91 – The reason for the fight
After all the commotion, I realized that making dinner at home would be too much trouble.
For the first time in a long time, my wallet is light and my hands are heavy….
When I opened the door and went inside, I saw a grid with a turtle neck sitting in front of the computer.
A carefree guy….
“Hmm? Are you here?”
“Yes, I have come.”
The guy, who checked me by turning his head slightly, tried to look at the computer again, as if his interest had cooled, then turned his body to me with the entire chair.
“That?”
It seems that he is interested in the things I bought.
“I am tired of making rice.”
As I put things down, Grid got up and started going through the things I bought.
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“Hmm?”
Then he lifted non-packaged food as if it were strange.
“What is this?”
“Your clothes.”
“Why?”
“Because you are uncomfortable wearing my clothes.”
The size doesn’t fit.
“Brave, I would have told you to get enough rest and take some time to look inside yourself?”
“What did you say?”
“Don’t you know that you are different from your usual self?”
Am I different?
“If it were you, you wouldn’t have spent so much money.”
While saying that, Grid pointed to the items I had bought.
“My way of thinking has become quite wild.”
What do you know….
Grid sat down in front of the computer again and started typing on his keyboard.
“This is not your usual self.”
There was a scene where I caught a pickpocket on the screen displayed by Grid.
It’s a bit overdone, but there’s nothing wrong with it.
I didn’t apply more sanctions than necessary, and I didn’t use psychic powers either.
“I didn’t use any psychic powers, so there’s no problem.”
“… That way of thinking is the problem, Brave.”
Grid muttered as he got up from his seat and forgot the lunch I brought.
“I don’t think you would have taken such a tough step.”
Is that so?
“Force is just a tool, Brave. Remember that the moment you are dominated by power, you are no different from the villains or monsters you hate so much.”
I looked at the grid with a slightly dazed feeling.
I felt like I didn’t even know who was a human and who was a monster.
“Don’t you eat?”
“Eat.”
I sat in front of the grid and took out the lunch box I bought for myself.
“When I think about it, I kind of wonder why I lived such a frustrating life.”
“You are seriously ill. Be careful.”
“But I wasn’t in a bad mood.”
There are people who say they like me, but it is cowardly to keep a distance while pretending not to know.
If there is a wicked person who uses superpowers to commit a crime, he must be punished.
It was a conclusion that came from an extremely natural way of thinking.
It’s just that, compared to me in the past, that behavior seems a bit rough.
“Hmm. A rather positive transformation?”
Your words are different from before, bastard.
“But you subdued the enemy without using psychic powers?”
“Uh. Did it just work?”
“Didn’t you use superpowers unconsciously? The last one you grabbed by the scruff of the neck is a body enhancer.”
“Huh?”
“Look.”
Grid posted an article using a smartphone I had on the table.
It was an article about a trio of pickpockets with telekinesis, acceleration, and body enhancement abilities being captured by the hero.
“The last one was body enhancement?”
I barely felt the weight and didn’t have much strength….
“Ummm….”
Grid thought about something with chopsticks in his mouth, then took out an apple from the refrigerator.
“Okay, I’m going to toss this up, so use your electric power.”
“What… How can I use my psychic powers when you are there?”
In the first place, the lightning ability is an ability that is used as an aid to the grid, so it is not an ability that I can use just because I want to use it.
That also requires the use of nuclear weapons to produce stable output.
“If you want to try it, try it.”
Grid said that and tossed the apple upwards.
There’s no way I could be, but I held out my hand to an apology….
Boom!
At that moment, the apple burst.
Pattern.
The burst apple fell to the floor, spewing smoke.
Grid put on an expression of interest even as he poured apple juice on his head.
I stared blankly at my hand that had just fired a bolt of electricity.
This is… Why me
“I don’t think it’s all that bad, Brave.”
Grid said that while rubbing his head with a towel.
I still have no idea what the situation is.
“Um… This is worse than I thought. Let’s wash up and come talk.”
“Hey, I have to tell you this!”
“Don’t be like a sh*t-sucking bastard, Brave. hehehe!”
Grid waved his hand and went into the bathroom.
What happened to me?
***
After taking a shower, Grid changed into the clothes I bought and looked happy as he basked in the air conditioning.
“Hey, tell me now.”
“I’ll let you know if I order ice cream.”
“….”
A worm-like baby.
I took out an ice cream from the fridge and handed it to Grid.
“Mmm.”
Grid, who peeled the ice cream into his mouth, nodded his head and began to savor the taste.
“Hey, tell me now.”
“How do you say you have ice cream in your mouth?”
Do you want to search?
As if responding to my emotions, sparks flew out of my body.
“Hmm. Just kidding, Brave.”
Looking a bit frightened, Grid straightened his posture and raised his index finger.
“What is it?”
“Your body has changed its structure a bit like a monster.”
“Huh?”
“Try to express in words how humans feel when they use supernatural powers.”
Sensation when using psychic powers in language?
Hmm….
“I have to use my psychic powers! While thinking in this way, I use my supernatural power, I can use it… Do you feel like you’re using autosuggestion?”
“Oh, unexpectedly it pops right out. That’s a good analogy.”
Grid finished eating the remaining ice cream and opened his mouth again.
“But our monster is different. To us, psychic powers feel similar to body parts such as limbs.”
“Body part?”
“When you use psychic powers, you have to think with the feeling that you can use psychic powers, I will use them, but we do not need such an intermediate process. For us, superpowers are as natural as breathing.”
Human beings acquire supernatural powers.
He doesn’t know how he can use such a power, but one day he realizes that he has such a power.
And in order to bring out that ability, you have to train and build a clearer image.
But the monster was different.
Monsters are born with supernatural powers from the beginning.
Using psychic powers against monsters is the same way humans move their limbs.
Picks up objects with the right hand.
You don’t have to do complicated thinking when you do that.
That was the difference between a monster and a human.
“That means….”
“When the enemy gets stronger, the main character needs a power-up event too. Kheuheuhehehehe.”
I… Does that mean you can get stronger?
“Let’s go see how strong you are, Brave!”
“Yes.”
I felt as if I had found a way out of the confrontation with Humbert, who seemed hopeless.
***
Yuna, half-imprisoned in her house by her brother, Joo-won, glared at her monitor with a frown on her face.
What she was looking at was the website of her university.
‘Go or not?’
Should I register for the second semester or not?
She was in trouble for a while.
‘Jin-woo is graduating early. But when I go to college….”
Joowon clearly said that the closer we are to each other, the easier we become close.
That also meant that the further away we became from each other, the more distant we became.
I had the feeling that if I went to college here, the distance with Jinwoo, who had grown distant, wouldn’t be shortened.
If you say you are taking a leave of absence… Ugh… Still….’
When Yuna said she was taking a leave of absence, she was so afraid of the expression Joo-won would make.
So Yuna threw herself onto the bed.
‘I hope you have a good dream….’
Yuna said that and closed her eyes.
About 30 minutes passed, and Yuna, who opened her eyes, applied for her leave of absence as if possessed.
She then applied for a reissue of her passport right away.
‘My brother must be busy and not be able to pay attention, right?’
Yuna additionally researched her plane ticket to Japan.
“Huh~ Heung Heung~”
I am an adult now.
So I won’t shut myself up in her room, frightened by her brother’s words.
Yuna thought about that and decided to act boldly.
‘Will it be true this time too?’
Yuna decided to believe in this unknown power of her own.
She actually uses this power so she can live next door to her with Jinwoo.
This time, the result will be the same as in her dream.
And it wasn’t long before Yuna knew that dream was becoming a reality.
‘Eliminate a Class A monster alone?’
News started to come out that Jinwoo had defeated the A-class monster by himself.
In addition to that, news came out that the most important person in Korea had left for another country.
‘It suits me better these days….’
If this is the case, the possibility seems to be quite high.
Yuna watched the progress of the incident with a smile on her face.
It was just a few days ago.
Jinwoo said he had an important announcement and was holding a press conference.
‘Jin… make?’
It’s rare to get along like this….
While Yuna thought so, she watched Jin-woo’s press conference with sweat on her hands.
ㅡ I registered that there are a total of three revenge abilities, body strengthening, hardening, and original abilities.
As soon as Jinwoo said that, the sound of a camera shutter was heard in the video.
ㅡ But my original ability is the power to absorb other people’s psychic powers.
As soon as Jinwoo announced the contents, something beyond the sound of the shutter began to burst out this time.
Questions demanding clarification came pouring in from all sides.
Yuna felt suffocated watching that scene.
Even so, Jinwoo had a somewhat calm expression.
‘I feel a bit… Has it changed?’
I felt like I became more confident somewhere.
‘I think I’ve become cooler… Wow.’
ㅡ I did volunteer work for self-satisfaction before awakening to my new abilities.
Jinwoo said that and he began to explain what he had been doing until the accident happened.
The power to prevent deterioration of an object.
It was a story that he had acted with that power to keep the condition of people suffering from psychic syndrome from worsening.
ㅡ My actions were completely self-satisfying because I never knew when a way to save people suffering from psychic syndrome would be prepared.
Yuna’s heart ached at those words mixed with self-deprecation.
As a person who was saved by that self-satisfaction, I felt like refuting that statement.
ㅡ The moment I got into a car accident, I awakened to a new ability. It’s the power to absorb other people’s psychic powers.
When Jin-Woo spoke up to that point, reporters asked hot questions.
Among them were rude questions that made me frown.
However, Jinwoo calmly continued to explain.
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ㅡ However, I had no intention of writing it to anyone. Because that’s a crime.
After Jinwoo said that, the reporters closed their mouths again.
ㅡ But, I thought, ‘Wouldn’t this power be able to save people suffering from psychic syndrome?’. I remember hearing that people who woke up after suffering from psychic syndrome often awakened to having multiple abilities. I wondered if it was possible that different psychic powers rebelled and put me in a coma.
So I tried the ability and it really worked.
ㅡ To be honest, I was afraid. In the end, it was an act that saved people, but I know very well how dangerous my ability is. However, thinking that there are many people suffering from psychic syndrome even now, at this moment, it must be difficult to hide anymore.
As soon as Jinwoo said that, the shutter sound that sounded like thunder was captured on the video.
After that, reporters’ questions continued like a storm.
ㅡ So, I want to help all the psychic syndrome patients in Korea. If possible, I want to help other patients abroad. So, I had a press conference like this.
‘Really… Is it the same as I saw it in my dream?’
Yuna was a little scared, but she couldn’t control her burning feelings.
‘We meet locally by chance. Will this work?!’
Having the power to absorb superpowers means that too much power is gathered in one person.
Anyone with a little brain can easily grasp the seriousness of the situation.
However, for an adolescent girl who fell in love, her own love line was more important than the seriousness of her situation.