Vol 3 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Chapter 2: Skeleton-san’s Cooking Cla.s.sroom
Tararattattattattattan♪ Tararattattattattan♪
It’s time for skeleton-san’s cooking cla.s.sroom.
Yes, today we will intrude upon the house of an intellectual being from afterlife world, skeleton-san.
As usual, the one who will explain this is, Gooogle-sensei.
Best regards
[Me too]
The former owner of this house is already dead, so because this house is a deserted house, definitely it’s okay to say that the owner is skeleton-san.
Uhm…First, there’s a lump of meat suspended from the ceiling.
What for?
[Okay, the soul information body of afterlife race is really weak to salt, because of that, they must remove the salt content from their flesh.]
Aah, I understand, it’s called blood draining process, right?
[Yes, a very thick blood vessel runs from the heart until brain, and structurally, the fact that all blood in your body plays a part in increasing the efficiency. Also, by hanging the body upside down, it converts potential energy from gravity into draining speed.]
I understood, that’s why they hang it upside down like that, isn’t it?
I think even me would hang it if I had anything to do with blood removal.
When I’m playing games, I see they use metal hook to support their neck often, is that wrong?
[It’s wrong for meat processing. The right one is by making the feet upside. However, it’s a game, so I think they take appearance into account when staging it.]
I understood, staging, huh?
Certainly, we don’t really eat that, so they take more consideration to appearance, right?
[Correct, like the layers of gorgeous wedding cake in the former world, the edible area is extremely small, that’s a result of taking more consideration toward visual satisfaction in events I think.]
I understand I understand, I’m finally able to understand it.
Oh my, looks like the blood draining went smoothly.
However, this job takes so much time, is it really okay?
Look, after this they will corrupt the soul information body, right? Won’t the soul escape from the body?
[The soul information body will stay inside the body for 20 minutes after biological death. So, as to not damage the transcripted soul information when corrupting soul information body, they will take the salt inside body until the last minute. And, many skilled skeletons start the job when he or she is still alive.]
I understood, the skill of craftsmen, right?
Even one second longer, and it would take out more salt. The work of craftsmen right?
However, from some time ago, that act of rubbing ankle downward to thigh, is there any hidden meaning behind that?
[This is called squeezing out process. Like why the thigh is called the second heart, by making blood flow artificially like that, it can increase the efficiency of work even more. And there’s a case of collaboration doing this process when several afterlife race are present.]
Aaah, I understood, while thinking about the baby who will be born after this, they squeeze their love, huh.
It looks like a farmer milking, a beautiful spectacle.
However, seeing this for 20 minutes is a bit boring, so can I ask you a question?
[Of course, Karl-sama, what is it?]
Skeleton-san, how do they move?
Look, they don’t have any muscle, is it something like super power?
[Intellectual being from afterlife world is a spiritual living being with soul information body as their core, so by making their medium in real word as the center, they expand energy field from soul information body to envelop the surface
of the medium, they utilize that to act. And, to increase the efficiency of work, they need an indirect support physically, so they relatively avoid breaking or snapping their prey’s bones which will become their new body. But, it’s not like repairing is impossible, they can reconnect the snapped bone or repairing the crack by using the energy from soul information body.]
Hmm… Hmm… I understood.
Then, isn’t something like dolls enough for them?
[There’s nowhere you can paste the soul information body in dolls. So, it’s impossible to place soul information body.]
Aah, then, I can’t make beautiful girl robot-type skeleton-san, can I?
That’s really disappointing.
By the way, I heard skeleton-san is weak to salt, so if I sprinkle some salt to him, would he die like a slug?
[It will die if you bury all of its body with a lot of salt, but if you only throw some salt, it would end with only damaging the area where soul information body got hit with salt, I can’t say it’s efficient. I think it would more efficient if you tried to dissolve the salt first in water, making the salt stick to the medium, resulting of continuous damage.]
I understood, so it means, so just by spreading or throwing something which contains salt to the surface will give them damage, right?
[Yes, just like that.]
Thank you, sensei, very helpful.
Oh? Looks like the blood draining process have finished, so does it mean there’s still a plenty of time limit?
[Yes, looks like this prey’s processing starts after death, so the time limit is so short. There’s still a plenty of salt remaining inside the flesh.]
Is this a failure?
[No, it’s intended. There’s a fluffy soul information body floating beside skeleton who do the work. Looks like this time they’re trying to possess the target.]
Possession? Not transcription?
[Yes, if an afterlife race lost their medium in this world due to accident, its soul body information would float around like that waiting for their regeneration. Thus, by predating the soul body information of the medium which is prepared by their comrades, and at the same time they will stick their soul body information toward the part where they can be attached to, and synchronize with their medium. As supplemental information, when someone tries to possess a target whose salt content not fully taken out, the salt content will obstruct it, and in some cases the possessor might die.]
For a floating ghost to be able to die, quite a poetic expression, but does that mean when I meet something floating like that, and try to scatter them with my hand, can I kill him like that?
[Yes, quite possible.]
However, I can’t understand the meaning why that the short process time is “intended though?
[It’s a hara.s.sment.]
Aah, I understood, you will be able to see its suffering by letting it possess a target which still have some salt left huh.
How evil.
[Not as much as Karl-sama]
…………………….Eh?
H-hhmm, now, looks like the possession just began!!
It’s the birth of a new life! A very moving moment!
Aah, it writhes in pain of birth! It suffer from the intense pain of the birth of life!!
[The soul body information got damaged, and if you say in flesh, it’s just like feeling pain.]
Ooh, the skeleton-san who did the processing laughs dryly while pointing at the victim.
Certainly, it’s a hara.s.sment.
[In this case, you can remove the salt content by draining the blood even further after that possession or rot the flesh using moderate warm water. However, this time it’s still hanging from its leg, so neither can be done.]
Aah, certainly, in this situation, you can’t do anything.
I don’t know their language, but looks like the new skeleto……zombie-san is horribly angry and cursing his friend, right?
And looks like that skeleton-san ridicule it horribly.
Well, they’re close to the extent of preparing its friend new body, so they’re probably friends on the level where they can fight.
Friends.h.i.+p, so beautiful, isn’t it……
Well, I want to ask while zombie-san is wriggling in the background though, what’s the difference between possession and transcription?
[Possession is just like what you see before, that is the process of predating the target soul information body and use it as a medium. Transcription is the process of initializing the target soul information body and then copying its own soul information body to the initialized target.]
I understood, so when he’s doing that, he will definitely do the process carefully because it’s for its youngling.
It means, their goal is copy paste themselves, huh?
Certainly a virus…….
That’s all! The program of afterlife word’s intelligent life, skeleton-san’s home!!
Well, we must think about the countermeasure of skeleton-sans or you could say the afterlife world’s intelligent beings from past information though, but how did this kind of interesting creature come to this world?
[Because of science’s progress and failure.]
Eh? Science? Even though it’s a zombie, from science?
Aah, virus, or something similar is the reason, isn’t it?
But nowadays, it’s more like the malfunction of nanomachine, huh……, no, that happened 12,000 years ago.
That game, so nostalgic, I don’t think I want to do real survival in this world though.
[It was an experiment about mankind’s dream, achieving perpetual youth and longevity. If you say that in this present world, the afterlife’s science have reached the area of soul, so they try to accomplish transcription their self-ego which is bound to their flesh to soul body information. After many failures, they finally succeed. However, the information transcripted is included the personality, thought, and in addition of memory, self-preservation and self-propagation. Then, after they succeed making the second male subject into spiritual living being, the soul information body started to get corrupted, and after that the former intelligent life of afterlife world, the common human is taken over by the spiritual living being which is called afterlife race. In the beginning it’s the personality of one man, but after that, due to experience, the individual difference started to appear. But essentially, they didn’t change.]
It means, essentially, their personality is bad, huh.
Not just the soul of a child of three become one hundred, but twelve thousand, huh.
How should I put it, their personality is bad, love to tease, quite unhateable skeletons, right……
Moody, love festival, fear no death, living for eternity, they’re great skeletons, right?
However, it’s quite sad, struggle for existence is.
Changing place, the place is my Grosse……no, that baldie Grosse’s brother country, Prussia Kingdom’s royal capital, Hamburg.
Different from Grosse Kingdom’s fake n.o.bles, that county is the birthplace of prideful and haughty n.o.bles.
This country, I don’t like it…… I really don’t like it to the extent of wanting that country to just perish.
The self-proclaimed blue blood, I heard they have blue blood, are they mutant?