When I opened my eyes, I saw a pale woman wearing black tights. Her hair stood on end and her eyes glowed red.
“That’s IMPORTRANGE, isn’t it?”
Inoue muttered out loud.
“It’s big, this is troublesome.”
“What do you mean?”
“I should have told you this before, but it’s a function that pulls data from other sheets. And since there is so much space here, it means it must be targetting a fairly large range of data.”
“I see. The larger the range of data, the stronger IMPORTRANGE is.”
“That’s how it is. When you know you can’t win, you have to move quickly. Just keep that in mind. If we’re unlucky, it will collapse this place all on its own.”
When I heard the explanation of IMPORTRANGE, I thought it was convenient, but it also meant that it placed a heavy burden on us. I hoped I would be able to avoid hospitalisation again. As I was thinking about that, IMPORTRANGE noticed me.
‘Choose…’
“Eh? Eh?”
A deep voice directly sounded in my head. Saito and Inoue both seemed unfazed. Was I the only one who could hear it?
“Oh, don’t worry about it. It’s the same as always.”
“Hey, don’t tell me you haven’t seen Ghostbusters?”
“I-I’m sorry. I think I saw it when I was in elementary school, I don’t remember much of the details.”
“Tch, what. Don’t they rebroadcast it all the time…but this is fine. It’s asking us how we want to fight it from here. If you imagine something scary or unpleasant, it would chose that form and transform into it.”
I tried to think of something scary or unpleasant, but to be honest, since I was born, I had lived in the city, so there weren’t that many things like that around me. If I had to say something…
“For now, don’t think of anything, I always…”
‘The choice has been made…’
“Hey, wait a moment, was that you Inoue?”
“Oh, sorry, I was in a daze and wasn’t thinking of anything.”
Space twisted and IMPORTRANGE’s body was sucked into the twist, disappearing.
“Hey, Takahashi. What were you thinking of?”
“Uh, no, it wasn’t anything scary or unpleasant…”
Don-!!
Something heavy fell at a high speed to where the female IMPORTRANGE had been a moment ago. It might have been an illusion, but it looked like the floor had shook, as if undulating and I fell on my backside.
“That hurts, what is it?”
When I looked at it, I immediately straightend up. Then I realised, oh, that’s the worst. I reincarnated into spreadsheets and now I see him. His sagging belly that was even bigger than Saito’s rested on his belt. He wore a white shirt with a tight tie around his neck. His head had thinner, slightly receding, hair and his eyes still held that displeased expression.
“Eh? Who’s this fat guy?”
“What the hell, here I was thinking it was the new Godzilla or something, what a let down. Who the hell is that guy?”
“That’s…Manager Yamashita.”