⚪️Project Work | Future Person
Drinking rainwater is not good.
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"Rainwater is no good," said the future person from the vintage clothing store.
It is not just that it is discouraged; it is extremely unhygienic, and in some cases, one could say it is even life-threatening.
Wait, what is a future person from a vintage clothing store?
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A future person is in trouble because they cannot return to the future.
Because phone booths have disappeared. Yes. Public phone booths. Those were time machines.
The porting of time machine functions to smartphones is not progressing as expected, and it seems the number of future people stranded here is increasing.
Major media outlets (always, without fail) never report on things like this.
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It is an evening shower.
Weakly acidic rain is falling.
Don't drink it before filtering it.
Everyone. Evacuate to the underground mall.
This way, this way.
Yes. This is my vintage clothing store.
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The vintage clothes of future people are super new.
They are made of new materials that I have never seen or heard of.
For example, fabric that enables body temperature regulation by incorporating nanotechnology devices that collect cosmic rays, convert them into energy, and reuse them.
However, whether the newness of these vintage clothes lies in the "fabric" or the "device"—well, it is probably both—it is not easy to grasp accurately (that is, conceptually). Perhaps that is exactly what the newness is.
Just kidding.
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A complicated guy!
That is usually a future person.
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Of course, I am aware of that myself. Thanks to that, future people do not get along with each other.
However, it is also true that there are parts that cannot be measured simply by whether we get along or not—sometimes it seems like we are in sync but somehow not, or it seems like we are completely at odds but actually perfectly aligned.
Very rarely, though it is a truly rare thing, there are times when I envy you past people. Truly, just occasionally.
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Future people can be divided into two types.
Future people who want to go back, and future people who do not want to go back.
This can also be rephrased as "travelers" or "settlers," but there is no better term to describe the characteristics of future people who want to go back than this "traveler" label. They are all pointlessly poetic.
On the other hand, "future people who do not want to go back" are realists. They work diligently, save money, or invest, and intend to be buried in this era.
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Although we future people may appear to be thoroughly individualistic (or selfish), there are surprising commonalities, or rather, many parts where we can empathize with each other.
One is that we hate rain. Unlike you past people, we never drink rainwater. How can you guys drink that stuff? You should stop.
And another thing. We value sleep very much. Because our sleeping posture is just a little bit bad. From the time we fall asleep until we wake up, we generally rotate a full circle. A full turn, I suppose. It is not just tossing and turning, you know?
Centering around the waist, like a magnetic needle, we rotate—well, usually one full circle per night. That is why we need a very wide bed or futon.
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I found out that the best-selling product among future people this year is a "ring pillow."
It is not for placing rings on. It is a ring-shaped pillow with a diameter of 200cm. This sold very well. To travelers, and of course, to settlers as well.
This ring pillow is product-named "Wa! Fluffy!"
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Even so, why are future people convinced that we modern people drink rainwater? That is the greatest mystery.
(The End)
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Wa! Fluffy!