"No. What gave you that idea?" Dee3 grimly denied, but from her reaction, Ace could tell that—even if Dee3 had never completed the apparatus—she knew how to, but chose not to. This made Ace wonder if her high standards for morals and ethics, despite her tragic origins, stemmed from the curse scientists she had learned from and worked alongside.
As a clone who had entered the world in an adult body with the consciousness of a newborn, Dee3 had no innate concept of good or evil. For the first decade of her life, she was treated inhumanely and subjected to mind-breaking pain and torture. No one had expected her to survive the brutal curse-slave process, yet she had, and over time, her consciousness developed into an embodiment of innocence and purity, untouched by the corruption of the world.
