Mobile Phones and the "Eyes of the Future" Report

"Hm?" Kate murmured.

She had been sleeping soundly when the bed—Ryan's body—jerked.

Sensitive as she was, she woke from her light sleep at once.

"The progress on Snape and Lily Evans, which you were so interested in earlier, has been updated." Ryan spread his fingers. Invisible, intangible magic took physical form, with five alchemical arrays crackling with electric sparks flashing at each fingertip before converging in his palm.

Then, in an instant, all the information on the yacht was read and reconstructed within Ryan's mind.

The yacht in the real world changed accordingly. A metal pole resembling a Quidditch goalpost, topped with a ring, grew from the bow.

Like grass sprouting from the soil.

Then electric sparks flashed at the center of the ring as well. A black crystal resembling a television screen appeared.

It began playing footage of Lily Evans talking with Shifflett in that room.

"Woohoo! This is the only interesting thing about this trip.

"The itinerary arranged by that Mysterious Travel Agency was way too boring.

"Luxury cruise ships, airplanes, undersea tunnels.

"We got tired of all that ages ago." Kate rapidly replenished her gossip energy while complaining.

"For wizards who have never seen the world, or even Muggles below the middle class, this counts as luxurious and mysterious."

"Muggles, don't they have livestreams?

"I mean, didn't livestreaming come from the Muggle world?

"Logically, even ordinary Muggles should be able to see information shared by rich Muggles, right?"

"Their social media is not that developed yet.

"They have computers and livestreaming.

"But mobile phones—the kind of thing that lets everyone upload videos and creates an age of sharing—are the most important part.

"They are still only at the stage where they can make calls and play little Tetris games.

"As for luxury cruise ships, they have at