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I'm currently at chapter 117 and I feel like i'm(the reader) implied to understand it at this point, but i don't. This "Ajimu being other people" thing was first mentioned in chapter 95 and the only thing resembling an explanation was a TL-note that reads "What we're seeing here is the words for "I/me" become interchargable with "Not Equal" and Ajimu herself". I assumed it was some convoluted wordplay and that five middle-schoolers were just her underlings. But then, in chapter 103, in addition to the following nonsense:
Monad said:
Nice fanservice but everything else made no sense.
At the first part of the conversation Ajimu basically admitted that all 5 of the candidates and most of the 600 where not equals and after that Medaka said she knows that all 5 of them are not equals and Ajimu wonders how she figure it out? WTF? Didn't you just told her? Also saying how it was weird that 600 person appeared and that most of them where not equals and then saying that only 60 where not equals. WTF, 540 isn't weird but 600 is? And 60 is most of them? Seriously that conversation made no sense.

, Ajimu also makes a claim that "she is 700 million people" and at that point i just gave up trying to understand what "Not Equals" are. Is there something i missed or is it something that gets an explanation later in the manga?

UPD: @Kilroy19 provided an explanation in Chapter 108 discussion:
Kilroy19 said:
As far as it's ever explained, it means that they all consider themselves to be extensions of Ajimu's own character and will. In this manner, Ajimu has been dropping hints about herself by having the "successor candidates" involved in the story.

In the "Good Loser Kumagawa" light novels, there is also one such "terminal" that describes it thus; the "terminals" all consider themselves to be the same individual as Ajimu Najimi, even though she told them all to have their own characters before being "her"(Not Equal).
Kilroy19 said:
They never do elaborate on it, only a quick mention in the novels that her terminals are either born such or become such later in their lives. In the end, it's just another one of the inexplicable things that happens in this world, like the reason for Abnormalities and Minuses, or how Ajimu Najimi even came to exist in the first place.

The funny thing is, though, that even though the terminals all consider themselves to be "Ajimu Najimi", they are at the same time perfectly capable of choosing to oppose her. And Najimi herself actually likes it when that happens.
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