"Of course, the reason I said all that was to confirm once again how memes form. After all, only by identifying the true cause can we resolve the effect!" Sogo Doma explained as he watched Mai Sakurajima fall silent.
Mai Sakurajima nodded. What else could she do when she had no way to refute him?
"It's good that you understand, Mai. Now then, to celebrate the conclusion of your first experiment, let's begin the second one!" Seeing that his lab rat had no objections, Sogo Doma said as he held out his hand.
"Wait, what are you trying to do this time?" Mai Sakurajima's lips twitched as she looked at the hand he extended, as though he wanted her to grip it. "You're not using this as an excuse to cop a feel, are you?"
"Mai, are you an idiot?" Sogo Doma tilted his head.
"Then tell me, why would two people who've only just met need to hold hands in the middle of the street?"
"Is that really what you should be concerned about right now?" Sogo Doma asked, baffled. "You should be worried about how strongly the meme is affecting you..."
"What does that have to do with holding hands?" Mai Sakurajima was equally confused.
"So you really are an idiot, huh? The information we have is actually very limited. All we currently know is that the meme defines you as air—but do you know just how broad the scope of that definition could be? The only thing we know for certain is that, in the café, when you picked up the coffee cup, everyone else saw it vanish into thin air...
In other words, objects you come into contact with may also be defined as air. But what's the largest volume of an object affected by your