You're a Little Too Legendary

After Monica finished speaking, she lifted her chin, crossed all six arms over her chest, and wore an expression that clearly said, "Go on, praise me."

For a moment, the passenger cabin fell silent.

After a long while, Zoe finally spoke in a faint voice. "As expected of a legendary doctor. You really are different."

The tip of Monica's tail stiffened.

Gaia let out a snort of laughter. That was enough to make Monica completely unable to sit still, and she immediately began defending herself loudly. "Wait, don't laugh! I'm serious! This plan is feasible... Don't laugh!"

Gaia rubbed her stomach as she spoke. "Alright, alright, we won't laugh. Go on~"

After shooting her an indignant glare, Monica finally explained, "You might not know this, but we recently got our hands on some technical documents from the Mechanical Cathedral..."

Gaia and Zoe turned to glance at Beatrice, then couldn't help laughing again.

"Wow, none of you are listening to me properly! Those documents include sections on replacing flesh with machinery. Isn't Beatrice's body about to collapse? Amputate the parts that are falling apart, replace them with steel parts for now, then put her body into the Stellar Furnace and burn it a little. Once it's all burned clean, take it out and use it again. Wouldn't that solve everything?!"

The moment that plan came out, all three of them were stunned.

Why did it somehow... sound like Monica had a point?

Every step of the plan was feasible on its own. It sounded like there was nothing wrong with it, but...

But when put together, why did it sound so absurd?

For a moment, the three of them fell into the strange loop of "something feels wrong, but I can't say what."

After a while, Zoe seemed to think of