55 Chapter 55

◎I am who I am◎

Chapter 55 [I Am Me]

Noah's Ark is cute, but Agatsuma Sayuri will never forget that in the original work, his birth was also a signal of the death of a genius boy.

At this point, the Agatsuma family had naturally changed Hiroki Kashimura's fate, and even Noah's Ark's attempt to create a simulation game to change the next generation of Japan became a thing of the past.

Wait a minute... is it really just a passing cloud?

If Hiroki Kashimura had not become Hiroki Sawada, and Thomas Schindler had not adopted him, would Hiroki Sawada have never invented the DNA tracking system and later discovered that his adoptive father was a descendant of Jack the Ripper?

Is this, saving the life of a person who might have committed an irreparable sin?

But my wife Sayuri doesn't think that it is right for Thomas Schindler, who would casually have murderous thoughts, to escape legal punishment.

If he didn't kill Kashimura and his son at this time, would he not kill others for other reasons?

But even if they are members of my wife's family and survivors on the same line of fate, they will not arbitrarily judge others' guilt before the murder happens.

Even if a person has malicious intentions, as long as he or she can endure and not break the law throughout his or her life, then he or she is not a criminal.

In the original work, Hiroki Sawada independently completed the construction of Noah's Ark without the chip that Toru Amuro gave Sayuri, his wife. While the project may have been completed slightly earlier in this life than indicated in the original, a comparison of the two suggests that the presence of the chip wasn't the decisive factor.

Agatsuma Sayuri was lost in thought, while Hagiwara Kenji beside her seemed a little restless.

He moved closer to my wife Sayuri, trying to see through her fake bangs, false eyelashes, and cosmetic contact lenses to see what the girl was really thinking.

As a result, Agatsuma Sayuri had a blank look in her eyes and was completely immersed in her own thoughts, not noticing his actions at all.

Hagiwara Kenji called out in dissatisfaction: "Sayuri? Little Sayuri~"

The man waved his hand in front of the girl, his eyes widening innocently. The curved line at the corner of his eye was non-aggressive, seemingly innocent yet pleading, yet his words were deliberately asking, "Say, Sayuri-chan, have you recovered your memory?"

Agatsuma Sayuri's thoughts were interrupted. She was confused for a moment, then shook her head: "No, it's just that lately there have been some inexplicable memories that suddenly popped up. I don't know who put them directly into my mind."

She knew that those memories were "extra" and she also knew the consequences of the behaviors in those memories, but she couldn't sort out the time relationship. How did she find so much time to do those things in her already busy life?

"So, how does it feel?"

Agatsuma Sayuri looked up at Hagiwara Kenji with alarm, "Hagi, do you know something?"

Before she finished speaking, she began to ask herself, "No, you already knew it, and you just didn't tell me on purpose..."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

Kenji Hagiwara smiled gently, as if he was looking at an ignorant little sister who was asking him crucial questions.

"You have to figure this out on your own," he said, reaching out to pat the girl's delicate makeup and hair.

"What if someone told me?"

Kenji Hagiwara's smile deepened, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing twice. He wiped away the natural tears that overflowed from the corners of his eyes and finally suppressed his smile with great difficulty.

"Then your future self will hate your present self."

[Tsk.] Agatsuma Sayuri was shocked. The meaning of this statement was clear: the increase in memory she felt was exactly what "Agatsuma Sayuri" would experience over the long term.

Is it a side effect of the supernatural power? A sequelae? Or is it consuming the memories of Agatsuma Sayuri in the past and increasing the memories of Agatsuma Sayuri in the present?

Kenji Hagiwara glanced at the Noah's Ark on the table again, not letting the conversation linger on my wife Sayuri's doubts. "This Noah's table pet will stay here."

"If Sayuri-chan wants it to appear on mobile devices like cell phones, she'll have to wait a little while. Hiroki is currently optimizing it for mobile devices."

"Then can I return this chip to Toru Amuro?" My wife Sayuri followed the topic and raised a related question.

"Ah, that. It's okay. If Jyouya-chan comes to ask for it, just give it to him directly. It's fine even with the reader. The program related to Noah's Ark can only be run once and will automatically be destroyed, leaving no code behind."

"It merely sparked Hiroki's inspiration to miniaturize Noah's Ark, but it wasn't actually completed. Rather, it wasn't even 25% complete. The public security department got it, but without programmers capable of continuing development, it was all wasted."

Kenji Hagiwara introduced slowly, seemingly giving pointers and explanations.

"But..." Agatsuma Sayuri always felt that what Hagiwara Kenji said made sense, but there were loopholes in his words.

She frowned, trying to use all her intelligence that she had used to battle wits with the HR during her job search, and finally found the flaw.

"If I give him the reader, wouldn't that be telling him that I already know the contents of the chip?"

After he finished speaking, my wife Sayuri saw the black-haired man with a satisfied expression of "this child is teachable", and she nodded happily, and nodded especially hard.

I couldn't help but feel angry.

"Will I be targeted by the police then?" She practically pointed her finger at Hagiwara Kenji's nose and demanded, "Willn't it be dangerous for you all who have any dealings with me?!"

"You're so close to Master Jingguang, it's impossible for you not to be watched by the police." The man waved his hand and said nonchalantly, "Just do what Sayuri wants. We can protect ourselves."

Agatsuma Sayuri thought about it and agreed. If members of Agatsuma's family could be discovered so easily, they would have been discovered long ago. How could they change the world line and destiny line?

"Sayuri-chan, just stay as you are now~"

The man spoke so easily and naturally that Agatsuma Sauri always had the illusion that he was saying, "All you have to do is remain in a state of 'ignorance'."

Even though I know that Kenji Hagiwara is not a person with this kind of personality, my wife Sayuri's train of thought still leans in this direction.

She could even vaguely feel that it was because something similar had happened before, leaving such a profound and subconscious reaction in her subconscious that deviated from her cognition.

Agatsuma Sayu nodded calmly, accepting the beautiful chip that still shone with wisdom and technology. She placed it and the reader back in the jewelry box that Hagihara Kenji had brought them to, and stored it away.

After doing all these things, she also specifically confirmed: "Don't I need to notify him in advance to pick it up?"

Kenji Hagiwara chuckled, touched the girl's head again, and shook his head.

He glanced at his watch, then said he had something else to do and left first.

He even reminded my wife Sayuri that she could check her work email for businesses related to my wife's family, and that she wouldn't have to pay for meals at those places.

Agatsuma Sayuri really needed this reminder. After all, although she could see the countless income and expenditure of the Agatsuma family, she didn't have much money on hand. But then she realized that even though it was the Agatsuma family's property, she couldn't eat it casually.

If she told Zhufu Jingguang that she knew a certain restaurant belonged to her family, did it mean that she was telling Zhufu Jingguang that she could find her family?

She is no longer the helpless amnesiac girl...

At this delicate time in my relationship with Zhufu Jingguang, if the public security knew that I had the ability to protect myself and the support of my large family, I'm afraid even if they had real emotional ties with me, they would refuse to be with me.

At this point, Sayuri Agatsuma felt her fast-paced brain freeze. It was as if her linear train of thought had suddenly been connected to a past problem, diverting some of her computing power and slowing her down.

And the problem that was caught...

The girl stopped other running tasks and only thought about the one that suddenly appeared. Then a light bulb went off in her mind and she grasped the problem.

At that time, when she first visited my wife's ancestral home and learned about my wife's family, she had a fleeting thought: "If Morobushi Kagemitsu realized how much my wife Sayuri knew, he would not be as close to her as he is now."

Indeed, the police will be wary of a mysterious person who knows too much, but will not be wary of an ordinary person who knows nothing.

Therefore, it should be her who chooses this path.

She took the initiative to forget the past and what she once had, but still retained the memory before the time travel, which made Zhu Fu Jingguang notice her, pity her but unable to understand her.

In the past, Agatsuma Sayuri was probably also a marginal person who secretly handled Agatsuma's family affairs but never "went home" and wandered at the bottom of society.

She might be like she is now, without a clear identity, relying entirely on the fake identity created by my wife's family to survive.

In this way, my wife Sayuri won't have to worry about accidentally entering her own business and then having her identity exposed by the clerk saying, "Welcome, young lady, to inspect us."

After profiling her past self, Agatsuma Sayuri has begun to understand that there has never been an "original owner", and her past self and her present self should be the same person.

At most, just like the inexplicable increase in memories in her mind, she knew more.

This is another puzzle that needs to be solved.

Where do these additional memories, including the heavy task of updating, come from, as coherent memories from a first-person perspective?

She knew exactly what "Sayuri Agatsuma" was doing at the time the memory occurred.

But the memory of the same time happened twice, three times, or even countless times.

Are all of these things done from a first-person perspective done by "Sayuri Agatsuma" herself, or is there an external terminal transmitting this information to her?

Does she have any super powers?

Like a supercomputer, can it remotely control other "computer people" to help her do things?

If it's not so high-tech, it could also be a traditional skill like a puppeteer.

If one cannot manipulate others and is simply receiving memories, it is possible that one is reading residual memories.

Is this also the reason why Kenji Hagihara and the other members of the Agatsuma family don't let her know too much? Because knowing too much will lead to receiving too much information?

I have to say it, but luckily I don’t know that much, otherwise I would have received some memories that are not suitable for children. Wouldn’t that be like watching late-night radio every day?