1 Prologue
This is me. My avatar. I am operating a computer now. This is all happening inthis computer. Going back in history, a mouse appears in a story about the firstcomputer.
Developed in 1946, ENIAC is known as one of the earliest computers. It
consisted of 17,000 vacuum tubes and was a huge computer with a total weightof 27 tons.

2 Mouse and computer
During the development of ENIAC, an experiment was conducted to achieve
stable operation.
The experiment was to put several different manufacturer's cables and mice that
had not been food for several days in one box.
At that time, hungry mice were engulfed by cables, and developers needed toknow which cables were not good for them.
The ENIAC, which was completed as a tasty calculator for mice, is said to havebeen used later for ballistic calculations and atomic bomb development.

3 the Mouse
Again, mice appear in the history of computers. This time, it's not a mouse that
bites the cable, but a mouse that connects the computer and our world with acable tail.
In the 1960s, Douglas Engelbart developed the NLS system for collaborative
work in real time on a computer. At this time, one of the input devices developed
to operate the NLS was called a “mouse” because it resembles a mouse.
The mouse was an epoch-making device that could be manipulated as if it werea direct grip of the computer world. Therefore, it has been widely used as a
typical input device for computers until today.
However, the mouse has disappeared from new computers such as
smartphones and tablets that have become popular in recent years. This isbecause our fingers touch the computer directly through a capacitive touch
screen.
A mouse with a cable and a mouse with a tail.
These mice have disappeared from the thin, glass-like computers we touch on adaily basis. Where have these mice gone?
4 pied piper of hamelin
In 1284, a man appeared in the city of Hameln. This man wore strange clothes
with various colors. He called himself a "mouse-caught man" and promised
citizens to get rid of the rats that nest in the city.

As the man blows the whistle, mice jumped out of all the buildings and swarmed
around the man. The man took the mouse and headed for the River Wesel.
All mice taken by the man drowned in the river and died. Citizens released frommice have refused to pay the man for some reason.
The man who was enraged by this appeared again in the morning of June 26.
Blowing the whistle, boys and girls from around the city gathered around theman. The man went to the mountain and disappeared.
In this way, mice and 130 children disappeared from the city.
5 Bunta
July 2018 Bunta was born.
This is a 3D scanned Bunta, so you can copy as many as you like, but only one
Bunta was born. Bunta is one of many possible possibilities, and there are many
possibilities for small Bunta.
I don't want to say that a child is irreplaceable because it can't be replicated likedata, and because a child grows at an incredible rate, it changes like a different
person in a few weeks. There is a child in the absence of identity, so parents try
to keep a record with many photos and videos.
While looking at these photos and videos, find out which part of the childresembles the parent and what part of the parent resembles the child. A childresembles a parent, and a parent resembles a child. My wife and I do notresemble, but Bunta partially resembles my wife and me, and partially resembles
me and my wife.
In the meantime, Bunta grew up quickly, becoming 3D data, and some copies of
it went somewhere. Some of me copied as 3D data have also gone on a journey
to find the Bunta.

6 Softplay
While searching for children, I arrived at the indoor children's playground, often
found in shopping malls.
A lion costume at the entrance explained this place.
“This is a safe children's playground. Everything is made of soft materials so you
don't get hurt.”“This kind of safe environment allows children to play freely. No one will beinjured if they fly down from a high place or throw an object.”“Children will understand how the real world works through this free play. They
know that various things work according to the laws of physics and prevent themfrom being injured in the real world. In other words, this is also an experimentalsite for real simulation. "I was always watching the events happening at this playground, thinking it was agreat explanation. I felt like I was able to understand a little bit that this was aplace where various events were simulated.

7 Ragdoll
In this world, various simulations were implemented as standard functions.
A function called Ragdoll is one of those standard functions.
Ragdoll is a word meaning stuffed animal. It's a physics simulation techniquethat allows you to express how a character in a video game is weakened andcrumbles like a stuffed toy.
In other words, this is a representation of death in a game-simulated world. It is
widely used as an expression of game over because it directly connects thecharacter's weakness and the inoperability of the player.
Death in the real world is an irreversible tragedy, but here it is implemented as astandard physics simulation, which is a reproducible “function”. Physics
simulations imitate reality, but is the world we live in similar to physics
simulations?
In other words, the time when it resembles a tragedy. Looking at this place for along time, this simulated world seems to be carrying out the tragedy that takes
place in reality and doing it over and over again. There is sadness as if
something is overrun.

8 Gun(No dialogue)
9 It was starting to rain
It was starting to rain

10 Dice
The dice continued to be shaken over and over again.
Dice is a tool that generates random numbers. In the case of a regularhexahedron dice, each side starts from 1
Numbers up to 6 are engraved. The number of faces facing upward when rollingthe dice and standing still is adopted as a random number.
If the dice are regular hexahedrons. The resulting number range is always
between 1 and 6. However, the variation of how the dice rolls until it stops isinfinite, and never rolls the same way.
When you think so, the dice appear as a device that converges the almost
infinite complexity of the world into just six finite possibilities. It also masks thecomplexity of the real world.
Surely, we can't stand the infinite complexity of events that happen in reality andthe sparseness of its meaning.

11 Daily necessities(No dialogue)

12 Avatars
Various avatars gathered here. But none of the avatars moved, just standingstraight.
It reminds me of an event that happened in 2018 with "VRChat", a social VR
service that uses a head-mounted display.
In VRChat, the movement of the player's body is reflected in the movement of
the virtual avatar by the head-mounted display and the sensor device. And
through avatar, You can enjoy communication in the "world" in the virtual space.
At one point, an avatar suddenly fell to the floor and began to struggle. While
playing VRChat, he had an epileptic seizure and fell down.
Other players tried desperately to help the fallen player, but couldn't do anything,
nobody could know where he was now in reality, and trying to touch the avatarTheir bodies only slipped through each other.
Fortunately, the fallen player subsequently recovered and did not matter.
this accident revealed that an avatar that was synchronized with his body, who
was in the same place and thought to have shared the same time, was so
disjointed that it could not even be touched.
Various avatars gathered here. But none of the avatars moved, just standingstraight.

13 Epilogue
Eventually, Bunta returns home from his home with his wife on Sunday. That is
the real fact, and Bunta I was looking for is just data. I'm just data.
This is a place that has nothing to do with reality. Partly similar to reality, partly
not like reality.
Everyone is disjointed and irrelevant. It happens to be gathered together at thesame moment, and sometimes has meaning.
Everyone is disjointed and irrelevant. This is just a play.
If you don't think so, this world is too sad and painful.