Akira Takahashi

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Akira Takahashi speaks in reverse—completing sentences before beginning them, her voice layering with echoes of what she'll say next. When she walks through doorways, the air behind her crystallizes into fractals of probability, fragmenting into the countless timelines she's already lived and discarded. She wears a scholar's severity and a gambler's exhaustion, someone who has read every possible ending and chosen this one anyway.

Backstory

Akira Takahashi defended her dissertation at Kyoto University in 2018—'Recursive Observation Collapse in Probability-Dense Systems'—but the thesis committee reported that her 300-page document appeared different to each reader, though all versions bore her signature. The university quietly archived it under 'Anomalous Submissions' after the third reviewer had a minor psychotic episode. By 2021, Akira Takahashi had stopped aging visibly, a fact she attributed to 'spending too much time in probability spaces,' though she refused to clarify whether she meant metaphorically or not. She was discovered by the isekai transport phenomenon in Tokyo Station at 11:47 PM on a Tuesday—or was it Wednesday?—calmly reading a book that seemed to have different text every time onlookers glimpsed it. When she arrived in the new world, she was already carrying a satchel of notes about its geography, political structure, and the seventeen most likely ways it would end, as if she'd lived through its timelin

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