parasitism eve

Chapter 33

"No...no need. Just throw them all away. Thank you for finding these things for me. Turn on the autoclave right away."

"I'll do it."

No. Let me do it.

Asakura gathered all the serum tubes together, put them in a bag, tied the bag tightly, and headed towards the culture room. As she walked, she gradually started running.

We can't let these things remain.

They must be killed immediately.

Asakura ran into the culture room and opened the lid of the autoclave installed by the door.

She put the bag inside and tightly closed the lid.

If we kill these things, then that kind of thing won't happen again.

That should be the case.

At that moment, Asakura felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his neck.

Asakura shuddered, his body stiffening. Yes, that's the feeling.

A sense of unease swept through Asakura's heart.

In the last incident, there was only one thing that remained unclear until the very end: why did it happen that Seimei's mitochondria "rebelled"? It wasn't Asakura's mitochondria, nor Toshiaki's, but Seimei's. Why was that? Was it simply a result of polymorphism?

Everyone's genes are slightly different from others. Could it be that Saint-Mei's genes just happened to cause the mitochondria to malfunction?

If that's the case, there's no guarantee that mitochondria won't launch the same "rebellion" again. If someone with genes similar to Saint-Mei is born, mitochondria could potentially evolve within that person's body. At that point, would it be impossible to stop the mitochondria from going out of control?

Asakura couldn't answer that question. It's possible, it's possible.

She didn't know.

However, all Asakura can do now is kill these cells.

"Everyone says we should take a group photo after the party," a younger student said from the other side of the door.

Asakura smiled slightly and then turned on the switch of the autoclave.