Several days passed by till Jessica fully analyzed samples and made the development plan that could satisfy her fully. After the first radical body modifications, she realized that Paul needed some time to adjust and further organ modifications were impossible for time being. Bene Jessica focused on suppressing initial tissue rejection, it was obvious that initial operations were the easiest part. Moreover, she had to do some additional body modifications so that initial implants could assimilate better. A year passed till lungs and the marrow became the parts of his body. Subsequently, she focused on nourishing Pauls body, which shrank a bit from the excess strain of organ transplant. A year has passed till he restored his constitution, and now he looked like a normal kid, albeit a bit bulky, it took another half a year to start growing fast again. Finally, Bene Jessica thought that Paul was tough enough to handle the digestive system modifications.
Paul walked down the stairs, holding mothers hand. Bodynourishing liquids he took not only made his body sturdy but also made his brain develop faster and better. He could speak already but preferred not to. During this years he was accustomed to body strengthening routine and the pain it brings, but today he was surprised- his mother told him, that he was going to be modified. Knowing full well that even simple routine caused so much pain he was deep in thoughts about how much more he had to endure. He wasn't afraid of the pain, not as he was into M, but his mother hammered it into him, that without pain there is no gain.
"Please tell me what you are going to modify and why." After some thoughts, he decided to ask.
"I'm going to modify your digestive system so that you could digest anything there is. Ofcourse this modification will not be that omnipotent but the first step is the most crucial one. You know, people now are in constant danger of being annihilated, mostly because our bodies can't handle the food that is growing in the wilderness, so we have to live in relatively small safe areas that our predecessors secured. I think it would be highly beneficial for you to be able to eat anything that grows outside. After all, I want you to grow strong enough to determine your own fate and not live the same Life the normal people have to live. So I ask you last time, do you agree to go through this operation? I remind you it will experience much more pain then you ever did." Lady Jessica thought that only by treating her child as an adult would he grow faster and be less dependent on his parents.
"Yes, mother, I understand. There is no gain without pain, so let's go with it." The strange mentality was now little Pauls huge part.
She passed him a cup: "Drink this, it's a pain killer, it will alleviate the pain but will not erase it completely. "
With a serious expression on his face Paul took the cup and drunk it in one gulp: "God she might as well feed me shit, why all her potions are so disgusting!" - he inwardly cried out: "Thank you, mother."
The shadow inside him rolled and giggled at his antics. It knew well that Pauls gentle mother could turn in bloodthirsty monster if someone as much as muttered anything bad about her cuisine, and he just didn't want to take chances with saying anything about concoctions.
"You can eat this cookie before biting on the strap," Jessica casually told him and cold sweat started to form on Pauls back.
"Thank you, mother!" His eyes turned a bit wet and Jessica somehow touched. Little did she know that her boy was horrified with the perspective of eating her cookies. "I think I better not eat anything unnecessary, so the modification will go smoother" Silently he exhaled feeling smug.
"Yes, you truly are right! Just bite the strap and lye down on the table" His mother was amused with how smart her kid is.
Jessica drank some potion, and then chewed something, before turning to the now lying Paul and exhaling some Pink mist into his face. Instantly his eyes lost focus and body relaxed. Bene didn't lose a second and pushed some buttons and triggers on the table Paul was on. Silently the top of the table started to sink in, and the kid started to look like the character from the vampire story laying in the coffin with his pale skin and big defocused eyes looking deep in your soul. Jessica opened the valve and reddish-pink liquid started to feel the coffin, covering Paul fully. Lots of bubbles started to immerse, it was obvious that his lungs were now filled with this liquid.
Jessica nodded in approval and turned to put the gloves and the mask on, now she looked like a surgeon. Then she took two bottles from the refrigerator one long and one fat. She paused a bit, going throw the plan again, confirming every step, rechecking Pauls conditions and scribing down new info, so if anything happens she would know where have she gone wrong. Obviously, she was nervous, after all, it was her child she was going to operate on.
After nodding few more times she straightened her back inhaled and exhaled deeply. "I can not drag this on forever, now can I?" - She took out the syringe, put the needle into Pauls abdomen and infused it. Some weird small worms started to move inside him cleaning his stomach and guts from all the excess maters. Afterwards, they moved out of Paul body using all the exits they could use. The scene was disgusting but also comical, making Jessica giggle like a child.
After a little hesitation, she cut Kids abdomen and inserted the long bottle contents into the cut. Jessica carefully laid down the Snake looking content of the bottle near Paul's guts, sometimes intervening them together, then she took some medicine from under the table and spread it evenly on guts and "Snake" like insides. At first, nothing changed but when she started to provide her mana into organs they started to merge and after half an hour they became one.
Bene Jessica was little exhausted so she took supplement and stimulant pills out of her pockets and ate them before going for the second part of the operation.
Opening the big bottle she took out something which looked like a big leather bag and immersed in the same coffin Paul was in. She took another bottle with some jelly-like substance and spread it inside the "bag" and then put Pauls stomach inside the "bag". Not wasting a second Jess closed the bag and connected it with guts, then freezing them together, afterwards she hastily spread some powder on the outside layer of the "bag", which then started to shrink and merge with its hosts original ventricle.
Every movement was fast and efficient it was evident that Jessica Landruin was an established surgeon. Sometimes she looked like mechanical being as her movements were cut of any unnecessary parts. Thinking about what she was doing it was even more easy to think of her inhuman nature, after all, she was merging her own son with demonic beasts parts.
Finally, she closed Pauls abdomen and stitched it together, then spreading more medicine on the stitches, concluding the operation she just stood near the coffin silently repeating the steps of the operation in her head.
"Is everything allright, mother?" The weak voice shocked her out of her thoughts.
"Since when are you awake?" She tried to control her voice and it sounded a bit cold because of it so she tried to add a bit warmth to the question:" Darling?"
"Since after you put that snake in me," Pauls muttered barely audible and Jess couldn't help but tremble. She knew the best what kind of torture it should have been to go through this modifications while being awake. Her hands stretched to hug her little child but then she remembered that he couldn't be touched for several hours until his scars would tighten and just karased Pauls hair:" Why didn't you say anything?"
"You told me it would hurt like hell, so I thought everything is ok, mom." It seems like some strength started to return to his voice, but he looked more sleepy now.
"Oh God, I guess I'm in the wrong" Her whisper Suddenly sounded so very exhausted. She was excellent researcher, but it occurred to her, that she wasn't such a great mother after all. Unbeknownst to her some tears appeared on her eyes: "My poor child, I forgot to tell you that the pain is what you would experience the next two weeks, not during the operation. But comparing these two kinds of pains, it would appear like an itch to you, my darling."
"Now drink this, and get a good rest" Jessica gave him another shot of medicine, added some more liquid into the coffin so Paul would be fully submerged again and went out of the room.
Only when she got on the second floor did she realize the fact that Paul could speak, and she got to add more "breathing" liquid, meaning that the child adsorbed all that liquid. She started pondering on possibilities but couldn't come with a single one. But certain someone was very pleased to be able to get some additional energy, even biting his tail in extasy, as he loved to do some eons ago.