"What exactly is this?" the Priest pressed.
A flame of confused curiosity rose in his eyes from beneath the Gray Haze Emotion, like a spark catching grease. In an instant, it filled his entire gaze.
A sense of urgency drove him to seek information, to patch the torn corner of his understanding.
The divide between his worldview and what he had witnessed seemed to have become a real wound, aching faintly in his mind—worse than his physical discomfort.
"It's a long story." Under Green's gaze, Kraft ultimately couldn't bring himself to pocket the thing. "But I can give you the short version."
"To put it rather crudely, you can think of it as a kind of 'man-made' animal. Well, in every sense of the word."
"Everything in the world—animals, plants, people—was created by the Lord." According to the Holy Scripture, the Heavenly Father did indeed hold the patent on all living things, especially mankind, which was unquestionably the highest of all creations.
Everything else existed to serve this highest creation. Humans were the meaning of the world, beings naturally entitled to enjoy all other creations.
"No offense, but this is what was left over when people were being made. It was assembled differently and became what you're looking at now." The professor had no intention of questioning that. As far as he was concerned, revisiting the Holy Scripture was simply an instinctive self-preservation response, a way to stabilize one's understanding of the world.
"Of course, you can't call it human. It's like tearing down several houses and using their materials to build a church on the same foundation. You can't say the church is one of the original houses."
He had to explain it in relatively common terms. Even if that meant losing some accuracy, there was no way to