Prologue (part 2)

Given how everything that Bart said to this point rested on the border of fairy tale and ridiculous novel, I had no mental capacity to judge how logic his words appeared to be. But without any attempts to place his story in the frames of my own common sense, it appeared as if what he said actually was right on the point!

"That leads us to the question you asked me before, where I couldn't reveal who I am in order to keep this world running in the way it should. The world that you descended to thanks to the technology… Wasn't virtual at all. Or rather, while parts of it were created thanks to the technology… Did you really believe that human technology is capable of transferring one's consciousness into a virtual system? Into a machine?"

Looking at me with a ridiculing smile, Bart suddenly switched our position. Right now, he appeared as if he was the rational one between the two of us, dropping hits of reality right against me!