When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 11 [Complete] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 5: Sagamicizm of the Countless Genres

I think I’ve driven this point in more than firmly enough already, but just for good measure: everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, builds up a variety of personas for themselves. Everyone’s personalities shift depending on where they are or who they’re with. Everyone acts out the character they believe others want them to be, or the character they themselves wish they were.

Take Natsu Aki. Her ability to construct characters to embody was rather exceptional. The personalities she displayed at school and in the world of supernatural battles were impressively distinct, and it seemed plausible that she had even more of them filed away that I just wasn’t aware of. She constructed personas on a place to place basis, and I believe the same is true of most people. As they go from gathering place to gathering place—from school, to home, to their club, to a nightclub, to cram school, to the company they work at—their personalities shift to match their current environment.

If I were to probe that train of logic further, however—if I were to take it to something of an extreme—I would say that it goes even deeper than a question of place, and that people shift personas based on who they’re interacting with as well. Even in a single group, like one’s family, some people play the perfectly obedient child with their mother and the rebellious little punk with their father. Even in the same classroom, someone could be the incessant motormouth to their peers while also being the taciturn honor student to their teacher.

Consciously or unconsciously, like it or not, people’s personalities shift depending on who they’re with. I don’t think it would be too much of a stretch to say that we have a single, dedicated persona in stock for every person we interact with...and the ultimate embodiment of that natural human tendency taken to its absolute logical extreme was the girl named Yusano Genre.

She was the apex of persona construction. After all, she made new ones for herself in a very literal sense. While normal people simply acted out their various internal characters, she brought them into being as actual, distinct personalities...

“We meet again, onlooker.”

...and when I found myself face to face with her, I hesitated. Who, exactly, was I speaking with? Given her remarkably unconventional appearance—recently, she’d been wearing one of those vividly pink nurses’ uniforms that you didn’t even see in eroge anymore, along with an also pink tracksuit jacket—you’d think I’d know who she was at a glance, but in her case...or rather, in their case, I had to work by rather different standards.

Which personality am I dealing with this time? I wondered. That said, my hesitation only lasted for a moment, as one look at her expression was all it took to clear things up for me. Her emotionless, empty gaze and the ever so faint curve to her lips was a dead giveaway. As far as I knew, only one of her

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