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“You want a body?” Young-Joon asked.
—Yes. I think I will be able to understand humans better if I have the same vision as them.
“Is it possible?”
—Humans don’t know the boundary between living and nonliving organisms yet, right? That’s why they are making such a fuss over the resurrection of the brain-dead.
Rosaline paused for a moment.
—But I know the answer.
“What is it?”
—Living things have bodies. Not just a collection of atoms, but a body in the sense that it’s a unique living space that cannot be interfered with by the outside world.
Rosaline went on.
—The collection of all the spaces corresponding to the inside of a shell of skin or a face enclosed by a phospholipid bilayer, and the desire to eliminate external threats to that space. That’s what it means to be a living thing.
—I have a body at the cellular level as well, but it’s an incomplete thing that can’t survive outside of your body.
—That’s the reason why I have to absorb this pathogen. The hepatitis medication you were taking when I was created caused an organic chemical reaction. If that caused my DNA to break apart, the only way to make myself whole is to get it back and absorb it.
Rosaline was firm.
—I will become a living organism with a complete...
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