Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-107.219.185.91-20140105042639/@comment-4533448-20140225183145

72.10.223.93 wrote: Yuri says that they know when a person is an NPC and when they are human (with the exception of Ooyama, but Yui's quite different from Ooyama). I assume that's how they knew Yui was a human instead of an NPC. In adition, there is time in the Afterlife. Why else would the Programmer wait around? If there wasn't time, then there would be no point to waiting for his loved one to arrive again in the Afterlife. The Programmer may not be aware of the time differences. He may not have known any other humans around besides his lover, and therefore, unable to compare like what had proven to us (we witnessed as many humans as there can be in SSS). From what the few episodes had showed us is that SSS may very well even be the first "group" of humans to gather together in the Afterlife. Most humans the Afterlife had expected should be alone and wandering. We can't be sure.

If time difference exist, it explains why the Programmer never met his girl again too, with addition of the explanation given in the episode. Only a certain age group arrives in that Afterlife, and so if an average lifespan of a Japanese is 80~100 years old, and chances of her dying before 20 is 1/4 or 1/5, with or without regrets, which makes it 1/8, 1/10... With that times the number of lifes the girl had lived fully to age 80–100. It is very much impossible for anyone to wait for 800–1000 years without breaking down. And if 50% chances are that time differences do exist and even if the Programmer's girl did die with all the requirements, she may be sent to the Afterlife and had already moved on before the Programmer arrived, or, just get sent to the Afterlife even more than the 800–1000 years, which may make his wait up to 1600–2000 years.

And that is precisely why he realised that there really is no point waiting for his lover to arrive again and turned into an NPC himself!