014.5 Casual Talk · Past · Laboratory 1

A side conversation from Chapter 059.

An insertion due to revision.

Long. Just one hardship after another.

Keeping the noble bloodline intact was easy—until we had to tamper with local DNA to secure a healthy body.

But I didn’t expect the mind’s DNA—tied to the biological kind—to suffer complete system failure.

My wife and I have been living among the locals here on this planet, conducting long-term research under cover.

They called me an alchemist, a witch—persecuted me. One by one, my comrades fell.

Made it across to this eastern island nation, went into hiding, and somehow pulled off results.

The princess is growing steadily, for now.

But not yet.

We can't stand up to them like this.

A boy is needed. A boy who can inherit that noble's power.

Physically, the lady is already at peak perfection.

But add male genetic material, and the mind's DNA shatters.

Mind DNA? That's fiction.

No such thing exists—no theory, no research, nothing.