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Human ManufactureAuthor: Kunieda Shiro

Original Title	人間製造
Author	国枝史郎
Genre	Detective & Mystery
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	In the desolate streets of Osaka, a starving laborer teeters on the brink of collapse, driven by hunger and despair into a shadowy building. What he discovers is no refuge but a labyrinth of eerie corridors echoing with phantom cries. Drawn deeper into the gloom, he encounters a chilling duo: a foreign surgeon and a bewitching nurse, who enlist his help in a macabre "surgery." As scalpels gleam and a human heart is extracted, the laborer’s dread mounts—until he realizes he’s aided murderers harvesting organs for an unholy experiment. \nHaunted by guilt, he races to expose their crimes, only to witness their next victim lured by the nurse’s lethal charm. The truth unravels in a police raid, revealing a grotesque ambition: the creation of an artificial human, powered by stolen hearts. Yet as authorities intervene, the fate of this manufactured giant—and the moral rot festering beneath scientific ambition—lingers unresolved. A tale of desperation and moral decay, where survival and monstrosity intertwine in the neon-lit shadows of a city indifferent to both.