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FOURTEEN #111

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Chapter Four
The Earth in Peril[18]

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1: EXPERIMENTS IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
2-4: klak
5: Dr. Chicken George.

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1: It's truly a strange feeling to be walking with you.
2: Here we are.
3: ga-chak
4: Here is where you first grew, Dr. Chicken George.
sign: CHICKEN CULTIVATION ROOM
5: gch

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1: creaaaaak
sign: CHICKEN CULTIVATION ROOM
2: Here is the cultivation pool. Do you remember it?
3-6: bubble
7: Ohhh!
8-9: bubble

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1: H...how nostalgic.
2: I remember it.
3: This is my hometown.
4-5: bubble

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1-2: bubble
2: Why did you evolve from a chicken breast?
3: On a night just like tonight, I had come down here to check on the growth process of the chicken breasts.

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1: Then, what should I find after peering in, but...
2: right there...
3-4: bubble
5: an eyeball!!
6-8: bubble

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1: I was so surprised. And at the same time, my heart was simply trembling with interest!
2: And from that night forward, I started my own secret experiments.
3: I wanted to make that eyeball grow no matter what!! And...
4: as the days passed on, it did!
5: And then gradually,
6: a chicken's body grew out of it!!

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1: Then when I heard it say "Chicken" in the exact same tone as I had, I knew it.
2: Something miraculous had happened!!
3: And I couldn't tell it to anyone!
4: So I moved Chicken to my house.
5: Then, I put Chicken...er, I mean, you into the water in my bathtub at home.
6: And secretly raised you.

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1: The problem was the cultivation fluid. I had to give you all your vitamins, calcium, and hormones...a fertile bed was necessary for you.
2: I desperately brought it all home.
3: But the truth was, by that time, Dr. Chicken George, you didn't require any more of those things, did you?
4: And not only that, but while I was gone, you used by computer and learned all there was to learn...and I didn't notice any of it.

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1: Then I made the horrible request saying I wanted to see inside your brain!
2: I'm still embarrassed at myself.
3: I tried to protect you to the best of my ability.
4: But your intelligence only increased, so much so that I wasn't even able to compete.
5: Then you stabbed me...
6: and disappeared from my house.

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1: I'm sorry, Shigeno-san.
2: I wasn't trying to kill you.
3: That was anesthetic.
4: But I ended up leaving a trail.
5: I'm sure that at that time, I hated the human race.
6: But I'm different now!
7: After I met Barbara...
8: After I met Barbara, I faltered!
9: Should I follow the animals, or the humans...?!
10: And then I decided. I decided I would follow the humans!!

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1: In other words, I chose love.
2: I realized that in this world, there exists a terrifying narcotic known as love.
3: That love is an extremely well-made creation, but that there is a deceptive part hidden within it!!
4: Living creatures must possess goals in order to live. And therefore, a switchable goal known as love was placed into all creatures.
5: I possessed the goal of freeing all the animals from the human race and escaping into space with them. And so I created a rocket ship called the Tyrannosaurus. I moved every type of animal inside it. But now, no rocket like that will probably ever fly again.
6: And that is because I do not longer wish to go to outer space.

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1: In return, I have decided to work for the humans.
2: It's strange to think that I'm going to be realizing immortality for the humans in the very place I was born.
3: And here is what will happen to me afterwards.
4: I will gradually devolve.
5: I'm looking forward to working with you, Shigeno-san.
6: It's my pleasure.
7: But Dr. Chicken George, I keep feeling in my heart that the path you have chosen is a very sad, unfortunate one.

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1-2: bam
3: Dr. Chicken George!!
4: slam
5: Please look at this.
6: Something's gone wrong with the immortality experiments!!