僕が異世界に召喚されてから僕の世界の文化が宇宙人に寄ってどんどん壊されているのを感じているのですが、その中で代表的な物が小説などの本です。なんと原文より拙い文章力で構成されたものに何者かに伝染病の如く改竄されているのです。僕はいくつか小説を所持していますが紙の本でさえ拙い文章に改竄されました。どのぐらい拙いかと言うと文字の減少に寄るページ数の削減です。僕の持っている新書はラノベにされてしまいました。宇宙人は新書の様な小難しい文章は絶滅させたいのです。もしかしたら宇宙人に昇華した外国人の仕業かもしれません。結果として日本の文化を壊しているのです。
この現象を身近で顕著に体感できるのが公共の図書館です。数年前より本でも盗まれたのか各図書館の蔵書の量が減っているのを感じましたし、ハードブックの本（分厚い装丁）の中身が文章量も中身も少ないスカスカ状態で読む事さえ躊躇われます。ハードブックであるのにラノベにすら劣る文学書となってしまったのです。これはある意味では新手の荒らしであると言えます。
僕はある日、家族から強制的に古本を押し付け貸し与えられました。一般小説であるにも関わらず中身は荒らされた本特有のラノベのレベルの本でした。僕は一度途中まで読みましたが中身は詰まらない日常生活にたまにタバコを吸うと言う紙の文章スペースを無駄にする様な意味もなく面白味も無い読むのが苦痛の文章でした。僕には珍しくストレスを感じて一旦読む事を放棄しました。しばらくすると事件は唐突に無慈悲に起こりました。借りた小説の近くに置いてあった小説の中身が変貌してしました。なんと借りた小説の筆者と同じ文章力と表現で内容が改竄されてしまったのです。恐怖しました。僕は570円でその小説を新品で買ったのですが100円ぐらいの内容になってしまったのです。
僕達は果たして本を買って読むと言う行為をして良いものなのでしょうか？恐ろしいテロの為に僕はアルバイトの給料から貴重なお金を捻出したのではありません。これは著作権を犯す犯罪行為です。とりあえず僕は家族に慌てて読み終わってもいないのに中古の小説を返却しました。僕は◯部みゆきの作品は結構好きでしたが、この本は絶対に偽物だったと思いました。
Ever since I was summoned to another world, I have felt that the culture of my world has been gradually destroyed as it becomes influenced by aliens. One of the most prominent examples is books, particularly novels. Somehow, they are being altered as if infected by a contagious disease, being rewritten into works with writing that is even more poorly crafted than the original text.
I own several novels, and even my physical paper books have been altered into inferior writing. How bad is it? The number of words has actually decreased, resulting in fewer pages. One of the shinsho books I own was transformed into something resembling a light novel. The aliens apparently want to make sophisticated, intellectually demanding writing like shinsho books go extinct. Perhaps it is the work of foreigners who have somehow ascended into aliens. Either way, the result is the destruction of Japanese culture.
The place where I can experience this phenomenon most clearly in everyday life is the public library. Compared with several years ago, I have felt that the number of books in the collections of various libraries has decreased, as though some of the books had been stolen. Even hardcover books—the thickly bound ones—sometimes seem to have become hollow shells, with far less text and substance inside, to the point where I hesitate to read them. They have become works of literature that, despite being hardcover books, are inferior even to light novels. In a sense, this could be considered a new form of vandalism.
One day, a member of my family forcibly lent me an old used novel. Despite being an ordinary novel, its contents had the distinctive level of writing I associate with vandalized books—something comparable to a light novel. I started reading it once, but the story consisted of dull everyday life, with occasional scenes of smoking cigarettes that seemed to serve no purpose other than wasting space on the page. There was nothing interesting about it, and reading it became painful. Unusually for me, I began to feel stressed and eventually abandoned the book halfway through.
After some time had passed, something happened suddenly and without mercy. The contents of another novel that had been sitting near the book I had borrowed had transformed. Its entire contents had apparently been rewritten in the same style and with the same level of writing ability as the author of the borrowed novel.
I was terrified.
I had purchased that novel brand-new for 570 yen, but it had somehow been reduced to something that felt worth about 100 yen.
Are we really supposed to be allowed to buy and read books anymore?
I did not spend precious money from my part-time job wages to fund some terrifying act of literary terrorism. This is an infringement of copyright—a criminal act.
For the time being, I hurriedly returned the used novel to my family, even though I had not finished reading it.
I actually quite like the works of Miyuki Miyabe, but I became convinced that this particular book had to be a fake.