For Your Sake (12)

Walter checked Paul Lucas’s condition and spoke.

“He’s an android.”

“Pardon?”

Like any artisan, Walter had an inherently stubborn and obstinate look about him, so he did not seem like the sort of person who would make a joke like this, even in jest.

“You mean he’s not just a corporate big shot who’s had an insane amount of body modification?”

“Yeah. And a very well-made android at that.”

Walter checked Paul Lucas’s wounds─, no, damaged areas, which hung limply like a dried squid, then added the rest.

“Until I took a close look, I thought he was entirely human. Hmm…. Thanks to that, though, treatment wasn’t difficult.”

As one might expect from a man with an android daughter, Walter deliberately used the word ‘treatment’ for an injured android.

Could an android completely indistinguishable from a human really be nothing more than a simple machine...