Day 501-510/Day 508

Day 508 / 38th day
　It's been a few days since I started working as a madman's assistant and acquiring techniques using prisoners of war as materials. 
　In exchange for using up all the prisoners, as well as the basic and safe ones, I was able to record the highly dangerous surgical techniques in the【Electronic Archive】. 
　Also, in the process, I was able to learn a lot about the internal structure of humanoid creatures such as beasts and demons in this world.
　There must have been quite a lot to gain from this one incident.
　To be honest, there are other ways to use a madman, but it's time to cut that short.
　A madman is a madman, and if he's not careful, he's bound to do something.
　For now, I'm more interested in trying new things, but I'm not sure when I'll change my mind.
　Now that we've achieved a certain amount of success, we need to make sure that we take care of it.
　So I convinced the madman to work for me one last time with a combination of 【Evangelism】 and 【Brainwashing】, and he and I stood on either side of the man, one of the rescuers, who was lying on the operating table.
　What we were going to do now was to perform a remodeling operation on the rescuers, starting with the anthropoid boy.
　To begin with, it is almost impossible to completely restore a person who has undergone a remodeling operation.
　Just as a piece of paper will have creases when folded, no matter what you do to restore the body, there will always be some traces left behind. 
　And if the mind is damaged by the surgery, it is hard to say that the body is back to the way it was before the surgery.
　That's why the main purpose of remodeling surgery was not to heal, but to balance and maintain.
　So far, if it failed, it was just left alone or discarded. 
　For the purpose of the madmen, it was easier to use a new one than to fix the defects and flaws caused by the failure.
　However, there is also knowledge to be gained by fixing things.
　There is also technology that can be developed from it.
　When I asked the madman about this, he worked enthusiastically, partly because he was now stimulated by the approach from a new perspective.
　The time it takes to make adjustments varies.
　In some cases it took only a short time, while in others it took several hours due to playing with the internal organs.
　The number of rescuers currently under my temporary protection is about seventy. 
　There were actually more, but the number has been reduced to this level since the beginning due to the fact that many of them were already in a state of unrecovery or chose to commit suicide out of deep despair.
　Some of them were successful cases that didn't need to be adjusted - the first of the three categories, those who had high commercial value and were treated well - so the actual number of people to be adjusted was small, but it still needed time.
　With the help of those who had undergone alteration surgery to give them medical abilities, it was unlikely that they would be able to move from the operating room for the rest of the day.
It looks like I'll have to stay with the madman for a while and record all the information in the 【Electronic Archive】.
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“三十八日目”　／　“五■八■目”　
　狂人の助手を務め、捕虜を材料にした技術取得を始めて早数日。
　基本的で安全なモノはもちろん、全ての捕虜を使い潰す事と引き換えに危険性の高めな手術技法を【電脳書庫】に記録できた。
　また、その課程でこの世界にいる獣人や魔人など人型生物の内部構造などについても多く知る事ができた。
　今回の一件で、得る物はかなり多かっただろう。
　正直に言えば狂人の使い道は他にもあるが、しかしそれもそろそろ切り上げ時だ。
　狂人は狂人らしく、油断すると何かしでかす危うさがある。
　今は新しい試みに興味が向けられているが、いつ気分が変わるかも分からない。
　一定の成果を得た今、その処理は確実にしなければならない。
　だから最後に狂人に働いて貰うべく【弁舌】と【洗脳話術】などの組み合わせで納得させ、俺と狂人は手術台に寝かされた救助者の一人である男性の左右に立っていた。
　これから行うのは、蟻人少年を筆頭にした救助者達の再改造手術である。
　そもそも、一度改造手術を受けた者を完全に元に戻す事はほぼ不可能だ。
　紙を折ったら折り目がつくように、肉体を元に戻そうとしてもどうしたって何かしらの痕跡は残される。
　それに改造手術に伴い精神が壊れていたら、肉体が元に戻っても手術前の状態になったとはとてもではないが言えない。
　だから再改造手術は治す事が目的ではなく、バランス調整とかメンテナンスが主な目的だった。
　これまでは失敗してもそのまま放置、あるいは破棄されるだけだった。
　狂人達の目的からすれば、失敗により生まれる不具合や欠点を治すよりも、新品を使った方が色々と楽だからだ。
　しかし治す事で得られる知識もある。
　そこから発展する技術もある。
　そんな事を狂人に聞かせると、今は新しい視点からのアプローチが刺激になっていた事もあって意欲的に働いてくれた。
　調整にかかる時間はバラバラだ。
　短時間で終わる場合もあれば、内臓を弄るなどで数時間かかる事もあった。
　現在一時的にだが俺の庇護下にある救助者達の数は、約七十名。
　本当はもっと居たが既に回復不可能な状態になっていたり、深い絶望から自殺を選択する者達も多く、当初からは減ってこの程度の数に収まっている。
　この中には調整の必要も無い成功例――三つの分類の一つ目である商品価値が高く待遇が良かった者達――もいたので実際に調整する人数は少ないが、それでも時間は必要だ。
　医療系の能力を与える改造手術を施された者達にも手伝って貰いつつ、今日一日は手術室から動く事は出来そうに無い。
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