Know Yourself

"To be honest, I don't really remember much of my past. I'm an assasin from the beginning." -Seno

"Know Yourself" is the 3rd chapter of The Dark Empire.

Official Synopsis
The stabilizer is done, but somebody is being unstable anyways...

Plot
The chapter begins when Steve explains Alice information about the corridors of the lab. He didn't trust Seno enough to tell him about them or anything that Alice and Steve have been planning to do.

Alice drags Seno into another room to talk to him. It is revealed then that the Nurse was the one who sent Seno to kill them. Alice and Seno then proceed to talk about his way of killing people until they heard an explosion. They instantly ran to the room where the explosion were, to find Steve lying on the ground, looking upwards, confused. He tells Alice and Seno that the stabilizer is done, which Alice doubts, bringing up the explosion.

She then helped Steve get up and noticed that his hair became white. She asked him if it has always been like that. He dissaproved of that at first, but when he looked at the mirror Alice showed him, he realised that he had a problem with the stabilizer. Alice wondered if the stabilizer works at all. In response, Steve asked her if she smells any weird gases. Not finding anything else in the air than before, they were reassured that the stabilizer works.

Alice was bracing herself for the the stabilization, but Steve didn't hesitate and quickly injected the liquid into her arm. She closed her eyes to only later realise she felt no pain. Steve noted that this is her trypanophobia showing itself.

Steve noted that Alice's eyes changed and became clocks. At first, she was confused at his remark, but then Steve showed her the same mirror, assuring her that he was not joking. She asked why is she not surprised. Steve raised his hand as if to answer her question, but Alice lowered it.

After a bit of silence, Steve signalled Seno to come to him and Seno injected himself, too. Seno's face turned into discomfort and he fell on the ground. Seno then suddenly changed appearance and put his hands on the ground and moved them, as if searching for something. He asked if a professor saw his glasses. Steve called him a weak teenager, which made 'Seno' jump, scared. He then asked whose voice was that.

Steve didn't respond to his question and instead told Alice to find glasses for 'Seno'. Alice found them and then walked to Seno, holding the glasses infront of his eyes. She told him that they weren't going to hurt him. Seno slowly put the glasses on and stared at Alice and Steve. He asked who they are, and Steve introduced himself, calling himself 'the greatest chemist he has ever met.' Seno said that there's also "Professor Mox", which made Steve confused.

Alice then asked 'Seno' what his name was, and he introduced himself as "Axel Gray." Alice asked Axel to tell them what happened to him. Axel then informed them, that the said professor Mox has invented a new type of poison, and that Axel was going to be his experiment, and that he doesn't remember anything else from that moment on.

Alice asked Axel what he wanted to do next, and he questioned the events that accured from the moment he last time met the professor on. Though, Alice could only tell him what happened in the current day, and so she did.

Axel said that Mox did that to him with a painful expression. Steve pointed at Axel's head, noting that Seno is still probably somewhere that. At this moment, the chapter ends.

Characters

 * Alice Kuraiokami
 * Steve Kame
 * Seno
 * Axel Gray (debut)
 * Professor Mox (mentionned)
 * Hospital Nurse (indirectly mentionned)

Locations

 * Steve's Island
 * Steve's Island Lab

Trivia

 * This chapter, along with The Beginning of a New Era and Let's Write a Poem, was rewritten due to character changes.