Hearing You

***Hearing You*** is a event in Counter:Side.

## Synopsis

> *To meet someone they met in a dream and to save another, they walk on I-50.*
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## Apperances

* Lucid
* Wheel
* Gaeun
* Miya
* Choi Ina
* Machine G.A.P
* Alex
* A-48
* Philemon
* Lee Sooyen
* Eins and Zwei

## Plot

Lucid wakes up inside a moving vehicle with a group of vigilante soldiers who picked her up in the middle of the road as she slept. They are on their way to I-50 when their vehicle gets stuck in a pothole. As the driver, nicknamed Wheel, pushes the car out, Lucid notices a dead man's arm poking out of the trunk and so decides to walk her way to I-50 on her own. Wheel grabs onto her and tries to get her to stay, but Lucid envisions Wheel's memories when he touches her and finds out he and his group are actually rebel soldiers who intend to sell her off. Corrupted Objects then ambush and nearly jeopardize the group but suddenly stop and behave cordially when Lucid pleads them not to kill. Believing Lucid to be a Shadow, the rebels flee and leave her and Wheel behind. Lucid helps Wheel up and explains that, while she is not a Shadow, she is a Counter with the ability to communicate with C.O.s.

Lucid passes out and has a flashback about her time at Jehuty Biotech's Protected Test Sector Complex B-3: Lucid and the Lab Director were notified by the President that not only was Subject 37 killed in a routine test but also that Eins and Zwei, along with their eight sisters, were abducted from the lab. The President confronted Lucid about the latter situation, to which Lucid initially denied having any involvement before admitting to helping them escape. Because Lucid is a valuable asset to Jehuty, the President spared her and announced he will punish the researcher in charge of looking over her instead. Afterwards, the Lab Director initiated Lucid's tests for the day, forcing her to make C.O.s attack human combatants in a mock battle. Lucid passed out upon completion and is taken to a medical ward, where she overheard the President's and the Lab Director's plan to use a refugee camp for her next test. Lucid subsequently made her escape from the lab.

Lucid wakes up during the night and sees Wheel has set up a camp fire for them as well as the C.O.s protecting them. When Wheel asks her about her life story, Lucid reveals she developed her power to tame C.O.s as a result of all the cruel, nonstop experiments performed on her. She says she was able to get her sisters out of Gronia and into Ground One with the help of her dreams and hopes to join them soon. The next morning, Wheel gives Lucid directions to I-50 and the two part ways. At one point, Lucid is trying to sew her doll back in shape and tells her C.O.s that she received it as a gift from a girl—revealed to Gaeun (who was then unnamed)—she befriended at the warehouse when the two were imprisoned in during their time as child slaves. Lucid recalls seeing that girl in her dreams lately and hopes to give the doll back to her should they ever meet again.

Several days later, Lucid reaches a checkpoint at the Gronian national border and see rebel soldiers attempting to abduct a vehicle carrying refugees there. She and her C.O.s chase the rebels away, and the elderly driver of the vehicle thanks her by giving them a ride.

Elsewhere, after fumbling a performance, Gaeun confides to Choi Ina that she hasn't been sleeping well due to recurring dreams about her past life. Later, she is walking through the city with the Machine G.A.P. when she spots a animal doll at a shop that reminds her of the doll she gave to Lucid. When she tells the Machine G.A.P. about her dreams as well, the Machine G.A.P. posits that she is actually seeing someone else's memories since Gaeun could not possibly remember her past, visually speaking, in such vivid detail due to her being blind at the time. He believes that person may still be alive if she's sharing her memories with Gaeun, so Gaeun decides to go to I-50 to find the person based on her most recent vision.

At a refugee camp near the immigration center in Charade, Lucid learns she will have to wait a year or longer to enter the city but is told by an Administration worker that her waiting period can be shortened greatly since she is a Counter. She is taken to an office and told to wear a device that'll supposedly measure her CRF, but the device is revealed to be a shock collar and a power intensifier that incapacitates her. The worker, in actuality an agent from Jehuty Biotech, then takes Lucid away.

Lucid wakes up at a test facility where she meets the Lab Director of Complex B-3. The Director attempts to force Lucid into making her C.O.s attack the refugee camp and subsequently kill her, but Gaeun arrives and destroys the device on Lucid and its backup controller. Alex also appears after being ordered to follow Gaeun and fights alongside her and Lucid against the Jehuty squad, which includes a clone of Alex known as A-48. The Lab Director escapes but is soon apprehended by Yegor.

Gaeun reunites with Lucid and apologizes for running away without her. They exchange names for the first time, and Lucid offers to give back her doll though Gaeun insists she keep it.

Lee Sooyeon debriefs the Administrator and reports that Maze Division located the testing laboratory run by the Lab Director and discovered traces of a Shadow. But because the facility was found empty of staff despite a lack of destruction, she concludes that the Shadow is not hostile to Jehuty Biotech and is in fact working with the company. On top of that, she states Jehuty has been reproducing Type A's and presents a forensic reconstruction of the company's current CEO.

Lucid wakes up at a hospital room, where the Machine G.A.P. informs her that she just went through a massive operation to stabilize her bodily functions and mend her physiology. As she only has a few more years of her life remaining, Lucid decides she wants to spend the remainder of her life teaching the kids she helped escape, so the Machine G.A.P. suggests she apply as an assistant teacher at the Administration Counter Academy. As Lucid thinks over the idea, Eins and Zwei enter her room in exuberance.