Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item2 Chapter3 (section)

===Between the Lines 4===

My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.

My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.

My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.



In the end, that was Ainame Caroline’s ''entire'' definition of her sister.

She was only a collection of functions.

Ainame Caroline did not understand the formless concepts of the mind or a life, so people’s external outputs were everything to her. If someone had the functions of “cheerfully saying hello”, “giving directions to an old man looking lost on the side of the road”, and “taking lost money to an Anti-Skill station”, she judged them an honest and good person.

That person’s inner life was of no concern to her, even if they made sure to say hello so their teacher wouldn’t yell at them, even if that lost man was a well-known local wealthy person, and even if they simply weren’t interested in such a miniscule amount of money.

At the same time, Ainame Caorline, the girl who had (on paper) graduated college and earned a doctorate at the age of five and helped develop a Level 5, saw even herself as no more than a collection of functions. Of course she did. ''Who had ever bothered looking into their own inner life''? She had turned out this way because of the list of functions fitted into her slots.



When someone makes fun of you, they might as well be making fun of me.



Or in other words, ''it angered her as a researcher when someone refused to recognize the functions she had created and built into her teammate.

She had to be a good person because she never deleted the photos of her sister’s charaben, right?

She had to be a good person because she still wore her sister’s suspenders, right?

She had to be a good person because she continued to fight a lonely battle for her sister, right?

With functions like those, surely anyone would reach the same conclusion.

Humans were collections of functions.

Since you could never directly view another person’s mind or life, you only had the things they did to judge them by – no matter what they might be thinking on the inside. If someone had functions 1, 2, and 3, you could conclude what it was they would ultimately output into the world. That was all you needed to define an individual person.

In the extreme, you could say humans were hairless apes who had gained the function of thought.

The value of one’s life came from their functions.

You could learn the nature of someone’s mind from their functions.

So creating the greatest function and giving it to someone else was the most good act imaginable. If she filled all of someone’s slots with nothing but “good functions”, they were sure to be happy.

And as the person doing that, she had to have the functions of a good person.

How could that be wrong?

If it was, she wanted to know how. That was something else she was sure to learn once she completed Angelica.

She would view the entirety of someone’s genes and eliminate all coincidences and gaps. Could DNA be controlled through simple addition and subtraction? Angelica would let her fully grasp the activity of the cells and chromosomes and then she could immediately detect even the slightest unnatural current there. That would let her find whatever “life” was. If successful, she could easily figure out if all souls – be they human, cat, or insect – were of equal value. Of course, instead of proving them equal, she might instead fully overturn the accepted hierarchy.

Now, it was time to open her phone, view the photos of those charaben her sister had worked so hard to create, and lose herself in those wonderful memories. Because now it was only a matter of time before she had her answer.

She could reminisce about her beloved sister.

She could fall into a gentle dream about that person whose functions struck such a miraculous balance.



My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.

My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.

My sister got up early every morning and made me a charaben.

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