Real Account 56

Real Account Chapter 56

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-Account 56 Recollection of CAP

-We will tell you the truth
About Real Account.

-A video message left behind by my parents.

-And your true identity.

-My...identity!?

-You've grown pretty big Yuuma...or rather,

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-Just kidding~~~!! There's no way we could see you! Hahahaha!

-Come on Shin! This is important, didn't you promised you would act seriously!?

-But I just don't do serious though.

-Is this really a clue...?

-We'll start from the beginning again.

-Ow, ow, I'm sorry, I said sorry.

-Yuuma...did you know the type of work which your parents performed...?

-Kashiwagi Laboratory - Applied Genetic Engineering Research Facility.

-What we did there was...

-Aaaaaah

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-Invent things.

-Director!?

-We...were successful...

-(small) Director, your head!

-R...really!?

-Well which is it!?

-It's a success.

-(apple text) Kashiwagi Shin

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-They're exactly the same!? You can't tell the apples apart...

-Can you see my signature is the same as well?

-Mmm, mmm!? There's no change or deterioration in mass...

-It's truly amazing...I can't believe it!

-It's a technology which collects data about the molecular structure of any material stored at point A.

-I always believed in you.

-That you could assemble an apple, Chitose.

-And then uses that data to reassemble the molecules through a computer terminal at point B.

-Similar to a sort of quantum teleportation common in Scifi.
Though it's not "sending" but "multiplying".

-Just like copying and pasting a computer file.

-"Copy and Paste technology".

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-Our experiment with a live monkey was also successful.

-Though with an unexpected result, but...

-That didn't matter.

-Copy and Paste is a dream technology!

-If we can put it into practical use then we could solve food security, it's a revolutionary medical breakthrough!

-And so...

-We were happy.

-(small text)4 May 20XX Family came to visit the lab

-Thinking about it, the time we spent with you and the others was the best years of our lives.

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-Then something happened...

-"Real Account Corporation"?

-The President of a small IT venture which I had never heard of offered a business partnership for the Copy and Paste technology, which should have been top secret...

-In the back of my mind,
I felt a darkness coming out of him.

-I have to refuse.

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-Smartphones spread to every country and the term Social Networking Service (SNS) became increasingly common.

-In time the number of users for the Real Account SNS continued to increase explosively.

-The Real Account company continued to ask us...

-They gradually began to escalate their intimidation...

-And then one day

-They achieved their aim.

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-Yuuma suffered massive head trauma.

-Yuuma!

-Yuuma...hold on!

-He managed to hold on to life though.

-If I knew Yuuma was going to live we might be able to go back to the same life...

-What should we do...

-There is one possibility.

-And so...

-We made a decision.

-You don't mean...

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-We used the Copy and Paste technology,

-To make a copy of Yuuma!

-(small text) Everything here is ok, is the scan ready!?

-What I said earlier,

-About the unexpected success of the live experiment...

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-That was that when A is transferred to B,

-With Copy and Paste technology...

-In cases where living things are Copy and Pasted, for some reason the consciousness is lost from the original.

-A phenomenon where the consciousness transfers to the new copy.

-The original becomes nothing more than a corpse...

-Even though the molecular structure of the two should be the same the consciousness isn't multiplied. Perhaps because it's only for God to control...? There must be some reason.

-Anyway...that phenomenon worked in our favour that time.

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-We received a death certifcate from a doctor friend for your original corpse.

-We held a fake funeral as well...and so Kashiwagi Yuuma officially died...

-We decided to drop off the Copy and Pasted Yuuma to an orphanage in another prefecture.

-You lost all of your memories from the shock of the accident, though that was also useful for helping to keep you hidden.

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-(letter) This child's name is Yuuma. Born on 8 December. Blood type AB. These wounds are from a car accident. We're giving up the child in front of the gate, please forgive us. Please use the enclosed money to raise him.
To the grown-up Yuuma. Use this to find out the truth. We will most likely not have the opportunity to explain it to you ourselves.

-That is what happened to your body.

-And that is the technology which we developed.

-You're kidding right...?

-And that's all there is...is what I would like to say. But...

-The Real Account company, is seeking to use the Copy and Paste technology for a game.
That will...

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-Ah, looks like you found out.

-Hyah!?

-Uwaah.

-*SFX Rattle

-Imari-chan, run for it...

-Marble appeared at this point...

-I couldn't record any more...

-But still,

-This clears up a bit of the mystery about Yuuma-kun...

-Why he had no memory after waking up injured in the orphanage...

-Why there was a picture of his funeral at the Kashiwagi house...

-Well...
Whatever...

-Huh?

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-2...

-I thought,
There were two stages to the technology...

-The technology to replicate a body was one...
and technology to create electronic space, consciousness data, and the ability to send and receive it was the other.

-(*same text for diagram as before, see ch52)

-My resurrection technology thesis was founded on using those two together...

-But replication technology is only one...

-(small) Original Body

-(small) Newly made body.

-(small) Consciousness comes here.

-With just that my theory doesn't work!

-Eh? So then...

-Crap...

-I'm such an idiot...

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-There's no "resurrection technology"!

-There's no way to bring back those who've died!!

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-I made a losing bet!!

-Hah.

-Hahaha.

-You...you were completely wrong...

-So staying here was completely the wrong move...?

-In 10 minutes...

-We'll die here...!?

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-If you say you're going to apologise then I'll kill you.

-I chose to stay right here! I have no regrets...!

-It's okay...it'll be instant death...dying will be easy.

-I want to eat some raw meat but don't have any, is it okay if I have one of your earlobes instead?

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-We'll all die,
Because of my mistake, all of us.

-Ayame and Kurashina,

-And Nanako

-Ah

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-Mu...Mukai, I...

-The last thing I want to say is...

-I see...

-I see it now...

-I understand everything...

-It's the "opposite"...!

-The true goal is on the other side of this door!

-And the door's password,

-The answer is...!!