Report 203

Plot
The third term begins, with Ohga and Hishiro as the class representatives this time. Kaizaki managed to barely pass all subjects, so there'll be no more re-tests for him. With less than one month of school left for the seniors, Kaizaki and Hishiro each feel a bit of melancholy.

In the ReLife Laboratory, Yoake overheard Amagase explaining how the ReLIFE memory loss works to the Division Chief. The first pill each participant took contains a virus-like mechanism, and each person's "virus" is unique. The people they come into contact with gets "infected", and at the end of the experiment, the "virus" would cause infected people to lose memories of the carrier. ReLIFE employee are "vaccinated" against the "viruses" of the test subjects, and the test subjects are also "vaccinated" against the "viruses" of the employees. Therefore they will remember each other even after the experiment is over. But test subjects 001 and 002 were not "vaccinated" against each other because the need was not anticipated. By now Kaizaki and Hishiro would have accumulated way too much of the other person's "virus" and there's no safe way to remove those without risking harm to the person.

But Yoake's boss may have thought of something comparing the memory loss mechanism with flu or common cold...

Trivia

 * Events in the first half of this chapter took place on Thursday January 9th, 2014, and was the second day of school for the third term. It is not explicit whether the second half of this chapter took place on the same day or a later date.
 * While the actual terminology used in this report was koutai, the mechanism described closer resembles that of a . It is common in many fictional works to get the two concepts mixed up.