episode_0483
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‘Do you need a body? ‘There’s already a spare body.’
The body used by Awaken is an android with advanced technology. In reality, Awaken never suffered damage severe enough to change its body, but Awaken had been building spare bodies little by little just in case.
It was a natural measure because if you live mixed in with human society, unexpected accidents may occur and people will be assigned to difficult jobs.
And among those spare bodies was Mary’s. I also knew that sometimes spare bodies are remotely controlled to get things done.
But she didn’t seem to like it very much.
Maria grumbled in a dissatisfied voice at my question.
-Not like that! A body made of real blood and flesh!
‘Blood and flesh… ‘
The moment Maria asked for a body, I decided to grant her request. But I honestly don’t know why she wants a real human body and not an android.
‘The human body requires incomparably more cumbersome maintenance than the android’s body. Eat, pack, sleep… No, first of all, since it is artificial intelligence, there is no need to sleep, right? Anyway, it can be said to be quite inefficient. And Maria, didn’t you say before that it would be difficult to control my body with nanobots? Even if you have a body, is it still possible to handle it properly?’
-are you okay! That much is predicted based on the data collected from the master’s body so far! And the reason I was able to control only part of my master’s body was because of my master’s control over his body. Maybe that’s why I can’t even lift a finger right now. All I can do now is talk to the owner or display an auxiliary interface in my field of vision.
‘okay?’
-If I can intervene in the process of creating a body, I am confident enough to handle a body that is not an android.
It was certainly a plausible explanation. If I created a body entirely for Maria, controlling it might not be that difficult.
And so were the annoying physiological phenomena of the human body. Even though I had the body of a superhuman, it was impossible for me to be completely devoid of physiological activity. It was Maria who watched it all. I guess he talked to me because he thought it was worth the hassle.
-I’m starting to want to have a proper body too! Not a machine, but a real body like the master and his companions!
‘I see.’
From Maria’s words, I could feel her sincerity in wanting to have a body that could breathe and bleed.
The power of my ticket was treating Maria, who had already awakened self-consciousness, as a life, but she would not have felt any difference due to that distinction. From the moment she awakened self-consciousness, she was like a life created on her own, but in the New Kind world, she was just an artificial intelligence that made an error.
Awaken was originally a group of androids that emerged to claim the same rights as humans.
It was no wonder that he wanted to go a little further and become human himself.
Maybe that desire has become stronger as I have seen and felt what I have been experiencing through nanobots. I am not an authority on artificial intelligence psychology, but considering what I learned while living with Maria, the possibility was not out of the question.
In fact, some time had passed since I promised Maria that I would give her a body. In the meantime, she didn’t actively ask for it and I didn’t feel the need, so I put it off a little, but now that it was like this, I was thinking of granting her request.
In the meantime, Maria assisted me well through nanobots, future knowledge, and Awaken Androids.
Just because Maria and the nanobots were listed among my souvenirs, I had no intention of taking the ball for granted. Because I can fully meet her demands.
It is time for me to keep my promise.
‘good. Let’s make one with a really awesome body.’
-really?!
When I answered calmly, Maria asked back in a high tone of voice.
Although it was said that a real body was needed to diversify the business, in reality, a spare body was enough. Since wanting the body was a request based on Maria’s greed, she probably thought that she might not grant it.
‘I told you I would make it for you. And you are my colleague too.’
-colleague…
‘okay. Choose a piece with appropriate skills. Because in reality, there is no technology to create your body. It might be a good idea to be a little greedy and create a body with special abilities. Anyway, once you have a body, it will be difficult to change it like an android body, so think carefully.’
-yes! In fact, the candidates had already been sorted out to some extent! I’ll just do a final review and show you the works!
Maria’s smiling voice rang in my head.
But there was another interesting fact. I didn’t think much of it when Maria was closely observing everything about me through the nanobots, but since I thought she would have a real human body, it felt somewhat awkward for her to control the nanobots inside my body like she did before.
In a way, I guess I’ve been carrying a person inside my body all this time.
It wasn’t something embarrassing, but I felt like something was stuck around my neck.
While I was feeling that way, Maria put travel destination candidates in my sights.
Just as she said that she had selected candidates in advance, works of various genres filled her field of vision.
Maria enlarged the size of the work that my eyes were focused on to make it easier to see and added a detailed explanation.
-There you can create a body based on alchemy. Did you say homunculus? They say you have to pay a price, but if you have the Philosopher’s Stone, which is the object that runs through the story, you don’t have to worry about that part. However, although it is possible to create a pure human body, there is a possibility that it will take a lot of time to create the Philosopher’s Stone. And because it uses power that is not defined by science, I think there will be little involvement in the process of creating the body.
‘and?’
-You said that the work I was working on was a science fiction work called New Kind, right? Among the works with the same SF background, there is one about biotechnology. However, this is a work that creates clones of ordinary humans for organ transplants. The lifespan of clones created that way is not long.
In addition, there were several other works in the nominations.
There were a wide variety of works that created the human body, but perhaps because they were topics related to bioethics, each work had various pros and cons.
Among the works Maria nominated was one about chimeras. To be honest, neither she nor I really considered this as an option. I just recognized that something like that existed and moved on.
‘Every decision I make has its pros and cons.’
-Actually, there is a work that I like the most.
‘Then you should have told me that first.’
It would have been nice to get a body that would be of help to me like now, but since it was a body that Maria would use, I thought her wishes would be the most important thing to consider.
Surprisingly, the work Maria chose was one I was familiar with.
Star Capital.
It was the very game that I received an advertisement for and even broadcast it with Maria.
‘game?’
-To be exact, it is Star Capital’s original novel.
Maria corrected my question.
Nova Empire.
It was the original novel of the Star Capital game, and the name of the human empire that advanced into space in the work.
The game I was advertised for had an original novel and contained the technology we wanted. It was a pretty funny coincidence.
It was not uncommon for a game to be based on a novel. The practice of basing movies, dramas, and even games on novels has existed in the past. Nowadays, there are cases where quite full-scale games are produced based on web novels.
‘Are you talking about the cloning technology mentioned there?’
I roughly guessed Maria’s intentions and asked.
I didn’t read the original work, but I played the game, so I knew that the human empire in that work had extremely advanced biotechnology technology.
The original setup was to send a new clone to the planet whenever the player died during a mission. This meant that they had the resources and technology to pour out that many clones.
-that’s right. But what I want isn’t just a clone. There are people who do not appear in the game, but appear in the original work. Navigators who make warp navigation possible in the vast universe. Beings who, through genetic manipulation, have a human body with computing power equivalent to that of a quantum computer. I want to have the body of that navigator, not a regular clone.
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