Th-…that sounds like a really awful experiment

“…Th-…that sounds like a really awful experiment… Why me…?”

Flustered, I blurted this out without thinking and slid to my knees at the side of the bed. It was terrifying to be steadily wound up in the center of a story that reached the extremes of the bizarre…. While looking down at my face, Dr. Wakabayashi nodded in a manner even more calm than before.

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「……そ……そんな恐ろしい実験の中心に……どうして僕が……」

と私は思わず急せき込んで、寝台の端にニジリ出した。あまりにも怪奇を極めた話の中心にグングン捲き込まれて行く私自身が恐ろしくなったので……。その私の顔を見下しながら、若林博士は今迄よりも一層、冷静な態度でうなずいた。