Chris's room was right next to Claire's as a precautionary measure.

Zeel came up with the idea because both siblings were similarly annoying. His first instinct was to have both of them sleep in the corridors.

Luther vehemently disagreed with the release of Chris, but Zeel's decision trumped them all.

Due to Alice's stare, Zeel was forced to give a reason for every action.

So he opted to explain with the first excuse that came to mind "Put him in a room next to his sister, then if he does turn out to be a murderer, maybe he will kill her first,"

Claire wanted so bad to curse all of Zeel's ancestors.

Luckily, Zeel had no ancestors, since he was the first natural birth in his Universe for a couple of hundred years.

Zeel only had his immediate parents, and everyone else was a splice of genetic components using horizontal DNA implantation.

Claire's memories were still jumbled, but she could still recall who Chris was. Zeel and Alice shared a room and were guided there by Luther, whom Zeel found he didn't dislike as much as Carlos.

Maybe because Luther was African-American, Zeel also had Eutopian origins from his mother's side so he could enjoy that similar characteristic.

Once the room door was closed, the interrogation session began.

Alice asked Zeel where he was, what did he do, did he sleep with any hussy while he was gone.

There were so many questions and accusations being thrown around, that Zeel even considered if coming back was the best choice.

After all the formalities were out of the way, Zeel and Alice began a much more sensitive conversation.

"What happened? I feel like you're suppressing your nanites?" Zeel asked in confusion.

"What do you mean I am suppressing them, isn't it due to an injection Wesker gave me?" Alice asked confused by what Zeel said.

She knew that Zeel always stated exactly what he meant. This was also why he rarely spoke using knowledge from his civilization.

Nobody would be able to understand the concepts that lay behind simple statements.

"You mean that foreign substance that entered your body six months ago?" Zeel asked in a mansplaining manner.

"You knew?" Alice asked not minding his ever-growing need to prove he wore the pants in their marriage.

"Of course I knew; we share a connection through the nanites. But we also share a limited psychic connection that is also enhanced by the nanites. We can both feel when the other is in some form of danger," Zeel replied.

He continued "But that substance was flushed out of your bloodstream a long time ago,"

"Then why aren't my abilities working?" Alice yelled at Zeel a bit frustrated at his habit of speaking in circles, so you could draw your own tangents.

"Because you are suppressing them, obviously. Wait! I see. Do you perhaps feel like a monster or something, or at odds with yourself?" Zeel asked trying to be as direct as possible without telling Alice she was just being 'bitchy'.

"I- I- couple months ago I and the sisters went on a raid and they all died and I survived. I did feel a bit bad for them, but I mostly felt a bit gratified that we could go back to being like we were before they came into the picture," Alice replied, choking up since she could already figure what the problem was.

Due to the subconscious rejection of her sisters, Alice felt that she had become less-human. So she was currently self-actualizing her internal predicament.

"I see, there's the problem, you don't have to think less of yourself. To be honest, when I found out you were jealous, I did an illogical thing. I limited the life span of the remaining clones to 3 years. So if anyone should be a monster it would be me," Zeel said caressing Alice's cheek.

Zeel was not feeling any guilt since he did not explain the complete ins-and-outs of the situation to Alice.

Alice looked at him, surprised that he did such a thing. However, she didn't mind as much as she should have.

Alice guessed that with Zeel's unstable control of his emotions, he was bound to try something without her knowledge.

Though, she never would have thought that Zeel was the reason behind the decay rate of the girls' lifespans.

What Zeel didn't tell her was the nature of his experiments with some of the girls that went 'Mysteriously Missing'.

"Well, time to collect on some payment," Zeel said as he waited for Alice to process the information he had just given her.

Was he worried about Alice viewing him as a monster? Yes, he was fairly worried.

Zeel had become inclined to believe in the metaphysical world accessible through a lack of technological innovations.

In Zeel's Universe, there was nothing the Homo-Superior race could not do.

But some technologies were forbidden due to the intervention of certain Higher Dimensional Beings.

All Forbidden knowledge was invented and immediately stored away in Forbidden Cubes. However, some of the more tenacious people would still manage to hide a couple of Forbidden Cubes.

However, Zeel was now forced to reconsider all technological approaches to the metaphysical.

He grew up in an environment where technology was used for every task, but now he discovered new ways to access the metaphysical without technology.

And this way brought much more vivid insights.

It was akin to the difference between being talented but stagnant, and talented while also being hardworking.

Due to his metaphysical experiences, Zeel knew that all Alices' were vaguely connected by psychic energy.

Zeel also found that all Alices could virtually be the same. Using this as a basis, Zeel theorized that if Alice betrayed him, he could simply replace her with a clone exactly like her.

Not giving Alice any more time for discussion, Zeel pushed her onto the bed.

Zeel began kissing her neck.

This left a trail of hickeys that demonstrated his ownership of Alice. The hickeys would take a period of time to disappear even with Alice's advanced healing factor.

Soon a love session rang out through the night.

Gasps, moans, screeching, loud pants, and wet slapping sounds echoed throughout the night. Alice was spanked and bent in positions that were not possible before.

The final eruption was six months in the making, causing a notable bulge in Alice's womb. Alice lamented the fact that it was so difficult to get pregnant even with that much semen inside her body.

Zeel had to pry Alice away from his body after intercourse since she wanted to bite him.

His blood had an addictive component that brought great euphoria. It took a while for Alice to get over the withdrawal effects.

"Does sex feel better the longer you wait?" Zeel asked feeling confused about the fact that the sex just now was better than any before.

Alice thought for a while "Well, yeah sometimes, the longer you wait the more the tension builds up,"

"So should we wai…" before Zeel could finish what he was about to say, Alice quickly cut into the statement "At least twice a week! That's it, the topic is closed. Goodnight!"

"Before I forget, time to eat this," Zeel said as he took out two vibranium tablets accompanied by a small crystal fragment of Zeelinium.

Of course, his blood had already been included in the processing of making both tablets.

Since the Forbidden Cube was currently his most advanced tech, Zeel refrained from using it near everyone, including Alice.

Alice had found the cube before and desperately tried to figure out the functions. However, she could not make heads or tails of the object.

Alice asked no questions and swallowed both tablets, after which both Zeel and Alice fell into a deep slumber.

They were both exhausted, not from the immense pleasure of sex but rather from the constant complaining and yelling of Claire and Chris from the opposite side of the hall.

For siblings, they really fought and disagreed on a lot of mundane things.

While they were sleeping, Alice's body was undergoing a strange change as the nanites refined the metal tablets and made improvements to her body.

This made her stronger and beautiful than she already was.

Alice also noticeably reverse-aged about five years in appearance.

Her powers were growing exponentially and old torn muscles were now mending, her blood becoming a tinge more crystalline like a ruby in the rough, her hair becoming a more vibrant black with splashes of brown and blonde intermixed.

Zeel had asked Alice many times to dye her hair blonde.

The blonde became more prevalent and she looked weird with three colors in her hair, but she never listened to his request.

Alice preferred to be all-natural, all the time.