Volume 2 S1chapter 8 (1/2)

Jinrui Saikyou no Netsuai - Chapter 8

Jinrui

Saikyou no Jun'ai –

Nisioisin

p 37-45

Immortal

youth is one of humanity’s dreams, but it will forever remain a

dreaht after since ancient times, and it

will never beas a

hu

lives beggar belief, and my fathers were apparently quite enamored

with the… well,

those people are a

fascinating topic for researchers to study, make no mistake It’s a

topic that seeawa

and my fathers, those deviant researchers So, when Doctor

Kitsuregawa grew old and saw the end of his life approaching, he

decided to transfer his consciousness into someone else—is that it?

If that’s as meant by a successful experiment, there are still

some unresolved questions For instance, who exactly is this

Hotsure-chan, sitting in front of ht now? I’d surmised from her

age that she was his granddaughter, but no matter how much of a mad

scientist Doctor Kitsuregawa ht have been, would he really use his

own granddaughter as an experimental subject? …He probably would

After all, he even used his own consciousness in his research No,

that’s not the issue; he wasn’t the kind of person who could build

honest family relationshi+ps in the first place—that’s my prejudiced

opinion What Hotsure-chan said earlier about never having a mom or

dad concerned me Surely he didn’t kidnap an orphan to use as his

vessel, right? That’s a downright nauseating hypothesis, but

unfortunately that sort of thing is not unheard of in this world of

ours Might even say it’s par for the course—there’s a similar

story tothat as “par for the course” is

a whole different probles

cleared up—I’rateful for all the surprises you prepared for me,

shi+ician revealed his

secrets I ht look like an adult to you, but I’m not that mature

If I get pissed off, I wouldn’t hesitate to go on a rae with no

thought for the consequences

“H-hold

on, please, don’t destroy our house like that govern…

I’iwa

replied hastily—I found it a bit strange that he was more worried

about the house than himself However, as he spoke, I found myself

thinking the opposite of what I said—maybe I have

ht have smashed this table to pieces without

even providing a warning

“You

were right… well, the ruawa had no

fao, but when I met him, at

least, he didn’t have any farandchildren”

Hmph

He’s not so different froard Well, Doctor

Kitsuregawa and I actually have a lot in common even beyond that (asto any society or to any

organization; we live aloof from the world, without benefactors—did

I sympathize with him on those counts, or did I hate him for them…?

Let’s put that aside

“It’s

not as if Doctor Kitsuregaas a lonely old man, of course There’s

a difference between being isolated and being above the rest”

Being

isolated and being above the rest are the sa

“……”

Oh,

I don’tyou like This’ll probably come in handy when I write Doctor

Kitsuregawa’s biography

“You’re

gonna write his biography? You, Jun Aikawa?”

Of

course not Stop flaring up every time I crack a joke So,

shi+awa had no family at all—excuse

me, if he was above

having a fairl? Where’d she hatch

from?

“'Hatch’,

huh… Odd way to put it”

You’re

really particular about phrasing, aren’t you Is language your

favorite subject at school?

“I

don’t go to school What I meant by ‘odd’ was that it was oddly

accurate I thought

you ain; it startled me”

Huh?

“Hotsure-sama

did indeed 'hatch'—from the inside of a flask”

…From

the inside of a flask I shouldn’t really be co able

to understand the situation based on those words—I mean, it’s

Doctor Kitsuregaho ought to be coh, no

ht be, it’s hard to say whether

he ought to be coot to think

about ethics Even I couldn’t avoid bringing that up

“Jun

Aikawa Do you knohat a homonculus is?”

I

didn’t answer right away, but yeah, I knew The idea of homunculi is

from alchemy; they’re synthetic people, or rather, artificial

life—essentially, life created by hu

theold

Of course, we’re not talking about the es here, and in this

er an academic discipline,

it’s a subject for entertainment

“Not

necessarily They say that at the forefront of modern science, it’s

becoht? So it shouldn’t be all that

astonishi+ng if immortality or homonculi became reality either”

I

guess it shouldn’t be surprising… But, shi+iwa-kun It’s

definitely surprising to hear you talk as if Doctor Kitsuregaas

an alchemist, not a scientist, or even a chemist As if he was an

entertainer—it’s hilarious Like he was the last surviving

alchee… This isn’t a sci-fi novel, you know

As if—I looked at Hotsure-chan—as if he really built a

homonculus

“Whatever

you believe is up to you But the truth does not waver—I am an

artificial life form that Grandpa created, and I inherited Grandpa’s

intelligence and eneration Doctor

Kitsuregawa The 'Closet’ spacesuit that you as one of my

inventions”

Hearing

her call that the unwavering truth wasn’t just surprising, it sent a

chill down my spine After all, I’d flown out into a vacuum and run

wild in a spacesuit designed by a five-year-old …Speaking of

which, she looked five years old to me, but if she’s really a

hoe that based on her appearance She’s no

“designer baby”, but e could have been set to

whatever he wanted… Well, I’m sure it wasn’t the old man’s

preference to have a little girl take over as him That kind of

perversion would be a great deal more serious than a lolita complex

“What’s

that? You’re curious about o, and

I took Grandpa—Doctor Motsure Kitsuregawa—into my head one year

ago”

So

she was exactly as old as I thought And if she took over as Doctor

Kitsuregawa one year ago, that means that just about all of Doctor

Kitsuregawa’s recent achieve the Closet spacesuit,

were irl’s tiny hands… From what I’d heard, all sorts

of Doctor Kitsuregawa’s creations had been scandalizing society, not

just the spacesuit… So all of those things were the work of a

five-year-old girl? That’d send a shi+ver through all uts, not

just eneration is supposed to be smart, but

this is a little too much

“Doctor

Kitsuregawa e and