@kn1000a Glad you're enjoying it. This was not what I came here for. I like more fluffy "oh my god, what's this 'TV' thing?" reverse isekai, and the sort of stuff this manga started with, where there were misunderstandings and cultural collisions between the otherworlder and modern society. (Thermae Romae does a great job at this, although its full reverse isekai arc can only be found on other sites...)
I'm not enjoying this arc of "great, you're now a government test subject" (although they foreshadowed it pretty hard).
not somehow forget the realism
If this is being realistic, then shit's about to get really dark. This girl's under unconditional quarantine, regularly subjected to intrusive medical tests, under the mere
suspicion that she may be carrying an unknown disease - one they haven't managed to find ANY evidence of after multiple blood tests and other medical examinations.
And, if we're going for realism, being under medical quarantine isn't like being arrested: you still get to use a phone, since germs can't travel through the telecom systems. Now, she doesn't really know about phones. She doesn't have any idea what her legal rights are. She's been separated from everyone she knows who would know about those things - and she hasn't gotten a SINGLE FUCKING CALL from anyone else (main male MC, and the inspector chick) since being quarantined? I'd assume both of them would at least try to contact her.
That's fishy as fuck, and puts a VERY dark spin on this whole scenario.
If the author's doing realism, merely the fact that she hasn't been allowed or offered even phone contact with the other people she knows is damning evidence that the confinement is intended to be permanent, and the main goal here is studying her. (This was also baited by the "they're totally in the same facility you are" line last chapter, which I'm inclined to disbelieve.)
I'm a bit irritated that a nice fluffy story about this strange girl from another world became this, but I'll be absolutely incendiary if the author either finishes this arc with a "then the government let her go back - no problems here! (despite everything they've done)" or a darker ending.
@WillLi Unfortunately, it's not irrational. Considering that she's displayed abilities that defy the laws of thermodynamics and conservation of energy (some of the basic concepts our entire understanding of physics are built around), it's not irrational to think whatever plague she may or may not be carrying completely defies normal understanding as well. Ironically, this means that their quarantine procedures aren't good enough, since they don't have an idea what they're up against - a magical disease could simply spread by people's auras touching or something, and hazmat suits can't do jack about that.
And it means that they can't ever be sure she's not carrying something. They don't even know if she could degrade someone's health in the opposite way she's healing mice.
