[日本語版]
Dr.Appleは、かつて医学と兵法を兼ね備えた異端の学者であった。
彼は「人の体と精神を、剣と同じように切り分け、見抜く」ことを探求し続けた結果、己の顔を失い、果実の姿を宿す存在となった。
学者としては医術・博物学に通じ、剣士としては人の心胆を抉るような威を放つ。
医師でもあり処刑人でもある二面性を持つため、人々は恐怖と尊敬を込めて「ドクター」と呼ぶ。
人となり： 外見は学僧のようだが、知識人というより「冷徹な観察者」。 本を抱き、巻物を解きながら、相手を研究対象のように分析する。 温厚に見える言葉遣いの裏には、容赦なく人の弱さを抉る冷厳な視線が潜む。
能力・特性： 解体の眼差し：果実の顔に宿る無機質な眼は、人の体と心を「部位」として分解して把握できる。 医か剣か：処置と称して人を癒すことも、同じ手で命を奪うことも可能。どちらも同じ「実験」とみなす。 果実の理：自らを「熟す存在」と捉えており、人の寿命や成長を果実の腐敗と熟成になぞらえて説く。彼の言葉は寓話めいており、同時に恐ろしく現実的。
過去と現在： Dr.appleは元来Forest家に仕える医師であり、同時に剣術指南役でもあった。だが「人の生死を切り分けること」に執着しすぎ、常軌を逸した実験を繰り返すうち、己の相貌を失い果実の面貌となった。 今は世俗を離れ、旅の学者を装って各地を放浪しており、必要とあらば「患者」と「標本」を同じ手で裁いていた。Dr. Forestが異世界召喚されている場面に偶然出くわし、その未知なる現象へのとっさの好奇心にかられて自ら飛び込み、Dr. Forestとともに異世界召喚されるに至った。元の世界では、「りんご」は「りんが」と呼ばれていたため、りんが博士とも呼ばれることもあった。
テーマ： 医と武の二律背反：救うことと殺すことの境界を曖昧にした存在。 知の冷酷さ：学びの果てに「人の尊厳」すら研究対象にしてしまう狂気。 熟す者：自らもまた果実として朽ちる運命を受け入れ、そこに達観を見出す。
[English version]
Dr. Apple was once a heretical scholar who combined medicine and the art of war.
In his relentless pursuit of “dissecting and perceiving the body and mind as if they were a blade,” he lost his own face and came to bear the visage of a fruit.
As a scholar, he mastered medicine and natural history; as a swordsman, he exuded a terrifying aura that cut into the very hearts of men.
Both physician and executioner, he was feared and revered alike, known simply as “Doctor.”
Personality
Outwardly he resembles a monk-scholar, but rather than a man of wisdom, he is more of a cold observer. He clutches books and unfurls scrolls, analyzing others as though they were research subjects. Behind his seemingly gentle words lies an unyielding gaze that mercilessly pierces human weakness.
Abilities & Traits
Dissecting Gaze: The inorganic eyes within his fruit-like face can deconstruct body and soul alike into “parts,” grasping them with clinical precision.
Medicine or Sword: With the same hands, he can heal under the guise of treatment, or take life in an instant—both equally regarded as “experiments.”
Doctrine of the Fruit: He sees himself as a being that “ripens.” He explains human life spans and growth through the metaphors of fruit’s decay and maturation. His words are parables—at once allegorical and disturbingly real.
Past & Present
Dr. Apple once served as both physician and sword instructor to the House of Forest. Yet his obsession with “separating life from death” drove him into madness. Through ceaseless, aberrant experiments, he lost his human visage and took on the countenance of a fruit. Now, estranged from society, he roams as a wandering scholar. When needed, he judges “patients” and “specimens” alike with the same impartial hand. By chance, he encountered the moment Dr. Forest was summoned to another world. His immediate curiosity toward this unknown phenomenon compelled him to leap in as well, leading to his own otherworldly summoning. In his original world, apples were called ringa, hence he was sometimes known as Dr. Ringa.
Themes
The Duality of Medicine and War: A being who blurs the boundary between healing and killing.
The Cruelty of Knowledge: A scholar who, at the end of his learning, turned even human dignity into mere research material.
The Ripening One: He accepts his own fate to wither as a fruit, finding transcendence within inevitable decay.