chapter 17:”……Perfection.”

“W-wait a minute, Professor Jin, a phone call all of a sudden?”

“Yes, is there any reason not to? Professor Yang Sunchul.”

“No, it’s not that…… It’s just that it might be too impulsive…….”

“It’s not impulsive. It’s a quick response.”

Even to a senior professor who had more than 10 years of experience than him, Professor Jin Junggeon did not back down on his opinion.

It was not so much Professor Jin Junggeon’s unique stubbornness,

but rather, if you want to stop me, bring a reason and convincing logic that fits it.

On the other hand,

“Supplementary…… documents……?”

“Um, Professor Ryu.”

Professor Ryu Hongdan, who had been trembling with her head bowed with both hands.

She peeked her head up at the familiar sound.

Professor Ryu sent a dark-circled gaze filled with question marks to Professor Jin Junggeon.

“You can think of it as similar to the process of you becoming a KAIST professor as a North Korean defector, Professor Ryu.”

“Ah, ahh…… Aha…….”

Professor Ryu Hongdan seemed to understand what it was about.

Because it wasn’t easy for her to become a KAIST professor as a North Korean defector.

“B-but…… I-I’m not Professor Ryu…… I’m Professor Ryu Hongdan…… Won’t you call me that……? Wh-what was it…… Ah, I remember. Double Standard…?”

(TL Note: Double Standard is a loan word in Korean pronounced Naeronambul)

“No. Because you, Professor Ryu, are still a half-baked professor without tenure.”

“……This wicked Seonggyeong kkaengjaengi.”(TL note: derogatory term(Religious nag))

“It’s ‘Seoul kkaengjaengi‘. It seems that the red water hasn’t been washed away yet. Will you be able to get tenure like

that? Professor Ryu.”

“Eek……!!”

It was said that even a mouse bites a cat when cornered.

Professor Ryu Hongdan threatened with a posture like an angry hamster next to him.

Whether or not, Professor Jin Junggeon made a call as scheduled according to the phone number on the admission

application.

“Then, I’ll call right away.”

Amae Shizuko.

Since it was a university entrance exam, of course, I thought she was a high school girl,

‘Hmph, you thought you could pull the wool over our eyes by writing High school using your foreign nationality. You

used your head a little.’

When I looked at the date of birth, she was actually a middle school girl,

‘It’s not a completely wrong expression, but it means you’re that confident, right? Super☆Genius♡ Japanese kid.’

To the cheeky kid who calls herself a super genius.

―Click.

The sound of the call connecting was heard from Professor Jin Junggeon’s smartphone.

First of all, as a professor of a prestigious university with culture and dignity, he revealed the subject of the call.

“Hello……(translation)…….”

(Hello. I am calling from the Department of Physics at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,

KAIST, regarding Amae Shizuko’s application. Is this Amae Shizuko?)

Of course, in English.

‘Japanese, which has the same word order, is as easy as a Frenchman learning English…… but I won’t speak

Japanese. Even if your parents answered instead.’

The fact that she applied for the second semester in the first place meant that she had to be good at English.

Because all classes and assignments at KAIST were conducted by reading, writing, and speaking in English.

“Amae Shizuko……(translation)…….”

(If you are Amae Shizuko’s parents, please tell her to…….)

Ah, it’s me. Me. The person. Amae Shizuko.

“…….”

But what came back was neither English nor Japanese, but very fluent Korean.

It really seemed like a middle school girl, with a voice that seemed to sparkle Kira~☆ Kira☆ for some reason.

‘I’m sure, I have a hunch.’

Other professors would just hear it as a child’s voice,

but Professor Jin Junggeon had his own ability to thoroughly distinguish whether the other person was an

elementary school student, middle school student, high school student, or spoiled.

Also,

‘No, more than that…… Did you really write it in Korean from the beginning? It wasn’t translated by a translator or

GPT?’

Professor Jin Junggeon couldn’t help but be surprised.

He never thought that she would have written the self-introduction in Korean because she really knew Korean…….

Huh? Hello~ Hello~? Professor, your international call fee is leaking like a bottomless pit, is it okay?

Besides, he couldn’t imagine that she would speak so fluently and perfectly that he couldn’t tell whether she was

Korean or Japanese just by her voice.

“……Korean……(translation)…….”

(……You are fluent in Korean.)

Aha, thank you☆ If you’re going to study abroad, isn’t it basic and polite to know the language of that country?

It wasn’t just that she was fluent in Korean.

So far, they have only exchanged a few words, but the girl beyond the smartphone clearly understood what Professor Jin Junggeon meant and answered.

In other words, speaking was still unknown,

but at least English listening was possible without any problems.

‘A Japanese middle school girl who speaks three languages.’

A middle school girl who speaks three languages.

The latter may not be known, but the former was not so great in this day and age.

Because as artificial intelligence develops, the language barrier is gradually breaking down.

Ah, but still,

“……?”

Nevertheless, Professor Jin Junggeon,

this time, could not help but be almost astonished,

Amae Shizuko, she,

Since you’re still sticking to English even though I keep speaking Korean, you’re still stubborn~ Right? Professor

Jin Junggeon?

“……?!!”

Jin Junggeon, knew who he was.

As if she had some kind of precognitive ability.

Mentioning the nickname ‘stubborn’, which he hates to hear the most.

―Glare!

Professor Jin Junggeon glared at Professor Seo Anguk for a moment.

It was then.

Ah~ Professor Seo Anguk is not at fault. Anyway, since this call was made by Professor Jin Junggeon, how could I

have known in advance?

Amae Shizuko said as if she knew everything about how Professor Jin Junggeon was acting right now.

More importantly, why don’t you proceed with the test that you originally intended to do?

You can ask me a lot of things in person during the interview later, right?

Let’s leave it as a pleasure until then♡

Professor Jin Junggeon felt a chill for a moment.

The feeling that I don’t know the other person, but the other person knows everything about

“Also……(translation)…….”

(I was planning to do that anyway. Don’t be so presumptuous, kusogaki(damn kid))

Professor Jin Junggeon, for the first time in a long time, lost his composure and unknowingly uttered a Japanese curse word,

Stubborn♡ Poop-stubborn♥ Weak~☆

but it didn’t have the slightest impact on Shizuko.

“……Ugh!!”

Rather, his mental damage only worsened with the counterattack that came back.

―Switching to speakerphone.

Professor Jin Junggeon roughly put down his smartphone.

―Call recording…….

At the same time, he pressed the call recording button along with the speakerphone.

“W-wait a minute, Professor Jin……! If you’re going to record, you have to notify in advance…….”

“It’s okay. This is my personal call.”

“……No.”

“And there’s no reason why that personal call can’t be used as data.”

From now on, this, Amae Shizuko,

whether she, just a middle school girl, is qualified to apply for KAIST,

will be used as evidence to judge that.

Moreover,

‘If it’s really written directly…… it won’t be a matter of just entering.’

The pile of papers she sent under the name of proof of excellence,

will be the turning point to determine whether Amae Shizuko really wrote them directly.

That turning point will surely be a genius and a prodigy.

A Japanese genius middle school girl, she will break the beginning.

‘Hmph, she’s just a middle school girl. I was once called a genius and a prodigy.’

Of course, Professor Jin Junggeon wouldn’t just stand by and watch that happen.

He is the king of spite.

Besides, Professor Jin Junggeon has been causing numerous criticism and knife fights at academic conferences,

so he is a famous blacklisted existence in the overseas physics world.

‘Amae Shizuko, I will reveal your kusogaki inadequacies to the world.’

That sincerity right now,

he was trying to reveal it to Shizuko as it is.

“From now…….”

(Then from now…….)

It was then.

Good day, esteemed professors of the KAIST Department of Physics.

The language changed in an instant.

My name is Shizuko Amae, and I am a 13-year-old applicant for this entrance program.

The atmosphere completely changed.

(I know that you all have various doubts and questions about me, who is still just a child.)

Very formal English expressions.

As if presenting in front of an audience at an overseas academic conference.

(Nevertheless, I dare to request that, for now, more than anything else, whether I have the qualifications and skills to

enter KAIST,)

Shizuko was politely appealing to everyone.

Or, provoking.

For now, ignore all other trivial things,

only,

(I would appreciate it if everyone, as a physicist and an expert in their respective fields, would make a strict

judgment.)

Let’s talk only with physics.

“…….”

“…….”

“…….”

“…….”

The four professors gathered here could not have failed to notice the atmosphere and meaning.

They were all eccentrics like KAIST,

but in that one field they were digging into, they were experts who could compete in the world.

“……Miss Amae. I am Professor Seo Anguk. Following your words, I will put everything else aside for now.”

Professor Seo Anguk was the first to speak.

“So, in this Q&A, I will not see you as just a middle school girl, a student, or an applicant. Just as physicists to each

other. Right?”

Shizuko replied that she understood correctly.

In her voice, there was a strange bitterness and apology.

Professor Seo Anguk couldn’t help but be bothered by it,

but a promise was a promise.

“……Then, let’s go without any additions or subtractions.”

Professor Seo Anguk pointed to one of Shizuko’s papers and started to skim it in real time, and at the same time, started to ask.

“Your second proof of excellence, does the weak measurement mentioned here mean a measurement based on

Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?”

(Yes, you can think of it as having no relation to Weak value amplification, which is the same term but used in a

completely different sense.)

“I see. Then what about certification? How far is it possible? Just entanglement?”

(Depending on how you control the degree of weak measurement, it is possible to confirm steering and non-locality

beyond simple entanglement witness.)

(In the case of steering, both one-way and two-way are possible depending on the control of the measurement

intensity.)

“I understand. I’m still reading, but no matter how much you prevent the collapse of the quantum state with weak

measurement, you can’t avoid the collapse of the quantum state as long as you get information from the

measurement.”

(That’s right.)

“Nevertheless, the fact that recovery is possible, isn’t it an unphysical thing that violates Heisenberg’s uncertainty

principle, which was the original basic theory?”

(Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle only forces when considering all systems of a closed system, not an open

system.)

(Therefore, it does not violate the existing principle by being probabilistically restored, not unconditionally restored,

and can still exist as a physical phenomenon that makes sense.)

“……There is no discrepancy. I’ll ask in reverse, can you say that it is certification if it is possible to certify probabilistically?”

(I think that’s a good point. In that case, you can think of the same sampling assumption first mentioned in Bell’s paper.)

“Isn’t it an assumption anyway? Can you dare to physically guarantee that the first sample made and the next sample made will be the same?”

(Then it goes to the problem of how stably the source can be made.)

(Therefore, it deviates from the main claim of this paper, but…….)

“Still, tell me as much as possible. Your thoughts.”

(Yes, if I were to say so, assuming an optical experiment, if it is in the visible and near-infrared range, then

thermodynamically, light can be seen as virtually stationary at absolute zero.)

“……Did you deliberately not mention that it was an optical experiment at the beginning of the paper, for the sake of this Q&A?”

(Fufu, I’ll leave that to your imagination, Professor.)

“…….”

The physical Q&A between Shizuko and Professor Seo Anguk.

This one sentence was enough for the evaluation.

“Perfection.”

Not a single professor objected to that assessment.