It's slow enough.

Although it is still early, in terms of time, it is much slower than usual. So it's no surprise that you'll be agitated.

Just thinking about it, it is also an incredible thing to spend two hours here without a purpose.

Mitsuki Umihara sat in a chair at a roadside coffee shop, bored waiting for time to pass. In his experience, there are really few such negative behaviors.

And, for some reason, there were fewer people here from half an hour onwards. On weekdays, would this place be so empty? Judging by the location and time, it seems somewhat unlikely. But now the reality is that this is indeed the case.

It's as if everyone is deliberately avoiding it.

Is it a person with the power who is playing a prank?

Let's suppose that if someone uses their power to unknowingly expel everyone from the area, what would his purpose be?

The overly boring wait seemed to have raised his already good mind by more than a level.

It's better to have a loud voice if it's for certain activities, but that's obviously not the case. So what kind of situation is it that requires such a disposition?

For example, when discussing secrets.

But if that's the case, why exclude yourself?

What if it wasn't a deliberate attempt to exclude oneself, but something went wrong?

He slowly rolled his gaze.

At this time, the only person in this range other than him is obviously the biggest suspect.

At the table not far from him, there happened to be two people sitting. And they were the only people in the range who excluded him and the open-air café clerk.

Of these two people, one should be older than his father, and the other is indeed a teenager who is not too far from his own age. Moreover, they have very obvious characteristics of foreigners.

Naturally, there are international students in the school city.,Even if there are foreigners, it's normal.。 Of course, this is not what Mitsuki Kaihara cares about.

(Is it them?) ）

Mitsuki Kaihara thought and gently took a sip of the drink in the cup.

The older man seemed to be explaining something, while the young man was holding a notebook to take notes. It looks like a teacher and a student.

When he noticed them, Mitsuki Umihara found that although judging from the way they spoke, they didn't deliberately lower their voices, Mitsuki Umihara, who was just across the table, didn't hear anything.

(Sure enough...... ）

Although I don't know why they made this mistake, this ability to exclude the other party alone, and it seems to be the ability to exclude the other party at the cognitive level, made Mitsuki Haihara think of a person.

The Tokiwadai hunter who caused a small commotion in Tokiwadai not so long ago seems to have a very similar ability to exclude herself from the scope of other people's understanding.

The opposite ability? Or to put it another way, the same abilities?

As he thought so, the two men at the table packed up their things, apparently intending to get up and leave.

Mitsuki Umihara didn't pay much attention to it, but then things turned out to be more than he expected.

The two of them walked straight towards them as if they didn't see the table they were sitting on.

Touch!

It wasn't until the boy bumped into Mitsuki's chair in Umihara, and was almost hit, that they seemed to suddenly wake up.

This is a strange situation. Could it be that a mistake in his abilities would cause him to lose sight of the object himself?

Despite such doubts, Mitsuki Kaihara still reached out in time to give the unbalanced boy a support. Because of his action, the notebook in the boy's hand also fell to the ground.

"Are you alright?"

Mitsuki Umihara asked, leaning down to pick up the notebook that the boy had dropped.

He didn't look at the contents of the notebook, but just closed it and handed it over. Something that needs to be kept secret before it can be discussed, naturally it is not something that can be known to outsiders. This kind of thing is one of the most important parts of academic etiquette, and of course Mitsuki Umihara knows how to obey it.

Still, he saw the cover of the notebook. The pattern of the cover surprised him a little.

It was a triangular pyramid, and the top of the pyramid was missing a piece. Above this missing part, a small triangle that appears to be used to supplement this part floats directly above the missing part. There is a special case in this composition, which is full of geometric imagery. It was the little triangle floating in the air, with an eye drawn. This eye has an aura that envelops the entire triagram. At the top and bottom of this composition, a text is engraved on each side. At the top is "Annuit_C?ptis" and below is "Novus_Ordo_Seclorum".

"So the two are Americans?"

Mitsuki Umihara greeted politely.

He did remember the design, which was the back of the U.S. coat of arms (technically the U.S. coat of arms).

"Ah...... yes......"

The other party's reaction was very strange, and he was obviously still in a state of overshock. This is very puzzling, if it is a mistake in ability, then if he himself discovers this phenomenon, he should be the only person who will not be surprised.

"I'm sorry, classmate. We have something important to do, can I ask you to avoid it? ”

Older people are apparently more able to respond more quickly.

"Of course, please do your own thing."

Mitsuki Umihara politely got up and walked away. However, after leaving the open-air coffee shop, he glanced over there out of curiosity.

I don't know why, the teacher and student stood in place for a while.

Looking at that reaction, it was as if I had seen or heard something incredible.

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"Mentor...... It's ......"

"Don't panic. We all know that there is a possibility of change in form, and we have been mentally prepared for a long time, haven't we? ”

"But...... But ......"

"The technology of completely deceiving the senses had hypothetical theories back then. Speaking of which, that was an assumption we made in the course of that collaboration. I didn't expect it to be done......"

The older man muttered recollections, slowly raising his head. On the large display screen on the wall of the building, they are showing a picture that is completely different from what ordinary people see.

The huge eye that emerged from the clouds and light, the black and white squares that divided the sky and the earth in a balanced way, was the one they were most familiar with.

There was even a voice in their ears that only the two of them could hear, and it was like thousands of people shouting in unison.

“Rain_man！ Rain_man！ (Note)

"Is this a demonstration?"

The boy asked uneasily.

"Demonstrations? If you're going to fight your enemy, will you specifically tell your enemy, 'I know you're here?' The corners of the elder's mouth curled slightly, which made him even look a little pleasant, "No, no way. So this is not a demonstration, but an invitation. ”

"What are we going to do?"

If you are on a hostile position, the answer is much simpler. The question is, should we really stand on such a stand? ”

"What are you going to ......?"

'Why not?' There are no eternal friends, only eternal interests', this sentence does not really seem cold. If it is understood the other way around, then as long as there is a common "interest" (here the meaning of "pursuit"), then even enemies will become friends. You know, it is said that the person who said this back then also had a lot to do with us. Thinking in binary equilibrium is what we do best. ”

"But there are still people who haven't been contacted......"

"****, who cares about them!" The elder had been talking like a scholar, but at this time he suddenly cursed. This surprised even teenagers. "Fools blinded by prejudice, I was originally opposed to letting this bunch of guys join. Are we a terrorist force that has made enemies everywhere? Or are we really plotting to control the world's evil organizations, as those rumors have been rumored? Haven't we endured enough of this stupid prejudice ourselves?! ”

“……”

"Listen to the child, the so-called enemy is not absolute. If possible, the more friends the better, and the fewer enemies there are. What's more, there should be more respect for the enemy. If you don't even respect an opponent, how can you defeat one? ”

"But...... How do we get in touch with them? ”

The boy looked up at the big screen on the wall, dazed.

"I remember when we were working together, there was a unique agency in the city that was responsible for this kind of thing. Its name should be ......," the elder paused. "Five Elements Organ."

By this time, all the imaginary sounds and sights had dispersed, as if they had never existed. It's just an idea, an idea.

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Inside the company building, with the exception of two specific rooms, the entire system was controlled by unidentified hackers. All of the virtual reality equipment in the building is operating uncontrollably at maximum capacity.

"What are you doing?"

In one of the only two rooms that was not affected, Kaoru Tachigi asked as she glared at the fictional girl in front of her.

The technicians involved have calculated that if the virtual reality system in the company is operated as a whole, then excluding the use of stereoscopic image partial assistance, in terms of sensory deception, the maximum coverage should barely cover the street in front of the company building.

In other words, the senses of people in this range are now within the scope of the influence of the "imaginary girl".

"Miss Tateki, as I said, the tree diagram designer has been assigned the calculus task only to this day. So that's it...... That last calculus task...... I took advantage of this task...... to be able to talk to you...... Right now...... It's time......"

The sound began to mingle with the signal of electricity, and the imaginary form became a jumble like snowflakes.

"Wait a minute!"

She's disappearing. Kaoru Tategi, who realized this, immediately reached out his hand, but it pierced through the cluttered form.

This form didn't exist here at all, and her ability prevented her from being deceived by this sensory illusion, but at this time she instinctively made such a move.

"Please...... Please help me......"

The girl's form vanished, and the process was not slow, even much faster than when she appeared.

But her last words remained, and they seemed to last long after she was gone.

Just as the Cheshire cat only left its laughter, the fictional girl was the only one left in her mind in the end.

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Note: There are many transitional interpretations and misinterpretations of this word. It is indeed quite possible that it is a word that many occult societies like to use, but it is by no means a reference to a devil, as some conspiracy theorists believe. Since ancient times, the word "rain" has meant "a blessing from the sky." So its original meaning is actually very positive, it means "the one who receives favor." Including the movie "Rain Man", in fact, it is also a metaphor for this meaning. In other words, the word actually means to think that oneself is blessed by God. Are there also devil worship groups that use the term? Of course yes, because they also consider themselves to be "beneficial", but this certainly cannot be said that the word itself represents the devil. You know, there are also devil worship organizations that believe that Satan is the real Son of God, so is the term "Son of God" meaning the devil? That's obviously not the case.

Uploader's words: These chapters are more of the author's expertise. It's not good to do nothing, so here's a little explanation of the origin of the setting of this work.

In fact, when the premise of this work first appeared, it was a very boring attempt. I remember that it was the 22nd volume of the original work, and there was a paragraph in it that mentioned that the second and fourth abilities could be used to change the creation of matter at will. But the second one aside, in fact, according to the original setting description of the hippo, Mai Ye's ability is obviously impossible to do such a thing. There is no doubt that this part must have been made by the hippopotamus by mistake. (I believe many people didn't expect that in fact, the setting of this novel started from Maiye's side, right?) ）

So, how do you patch it to make this possibility self-consistent?

It was for the sake of such entertainment that I began to imagine this possibility. I won't mention anything like fermions and CKM matrices here, but I'm just trying to design them. That's the idea from the beginning.

The most typical of these considerations is decay. By the way, the decay of neutrons into protons comes to mind. One of these upper quarks becomes a lower quark, emits a virtual W?, and then decays into electrons and anti-neutrinos. If you look at the Feynman diagram, it looks like an electric neutrino has become an electron......

And then when I thought of this step, I suddenly remembered - isn't this a weak nuclear force?!

As soon as this thought came to mind, a series of strange thoughts immediately arose. It was at this time that the author contacted me and wanted to write a novel. He didn't have any problems with history and mystic philosophy, but he wanted me to be able to provide some physical support. I was thinking about this boring idea at the time, so I came up with such a framework.

So if you really want to say it, this setting is actually not rigorous, just a kind of self-entertainment. I also found it interesting that the author novelized this setting. But if you really want to say it's scientific, I'd say it's not the case. After all, it's just about imagining a reasonable process based on the outcome, and that's it.