"I just moved in." / "I haven't been back in years. ”

The incomparably similar answers made both the witches Saeki Rika and Kirino stunned for a moment.

The witch Lijia looked Kirino up and down, a somewhat tired face, shortened hair, a somewhat faded but straight shirt in the washed and somewhat whitish jacket, with the ordinary black-framed glasses on his face, and the indelible haze and alienation in his eyes, a standard thrifty middle-aged man.

The witch Saeki Rika has been hanging out with TPC people lately, and all she sees are those who are energetic and energetic, even those in the fringe department of TPC, who are full of hope.

This is the first 'down' ordinary person that the witch has seen with her own eyes, although she can feel the superpower reaction on the other party's body, but she doesn't know what to say all of a sudden, "Eh, I just want you to like the Demon Knight?" ”

"It's okay." Kirino was obviously choked by the woman's sudden question in front of him, he shook his head, and then after realizing the identity of the other party's TPC Police Bureau, he silently took a step back and said, "Don't worry, I don't have anything abnormal."

He was just halfway through speaking, as if he had thought of something, he smiled helplessly, and then made a 'please' gesture, and while inviting the witch into his room, he said self-deprecatingly, "You are not very old, you should not have experienced what I went through, but this is also a good thing."

Then in the perception of the witch, Kirino seems to have completely restrained his superpowers in order not to collide with himself, and 'ceded' the rest of the room to himself.

Although the witch doesn't know the rules of human beings very well, Kirino's behavior is very much in line with the behavior habits of superpowers, telepaths, and telekinetic owners.

Two people who also have psychic superpowers, if one of them completely reinforces his abilities, it means that he is releasing kindness, after all, in that case, whether the person who has reined in superpowers wants to launch an attack or wants to carry out mental defense, he will be one step slower than the other person because he is surrounded by other people's telekinesis.

The witch was a little stunned by Kirino's behavior, she subconsciously walked into Kirino's house, even if she didn't care about the other party very much, but now she couldn't return the kindness released by the absolute side.

Kirino's room is very clean, in fact, the word clean is a bit of a high opinion of him, in addition to some furniture such as light bulbs, sofas, tables and chairs that came with the original decoration of the house, there are only two appliances left that I don't know if they are household appliances, a printer, and a computer.

The witch looked around, and there were a lot of papers neatly arranged on the table, and the papers were densely written on them.

She had also been asked by Megumi to write some of her own feelings before, so she probably knew how many words there were on this stack of paper, and how much time and effort it would take for these words, thinking of this, she was a little curious, but she didn't dare to step forward directly.

Suddenly, she noticed that just below the table, there was a box, and subconsciously she used her mental power to see through the box to see the contents inside, and as a result, there was nothing in it, only some neatly folded clothes, and some pots and pans for daily use.

The witch remembered that the other party had just moved over, and it was obvious that she was not lying to her, but serious.

"Drink something?" The witch was interrupted by a voice, she turned her head, Kirino pushed her glasses, held the kettle in her hand, and said to her with some embarrassment, "Because I just moved home, I don't have any drinks, only coffee and tea." ”

"Tea? Coffee? The witch was stunned for a moment, then quickly searched her mind for related memories, and finally froze on a sweet black-brown liquid, "Coffee bar." ”

With that, the witch sat down on the sofa in front of the coffee table and watched Kirino sit beside her with two cups of coffee.

Kirino put the coffee on the table, and then asked a little curious and a little nervous, "Miss Saeki, what do you do at the police station, don't get me wrong, I don't mean to ask them if they know."

"Work?! I'm done with two more faith and society reports to write! Hearing the word work, a woman's smiling face flashed in the witch's mind, and suddenly she seemed to remember something, pointed to the computer not far away and said, "That, Mr. Kirino, can I use your computer in the future?" ”

Kirino was stunned for a moment, nodded blankly, picked up a piece of paper and wrote a string of numbers on it and handed it over, "This is the password for the network link, but if you want to enter the TPC's intranet, it may be more difficult, but. Forget it, if you're going to enter the intranet, talk to me. ”

It is true that the witch does not know much about humans, but her ability to distinguish between humans is innate, and she can feel that this middle-aged man's kindness to herself, and unlike others, it is a cautious, somewhat humble kindness, and the other party is obviously different from the people she has seen before.

The witch tilted her head, and under Kirino's puzzled gaze, she suddenly leaned back on the sofa, and then said with a big grin, "It doesn't matter, I'm not by that woman's side anyway, and I'll put my work aside." ”

Speaking of this, as if to prove that she was 'very powerful', the witch took out the handheld computer that the police department had equipped for her under Kirino's gaze, and then opened the communication interface with Megumi Kuma, pressed the voice function, and said, "Hmph! Today I met a new friend, and I put my work on the back burner, you know! ”

The word friend witch is naturally not nonsense, even if it is a Kilielrod, there are actually some people in human society who know Kilielrod, and these people are collectively called 'friends of the Kilielrods', obviously, in the eyes of witches, Kirino, an extremely rare superpower in humans, is her 'friend of the witch'.

Kirino was visibly shocked by the witch's confident and bold movements, staring blankly at the handheld computer in the other's hand, which was still very rare.

The witch looked at Kirino and stretched out her hand and shook it in front of him, "Impossible? Is it because of the convergence of mental power, so the brain is a little overloaded? You're still not exercising enough. ”

"Workout?" Hearing this word, Kirino was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wry smile, "I have been able to hear the voices of other people's hearts since I was a child, and if I couldn't control the retraction and release of superpowers, I guess I would have gone crazy a long time ago." ”

"Can you hear voices as soon as you are born? Then your talent is really good, and you can reach this level all of a sudden. The witch was very arrogant, even among the Killilords, she was the best, and naturally said this kind of thing smoothly, Kirino looked at the other party's movements and words, and asked, "The people of TPC should take you seriously, right?" You're in good time, but I have to hide myself all the time to survive in human society. ”

The witch's eyes widened, and again she couldn't understand it, and she asked suspiciously, "They do value me. But why hide yourself? ”

Kirino looked at the other party's confident and genuine doubts, observed it carefully, and then asked, "Don't you feel anything at all?" Did you get in touch with the current top management before TPC was founded? ”

The witch thought about it seriously, before TPC was founded? We were in contact with you before humans came along, huh? However, they did have been in contact with the top management of TPC for a long time, and thinking of this, the witch nodded.

The previous word was still relatively difficult for the witch to understand, in her cognition, a few decades ago was not long ago, a few hundred years ago was not so long ago, probably ten thousand years ago. It's the so-called 'before'.

"Well, I can see that you are indeed lucky to have caught up with an era where the paranormal has appeared." Kirino picked up the coffee with some envy, but shook his head a little happily, "In that case, it may be difficult for you to understand me." ”

"Let's talk about it, I don't have anything to do right now anyway."

The witch looked at Kirino for a moment, and then said, "You obviously have the only superpower among humans, why do you act like a decadent, unmotivated, dead-hearted, somewhat poor middle-aged uncle?" ”

Listening to the witch's heart-piercing adjectives one after another, the corners of Kirino's mouth twitched, and then he said with a gloomy look, "Unlike you, I have been regarded as a monster by others since I was a child."

It was obvious that the words came out of his own mouth, but when Kirino said the word 'monster', he still showed a stress reaction of disgust and disgust, he realized this, and then his face showed an apologetic look, "I'm sorry, I don't have any friends, so I might be a little excited when I speak." ”

Seeing that the woman in front of him did not show disgust for him, he smiled a little awkwardly, and then continued, "In the era when I was born, neon and even humans all over the world have just experienced a ridiculous frenzy about superpowers. ”

"Neon, America, Europe, East, West." Kirino spit out words from his mouth as if mocking but also self-deprecating, "Mental power, superpowers, qigong, spiritual power, what to read with your ears, what to read a book in a few seconds, what perspective, what prophecy." ”

"In the era when I went to school, humanity had just broken away from that era, and everyone was mocking those liars, and in the same way, as a real superpower, I was also humiliated by them."

Kirino's eyes looked out the window, his eyes focused on the bird flying outside the window, and under the sun's light, the bird flew farther and farther, and his gaze followed the bird, flying farther and farther.

"Good morning! Clairvoyant boy! ”

"Good morning." Kirino looked at the classmates who greeted him next to him, and responded excitedly and enthusiastically, but suddenly, he heard the voice in the other party's heart, "Clairvoyant boy? What a monster! Disgusting! Terror! Monster! ”

Obviously, the other party left with a smile, but what came from Kirino's ears was such insulting words.

Subconsciously, he turned his head to look in other directions, all the people were looking at him, all the people were looking at him, all of them were saying the uncomfortable and frightening things to him in their hearts, all of them, including other students of the same age, and those teachers who Kirino once regarded as the most respectable.

In fact, by catching up with the tail of the superpower frenzy, Kirino Makiro in elementary school was always reported by the mass media with a catchy headline like 'Clairvoyant Boy'.

And unlike other fake and shoddy people, because Kirino grew up in a small town, the interpersonal relationships in the town spread the news of his superpowers, and everyone in the local area determined that Kirino was a real superpowered teenager.

At the beginning, everything was so good, and when everyone saw Kirino, they would show curiosity about him, but they were full of kindness.

But slowly, Kirino noticed that things were starting to change.

I don't know if it's because my brain has been opened.,Kirino's studies have always been very good.,In the past, he became the object of worship in the eyes of friends and classmates.。

However, when the news of his superpower spread, all the original praise disappeared, and was replaced by some weird ridicule.

"That's great, if we can also have that kind of superpower, we will definitely be able to do so well in the test."

"Humph! Isn't it just by relying on superpowers that you can get a high score? Without superpowers, he's nothing! ”

"Even if you have superpowers, you still can't get the first place in the school, which is really embarrassing."

Similar words kept coming into Kirino's mind, and at first, he was able to ignore them, but he was just a schoolboy, and he was soon knocked down by such words, and he began to make public the bad words in other people's minds one by one, and even ran to the teacher to complain.

As he expected, the teacher criticized those students, and all of them were on the surface and would not attack Kirino, but this was only on the surface.

"Stay away from him! That's a freak! ”

"It's really disgusting, with that kind of ability, and can still be a teacher, isn't that what he says?"

"I can't just think about it in my heart, what a domineering guy."

The classmates who originally attacked Kirino in their hearts continued to attack Kirino, and what made him desperate the most was that this time, even those teachers began to have opinions about him in their hearts.

"Do you really have superpowers? Then I'm going to have to stay away from him, I can't let that freak know what I'm thinking. ”

"What a pervert, isn't this the equivalent of a walking polygraph? It's tiring enough to go to work every day, and to deal with things like this."

"Why let this weirdo into the school? What does he have to learn? ”

Compared with their classmates of the same age, sometimes, teachers who are obviously still adults have more malice in their hearts.

In this way, Kirino gradually began to distance himself from his classmates and teachers, and even if they didn't speak, Kirino could understand what was in their hearts, including the dirty secrets in everyone's hearts, and the ensuing dislike and disgust for him.

"Originally, even if everything was like this, after a period of time, the superpower frenzy of the human world finally began to slowly be replaced by science, and human beings began to re-examine the absurdity of that period of time, although they were excluded, but everyone began to gradually get used to such a world, and at the same time, I was able to control myself not to listen to the voices of those people."

"However, on the eve of this superpower frenzy, a reporter from unknown places found me again, and he wanted to prove that I was just like thousands of liars, just to win the eyes of the people, and did some ridiculous things."

"But you and I both know that the truth is not like this, I am a real superpower, in order to prove myself, I was facing the reporter who interviewed me, and mockingly said what he thought in his heart, 'If this ability is true, then he must be a monster'."

"Yes, that's what those reporters really think, they obviously want to get attention through me, but from the bottom of their hearts, they are full of malice towards me, whether I am or not, they are full of malice towards my very existence, they are full of malice towards me as a child at the time."

"Then, everything became out of control, probably because of my ridicule at the time, the journalists started attacking me, and they used the aggressive strokes of adults to portray me as a liar who was greedy for fame and fortune at a young age, and deceived everyone in order to get attention."

"Then I became the target of everyone's attacks."

Kirino moved his gaze back from the window, he looked at the same kind of people in front of him, and said with a hint of despair in his tone, "Those guys obviously all know that I am a superpower, and they all clearly understand in their hearts that I am not lying, and everyone knows about it." ”

"But because of those reports, they seemed to get support from those reports, and they began to openly bully me, on the way to school, in school life, on the way out of school, everyone, everyone, they attacked me in words and deeds."

"Well, I know that looking back from now on, I did try to show off because I had superpowers, and I used to be complacent because of the envy and adoration of others.

But! But! Never have I ever hurt anyone! Why should I be humiliated like this! ”

"When everyone looks at me, they call me a monster." Kirino's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at the 'same kind' in front of him painfully, "But I'm human!" I'm human! ”

"Can you imagine? Since then, I have been disconnected from human society, after I was able to become independent, I left school, I did all the work that I could do at that time, I endured all the hardships I could, I lived on the flyover, I slept on the street, I lived alone in the days of displacement, but why."

The witch was shocked by the life described by the man in front of her, and then she looked Kirino up and down and asked the question that had puzzled her from the beginning of the story, "So, why don't you use your abilities to make your life better?" ”

The witch said what she said from her heart, although she didn't know much about human society, but she understood one thing, that is, with Kirino's superpowers, even in that era when TPC had not yet been established, he was able to live well, and it was really good in the sense of being a human being.

"I don't know, that's why I think you're on a good day," Kirino seemed to have thought about this question a long time ago, he looked at the witch, organized the language, and then said, "Maybe it's because my existence will break the rules of this human society." ”

"At that time, I also thought about using my ability to predict the future to make a lot of profits, the easiest thing is to bet on horses, but when I actually walked into the racetrack, I looked at the people around me, cheering, crying, excited, and indifferent, and I suddenly gave up on this idea.

I couldn't even figure out why I should give up on this idea, I just felt that if I did, then everything there would be meaningless. ”

"The emotions of tens of thousands of people there seem to have become worthless. I don't want that. I don't want that."

The powerful mood fluctuations made Kirino release a large amount of spiritual power at once, and this powerful power collided with the spiritual power possessed by the witch, and then, the witch clearly felt that in this power, there was a warm but powerful, small but tenacious force.

The witch subconsciously wanted to release her mental power to control the other party, but remembering everything the other party had done before, she withdrew her mental power, she shrank her mental power to the size of only half of the room, and then accompanied by this power, comforting the other party little by little.

Suddenly, as if she remembered something, she said in surprise, "Wait, you mean you have the ability to predict the future?" ”

Kirino, who had recovered, looked at the other party suspiciously, he really couldn't imagine that his tragic story would be exchanged for such a strange question.

But the witch didn't mean to joke at all, but said to Kirino seriously and very seriously, "If it's just mental power, telekinesis, this is actually more common than you think in the universe, there are very many civilizations and races with such abilities, in fact, due to the different forms of life, this ability is just an instinct for many civilizations, just like human eating and drinking." ”

"However, the ability to prophesy is different, this is a very unique, even among other civilizations in the universe, it is extremely rare, and it can become the foundation of a civilization."

"Has TPC been secretly in contact with the cosmic people?" Kirino looked at the other party's serious appearance, thinking of some supernatural phenomena and cosmic human events disclosed by TPC, and said helplessly, "So, I'm not like this and can only live in isolation, if it weren't for your appearance, I wouldn't even mention that past to anyone." ”

"Wait, I'm going to ask the captain of the victory team, Keigo Masaki and Casto, do these people know how important your ability is to a civilization?" The witch complained excitedly.

"Wait, Casto, are you talking about the Giant of Light? He helped me find this house, and he said that it was specially prepared for me, and that I could live in a place where I could live in human society with peace of mind."

Kirino stretched out his hand to stop him, but the witch had already dialed Megumi Kuruma's communication, and then, Kirino saw a scene that made him unforgettable.

"Megumi Izuma! You incompetent captain! Do you know what a superpowered person like Mr. Kirino with the ability to predict means to human society?! ”

In the beginning, the witch's voice was loud.

"Of course I know I still have a job. Deliberately arranged for us to support each otherYes, he is also a very special existence for us. You think I can get him back on his feet, of course! Of course I can! ”

Later, the witch's voice was a little quieter.

"Don't! Of course, I have long understood your good intentions! I'll write a report well!! Don't let Keigo Masaki come and arrest me!! ”

Eventually, the witch's voice began to choke.

"The report can be handed in a little slower!? You are truly great!

Woo woo woo woo, we are too pitiful people on the margins of human society, fortunately there is TPC, it's really good, human civilization will not perish, I will definitely guarantee that I will live and die with human civilization! ”

Kirino:.

No, although it seems to be very different from my own experience, is there something wrong with this woman? Was it PUA, right? This must have been PUA, right?????

At the same time, Megumi Kuruma hung up the phone and said with a sigh of relief and confusion, "What the hell is she talking about?" Kirino? Prophetic power? ”

Thinking of this, Megumi Kurama searched for Kirino's information on TPC's intranet.

Although Kirino's occupation is unknown, it can be found that he lived alone in the city center not long ago.

He is now nearly middle-aged, but he was in the spotlight as a student, and he used to appear in the media as a "superpowered teenager", however, some magazines published articles denouncing him for his "ability" as unreal, and shortly thereafter, he faded out of the media and gradually disappeared from everyone's attention.

Suddenly, Megumi saw the latest information about Kirino, she clicked on the document, and then read silently, "Dongzhi County Special Talent Guaranteed Housing Application?" In order to further optimize the TPC talent pool and provide housing security for the talents needed for the development of TPC's future space plan, in accordance with the spirit of the "TPC Special Talent Introduction Implementation Plan" (No. 3) document, combined with the actual poverty, the agent submitted a housing application to Kirino Mufu. ”

Megumi Intermediary directly pulled the document to the end, and then saw a familiar name in the agent column, "Agent: Casto, Approver: Megumi Broker?" ”

Megumi Kuma: ?

Megumi Kuma, who was laughed at angrily, silently opened the global broadcast inside TPC, "This is Megumi Juma, the captain of the victory team, please come to the office of the captain of the victory team, in addition, once others find that he has signs of escape, please arrest him immediately, please pay attention to all TPC members, he is not aggressive, but he is very dexterous, if necessary, you can use nets, ropes, stun guns and other equipment, thank you." ”

On the other side, Casto, who was walking on the TPC circular corridor with Dagu, Xincheng and others, was about to go to dinner, and his expression slowly stiffened when he listened to the familiar voice in his ears.

"New City Member!"

"Here!"

"Great Gu Member!"

"Here!"

"Team Lina!"

"Here!"

"Form a one-two attack formation! Target Casto! ”

"Yes!" *3

Under the command of Munakata, Shinshin beside Dagu, Lina, and Castor, who had originally walked in two rows towards the cafeteria, reacted instantly, and in the form of a formation, turned around and narrowed the encirclement towards Casto.

"It's not! Zongfang, you're sick! Why are you so professional at this time? Casto was propped up in the air and shouted, "At least let me eat first!" I haven't eaten lunch yet!!! ”

"I want to see Director Sawai! I want to see the Chief of Staff of Nanyuan! I want to see Director Yoshioka! I don't want to see Sister Meguma!! ”

"I've done a lot for TPC! I've been hurt for TPC! I am a hero!! I'm a hero!! ”

(End of chapter)