My Third Life Is in the Future World! After Being Betrayed and Losing His Memory, the Former Hero Begins Sweet School Days in a World with a 1:50 Male-to-Female Ratio - 16

Chapter 16: Reira project: Angel of Science

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“The interview is complete. In conclusion, the boy named Ceres was confirmed to be a normal male.”

“Good work, Poliak. So, he’s indeed a normal male. Now it’s just a matter of seeing what happens with the next generation…That’s all we can do.”

I am Regina, president of the Representative Committee.

Right now, I was in the president’s office receiving a report about a boy named Ceres from Poliak.

“I believe that his genes will be passed on and normal boys will be born. Is something wrong, Regina-sama? You don’t seem very pleased…”

“I’m pleased enough, but even if he fathers over a hundred children from now on, when will we actually feel that the world has changed? Thinking about that, I was overwhelmed by just how endlessly long this all might take. He certainly is a beacon of hope, but it’s not like the world is going to change overnight.”

“That’s true, but doesn’t this at least give us some hope? A rare, normal male—something we thought no longer existed—has finally appeared.”

That was certainly true. But right now, I felt like we were trying to put out a wildfire with a glass of water. And while women hadn’t deteriorated nearly as much as men., to say women were 100% normal would be false.

Even those slight abnormalities could affect Ceres’s offspring. At worst, the degeneration might continue little by little, until we arrive right back where we started. Just because we had caught a glimpse of hope didn’t mean everything had brightened up.

She knew that too, without me having to say it out loud, but still…

“You’re right, a small chance for the world to return to normal has appeared. We should be thankful to the gods just for that.”

“It’s better to look at the world in a positive light.”

“Yes, it is…”

“By the way, Regina-sama, you didn’t attend the investigation yourself. What were you doing?”

“I was looking for this!”

“This is… ‘Reira Project: Angel of Science’? What kind of project is that?”

“It was something pushed forward by the president at the time, back when the gender ratio wasn’t as skewed—around 1:8. As men began to develop an aversion to women, the central government at the time initiated a project to ‘create a woman who would be loved by men.’ That was this project, but it was already too late. No matter how beautiful, talented, or kind a woman was, men had stopped loving them. So the project was abandoned halfway through.”

“There was such a project?”

“Yes. Despite pouring an enormous amount of funding into it, it meant nothing. The project failed, and the central government at the time covered it up and the president back then, ashamed of the failure, retired once everything had been buried.”

“Covered up… I see.”

“But when I looked into it, I found that the first prototype had actually been completed.”

“A robot? An android?”

“Wrong! There’s no point in creating some junk that can’t get pregnant! Reira is the ultimate beauty, created from the DNA of countless beautiful women and girls preserved by the nation.”

“Something like that really exists…?”

“That said, she’s just a prototype, so who knows how she turned out. But since no other man would want even the most perfect beauty anymore, I figured we might as well give her to Ceres… What do you think?”

“Is it just me, or does this sound like you’re trying to dump some unwanted item on him?”

“…It’s not just you. But we already spent 320 billion wen developing her. We can’t just let that go to waste.”

“That’s a fair point to say”

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I accompanied Regina-sama to Storage Vault X. This facility held things that couldn’t be released to the public for various reasons. At the back stood a large metal door. Regina-sama touched the terminal beside it.

『Fingerprint authentication: OK. Vein authentication: OK. Retina authentication: OK. Opening door.』

The door opened with a mechanical sound…

“This is it? It feels kind of chilly…”

“Yes. Let’s change into those cold-weather suits over there before heading in.”

We both changed and proceeded deeper inside.

“This cold… Is it a cold sleep chamber?”

“That’s right. It’s the latest model. The entire room is chilled to maintain perfect cold sleep conditions. Let’s go in.”

“Okay… This is Reira?”

Long black hair and large eyes… It made sense that she had been created. Her appearance was a composite of all the best features of various people. Her chest was neither large nor small. If someone said this was the ideal, I’d have to agree.

Her hips were neither too wide nor too narrow… Her legs were long and while not overly slender, her thighs had the kind of plumpness you’d call voluptuous. A healthy, beautiful woman with black hair… She had the kind of presence that captivated you the moment you saw her. But…

“Yes, isn’t she beautiful?”

“She is… But still, don’t you think even Ceres would turn her down?”

“Probably. But we’ll at least have her appear on ‘Ceres Men’s Exclusive Channel.'”

She might very well be the ultimate beauty, but she was missing an eye and a leg… No matter how stunning she might be, there was no way he’d pick her when Ceres could choose a strong, healthy woman instead.

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