#I think just some rando sets the popper off at Fushimi there I remember Aya doesn't do much

[ridiasfangirlings]

This may seem silly, but can you help explain the "virus" Fushimi experienced when it came to Hisui and Munakata hinting at it, please? Is it a real biological virus, a tech one in a machine, or just a figurative virus? Thank you!

These are both references to things that happen in Lost Small World. I'll start with the second ask first, just because it happens first in the novel: basically cute chuunibyou middle schoolers Yata ad Fushimi decide they're going to 'show the world' their strength by messing with jungle, not knowing at the time anything about clans or Kings. Jungle's given a mission to hold a 'surprise party' at Bar Homra, basically this is just Hisui fucking with Homra because he can. A bunch of kids gather around the bar wearing masks and holding party poppers and start causing a ruckus around the bar.

Yata and Fushimi meanwhile have a whole plan to mess with this, involving Fushimi faking that jungle's been hacked using one of his own programs and Yata blending in with the crowd to spread the word and cause confusion. Unfortunately for them Hisui decides to make himself known at that point, talking to Fushimi via a computer avatar and making a comment about if Yata is all right. A worried Fushimi unplugs his computer and then goes running to find Yata, which is when Aya (his cousin, who will show up again later in this ask) sets off a party popper right in his face. This is where the eye thing comes in, though there's no mention of him possibly losing an eye or anything -- the novel does say afterward that he goes to the doctor and his vision in that eye is slightly worse now but his eyes were already bad so it's not a big deal.

The virus is from the latter half of the novel (if you've only seen LSW Seven Stories this is the part the movie cut off). Hisui gives Aya the mission of getting Fushimi away from Homra. She decides to do this via a virus that infects his PDA, Fushimi gets a mysterious email and the virus is enclosed. The actual nature of the virus isn't entirely explained, it's clearly more than just a simple normal computer virus since it actively makes him see hallucinations of Niki. I assume Hisui used some King powers to boost it up somehow in order to make the virus affect him as long as his PDA was nearby. Later in the novel Fushimi meets with Munakata and drops his PDA after hallucinating a S4 member is Niki, Munakata realizes what's going on and drops the hint 'you may have caught a cold.'

#Talking K #the translations of the first part of the novel aren't available anymore but the manga is fairly accurate as I recall #7 Stories skipped a lot of stuff so the eye thing isn't really mentioned #I think just some rando sets the popper off at Fushimi there I remember Aya doesn't do much #but in the novel it's explicitly her who does it #the virus is left a little ambiguous we know it is tied to his PDA and is a computer virus #but some King shenanigans must be happening #since Fushimi's seeing pretty detailed hallucinations