329 Be happy

"I do, and perhaps it's because of that belief. I could never truly get close to anyone."

Eh?

"This is the last part of the business."

Oh!

Soujiro continues. "The bacterial disease caused a change in those who were able to wake up from their comas. The patients then saw a dramatic increase in both their intelligence and physical strength. They remembered everything they had seen once as if they had taken a photograph of it. And they would never forget it. But some of these new humans had discovered something else as well.

A certain kind of 'noise,' something felt for a mere instant and gone the next. Something out of place. Entities appearing in the gaps between reality and illusion, where no one would think to look. Higher intellects who resemble humans pretend to be human and, in doing so, rule humanity. "