Tale of Discovery

Chapter 14: Progression

I take a seat on a sofa nearby and begin my explanation,

"When I was chasing the man who was able to use your abilities, a glow suddenly enveloped my arm. The next thing I knew, the glow disappeared and in its place, there were veins extending from the tip of my fingers all the way to my shoulder. I moved my hand, and the building in front of me collapsed..."

I proceed to describe the rest of it as such. I make it seem like I had no awareness of my powers, which is true in a sense, but I don't explicitly state it.

After several minutes of contemplation, Nao looks at me in the eye and says in her usual tone,

"It doesn't matter how you got the ability, but you need to try to restrain it so that it doesn't do any more damage than what its already done."

That's how our gathering comes to an end, and we set out to take care of the guy with telekinetic powers.

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Once we reach our location, we find the guy we are looking for practicing baseball with his friends. We call out for him, and he responds in kind. He says as he approaches us,

"You don't seem to be from our school. I hope you can hurry up because we are currently practicing."

Nao remains unperturbed and says in a calmly,

"I'll be blunt with you. Do you use telekinetic abilities during your matches to turn the tables in your favor?"

The guy just winces slightly before responding in a mocking tone,

"Telekinesis? As in psychic powers? I don't have such a thing. What are you, occult research club members?"

Nao appears to be quite irritated as she points her finger at him and says,

"Listen here. That ability of yours is only a disease and is only there during adolescence. It will go away in due time. If you're striving to become a pro through the use of that ability, think again."

"There's also the fact that if someone notices that you have such an ability, you will be captured."

The guy seems to be wholly unconvinced as he responds harshly,

"Be captured? By whom?"

"Scientists who wish to study your power and dissect you.", she replies.

"And you expect me to believe such an idiotic thing?", he mocks.

Nao seems to think of something for a moment, then steps back a little and says,

"Fine then. Observe." /Dt2cDvx)

The guy then begins to freak out over nothing, is what it seems like from an outsider's point of view, but I'm fairly sure Nao has used her ability. She then asks him,

"Do you believe me now?"

The guy just looks at her, perplexed. Unable to hold herself back, Misa takes over Yusa's body and moves towards him while summoning flames on her palm as she states,

"How about we make a whole roast out of him?"

That look on his face is perfect. Oh well. I place my hand on Misa's shoulder and say,

"Stop it."

She glares at me as questions me.

"Don't show your ability off in public.", I explain,

"Do you want to cause trouble for Yusa?"

She spits at the ground when she realizes I have a point. What I find disgusting is that Joijiro got on his knees and stared at the spot where the spit hit, and exclaimed,

"Yusarin's saliva! No... this would be Misa-san's saliva... I'm troubled in how I should react!"

All of us give him a look of disgust as Nao shouts,

"Such a turn-off!"

I let out a sigh of disappointment, turn to Nao and ask her,

"Back to the main topic, what are we going to do?"

Nao then places her finger as she starts to think, then all of a sudden, she grins. I have a really bad feeling about this...

"How about we face each other in baseball?", she says, smiling.

Wait, what? Did she really just challenge a guy who has a cheat ability for this game?

"Our team versus your team. If we win do as we say."

He looks a bit surprised but then responds shortly after,

"Sure. If we win, never have anything to do with me again."

After we've set the time and location for our match, which happens to be in our school's stadium, we walk back to school. After we've walked for a little while, I stop and search my pockets for 'something'. This attracts everyone's attention to me. I then tell them,

"I've dropped something of mine. You guys go ahead, I will catch up to you."

I then run off in the direction of the school we just left. Once I reach there, I use Godspeed and Blink to get to a hidden location near the stadium where the students are still practicing. I take a good look and see the guy we just had a talk with speaking to his friend.

I use my special ability and control him. The next moment, I find myself in his body with his companion being in front of me. Without wasting a single second, I clench my hand into a fist and punch myself (in his body) in the face.

The next moment, I'm back in my own body. I observe as the guy freaks out over what happened, while his friend is confused and looking at him weirdly. That's for irritating me. Enjoy.

I utilize Godspeed and get out of the area. I go back to where I left the group, and notice that Nao is there through my senses.

I cease using Godspeed and walk towards her normally. She stares into my eyes and asks me,

"What did you forget?"

Oh crap. I don't carry anything important on me to show her... Oh, right!

"Nevermind. I just remembered that I had left it at home."

She squints her eyes ever so slightly and inquires,

"What did you do?"

Well, of course she wouldn't believe me... Whatever. Might as well take advantage of the situation and tease her,

"I'll tell you what I did, only if you embrace me."

I expect a kick or punch to be sent my way. What happens next startled me a little. She just stares at me, as if she is contemplating something. She then opens her arms wide and embraces me. I feel her soft body press against mine. I smell a sweet scent coming from her soft and silky hair.

I hug her back, gently stroking her back. After a dozen or so seconds, we let go of each other at the same time. She then looks at me in a way that's practically screaming "Well?".

"This is probably the best thing that has ever occurred to me," I say. She just rolls her eyes at my statement.

Aware that I will be irritating her if I dawdle any longer, I explain,

"I just possessed him using my ability and made him punch himself in front of his friend. He was kind of rude when conversing with you, which slightly pissed me off."

She stares at me blankly for a few seconds before saying,

"You just made this a lot easier to deal with..."

After that, she seizes my arm and drags me back to school. What did she mean by that? It doesn't matter really. Besides, it doesn't seem like I've made her mad, or else she would've straight up thrown a punch at my face based on her character. As we walk, I slowly shift the position of my hand and make it so that I'm directly holding hers. I'm surprised that she doesn't attempt to let go.

Today has been a very productive day.