Funes Bachmann and Omid Abbott had been having a wonderful time lately.
The director had somehow gotten his hands on a great many magical creatures. Most of them possessed simple intelligence, and quite a few could even speak—not the parrot-like kind of talking, either. They were truly expressing their own thoughts.
Better yet, no one cared whether these nonhuman intelligent creatures lived or died.
Even Teacher Serika, who had always regarded the two of them as perverts, showed no reaction whatsoever to them experimenting on Gnomes.
Excellent experimental materials, an experimental environment free of ethical constraints, and they could even receive magical assistance!
The two scientists in the fields of consciousness and cognition finally had a chance to interfere more directly with their research subjects. This thrilled them to no end, and experiments they would originally never have had the chance to conduct were all dug out of their secret filing cabinets.
For the past half year, the two of them had been immersed almost every day in the joy of discovery and exploration.
It was not until Murphy started slapping the table in front of them that they suddenly came back to their senses.
Ah... right. The boss seemed to have asked us to research the Seed of the Mind, not to do basic research on consciousness and the brain!
They were done for. They had taken Daddy Client's money to run their own little science experiments...
If they got caught, wouldn't they be in for a brutal beating?
Funes broke out in a cold sweat from guilt. Fortunately, they had not truly forgotten the ultimate goal of their research. They had merely gone too far down certain side quests.
"D-Director, we have results. Quite a lot of results."
"Fine." Murphy nodded, clearly not very convinced. "I'll ask the