Sasaki-san, that ‘sneering Bastard’ Fujiwara, Tachibana Kyouko and Suou Kuyoh…
Speaking of them, what had happened as of late had become more and more troublesome for a person like me to address. If I were to look at what has transpired in the last month using the same format as Koizumi’s infamous philosophical babbles or that of Sasaki’s Cartesian world view, I will end up questioning as to why be it that there is now a contest between change and constant. Tachibana Kyouko had reduced her argument into a retarded discussion regarding the concept of old, European Conservatism and Laissez-faire Liberalism? Why manifest this in a manner such as Haruhi and Sasaki?
So, if we are to draw parallels to political doctrines… Is the answer neo-progressivism or pragmatism?
The great questions of the day will not be decided by speeches and the resolutions of majorities … but by iron and blood. Apply ‘great question’ to Haruhi’s bizarre power, and the idea of resorting to ‘iron and blood’ becomes very unappetizing, no offense to Bismarck.
I supposed it’s now as good a time as any to read up on this subject matter. Why would I be making parallel such as this when it is clearly Koizumi’s job to explain it to me? Hold on… he’s more or less interested in preaching it in a philosophical manner. The man should really just get himself a soapbox and stand over Hyde Park and try to incite the populace into his cause. I guarantee that he will be scorned by most adults, but he will have a loyal legion of drooling fan girls that will do his bidding, regardless of how lewd those biddings might be. If I dared extend on the subject matter, perhaps the Organization has in fact been using such charm offensives as to obtain unwitting minions in their agendas, which are beyond the scope of my thought.
I wish that I know the one and only universal law, but these arms are far too short to ever reach it. Haruhi could’ve been closer, but her mind is too deranged to get there. I place my faith in Nagato on that subject matter, but the same cannot be said for the Data Integrated Sentient Entity or its rival organization. In truth, this is getting nobody anywhere fast. About the only given in this problem is that Haruhi has done something that screwed everybody up four years ago, and that virtually everyone want something of her for that. If it were just up to me, I would simply say “go right ahead” and be done with it.
“Mikuru-chan, let me look at that script again.”
“Yes, here you go, Suzumiya –san.”
“Kyon, get reading and start being useful.”
Haruhi was apparently talking in the background, disrupting my thought process. The sweet aroma from Asahina-san’s delectable tea soothed me greatly.
I will let my imagination fly and assume that mandate is the obligation to act for greater happiness.
Perhaps, people such as Haruhi are more or less examples of despots. When we hand ‘mandate’ over to somebody like Sasaki, or to the much less level-headed Haruhi, any subsequent fault would lie in the hands of the people, as they merely give up their own onus of responsibility without even knowing it (although SOS Brigade more or less did it through putsch). The issue with dictatorship is that the harms done through policies are all pushed onto the single policy maker, which renders the work of perhaps a hundred capable dictators moot. This may sound like sympathetic to Haruhi, but I am definite that such despot that comes around once in an eon will not outweigh lesser beings fitted with such great shoes, just as Tokugawa Leyasu can’t offset Tokugawa Lemitsu.
Although, in truth, I am not even sure if ordinary people even had the powers to ‘grant mandate’ to begin with.
Koizumi did make one passing comment on shoes.
“Funny thing is that Suzumiya-san’s very position is being contested. It is odd how that the people that are surrounding Suzumiya-san are extraordinary existences, and each shine like the stars of the Milky Way. Could it be that I am born in an era of heroes and geniuses, instead of the era of the mediocre, which I would have fared better perhaps? “
My bias toward Haruhi is obvious, but the more I hang out with her, the more I realize just why Haruhi despises those that stand over the sideline, stressing equality and status quo while asking others to do the dirty work. For her cope with individuals such as I is a pain in retrospect, and to that, I can approve of Haruhi’s aggressiveness in pushing for changes so that the world can become more interesting, in Nagato keeping check on potential impacts, in Asahina-san taking such risks to see the past, and even in Koizumi’s rather
meticulous planning to appease that woman.
I vented enough. I am veering dangerously to the territory of begging for more work. Science is not my strength, nor is theology.
“Kyon, what the hell are you doing!”
So, Suzumiya Haruhi, our overlord, had decided to bark out her ‘degree’. Very well, Your Excellency, how shall I serve you?
“Just thinking about what to say to my parents regarding my lackluster marks.”
Excuses are getting easy for this old dog to come up with on the spot. Something that I’ve learned is that truth is potent. I can reduce having to backtrack if I spell out nonsensical truth as a way to cover my butt, and leave all the thinking to the receiving side. For a person, such as I, who Haruhi plainly stated am a person that ‘cannot even come up with anything original’, trying to overcome that weakness simply would have required far too much time and efforts.
The inquisitive ‘being’ shifts her eyes from left to right. Suzumiya Haruhi’s eyes occasionally seem to have this depth that rivals the very universe, and it glitters similar to the brilliance visible only in a planetarium due largely in part to the pollution in this part of the world.
Those eyes frighten me, since she really has her WMD to back that gaze. That woman was thinking of something right there and then and I can feel the sheer intensity just by staring into those eyes.
Now’s not the time to praise her. One man has said that an individual must never give
prima facie praises, for if the individual is a weakling, she will become egotistical, and should she be a person of integrity, she will alienate you for heaping empty praises. Haruhi has integrity?
“What is going on with you? God. You and your absent-mindedness can be really annoying, you know that? I have the important of developing the recipe to the continuing survival of the SOS Brigade, and I won’t have you absented-mindedly go about and contribute nothing to this cause!”
Asahina-san, Haruhi and I were in the comforts of the Literary Club room. Haruhi was chewing through pencils, quite literally. The very reason is plainly stated by the megalomaniac in a ‘briefing’:
“Like Karl Marx, the SOS Brigade must have a piece that is what
Das Kapital is to
Communist Manifesto.I must make my point on overloading this mundane world with fun clear for posterity!”
Asahina-san, I assure you that Marx did not relate class struggles to lack of fun.
Asahina-san was in the familiar maid costume once again, while Haruhi remained in school uniform, as she waltzed around the club room. The armband indicated that Haruhi was back as ‘the Chief’ and the SOS Brigade was on in full force, despite Koizumi and Nagato being absent.
I have been studying Haruhi’s
Du Mundi vitae pro cras via: methodus pro corporum dum tempore—horologium oscillatorium , cum formulae, which is apparently not named the same way as ‘A Memo on the Formulae for Looking at Tomorrow’ that the proud chief editor of the SOS Brigade decided on when she first published her
thesis. Given the fact that this proved to be the groundbreaking work on time travel (thank you Asahina-san), I decided to be diligent and absorb what little I can out of this work. The second thesis that I was forced to read is titled as “
Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-RosenEntanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through NonlinearTransuranicCrystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array.” Haruhi apparently was very interested with this work, and wanted me to look into trans-uranium elements (which I have no idea how you would get them legally) and to re-modulate ‘something’ as to let her have fun with Aliens, Espers and Time Travelers at their own game.
I no longer question whether or not if Haruhi even comprehends quantum mechanics. I am finding, to my dismay, that any idea Suzumiya Haruhi might hatch up is nondeterministic in nature, making it pointless to pin down.
I have a feeling that Haruhi might actually accelerate the pace of human demise at this moment. Asahina-san had the most dreaded expression on her face over this, and Nagato could only confirm that the two works have something to do with how the Time Travellers were able to do their thing. Do I understand any of this? I rate myself at 5% at best. I am surprised that Asahina-san hasn’t walk up to Haruhi and ask her about the nooks and crannies of the
deus ex machina that is otherwise known as TPDD.
“Out of billions of stars and plenty of rolled-up dimensions, there must be at least one that contains a planet and has some life form, and some being on there must be bored and want to have fun like I do!”
Sliders. Fun, she said.
Haruhi had something up in her sleeve for the very pages dedicated to her musing on sliders.
“Mikuru-chan! Fetch me that graphics tablet!”
“Coming! Please wait for a little bit.”
Asahina-san gracefully walked towards the locker housed in our club room, and bent down in order to grab a professional graphics tablet.
“Just put it on my desk. Kyon! Plug the thing in for me.”
I got up, looked at an inquisitive Asahina-san as the glory of this piece of gadget unfolded before me. This is the first time in my life that I have actually seen a graphics tablet in person. I imagine that this unit would’ve cost a fortune to buy. It goes without saying that Haruhi’s not the one that had to pay for it.
“Careful with that thing! I got it as a gift from Tsuruya-san! She’s always helping us out! We should really host an event in her honor for this gracious donation!”
I could not believe what I had heard.
“Haruhi… you…”
You are only going to bother Tsuruya-san more, Haruhi.
“You did properly thank her… “
“Of course I did.”
Suzumiya Haruhi, making friends and being thankful… did the three ghosts of Christmas visit you?
With the USB connection hooked up, the tablet was on and ready to do Haruhi’s biddings. Suzumiya Haruhi quickly swapped her armband to that of ‘Head Graphics Artist’ and lifted the stylus from its stand in dramatic fashion. Asahina-san was astounded enough to hold her breath while I could somehow picture the very air being sliced in slow motion, as this larger-than-life figure, with her eyes closed, guided that stylus to the top of the pressure board, waiting for the right moment to strike.
Let us not question the rationale behind making such a dramatic scene.
Time suddenly moved at a vehement pace, as Suzumiya Haruhi’s eyes shot open, and the stylus danced across the board, while her free left hand was busy keying in shortcuts to the photo manipulation program. It was clear as day that Haruhi was working on drawing something, whether it’d be yet another mysterious symbol, another beacon into the future, or worse, being another source of future headache.
“Kyon-kun, here you go! Enjoy.”
Asahina-san had stepped more tea. This was one of the greatest enjoyments in life that I can ask for. Asahina-san then moved to Haruhi’s desk, and filled her cup as well.
Haruhi normally would wolf it down, yet this time, she was too focused on her task to pay heed. Seeing Haruhi in form is something that you never truly quite get ‘used’ to. She has an undeniable pull and she can warp the reality just with her speech. Being around a person as dynamic as Haruhi can be toiling I suppose.
“Woah!”
Goosebumps came up with that unannounced cry. Asahina-san got so nervous that she hiccupped.
“This is exactly it! Kyon, Mikuru-chan! Come around, look at this!”
I need to consult Nagato and Koizumi immediately on what exactly Haruhi had concocted. Last time, the issue with the Brigade logo was more than a handful to address.
On the screen, several pictures of what I can only describe as ‘magic circles’ had been drawn up. A highly stylized form of alphabet script was used on the bottom for Haruhi’s annotations.
The sketches of one of the magic circles happen to be comprised of a large circle with circular ring patterns. There is an innermost ring, and in the spacing between it and the second most innermost ring is packed with a string of two overlapping scripts, one in greek alphabet and the other in Haruhi’s annotated stylized alphabet occupies the space. Two overlapping squares contain these two rings, and the two squares are contained in yet another ring. The ring that contains the two squares also has scripts placed between it and a ring that contained everything I have mentioned thus far with one major difference, being that the smaller script formation has capitalized letters over 4 quadrants of the circle, while the larger one emphasizes them with a circle surrounding the capital letters.
The next sketch is a magic formation with a different script, I am guessing perhaps rune. The layout of this formation resembles an equilateral triangle with three endpoints and the center formed by three circles. Each of these circles is connected with each other as well as the center through a path that is formed with two lines with spacing packed with runic scripts. The circle is comprised of 2 rings, with runes forming a ring shape within the confines of the inner ring, and they surround this symbol that I cannot really describe well. The centermost circle however is unique, in that there is a large cross that extends out of the two rings in place of the strange symbols present in all the other rings.
I do not like what I have seen.
“Haruhi, just what are these for? Don’t tell me that they are tests for initiates or something…”
“This is the very summary to section regarding sliders, Kyon.”
Haruhi gave the answer in high spirit. She then quickly finished off the now cold tea, and resumed with her task, leaving a completely dumbfounded Asahina-san and I aside.
My blood ran cold. I can conclude that something has been set in motion, yet I have no idea as to what it might be. Yet before I can get on with damage control-
“And now I'm done.”
That’s all Haruhi said. My heart virtually stopped when this demiurge opened her big mouth back there. So, Suzumiya Haruhi, what have you unleashed onto this very Earth?