"I'm pregnant?" the woman asked in shock.
"It appears so," the doctor said. "Do you have a childbearing license?"
The woman became shocked and fearful.
She always wanted to have a child of her own, but the city was at maximum capacity.
She wouldn't get a license within the next decades.
"No," she answered with a weak tone.
The next moment, the doctor put a pill on the table.
"Then, take this. The fertilized egg will be terminated within minutes. You won't feel a thing," the doctor said.
The woman was terrified of the pill.
Taking this felt like killing a child.
Raising the child in secret also wasn't possible.
There was surveillance everywhere, and children needed to attune to the darkness at some point anyway.
There had been times when people tried to give birth to a child in secret, but it never succeeded.
The government knew everything.
"I don't want to kill my child," she said.
"There is the possibility of asking another mother to give her childbearing license to you," the doctor said.
"But then, she would need to kill her child, right?" she asked.
The doctor nodded.
The woman was terrified.
She just looked at the pill.
It was just a fertilized egg.
It was not a big deal.
Yet, she just couldn't swallow the pill.
Eventually, she broke down into tears.
When the doctor saw that, he sighed.
"There is one other option, but you might not like it," he said.
The woman looked at the doctor hopefully.
"There is a government program currently underway," the doctor said. "It involves the future of humanity. The details are highly confidential, and not even I know what it's about exactly. However, if you agree to partake in the program, you may keep your child."
"Yes, of course!" the woman shouted immediately. "I can't kill my own child!"
The doctor sighed and sent a form to the woman's Seed.
The woman was a Hero, and she read through everything in an instant.
When she saw everything, she took a deep breath.
Finally, she signed it and sent it back.
The doctor read through the form and raised his brows in surprise.
"You accepted?" he asked.
She nodded decisively.
The doctor had to sigh once again.
"I offered this to seven or eight people already, and all of them refused to sign it."
"My child is my child," the woman said. "It doesn't matter who they will become. They will always be my child."
The doctor nodded. "I will forward this form. Someone will contact you within the next couple of days."
"Thank you!" the woman shouted brightly.
She could keep her child!
And best of all, she was allowed to raise it in the darkness!
She didn't need to send her child to the light area for ten years!
The woman went home and shared the good news with her husband.
However, when her husband heard about the details, he was less than pleased.
"How would that still be my child?" he asked coldly.
"They will still be our child. They will just be… different," she answered.
A huge argument ensued.
In the end, the husband was put before an ultimatum.
Become a father or leave.
Begrudgingly, he chose to become a father.
Maybe it wouldn't be as bad as the paper said.
Two days later, the woman was called into the headquarters of the government.
She met nine other women there who were here for the same reason.
They quickly bonded with each other, and a couple of minutes later, two people entered.
One of them was an unknown doctor, while the other…
Everyone took a deep breath.
They recognized this person!
The Chancelor!
They had seen images of the Chancelor, but they had never seen her in person!
Samar gave a long speech about the future of humanity.
After the speech, the ten women received a bottle of pills each.
They had to take one pill every two hours for three consecutive days.
Luckily, Heroes didn't need to sleep, which made things quite easy.
The future mother did as instructed.
She felt quite some pain during the initial phase, but as a Hero, she was used to way worse things.
The only thing that truly worried her was the health of her child.
She just hoped that it didn't suffer.
Eventually, the pain stopped, and the pregnancy proceeded normally.
About nine months later, she went into labor.
As a Hero, she wasn't required to go to a hospital for the birth.
There was no danger to the fetus or the mother.
However, for this birth, she had to go to the hospital.
The doctor and the Chancelor watched the birth personally.
The birth went off without a hitch, and the mother could finally see her child for the first time.
The child did not cry.
It just looked around curiously.
When the mother saw her child for the first time, her insides shook.
The child already had some raven-black hair on its head.
Its eyes were a vibrant red, and its skin was ashen.
It didn't look like the other humans, and she knew that it wouldn't be like the others.
But this was her child, and she loved it.
Or him, more precisely.
It was a boy.
The mother hugged her newborn son with love.
The baby seemed uninterested in the mother and just looked at the surroundings.
But the mother didn't care.
This was her son!
Meanwhile, Samar looked at the child.
"Emotional apathy," the doctor beside her said.
Naturally, that was Nick in disguise.
"They are only interested in themselves and the collective."
"They have a small capacity to feel love, but it will feel very dulled."
"The children will be born highly intelligent and talented."
"The Anterior Insular Cortex is significantly smaller. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex and the Somatosensory Cortex are just as small. Luckily, the Inferior Frontal Gyrus is enhanced."
"While they might not be able to feel a lot of empathy and will have difficulties understanding other emotions,their increased ability of abstract thought could make it possible for them to act in accordance with what humans perceive as right or wrong."
"But the child needs to train and focus on that part if they ever want to have a life with others that are not like them."
"According to an antiquated concept, you could call them intelligent psychopaths."
Nick sighed.
"If I could, I would've done it differently."
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