Date: Mon, 31 May 2021 10:12:33 +0900 From: STONE Subject: Whale in the mirror land - Chapter 7 (Revised) Fossil sea Newton arrived the dormitory. He stood in jeans and a T-shirt with a rough appearance, and had a big bag in his hand. Yoshida greeted him. Newton looked up at the dormitory. "It's a dirty place than I expected." "Why did you come so late?" Yoshida asked. "I was doing a top secret project. It's over because the election is over." "I was relieved that Bush became president because he was close to Hitler. What is a top secret project?" "I manipulated the voting program to win Bush. That's my top secret job." Newton confessed lightly. "Is that different from crime?" "Of course it's a crime. When I analyzed the situation with my program before the election, I found that Bush lose by a small margin. So I sneaked my virus into the ballot counting program and fixed it. Rest assured that no one will reveal it. By the way, what about Crane? " "Crane now lives with his lover." "Lover?" "It's a 10-year-old boy named Ganymede. He was a former NNN Boy Scout." "What? A 10-year-old boy? Is the law here allowed to have a sexual life with a boy? In the days I was, they were burned at the stake." "It's not forbidden in this Gaia. It's not encouraged, but there's no end to the guys migrating to this Gaia just for that purpose. Because in the real world, it's far from burning at the stake. Far more worse." "Gross" Newton frowned. "It's wrong" "Why?" Yoshida asked. "Crane should have choose me,not that boy" "Oh" "So how did he get the boy from NNN?" "It seems that he attacked and robbed the Boy Scout's dormitory with his friends." "Please keep Newton as far to me as possible." Crane pleaded with Yoshida. "I know. Ganymede must be waiting to marry you. The last revision of the law allowed you to marry a boy. Why don't you have a wedding with Ganymede as early as possible?" "why?" "If you don't do it early, you're likely to have a ceremony with Newton." "Mr. Yoshida, please don't make such a horrible joke. The person listening will be serious. " "I was bad. By the way, what happened to NNN?" "NNN was forcibly dismantled by the government because it is an illegal organization." "Oh" "I heard that there was a Hitler-like tramp in the city. In a cardboard box. Colombo was with him." Nelson arrived the dormitory. "It's a pretty small and beautiful house. How many people live in it?" Nelson asked Yoshida while going to the work room in the basement. "Hi, fu, mii ... there are 10 people in all." "Well, that's it. Isn't it a little small? Oh, is this the work room?" Once inside, Nelson looked around and muttered unintentionally. "---- It's huge" "I and Crane are using , only two." Crane came in a hurry with an apron on his waist. "Welcome, director!" "Hi Crane" Nelson whispered in Crane's ear. "--- Did you kidnap the boy?" "Yes, I attacked and robbed NNN's dormitory." "Oh Oh" "We will get married soon" Crane said with a serious look. Nelson's forehead flicked, and forcibly smiled. "Marriage --- with a boy --- would you show me that boy? I want to see what kind of boy made you feel that." "OK" Crane rushed out of the room. Nelson asked Yoshida. "Yoshida, Crane's head is okay?" "I don't guarantee. I'm sure he's completely in love." "The other person is a boy. He's still 10 years old." "In Gaia, men and women can get married if they are over 10 years old. No parental consent is required. Unlike the real world, this Gaia constitution guarantees that everything is free. Therefore, there is no legal problem." "But what on earth does a man marry a boy? The purpose of marriage is to have children. It's impossible for man and boy to do that." "Of course they can't have children, but they can love each other. They will live together and love each other for the rest of their lives. In this Gaia, boys can be boys forever, so there's no sadness that boys have to grow up and break up." "Hmm, they love each other. That means sex. But where does Crane's penis go in Ganymede?" Yoshida was worried that he didn't really know anything. "There is a place to enter properly. It's a little small. It's usually a place that is tightly closed with strong muscles." Nelson's face cramped while staring at Yoshida. "Maybe over there?" Yoshida nodded. Nelson covered his face with his hands and wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Oh my god, The world is over." "By the way, I also live with a boy. After all, with a 10-year-old boy." "Lee. I know. It's been rumored. Well, I thought it was Lee's unusual hobby, and I've been tolerant until now, but are you guys doing that too?" "Of course we do it every night." Nelson gazed at Yoshida. Ganymede came and snuggled up by Crane. "Oh, You are the boy that captivated Crane. Pretty cute." "Director Nelson I has a request." Crane said hard to say. "What? Say anything." "Would you please be a matchmaker at our wedding?" Nelson's face was squeezed violently. "A matchmaker of ----wedding-with-a-10-year-old-boy --- Do it to me?" "If you don't like it, It's OK" "No, I'm happy to do it. It's probably the first (maybe the last) in human history. It's a great honor." Nelson's face laughed as if it had cramps. Children were gathering in the garage on the first floor and making noise. There was a strange thing in the back. There was a round handrail around the disk with a diameter of about 2M. It was big enough to accommodate several people inside. There were two of the same thing. "What is this?" The children flocked and touched. Some were already inside. There was a small control panel on the railing. "Hmm" Bottom and Ken looked into the control panel and tried to touch it. "What are you doing? You guys" When the children turned around, there was Newton. And next to him, Lee. "What is that?" "We want to know" Newton and Lee scrutinized the object. "This is an operation panel. It's a speedometer and an altimeter on the direction lever. That means it's a simple flying platform." "What's that? Can we play with this?" Asked the children. Newton saw Lee. "Would you like to take a walk?" "Is it okay?" "I don't mind. It's been a good exercise for the first time in a while. Then, you guys, drag this out." The children dragged the two railing discs out of the garage. Newton split the children into two when he went out. Ken, Danny, and Bottom got on Newton's disc. Ganymede and Vergil got on the disc with Lee. "Do you know how to operate it? Lee" Newton asked Lee. "Yeah, maybe. But is it okay?" "I'll go first, so follow me later." Joe appeared walking on the beach. "What? What are you trying to do on such a thing?" "I'm going for a walk with my children" "Is that so" Newton messed with the control panel. The disk suddenly soared into the sky. And it made one turn. "Wow ah!" They heard the children screaming. Newton's too. And it disappeared high in the sky. The children on Lee's disk squeaked their throats. "Let's stop going" "Yeah" Lee inadvertently caught his hand on the control panel as he tried to get off. The disk soared. "Ah ah!" "Good luck. Please come back if you feel like it." Joe said waving forever. The disk on which Lee was riding was finally stable. Desperately clinging to the railing, Vergil and Ganymede looked underneath. There was a blue sea far below. They saw white waves. Newton's disks were fluttering forward. It plummeted toward the surface of the sea. "Oh! That disk has fallen!" "You don't have to say it, but maybe they just get down to sea level." As soon as Lee said so, the disk plunged into the sea. "-------" Then, a disk appeared with a splash of water from the surface of the sea a little ahead. "I'm glad we didn't get on that disk" said Vergil, shaking his head. "I think they are not used to the operation yet." "But even though he said,'Follow me later.'" The disk on which Newton was riding became stable. The two flying disks shortened the distance and ran side by side several meters above sea level. They saw a white object in front of them. It spread all over the horizon. "Is it a sandbar?" "What is sandbar? Is it delicious?" "No that is where sand is accumulated and shallow" Before they knew it, the disk was flying over the white sea. Lee stopped the disk and dropped to just above sea level. It was white sand by all means. The children reached out from the disk and touched the sand. After all it was sand. However, the texture was fine and it sank easily when pushed by hand. "Maybe" Lee looked up and looked far away. As far as he could see, it was a white sea up to the horizon. "Sea of sand ----" An island appeared in front. Newton's disk landed on the shore. Lee's one also landed in the same place later. The island was made of rock. It looked like an ordinary island. There were no trees or plants. It was in the cove that Lee and his friends landed. Newton was tampering with the sea of sand. There was no rough texture of sand grains, and it felt as smooth as water. Newton put a very small grain of sand on his palm. Each grain was a clear grain of sand, but they did not collide. Whether it was coated on something or electromagnetically repelled, the sands were separated from each other at a very short distance. Therefore, friction did not work and it was good to say that it was the fluid itself. "Hmm, dust fluid?" "What's that? What is dust fluid?" Lee asked Newton. "Although the possibility was pointed out, I saw the real thing for the first time. It is a fluid substance placed in a completely anhydrous extreme environment. Individual grains are solid particles, but they have fluid properties as a whole." Lee thrust his hand into the sand. There was almost no resistance. Waves struck around Lee's hands and spread concentrically. "It's really fluid. It's also made of sand." The children jumped into the sea of sand. Virgil dived from his head into the sand. Then he appeared while spitting out the sand. "Are we okay? Doing something like that?" Lee asked. "Because of its high density, it won't sink. I'm just worried--" Newton folded his arms and looked into the distance. "What if there is a shark?" The children's ears stood up,and came in a hurry toward the beach. They decided to walk along the beach. As far as they can see, there is only a murky landscape with only sand and rocks. After a short walk, something was buried in the sand. It was some kind of building. It was almost buried and they had no idea what the building was. "There's another one over there." Bottom pointed. This time it wasn't very buried. However, it seemed to be quite old. It looked like a building made of wood. They came close to it and found it to be an old wooden school building. "It's a school building made of wood. I saw it for the first time." Newton went up close and touched the wall. "?" It felt like a stone, not a tree. The windows were broken and the classroom inside was completely visible. Bottom and Ken broke and jumped in through the gapingly open entrance. Lee and others followed. It was a very primitive classroom. There was a blackboard in front, and there were many wooden desks and chairs. Lee touched the desk and chair. After all it was not a tree but a stone. "It's petrified" "Isaac, what is this room?" Bottom jumped onto the desk and said. "It's an ancient classroom, but it's all like fossils." "Yeah, it's so old that it becomes a fossil." Crane activated the 3D Gaia map. A blue ball with a diameter of 2M floated in front of Yoshidas. A small dot was blinking in it. "I don't know what to do with them. They went out without permission." "The kids are here," Crane pointed to. "It's a small island in the sea. I wonder if they are swimming in the sea." "The sea is the sea, but this is a little bad place." "why?" "Gaia's temporary storage for deleted files, which means that you can temporarily store data you no longer need before deleting it." "Well, was there such a place? Why is it wrong?" "I don't know, but I don't know what's in the deleted data." Crane stared at the flashing point in a anxious manner. Among them was Ganymede. "I see, You are worried," Yoshida secretly thought. "Isaac and Lee are there, so it's okay." When Newtons walked along the coast for a while, there was a half-buried building on the beach. "It looks like it's relatively new. It's not fossilized." "Would you like to take a peek at, Isaac?" The party entered through a small entrance in the front. When Lee touched the wall, it hadn't petrified yet. They heard a voice arguing from somewhere. "Someone is there" When they looked into the room where they heard a voice, there were two men. Both were old gray-haired old men. Lee took a breath to see who they were at a glance. "Lee, do you know who they are?" Newton asked Lee. The two old men stopped arguing and looked at the party. "Hmm, it's rare customers," said a slightly vague face with long white eyebrows. "It's not rare, it's just the first time. Since we came here." Man of rough hair corrected that. "Who are these old men?" The children asked Lee. "Mr. Einstein and Mr. Bohr." "Who it is?" said Bottom. Other children also could't understand at all. "Huh, These two are that famous scientists." Newton stared at them. Lee approached the old men and extended his hand. "I'm Lee. I'm glad to see you." The two shook hands with Lee. Then he turned to Newton. "So what about you?" "Newton, Isaac Newton," Lee introduced him. Einstein dropped the pipe that he was sucking. Bohr dropped his dentures. The two hurriedly took the notebook out of their pockets and presented it to Newton. "Please sign" "Me too" "yep, OK" Newton signed them. "Why are you both in such a place?" Lee asked. "I have no idea. I should have died, but when I noticed I was here. I don't know where this is. Fortunately, I had the same companion, so I'm discussing the problem every day." Einstein said so. "Hey, discussion, sounds interesting. What is it?" There was a box figure on the desk in front of them. "Oh, maybe the problem of the photon box?" "Not. This is a mailbox." "It's a place where we are discussing what shape the mail box to put in front of the building should be." "Which do you prefer?" Bohr asked Lee. Lee compared the two figures. Both looked exactly the same. "Hmm, what's the difference?" "This one contains 54 letters and 66 postcards." Einstein "I have a structure that can hold 55 postcards and 56 letters, considering the case of postcards. Of course, this should be good." Lee and Newton looked at each other. "It's decided that you shouldn't put it in special cases like postcards." "You are wrong. Measures for exceptions are decided as necessary." The two glared face to face. Newton and Lee went in because they were about to grab each other. "Let's listen to Mr. Dirac's opinion," Bohr said. "Well, is there that Dirac?" Lee opened his eyes. A party walked down the corridor after the two. Then they entered one room. A man with a neat face with a mustache was sitting at a desk reading a book. When the party came in, he raised his face. "Hi Paul, let me know what you think." Bohr said so and showed him the picture of the box. "It's a mail box. This is good." "Yeah," Dirac nodded. "What about this?" Einstein showed him a picture of his box. "Yup" "---- Which is better? "Both" Dirac said so and looked back at the book. Einstein and Bohr sighed. "Let's hear Ervine's opinion." "Maybe Ervine?" Lee asked. "Mr. Schrödinger," Bohr said. "Wow!" "Who is that?" Vergil said boringly. When they opened the door of the room, someone was sleeping in bed. It was Schrodinger. When he saw the party coming into the room, he coughed in his bed cloths. "What? I'm sorry, but I have a cold." "It's an important story. Mr. Schrödinger. What shape of mail box will you put in front of this building? In some cases, there is a possibility that even one letter will not come. That's why Mr. Schrödinger." Bohr said so and pulled off Schrödinger's bed cloths. "I would like to hear your opinion on which of these designs is better. Mr. Schrödinger." Bohr thrust a piece of paper in front of Schrodinger. "---- Both look the same." "That's not the case. Mr. Schrödinger. Take a closer look." With that said, Bohr picked up Schrodinger and swung around. "Oh! I feel giddy!" "Can you see better?" "I can't see well ----" "Please be firm, Mr. Schrödinger, my design is better. You have to admit this." Bohr said so and slammed him head-on into the bed with Schrodinger in his arms. "Help!" Schrödinger screamed. Bohr held Schrödinger on his back against the bed, grabbed his feet and put his feet on his crotch. Then, electric massage was applied. "You must! You must! You must admit this!" "Ah ah ah!" "Next" Bohr and Einstein went further down the aisle. "Who is this time?" Lee asked. "This is our last judge. Wolfgang," Einstein said. "Eh! That Pauli!" Exclaimed Lee. "Who is that?" Bottom said sleepy. "Is it delicious?" Vergil asked. When they entered the room, a fat man was sitting. "What are you guys?" Pauli stood up and approached Newton. Then he put his hand on his chin, looked up at Newton's face, and slowly circled around him. "Maybe you are Isaac Newton?" "Yes, do you want my sign too?" "Haha, I've signed ever, but I haven't received it yet." "Oh, that" Pauli took off his coat. Then he turned his back to Newton. "Write on this shirt" "OK" Bohr and Einstein sighed. "Good way" The two showed Pauli a picture of the mailbox in question. "which is better?" Pauli picked up two sheets of paper and compared them. Suddenly he fell down on his desk. And moaned sadly. "Sorrowful. Your answers are not even wrong." "why?" "In the first place, this mail box is installed in front of the building ----" "Install?" Pauli suddenly stood up. "Do you think there is someone who brings mail so far? you guys!" Bohr and Einstein hugged each other and shrank. "You fools!" Pauli chased the two with an umbrella at hand. Suddenly the building shook. A number of plasters have fallen off the ceiling. "Everyone, let's get out" Newton and Lee hurried out of the building with other boys. It was already dark. When Lee looked back, the building was still shaking. And it was gradually buried in the sand. "What the hell was that?" Lee turned around and ran with others to flying disks on the beach. When Lee looked up, a black shadow slowly came down from the sky. Yoshida and his friends couldn't wait and came by whale to pick up boys.