As Hide regains his memories of how he got to Edens Garden. Seems that the recent experiment made him to be unconscious.
"Doctor Hojo, we're not gaining any information out of him. Seems like he isn't using his power at all."
"Hold on Doctor Aura. It seems that you don't know about his capabilities. If you observe carefully, you start to see that he is using the other subject's abilities.
"He managed to replicate Subject 75's ability. Which he managed to create strings from thin air." Hojo state as he was quite amused.
"How did you even noticed it? Throughout the experiments, I could never have seen it."
"It's simple, the boy is simply copying the others' subject abilities and powers and could easily master them. Then the one who possesses them."
Hide was seen sitting on his bed inside his room. A key was heard unlocking the door.
"Ten minutes. No talking with the others." A guard stated.
Hide walks out of his cell and walks down a hallway. As he continues down the hallway, he sees a light up ahead.
He goes through the light and seems to be in a room with other subjects just like him. He looks around and noticed that some guards were around looking around the room.
Hide soon noticed a crying girl in the distance in a closed position. He walks up to her.
"What's the matter?" Hide asked.
She wipes her tears and soon point a direction. Hide looks at where she points. She was pointing toward a teddy bear who seems to be all torn up.
Hide walks up to the bear and picks it up. He starts to weave the bear back together. The teddy bear was back into its original shape and restored.
The crying girl looked at Hide with amazement.
"What's your name?" the girl asked.
"Hide Nubotomi, subject 01." Hide answered.
"What's your name?" Hide asked.
"Sona, subject 08." Sona replied.
"Sona huh, that's quite a cute name."
Sona starts to giggle and Hide's face somewhat red, starts to looked away.
In the distance, Doctor Aura seems to be looking at Hide and Sona. She starts to take down some notes.
One of the guards saw Hide with another subject and starts to separate them.
Ten minutes passed.
Hide was escorted back to his cell. As he was locked in his cell, he starts to look around to noticed other cells around him. He sees the number of the cell on the door.
It was Subject 02 and 03.
In Edens Garden, some subjects are given specific numbers or codes that correlates to their uniqueness or power. In which case Hide, is 01 for possessing a unique power or ability and having the God's Eyes on his left eye.
In order to detain the subjects. Edens Garden managed to make some drugs that stopped the subjects from using their abilities.
Some days passed.
"Doctor Aura, subject 03 and 01 are ready for their experiment."
"Good, have the subjects be taken to their spot."
As Hide was patiently waiting in his room. He hears someone outside his cell.
A guard open his cells.
"You know where to go." the guard stated.
"Yes."
Hide slowly walks out of his cell and starts to head inside a room that was locked from outside.
As Hide was inside the room. He sees a boy in there with him. He looks closely to realized that it was subject 03.
Hide introduces himself to 03.
"Names Hide. What's yours?" Hide asked.
03 didn't seem to be interested.
Soon a faint response from him was heard.
"Jin."
Hide somewhat smiles as he heard Jin replies back. Jin didn't seem to care but looks around the room which seems to be quite dark.
"You know what's going on?" Hide asked.
"No. But it seems that we been put together for something. I assume that the worse will be coming."
Soon the lights were turned on and a noise was heard. They see a huge gate in front of them slowly opening. Jin starts to see what was on the other side. It was a huge beast.
"Get ready or you'll die." As Jin somewhat prepares.
Hide somewhat prepares himself.
"Doctor Aura, how can you carelessly put my subject in this treacherous game. If we die we can lose valuable data and the kid." Hojo stated as he angrily enters the observation room.
"Don't worry about your beloved subject. I'm testing if your theory is true about 01 using other subjects abilities. If you're correct then 01 would be our best subject."
"So Aura, how will they survive the beast. If we only know that 03 will make it due to his ability."
"Don't know until we see through the end of this experiment. After all, we have to see his 01's limits."
As the huge gate fully open. A huge beast was seen. It seems to resemble a wolf with five sharped claws along with three tails.
Jin begins to grab the beast's attention. The beast starts to go for Jin. Hide soon starts to create some strings from thin air stopping the beast from moving.
As the beast was somewhat covered in strings. Jin managed to land some punches on it but the beast didn't seem to flinch at all.
The beast struggles and soon breaks all the strings. The beast seems to be charging up for something.
As Jin and Hide wonder what the next move will be. It was too late.
In that split second, Jin's right arm was caught in the beast's mouth. The beast starts to flail him. Jin screams in pain. Soon Jin was thrown across the room. His right arm was gone.
The beast starts to gulp down the Jin's right arm. As Jin lands onto the ground. Hide runs up to him. Jin slowly gets back up.
"Jin, Jin, are you okay?" Hide asked.
"Don't worry about me. Just focus on the beast. I'll recover from this wound." Jin states as he was still in pain and holding onto his right arm wound.
Hide looks at Jin's wound and starts to see it regenerate back.
The beast begins its next move.
Hide starts to noticed why he was in this experiment. He realized that Jin can't die because of his regeneration but he knew he could die.
Aura somewhat smiling from above.
"It seems that Hide noticed the situation he is in now."
The beast charges toward the two. Hide tries to track it but couldn't due to how fast it was moving. And soon Hide's right leg was gone.
Hide lands on the ground. Hide screams out in pain and seems to be bleeding a lot. Jin tries to grab the beast but it goes for Hide.
Hide noticed that the beast was running towards him.
As the beast was running towards him. Everything slows down. Hide closed his eyes for a split second. He opens his eyes to see Jin in the mouth of the beast and bleeding. Jin somewhat said something to him.
"Don't...you die on me." Jin groaned.
The beast throws aside Jin's body. Jin was on the ground and seems to not be moving.
Hide looks across the room and noticed that Jin was slowly regenerating.
"So, Hide-Kun what will you do?" Aura somewhat grinning.
Hide starts to crawl towards Jin. The beast begins to charge toward Hide. As Hide was crawling, his left arm soon was gone.
Hide screams in pain. Some tears was seen falling down from his face.
"Father, Mother, help me." Hide cried as he was in pain.
As the beast began to charge again. Hide stood there crying and in pain.
Some words was heard in Hide's mind.
"Don't...you die on me."
Suddenly Hide's limb starts to regenerate very fast.
As the beast runs toward him. It was suddenly stops by a wall of strings in front of Hide. As it tries to goes pass through it. The strings seems to be cutting the beast creating wounds on it.
Suddenly Hide clasps his hands together. The strings closed down onto the beast in one fell swoop. Cutting the beast into millions of pieces.
The strings soon breaks down and lands onto the ground. Hide regains his breath and soon runs up to Jin to check up on him.
"Did you kill it?" Jin asked as he was slowly regenerating.
"Yeah." Hide replied.
"Took a nap there. It sure got me good."
"Well, it's over." as Hide starts to sit down next to Jin.
"You're not bad." Jin stated as he also sits down.
"What do you mean?" Hide asked in confusion.
"Never mind. Expect more to come. It's not over until we escaped this hellhole."
Jin looks at the observation room above them. Hide joins him.
"Doctor Aura, the experiment was a success. Hide managed to used 03's ability and managed to slay the beast."
Aura seemed to be amazed of what Hide is capable of. While Hojo is happy to see Hide alive and not dead.
Soon some guards came inside the room and takes Jin somewhere. While Hide seems to be taken back into his room with some new clothes.
Some days goes by.
Hide soon was taken into a huge room. He noticed the room he is in. In no doubt, he realized he was in the arena.
The arena, a room where subjects are either going against each other in a death battle. Or captured fiends or people put in there to test the subject's ability.
Across from Hide was another fighter. He looks closely to see a subject. It wasn't until then he realized who it was.
It was Sona.
A voice was heard above the two.
"Subjects prepare yourself. If there is no victor, expect some torture."
Sona prepares herself while Hide just stood there looking at her.
Soon a noise was heard.
The battle begins.
"You have to fight or you will be killed!" Sona shouted.
Hide didn't respond to her. He soon lifts his left arm. He then snapped with his two fingers. The room soon went white.
Soon Hide and Sona was inside this white room. Everything around Hide froze and Sona was standing there looking at him.
He goes up to her and touch her hand. Soon Sona was unfrozen and was able to move again. She noticed that she was in a white room.
"Where are we?" Sona asked as she looks around.
"The White Room. An ability that I learned. It should give us some time to talk." Hide replied.
"Sona, you have to beat me with your powers. You have to act like you are going to kill me. That's the only way we can escape from this."
"But, you're going to die. I don't want to kill you"
"I'll be fine."
"But..."
"We don't have time. I don't want you to be tortured."
Sona somewhat hesitant but looks at Hide. Hide noticed that in her eyes were heavy and tearful. But she smiled at him.
"Hide, let's escape Edens Garden one day."
Hide nods at her.
The White Room breaks like glass and everything resumes back to normal.
Soon Sona begins to use her abilities. Suddenly roots starts to grow out of the ground towards Hide. It begins to wrap around Hide and slowly constricts Hide.
Soon everything around Hide was covered in roots.
"Subject 01 is incapacitated and unable to move."
"Seems that 01 didn't use any of its power and 08 have been greatly improved with her ability. More to say that 01 will have to go through more torture."
"Put subject 01 in the torture room and return 08 to her room."
Soon some guards came inside the arena. Sona was taken to her cell while Hide was still entrapped from the roots.
As the guards struggles to get Hide out of the roots. They begin to burn down roots and take out Hide who somewhat still seems to be alive.
As Hide was slowly recovering from being constricted and burned. He soon was taken into a strange room.