D-Genesis: Volume 6 [Parts 1 to 12] by KONO Tsuranori

Author:KONO Tsuranori
Language: eng
Format: epub

Miyoshi finished connecting the cable to the camera in front of the second-floor entrance and confirmed that the feeds were working. I stood in front of the tank we’d brought with one of the cleaners.

“Okay. Begin Cleaner Weakness Hunt!” Miyoshi proclaimed. It was almost 11 a.m. We didn’t have too much longer before the JSDF arrived. “However, before that, I have an unfortunate announcement to make.”

“Quit jerkin’ me around. What is it?”

“Splitting Multiheaded Cleaner 7 into two has unfortunately not resulted in two copies of Multiheaded Cleaner 7.”

“Then what’s the second one?”

“According to my expert Appraiser’s eye, we have Multiheaded Cleaner 7 and Multiheaded Cleaner Shadow.”

“Shadow?” What the heck? Were the two different somehow? “So which is the one we brought down?”

“That one is Shaddy.”

Which made the one currently squirming around aboveground Multiheaded Cleaner 7.

“What do you think happens if we cut a ‘shadow’ in two?”

“A shadow shadow, maybe?”

“Welp. Only one way to find out. Miyoshi, how many tanks do you have left in Storage?”

“Six.”

That’d leave us one tank short when they all divided, but we could surely find a way to defeat one cleaner before then.

“Okay. I’m going to try cutting him into four pieces.”

I quickly chopped the cleaner in the tank into four bits. I was a little messy with it, knowing that if I took too long, pieces would start regenerating before I was done.

Perhaps because of my haste, I wound up with four pretty messy, unevenly sized pieces. Still, we took each of them, put them into their own tanks, stepped back, and waited.

“Anything?” I asked Miyoshi, who was scanning the chunks with Appraisal.

“They’re all still ‘shadow,’” she responded.

“Wait, then...if we defeat enough of these...!”

“Unfortunately that’s ‘shadow’ with an asterisk.”

“Damn. I guess that would have been too much to hope for, huh?”

“The largest piece of the cleaner, or the one that retains most of their vital organs, is probably the one that keeps the original naming, while the rest become shadows.”

“Hmm...”

Still, there hadn’t been any cleaners labeled “shadow” when Miyoshi was observing the crowd with Appraisal before. Of the original seven, six of them should have been shadows. If a shadow’s natural division process also produced more shadows, they should have accounted for six-sevenths of the total cleaners in the room.

“It looks like if a shadow divides naturally, its offspring still become part of the next, numbered generation,” I said.

“Seems that way,” Miyoshi agreed. “Unless all the numbered ones just happened to be clumped up by the door earlier, although that’s unlikely.”

Either way, we’d know for sure the next time they divided, at 1 p.m.

“Do you think they regenerate no matter where or how the piece gets cut off?” I asked. I’d cut the cleaner just now into pretty misshapen chunks, and each one had still regenerated properly. “It’s kind of weird that they’d know to grow back correctly no matter what pieces are left.”

“About that. Riken and Tokushima University did a joint study showing that planarians use substances to trigger signal gradients moving from the head to the tail, and they use that activity gradient to determine what part to form from blastomas.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.