Translator: Flowingcloud Editor: Arocks141
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Smartphone
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I checked the contents in the backpack.
Rarabu, the traveler’s info magazine that was handed back to me.
My handkerchief, tissue, wallet, my school trip guidebook, solar-powered mobile battery, and also impact-resistant smartphone.
This isn’t a smartphone with an apple on it.
This impact-resistant smartphone that even the construction site manager uses is my favorite.
Why, you ask? That’s because I hate it when my phone breaks when it drops.
The smartphone is a bit rough and doesn’t have the best camera function.
“Oh, there it is, found it. Let’s make a phone…… of course.”
My smartphone obviously didn’t get any signal. 1
There’s still a part of me that suspects that I’m still in the Heisei era.
Maybe that this was just a large-scale hidden camera prank. 2
Maybe that this was just a New Year’s special television shoot. 3
“What are you doing? Holding a slab and putting it against your ear.”
Of course, I look weird to people of this era.
To people who don’t know what a phone is, it’s hard to explain this strange action.
That could look like someone holding a block of kamaboko, but huh? Were there block-type kamabokos in the Sengoku era? 4
“This is something you may or may not understand.” 5
“Whether I understand or not, that is something I will determine. What is that?”
“This is a phone called a smartphone; It’s an article that allows you to talk to people far away.
Almost every person has one of these mechanisms, and you can talk to someone far away as if they were near you, but well, there isn’t anyone to call nor is there signal.”
When I handed over my smartphone to Oda Nobunaga who reached out to get it, he carefully looked at the front and back sides then immediately returned it.
“Things that can’t be used can only be garbage. That applies to mechanisms from the future too.”
He has a point, a smartphone without signal is basically just a camera. 6
Several articles were lined up of Nanban presents from a missionary that Oda Nobunaga received that were rare in Japan, but he seemed to be a character that only received the hat he was pleased with; Does he not want things that are not necessary I wonder?
What about the clock and calendar in a place with no signal?
[June 24th, 1582, 11:38 AM] 7Hm? I wonder if the phone clock app even goes this far back?
They should have not made the app thinking that you can go back to the past, but this is amazing.
Was it the app creator’s whim?
While I was impressed, a smile broke out on my face.
“Ahahahaha, what’s with this, is this even possible., ahahahaha, it’s brokennn (pakutareteru).”
[Pakutereteru] is the Northern Ibaraki dialect, it’s similar to the Southern Fukushima dialect for [koreteru] and [kowareteru].8
When an event occurs where a human’s own brain capacity goes over, they’ll break into laughter, but after laughing for some time, I got myself together.
“As I thought, I really time traveled. I was supposed to have gone down the route where normal diploma like my friends, but come on, beta rays? Alpha rays? Is it possible with a smartphone? Is this a shooter game?”
As I muttered and grumbled.
“You may think you are dreaming, but this is reality, just accept it. Face it just like I did when I learned that the world was round.”
Oda Nobunaga was said to be the first to understand that the world was round in Japan.
However, I don’t think that is accurate.
Onmyoujis who are employed at the royal court observe the stars and their techniques are surprisingly high.
They were able to observe solar and lunar eclipses, and furthermore, it was hypothesized that they observed the stars according to ancient runes.
If that’s the case, if I was asked, “Who is the famous person within the Japanese that understood that the world was round?” then I’d tell them it’d be Abe no Seimei, but in the era where flat earth and Ptolemaic theory was popular, Oda Nobunaga is no mistaking a sage for understanding this concept with his flexible mind.
If that’s the case, I’ll talk about the future as I nodded, believing that he would believe me.
I believe that the path I realized was the only one left for me.
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- Arocks141: Why would anyone expect signal in frickin’ 16th century? Did he leave his logic back in the 21st century?
- Arocks141: Because it’s totally worth spending extremely extravagant amounts of cash in an elaborate prank an unknown high-schooler no one really gives a damn about.
- Arocks141: Because it is totally worth spending extremely extravagant amounts of cash in an elaborate New Year’s special television shoot about pranking an unknown high schooler no one really gives a damn about.
- Kamaboko is a fish cake. https://previews.123rf.com/images/cokemomo/cokemomo1603/cokemomo160300059/54144930-pink-kamaboko-japanese-fish-cake.jpg
It’s shape is similar to a smartphone when it’s in a block. - Arocks141: Do we need to remind this fool that Nobunaga just simplified the timeline theory into parallel universes and resolved the resultant paradox? I’m pretty sure Nobu can grasp the functions of a long-range communication device
- Arocks141: Which means Nobu is technically incorrect. Photographs are incredibly useful, fool.
- Fun fact: This isn’t possible on an actual phone. Smartphones/computers were designed to only go back until the 1970s-ish, so the phone would actually brick if it did go back to 1582. Welp, he did time travel so anything can happen at this rate.
- Flowingcloud: This is just a bunch of linguistics, but basically they’re all the same word for “broken”.
