The Unexplored Summon - Regarding the Passive Memory Erasure of Awards

[DontTalkDT]

Alright, so memory manipulation is listed on Kyousuke's page as follows:

Memory Manipulation (Humans without Awards forget about his existence as soon as he's out of sight)

There is actually no problem with that. The problem is in the fact that we don't list it for anyone else, which is all kinds of inconsistent.

For context, those in the verse that have Awards get forgotten by those who don't:

When people involved with Materials, such as summoners and vessels, earn Award 100, they leave the awareness of normal people. They can speak with normal people as long as they are in their field of vision, but the people will forget about them as soon as they leave their field of vision.

(From the Facts section of Volume 1 Stage 01)
Here's a practical example:

“Being in public or a closed room, um, makes no difference for us.”

“Well, that is true.”

As soon as Kyousuke replied, a hand bell rang behind him and the miniskirt Santa librarian spoke up.

“Congratulations on being the two millionth person! …Huh? Where did the prize go? Well, I have a spare, so it doesn’t matter.”

She was not just forgetful. That was the correct reaction.

“Anyway, you’re the two millionth person!! Oh, and this is a joint campaign with ‘The Santa Girl who Couldn’t Get Home’.”

Shiroyama Kyousuke tossed his “small prize” into the air and caught one-handed.

Whether summoner or vessel, anyone with a close connection to Materials would begin to have their presence fade after earning an Award of around 100. Or rather, they were removed from people’s minds. People could see them, but they would forget about them as soon as they left their field of vision. There was a simple reason that summoning ceremonies had not spread throughout the entire world and it wasn’t because some dark organization was suppressing the information. The human mind simply was not strong enough to directly accept the evidence of something so vast.

It affected their friends, their lovers, and their families.

It did not matter how well they knew someone.

“But even if you know they’ll forget about you a moment later, it wouldn’t feel right. I’m certainly not going to run around out here in the nude. That’s completely abandoning your humanity.”

(From Volume 1 Stage 01 Part 2)

In fact, one probably needs around 50 Awards to perceive them.

Most of her family had intentionally left themselves at around Award 50 so they would not vanish from normal society while also properly perceiving summoners. High Award summoners like Azalea were an extreme exception for her family.

For those who wonder, Awards are achievements burned into people's souls by some powerful supernatural creatures:

Government, Illegal, and Freedom had all made a contract with one of the three great Materials standing at the peak of either the low, middle, or high sounds. The summoners belonging to the group would be given awards by residents of the other side based on the outcomes of their actions. These awards were directly carved into their souls.

Generally, the more awards a summoner had won, the greater their skill.

Anyway, based on that, anyone with over 100 Awards in the verse should get this passive memory erasure. That should be everyone in the human section of the verse page except maybe Ellie Slide, as she's a vessel and vessels can have rather low Award rankings.


At the same time, people with 50 Awards or more and Materials should get a corresponding resistance. That, in total, means everyone currently listed in the verse. That's simply due to the fact that they all are able to remember high-Award summoners like the protagonist.

 

[DarkDragonMedeus]

Looks good to me.

 

[DontTalkDT]

bump, in case anyone that wants to comment here has missed it.