name would disappear, and then I didn't know what kind of torture my sister would suffer. So I couldn't die, and I had to live even in hardship. However, not every avoidance was effective, and occasionally I would run into IceWine. Then he would press me against the wall and beat me severely. Every time I came to this, my desire to survive would be reduced again. I didn't know who to go to to tell the grievances in my heart and the pain in my body. But just when I thought my world would always live in this darkness...

He appeared.

(End of this chapter)