CH : 31 Unexpected Change

31 Unexpected Change

Henry then went into the room and saw the room was completely different from what he can remember. Last time he came here was 2 months ago and now he can barely recognize it. Now the room is full of various books, papers and there are 2 computers on the corner.

Then he saw a young woman with black ethnicity Susan mentioned. She looked like the usual young woman in a developing state if one must say she looked quite an attractive lady with African American ethnic speciality. She is now typing on the computer, so Henry just gazed at her. Then Susan quickly approached her and whispered in her ear.

The African American woman then quickly turned around and saw a man. She knew this man is the famous learning Devil Susan's boyfriend, Henry William. She was surprised by the fact that he can enter the girl's dormitory, as she never heard something like this. She saw him approach her and held his hand.

"Hello, my name is Henry William the boyfriend of Susan, you can call me Henry."

She rose swiftly from her seat, extending her hand to Henry with a warm smile. "Hello, Mr. Henry," she greeted him. "I've heard a lot about you, not just from my friend but from all of Harvard. My name is Condoleezza Rice. I'm Susan's dorm mate and best friend, and you can just call me Rice."

Henry felt familiar when he heard the name of Condoleezza Rice, but he just couldn't put it in the right place. If someone in this era can be remembered by him, they must be someone who is either famous or he personally knew. But he sure doesn't know about this girl, so she must be someone that famous in the future.

But now is not the time to think about that so he just put her identity issues in the corner of his mind. As this is the first time Henry met with Rice, Susan felt she should introduce Rice to him. Then Henry, Susan, and Rice went to the small living room and sat there.

Then Henry learned that Rice now is studying at Harvard Kennedy School which means she is studying politics. He was surprised as most black people in this era, especially the woman, usually never study politics. As most African Americans are very discriminated against in this era, but winds were channing and it is already better-compared to the 1950s.

He then found that Rice was born in Alabama but then her family moved into Boston in 1969 due to the racial segregation that is so severe in the south, especially Alabama. So her family decided to move out to the north where the racism not so severe and finally settle in Boston.

Hearing that her family moved out due to racism in the South, Henry asked something that was in his mind, "If you move out to the North to evade racism, then why are you studying politics? I hope you are aware that the black people are very discriminated against, so if you want to be involved in politics, that would be a very hard challenge especially if you are a woman."

Rice immediately answered Henry's question, "I know that if the black people want to be involved in politics, it would be hard. But since the first black woman accepted into the Congress in 1968, I know the chance has already opened. That woman is Shirley Chrisholm, and since I heard a speech from her, I know it's time for the black especially the women, to speak for themselves." Rice explains with a passionate tone.

Henry just nodded while thinking as he was sure Rice is someone who is famous in the future. But now with a limited clue, Henry can't determine who she is. So Henry continued to ask many things from her.

Henry learned that Rice joined an organization called National Black Feminist Organization founded by Shirley Chrisholm last year. Henry became more confused as he was sure he never heard a black woman with the name of Condoleezza Rice with the characteristic described by her.

But as she was familiar to him, it means she must be someone famous in the future. Then he continued to ask various questions about her to get more clues. Susan just kept silent on Henry's side as she didn't want to intervene in his business.

As Rice explained many things about herself, Henry's mind finally became more clear about who she is. But as he became more clear about who she is, the more he became confused as she shouldn't have the characteristic described by herself now.

But suddenly Henry got a revelation, would this be a Butterfly Effect caused by his existence? Henry is not sure about this as many things still don't change to what he knew this was a parallel universe.

This was definitely a Parallel Universe. Even though he has not specially studied about the parallel universe and stuff related, his intelligence now can basically guess many things that he didn't know before.

So he can't be sure what has changed caused by this. But he knows how he has changed the wheel of history by creating many things in advance like the novel, Microsoft, Apple, and Atari. This means the butterfly has begun to start the moment he writes Devotion of Suspect X and Fellowship of the Ring.

Henry's existence itself could cause some change in history like Condoleeza Rice. Henry is sure Condoleezza Rice is a future American political scientist and diplomat. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush.

Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African-American Secretary of State (after Colin Powell), and the second female Secretary of State (after Madeleine Albright). Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position.

But to what Henry knows, Rice shouldn't be here now. She should be studying at Denver University in Colorado now. But now proving she is studying at Harvard Kennedy School means something has changed. Henry was not sure what more changes that already happened, but he would face it when they happen.

But the discovery of this thing still shocked Henry as he never expected to encounter a snowball effect so soon. He is curious what has changed.

Now that the butterfly effect has already started, it means the future he knew would be partially wrong as something has changed. But he was sure the general direction would not be changed yet, only some small things have changed like Rice.

Henry then chatted with Rice for 2 hours about politics before stopping as now is the time for dinner. Now that he already can determine who Rice is, he wanted to make Rice one of his 'pawns' in politics. Rice would be an excellent candidate to be his 'pawn' in politics as her mind is adept and flexible enough. If not because of that, she would not become the first black woman to occupy the Secretary of States seat.

Perhaps if she demonstrated sufficient capability, determination, and loyalty, he could fully support her for the position of President. If his "pawn" were in the White House, it would be advantageous.