Chapter 864 – 864. Puppeteer’s Heart (2)
“By the way, Hyuna.”
“Huh?”
A short break after lunch.
After Erin cleaned up the table where she and Lily had lunch, she approached and talked to Eun-hyeon, who was about to resume work.
“This doll called Archis. Didn’t you say you were Hyun’s friend?”
“It did.”
“The owner who created Emilia? Should I say Something like that.”
“However?”
“Then who made this doll called Archis?”
Erin asked curiously.
If you think about it, it was a natural story.
The doll called Emilia is like an ancient legacy made with outstanding technology that no one on the continent can recreate today.
Naturally, Erin, who was curious about the origin, asked right away, perhaps because of her character that did not hold back her original body curiosity.
“Hmm?”
“Hoo.”
Cecilia and Doran, who had been drinking Lily’s fruit wine and relieving tension from their long work, also turned their attention to Eunhyeon and Erin.
It was only natural that the two men and women, who were as sincere as Eun-hyeon about technology, would show interest.
Lily, who usually helped a lot with lyrics and other parts, was also showing a lot of interest in the birth of dolls called Emilia and Archis for other reasons.
“Mmm.”
Eun-hyeon pondered for a while at the reaction of the three, who were so curious that they asked me to talk to them quickly.
Originally, I wanted to start working right away, but it was a bit burdensome to just ignore the reaction of those who were very curious.
“It was people who made Arkis.”
“Hoo. You mean a person like a farmer? What a great blacksmith!”
Doran exclaimed, but Eunhyun smiled bitterly and shook her head.
“I wasn’t a blacksmith.”
“Then?”
“I was just a mad scientist.”
“Scientist?”
Erin tilted her head at the unfamiliar word, as if hearing it for the first time.
It was a familiar word to Eun-hyeon, but she had no choice but to be unfamiliar with the people of this continent.
“Being a scholar… Do you mean someone who studies that ‘science’?”
“Yes.”
Cecilia asked while Eunhyeon understood and explained her meaning.
“What is science?”
“Hmm. What should I say… Should we call it an academic study of knowledge that systematically organizes the discovery of universal truths or laws?”
“… I don’t know such difficult words.”
Erin put on a puzzled expression, as if she couldn’t understand even more.
She spoke and explained, but instead of understanding what it was saying in her head, it was rather like a jumble of threads.
“Let’s say, for example, that Erin has a fire here.”
“Huh.”
“What should I do to put out this fire?”
“Can I pour water on it?”
“Yes. Then why does the fire go out when water is poured on it?”
“… Huh?”
Erin couldn’t answer Eunhyun’s question.
What the hell is this all about?
In response to Eunhyun’s attitude of quietly waiting for an answer, Erin somehow squeezed the answer into her head and said.
“… Is it water?”
“…”
“… Pooh!”
Perhaps hearing an unexpected answer, Cecilia spewed out the water in her mouth.
Haha!”
It was a disrespectful attitude and conduct unbecoming of a nobleman, but no one criticized Cecilia for such an attitude at this meeting.
Since it was not a place for socializing adorned with the ostentation and ostentation of aristocrats, Cecilia’s vigilance was too futile.
“Ooh, don’t laugh!”
“Mi, I’m sorry. Erin. Whoops.”
Even though she apologized, she could not stand it and laughed at the sound of leaking out. Erin cried with a sad expression.
“Hey…”
He never expected that the teacher who taught him would burst into laughter like this.
“… Do you know the teacher?”
“Umm, I think you can answer better than Erin?”
“You are too much!”
Eun-hyeon held the sad Erin in her arms and stroked her hair to soothe her.
“Now, now, that’s not what the story is about.”
Erin, who had been crying until just now, immediately relaxed her expression, and she threw herself into his arms.
Eun-hyeon, who had soothed Erin, continued her explanation.
“Anyway, science is the study of natural phenomena that occur in the world like this. Studying why this phenomenon happened, how it happened, and where it can be used.”
“… Isn’t it similar to what Uncle Doran and Miss Cecilia are doing here?”
“Yes.”
In fact, now Doran, several other dwarves, and Cecilia could already be called scientists in a broad sense.
Science on Earth and science on this continent are obviously different fields of study, but they are not very different in that they study a phenomenon and study how to apply or reflect that phenomenon to other reasons to derive beneficial results.
And so was the man who made Arcis.
The greatest scientist at the pinnacle of his field.
“He was such a scientist too.”
◆ ◆ ◆
“Archis Mendel”
The name is originally a person’s name.
An era of despair in which demons and monsters invade the earth and the world is perishing.
A doll made by a genius scientist named ‘Allen Mendel’.
Originally, engineer Arlen Mendel realized that magic was magic and applied that knowledge and sense to tools, creating weapons that could work against demons and monsters.
Those weapons gradually went through a lot of improvement and mass production as time passed, and they were used by hunters who knew how to handle magical powers, and they were the best scientists who contributed to saving many people.
Arlen Mendel was a great man all over the world, to the extent that there is no one who does not know his name anywhere in the world.
What was born with his hands was the origin of ‘Puppet Master Archis’.
It was also the name of a daughter who had been lost due to the unreasonable providence of the world.
The genius scientist who lost his daughter due to the invasion of demons was saddened and could not do anything for a while.
No matter how many things he invented and spent money on, no matter how much respect and praise he gave as a great man who saved many people, he could not feel any value to Allen Mendel.
Even if the honor and riches are gradually accumulating, there is no lovely daughter to bestow them on.
Because there is no daughter whom I cannot be proud of to send respect and admiration for being a great father.
Although he had many things, Arlen Mendel paradoxically had to live a daze life as if a hole had been pierced in a part of his heart, seized by a great sense of loss.
After living in sadness day after day like that, he made a big decision.
“Okay… I’m making it again… My daughter again…”
It was the moment when I finally went mad because of the great sense of loss.
Thought Allen.
What would it take to make her own daughter?
What is making
The first method that came to mind was to create a human being biologically.
The act of injecting sperm into a woman’s vagina to fertilize an egg during ovulation and conceive a child.
Pregnancy was the most common and basic reproductive activity among humans, but it was not what Allen had hoped for.
Even if she successfully conceived a life through fertilization and implantation, it would take close to 10 months for her, and there was no guarantee that she would be the same as Archis, who had already died.
He could even be born as a son whose gender was not a daughter.
That’s not what Allen wanted.
The expression ‘to make’ he wanted was to make her a tooth exactly like his own dead daughter.
In that respect, the biological method of pregnancy was far from Allen’s ideals and goals.
Allen’s specialty was ‘engineering’, not ‘biology’.
“Archis…”
Allen looked at the framed picture on his desk.
A picture of a girl standing side by side with herself and holding her hand tightly.
If only I could see my daughter’s wide smile, that smile that I can’t see in person anymore.
“I really want to see you again.”
Anything could be done, said the twisted genius scientist.
Allen decided to use his knowledge and experience in the field in which he excels most in order to complete his own goals.
In order to realize his biological impossibility, he decided to make the most of his specialized field of engineering knowledge.
Fortunately, he had the knowledge, capital, and reputation to make it possible.
And ironically, even in the worst of circumstances, luck followed.
“If you use magic… It would not be impossible.”
In a world that is perishing, Allen found new possibilities.
“I will make a doll.”
◆ ◆ ◆
“I will make a doll.”
When many people in Allen’s company heard the story, they treated him like a lunatic.
“… Hey, are you finally crazy?”
“I’m not crazy. He said he would make a doll.”
What he said he would make was not just a doll.
A special doll that can think and move on its own.
However, it was not well received by the company’s executives or other colleagues.
“It won’t work.”
“It can’t be sold.”
“Why don’t we develop a new weapon instead of building something like that?”
It was a dark era when the world was being destroyed by the invasion of demons and monsters.
Mendel Industries, a company founded by Allen, was the best military company on earth that developed weapons that could kill such demons and monsters and sold them to hunters as the main source of income.
Allen, who helped develop more than half of the state-of-the-art weapons developed by the ‘Mendel Industries’, was so outstanding that he dared not compare with anyone else.
That’s why he stopped developing high-tech weapons and poured time and effort into making dolls.
From the point of view of executives and other scholars, it was as absurd as digging up dirt with the best golden spoon.
‘Mendel Industries’ was no longer a small company that Allen had nurtured alone.
So, all other scholars and executives belonging to the company stopped Allen, but Allen left the company he had devoted his life to without hesitation.
For him, the company was no longer just a hindrance.
For Allen, who had only one thought: wanting to see the face of his lost daughter and the smile of Archis once more, it took only a moment for his company to become an obstacle.
So, he alone studied magic, developed high-tech materials, and produced the body of a doll. Three years passed.
Allen finally made it.
A doll with the appearance of a girl who looked just like his own daughter, Archis.
A slender body, pure white hair, a sharp nose, small lips, long eyelashes, etc. A doll girl made perfectly identical to each and every trivial feature was sleeping with her eyes closed in a transparent glass box.
Wheein!
If it was a different part compared to the pure white skin, it was that there were countless cables attached to the back.
That said, the girl sleeping in the transparent glass box was a doll, not a human.
The moment a large amount of mana was injected into the doll girl through the attached cable, the doll girl who obtained a power source started moving inside the box.
“Start maneuver.”
The girl’s mechanical voice croaked briefly.
Slowly, the doll girl stood up and turned her head toward the old man, detected by the sensors mounted in her eyes.
“Check the master’s identification code. Proceed with the authentication process. Please give me a name.”
Hearing the doll girl’s mechanical voice, the old scholar, Allen, shed a single tear and shook her body.
Then, in a voice that trembled as much as his body, he slowly said the doll girl’s name.
“Beautiful… Kiss… Your name is Archis…”
That was the starting point of the doll girl named Archis.
