The Girl Who Leapt Through Time by Tsutsui Yasutaka

Author:Tsutsui, Yasutaka [Tsutsui, Yasutaka]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Publisher: Alma Books
Published: 2011-06-06T05:00:00+00:00

AN UNEXPECTED CONFESSION

Kazuo was born in 2649. Just like the other children he spoke about, he was educated with the sleep tapes from the age of three and entered university to study pharmaceuticals at the age of eleven. Right around that time, a great number of new chemicals were being developed, some of them designed to stimulate and bring out latent abilities in humans. It had already been scientifically proved that humans could develop physical, telekinetic and psychological powers, and so the last challenge remaining for scientists was to find a way to fulfil such potential.

At university, Kazuo was involved in research relating to teleportation by free will. He’d been limited by his university to carry out experiments only at a safe level, but being as bright as he was, Kazuo soon began formulating a whole range of new experiments. One of the areas he’d started to work on was the combination of teleportation and time-leaping, or to put it more simply, the ability to transport oneself instantly to another place and another time. Kazuo felt sure this could be done. He knew that the stimulants for teleportation had already been developed, and that time travel was already possible. All he needed to do was to find a way to incorporate all such capabilities in one stimulant.

After considerable experimentation, Kazuo found that by adding essence of lavender to the stimulant used for teleportation – known as Crox Zilvius – he could achieve the desired effect. And after many more trials and errors, he finally managed to blend exactly the chemical he needed.

All he needed to do then was to run an experiment to test the effect, which he decided to do himself in secret.

“That experiment was a big failure,” said Kazuo, scratching his head and laughing.

“You could leap across time. But when you wanted to leap back, you couldn’t. Is that right?” asked Kazuko.

“That’s right,” nodded Kazuo. “I didn’t know how effective the potion was going to be, so I drank a small amount. I was able to come here, into the past, but the potion was too weak to get me back to the future.”

“You should have brought the potion with you.”

“Yeah. I did think of that, and had it ready, but I forgot to bring it.”

“For someone so advanced, it’s quite surprising to see you still have a scatterbrain side.”

“That’s not it,” answered Kazuo with reddened cheeks. “I was thinking about which time to travel to, since I wanted a fairly peaceful time. But as soon as I thought of one, my mind initiated the time leap and I wasn’t holding the stimulant at the time.”

“So that’s why you became a student of this school, and that’s why you sneaked into the science lab?”

“That’s right. But then you walked in, surprised me and made me knock it over! Luckily, you didn’t drink the stimulant. But you did smell it, so it gave you powers to teleport and to time-leap, but in a limited manner.”

“Does that mean my powers will fade away with time?”

“That’s right, so you don’t have to worry so much.

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