Tale of Discovery

Chapter 13: Transfer Student ; Questioning

Early next morning, Ayumi and I go to school together ordinarily. On the way there, we hear students converse about the incident that has occurred recently. Once I've brought Ayumi to her school building, I go on my way to my own.

Oh, I almost forgot that Yusa will be transferring to our school today. I already have a bad feeling about this... I just hope it won't unfold the way I'm expecting it to.

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"Hey dude, have you heard?", says one student to another.

"There is a rumor that Yusarin will be transferring to our school today!", he continues.

"It's true! I overheard the headmaster speak of it before!", added another student.

As expected. The topic of the class is mostly about Yusa. I'm grateful though, as I wouldn't have to listen to students creating conspiracy theories about the incident that I caused yesterday...

As the first class is about to start, our homeroom teacher enters the classroom and announces,

"Everyone, pay attention! We have a new student transferring here today. As her new classmates, you ought to take good care of her."

Once he's done talking, Yusa enters the classroom. All of a sudden, everyone is overwhelmed with excitement. Heck, I see a student standing up from his seat and start dancing.

"You there! Stop dancing! Everyone, be quiet!", the teacher attempts to pacify the class, but it has no effect.

Yusa just stands there, but then, she raises her finger and places it on her lips. For some reason, the chaotic atmosphere in the air disappears, and everybody quiets down.

"I may not be able to attend school on some days due to work, but I'd like to enjoy high school life with all of you.", she proclaims.

Then, silence ensues. However, that doesn't last long, as a certain weirdo begins shouting, "Yusarin!", repeatedly while throwing his arm up, as if he were attempting to incite a crowd.

That does seem to be the case, as most of the students begin to do so as well. Our poor teacher slams his book onto his desk while yelling, "Be quiet!".

This went way worse than I was expecting it to. Well, I'm not that surprised though. Never underestimate the impact an idol has on the masses...

The teacher then tells Yusa where she is supposed to sit, which happens to be the seat next to Nao. Yusa moves toward her desk, and once she's close enough Nao says without sparing her a glance,

"Nice to meet you."

In response to her nonchalance, Yusa just smiles and replies while bowing slightly,

"Yes! I'm sure I will trouble you a lot, but it's nice to meet you!"

I don't find anything wrong with what just happened, but that doesn't seem to the case with my classmates though, as I hear them whispering,

"What's with her?" and "She's so rude.", as well as other such phrases.

Nao sure isn't popular with the students...

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Once the bell signifying the start of lunch rings, students all flock to Yusa and start to speak of their "achievements" such as: buying her CDs, merchandise, watching her live shows, and much more.

While the students are still circling Yusa and asking her questions, Nao goes over, grasps Yusa's hand, and pulls her away while saying,

"Kurobane, I'd like to come with us immediately to the student council room."

As expected, the students react negatively to her actions. Nao doesn't pay them much attention and just instructs us to follow her. Joijiro and I follow her without making any comments.

As soon as we arrive at the student council room, Joijiro's 'fan-boy' switch is flipped on. Yusa praises him for his endeavors, but then asks,

"What are we doing here?"

Suddenly Joijiro has a look of pity on his face for some reason as he adjusts his glasses and says,

"A helper will be coming over. However, I hope you can prepare mentally to not be startled by his unusual guise."

Yusa visibly flinches as a reaction to his remark. We hear the sound of a door handle being turned, then the door to the student council room opens, and enters our soaked friend.

Yusa's expression turns for the worst when she sees him, stepping back and getting behind Nao in fear.

The guy seems to be unaffected by this and just goes through the usual procedure, stating,

"The ability is... Telekinesis.", then leaves the room.

It takes some time, but Yusa calms down and asks,

"What was that?"

I reply to her while pointing to the table,

"There is an ability user there, where the drop of water hit the map. That's how we found you."

Nao checks the spot keenly, before exclaiming, "Bingo!" proudly. She then proceeds to pull out a newspaper from out of nowhere and lays it on the table for all of us to see. The press is about a new rising star in baseball.

Nao then begins to tell us about how she's been looking into the guy for a week. She then grabs her camera, unmounts the SD card, and walks toward the DVD player in the room. Once everything's set up, we watch a video of a baseball game.

In the game, we see the guy pitching the ball with a curve that only experts should be capable of. Nao then starts explaining to us how what he's doing shouldn't be possible, because the way he holds the ball is for throwing it straightly.

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"So you're saying that he uses telekinesis as soon as he throws the ball to change its direction?", Joijiro questions.

Nao nods in response and that's how it was decided that we're going to be going over to the school the guy is in, and meet him in person.

"Before we go, I have something to ask you.", Nao says to me, then changes the video displayed on the screen to a recording of yesterday.

In the recording, golden-colored veins are extending from my eyes in all directions. I suppose that's when I utilized my Paragon's Eyes.

"Care to tell us what transpired yesterday for you to abruptly dash off into the dark, and when we finally locate you, you look like this?"

Great. It's about time they asked. I knew they were going to sooner or later, so let's get this done quickly. I begin explaining,

"Yesterday, I suddenly felt like we were being watched from the shadows. I look around and see somebody hurriedly retreating, so I run after him. As I was pursuing him, he used special abilities. Your special abilities. His speed was almost comparable to Joijiro's and he could turn invisible. He used flames to blind me for a moment and managed to get away."

They listen to me from the beginning to end without interrupting me. Then Nao asks me,

"What about the collapsed building? The light that blinded and roasted people? And most importantly, your appearance in the tape?"

I take in a deep breath and decide to tell them about myself.