第一話『ラン＝メイ』
世界最大の人造臓器会社ヴィヴィロッツ社の実験動物として人造人間となったラン＝メイ（16才）は、日々凶悪な細胞に自分自身が乗っ取られるのではないかと恐怖を感じている・・・
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- Haaah...
- Nice weather...
- Maybe I'll just...
- ...die...
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- Chapter 1: "Ran-Mei"
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- Help...
- ...me, please...
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- Look at this! It's a genuine artificial heart!
- This is top-shelf stuff. It'll sell for a pretty penny. ♡
- Wonder how much bad stuff the old man had to do to buy this.
- Please... give it back...
- My wife will die without that!
- There's no way you could afford this with an honest job.
- !
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- Wh-...
- Wha-?!
- And from a legitimate source... Impressive.
- Hmph... One of 'our' genuine products.
- It's a quality piece.
- Here.
- Watch yourself on the way home.
- You'll get jumped again, carrying something this valuable.
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- Who the hell are you?!
- Thank you so much!
- You...
- You're a girl?!
- Damn, you're strong...
- Next I'll carve out your heart or your guts!
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- Huh?
- Stabbing me there won't kill me.
- You have to get the brain, nice and clean.
- Ri-ght here.
- Wh-what the hell?!
- His... The wound on his arm... it's healing...
- If you don't destroy it, I won't die!
- This guy...
- ...he ain't human.
- He's a monster!
- That guy's a monster!
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- Ran-Mei.
- Now then, let's return to the lab.
- I've been looking for you.
- Director, what should we do about them?
- Crap, a bunch of people showed up!
- Run for it!
- Ignore them. We're heading back.
- Again...
- I couldn't die...
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- This is the Vivirotsu Research Institute.
- The nerve center of the Vivirotsu Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer and seller of artificial organs.
- Hey, Ran-Mei.
- Heard you escaped again? How many times is that this year?
- Ugh... six.
- We're doing a blood purification on you later!
- And we need to check your lung contamination levels, so report to the examination room.
- Whoa!
- What happened to your clothes?!
- Ah, my bad.
- The researchers here are all friendly and seem like good people.
- But to them, I'm nothing more than a lab animal.
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- Ran-Mei.
- You are not human.
- From the moment you were given to our company as a living 'body donation' at the age of six...
- ...you lost your human rights and became our 'property'.
- That unique constitution of yours—
- Your body, with its completely destroyed immune system, accepted any and all organ transplants.
- After hundreds of surgeries...
- ...your body is now composed entirely of artificial organs, with the sole exception of your brain.
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- Supple yet tough artificial skin.
- Full-body artificial musculature with reinforced fibers, allowing you to exert twice the strength of a normal person.
- A light and sturdy artificial skeleton to support it all.
- Sight, hearing, smell... all of your sensory organs possess roughly twice the capability of a normal human's.
- Artificial blood that can transport oxygen with greater volume and efficiency.
- In other words, Ran-Mei, you possess the body of a superhuman.
- And yet, what is there to be dissatisfied about?
- Why do you repeatedly attempt suicide?
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- Why did you transplant the 'D.D Cells'?
- ...
- ...
- 'D.D Cells'...
- We succeeded in converting the infinite regenerative properties of cancer cells into a self-repair function.
- The transplant wouldn't have succeeded in anything but a complete artificial body like yours.
- You are a rare specimen.
- They have a slightly aggressive nature, but...
- ...they heal any wound or injury with astonishing speed.
- In other words, you have obtained 'immortality'.
- What exactly is there to be dissatisfied about?
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- Those cells are a demon...
- Sometimes... I get these uncontrollably violent urges...
- You're probably being controlled by this 'Will of the Cells' thing, aren't you?
- This isn't... This body isn't mine!
- So that's why you kept escaping?
- But, Ran-Mei, you are our property.
- 'Property' has no need for a 'will'.
- ...Which means I will not permit you to die on your own terms.
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- Cells have a will—
- Though it has not been scientifically proven,
- there are cases of organ transplant recipients inheriting the memories of their donors.
- In other words, within organs and cells,
- it can be said that some form of will or memory exists.
- The Will of the Cells—
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- Those cells are dangerous—
- I... I understand...
- Dominated by the cells,
- the self that is 'me',
- fades away—
- Cruel, inhuman...
- Into the soul of a berserker—
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- The artificial lab mouse I saw in the cage, the one transplanted with D.D Cells...
- ...had brutally slaughtered every other mouse it perceived as an 'enemy', until it was all alone.
- Will I end up like that, too?
- Someone... please...
- There is no one in this world yet who can save Ran-Mei—
- Help me...
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