Next.

Another Asian girl – this one Japanese, with delicate features and soft eyes. She looks like she stepped out of a romance manga cover I used to see on the subway.

Mia Takahashi. Twenty‑two.

Tokyo-born. Linguistics degree from Kyoto University. Speaks seven languages.

Seven languages.
And these bastards picked her.

Of course they did. They always want the gifted ones. The extraordinary ones. The prettier the better, the smarter the better – because the audience gets off on watching someone valuable die.