Negative -Girls: To Live And Die - Chapter 46

…It has been fifteen minutes and none of them are coming out from the toilet’s entrance.

When a young woman in a gown comes out I come toward her. “Excuse me,” and I stop her. Her face of fresh make-up but she seems older than me, or maybe it’s her demeanour, so to play it safe I add, “miss.”

And she doesn’t are appreciate that.

The woman rolls her eyes and snorts, “Look, boy. I have enough pick up lines for this week.”

Woah woah, who’re you calling boy? I don’t think I look like a boy unless you’ve had cancer behind your eyes. And I don’t think, ‘excuse me, miss’ is a pick up line.

I begin, “I don’t mean to but,” she has a good figure and pretty face (I say a bit average than normal you can find walking on the street any time,) “I can see why men try to do so.”

“Urg,” is what I get and I figure she doesn’t like it either, not that I’m trying to flirt or hint like I want to fuck or anything but trying to lighten the mood. She gazes at me, “Hmph, the last person who looks at me with those eyes,” she jabs at mine with her long red nails and lowers it down toward my crotch. She continues, “Got his balls crushed by the Silver Lady,” her lips of proud.

Who? Is that some kind of folktale like yukionna or something? Anyway this woman is indeed talkative, maybe I could take advantage of it. I’m good at taking advantage of things.

She spits a laugh as she talks to herself, “That pervert deserves it,” then her eyebrows line up at me, “if you don’t want to have the same fate as him you better have a good reason for stopping a woman around here.”

Well, that’s goddam threatening. If only I had some idea what this Silver Lady was about other than she could crush someone’s balls. I love my balls but I doubt this Silver Lady wants to squeeze them just for the sake of a random woman. And judging by the woman’s admiration tone, this silver lady sounds like a hero–hero only to women, that is.

Maybe this park is actually special. Now that I remember, according to Mei’s story, she was also saved by a silver-haired woman when she barely stepped into the park. And there’s this young woman in front of me, telling the same base story. In this park, all females are safe.

“I’m sure I have a good reason for stopping you and not getting my balls squeezed,” I say.

She crosses her arm, “Let’s hear it.”

I clear my throat and make my tone sound formal, “By any chance…” I swallow my word, “Or maybe not chance, that toilet is not too big so I reckon you have seen three girls in there.”

“Girls?”

“Students, female students,” I clarify in case she needs it.

“Three?”

I show her three fingers, “Three of them.” Good, you’re slowly learning.

Hm, why am I tutoring someone random and outside of the reconcile room? I don’t get paid enough for this–paid with freedom.

The woman takes offence, “I’m not an idiot. Don’t look at me like one.”

Good, “So you saw them?”

“Well, yes. If you’re speaking about Kira and her friend. They were changing their clothes while I was putting my make-up back there. Now that I think about it, I wasn’t surprised as I think I would anymore seeing their weird and suspicious behaviour. Maybe It’s not that unusual anymore because I’ve known them around so it’s whatever..”

My ear twicthes and picks up her words carefully. “Did you use the past tense?”

Her eyes gleam, “I did?” She looks up as if to rewind time to see herself using past tense or not. Soon enough she gives up with a shrug, “like I said, it wasn’t unusual to see them doing weird things–it’s kinda refreshing to see the three being all suspicious actually.”

Oh goddamit, she’s too talkative and somehow only a few information are out and the others are still encrypted. “What did you see?” I ask.

“Hm?” She eyes me suspiciously, “why would I tell you anything about what girls do in a toilet?”

If she had said this at the very beginning, I would stop the conversation already but it has gone this far. “I’m their teacher and the girls promised me to follow me back to school after, well, toilet stuff.”

Her hand flies to her mouth, “their teacher, oh god, I have no idea. I’m very sorry.”

“It’s all right.”

Her face tightened in apologetic, “well, you should think of something now. The girls had climbed out the window to escape.”

Goddamit.

I wouldn’t get disheartened, it’s only natural. People leave sometimes, deal with it.

But not impossible to track down, I tell you what.

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Anyway, here’s a theory that I love.

Source Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse) and a bit spice from me.

Science fiction, comics, fantasy, and religion have all suggested multiple universes, as well as physics, astronomy, philosophy, transpersonal psychology, and music. In these instances, parallel universes are also called “alternate universes”, “quantum universes”, “interpenetrating dimensions”, “parallel universes”, “parallel dimensions”, “parallel worlds”, “parallel realities”, “quantum realities”, “alternate realities”, “alternate timelines”, “alternate dimensions” and “dimensional planes”.

Basically the cool shit like there’s another you somewhere in the universe. I wonder what’s the other me doing now?

Various multiverse theories have been debated in the physics community over the years. Scientists are divided about whether there are any other universes besides the one we live in.

Some physicists say the multiverse is not a legitimate topic of scientific inquiry. Concerns have been raised about whether attempts to exempt the multiverse from experimental verification could erode public confidence in science and ultimately damage the study of fundamental physics. Some have argued that the multiverse is a philosophical notion rather than a scientific hypothesis because it cannot be empirically falsified. The ability to disprove a theory by means of scientific experiment is a critical criterion of the accepted scientific method. Paul Steinhardt has famously argued that no experiment can rule out a theory if the theory provides for all possible outcomes.

Smart people do talk smart things. I just want to know if I’m a woman on the other side of this universe.

In 2007, Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg suggested that if the multiverse existed, “the hope of finding a rational explanation for the precise values of quark masses and other constants of the standard model that we observe in our Big Bang is doomed, for their values would be an accident of the particular part of the multiverse in which we live.”[8]

In his 2003 New York Times opinion piece, “A Brief History of the Multiverse”, author and cosmologist Paul Davies offered a variety of arguments that multiverse theories are non-scientific.

For a start, how is the existence of the other universes to be tested? To be sure, all cosmologists accept that there are some regions of the universe that lie beyond the reach of our telescopes, but somewhere on the slippery slope between that and the idea that there is an infinite number of universes, credibility reaches a limit. As one slips down that slope, more and more must be accepted on faith, and less and less is open to scientific verification. Extreme multiverse explanations are therefore reminiscent of theological discussions. Indeed, invoking an infinity of unseen universes to explain the unusual features of the one we do see is just as ad hoc as invoking an unseen Creator. The multiverse theory may be dressed up in scientific language, but in essence, it requires the same leap of faith.

— Paul Davies, The New York Times, “A Brief History of the Multiverse”

George Ellis, writing in August 2011, provided a criticism of the multiverse, and pointed out that it is not a traditional scientific theory. He accepts that the multiverse is thought to exist far beyond the cosmological horizon. He emphasized that it is theorized to be so far away that it is unlikely any evidence will ever be found. Ellis also explained that some theorists do not believe the lack of empirical testability and falsifiability is a major concern, but he is opposed to that line of thinking:

Many physicists who talk about the multiverse, especially advocates of the string landscape, do not care much about parallel universes per se. For them, objections to the multiverse as a concept are unimportant. Their theories live or die based on internal consistency and, one hopes, eventual laboratory testing.

Ellis says that scientists have proposed the idea of the multiverse as a way of explaining the nature of existence. He points out that it ultimately leaves those questions unresolved because it is a metaphysical issue that cannot be resolved by empirical science. He argues that observational testing is at the core of science and should not be abandoned.

As skeptical as I am, I think the contemplation of the multiverse is an excellent opportunity to reflect on the nature of science and on the ultimate nature of existence: why we are here…. In looking at this concept, we need an open mind, though not too open. It is a delicate path to tread. Parallel universes may or may not exist; the case is unproved. We are going to have to live with that uncertainty. Nothing is wrong with scientifically based philosophical speculation, which is what multiverse proposals are. But we should name it for what it is.

— George Ellis, “Does the Multiverse Really Exist?”, Scientific American. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

I hope it exists, I’d be a good author on the other side I think.