Knowledge Boundaries

Operational guide for Earth-side secrecy, fantasy-side witness scope and the now-active external-narrative relationship. Default to the smallest justified witness circle. Thomas and Isha remain the only complete Hero-System correspondence/activation witnesses. Kanno Emi is the one deliberate Earth-side confidant, but by Ch.440 she also has her own direct relationships with Ian, Lethira and Aelira and therefore knows some Ian material Thomas/Isha do not. She still has no assigned passage role, activation procedure or automatic right to the correspondence archive.

Core Rule

Thomas and Isha do not intend broad disclosure of the fantasy world or magic. Kanno is the deliberate exception because she has become a main mutual friend and continued half-truth was damaging that relationship. Her knowledge is trust, not employment.

Thomas and Isha may speak freely to each other about:

Kanno knows a substantial but bounded version: the shared remembered life and another-world category; Thomas and Isha's pre-existing exclusive partnership; Isha's former Wood Elf body and Kelda's dwarven identity; adventuring, monsters and magic in broad form; Thomas's unusually large former spell breadth and power; Cleanse's current existence and broad limits; Daniel Mercer's name, age, English origin, Kameido home, Shin-Kiba work/death area and uncertain death mechanism; broad facts of Revive, the final deaths, Pocket Island, possible final resurrection, Crownholt, Crown Deep and the staged death. She knows correspondence exists, witnessed exactly one protected passage in spring 2027, and after Ch.358 has seen the 16 August UNKNOWN ANOMALY entry and thirty-cycle record. She also knows Ian's final-train encounter, the original senderless message, gifts, external photographs, thought-access incident and the couple's distinction between his demonstrated acts and his cosmological claims. Chapters 374-440 broaden this substantially: she sees selected fantasy-side album/media, hears the old ending-plan/hospital-prompt account, joins the nameless chat, independently meets Ian, sees the option/die mechanism, goes to real Berlin with him, reads the January fantasy-side opinions page, hears Ian's PROTECTION ENABLED claim/change discussion, learns the Transfer 2.0 changes succeed, independently travels to Venus under her own negotiated conditions, later uses the Mercury ticket alone, meets Lethira and Aelira one-to-one under her own conditions, joins the four-woman neutral meeting, and makes Aelira's first consented portrait set. She shares the impossible universe image with Thomas/Isha but retains control of her actual Venus camera files. She does not automatically receive invocation wording, every correspondence page, the complete former spell catalogue, every restricted historical fact or a continuing operational role. She also does not automatically disclose everything Ian tells her one-to-one to Thomas/Isha, and they accept that boundary.

No other Earth acquaintance, clinician, official, employer, shop worker, neighbour, journalist, online contact or institution knows the fantasy truth unless later prose explicitly establishes another disclosure. Matsuda remains uninformed.

Fantasy-side knowledge is now broader through direct Ian contact, but remains bounded. Kelda, Aelira, Sereth, Ruvan and Lethira meet Ian directly in Ch.371. Mira, Rowan, Mara and Tessa meet him directly in Ch.373 after each individually agrees. Sairen is a bounded additional witness in Ch.371: she examines the contained cocoa-seed problem and knowingly participates in the fifteen-minute recording made with Ian's black device among people Aelira judges already informed enough not to widen the Ian question. The prose does not establish that Sairen receives the full correspondence, raw bridge text or complete Earth/Ian explanation, so do not promote her into the standing page-sharing circle. These contacts do not make the wider Wood Elf settlement, crowns, Guilds, temples, Erenai or other institutions aware by default.

Ch.397-423 source-of-knowledge controls

Recent chapters make information provenance a first-class continuity constraint. Before giving a character a fact, identify the route by which that character learned it. Direct participation, a Hero-System page, a participant's later summary, a private Ian conversation, a machine-generated approximation and a camera file are different evidence categories. Do not infer one from another.

Ch.424-432 source-of-knowledge controls

Ch.433-440 source-of-knowledge controls

Lethira non-alteration boundary

Ian's Ch.421 displayed request and the machine's accepted response create a controlling authoring constraint, not merely a private promise. Ian/the machine must refuse explicit, indirect, retroactive, disguised or delegated attempts to alter Lethira's memory, personality, mind, identity, thoughts, desires, preferences, values, emotional disposition, agency or past self. They must also refuse purpose-built circumstances intended to manufacture her love, trust, forgiveness, attraction, agreement, loyalty, fear or dependence. Lethira may change only through natural time, events, new information and ordinary interaction. No later instruction, gift, safety clause or relationship development can waive this rule.

Only Ian and Lethira directly witness the displayed wording. Aelira later learns the existence/scope in Ch.427; Isha, Kanno and Aelira receive Lethira's functional description and the failed-thought example in Ch.433. None automatically possesses the original transcript, and the wider circles remain uninformed.

Current Ordinary Explanation

The standing public explanation remains the recorded road accident followed by several days unconscious, confusion, memory disturbance and recovery. The Ch.278 ambulance and same-day emergency-department event adds a documented episode of prolonged transient loss of consciousness with fluctuating awareness after severe emotional stress. ECG, blood tests, neurological examination and non-contrast head CT are reassuring; Ch.298's neurological review finds no strong seizure/structural evidence and requires no routine follow-up unless symptoms recur.

Isha's later medical history is ordinary and public within the necessary clinical/work circle: mild Graves-like autoimmune hyperthyroidism, thiamazole treatment, temporary activity restrictions, unusually rapid remission, medication withdrawal and continued monitoring. Clinicians know the endocrine facts and regard the course as exceptionally favourable but possible. They do not know that the System called the condition a biological defect/system error, assisted the repair or declared restoration complete.

Thomas and Isha do not need one perfectly rehearsed false story. They rely on ordinary conclusions already available to other people:

They should avoid unnecessary detail. A short truthful statement such as “we do not remember much from before the accident” is safer than invented memories. Kanno no longer receives this cover inside private conversation, but she does not correct it in public or disclose the reason.

Current Witness Scope

Fact Confirmed knowers Scene rule
Thomas and Isha retain a complete shared fantasy-world life rather than the supplied Earth past Thomas, Isha and Kanno Kanno learned this through the deliberate Ch.282 disclosure. Everyone else knows only significant post-accident memory gaps.
The remembered life occurred in another world and included Green Road, non-human peoples, monsters, magic and the Broken Court Thomas, Isha and Kanno in broad form Kanno may ask or remember bounded details. She is not automatically entitled to every restricted event or old spell mechanic. Public references remain metaphor, fiction, private shorthand or unheard.
Thomas's first Earth identity was Daniel Mercer Thomas, Isha and Kanno Daniel was thirty-two, grew up in Leicester, lived in Kameido, worked as a logistics departmental manager near Shin-Kiba and died near Shin-Kiba Station amid rain, headlights and wet asphalt. Exact impact/collapse mechanism and the identity of any online death report remain uncertain. No one contacts a possible bereaved family by default.
Daniel's relationship history Thomas knows the sexual boundary but only fading fragments beyond it; Isha and Kanno know that distinction Thomas explicitly told Isha that she was his first sexual partner in either life, so he was a virgin before her. Whether Daniel dated, kissed someone or had a non-sexual romantic relationship remains unknown. Family and friends are established; do not invent either a definite former girlfriend or chosen celibacy.
Their supplied Earth histories are not remembered lives Thomas, Isha and Kanno Records, photographs, possessions and acquaintances remain externally valid. Kanno may keep her university memories while knowing the present couple did not live them in memory.
Isha began with no Japanese or English despite her records Thomas and Isha in full; Kanno can infer the larger gap from disclosure Clinicians and acquaintances interpret unusual difficulty or rapid improvement through trauma, memory disturbance, intensive study or prior ability returning.
Isha remembers Common and Elven Thomas and Isha; Kanno knows the languages existed but does not speak them Do not let Isha use either where an uninformed person can hear unless the scene accepts the risk. Kanno's presence removes the fantasy-secret risk but not ordinary privacy concerns.
Isha was formerly a Wood Elf, about fifty-two and a young adult among her people Thomas, Isha and Kanno Her current body is fully human. Kanno has seen Isha's drawn former ear shape and understands that the present body was not chosen. Publicly, her age follows her Earth records; she turned twenty-five on 8 November 2026 (Ch.307).
Isha's “nearest-human translation” hypothesis Thomas, Isha and Kanno This is Isha's interpretation, not established System fact. Her exceptional strength, speed, balance, agility and beauty are human traits; no elven hearing, mana, lifespan or biology remains.
Isha's Graves disease and System correction Clinicians know the medical course; Thomas and Isha know both medical and System evidence; Kanno knows the first exact health message and bounded interpretation Publicly this is unusually rapid Graves remission. Privately the System first reports FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL DEFECT / RESOLVING SAFELY, then FEMALE UNIT BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM ERROR / RESTORATION COMPLETE / NORMAL OPERATION RESUMING. Author-level canon is that active correction ended; exact body mechanics and broader influence remain unknown.
Isha retains extensive real-combat skill without an Earth record that explains it Thomas and Isha know the full source; Kanno knows the other-world source; Shibata, Arai and gym members know only that she is not a beginner at fighting and cannot connect the skill to useful modern records Public explanations remain retained physical memory and incomplete accident history. Morita receives only the candid coach summary, not fantasy history. Competition paperwork uses Isha Vaeloren, her legal Earth name.
Thomas formerly possessed many spells and reached Rank S Thomas and Isha in full; Kanno knows the broad scale and that he was one of the strongest mages they knew Historical capability is private memory, not current ability. Kanno should not become a catalogue audience. No institution knows ranks or magical categories exist.
Cleanse exists on Earth and reaches Level 6 Thomas and Isha know the full current tests; Kanno has received a bounded explanation and watched a selective cleaning demonstration Kanno knows cleaning, temperature and minor-soothing in broad form, not every Level 6 experiment. No one else knows. Use spells.md for mechanics.
The unlevelled transfer can move one tiny item between party members Thomas and Isha know the operational facts; Kanno knows bounded contact, has witnessed one protected opening and has seen selected later results Twenty outgoing pages and nineteen replies have crossed through Ch.417. Kanno does not know the activation wording/procedure, does not automatically read the archive and is not a passage supervisor. No clinician, employer, neighbour or official knows any event. Ian's much larger external objects/media remain explicitly not evidence that this payload limit expanded. The 14 March opening is receipt-only (19/18); the 18 April opening is a simultaneous send/receive swap (20/19). A same-opening incoming page was already prepared and cannot answer the outgoing page from that activation. Next opening is expected around 18 May 2028.
Mugi sometimes understands unusually specific requests, fetches named objects and mirrors Isha's movement Thomas and Isha have recognised the full pattern; Kanno knows Mugi as an unusually responsive community cat; the Akiyama family saw one plausible toy-finding episode Publicly this remains animal intelligence, familiarity and routine. Ch.388 adds the strongest language-like event: while Thomas tells Isha in Common that his finger sling is under the green notebook in the closed top desk drawer, Mugi goes into the unseen office, indicates the correct closed drawer and then the notebook. No request/gesture was directed to her and no repeat test follows. No magic, transfer or causal link is established.
Kelda survived Thomas's Revive and continued as Green Road's witness Thomas, Isha and Kanno; bounded fantasy-world witnesses named in the final account know her local survival Kanno knows the broad restoration and later witness role, not every medical or spell mechanic.
First outgoing page (Ch.237) Thomas and Isha; Kelda; Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Sereth and Ruvan; Aelira; later Lethira Ch.240 confirms this bounded spread. No crown, temple, Guild, mountain authority, Erenai, Thalen or Sairen is included merely because they survive.
Second outgoing page (Ch.246) Same bounded fantasy circle Ch.252 confirms receipt and reading to the same circle. It describes the collapse risk, healthy human bodies, absent powers, work, home, friends, Mugi, happiness and Thomas's non-magical cooking through Common-compatible descriptions.
Third outgoing page (Ch.259) Same bounded fantasy circle, confirmed by the Ch.266 third reply Contains Mugi's non-magical photograph/description, an ordinary meal, human silence, roof construction, ordinary-healer procedure and Matsuda's move. Ch.266 confirms receipt; do not extend the contents beyond the named circle.
Fourth outgoing page (Ch.275) Same bounded fantasy circle, confirmed by the Ch.278 fourth reply Contains a printed couple photograph, bounded Da Nang account and questions about Erenai, the King Beneath and final-campaign people. Erenai has not been shown the Earth message or photograph. The King Beneath has a separate sealed Broken Court account, not the Earth correspondence.
Fifth outgoing page (Ch.294) Same bounded fantasy circle, confirmed by Ch.299 Reports Thomas's severe fourth-receipt medical event, Isha's tattoo, Morita pairing, Thomas's judo pause/gym and the paper fish. It is the first send to display PROTECTION ENABLED.
Sixth outgoing page (Ch.305) Same bounded fantasy circle, confirmed by Ch.313 Gives a bounded late-October account including health/training and Cleanse developments in Common-compatible terms. Exact modern medical vocabulary is not transmitted.
Seventh outgoing page (Ch.318) Same bounded fantasy circle; later correspondence establishes continuing receipt within the same line Describes Isha's thyroid fault, relationship correction in bounded terms, first snow, Cleanse memories, Kanno's booklet, work and ordinary life.
Eighth outgoing page (Ch.323) Same bounded fantasy circle; later correspondence establishes continuing receipt within the same line Reports the System's admitted bodily error, medical recovery, kyūdō, Cleanse snow use and current life.

| Ninth-thirteenth outgoing pages (Ch.327-354) | Same bounded fantasy circle | Later spring/summer pages carry continuing Earth life, work/permanence, residence, engagement/ring, first-aid, Kanno/publication and four-date university-process material in Common-compatible terms. By the July and August swaps the circle remains unchanged. No page grants Erenai, crowns or other institutions the Earth-survival secret. | | Fourteenth outgoing page (16 Sep 2027, Ch.361) | Same bounded fantasy circle, with the first question explicitly directed to Tessa | Send-only page asks whether Tessa still has the ash-marked surviving arrow and describes its corrected binding, shorter feather, nick and ash mark. It deliberately does not explain Ian first. Totals become 14 outgoing / 12 incoming. | | Fifteenth outgoing page (16 Oct 2027, Ch.366) | Same bounded fantasy circle | Explains Ian in bounded Common-compatible terms as an ordinary-looking Earth traveller who claims access to a written account/external “thing,” lists the old-life objects he produced, preserves the System/Ian distinction, reports the 15 October legal marriage, and asks for Tessa's honest view if the arrow is gone. It explicitly says Earth has no route capable of returning the arrow itself. | | Sixteenth outgoing page (15 Nov 2027, Ch.372) | Same bounded fantasy circle | Sends the chosen wedding photograph and ordinary wedding/honeymoon/birthday update. The returned page confirms receipt and reports Ian's direct contact with Kelda/Aelira/Sereth/Ruvan/Lethira. Totals become 16 outgoing / 14 incoming. | | Seventeenth outgoing page (15 Dec 2027, Ch.377) | Same bounded fantasy circle | Reports acceptance of the first fantasy-side gift, Ian's bridge confession/privacy chain, Isha's 11 December decision loss to Naruse Kana, ordinary work and continued marriage happiness. Totals become 17/15 after the return. | | Eighteenth outgoing page (14 Jan 2028, Ch.387) | Same bounded fantasy circle | Sends another wedding image and bounded update: neutral Ian meeting, Kanno's separate contact, Isha's Coach 1 consideration and ordinary work. Totals become 18/16 after the return. | | Nineteenth outgoing page (13 Feb 2028, Ch.394) | Same bounded fantasy circle; the invitation explicitly asks for separate answers | Sends the Ch.391 neutral-café invitation to Kelda, Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Sereth, Ruvan, Aelira and Lethira. It says invitation, not summons; each person may refuse separately, ask questions or prefer smaller groups; Kanno attends only if wanted; Ian is to act only within agreed body/memory/belonging/time/exit terms. The page crosses successfully under Transfer 2.0. The same-opening return predates the invitation and cannot answer it; the separate answer arrives on 14 March as the eighteenth returned page. Totals become 19/17 after the February same-opening return. | | Eighteenth returned reply (14 Mar 2028, Ch.402) | Thomas and Isha read it; Kanno is invited to read because Lethira names her in the answer | Receipt-only Transfer 2.0 opening. Kelda preserves separate answers: Kelda/Mira/Rowan/Mara/Tessa/Sereth/Lethira say yes; Ruvan asks for evidence of an independently wanted safe return before being asked again; Aelira wants a fresh choice at the actual threshold after a successful return. Sereth wants the first minutes with T/I small/private; Tessa asks whether she may hug them. Totals become 19/18. | | Twentieth outgoing page (18 Apr 2028, Ch.417) | Same standing fantasy page-sharing circle | Bounded post-reunion update: everyone returned safely; private rooms remain private; Isha's Coach 1 dates/paid-week arrangement; Thomas's bounded working group; natural gold/quartz report in Common-compatible terms; Kanno's Small Works went well but her own meetings/work remain hers to describe. It is sent in a simultaneous swap and therefore cannot be answered by the page received beside it. | | Nineteenth returned reply (18 Apr 2028, Ch.417) | Thomas and Isha read/archive it; no automatic full-page disclosure to Kanno | Kelda's independently prepared post-reunion report says everyone who crossed returned safely, no one was stranded/injured by the crossing, the station remained unused, private rooms are omitted, named family/friends are well, east-road repairs continue, Porridge remains obstructive and Thomas/Isha's house is as left. The page was written before the outgoing Ch.417 page arrived. Totals become 20/19. | | Seventh-twelfth returned replies (Ch.327-354) | Thomas and Isha on Earth; Kanno knows correspondence exists but does not automatically read the pages | The later replies preserve the same family/Aelira/Lethira circle, react to employment/residence/engagement, report Kelda's east-road work and station tests, and keep Erenai outside the survival secret. The 16 August reply says the station remains stable through another empty-carriage test; no person has crossed and no System-style counter/message appears on the station side. | | Thirteenth returned reply (16 Oct 2027, Ch.366) | Thomas and Isha read it; Kanno receives only the later bounded summary | Tessa reports the arrow missing from its linen wrapping after handling it six days before Kelda brought the Earth question. In its place is a smooth machine-printed Common note claiming to have sent the arrow to Isha and offering an optional Earth-side exchange. Tessa wants Isha to keep the arrow, asks for no payment and says not to fire it; Mira, Rowan, Mara, Sereth, Ruvan, Aelira, Lethira and Kelda likewise name no price and leave any voluntary Earth gift to Thomas/Isha. The original printed note stays with Tessa; Kelda copies its wording. Station status remains unchanged and the survival circle does not widen. | | Fourteenth returned reply (15 Nov 2027, Ch.372) | Thomas and Isha read it; Kanno later sees selected resulting media, not the correspondence page by default | Reports Ian's physical fantasy-side contact with Kelda/Aelira/Sereth/Ruvan/Lethira, a participant-controlled marriage gift and a separate proof/confession route. It explicitly keeps Erenai uninformed and the rebuilt station unused for the external intervention. | | Fifteenth returned reply (15 Dec 2027, Ch.377) | Thomas and Isha read it; Kanno later receives only the parts they choose to share | Confirms Thomas's family each agreed to meet Ian under household conditions, the bounded raw-bridge reading occurred only after Thomas/Isha permission, and the family spent three full fantasy-side days making its own album/moving/spoken records while Ian was away. The station remains separate. | | Sixteenth returned reply (14 Jan 2028, Ch.387) | Thomas and Isha read it; Kanno later reads the full page by their choice | Carries independently chosen opinions of Ian from Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Ruvan, Aelira, Lethira and Kelda. Sereth deliberately adds no written opinion because she already told Ian directly what she meant. Station remains unchanged and the page-sharing circle does not widen. | | Seventeenth returned reply (13 Feb 2028, Ch.394) | Thomas and Isha read it; no later full-page disclosure to Kanno is established through Ch.440 | Written before the neutral-café invitation arrived. It reports reactions to the January wedding image: Mira cries happily; Rowan studies it; Mara jokes; Tessa asks for an optional future closer ring image and explicitly not as payment; Sereth requires My daughter looks happy; Ruvan remains cautious/glad; Aelira approves the small ceremony; Lethira calls Isha unfair. Sereth also gives bounded Coach 1 advice. Station remains unchanged; everyone is well. | | Kelda's first and second returned pages (Ch.240/252) | Thomas and Isha on Earth; Kanno knows only broad facts later disclosed | These establish the original bounded witness circle, family survival, ordinary recovery, Kelda's wants and her insistence that the couple live rather than return. Do not treat reported survival as proof everyone knows every Earth detail. | | Kelda's third and fourth returned pages (Ch.266/278) | Thomas and Isha on Earth; Kanno knows that current information exists but has not read the pages | The third confirms the Mugi page and unchanged witness circle; reports Kelda's east-road contract under her own craft authority, repaired culvert failure, finished bench, no true demons and still-dead black glass; and affirms that Green Road remains three without Kelda waiting beside an empty door. The fourth reports Erenai's station work and bounded knowledge, Ressa's bridge work and the King Beneath's separate sealed account. Exact wording remains controlled by direct prose. | | Kelda's fifth returned page (Ch.299) | Thomas and Isha on Earth; Kanno knows only that correspondence continues | Confirms the fifth outgoing page and unchanged family circle; reports family reactions, Kelda's bench/culvert work, and a useless fish made from twig and shavings. It explicitly asks whether both women stood after Isha's bout and tells Thomas not to punish his current body for lacking old strength. | | Kelda's sixth returned page (Ch.313) | Thomas and Isha on Earth; Kanno knows only bounded contact | Reports a successful prepared station transport carrying a healer and supplies to an injured worker. The route reduces distance; ordinary skill performs the healing. It does not establish Earth travel, free teleportation or a wider witness circle. | | Ian / external-narrative encounter and remote contact (Ch.351-370) | Isha experiences all four physical encounters; Kanno directly witnesses the 20 Aug restaurant encounter and later evidence review; Thomas learns the final account immediately on 26 Aug. Thomas/Isha receive later senderless messages | Observed physical-era facts remain Green Road/private knowledge, thought-response, object production, external photographs, train/geography anomaly and the senderless signed goodbye. After physical departure: Thomas receives “Happy Birthday🎁” on 15 Sep; Isha receives “I understand. The offer of sending something remains, whatever, to whomever. It is not an obligation.” on 18 Oct, apparently responding to her 16 Oct spoken boundary; on 28 Oct Isha receives the wedding-weather offer. No sender field or reply route is shown. Ian's cosmological terms remain claims rather than proven ontology. | | Ian's gifts / arrow provenance | Thomas, Isha and Kanno know the old-life objects and private record; Kanno is told the bounded Ch.366 arrow outcome | Tessa's ash-marked arrow in 202 is now strongly linked to the original she kept: Tessa reports it missing from the same linen wrapping, with a printed Common note left where it had been. The note says “I hope that sending your arrow to Isha, some kind of real connection between worlds and family, is worth the loss of it. If everyone agrees to something in exchange, decide it. If that is not required, I accept it. Please understand, my intention was good, even if they usually end up being less good.” This narrows removal vs duplication strongly toward removal, but no transport event is observed and the mechanism/Ian-control split remains unresolved. Thomas's bird, Isha's ribbon, Sereth's bowl/spoon and external photographs remain present as before. | | Ian's personal permission / privacy / weather boundary | Isha and Ian directly; Thomas knows all of Isha's account; Kanno knows the established permission, the 18 Oct response and sees the couple notice something about the wedding sunset without receiving the exact weather exchange on-page | Isha's permission remains only for herself. On 28 Oct Ian asks what weather they would like as an optional gift; Isha requests cool, dry, a little sun, and not much wind only if it can be done without making someone else's day worse. 30 Oct matches unusually closely, but intervention remains plausible rather than proven. Isha conditionally permits Ian to remain part of her life, refuses ownership/deity framing and does not reciprocate his crush; she cannot grant Thomas's, Kanno's, Kelda's or anyone else's permission. Later chat/construct contact expands the available communication mechanisms without retroactively granting personal access or making ambient thought access consensual. | | Legal marriage and 30 October wedding | Legal/ordinary facts are known to the relevant ward/embassy records, seven wedding guests, workplaces/friends/neighbours as naturally appropriate; Kanno alone carries the supernatural context | Kanno and Matsuda sign the notification as ordinary witnesses. The 30 October vows and ceremony contain no Green Road, magic, Daniel, System, correspondence or Ian disclosure; Mori, Sugiyama, Ishikawa, Matsuda, Saitō and Miyake hear only publicly safe relationship/work material. Do not infer supernatural knowledge from emotional accuracy in the vows. | | Ian's Ch.371 first fantasy-side visit / participant media | Kelda, Aelira, Sereth, Ruvan, Lethira and Ian directly; Sairen only in a bounded later layer | Ian appears uninvited at Kelda's door; Kelda chooses to continue. The named Wood Elf/family participants each choose whether to meet him and control recording/deletion/absence terms. Sairen later knowingly appears in the fixed-angle lunch recording and examines the contained cocoa-seed problem, but exact wider disclosure to her is unstated. This does not broaden the Hero-System page-sharing circle. | | Lethira's filtered Ch.357-train account reading (Ch.371) | Lethira reads; Ian supplies; Kelda is present but deliberately does not read over her shoulder | Lethira refuses Ian's proposed full raw account and asks for spoken/observable material plus only those interior thoughts Ian directly revealed he perceived during the encounter (for example the thought he answered). The machine excludes unrelated private narration and later T/I discussion. Isha is not asked first, and later prose through Ch.440 does not establish that either Isha or Thomas knows this disclosure occurred. The later Ch.373 permission is not retroactive approval. | | Ian bridge-confession / Isha's permission state (Ch.372) | Thomas and Isha directly; Kanno later receives a bounded account | Ian admits he deliberately chose Isha's pilgrim-bridge death as story pressure and withheld that specific responsibility on the train because he feared losing connection. Isha remains angry and trusts him less but does not withdraw her conditional personal connection. Thomas gives no general permission: where Thomas's choice is the point, Ian must ask Thomas. | | Raw bridge/death/Revive narrative reading (Ch.373) | Thomas/Isha authorise; readers are exactly Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Kelda, Aelira; Ian mediates | Raw interior narration is permitted only for the named readers and the selected bridge/death/Revive + immediate-recovery sections. Ian initially stops too early; he asks again instead of expanding scope himself. T/I clarify the intended endpoint. No other chapter, reader or thought access follows from this permission. | | Thomas-family direct Ian meeting / family media (Ch.373/377) | Mira, Rowan, Mara, Tessa, Kelda, Aelira and Ian directly; T/I later receive the selected gift | Kelda/Aelira ask first; all four family members agree separately. Household terms include outside arrival/knocking, no unasked gifts/demos, no farm alteration, no private-thought use and leaving on request. The family later spends three local fantasy-side days recording/deleting/choosing while Ian is absent; original album stays at farm and only the chosen exact copy/media is offered. Future visit permission is similarly household/person-specific, not general world access. | | Neutral café construct / four-person chat (Ch.378 onward) | Ian, Thomas, Isha and Kanno | T/I enter a neutral café through 202's flexible-room door while Kanno remains in ordinary Earth time. They refuse unconsented descent/listening near Larchmeet and refuse Ian following them into 202. The later nameless four-person chat is invitation-based and explicitly grants no additional permission simply by being joined. It is not Hero-System correspondence. | | Kanno one-to-one / private Ian knowledge / Berlin (Ch.385-386) | Kanno and Ian directly; T/I know only what Kanno chooses to share plus independently disclosed group-chat material | Kanno requires no body/memory/feeling/belongings change, no response to unspoken private material, no surprise demo/setting change and a known exit. Ian tells her ordinary-life facts (IT/new job, house, back exercises, failed Computer Science degree, insecurity/obsessive habits, recent anime interest). Kanno explicitly does not inventory all of this for T/I. Ian then moves passport/camera without asking; Kanno stops the trip, makes him correct it, and only after explicit consent visits real Berlin in the protagonists' Earth with her own camera. | | Machine-generated options / agency rule (Ch.385/390) | Kanno directly witnesses die/options; T/I later see/discuss an older option list; Ian supplies the mechanism claim | Machine generates option menus and Ian selects/tweaks them. Kanno's die rolls once normally and once to Ian's specified final six. T/I/Kanno each establish that meaningful decisions whose point is the person's own answer must remain theirs; Ian may choose circumstances or choose to hear what they decide instead. | | Stranger fall / option-16 correlation (Ch.388/390) | Ian, Thomas, Isha, Kanno | Ian says he chose Something Actually Bad Happens and constrained it to nothing serious + stranger. The later stranger fall near Isha fits closely. Do not canonise exact causation: the machine may have created, selected, relocated or otherwise realised an available event. | | PROTECTION ENABLED cause / Transfer 2.0 change (Ch.390/394) | T/I/Kanno know Ian's claim; T/I directly observe the first changed opening and Kanno is told it succeeded | Ian says he instructed his machine to modify the System after the dangerous Ch.278 event, strongly revising the earlier autonomous-System interpretation without independently proving mechanism/ontology. With T/I's explicit consent, he says future use will cause no passing out/pain/headache/illness while preserving same 30 cycles, one page, optional use, recipients/correspondence and no other changes. On 13 Feb the interface reads TRANSFER 2.0 'BEST ELF' EDITION; Thomas remains fully conscious, conversational and symptom-free and the normal sent/received/30-cycle status follows. This verifies the promised effect once, not Ian's ontology or universal future safety; T/I keep the old safety equipment available. | | Aelira photography continuity | Ch.392 controls the earlier state; Kanno/Aelira directly negotiate Ch.438 | Aelira was unphotographed through Ch.432. In Ch.438 she directly consents to one bounded session, reviews/deletes/selects the files and authorises six portraits to return privately. One specified frame may be shown to Thomas/Isha. Future photography/sharing still requires new permission. | | Kanno / Venera 14 Venus trip (Ch.394) | Kanno and Ian directly; Thomas/Isha know through the group chat, speaker call and Kanno's return to 202 | Ian asks permission to propose a photo opportunity; Kanno then explicitly consents only after specifying the real Venera 14 site, her own unchanged camera, safe perception of the real environment, no site improvement and no lasting human trace. She makes 27 photographs; Ian makes three consented photographs of her with her camera. Kanno returns through a door into 202 while Ian remains on the Venus side. The files are private and do not give any institution, Miyake or other acquaintance knowledge of the trip. | | Ian 100MP universe image (Ch.394) | Ian, Kanno, Thomas and Isha | Ian asks before placing one surprise photograph on Kanno's phone. She permits exactly one; it depicts the visible universe from an impossible external vantage and is shared with T/I. Kanno keeps it under separate Ian provenance. Do not treat it as public astrophysical evidence or as one of her Venus camera photographs. | | Machine-generated Kanno/Venus approximation (Ch.395-396) | Ian/Kanno by provenance; Isha sees the print in Ch.395; Thomas is not established as seeing it through Ch.440 | The external machine produces an image resembling Kanno beside Venera 14 but not identical to her camera work. Kanno deliberately stores/prints it separately as a reconstruction/interpretation. It does not prove file theft or become part of the actual Venus photographic set. | | Olympus Mons initial proposal (Ch.394) | Ian, Thomas, Isha and Kanno through the group chat | Ian's joking “we're going next weekend” wording is corrected. At this point Isha is genuinely interested in climbing Olympus Mons but gives no trip consent and tells Ian to return with an actual proposal. | | Olympus Mons first survey (Ch.397) | Ian, Thomas, Isha and Kanno directly | Ian later proposes a bounded safety model preserving real Mars gravity/terrain, fatigue, soreness, blisters and non-catastrophic consequences while preventing catastrophic injury/death. Isha agrees to a first survey only. All four visit the real Olympus Mons; Isha flies under her own control and carries Thomas during part of the aerial survey, while Kanno makes actual camera files and allows Ian to make consented frames with her camera. They choose no climbing route. Isha wants a longer second survey before deciding any climb. | | Matsuda and Isha's gold (Ch.395-396) | Thomas/Isha know origin/full private history; Matsuda knows only the bounded material/professional problem | Thomas tells Matsuda that Isha owns a large natural gold-bearing specimen: original cleaned specimen 1,098.4 g, now a little over a kilogram after the documented sample; prior destructive assay/sale, lawyer/accountant review and acquisition-document gap are shown in bounded form. Matsuda is not procurement and does not know the fantasy origin, Ian, System, Daniel or any supernatural explanation. He agrees only to ask a work contact which independent materials-testing firms they would trust for a project shortlist, whether any accept private clients and what sample-custody/reporting standards matter. No corporate supplier relationship is used. | | Kanno / Miyake repair conversation (Ch.396) | Kanno and Miyake; Isha later returns during the conversation | Miyake knows Kanno has private photographs for which box/album/removable mounting may matter and that Kanno's wall project makes her interested in visible repair. Kanno does not show or identify the Venus photographs, does not invent a cover origin, and does not disclose Ian. Miyake remains fully outside the fantasy/Ian secret. | | Thomas and Isha survived together after disappearing from the Broken Court | Thomas, Isha and Kanno on Earth; the named fantasy family circle | Kanno knows the broad possible final-resurrection chain. The fantasy circle knows survival in another world through the pages, not legal Earth identities, Cleanse, the transfer mechanism, precise geography or a route to Earth. |

Known Earth-Side Perspectives

Kanno Emi

Kanno is a main mutual friend, not merely an exception cell in the secrecy table. She believes Thomas and Isha sincerely remember the other life, has seen one impossible Cleanse result, knows the first exact System health message and bounded interpretation, witnessed one protected passage and has handled the private Ian evidence since Ch.358. By Ch.440 she has also seen selected fantasy-side media, joined the four-person chat, directly witnessed the option/die mechanism, met Ian one-to-one, travelled with him to real Berlin and Venus, used the Mercury ticket alone, met Lethira and Aelira separately, joined their shared neutral afternoon, photographed Aelira under consent, and retained the universe image under separate provenance. She has not resolved the metaphysics and deliberately separates what Ian demonstrated from what he says it means. She keeps the fantasy secret from Matsuda and others because she chooses to, not because the couple appoint her as custodian.

Kanno's one-to-one relationship creates a second privacy boundary inside the informed Earth circle. Ian tells her ordinary facts about his own life, including IT work/recent job change, wife, adult daughters, a house/ordinary Yorkshire life, back exercises, a failed Computer Science degree, insecurity/obsessive habits and recent anime enthusiasm. Ian says he has no secrets from Thomas/Isha, but Kanno explicitly decides that this does not make the contents of her private conversation theirs to receive as an inventory. She shares what she thinks materially changes their common situation and keeps other personal questions/details to herself. T/I accept this.

Kanno is not expected to:

If an unrelated emergency occurs in her presence, she acts as any close friend would. Otherwise, knowing changes interpretation rather than creating duties.

Medical staff

Doctors, nurses, paramedics, physiotherapy staff and endocrinology staff know the recorded road accident, coma, memory disturbance, recovery and observed physical condition. Ch.278 adds a documented ambulance transfer for prolonged transient unconsciousness with fluctuating recognition; urgent testing is reassuring and the clinic arranges non-urgent neurology review.

They may observe:

They do not infer magic, reincarnation, elves, fabricated continuity, pages or another world. Medical curiosity remains ordinary unless later prose establishes a specific concern.

University and acquaintances

Matsuda, the former seminar adviser, club contacts, coaches and other university acquaintances know the supplied history and whatever contact occurs after the accident. Kanno is the sole exception and must not be grouped back into this uninformed set.

The uninformed group may reasonably believe:

They do not know that Thomas and Isha remember another life, that their supplied relationship is unremembered or that fantasy events were real. Ch.224's social rule still holds: people may keep memories Thomas and Isha cannot share, while the couple listen without faking recall or taking those memories away.

Officials, employers, neighbours and shops

Banks, municipal offices, landlords, employers, transport staff, neighbours and shop workers see legally documented foreign residents recovering from an accident.

Use ordinary explanations:

Do not make ordinary institutions suspicious merely because the protagonists are unusual.

Language and Private Speech

Cross-world correspondence language

Every transmitted page is physically written in Common. The transfer provides transport, not translation or knowledge. Common has no native words for Earth-only technology, institutions, geography, political categories or social systems.

Thomas and Isha must therefore write through concepts Common can express. Proper names such as Sendai, Japan and Earth may be represented approximately as foreign sound-labels, but the names carry no meaning beyond whatever hierarchy or explanation the page supplies. Kelda may repeat such a label while quoting the page, but cannot infer its geography, government, culture or scale.

Modern terms in reader-facing English letter quotations are translations of an underlying Common description, not proof that the modern word exists in Common. For example:

Kelda and every fantasy-world recipient know only the description actually supplied. They cannot infer electricity, telephones, aircraft, modern medicine, nation-states, Earth calendars, apartment systems or other connected concepts merely because a convenient English translation appears in prose.

Before any outgoing or returned letter is finalised, audit both vocabulary and understanding:

Magic and Transfer Secrecy

From the opening of Chapter 216, Isha knows that Cleanse returned. Level 6 cleaning, scent, hair, temperature, drying, limited suspended-soil and minor-soothing results; the full correspondence sequence through twenty sends / nineteen receipts; the retained copies; and every exact activation limit remain primarily private between Thomas and Isha. Kanno knows the broad truth, has seen one selective cleaning demonstration, witnessed one protected passage and has seen the 16 August anomaly/counter record, but she does not possess the complete archive or activation protocol. Use spells.md for mechanics.

Keep three mechanisms distinct: Cleanse is Thomas-cast; the Hero-System passage remains the roughly thirty-cycle/one-page recognition route; the Ian/external mechanism supplies chat, objects/media, neutral doors, direct fantasy visits, Berlin transport and claimed System modification. Ian's mechanism is not castable by T/I and does not inherit the System payload/cooldown.

Default rules:

Cleanse should remain a private domestic fact and weak cross-world residue, not the beginning of public supernatural disclosure or a progression-led return plot. The monthly Hero-System transfer must not become a public experiment, online mystery or institutionally observed anomaly. Ian's separate mechanism can bypass its physical payload limits but does not thereby upgrade them. Mugi's behaviour does not expand either mechanism. Thomas and Isha may observe without coercive testing; Isha's standing rule remains choice before obedience and affection before usefulness.

Cross-World Boundary

Authoring Traps