I didn't... quite tell you everything, at that time. I didn't even remember everything, actually.
[A soft sigh, and then she begins to speak. Her voice is even, measured, and without some of the hesitance that often seems to mark her words. She knows very well what she's talking about, here. She has spent a long, long time with this knowledge.]
When I was twelve years old, after being taken to a hospital for an illness, Aoi and I were made to perform a Ganzfeld Experiment, and we displayed strong psychic tenancies. Because of this, our aptitude, we were kidnapped to be used in the Nonary Project. It was a research project being run by the same company that owned that particular hospital. The men conducting the experiment wanted to study something called the 【Morphogenetic Field】.
Morphogenetic field theory posits the existence of a biological and social field that contains the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing as part of its epigenetics, as well as its behavior and the way it coordinates with and interacts with other beings.
Think of it as an invisible plane, or field, where the information for all biological life, and perhaps some things that aren't even alive, is stored. Anyone is able to access this field, to an extent, and as a result, some people have an easier time finding knowledge that is common to many people. Or, for example, if a hundred thousand people did a headstand tomorrow, you would be more inclined to want to do a headstand too, even if you didn't know about what was going on.
There are two factors that can strengthen one's ability to access information in this way: namely epiphany and danger. So Cradle Pharmaceuticals kidnapped 18 children and split them into teams of 9, and then set them in nearly identical scenarios. The first group, group A, was placed in the Gigantic, before a hole was torn in it so that it would sink. The second building was an identical replica named Building Q, which had been put in the Nevada desert.
The children in Building Q were told they had to solve the puzzles presented to them and use their psychic abilities to transmit the answers, to place them in the Morphogenetic Field, for their siblings to find, or they would... they would die.
I was on the Gigantic. So was Aoi. It was a mistake, actually. They had meant to split up every sibling pair, but it was me and another girl... we got switched, somehow.
We... we almost got out. A police officer found us, and he tried to rescue us, but I... went back. I'd dropped my doll. I didn't want to leave her. The ship was sinking. But when I did, that man... Gentarou Hongou... he caught me and he dragged me back into the incinerator.
Then he turned it on.
There was a puzzle I was supposed to solve, and if I could then I would have been able to escape but... I wasn't even in the right place. I was more skilled at transmitting than receiving information. I was terrified. And he stood there, with his face pressed against the glass, and he watched me while I was crying, and....
And that's where it gets complicated. I told you most of it last time. Sometimes I die, and sometimes I don't. But what stops it was something I don't think anybody expected.
It seems that the Morphogenetic Field also includes a temporal element, because when I was trapped like that... I managed to reach into the future. Nine years into the future, actually. I was able to make contact with... actually it was the same boy who gave me that doll. He was able to help me solve the puzzle. And I was able to get out.
But, you see, after that....
After that, if that Nonary Game didn't take place... if nine years in the future, my friend wasn't there to help me, to stop me from being burned... then I'd have died.
So that's what we did. Among other things.
Aoi and I, in that Nonary Game, the one I came from, were Zero. We set it up. We took the people who had to be there. And we killed one of the men who was responsible for that original Nonary Project.
My life has been in danger ever since then, you see, so it's... something I've sort of learned how to do. To read different timelines. To find different ways for things to go. But, because I'm still in the box, I get fevers too. So Aoi was the one who usually helped me. Who... did anything I told him had to be done. And then something would break, and I'd get the fevers again....
They get worse whenever it's not the right timeline. Whenever it's closer to being true.
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[Her hands are gentle as she works.]
I didn't... quite tell you everything, at that time. I didn't even remember everything, actually.
[A soft sigh, and then she begins to speak. Her voice is even, measured, and without some of the hesitance that often seems to mark her words. She knows very well what she's talking about, here. She has spent a long, long time with this knowledge.]
When I was twelve years old, after being taken to a hospital for an illness, Aoi and I were made to perform a Ganzfeld Experiment, and we displayed strong psychic tenancies. Because of this, our aptitude, we were kidnapped to be used in the Nonary Project. It was a research project being run by the same company that owned that particular hospital. The men conducting the experiment wanted to study something called the 【Morphogenetic Field】.
Morphogenetic field theory posits the existence of a biological and social field that contains the information necessary to shape the exact form of a living thing as part of its epigenetics, as well as its behavior and the way it coordinates with and interacts with other beings.
Think of it as an invisible plane, or field, where the information for all biological life, and perhaps some things that aren't even alive, is stored. Anyone is able to access this field, to an extent, and as a result, some people have an easier time finding knowledge that is common to many people. Or, for example, if a hundred thousand people did a headstand tomorrow, you would be more inclined to want to do a headstand too, even if you didn't know about what was going on.
There are two factors that can strengthen one's ability to access information in this way: namely epiphany and danger. So Cradle Pharmaceuticals kidnapped 18 children and split them into teams of 9, and then set them in nearly identical scenarios. The first group, group A, was placed in the Gigantic, before a hole was torn in it so that it would sink. The second building was an identical replica named Building Q, which had been put in the Nevada desert.
The children in Building Q were told they had to solve the puzzles presented to them and use their psychic abilities to transmit the answers, to place them in the Morphogenetic Field, for their siblings to find, or they would... they would die.
I was on the Gigantic. So was Aoi. It was a mistake, actually. They had meant to split up every sibling pair, but it was me and another girl... we got switched, somehow.
We... we almost got out. A police officer found us, and he tried to rescue us, but I... went back. I'd dropped my doll. I didn't want to leave her. The ship was sinking. But when I did, that man... Gentarou Hongou... he caught me and he dragged me back into the incinerator.
Then he turned it on.
There was a puzzle I was supposed to solve, and if I could then I would have been able to escape but... I wasn't even in the right place. I was more skilled at transmitting than receiving information. I was terrified. And he stood there, with his face pressed against the glass, and he watched me while I was crying, and....
And that's where it gets complicated. I told you most of it last time. Sometimes I die, and sometimes I don't. But what stops it was something I don't think anybody expected.
It seems that the Morphogenetic Field also includes a temporal element, because when I was trapped like that... I managed to reach into the future. Nine years into the future, actually. I was able to make contact with... actually it was the same boy who gave me that doll. He was able to help me solve the puzzle. And I was able to get out.
But, you see, after that....
After that, if that Nonary Game didn't take place... if nine years in the future, my friend wasn't there to help me, to stop me from being burned... then I'd have died.
So that's what we did. Among other things.
Aoi and I, in that Nonary Game, the one I came from, were Zero. We set it up. We took the people who had to be there. And we killed one of the men who was responsible for that original Nonary Project.
My life has been in danger ever since then, you see, so it's... something I've sort of learned how to do. To read different timelines. To find different ways for things to go. But, because I'm still in the box, I get fevers too. So Aoi was the one who usually helped me. Who... did anything I told him had to be done. And then something would break, and I'd get the fevers again....
They get worse whenever it's not the right timeline. Whenever it's closer to being true.