{ "dataList": [ { "id": 0, "content": "So, what do you think?" }, { "id": 1, "content": "I get to visit a museum, an exhibition featuring brand-new pieces of art every single day. All that for a bit of physical labor." }, { "id": 2, "content": "No, no. I'm not expecting an answer. I don't think anyone else would care to look at this writing, either." }, { "id": 3, "content": "Consider this... a complex, unsimplifiable art critique, after a visit to a gallery." }, { "id": 4, "content": "There wasn't anything special that drew me to join this company. I didn't find it very exciting, either." }, { "id": 5, "content": "When I was offered this Cleanup Agent job, I considered it no different from my usual contracts, except that I'll be guaranteed a fixed income." }, { "id": 6, "content": "I thought 'of course, a corporation of this size, a Wing at that, must have stuff to \"clean up\" here and there'." }, { "id": 7, "content": "I didn't care about what they did, as long as they didn't annoy me. So I signed the contract." }, { "id": 8, "content": "So imagine my surprise..." }, { "id": 9, "content": "When this train that people take without giving it a second thought, every single day..." }, { "id": 10, "content": "Turned out to be a gallery of arts, sculpted with chisels of time!" }, { "id": 11, "content": "While I was impressed with how well they were hiding this truth from the public... three words came to mind." }, { "id": 12, "content": "This. Is. It." }, { "id": 13, "content": "In hindsight, I was so absorbed with chasing after and creating my own \"art\"..." }, { "id": 14, "content": "...That I neglected to appreciate the \"art\" of others." }, { "id": 15, "content": "A shameful realization. Appreciating others' art expands and deepens your understanding of this act of creation, regardless of its genre." }, { "id": 16, "content": "That was why my recent work had been plagued with vapidity and regurgitation." }, { "id": 17, "content": "No genuine, vivid imagination comes forth without a touch of reality." }, { "id": 18, "content": "I saw one that used its soft tissues to conjoin two train cars, becoming a new 'door' between them..." }, { "id": 19, "content": "One that wrapped its flesh around the plush side of the seat, embodying a new chair with extra cushioning..." }, { "id": 20, "content": "One that is an amalgam of many, taking the shape of a new organism and lurching on... Though I wouldn't classify that as 'art'. Not yet." }, { "id": 21, "content": "It doesn't qualify even as a performance art, as there was no intent to create the 'art' behind it." }, { "id": 22, "content": "Shambling without intent is... in the end, insufficient to be called art. It is incomplete at best." }, { "id": 23, "content": "I butcher them. Because the company ordered me to make them easier to clean up." }, { "id": 24, "content": "To interfere with the process of involuntary art isn't to my liking, no... But that doesn't happen very often. Besides, there is plenty to be gained from the rest." }, { "id": 25, "content": "I enjoyed the company issued gear, too." }, { "id": 26, "content": "Void Curseblade. Refraction Demonblade. Dimensional Art Knife... I had many ideas for the name of this blade, but I eventually landed on Dimensional Demon Edge." }, { "id": 27, "content": "I particularly enjoyed the part where it drained me when I cut down an incomplete art without proper preparation." }, { "id": 28, "content": "Indeed, dealing with works of art without appropriate mindfulness is itself an act of self-destruction." }, { "id": 29, "content": "Haah... I would have loved to keep doing that kind of work..." }, { "id": 30, "content": "I would have even foregone sleep to do so." }, { "id": 31, "content": "Shit... What are the higher—ups thinking? It's ludicrous, making me babysit these rookies..." }, { "id": 32, "content": "Hmph, look at that guy over there, blabbering on and on. Maybe he enjoys this kind of humdrum work." }, { "id": 33, "content": "What an oddity. How does he find this interesting in any capacity when solid gold rolls into the station every single day?" }, { "id": 34, "content": "If he likes B.S. that much, he might as well do this whole drivel himself..." }, { "id": 35, "content": "Hah, as if they'd let that happen." }, { "id": 36, "content": "Damn it, even at this very moment I'm missing out..." } ] }