So why did Tatsu Fumiaki go underground, and how did he become the Genocide Project’s number one most wanted man? Hmmn.
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Journal: January 8, 2056 -- We've re-built the lab in the basement of my home, and we're hiding Dahnai there. She has the growth profile of a large dog, but learns incredibly fast and hardly ever sleeps. A television is her only company most nights. She watches voraciously.
January 20, 2056 -- Lynn is resigning as my research assistant, because of what she's found in her study of Dahnai...
Lynn: Tatsu, I can't do this.
Tatsu: Lynn, I know she's a handful, but the research...
Lynn: No, I can handle a little girl. It's the research I can't do. This is beyond me! Look at this --
Dahnai: The floor is acid! It's acid! Don' touch it!
Tatsu: Hmn. A skin cell?
Lynn: A liver cell.
Tatsu: Liver cell? Where are the mitochondria?
Dahnai: Acid floor ain't gonna stop me!
Lynn: She doesn't have any mitochondria. Not anywhere in her body. Instead, there appear to be ATP-producing sites in the Golgi apparatus. The A.I. used a canine template because of the phenotype's plasticity...but she is not a canine-human hybrid. This is a new lifeform designed from the ground up. I can't do this. We can't do this, not in this lab. Call a Nobel prizewinner, like Lola Lamb. She'd probably kill to study Dahnai.
Dahna: Tatsu! Tatsu, Tatsu, the floor is acid! What you standin' on? Where you gonna go?
January 20, 2056 -- Lynn is resigning as my research assistant, because of what she's found in her study of Dahnai...
Lynn: Tatsu, I can't do this.
Tatsu: Lynn, I know she's a handful, but the research...
Lynn: No, I can handle a little girl. It's the research I can't do. This is beyond me! Look at this --
Dahnai: The floor is acid! It's acid! Don' touch it!
Tatsu: Hmn. A skin cell?
Lynn: A liver cell.
Tatsu: Liver cell? Where are the mitochondria?
Dahnai: Acid floor ain't gonna stop me!
Lynn: She doesn't have any mitochondria. Not anywhere in her body. Instead, there appear to be ATP-producing sites in the Golgi apparatus. The A.I. used a canine template because of the phenotype's plasticity...but she is not a canine-human hybrid. This is a new lifeform designed from the ground up. I can't do this. We can't do this, not in this lab. Call a Nobel prizewinner, like Lola Lamb. She'd probably kill to study Dahnai.
Dahna: Tatsu! Tatsu, Tatsu, the floor is acid! What you standin' on? Where you gonna go?
Ah, “the floor is acid”. It’s the interior version of “the pavement is lava”!
In tha Golgi apparatus? Gosh darn it, Shephard, ya’re one crazy son-of-a-gun.
At least we know that Dahnai would be safe in the case of a mitochondrial Eve event. Maybe that AI read too many late 20th century Japanese SF novels?