Fang Zheng talked big for one second, and the result was that it took him an entire week to soothe the dissatisfaction of the little girls led by Enju.
It was not as if these little girls were disobedient, unreasonable, or immature. After all, they knew that although their growth had been delayed, the price was the removal of the Gastrea Virus. Otherwise, they would still have had to worry about turning into monsters. So they understood that it could not be helped, but...
You could not just say it outright!
That really hit them where it hurt!
Especially after Enju and the others learned that demihumans like Raphtalia were not actually much older than them, but that demihumans in that world possessed the trait of automatically growing up after absorbing vast amounts of experience and leveling up during childhood, they were so jealous they practically split apart.
If only we had the traits of those demihumans! These Cursed Children fought Gastrea in the Pitch-Black World every day, so their levels had to be incredibly high! If they had that ability too, it would be amazing!!
Still... unfortunately, the little girls could only dream about it for now.
Fang Zheng had considered analyzing demihuman genes, finding the gene responsible for such rapid growth, and modifying the little girls. Unfortunately, after consulting Milune, he had no choice but to abandon that idea. According to Milune, the demihumans' rapid-growth gene triggered automatic development over a short period of time. But the Cursed Children's genes had already undergone two rounds of modification. First, they had been infected with the Gastrea Virus as fetuses, and their bodies had been altered by it. Then Fang Zheng had given them a second genetic modification through the Zerg.
Put simply, the Cursed Children's bodies were like houses