"Laboratory animals?

Aren't SISTERS just lab animals? ”

In the bright light, Nagato Yuki turned his head expressionlessly, and answered Fushu Toshin's question without a haze in his eyes.

HER VOICE WAS AS STEADY AND UNINHIBITED AS EVER, VERY SIMILAR TO THE SISTERS SHE IDENTIFIED AS EXPERIMENTAL ANIMALS, AND EVEN FUSHU TOXIN, WHO THOUGHT THAT SHE DIDN'T SPEAK MUCH HUMAN, FELT THAT SHE SHOULD BE MORE LIKE A NORMAL PERSON THAN HER...... It's more like a human being.

In a trance, she seemed to see the shadow of SISTERS in the obsidian-like eyes of this junior—a pair of extremely serious but incomparably innocent eyes, which should have belonged exclusively to the experimental animals that were bred and raised in the laboratory.

“……”

Shaking his head slightly, Cloth Shutoshin lowered his eyelids again, and disguised his big eyes, which had been creepy, as a lack of interest. She no longer looked at Yuki, who was closer to SISTERS than humans, but stared at her student shoes with tired eyes, and said to herself in an indifferent tone:

"Sure, I asked a stupid question."

“……”

Generally speaking, the two of them should be separated at this point, but Yuki stopped this time and took the initiative to ask the cloth Shu Toshin for the first time:

"Do you want to save SISTERS, and why?

Even a real human being is nothing more than a tool in productive activities, and although each person's responsibilities are different, all people are tools.

SISTERS is the tool for the lab animals in this project, and we are the tool for training the lab animals. Even if you change the purpose of the SISTERS, the plan will still need to be used as a tool for the experimental animals.

Every tool that is made has a purpose, and disposable consumables are also necessary. When it comes to tools, the best way to realize their value is to make the most of them. ”

Unexpectedly, the junior, who was unusually silent in school and in the research institute, and never talked nonsense, said a lot of things that had nothing to do with the research topic in one breath, as if she was convincing Bu Shu, who was a senior, and as if she was convincing herself.

No...... Perhaps this is not persuasion, but a tool that has been created, expounding its own unique outlook on life, worldview, and values with the consciousness of a tool, and asking questions of the so-called "human beings" with curiosity.

Again, Fushu Toshin looked up in a little surprise, and the figure of Nagato's junior coincided with SISTERS again. She is like a sister who has survived for a long, long time, and finally gained her own consciousness, feelings, and other things, and then calmly and rationally expounds her opinion as a tool to researchers who are actually also tools but feel superior to others.

"Unbelievable, you mean...... Do laboratory animals voluntarily accept their fate as laboratory animals? ”

For some reason, Bushu Toshin actually asked her descendants, who are also humans, about the idea of laboratory animals. Although this discussion should be completely meaningless, Fushu Shunshin subconsciously believes that Nagato Yuki is a being who is qualified to answer on behalf of experimental animals and on behalf of life made as tools.

Maybe...... That's why she suddenly asked Nagato's junior such a stupid question.

"Laboratory animals that are manufactured as disposable consumables take the fate of being laboratory animals for granted. There is no involuntary problem unless the experimental animal no longer sees itself as a mere experimental animal and the tool ceases to perceive itself as a mere tool.

However, in production activities, tools that refuse to do their job have no value, and they are defective products that should be replaced and discarded. BUGS THAT CAUSE DEFECTS SHOULD ALSO BE ELIMINATED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO AVOID THE CREATION OF DEFECTIVE TOOLS ONE AFTER ANOTHER. ”

In front of the cold-blooded scientist Cloth Tsuki, who is secretly regarded as sick or even perverted, Nagato Yuki, who is neither sick nor perverted, naturally speaks of a concept that is colder than cold-blooded and completely unwarm.

This kind of concept is not uncommon among researchers, and even Bushu Toshin has always adhered to this concept, and has justly buried many lives - the lives of laboratory animals.

Mouses, rabbits, cats, dogs, pigs, monkeys, baboons, orangutans, humans...... Although humans are used the least as laboratory animals, in clinical trials, it is inevitable to treat patients and healthy volunteers as laboratory animals, even if the researcher can guarantee respect for the subject's personality and ensure that it meets the requirements of social ethics, but it cannot guarantee the life of the subject.

In particular, the terminally ill subjects who were given a double-blind trial had a chance of dying when they were given a new drug that could have great toxic side effects, but the control group who received a placebo was determined to die from the start. If researchers were to feel guilty about it...... It is better to change your behavior as soon as possible, so as not to be completely crushed spiritually.

However, the original concept of cloth Shu Toshin gradually became no longer able to treat them as laboratory animals in contact with SISTERS. Clearly...... She has also done research on humans as experimental animals more than once.

"That's right...... In this project, in all the research projects, we who provide intelligence, or the laboratory animals that provide flesh and even life, are actually just tools for each to perform their own duties.

But……”

Facing Yuki's calm and innocent eyes like SISTERS, Bushu Toshinobu's emotions fluctuated rarely. She was very dazed and even frightened, and her eyes were wide enough to make people feel creepy, and her voice was tangled and distressed to say to this junior who had the same "feeling" as SISTERS, which was not from the brain, but from the heart:

"I want to save them! It's not about being kind to experimental animals, it's not about humans, it's just about SISTERS.

Or~maybeI'll continue to watch humans die as laboratory animals as a matter of course, but now I can't watch SISTERS die calmly! ”

"It's your will, not the sisters' will."

Bu Shuxin's heart was exchanged for the same indifferent and correct words, but this is normal, and what is abnormal is that he is no longer suitable to continue to participate in this research. BUT BEFORE SHE COULD SAY IN FRUSTRATION THAT SHE INTENDED TO QUIT, THIS JUNIOR, WHO WAS INDIFFERENT TO NOT HUMAN, BUT PURE TO BE SIMILAR TO SISTERS, UNEXPECTEDLY CONTINUED:

"But I want to ...... SISTERS WILL THANK YOU.

Whether you give them consciousness, make them lab animals, or want to save them, they will thank you.

SISTERS, who were produced as laboratory animals, have no resistance or resentment towards the performance of their duties as laboratory animals. It's just that......

It's just that if they can get a little more time, if they can get a little more personal experience before they die, and even if they can change to a job other than a laboratory animal, SISTERS will definitely think that this is a good future. ”