Chapter 169: The Tale of Insane Scientist Hououin Kyouma! (II)
Words appeared over the pages, some unknown fingers banging against the keys of a keyboard.
The tale started with Okabe's first meeting with the main-female character, Makise Kurisu, and then finding her dead in her own pool of blood. He then sent a text about it to his friend Itaru, the hacker, immediately after which, all the people around him disappeared. It was the first instance of Time Travel.
The tale then proceeded to Makise Kurisu joining Okabe's lab, and their subsequent finding of the time machine, a phonewave-operated microwave oven. Then they started doing experiments with D-mail, sending text messages in the past. It also mentioned him later bringing a rare PC named IBN 5100 to the lab to hack into SERN, a powerful organization, and finding that SERN experimented with time machines, using humans, in a program called Z-program.
The tale hadn't ended even there.
It proceeded to mention Okabe's experiments with the D-mail. He found that they only worked between 10 am to 6 pm. These text messages affected the past, altering the present, and only he remembered the change, as other members' memories were altered to fit the new timeline. He decided to call that ability Reading Steiner.
Abruptness was the nature of the Tales of Beedle the bard.
The tale had ended like a waterfall falling off a cliff but never reaching the bottom.
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Story: The tale of insane scientist Hououin Kyouma
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