Chapter 61: Red

*"As you adjust to being confined, you're afflicted by something new."*

## Major Events

* Ten wakes up in the Overseer's room and notices someone on the other side of her closed curtain is monitoring the cameras. She reflects deeply in the thoughts
* After a long while, Lucius pulls aside the curtain to give her food that was acquired likely from a worker. He says he will watch her while she ate
* After some back and forth, Lucius confirms that him and the Overseer had been monitoring the Numbers - although Ten suspected this for awhile, she is awkward to be aware that they've seen every awkward and personal things they've done
	+ If Mom wasn't so important to the operation, The Overseer and Lucius would have gotten rid of her long ago due to her relentlessness to cause trouble
	+ The Overseer didn't remember Jade's name because he doesn't look back. Lucius says she wasn't worth saving after her pregnancy and that he personally killed her
* After Lucius leaves Ten be, she thinks about Lav and Cyrus and wonders how they're taking her disappearance
* Ten asks Lucius why the Overseer didn't show Cyrus' footage - Lucius says it's because he was from a different group. Additionally, he also calls Cyrus by his name and confirms that it belonged to him
	+ And that Mom slipping the file was planned by the Overseer
* Ten is left alone for a long while and switches between staring at the wall, napping and pulling her chain until she hears the Overseer asking Lucius for his presence upstairs (something formal)
* The Overseer approaches her and gives her a dose of anesthetic

* After a long slumber, Ten wakes up and notices pain in her stomach and blood on her sheets. She calls for help, which gets the attention of both men in the room
* Overseer and Lucius mention that Nathaniel had confirmed that she wasn't pregnant. He asks for Nathaniel first but he was out so he asks to call Monica in his stead
* Lucius calls Mom on his phone to page Monica for an "unscheduled ultrasound"
* Lucius takes Ten to the connecting bathroom to wash her off - as they walk out of the room and into the hall, a nurse catches up to them. Ten asks more about the workers and how they're treated inhumanely
	+ To prove a point, Lucius asks the nurse (N4), if she feels remorse for N3's death but doesn't respond. He then asks her to lift her hand and he punches her. Ten is disturbed but notices the nurse's lack of reaction aside from gripping her stomach.
	+ Ten begs the nurse to stop taking the abuse but as Lucius about to strike Ten for her outburst, N4 grabs Lucius' hand. The Overseer speaks through the cameras and tells Lucius to focus
* They finally head to "022 EXAM 3" (with N4 still following as if nothing happened) and Monica is waiting in the room. After her initial confusion, Monica asks Lucius to wait outside since she wanted the examination to be private between two women
* Struggling to trust Monica, Ten is hesitant to relay her symptoms but eventually allows her to examine her
* Ten asks about everyone back in her sector and Monica assures her that everyone is still doing fine. And that Yosuke hadn't been visiting underground as often and spending time with Mom
* At first Monica suspects that Ten has a miscarriage but going through the ultrasound, it seems Ten was just having her period (confirming that she is still able to get pregnant in the future)
	+ Ten's first panicked thought is idea if Yosuke were to find out about her fertility (since he seemed so obsessed with impregnating her)
	+ While her chances of pregnancy is lowered significantly, it doesn't eliminate all chances - since her period was so delayed
* Before Monica can ask N4 for pads, N4 shows up unexpectedly with a box filled with them. N4 also hands Monica painkillers and water for Ten without being prompted to
* Ten is confused since Monica and Nathaniel both have the same specialties. She also finds it suspicious that Monica also helps Mom in the records room - noticing that her position overlaps with multiple doctor's
* Ten asks Monica to promise her not to say a word about her fertility to Yosuke
* Monica addresses the N4 by name for another set of underwear
* Lucius enters the room and takes Ten back to the Overseer's room - disappointed that he has more caretaking work to do
* They return to the room, to the Overseer deep in his work. He doesn't pay much attention to Ten and after she eats and uses the restroom, she is shut in her bed behind the curtain again
* As Ten is in her thoughts, she realizes that Monica called N4 by name despite not knowing prior

## Trivia

* While the drug was effective in removing Ten's memories (even some common knowledge), it's interesting that it didn't diminish her fertility as an expected side effect
* It's revealed that Monica is a female gynecologist just like Nathaniel
* Chapter 61 was release on Christmas day and is the last update in 2020