Fool's Love

The universe is in a narrow well.

"The universe is in a narrow well."

"Dongguchi and Ito only knew that there was a universe in the well, and they never went down into the well. They only knew the operation, but not the principle.

The man who built the universe left years ago, leaving the task of managing the universe to two people.

For many years since then,—year after year, the focus of their lives has been on maintaining the normal operation of the universe.

That wasn't difficult, at least for Higashiguchi and Ito.Make the universe go round, check that the laws are working properly and conflicting with each other.

In layman's terms, the two repeated these tasks year after year.Of course, they also made mistakes, inadvertently missing the mistakes in the operation of the universe, resulting in the annihilation of countless planets-the two of them have seen this kind of thing more than once or twice. "

"Like a person who confirmed the situation by checking the temperature and other values ​​in the furnace?"

"Yes! That's it."

Masumi liked what I said.He put the drawing board upright on his lap to hide his face.

From the other side of the drawing board, it seems that he is seriously drawing, but he is actually talking to me about his own story.

It's time for this week's department activities.The department invited an art teacher to come down to give lectures. This person once had the experience of being a manga editor, and he is different from ordinary art teachers in manga.

It's not that I'm not uninterested in his knowledge, it's just that my life has been too full recently, so I can't cheer up to receive new knowledge outside of high-intensity homework time.In contrast, talking softly with Masumi is much more relaxed and pleasant.

"Or people who monitor sea conditions, or people who predict earthquakes. The deep sea and geothermal heat are both dangerous.

For Ito and Higashiguchi, "universe" is that kind of thing.So, they never tried to go into the universe.

The two are proficient in maintaining the universe, and they can remember its operation rules and precautions thoroughly, but they are not the designers of the universe after all, they only look at the part and not the whole.Their vision is also limited. "

"How could it be? Now that you know everything in the so-called "universe"——no, this is actually "God", right?Then how can there be something invisible? "

"It's not hard to explain. The more you focus on the 'big' things, the easier it is to ignore the small things.vice versa.When trying to know the position of a tiny particle precisely, its speed cannot be guaranteed.

certainly!This is not exactly the same thing as what I just said, just a passing thought.

Or to put it more closely, through instruments and diagnoses, doctors can know the physical condition of patients.But what is the actual feeling, should only the patient understand it? "

"I understand."

I said this with my mouth, but my heart was still foggy.Sometimes Masumi would quote some very awkward science allusions, but he restrained himself at first, but then he said more and more.

I guess in my heart that this has something to do with my attitude.I always pretend that I understand it, and act as if I agree with it, when I don't really understand it at all.It is simply doting.

Later, I reflected on my attitude, and concluded that I would hardly deny Masumi's habits.Whether it is an unpleasant blemish or an injury to my virtue.

In other words, I couldn't say no to him.Unless his behavior touches me to the core, or may eventually cause him to reject me——

Yes, I mean the portrait of him at my house earlier.At that time, I was very afraid of exposing my thoughts, so I didn't dare to look at his body.

In my eyes, Masumi seems to be shrouded in a layer of purple mist like a lobelia, and the sense of mystery I often smell from him makes me more convinced of my feelings.

I stared at Masumi and didn't speak most of the time. When I saw him smile, occasionally I would feel a bit of inexplicable bitterness in my heart.

Later, I gradually realized that he is also a character who will not reject people.I seem to be infected with his temperament only when facing this person, I really don't know what expression to make.

"And then? What happened after that?"

Putting Masumi's discussion about "tiny particles" aside, let's get back to the story!

"One day, Ito heard a special voice. It was the voice of a guy named Shirakawa from Japan.

Occasionally, my voice was heard by a god-like existence outside the universe. This is not just a once-in-a-hundred-year event, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a once-in-a-million-year event.

Ito was also very surprised, because so far they have only observed the universe through numerical values, just like a blind man who feels an elephant, saying that he has touched a pillar, a rope, and a fan, and then the elephant screamed.Only then did they realize that this was something completely different from their previous cognition.

"The world Ito and Higashiguchi live in has no "time", and words like "past", "present" and "future" are meaningless to him.

In other words, there is too much time for him, a thousand years is an instant, so infinity is equal to nothing;

Or maybe their time flows in a completely different way than in the universe-

Putting aside these details, the voice Ito heard at that time was indeed from the people in the universe managed by the two.

"Bai Chuan is a sailor. I'm going to set a trap here. What do people usually think of when they talk about sailing?

New World?Maritime trade?But this is not Bai Chuan's job.He is not from the 21st century.

Of course, they were also not from the Age of Discovery.He is from the future.When his voice was heard by Ito, this person was standing on the starship named "Weed Boat" looking into the distance.

At the end of the starry sky beyond his sight, Ito was there.I haven't thought about the rest of the story. "

"If you're doing animation, you're going to have to worry about how to draw the in-between frames."

"Who knows? Maybe! But it doesn't seem like a good analogy: I'm not good at drawing, and if I were to draw, it would be crooked. Besides, in my case, it's too lenient to say that I can only draw keyframes— - Neither is the storyboard! It’s more like there’s only a bowl of vinegar, but I insist on making a pot of dumplings for it.”

"It was very difficult until the moment when the most critical ideas were exposed."

"But at the same time, everything that has been paved before that is also designed to surprise readers at the moment when the truth is revealed."

——Just like falling in love.Isn't that what creation is all about?

It has also been said that detective novels are love dramas between writers and readers.

While speculating on the other party's mind, while constructing a trap.In this way, the strategic arrangement is also the same.

Or in other words, as long as two people communicate, similar results will definitely be produced.

The desire to kill someone is very similar to the desire to be loved by someone else.