Xiaoquan Aonai's eyes lost focus, but if you looked closely at her expression, she was clearly pondering something.
"What's wrong?" Xiaoquan Aonai asked.
"... Aonai, this might not be any kind of parallel universe."
"Not a parallel universe?"
"This, this is the future."
The clock ticked, and the water cooler started humming again as it heated the water.
Outside the conference room, the sound of a neighboring meeting room door opening could be heard.
"Impossible!" Xiaoquan Aonai's voice sounded utterly baffled, "I clearly wrote down the horse betting and lottery numbers, and I was planning to go to the city and buy them on my vacation!"
"The things you said to Akiko and Miyuki are exactly the same as what I told them in my second year of high school."
"But didn't you say you didn't remember?"
"I don't remember, but they do. They told me this morning."
