"Not quite living creatures?" This answer truly caught Theus by surprise. He looked at Richard in confusion. "What do you mean?"
"Um, how much do you know about the organs inside the human body?"
As he spoke, Richard pushed open the door to a room.
The churches here had all been newly built. Their bluestone walls were smooth and clean. There was not much in the room; a row of shelves stood against one wall, lined with jars containing organs, while several iron buckets sat beneath them.
At the center of the room was a dissection table. Unlike what Theus had expected, there was nothing on it. The entire room was remarkably tidy, reminding him of hospitals from his previous life.
"Only a superficial understanding. The heart pumps blood, the liver detoxifies, the intestines, stomach, and spleen handle digestion, and the lungs and diaphragm handle breathing, things like that."
Richard turned around in surprise, looking at Theus with even greater respect. "What you said was brief, but very accurate. Were you a doctor before as well?"
Theus blinked. He had heard Chloe mention that Richard had been a doctor before joining Moth Chasing Flame, but had later been expelled for privately dissecting corpses.
Although technology in this world had advanced considerably, people's thinking had turned wholly conservative. The Church and the nobility strictly restricted independent communication and research.
If Castel had not been so remote, far from the Holy See and the Empire and overlooked by the "civilized world," Theus figured he would have had to start with a movement to liberate people's minds.
Researching the human body was therefore strictly forbidden. Moreover, dissecting corpses in this era would invite moral condemnation. It was perfectly normal for a doctor curious about the human body to join a cult because of