"Can I borrow your notebook?" After dinner and housework, I sent Fran, who was pestering me to accompany the puppet, to play video games, and I asked Maruko-sama who had pulled out her computer and seemed to be planning to continue her work. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Of course, no problem, well, Alice should know how to use it, right?"

"Roughly understood."

"Okay." She shifted the notebook resting on her lap to the desk in front of the sofa, "Do you want to continue to check the news of those high-ranking officials or underworld forces?" You can't always find them online, even if you're a hacker or a professional journalist who is proficient in digging deep in. ”

"No, I'm a complete layman in that regard," I changed my mind and decided to tell her about the existence of the youkai community, anyway, Miss Maruko already knew enough, and there was nothing wrong with any more, "Remember I left for a few hours at noon, I actually found an outside demon, so I followed her to her house......"

After telling me what I had seen and heard, I finally said, "Now I'm going to sign up for the communication forum established by Tokyo Demon, so even if I don't have any important information, I might as well go and watch it for a fresh start." ”

"Oh! In the tank! It doesn't matter if you don't work tonight.,The monster community or something seems to be super interesting.,Alice, open it up, open it up.。 Instead, she urged me.

Opening an unfamiliar browser, the computer of an outsider is extremely complex and versatile compared to the rudimentary specialized software or windows used on the terminal of Gensokyo Communication, and even a single browser is designed with bells and whistles - but the pile of skin covered with pendant flowers seems to have been set up by Miss Maruko out of personal interest.

Enter the domain name of the "Inside World" forum: bbs.--I think Tokyo Black Bang is actually more suitable for this domain name--Unsurprisingly, there is an error message of addressing failure, according to the simple method taught to me by Ito, refresh twenty times in a row, and finally open a simple welcome interface, except for the welcome words at the top of the "refuse to register, refuse to attack" such an unenthusiastic welcome and a pure black background, only the login interface composed of two white boxes and a button under it, and even the registration button cannot be found.

"......" Miss Maruko watched me silently after operating for a long time before opening a copycat page, and finally couldn't help but say, "Isn't this really a bluffing virus website?" ”

"Of course not...... Probably. ”

"Hah...... Now what? The monsters seem to be more xenophobic.,Don't let you register.。 She asked, tracing the interface in front of her.

"I don't think there's really a good way for them to tell if a registrant is a demon or not, unless they have time to sort out the registrant's information one by one," I thought about it and said, "I heard that at first they were engaged in a system of inviting friends to join, and at first they didn't even improve the registration mechanism, anyone can just name it and post and chat, because the forum is inconspicuous and there are not many users, and it is basically unnoticeable, but ...... Later, the monster community inexplicably became an urban monster and spread out, and many ordinary people came to seek the origin of the monster, which led to the administrator being forced to make the monster community more mysterious and difficult to enter. ”

"This weird talk ......," Miss Maruko seemed to remember something, "I think I've heard about it when I haven't graduated yet.,It's all a forum for monster users or something.,But、Urban weird talk has updated versions or themes almost every week.,I didn't care about it at all.。 ”

"I got the invitation code from the yokai kids, uh...... I have to think about how Ito Yuki told me at the time, to enter the registration page, it seems to be ...... "scratch your hair, I try to recall," and "add a few characters to the end of the domain name?" ”

"Could it be code that points to the representative path of a child page?"

"That's right, that's right, add a slash register." After typing and then refreshing, it entered a simple registration interface.

"Isn't this protection simply excessive? Can it stop ordinary people? Miss Maruko was puzzled.

"Actually, most people are blocked from the first step," I said, "and there are probably not many people who have the patience to try a website that only responds after 20 times, right?" ”

"Well, if the domain name of this world appears on the promotion link of the portal or in the speech of other communication areas, and the wrong address is displayed once or twice, no one should have the patience to continue clicking."

"That's right, then, even if you enter the homepage, you find that there is nothing, and you can't even find the button to register and enter, and most of the curious ordinary people who are not patient enough are eliminated here."

"Well, it's smart to use simple methods to stop the harassment of most ordinary people."

"Finally, there are the hackers who can't be blocked by conventional means," I said, logging into the forum with the newly registered account of "Flandorous Magtroyd" whose name I had malcherily assumed to be a pseudonym, "and what I saw when I came in was just a weird news forum that felt like insider revelations or whining about something, and the communication between the monsters was not so easy to reveal their true nature." ”

"It seems to be basically a post of news discussion and daily help, if you hadn't told me in advance, even if I came in, I wouldn't have seen that the communication users here are really demons." Miss Maruko said, glancing at it.

"Hey, I think what Patchy said makes a lot of sense, living in human society, the difference between youkai and humans is not as big as people think."

"However, youkai have incredible abilities, right, if they learn to commit human crimes, ordinary people can't resist it at all, and it's unlikely that the police will be able to catch youkai with conventional thinking, right?"

"That's just a handful, it's better to worry about this than to worry about human criminals, not to mention that I think the yokai in Tokyo seem to have taken some potential rules very seriously under the guidance and teaching of some more experienced seniors, and they won't casually infringe on ordinary people, huh...... Because the exposure of a youkai is likely to lead to the exposure of other youkai in its network, which is intolerable to most youkai who integrate into social life, and the youkai themselves will deal with the demons who break the rules...... If conditions permit, demons like those who wander outside the circle and are professionally engaged in the business of fighting and killing may not be contained, such as the tiger demon and the jackal demon whose names I still don't know. ”

"This sounds like the unspoken rules of human society."

"That's what it is, the difference between youkai and ordinary people is no bigger than the difference between nobles and commoners, or between elites and ordinary people."

"Alas......"

"Eh, Maruko-sama, you seem to be disappointed?"

"Of course, I've always had a romantic expectation, I thought that with the ability that ordinary people don't have, I can make myself free, but after Alice's reminder, I found that I can't look at the problem so simply, youkai are probably similar to the elite class of human beings, it seems that they can do whatever they want, but in fact they are still subject to the constraints of the whole society."

"Freedom...... In any case, ability may be an important guarantee for the realization of freedom, but more importantly, as long as social life is clustered and intersects with others, the romantic freedom you expect will always be restricted. ”

"Is it the same in Gensokyo?"

"It depends on whose position I stand on, I think I'm free enough, but whether others think so or not, I don't dare to judge at will."

Let's talk about the ghost lady who has caused trouble recently, and the so-called "Xia Keshang" that she yelled about is nonsense in my opinion, eh...... First of all, in my eyes, it is an ethereal concept, so it naturally doesn't matter, so who is the one becomes a stupid question, besides, after these few days of experience in the outside world, I realize that the so-called concept of lower and upper should be applied more to some systematic and mature system, Miss Ghost Man Good and Evil seems to be out of some strange paranoia and regards Gensokyo such a worldly place as a well-organized unknown object, and her persistence has become a ridiculous thing in the eyes of everyone, but she doesn't think it's happy. This is the difference between the concept of freedom and the living environment, right? It's no wonder that many people except for Miss Acuchimaru regard the good and evil of ghosts as neurotic clowns, and the fact that Meirenji Temple tolerated the mentally ill person is also a supreme act of kindness in everyone's eyes.