"You seem to know a lot about the surface world. Are you perhaps from the surface world?" Lilith asked, sizing up Charles.0

"I'm the one asking questions here, not the other way around. Were there any major events before you were brought down here? By major events, I mean natural disasters like earthquakes or something else," Charles said, forcefully taking the lead in their conversation.0

Lilith shook her head and replied, "Nothing like that really happened before they took me away from the orphanage. 0

"Everything was normal, but it's hard to say for sure because from the time they took me away from that orphanage on the surface until I escaped to the Subterranean Sea… the Foundation never really allowed me to have any contact with the outside world.1

"I was isolated. Even the cargo vessels that were transporting experimental subjects like me down here were like iron boxes. In other words, I have no idea what happened to the...0