"I'd like to go with Victoria, then."

"If I have any questions when I'm reading through documents, I can ask you." I say.

"Sure, I'll be glad to help you out. I'll do my best." Victoria says.

We leave the others behind and enter one of the rooms along the main hallway.

The room is filled with books, documents, and piles of papers, all stacked up and crammed anywhere they can fit.

"There's so much here... Did Frankenstein really leave all this behind?" I ask.

Victoria grabs some of the nearby documents and begins reading through them. She has an exaggerated reaction to everything around her, and is completely engrossed with what she finds. "Amazing! These unpublished articles... They're all so innovate, they'd turn the established community on their heads... This, and this too... Wow! This place is amazing!" I laugh. "Hm? Wh-What is it, Caleb?"

"It's just... You're suddenly like a child."

"Ah... Heh. Sorry. This is an important time for you, and I should contain myself."

"It's all right. You can look through things on your own." For a while, we look through the documents in the room separately. I can sense for Victoria is searching for something... But suddenly things fall silent. "Victoria... What's the matter?"

"I've found it..."

I peek at the document she's holding.

[Facilities in London using Homunculus. Use of homunculus Within Plans for Large-Scale International Terrorism]

"Homunculus?" My hand automatically reaches for my chest. "'Use of Homunculus for terrorism'? What does this mean?"

"...There's only one thing they'd use it for. Homunculus have the potential to become the worst weapon created by humankind." Victoria says.

"What?"

"Victor Frankenstein created a monster we now call a homunculus. My work was based on that design. And Pretorius did the same thing. Before we worked on creating you, she showed me some homunculus' she had already created. They were miniature people. She called them Queen, King, Archbishop, Devil, Ballerina, Mermaid and Infant. As we worked on creating you, I noticed that her homunculus got bigger. Of course, when I suspected she was planning something dangerous, information about my grave robbery and the actions of my previous creation, Evelyn, reached King Victor. The reason we're here is because I suspected that Pretorius had found this facility." Victoria begins searching through the papers, more desperately than ever before. "Where...?! Where the homunculus kept?!"

"V-Victoria! Calm down...!"

She's beyond the realm of desperation, and for a split second she even looks like she's gone mad. This is completely different from her usual peaceful self.

Suddenly, we hear Lupin calling for us from afar. "Heeeeey! Victoria! Caleb! It's time for us to get back together!"

It seems we'd spent more time in here than we'd realised.

The voice seems to restore Victoria's calm. She stills her hands and looks over at me awkwardly. "...I'm sorry I lost control there..."

"It's all right. ...Do you want to do back to the others?" I ask.

Victoria and I head for the room's exit.

...Homunculus. A weapon.

And Victoria's reaction to it.

I feel an undesirable swirl of darkness beginning to stir within my heart.