Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-2175012-20160509175734/@comment-2175012-20160521232430

I had contacted the author of the book, by the way. She didn't give too much on Wozniak. Anyway, I was reading this manga, called Jinzou Shoujou, and I believe that Kai could be a qualifier. The manga concerns an alchemist, named Hiruma Anjin, finding a human brain in an alley. He takes the brain, and he places it in the body of a girl. As it turns out, the brain belonged to a high school boy, named Misumi, whose body was stolen by a Jinzou, otherwise known as an artifical person.

Kai is the antagonist of the manga; a 240 year old alchemist, Kai runs a research facility that specializes in cloning. Essentially, he ensures the lives of his clients to their family members. He has the clones experience a virtual reality paradise, that is until he removes their brains to his clients. He also runs the Shinsemi Academy, having accumulated dozens of Jinzous throughout the years. A few yeares later, Satonaka's father came to him asking for two clones for his son. Unfortunately, the clones died when their tanks were shattered. Realizing that there was another clone of Satonaka, he murders his assistant, and he sends a Jinzou, dubbed the Crow, to the house. The Crow murders the parents of the clone, and he steals his brain. However, the brain was considered of no use, and Crow leaves it in an alley.

Narakasa's father arranges a marriage between her and Kai (Narakasa was a client of Kai's ever since she accidentally exposed herself to radiation) as a means of manipulating the family finances to his own end. He also revealed that Narakasa had a kuiguson- a parasitic plant- inside of her; if the plant was allowed to grow, it would kill Narakasa, thus forcing her to have her brain get transferred to a clone. Along the way, he also treats his creations cruelly, and even allows a Jinzou to eat one when he failed him. As for the clones, he views them as a financial gain.

So, there's not any mitigating factors with Kai, but there is something to address: Kai became friends with a Satonaka, and he tried to hide the truth about the experiment from him. However, when Satonaka confronts him on this, he tricks him into letting him out, and he stabs him to death, stating that he was a fool until the end. Later on, he does accuse Nina (the name of the girl that Misumi's brain was transferred to) of killing the only friend that he ever had, despite the fact that he himself murdered him. Does this disqualify him if he only saw Satonaka as a client?