Wait, What You Mean I Got Reincarnated As A Heroine In Another World? Chapter 41 - 32 - Entanglement

"Hm..."

Selene’s brows furrowed, eyes narrowing in sharp thought, as though trying to decipher a paradox only she could see. For a mont, I believed she was seriously considering the best answer to the maddening phenonon we’d both witnessed.

"I still have got no idea."

Oh, you’ve got to be f*cking kidding .

No no no, she’s actually ssing with right now. What the actual f*ck, Selene!?

"Be honest, Selene. Seriously. What is holding you back from telling ?"

She leaned in all of a sudden, our proximity collapsing into a breath.

Her voice dropped to a whisper.

"Do you know how difficult it is to control the Void Rifter?"

Oh, so she’d thought two steps ahead—as usual.

That explains everything. Never mind, I didn’t get it.

"I couldn’t care less," I snapped. "Just explain it to now."

"Fair enough," she said, like soone conceding a ga she’d already won.

"Well, if mory is truly defined by your awareness, and consciousness is actually just an illusion—"

"Okay, stop right there. What the hell do you an by ’consciousness as an illusion’?"

This was already bizarre enough—consciousness, the very thing that makes us us, the unshakable bedrock, structure, of what it ans to be human. Take that away and you’ve reduced us to at puppets.

Empty vessels.

Void souls.

"Let ask you a simple question."

She said instead, like a teacher leading a student into making a mistake.

"Who are you, Kairi?"

Oh.

Ah, I see where this is going.

It all clicked. That cursed rhetorical bait.

And still, I fell for it once more.

"So you’re suggesting that consciousness is rely the illusion of possessing identity?"

"Exactly. Think about it. Suppose your so-called consciousness gets duplicated into another vessel—different space, different ti—and we compress your mories and insert them into that vessel..."

"Will that copy still be you?"

Ah yes, the ship of Theseus problem.

It is where you created new parts to replace the other parts, then still called it the sa thing when it already was changed by the whole structure.

"Well, more or less, that’s precisely the way quantum entanglent works."

"And what is it?"

Okay, how to explain it to her like a 5 years old?

Alright, screw it. Let’s go with the actual definition and textbook.

"It is where the particles of information are tied to each other but instead of being actually separated from each other, these information are shared and therefore affect each other."

"Hm, I see..." She murmured, appeared to ponder the explanation.

"I don’t understand. Could you explain it to as if I were a 5 years old?"

Okay, this girl. I swear to God, she is ssing with right now!

I could not be mistaken.

She definitely wanted to make fun of by asking this question.

"Okay, Selene my love."

"Yes yes, Kairi my dear. Explain it to ."

She tilted her head, cocking slightly.

No way... my Selene cannot be this cute!

No, stop. Wake up, Kairi. You hate her. That’s it.

Not only she sat down like an obedient child, she then also ’shrunk’ her body...

Using Alchemistry.

Seriously, the budget of this scene would be enormous if it were to be animated.

Not that it’ll ever happen. h. As if.

I sighed. And yes, heavily.

Hence so I explained quantum entanglent... to a five-years-old. Literally.

"Okay so... let’s imagine I have a lot of books in my head — it contains my thoughts, mories, and feelings. Now, imagine that you sohow copy those books and put them into another Kairi sowhere far away, let’s just say it’s an alien Kairi."

"Now, here’s the most important part: When this Kairi opens a page and reads one of them, BOOM! A miracle happens. And do you know what it is? Magic, the alien Kairi’s book will also flip to the sa page instantly. Incredible. Even if she’s on the other side of the world — or in a different universe. We never sent the page. We never called her either. But sohow, we’re still connected. We’re like two books talk without words."

"That’s kind of like what quantum entanglent is. It’s not about wires or voices. It’s like my thoughts are still linked to the other , no matter how far apart we are. And the mont I rember sothing here, she rembers too — instantly."

"So, no echoes or anything, Kairi my big sis?"

Okay, now you pulled that act too literally.

And for f*ck sakes, she’s fully committing to the bit.

I tried to avoid looking at her directly. No, I resisted myself in doing so.

"No, no echoes. Just a quantum teleportation that ends up being entangled instantly."

"Hm, I see...."

Her tiny hands propped her chin, then sooner she transford back to normal.

"That was a fair reasoning, I suppose."

And going back to the ideal picture I made of "Selene" I used to know.

Calculated, refined, elegant, modest, pretty. What ever.

It seed that I have had missed an opportunity to do sothing ’cruel’ on her.

"And what would that be, to be precise?"

"No, definitely not your business."

"Right, now let’s get back to the topic. How does your Void Rifter work and what can you delve from this explanation then?"

"Hm... so, are you saying that if your mory gets transferred it will cause any other mory to behave as if they share an equal state?"

"Exactly."

"I see. I have no idea how advanced your world is, but that doesn’t seem accurate."

"What do you an?"

"At least, you got the gist using that quantum entanglent theory: It’s a direct cause and effect due to a spooky action of an elent from another part of the world. But what actually happens here is that..."

"It is impossible for the exact sa mory to share the equal state."

Eh?

Hehhhh?!

"Hold on, why not? Aren’t they the exact sa thing?"

"Because, just think about the mory on itself. Have you ever considered that, since it is defined by awareness and consciousness being the illusion of the said awareness..."

"Your mory will have its information reduced by the ti it arrives, as a remnant?"