Yes... The syndrome has different levels of infection, the lowest one is what could be called the dormant state. No symptoms or anything. As people experience stress or homesicked, the syndrome activates and scales through the levels, per say. It starts slowly, a feeling at times of being watched or followed, the impression of hearing people talk in a suspicious tone...
Slowly the hallucinations start, at first just overlapping reality, like having someone who's not smiling showing a psychotic smile. But by the final levels the hallucinations are almost a full time thing, you see things where there's nothing, and interact with them without even noticing they aren't real... You can touch them and they will feel real. And all builds up to paranoia, to feeling unsafe, unable to trust even your closest friends as they are the ones who are out for him, everything is against you, out to kill you... By the final level people are just at a situation in which they will kill what they think is a threat to survive. And eventually they end scratching their own throats, tearing them out with their own hands.
However I'm not saying that it can't be treated or stopped. There's a medicine that may help to supress the symptoms and lower the level of infection. And it's not contagious, only upon going to Hinamizawa one can get infected... And even without the medicine it's possible to bring people out of the paranoia, with the right words and a lot of effort but... It's possible.
So... While it's dangerous it's not to say that it's an immediate threat to anyone... But not everyone thinks that way. There's one woman, convinced that the disease is so extreme that if the Queen Carrier dies everyone in the village would go crazy in less than twenty four hours... And she's out to prove it, even if to do so it means she has to kill the Queen Carrier with her own hands. She... Aims to prove that her research is right and true and won't stop at anything.
[He stops for a second.]
Right now there are two people in Luceti infected with the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Myself and... The woman who's after Rika Furude's life. Though technically one shouldn't find her too dangerous but one can't know how the syndrome will affect her. Rika's not around and Luceti is stressful as it is. The idea that she can't reach her goals may be a serious trigger and even when she's not at the high levels of the disease she just can be dangerous as it is. But it's just a possibility. I won't say that she's definitively dangerous or anything, I don't know how much of it is caused by her own mind and how much is due the syndrome. And if we were to consider her a high threat as things are... Then me too should be labelled as one, as I'm infected too, even if in all this time I haven't harmed anyone.
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Slowly the hallucinations start, at first just overlapping reality, like having someone who's not smiling showing a psychotic smile. But by the final levels the hallucinations are almost a full time thing, you see things where there's nothing, and interact with them without even noticing they aren't real... You can touch them and they will feel real. And all builds up to paranoia, to feeling unsafe, unable to trust even your closest friends as they are the ones who are out for him, everything is against you, out to kill you... By the final level people are just at a situation in which they will kill what they think is a threat to survive. And eventually they end scratching their own throats, tearing them out with their own hands.
However I'm not saying that it can't be treated or stopped. There's a medicine that may help to supress the symptoms and lower the level of infection. And it's not contagious, only upon going to Hinamizawa one can get infected... And even without the medicine it's possible to bring people out of the paranoia, with the right words and a lot of effort but... It's possible.
So... While it's dangerous it's not to say that it's an immediate threat to anyone... But not everyone thinks that way. There's one woman, convinced that the disease is so extreme that if the Queen Carrier dies everyone in the village would go crazy in less than twenty four hours... And she's out to prove it, even if to do so it means she has to kill the Queen Carrier with her own hands. She... Aims to prove that her research is right and true and won't stop at anything.
[He stops for a second.]
Right now there are two people in Luceti infected with the Hinamizawa Syndrome. Myself and... The woman who's after Rika Furude's life. Though technically one shouldn't find her too dangerous but one can't know how the syndrome will affect her. Rika's not around and Luceti is stressful as it is. The idea that she can't reach her goals may be a serious trigger and even when she's not at the high levels of the disease she just can be dangerous as it is. But it's just a possibility. I won't say that she's definitively dangerous or anything, I don't know how much of it is caused by her own mind and how much is due the syndrome. And if we were to consider her a high threat as things are... Then me too should be labelled as one, as I'm infected too, even if in all this time I haven't harmed anyone.
[Except himself.]