Name: Part 12 台前，幕後 Behind the Operating Curtain
Uploaded: 2025-06-22T15:38:14.000Z
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I'll report the situation and your request to Dr. Merlin.

However, since he's always busy, I can't guarantee he'll agree to meet you, but I'll do my best to persuade him.

Thank you for your assistance, Ms. Recoleta.

Without your precise predictions, we wouldn't be standing here now.

I haven't yet grasped the connection between the die, your novel, and what's happening in this place, but by process of elimination, it's almost certain that your penpal, Aleph, is right behind this door.

Sometimes, I envy your decisiveness, Verton.

I'm sure many people have praised the special talent of yours.

You don't seem as excited as when we first entered Kamala.

The all-seeing sentinel of the Panopticon, veiled within the central tower, if it truly is Aleph, I don't know how to face such terrifying and increasingly plausible reality.

Sorry to interrupt, but timekeeper, I think you'll want to see these.

Her handwriting, it's as beautiful as I'd imagined.

Looks like Doris and Aleph are acquaintances.

Or at least, they've had some correspondence.

Dear Mr. Aleph, my apologies if this reaches you at an inconvenient time.

I am Doris, pen name Urd, an ordinary inmate of the Panopticon of Kamala.

I write seeking your guidance, if you wouldn't mind offering it to me.

I heard from the physician, Dr. Merlin, that...

A statement which has been echoed by the Idealist and the other inmates.

Are you truly the supreme ruler of the Panopticon of Kamala?

I do indeed have answers for every question, including yours.

I'm afraid every one of your speculations is off the mark.

I am merely an inmate who chose to imprison himself here.

And allow me to point out that your identity isn't as ordinary as you claim.

Why is it that you, my fellow inmate, and guest of Manus Vindictae, are so interested in Kamala?

It came from inside the room. Do you think they're okay?

The jailer! And the physician! What happened?

Come on. Let's go in and see if they're alright.

It seems we've stumbled upon the physician's...

The physician's office. I should have known.

As if this prison wasn't bizarre enough already.

What do you think you're doing barging in like this?

We were just... worried about your safety, jailer.

The Reptilian Complex governs all our fundamental functions.

Our heartbeat, breathing, fight or flight responses, and our territory and hierarchy awareness.

Our primitive ancestors, like reptiles and birds, followed such instincts to survive.

Through millions of years of evolution, we developed the limbic system.

This processes emotions and forms memories.

It allows us to feel fear, sadness, anger, joy.

Now it's the neocortex that makes up more than two-thirds of our total brain volume.

Language, perception, logical reasoning, abstract thought.

This is what forms the complexity of human nature.

We try to understand both the world and ourselves.

We are forever setting goals, one after another.

And all this, these multitudes, happens within the confines of the skull, in the tight folds of the crowded cerebral cortex.

Were it unable to forget, what would come of it?

Can this space, no larger than the palm of my hand, truly accommodate dozens of people at once?

What's happened to the patient? It looks like he's dying!

Nonsense. The surgery was a tremendous success.

I have erased his debilitating hysteria and restored order to the panopticon.

What are you trying to achieve by barging in here?

Forget it. The next operation requires my attention.

Jailer, show them out. Bring me the next patient in 15 minutes.

I'm sorry, Ms. Burton. I'm afraid you have to leave now.

Please, just let us speak with you. It'll only take a moment. I have something very important I need to ask.

Important? Nothing is of greater importance than my experiments in the panopticon, outsiders.

To ensure they continue, the stability of time and schedule is absolutely paramount.

Experiments in the panopticon? So you really are the controller of the prison, then?

Controller? What an outdated notion. Superficial, really.

The panopticon has no need for such power, regardless of who occupies the central tower, or even if no one's there at all.

Every inmate is both the observer and the observed, both wielders and subjects of power.

Achieving such a state requires no physical or violent measures.

The structure of the panopticon itself is the mechanism which sustains it.

Komala is simply a manifestation of this model.

Once I confirm its feasibility and adaptability, this model can be applied to any functional setting with only minor modifications.

So far, it has proven to be far superior to any current system of governance in our world. Transcendental, even.

Curse it. Why am I wasting time explaining this to you? Time is running out.

Dr. Marlin, you keep mentioning time. What exactly do you mean by that?

Really? You need to ask? Even those oily-headed lunatics know it.

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Part 12 台前，幕後 Behind the Operating Curtain

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