Origin of Numbers

More infinite than infinity, possessing the power to set still things in motion, able to kill the turtle that Achilles could never catch.

This was what Human Civilization called the Continuum, and it was also the power wielded by the godlike being before her, who claimed to be her future self.

But what exactly was the Continuum, and just how powerful was it?

Achilles still did not understand.

It sounded so intuitive, something everyone could directly experience at every moment of daily life.

Life lay in movement.

A point becoming a line was so natural that even an uneducated fool like her knew it.

But the Continuum he spoke of was certainly not the same as the casual continuity spoken of in everyday life.

Just as the infinity and Infinity he spoke of were not the same as the word "infinite" people casually used in daily life.

Once one stepped away from concrete daily life and considered the continuity of things abstractly, considered the questions of an object's stillness and motion—

—it became easy to discover that beneath these things everyone took for granted lay a bottomless, dizzying abyss.

"Even if you tell me that the distance between us is farther than the other side of the world, farther than the sun in the sky."

"My brain still can't understand something that complicated."

Never mind the Continuum—Achilles did not have much real sense of things like the Electron Cloud and Virtual Electrons either.

She could touch the hand of the person before her without any obstruction. Her sight, hearing, and touch all told her so.

Thinking of this, Achilles could not help gently pinching her fingers, feeling the peculiar sensation coming from his palm.

The inhuman-looking person before her possessed strange, Inhuman qualities.

Although she could see no difference between