#One
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Dark shadows cast under the sun.
Light pink lips that are slightly closed. Pale hard, pure white skin. Silent purple eyes sleeping in clear eyes. Black hair that shimmers in the light of light clings to Mew’s side face and flows down.
The eyebrows misaligned in the middle of drawing parallel lines hinted that I had something important to say.
Today is a weekend, not a weekday.
I don’t know what Mew was doing here, but it must have been that he was trying to return to the dormitory because he didn’t have any more plans for the future. Then he came across me and wanted to talk for a while.
If you’re talking to Mew… … What should I do?
As I told Mew in the banquet hall, most of what I had to say to her had ended in a letter. But it probably wasn’t Mu. So, I was earnestly requesting that you give me time like this.
“Sorry, I have nowhere to go now. Let’s talk next time.”
“… … ”
Mew’s request like that, I declined.
It’s not like a lame excuse.
I didn’t really want to have a conversation, but I was willing to listen to Mew.
But the timing was just bad.
Now I had to head to Nadieli’s private lab on time and at the appointed time.
Mew lowered her gaze with her lips closed.
“… … Where are you going?”
If you’ve come this far by tram, you must know that you’ve come because you have something to see. Strangely, without holding me any longer, Mew asked me where I was going.
I turned my head away for a moment.
“The professor over there called me.”
It wasn’t that far away. On the top floor of that tall building that can be seen from here right now, Nadielli was probably waiting for me.
Mew followed my gaze and looked at it.
“… … Professor?”
“yes. You want to study my superpowers.”
“Super power… … ”
Mew seemed to be worried about my words.
In the end, I loosened the strength in the hand that was holding my sleeve and nodded my head slightly.
“okay. There is nothing I can do about it.”
“Yeah, later… … ”
I’m about to turn my back on you again
“Wait, Ezio.”
Mew called me back.
“… … why?”
what else this time
“Are you planning anything else after it’s over?”
“I don’t have anything… … ”
“then.”
Mew cautiously sat down on the bench.
Then he looks up at me and asks.
“Can I wait here?”
“… … ”
So do you want to talk to me?
Mew’s expression seemed to be quite sincere, so I couldn’t say that it wasn’t necessary.
“I don’t know when it will end. It could take a long time.”
“it’s okay. I do not care.”
no i’m not fine
It might be in there until the sun goes down, but isn’t it a bit odd to keep you waiting here?
Mew was someone who would do it if he wanted to, so he’ll probably stay here until I get back.
I sighed briefly.
“Then go to any cafe and wait. I’ll go there when I’m done. It’s complicated here, and it’s uncomfortable to sit for long periods of time.”
At my words, Mew blinked for a moment.
He quietly nodded his head.
“… … Yes. thank you… ”
“I don’t know if that’s something to be thankful for. See the Signal Cafe on the street next door? Go over there and wait. I’ll go when I’m done.”
Slowly, people start to arrive at the station.
— Wow, Mr. tired Shall we talk?
— Arthur, you’re a b*tch. I’ll go.
— Jiral is… …
Seeing Mew sitting on the bench and Mew looking down at Mew and having a conversation, I laughed, and some seemed to sneak up to me with unfathomable confidence.
But it seems like they don’t care.
“… … yea, I got it.”
then,
Mu smiled brightly.
#2
Nadielli’s lab was on the 15th floor, the top floor.
It seems that they are being treated quite preciously, and in District 4, a private laboratory was located in a particularly luxurious building.
I heard that Frontier Headquarters was a chair professor who was invited directly to the Epic Class special education. As it turned out, he seemed to be a well-known professor both inside and outside the empire. Moreover, this semester is the first appointment.
Anyway, he’s a great person. Of course, I think there may be one more hidden reason for Nadielli’s popularity, but let’s put that aside for now.
I was personally called by such a prestigious professor to help her research privately.
Are my abilities that special?
I do not know. However.
In the field of superpowers, the professor in the top class who would speak out of the tongue of most professors personally declared that, so it would be more correct to say that it is true.
woo woo woo… …
He clasped his hands as he climbed the elevator.
In fact, I hadn’t heard anything about what to go and help.
However, if you help me with the research and hold my hand like last time and make me in trouble or do something worse than that, I was thinking of bowing down honestly and leaving the lab quickly.
Tie ring—
After much thought, I arrived on the 15th floor.
got off the elevator.
You can see a marble hallway that stretches out in front of it.
It seems that each room is well soundproofed, and the surrounding atmosphere was very quiet and calm.
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Did I mention that Nadielli’s lab can be found by turning right in the hallway and going straight?
Thump, Thump—
There was really only one room.
As I approached it, I knocked a couple of times with my finger on the iron door at the end of the hallway.
smart.
“Professor, this is Ezio Cranil, a student of the Extrasensory Special Lecture… … ”
before the words are finished.
shudder.
The door that had been tightly closed opened.
Among them, Nadelli, with a shriveled face, smiled softly as if welcomed.
“Welcome, Ezio-kun. Come on in.”
#3
“Would you like a cup of tea? It’s a shame, but the only thing I know how to drink is tea, but if you’re okay with that… … ”
“Oh, yes. anything is good thank you.”
“Yeah, I’m waiting for you.”
Nadielli entered the next room.
“… … ”
I sat down on the guest sofa and looked around.
Nadelli’s laboratory was in a form of unopened boxes and objects arranged in a cluttered arrangement, presumably because the luggage had not yet been moved.
The space is quite spacious. A rectangular window frame lets sunlight through behind a table full of unknown documents. The one that looked as soft as the academy president’s chair you saw one day was lying on the floor, half turned to the side.
On the bookshelf, you can see books full of various specialties. In addition to superpowers, he possessed books in a variety of unexpectedly diverse fields. Maybe his hobby is reading. Of course, it was quite strange that there were a few old books full of ancient characters that are not used now on the bookshelf.
On the other hand, it was also surprising.
On the outside, Nadielli’s atmosphere is soft and comfortable, but I have to say it’s a bit stiff here.
However, it could be that it felt that way more because of the nature of the laboratory. Doesn’t it feel a little cold in the first place?
“Come on, here it is. Ezio-kun.”
“thank you.”
As I looked around the lab, I realized that Nadielli brought a teacup on the tray.
Inside the pure white teacup engraved with floral patterns, a red liquid with a mellow smell was glistening.
“I don’t know if it will suit my taste. It might be a little sweet, is that ok?”
“it’s okay. I eat sweets well… … ”
“Fufu, then I’m glad.”
Nadielli was not currently in a robe. It looked as if he had just woken up.
Instead of the indigo blue robe that covered the whole body, she was wearing a black silk dress with a particularly prominent chest area.
Contrasting with the color of such a dress, the clearer milky skin shines brightly in the sunlight.
Sitting on the sofa opposite me, Nadieli quietly puts her legs together, sipping tea and opening her mouth to me.
“Ezio-kun.”
“Yes, Professor.”
“Did you contact the headquarters when you came?”
“… Yes? Hey, the professor called and said you don’t have to come… … ”
“Oh, right. Right. I just asked.”
Nadielli laughed softly.
“It’s no different, and the reason Ezio-kun was called to the laboratory like this… … As I said before, I want to personally study Ezio-kun’s special superpowers.”
widely-
Nadieli, sipping the teacup, set it down on the table.
When Nadieli’s slender fingers caught in her eyes, entangled in the handle of the teacup, she remembered what had happened and felt ashamed.
“Don’t worry. It’s not Ezio-kun’s fault.”
“… … Yes?”
“I was holding Ezio-kun’s hand knowing it would happen, so it’s okay if you don’t mind it.”
Nadielli laughed quietly.
For some reason, I felt as if I had read my thoughts, and a small goosebumps appeared on my shoulder. But it was true that Nadieli had her eyes on her hand enough to notice it, so I couldn’t help but laugh awkwardly… …
after a while.
“Ezio-kun.”
“Yes.”
Nadieli quietly called my name.
This is the beginning, my hunch whispers.
“In your own judgment, what exactly do you think Ezio-kun’s superpowers are?”
“… … My superpower, right?”
“yes.”
I was thinking about what to explain.
Once the answer came to mind.
“… … I think of it as a kind of ability that either eliminates the talent inherent in the object, or destroys or deteriorates the power associated with the talent.”
“Talent, talent… … ”
Nadielli made a muffled sound.
Then.
“It seems to me, Ezio-kun.”
“Yes, Professor.”
“Even though Frontier gave such an answer, the truth is, Ezio-kun’s psychic powers aren’t the kind of ability that can be defined in such vague terms.”
“… … What do you mean by that?”
Neither did I have any certainty about my abilities.
It’s only been a few months since I realized it, and I’ve done a lot of experiments on Frontier, but I couldn’t come up with an answer other than the one I just gave.
But Nadielli seemed like an authoritative professor in the field of superpowers, and knew something about my own superpowers.
“Before you can understand the saying, “Talent kills,” we need to understand a higher level concept.
Nadielli asks one after another.
“Ezio-kun, what the hell is your talent?”
“… … ?”
what is talent
When you ask such a straightforward question, I don’t know how to define it.
As I shut my mouth, Nadieli opens her mouth with a small smile as if she understands my heart.
“The commonly accepted talent is anything a person is born with. The skills and abilities needed to do something… Collectively, we call it talent.”
“So, lack of talent means being unable to do something normally, and being gifted means being able to do it more smoothly and easily.”
“okay. Talent refers to everything a person is born with. Talents acquired through heredity or external factors also belong to the same talent. To get rid of those talents means to completely destroy the building blocks of a person.”
“This is a very terrifying thing. If you do it wrong, the balance of the human body and soul can be broken and it can be broken into pieces.”
“However, Ezio-kun takes a person’s talents at will and then returns them to their original state. This is something that never really makes sense.”
“That’s why Ezio-kun’s abilities are special.”
“Temporarily annihilating or deteriorating the other person’s talent… … I’ve never heard of it. It’s a dangerous ability that shouldn’t even exist in the world. If it develops into a strange place, perhaps with a single gesture, it will be possible to turn a person into a scoundrel with nothing but a shell.”
“Is that so… … ?”
It felt like I was being slapped for some reason. My powers are of the kind that shouldn’t exist in the world. Something terribly terrifying… …
As if to relieve my anxiety, Nadieli smiled with a teacup in her hand.
“I used to say, but it’s actually different.”
“… … yes?”
Blinking my eyes, Nadielli asks.
“Ezio-kun, did you know that talent also has grades?”
It’s grade… …
You seem to know roughly what you’re talking about.
“When an ordinary person takes one step, a person with just enough talent takes three or two steps. Someone with a little more talent than that will take about five steps.”
Nadielli lightly sips the teacup.
“But people with different talents, when they are all walking on the road, alone are floating above the sky and looking down on them.”
No matter what they do, they have climbed to a place that they cannot reach on their own, so they have no choice but to look up. In the past, I felt frustrated that I could not see them.
“Genius (天才) means such people.”
Nadielli smiles brightly.
Then he flew his luck, and briefly continued the conversation.
“What is a genius?”
“It is a gift from heaven.”
“It is not a talent acquired through human inheritance, but a talent possessed directly by heaven.”
“Then what is the sky?”
Nadieli suddenly raised her finger to the ceiling.
… … No, it points beyond that.
“It is God.”
Then, he lowers his head and looks at me.
“All the geniuses in this world are people with a powerful divinity.”
“… … Divine, huh?”
An unexpected word came out of her mouth.
But Nadielli seemed to be speaking the truth, not speaking from a religious point of view.
Nadieli nodded her head seriously.
“yes. The colors of each divinity may be different, but in any case, the divinity is powerful enough to be incomparable with the divinity of a person with general talent… … It is the genius that has it in it.”
“Besides, everyone has a feeble divinity within them. There is no denying that this world was created by God.”
“But sometimes, people with unique colors and unique forms appear, and most of them have unknown abilities that did not originally exist in this world.”
“Ezio-kun, just like you.”
“The divinity that rejects those who have divinity… … Ezio-kun’s abilities are more contradictory than anyone else, and just as interesting.”
“It doesn’t have the intense divinity of the undisputed geniuses, but its color and shape are very unique.”
“Therefore, they cover the divinity of others with their own divinity, temporarily suspending the abilities of those with a divinity less than their own, or limiting their function by staining some of the powers of those with a divinity stronger than themselves.”
“——This is the essence of Ezio-kun’s abilities.”
When Nadielli finished speaking, she smiled brightly.
“… … ”
oh my god
I feel like I’ve learned a secret that I shouldn’t have known.
For a moment, I stared blankly at myself, who was the owner of the ability, and Nadielli, who was revealing the identity of the ability that even the Frontier did not know.
“Ha- I mean, Ezio-kun… … ”
Nadielli.
He let out a hot sigh as he tapped the surface of the teacup, which had been completely emptied, with his fingers.
“Because I have never personally experienced such an unusual divinity as Ezio-kun in my life, when I first experienced it, I wanted to attack Ezio-kun right there on the spot. It was a very exhilarating experience to the point where the wings I put in made my wings tingle. Wasn’t it too difficult to wait for only 4 days?”
“… … Yeah? What, what did you want to do?”
For a moment, I thought I heard it wrong.
… … no.
I think you just said something more strange.
“You said you wanted to attack me, Ezio-kun.”
“… … ”
Nadieli smiled again.
Burr.
Watching him say that without any denial, I felt an incomprehensible goosebumps. The blood all over the body fades to pale, and the whole body becomes stiff.
When you held my hand before, I thought I was a vaguely strange person, but now I’m not.
“… … professor?”
… … Something incomprehensible happened.
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Dump, Dump, Dump——
From the back of Nadielli’s black dress, a sound of unknown origin came out.
But because it sounded so terrifying and disgusting, I shuddered violently just to shake off the disgust that was boiling from within.
harmonious—
In the shadows, a pair of black masses spread wide on either side. Even with my own two eyes up to that point, I couldn’t understand the current situation.
… … And, finally.
The first time I met Nadielli’s eyes.
“Ezio-kun.”
Those quiet, transparent eyes I saw back then… …
“… … I covet your divinity. very.”
Slowly, I saw it turn dark red.
widely-
With a brief noise, the lights in the laboratory went out.
My vision went black in an instant.
Is it a sudden power outage?
That’s not it.
If there is a power outage… …
There was never a reason why it was dark outside the window.
oh oh oh-
A darkened laboratory stained black all the way to the corner of the field of vision.
Nadieli, no—— Someone’s long, torn eyes from an unidentified cast bright red smoke from the darkness in all directions.
An alarm was beeping like crazy in my brain.
“Because it’s really lax, like you idiots. What is an absolute barrier that can only be broken once in a hundred years? If you put your mind to it, you can come in this quickly.”
… … The body doesn’t move at all.
I can’t lift a single finger.
It was impossible to even wiggle her lips.
Tied up as if attached to a hospitality sofa, at some point I lost all control of my body.
“… … Oh, isn’t it soon? It took me about 40 years to get here. Anyway, I think this was cheap enough. Whoops.”
What was Nadieli said without opening her mouth.
Her voice is crumpled and squashed in my head, distorted as if in a noise.
“As instructed, I didn’t even contact the headquarters, and it was Saturday morning on the weekend. Epic class doesn’t have dormitory curfew? Then no one cares if it’s gone in a couple of days. … … Yes? Ezio-kun?”
… … have to run away
that’s how it should be
I tried to twist the joints with the intention of breaking and breaking the bones, but my body couldn’t move, so in the end I couldn’t do anything.
“Well, two days later… … After all, you’ll be left with nothing but Ezio-kun’s shell that’s been consumed.”
At the end of her distorted smile,
I lost my mind.
#4
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District 4 Seria Class Station.
Signal Cafe on Route 2.
Inside the cafe, where it seems to have had the most customers this month, while a soft classic fell, there was someone sitting at a table placed by the window and drinking coffee with ice.
However, as if people’s gaze didn’t matter at all, Mew calmly kicked off all the male students who had approached him from before, clenching his chin and staring blankly out the window.
‘Senior, when are you coming? … ‘
The sun shining down is warm.
I finally got a chance to talk to Ezio.
“… … Huh, huh, huh♪”
Because of that, it seems that something good is going to happen today, so Mu smiled faintly in a place where he was alone in a very long time.