"Really."

Grumbling quietly, Dome reached out helplessly to grab the cat standing above her head. However, it was only a slight attempt, and she gave up after finding the white cat grabbing her hair.

I took care of my hair for a long time before going out, and it wouldn't look good if it was messed up because of a cat. And Yukikaze, unlike Oscar (Black Cat), is quite honest in general. When it gets tired of playing, it should come down.

Although it is a night market, there is always a section of the road that is not very brightly lit due to the lighting control of the fireworks display. Today's two are walking on such a road.

In fact, it can be said that there is no such way. The two of them crossed the meadow on the bank of the river almost diagonally, and the real path was above them. And the night hung over their heads like a canopy.

Suddenly I feel that I am so small.

Harugami, who was already a little uneasy because of the weird smile that the white cat seemed to show (and still wonder if he was too careful), felt something even more uncomfortable.

(It's like...... ）

It was as if someone was watching her through the night.

This logically contradictory description made her feel indescribable.

What the hell is going on? From the suspected "seizure" at the beginning, to the outright weirdness now, what is going on in my body?

And......

Closing his eyes, Harugami moves his "gaze" upwards.

That's right, it's "up". This is the weirdest thing she has just discovered that has appeared in herself.

When she had tried to concentrate her senses alone, she suddenly found her more bizarre than not being able to cut off her vision, and not being able to see her body. That is their own "sight" itself.

It was as if looking down on the earth, and it was able to appear in the air.

Although you can't raise the "line of sight" indefinitely or even set the position of the "line of sight" arbitrarily,But even if there is a person in the school city who has an ability similar to "clairvoyance",,I've never heard of anyone who has mastered this ability.。

What's more, even in this case, she still "can't see herself".

Under the high-altitude vision, his friend's side is empty. Even if the grass leaves an imprint because of its own trampling, it is only the imprint that appears out of thin air.

No one has ever heard of this situation, and even the scholars who have studied optics in the school city the most can't have studied this possibility.

On the contrary, Harukami remembered someone - recently, Mitsuki Umihara once mentioned to her the "Tokiwadai Hunter".

Excluding that strange high-altitude vision, if you reverse that visual obstruction ability, it is exactly the same as what she is showing now.

"The turquoise waters of the lake reflect the moonlight, and even the stars will lose their color...... Dreams are far away, and only when you have eyes will you be blind; The night was long, and there was darkness and light. At the end of the road, crying and laughing can only be tasted silently. ”

Harukami is confused about her condition, while Qiongno is very emotional and enjoys the time alone with her friends, so they walk slowly. Fortunately, the destination is obviously not far away. Gradually, the singing became clear. Harukami, who was not affected by the high slopes of the riverbank, saw their destination even more.

It was a makeshift stage erected on a road blocked off by the riverbank, and it seemed to be used as a recreation for the fireworks display, where singers were invited to perform.

Although it was only a temporary stage, due to the excellent performance of the singer on the stage, there were many people around.

Compared to Dome No, who had received some musical training from his mother, Harukami knew almost nothing about these aspects. Just as a pure layman, even if the singer sings a somewhat sad song that she doesn't really like, she thinks the singer's singing voice is very good.

(Dome is now a student of his mother...... ）

Now, Harukami can naturally guess who Dome wants to take her to meet. However, she unexpectedly felt a little unhappy in her heart.

Mitsuki Umihara must know about something like this. However, he never mentioned it to her.

The fireworks festival is not far away, and it is conceivable that this temporary performance will definitely end before the fireworks festival begins. I'm afraid that Dome thought of this and decided to do so.

For the first time, Harugami tried to use such a special field of vision to "see" the surroundings. Then, very unexpectedly, she saw several figures that made her inexplicably concerned.

Among them is the figure of a foreigner, which is very eye-catching. Of course, the number of international students in the school city is large, and it is not too rare. What makes this person stand out is the person's clothing and age.

A blonde girl with a double ponytail who looked to be less than ten years old, dressed in a dark dress that was gorgeous but incompatible with the fireworks show, blended in with the crowd as a matter of course, but strangely did not attract anyone's attention.

In addition to this, she also saw several people with suspicious shapes. These people didn't look like listeners at all, but rather like security guards for the guards.

Also, on the bridge that crosses the river. It was a dark-haired girl leaning on the edge of a sci-fi-style motorcycle, observing the place with a far-sighted device.

What's going on? Together with the MAR vehicles I saw before, I always felt like something was going to happen today.

Of course, all of this is just a simple feeling, and there is no evidence for it. Actually, maybe the little blonde girl was just a maverick; Maybe the security guards are just guarding against accidents when there are a lot of people; Maybe the black-haired girl was just commanding the Discipline Commissioner. In short, there are too many possibilities, and the real evil ones are a few. But in any case, the fireworks display, which was originally just entertainment, has quietly changed its meaning in Harumami's heart.

Quietly searched with the power at his disposal, and then instinctively realized something.

I'm afraid that this part of the weirdness does not come from brain damage.

Well, the loss of real sense, broken memories, etc., should indeed be the result of brain damage. Even the situation of "ignoring oneself" should indeed be a self-recognition disorder caused by brain damage. But the "visual field" itself is not explained by brain damage.

It is the "poison" in the form of information, and the information medium itself is directly mapped into the brain through its own ability, interpreted, and then transformed into a form similar to vision through the linkage of the senses. So even with your eyes closed, you can see, even from incredible angles.

Because for her, the content here is the opposite. It is not understood by seeing, but seeing by understanding. If you "can't understand", you "won't see". Because he can understand it, he has witnessed the strangeness with his own eyes.

The illusion of "seizure" may not be an illusion. Rather, even if they are not in that state, the body and mind have begun to adapt to that state.

The moment he realized this, the sky in Harumami's eyes changed color.

In this clear night sky, the dim dark clouds "obscured" the original "color". This dense "cloud" could not hide the slightest shadow of the moon and stars, but it made the night sky in Harumami's eyes become gloomy.

The "toxin" of information is like a viscous purple cloud overhead, lingering. Taking it a step further, maybe you don't just don't see it, but you just don't understand it.

The "cloud" of information has no substance, but its foundation is real, and that is everyone; There's no model in your mind, you're actually looking at it all the time, but your brain refuses to accept it. Many times, it is your intellect that makes you choose to be "blind".

Too deep into the "information", too much interpretation of the "information", too much extension of the "information", too acceptance of the "information". This is exactly what Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once feared the most, the other side of information.

As the lyrics say, "If you have eyes, you will be blind."

It will be a "brave new world" (Brave_New_World) like no other.

But it's also the only thing that Harukami hasn't understood yet.

_

Gradually, as we reach our destination, Harugami's "vision" becomes narrower and narrower.

I'm afraid it's the limit. After all, it is also the application of ability, and it cannot be used all the time.

"Huh?"

Harukami, who retracted his gaze, unexpectedly saw a person's actions in the process.

The behavior of someone in the crowd would have been difficult to notice. But when Harukami retracted his vision from the air, the "falling" gaze unexpectedly saw her.

This is a man she'd seen not long ago. It was at the Tokiwadai Midsummer Festival, and I had seen someone for a very short time.

"Clothes?"

Dome tilted her head habitually.

The corners of his mouth were slightly wicked, and Harugami turned his head.

"That...... Is it an acquaintance? ”

As she spoke, she pointed ahead.

The person she saw creeping out of the way was actually the first to "accidentally" spot them. Harukami, who has a view from the hollow, saw this scene very clearly.

After all, vision is not equal to attention. Even if you have a wider vision than anyone else, you won't be noticed until you make an unusual move. As a result, records also tend to become nonsense because it's impossible to record parts that go unnoticed.

After all, only what makes uncertainty less important becomes information.

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Concentrate:

So far in this chapter, these chapters that are entangled in Harumami's psychological state and ability state have come to an end. To be honest, these are the chapters that I have written very hard, because the chapters are really difficult to describe in words. After all, the written language itself is a written language rather than a spoken language, so it inevitably requires logical reasoning to reimagine the prototype – as mentioned in the previous chapters. However, there are many things that are not logical in themselves, and therefore words are inferior in this regard.

Getting back to the point, I believe some people have already seen where the setting of Harukami is coming from. But let's be honest, in the beginning, the character of Harugami didn't really give much meaning to the character (the chaotic opening event originally started from Trey's side - and even now it retains a part). However, as we finished setting up our abilities, I gradually became aware of a fact that both I and the potion realized. That is, after we finished the setting, we unexpectedly found that the ability of the setting Nakaharugami suddenly had all the necessary conditions for a social form. That kind of social form is the social distortion that is very likely to occur when information resources are greatly abundant. This distortion was actually able to be "transplanted" to a person exactly after we set up Harugami's ability.

In fact, both Shannon and Turing thought about "information overload" in their later years. Although Shannon was plagued by Alzheimer's disease in his later years and was ignorant of the world-changing information revolution he had triggered, he did advise people to "be cautious about information" when information theory was first proposed.

Aware of this, we are faced with two choices. One is to ignore it because it doesn't have any effect on the story. But both I and the medicine felt that it would be a pity to simply ignore such a natural coincidence. So after discussing it, we boldly did one thing - we wanted to be a little bold, go against the advice of Shannon, and start from the "darkest side" of the information to see what is hidden behind this veil. So without changing the main line in the slightest, we shifted the unfolding point of the messy opening time to the body of Harugami Jinyi. As a result, Harukami has become the "blackest" character in the entire novel so far, a character with a high concentration of Dystopia's characteristics. In a sense,She's also a microcosm of the entire school city.。

As a final note, I and the pharmacy have opposite views on this point. I don't agree with the notion that "the abundance of information leads to a lack of self-knowledge". That is to say, I don't think that the abundance of information will make the boundary between "me" and "us" thin (this is the view of medicine, and it is also the more mainstream view nowadays), and I do not think that the abundance of information will not confuse "me" and "we". What I have always wondered is whether the abundance of information will cause the "me" as an individual to be extremely inflated. And once this phenomenon occurs, it will inevitably lead to a lack of mind.

Does the absence of a model in the mind mean that a great abundance of information will inevitably lead to a lack of mental level?

I don't want to make my own point of view here, but I think it's also necessary to say what the drug has to say about this question. "'There is no model in the mind,' because it's just a pile of definitions," he said.

Well, at least on this point, he's right.