[There's no reason to, but he holds his breath anyway, feeling Connor's fingers against his skin. It seems, for the most part, the copper is surrounding joints, like the crook of Alucard's elbow or his shoulder.]
Similar. I come with supernatural strength, so I was able to push through it.
[Alucard pauses at the question, then frowns to himself. He doesn't want to tell Connor, but he won't lie to him either.]
I first started by attempting to cut the copper out. It is a soft metal, so I was able to remove pieces of it, but it simply began to grow back.
...Toward the worst of it and after I attempted to help you, I made a request of someone to help me. Someone who has the ability to control magnetic fields of metal. I asked him to try to remove it from my body.
[Alucard frowns deeply, knowing the action had been unwise. Made out of utter desperation.]
[Connor cracks a small smile, finding a bit of amusement in Alucard's words.] You "come with"... It makes it sound like it's one of your features.
[His expression, growing serious when Alucard admitted how he'd tried to remove the infection.]
I'm glad you didn't do more damage to yourself... Those procedures sound very dangerous. If you were human, I think you might have even killed yourself.
It all grew back? [He nodded to himself, not needing to hear the answer.] Like the thirium.
[His gaze moved from Alucard's arm to scan his face.] I'm glad you're improving.
[That makes Alucard snort, a faint smile forming.] Well, I suppose that I have many features. Perhaps not so unlike an android. Though mine are a fair bit more unpredictable.
[It's something he hasn't quite admitted to many others. Naoya knows, certainly Erik of course, but Connor's the only one he's outright informed. He couldn't find it in himself to lie.]
I know that if I were human, I would have died immediately.
Thank you. And you as well, of course. I was concerned that I couldn't do more to help. I suppose if nothing else, this place or whoever runs it has no interest in killing us.
Yes. Humans have many features. I'm sure it is the same with dhampir. [He smiled softly.
Honestly, it made him happy that Alucard hadn't chided him for his little joke. It was actually easier to try to break people down in the same way that androids were, even though they were fundamentally very different.]
Has... anyone died from these occurrences? I'm aware of people disappearing, almost in the same way that we suddenly appear. But have their been any casualties?
[In any case, he doesn't seem bothered by the humor. He rather likes the small quips Connor offers here and there.]
Mm. Not directly. There was one that drowned from the pool water when the gravity was turned off. Someone else died from a specific... event that happened to them. It was as if all of the air was sucked out of him and he suffocated, but it was not directly from the station's effects on the entire population.
[Connor frowned, brow creasing and LED flickering yellow. Unfortunately, he was able to recreate a realistic and probable reconstruction of what would happen to a human body if air was forced out of it, his programming feeding him statistics of how long the person would have likely lived.]
I see... I might be making unrealistic assumptions, but isn't it likely that the station, or whoever's brought us here, is likely behind those accidents?
[It didn't even feel right calling them accidents. They were almost like bizarre experimentation.]
Entirely probable. Or perhaps behind the replicators making me so ill.
Regardless, we've no way of knowing just yet. Do not mistake me; I make no defense of what happened. Simply that overall that if we are alive, it is more convenient for such games.
Still... there have been at least two deaths and it appears as though people have been going missing. Hopefully, they've returned to where they were taken, but there is no proof that that's the case.
I agree that, logically speaking, it is likely if this is some sort of experiment that they would prefer we were alive. However... new arrivals keep appearing. There may not be a limited pool that they can pull from, so to speak.
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Similar. I come with supernatural strength, so I was able to push through it.
[Alucard pauses at the question, then frowns to himself. He doesn't want to tell Connor, but he won't lie to him either.]
I first started by attempting to cut the copper out. It is a soft metal, so I was able to remove pieces of it, but it simply began to grow back.
...Toward the worst of it and after I attempted to help you, I made a request of someone to help me. Someone who has the ability to control magnetic fields of metal. I asked him to try to remove it from my body.
[Alucard frowns deeply, knowing the action had been unwise. Made out of utter desperation.]
It did not work, suffice it to say.
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[His expression, growing serious when Alucard admitted how he'd tried to remove the infection.]
I'm glad you didn't do more damage to yourself... Those procedures sound very dangerous. If you were human, I think you might have even killed yourself.
It all grew back? [He nodded to himself, not needing to hear the answer.] Like the thirium.
[His gaze moved from Alucard's arm to scan his face.] I'm glad you're improving.
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[It's something he hasn't quite admitted to many others. Naoya knows, certainly Erik of course, but Connor's the only one he's outright informed. He couldn't find it in himself to lie.]
I know that if I were human, I would have died immediately.
Thank you. And you as well, of course. I was concerned that I couldn't do more to help. I suppose if nothing else, this place or whoever runs it has no interest in killing us.
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Honestly, it made him happy that Alucard hadn't chided him for his little joke. It was actually easier to try to break people down in the same way that androids were, even though they were fundamentally very different.]
Has... anyone died from these occurrences? I'm aware of people disappearing, almost in the same way that we suddenly appear. But have their been any casualties?
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[In any case, he doesn't seem bothered by the humor. He rather likes the small quips Connor offers here and there.]
Mm. Not directly. There was one that drowned from the pool water when the gravity was turned off. Someone else died from a specific... event that happened to them. It was as if all of the air was sucked out of him and he suffocated, but it was not directly from the station's effects on the entire population.
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I see... I might be making unrealistic assumptions, but isn't it likely that the station, or whoever's brought us here, is likely behind those accidents?
[It didn't even feel right calling them accidents. They were almost like bizarre experimentation.]
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Regardless, we've no way of knowing just yet. Do not mistake me; I make no defense of what happened. Simply that overall that if we are alive, it is more convenient for such games.
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I agree that, logically speaking, it is likely if this is some sort of experiment that they would prefer we were alive. However... new arrivals keep appearing. There may not be a limited pool that they can pull from, so to speak.
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[For a moment, Alucard looks troubled, but he closes his eyes and shakes his head.]
No, I don't think so either. Not with such a wide range of realities and timelines they've touched.