Chapter 251

"Shiho Miyano's parents are really amazing, to be able to create that kind of strange medicine."

Nagi Sanzenin couldn't help but sigh.

"It's really strange that such a scientist wasn't valued."

"Sanzenin, I think this should have a lot to do with the funding for development. The development of this kind of medicine is probably not generally expensive, and Shiho Miyano's parents obviously didn't have such financial resources."

"And this kind of research is almost impossible to break even."

Nagi Sanzenin thought slightly, and then understood.

"Indeed. Such medicine, even if the research is completed, cannot break even."

"Medicine that can restore youth and increase lifespan, just thinking about it feels very dreamy. However, once such medicine completes research, it will not be announced. If this medicine were announced, the whole world would set off a huge wave."

"If you are unlucky, war might even start."

To this, Ren Amamiya smiled and nodded.

"If that kind of medicine can really be developed, perhaps it will really cause a big stir. But essentially, even if this medicine is researched, its effect is only to prolong life, but it cannot achieve immortality."

"After all, there is a limit to the number of cell divisions inside the human body. Although I don't know the operating mode of that medicine, I think it just makes the body temporarily gain vitality; increasing the number of cell divisions is probably the limit."

"So, I think even if you take that medicine and turn from an old person into a child like Kudo, essentially the time of life has not been reversed; at most, it's just adding decades of lifespan as the number of cell divisions increases, and then turning from an old person into a teenager, increasing some quality of life."

"Indeed."

Starting from a scientific perspective, Nagi Sanzenin felt that prolonging life and becoming younger were more reasonable.

"Ren, even if we want immortality, it's not easy, right~?"

Ren Amamiya nodded slightly.

"Simply wanting to rely on one's own power to achieve immortality requires at least reaching the height of a demigod. And from our perspective, in the process of gaining power and moving toward power, we are also slowly separating from ordinary people."

"We ourselves begin to slowly tend toward power, and essentially begin to change from the identity of a human; that is the beginning of us starting to possess the characteristics of immortality."

"But crossing to the demigod stage is not an easy thing to do."

"Even for us, having the opportunity to want immortality is very difficult, so I said, Shiho Miyano's parents thought a bit too much. The completion of that medicine is at most prolonging life and becoming younger; wanting to achieve immortality is thinking a bit too much."

Ren Amamiya never denied the power of technology, but Ren Amamiya also affirmed that human immortality cannot be solved by a few pills.

At least it is necessary to first solve the limit on the number of cell divisions to have the possibility of breaking through the human lifespan limit.

Although Ren Amamiya has clarified this fact from his own perspective, those two scientists are probably still believing that if the medicine continues to be researched, a more perfect medicine can be obtained, a medicine that can break through the number of cell divisions.

He took out that maple leaf coin from the Source Castle, flicked it with his thumb, the coin tumbled in the air, and finally landed in Ren Amamiya's palm; it was face up.

"It seems my speculation is correct."

"Even if APTX4869 is developed to perfection, at most it only has the function of prolonging life."

Flicking the maple leaf coin in his hand again, this time it still landed steadily, face up.

"This is the limit."

Ren Amamiya shook his head slightly and put the maple leaf coin back into the Source Castle.

"The limit that technology can reach is only prolonging life; technology cannot make the normal division of cells stop completely."

"So, only by adding other variables to science can the possibility of immortality appear, rather than simple life extension."

The girls present all knew that the variable was the mystical.

But the mystical variable will never be added to normal science; at least if they don't cooperate, this variable will never be added to it.

"The topic of immortality is really troublesome, but no matter what era, the topic surrounding immortality will not be few."

Nagi Sanzenin shook her head slightly; she wasn't very disappointed either. If two pills could solve the biggest problem in human history, that would be too easy.

"Well, let's skip this topic for now. We are still teenagers and don't need to consider the topic of immortality."

This made all the girls present laugh.

Indeed, the average age of all of them is not even twenty years old; why would they need to think about the topic of immortality so early?

"～Just now we talked about the popular characters in Ran and Sonoko's story, then in my story, and in Kaguya's story, are there any other popular characters?"

Nagi Sanzenin shifted the topic back, but this gave Ren Amamiya a headache.

"The popular characters in Kaguya's story are actually concentrated around Kaguya; there are almost no accidents. I think the most popular character is probably Hayasaka."

"As for the popular characters in Sanzenin's story... I think you yourself should know very well who that person is, right?"

Hearing Ren say this, Nagi Sanzenin immediately understood who that super popular character was.

"Katsura Hinagiku, right?"

Ren Amamiya nodded slightly.

"In two popularity polls, it was that female president's absolute kill. And every time it was more than double the second place, which can be said to be a numerical crushing."

"Besides Katsura Hinagiku, I'm afraid only Athena Tennosu can surpass her. Equally talented, her athletic nerves are even above Katsura Hinagiku's, her own strength is even above Saginomiya's, and she was the first to let Saginomiya taste the taste of failure."

"Although others also have some popularity, if you want to say the strongest, besides the two I mentioned before, the others are already here."

Ren Amamiya, who suddenly thought of topics like popularity, looked at Maria, who was sitting next to Nagi.

"Also, to explain, Miss Maria was the second place in the previous two popularity polls, and both times she firmly pressed Sanzenin."

— Author's Notes —

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