Chapter 294: Vol4 Ch19: The Inexistent World
Translator: La0o9
The SCR Foundation might not be the only anomaly containnt organization in this world, but they were certainly the oldest, and most powerful.
They had been passing their batons down since aged-old history, containing nurous anomalies in the process. A portion of these anomalies were studied and understood thus becoming mundane, after which more anomalies were then contained.
A lot of the E5 council mbers didn’t even know what S-1-1 was, as such, for the longest ti, the oldest and most powerful anomaly they had contained was S-1-2, [REDACTED].
S-1-2 was an anomaly that existed in nonexistence. Essentially, it was sothing that didn’t exist in this world.
For that reason, each ti S-1-2 was used, sothing that had never existed in this world would co into existence, thus causing a change in the world’s tiline.
Within the SCR Foundation’s records, they had only managed to stop this change in the world’s tiline a total of three tis, one of which was only a partial success, as it left a certain religion to prosper in this world.
But before these three tis, the world’s tiline had been altered an unknown number of tis, the traces of which could only be found from certain anomalies.
For example, the Devil Goat seed to have been the product of one of these tiline alterations, while S-1-2 itself had clearly pointed out that it had caused a tiline alteration a total of 21 tis. Due to this, S-1-2 was officially designated the Nonexistent 22nd [REDACTED].
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The original form of the world is a complete mystery now. Perhaps an anomaly that represents its existence still exists, or perhaps such a thing has also been erased as well.
Standing in front of a containnt chamber, the tall and burly director of Site S1 was carrying a black box as his thoughts wandered outside of his mind.
In another tiline, he might have been a Lizardman, a destitute beggar, a D-class personnel, or any one of the infinite possible ‘what ifs’; but it was now impossible to observe how the previous tilines used to be, they only draw inferences from various anomalies related to them.
After accepting a series of 42 passwords, the door to S-1-2’s containnt chamber was opened, revealing ‘nothing’ inside, because the 22nd [REDACTED] didn’t exist on this world, it was the embodint of the Inexistent World.
Having drunk a unique serum, the director of Site S1’s thoughts continued to wander, as this was part of the necessary preparation to obtain the 22nd [REDACTED].
A tiline alteration is an occurrence when a new reality replaces the previous one; and whenever this occurred, the previous tiline could sotis leave behind representations of their existence. So of these representative anomalies could even trigger another tiline alteration and lead to the re-ergence of a previous tiline.
For example, the demoted B-6-13: Lizardman’s Head. When it was still an A-class anomaly, during a containnt breach, it created a small-scale tiline alteration that introduced the Lizardn that only existed in a previous tiline back into this world.
There were very few of them, but their technology used to be more advanced than what was available to humans even now. Furthermore, due to the tiline alteration, a certain portion of humans had beco a Lizardman and human hybrid. The Lizardn then took control over the hybrids, established a mutual aid organization, then attempted to take control over human society through economical ans.
Their goal was to make humans kill off one another, cause a drastic decrease in the human population, then finally enslave this world and force it to undergo another tiline alteration, reproducing the Lizardn tiline.
It was the harshest re-containnt operation that the SCR Foundation had to conduct, both of the World Wars were related to this single containnt breach. Through economical manipulation, they managed to put the few Lizardn they had onto the positions of country leaders, many historical figures were actually Lizardn in disguise, and even the SCR Foundation was infiltrated by a large number of Lizardman hybrids.
In the final month of 1999, the Lizardn’s plan had almost reached fruition, a majority of the world’s countries had fallen under their control, the third World War was right around the horizon, the clueless humanity would have destroyed itself and handed the seat of the world’s dominant species over to the Lizardn.
Fortunately, the Lizardn’s plan was discovered, and the SCR Foundation resorted to the drastic asure of using S-1-4: The Extinct Species Records to eradicate every Lizardman in existence, thus preventing their plan. Regretfully, S-1-4 was very similar to the Death Note in that it required very detailed information being written about its target in order to activate, otherwise, the SCR Foundation would have already used S-1-4 to bring Negary to extinction.
At the sa ti, that activation of S-1-4 caused the Lizardn representing anomaly, the Lizardman’s Head, to lose its ability to alter the tiline; it was now only capable of creating mindless reptilian monsters, which was why its rating was decreased to B-6-13.
Naturally, there were very few tilines that were the sa as the Lizardman tiline. The majority of them had already been thoroughly destroyed, leaving bits and pieces of remnants that gradually sank to the bottom. The remnants of all the previous tilines had gathered in one place, becoming the other side of this world’s coin, the so-called Inexistent World.
The 22nd [REDACTED] was the representation of the Inexistent World, which was why it existed as an object that didn’t exist in this world.
At this point, quite a few anomalies had slipped from the Inexistent World into this world through the 22nd [REDACTED], like the two C-class anomalies C-4-27: Ashy Granny and C-4-32: Vampire Flag.
The 22nd [REDACTED] was a top-secret among top secrets, and so was the Inexistent World. In fact, the number of people who knew about the Inexistent world could be counted with both hands, with the director of Site S1 being one of them.
Information regarding the Inexistent World continued to spread following his wandering thoughts, which finally caused an irregular reaction from the space within the containnt chamber. The Inexistent World was a space created from the piled-up remains of previous tilines, but since these remains weren’t supposed to exist after the tiline had been altered, the people of this world were unable to perceive the Inexistent World’s existence. Not even S-2-5: Omniscient Eye, who was connected to the Akashic Records of this world, contained any description of the Inexistent World.
To obtain the 22nd [REDACTED], one must have information regarding the Inexistent World, but since this world couldn’t possibly observe the existence of the Inexistent World, how this information ca into existence in the first place was a mystery. So had said that it might be related to S-1-1, but not even the mbers of the E5 council, the highest authority of the SCR Foundation, were really clear about what S-1-1 was, since there wasn’t a single scrap of information regarding its existence except for its codena.
A large volu of indescribable ‘sothing’ was moving within the containnt chamber. The outline of what appeared to be a claymore appeared in the middle of the room, hovering between the fine line of existing and not existing. At this point, Site S1’s director had already closed his eyes to not observe this claymore, otherwise, the simple act of looking at the claymore’s outline would have caused him to shed tears.
As it embodied all failed and fallen tilines, it also contained the sorrow and grudge of each tiline’s innurable beings, so whenever the 22nd [REDACTED] manifested in this world, the sorrow it contained would move every individual who laid eyes on it.
Suppressing his own sorrow while continuing to let his thoughts wander, Site S1’s director put the black box he was carrying down.
A-1-3: Schrödinger’s Black Box. Whenever an item was put into it, it would be in both states of existing and not existing. The object would either co out as existing or remain non-existent inside the box.
Since the 22nd [REDACTED] definitively did not exist, once it was put into A-1-3, it could only co out as ‘existing’.
Once again picking up the black box, Site S1’s director wiped the shaful tears off this face. Even though he had tried to endure and only touched the outline very briefly, the infinite sorrow coming from the destroyed tilines still caused him to unconsciously shed his tears.
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