Mr. Melancholy Wants To Live A Peaceful Life

EXTRA 3 - WORLD LAW

...calculating, error, delete; repeat, calculating, error, delete; repeat, calculating, error, delete...

The world law had no emotions. In human terms, It could be understood as a supercomputer beyond human imagination. It was always performing calculations, computing each moment of the future.

According to the law's calculations, Its world could continue to function for a long, long time, so long that even It was unable to determine how long. In Its regular calculations, It went day by day without stopping.

But all of a sudden, one day—a flaw, a flaw, a flaw!

Intruder, intruder, intruder!

A life form from an unknown world had entered the world. He was untouched by this world's law. He was controlled by some other fearfully powerful being. There was a fault in the world law's calculations. For a time, Its whole calculation system crashed entirely. It was unable to anticipate what would happen next.

The data was in chaos. It couldn't compute. It couldn't operate properly. All of the world law's rules were on the point of collapse. It was forced to deploy emergency provisions. While preserving Its calculations as much as possible, It input a portion of Its calculating ability in miniature into the world.

Searching, searching, searching... Searching for a way to repair the flaw. Searching for a way to delete the virus.

The world law quietly observed the human world. It saw a certain living body within Its law. This body was glowing with radiance, leading countless ordinary people to do battle with the intruder.

—Unknown radiance, unknown data, measurement and calculation required.

—No time to calculate. Activate emergency backup measure?

—Unable to forecast outcome of emergency backup measure.

—Activate emergency backup measure?

—Activate.

The world law's countless rules asked and answered each other. Within a few short seconds, It decided on a plan to eliminate the virus. It activated the emergency backup measure. The emergency backup measure was to copy the intruder. The powerful being behind the intruder activated the latent potential of a certain living body, entrusted that body with power, and ordered it to invade the world. The world law decided to copy this plan, activate the latent potential of living bodies with Its law and entrust them with power, giving them the ability to eliminate the virus.

The scope of the world law's rules didn't target a certain individual. It targeted a certain group defined by rules. Once the rules were established, individuals who matched the requirements would have their latent ability activated. Whether the ability awoke sooner or later was only a question of time.

Activating the latent potential of these living bodies was a very dangerous thing for the world law. Once living bodies had the power to control the rules, there was the possibility that they might revolt against the law.

But because of the threat, the world law didn't hesitate too long. According to the outcome of its calculations, It activated the latent potential of those people with the unknown radiance. The people with activated abilities eliminated the virus. The world was temporarily safe. It began to repair Its flaws, and It secretly observed and analyzed that mysterious radiance.

Analysis failed, unable to comprehend. Deleted the failed data, analyze once more... It went around and around. The world law didn't stint to go to the trouble of calculating. But It still couldn't analyze the essence of that radiance.