episode_0075

After everything was over, leaving the town heated up by the festival fever behind, Harmon gathered in his room with Dahlia.

The existence of the basement was kept hidden from Dahlia, who was still unable to fully control it and was at risk of betrayal, so they gathered at the Guldari Guild building.

Isaiah’s drawing room.

The room that had been used only for meeting Harmon, sucking and having sex with him, and making children, was somehow fulfilling its original role of serving guests.

“Eww!”

The only problem is that, unlike Undine, she has a human mind and is not used to running in a 1200mm body, so she breaks things as she runs.

Dahlia thoughtlessly plopped down on the sofa, smashed the sofa and even the floor, and then sat with her legs crossed, floating in the air.

“Ugh. I guess I should start practicing how to handle my body.”

“Okay. Do you want to drink?”

When Harmon held out the oily drink, Dahlia accepted it and drank it in a gulp after looking at the oily drink sloshing around in the cup.

“Hmm. Tequila? Similar taste with a spicy peppery aftertaste. Unusual. Not bad.”

“Do you like alcohol?”

“No? Not really. I had to deal with businessmen to earn research funds, so I had no choice but to learn a lot about alcohol.”

“That’s right.”

Dahlia looked at Harmon’s belly as she spoke.

On Harmon’s stomach, which was still bare, there was a small bruise, just above his belly button.

It was the trace left by Domi’s final blow.

“Hmm. Wait a minute.”

Dahlia, who was watching, examined the functions of her humanoid body, opened her forearm, and took something out of it.

“What is that?”

“Nanomachines.”

Dahlia placed the orb on Harmon’s stomach, and the orb analyzed the wound and broke down into nano-sized particles, permeating Harmon’s bruise and starting to heal it.

It repairs ruptured blood vessels, removes accumulated blood, and eliminates inflammation before coming out again and changing into a bead shape.

“It feels like this… .”

“Okay.”

Harmon, who was patting his now healthy stomach, smacked his lips as he looked at the nanomachines Dahlia had.

‘If we had the facilities, could we make it?’

“Can you give me some of the knowledge you have?”

Harmon said as he looked at it.

“Hmm. Okay.”

“… … .”

“Why?”

“Because I thought he’d give it to me surprisingly easily.”

“Knowledge is something that needs to be shared and exchanged. That’s how it develops, right? And if you give an order, I can’t say anything and just hand it over, so I’ll just hand it over.”

Medical knowledge and technology were extremely vast.

The amount of data was so vast that it was greater than all of Harmon’s skills and knowledge combined, so Harmon had to create a separate database to collect medical knowledge and access the knowledge there.

After receiving this knowledge, Harmon asked Dahlia.

“What do you want to do?”

“What?”

“Even though I’m a humanoid, I don’t intend to completely ignore your wishes, so I want you to do what you want to do as much as possible.”

“Hmm. I need a lab. A research lab too.”

Dahlia said so.

“I have to finish the research I couldn’t finish.”

“Unfinished research?”

“Yes. The reason we kept living was because we each had research we wanted to finish.”

“What kind of research do you want to do?”

Dahlia said simply.

“I want to create a body that produces its own energy. Energy flows through the blood vessels instead of blood.”

“Energy?”

“Yes. I believe that at the end of the evolution of life, a life form that can handle energy will be born. But what if I could create it? What if I could create the end point of evolution? Hohohoho! There is no greater achievement than this! From then on, all beings on Earth will have to evolve for hundreds of millions, billions of years to catch up with my creation!”

An excited Dahlia spreads her wings and speaks.

“What could be more exciting than this? My creation could be the greatest achievement in the history of life!”

From then on, Dahlia started babbling in all sorts of jargon, but Harmon couldn’t understand even 1% of it.

It was not only because the knowledge was in a very different field from what Harmon had studied, but also because the level of knowledge and vocabulary she used, which were so different from those of hers who had received professional education in a highly developed society, were so different that it was difficult to keep up.

“That’s it!”

“Yeah. I don’t know what that is, but I get it… Do you have the equipment to conduct that research?”

“I hid it!”

“Hoo.”

Harmon was a little impressed by that.

“In space!”

And I was speechless at Dahlia’s one word.

“… Space?”

“Yeah! If it hadn’t been destroyed by space debris, it would be in space just fine! I sent all of my research facilities inside my personal satellite!”

“… All of you?”

“Right! Oh, Isobel’s will be there too, so I should bring that too!”

Space. Space.

“Yeah. Space, you know… .”

How do you go to space!

Harmon wanted to shout like that.

“Haa. Right. What is Isobel’s research? I’d better get everything I can.”

“Isobel’s research is simple!”

Dahlia said she enjoyed talking about her friend.

“Isobel wanted to create a fully combat-ready humanoid of 1500 standard.”

“…? Can’t we just make it?”

“You said it was perfect for combat, right?”

Dahlia waved her fingers left and right, saying it wasn’t that easy.

“Currently, humanoids are limited in converting energy into other uses.”

“Convert… .”

“Isobel’s body handles water? This is by using molecules that manipulate water as energy. In this way… Most of the technologies that currently apply energy to humanoids or other technologies are limited to using energy to create and manipulate other substances or molecules that do not exist in reality.”

Just as Dahlia’s dream was to create a life form that could manipulate pure energy.

“Isobel wanted to create a weapon that could manipulate pure energy. She decided that it would be best to conduct the experiment on her own body in order to continue her research, so she joined the Time Capsule Project.”

“The two of you are pursuing similar fields, but have other people also done energy-related research?”

“Hmm. Similar, right? Some aren’t, but most of them are friends I met while researching energy.”

“Indeed.”

Dahlia laughed heartily and stirred the drink she was drinking.

“There was even a fool who studied making alcohol with energy?”

Harmon also laughed at those words and said.

There are fools in every age.

“I’m curious. Tell me.”

That day, Harmon talked with Dahlia all night long.

The era when the steel earth he dreamed of existed. The story of the people who lived there and the infinitely advanced science.

Harmon’s eyes, listening to the story, shone like a child dreaming.

* * *

Since Dahlia couldn’t do what she wanted right now, which was to go into space and bring the research lab, Harmon said he would cooperate later when he gained the power to go into space, and Dahlia was satisfied with that.

“Actually, you don’t even need to go into space. You can just send a signal to a satellite and have it come down to the ground.”

Dahlia said so, but it wasn’t easy because the signal generator that would send the signal to the satellite was quite high-level technology.

It was a kind of security.

One of several meticulously prepared security measures, as Harmon protects his village with walls, turrets, robots, and guild members.

So, Dahlia decided to give up her plan for a while and help the development of Guldari Village until she could build a beacon or go into space.

The medical system was the greatest competitive advantage that Guldari Village had.

Harmon used Dahlia to revive it.

We create the necessary equipment and, through Dahlia, we extract the relevant knowledge from the people… or more precisely, the artificial intelligence that contains the relevant knowledge, and then create several robots and deploy them.

Thus, the Dahlia General Hospital, the last point at the corner of a large triangle that surrounds the center of the village, including the Guldari Guild and the Harmon Repair Shop, was completed.

“Why did you put your name on it?”

“Wouldn’t it be nice if a friend came after hearing the rumor?”

Harmon nodded in agreement with Dahlia’s words.

If all goes according to plan, their comrades will be alive and well somewhere in this world, even though Isobel was attacked, the time capsule was lost, and Dahlia was taken over by Harmon.

“I wish you would come.”

“I should’ve killed you the moment you came?”

Harmon snickered as Dahlia poked him in the ribs with a smile.

“Then I guess I should prepare to deal with it.”

Dahlia laughs again at Harmon’s words.

“Haaah. By the way… I never thought I’d be running a hospital.”

“Why?”

“As technology has advanced, cancer has become something that can be treated at home. Naturally, hospitals have been disappearing in our time. … My parents’ hospital closed down like that.”

Dahlia looked dazed for a moment, then shrugged her shoulders and shook off her emotions.

“Well… Since that’s how it is, I’ll try to run this place well.”

“Okay. Please take care of it.”