It was by chance that Kanata discovered he possessed the rare ability of psychokinesis.
Catching a salt container that had been floating before him, I asked Lilith, still gripping the container, “Hey, what did you just say?”
“I told you I didn’t do anything.”
“If you didn’t do it, who else would have?”
“I think it would be none other than the Sergeant.”
“Huh? Wait a minute. What do you mean by that?”
“Proof is better than words. Sergeant, you have pepper, soy sauce, shichimi, and sansho three meters away. Why don’t you try it? Of course, don’t tell me which one I’m supposed to move.”
Alright, I’ll try it.
I’ll move the soy sauce.
I focus my mind, trying to move the small bottle of soy sauce.
…It moved! The small bottle of soy sauce floated and came right before me.
“Now you understand. Even if I were playing a prank, the probability of guessing that I would move the small bottle of soy sauce is 25%. If you still doubt me, you can try as many times as you want, but I think it would be a waste of time.”
“R-right. So, does that mean I’m…”
“A user of the rare psychic ability, psychokinesis.”
This me, a user of a rare psychic ability. It doesn’t quite register.
The thugs who had gathered around started heckling me.
“Hey, you lolicon. So you had a rare psychic ability, huh?”
“Not bad. Psychokinesis is useful, you know.”
“Yeah, they say masters can even stop incoming bullets.”
Lilith puffed out her flat chest with a smug expression.
“Thanks to spending some intimate time with me, it seems psychokinesis was transmitted to you (utsutta).”
A murmur rippled through the thugs.
“You don’t get it? In other words, I slept with you…”
I scooped Lilith under my arm and dashed out of the cafeteria.
How many times has this happened already!
I fled to the rest area in the corridor near the bridge.
Let’s take a breather here. First, I’ll buy a carbonated drink.
*Schwi~~~~* I chugged it down. *Fuuu*, I feel a bit calmer now.
Now, following Shuri’s example, it’s time for a scolding session.
“H-e-y! What were you thinking? I’m currently under suspicion of being a lolicon!”
“It’s true that you slept with me the night I returned from the laboratory. I’m not lying. Besides, the rumors around town suggest that the stage of suspicion has passed, and it seems to be already confirmed?”
“You’re the one spreading those rumors! And if you say we slept together, no one will think we just slept together! You know that, don’t you!”
“To win your heart, Sergeant, I’d even become a demon.”
“You’re already a demon enough as it is!”
“You’re lucky. My virginity is yours, Sergeant. Don’t lose control of yourself in excitement?”
“I will respectfully decline that offer.”
“What about in 10 years?”
“I would like to consider it positively and make appropriate arrangements.”
“You’re honest.”
Because Lilith looks like she’ll become a stunning beauty in 10 years.
In 10 years, her breasts will probably be quite impressive too.
Wait, I should be thinking about psychokinesis right now.
No, my lolicon suspicion is also an important matter.
“What should I do with this ability?”
“You should utilize it effectively. Boobs have various uses besides providing nutrition to babies, don’t they? It’s the same with that.”
“…Is it the same…? It seems a bit different? No, it’s wildly different.”
“At any rate, shouldn’t you inform Marika-san?”
“That’s certainly true. I’ll go to the bridge and report now.”
“Have a good trip. I have a nail care appointment, so I’ll be heading back to my room.”
At 10 years old, she’s already learning nail care.
She’s really mature. Or maybe it’s not that unusual.
After all, besides Lilith, I don’t know any other 10-year-old girls, so I can’t say.
Watching Lilith return to her room, whistling a tune, I headed for the bridge.
“Psychokinesis, huh? You’re saying you had such a thing. Kanata, you’re quite a character, not to be outdone by Lilith. I can praise you for being a promising soldier with a rare ability, but what about being sickly, a breast fetishist, a womanizer, meddlesome, and having funny reactions? I heard recently you’ve awakened to being a lolicon.”
This was Marika-san’s response after I reported the details of my situation while sitting in a rather unceremonious posture in the command chair on the bridge.
“I absolutely deny the lolicon part. As for psychokinesis, I just discovered it in the cafeteria when I tried to grab a salt container that was placed at a distance.”
“For now, forget about psychokinesis during the SNC operation.”
“Forget about it?”
“It’s fine to train while you’re in Shiranui, but consider it not to be real combat. Half-baked knowledge is the root of injury.”
“I see.”
“But psychokinesis. We have quite a few pyrokinetic users in the No. 1 Unit, but having only Lilith as a psychokinetic user is troublesome. Moreover, Lilith’s psychokinesis isn’t something she’s enhanced and mastered through training. It’s just that she was powerful from the start.”
“After all, she’s a monster with a Nenshin Strength of 6 million n, right, Lilith.”
“I don’t know how strong Kanata’s psychokinesis is, but it will surely be useful. Even Agito didn’t have psychokinesis.”
“Oh, really?”
“He had something else, though. In any case, high Nenshin ability, penetration, excellent physical abilities, and the rare ability of psychokinesis. Kanata, if you grow as you should, you might have the makings of a captain for the Asura Unit.”
Agito had something else? What kind of rare ability could it be?
Does it matter? He’s already dead, and while not as much as Hotaru, I also dislike that man Agito.
“I don’t think I’m cut out for that, and even if I were, I wouldn’t want to be captain. I want to stay in Captain Marika’s No. 1 Unit.”
“That’s a cute thing to say. Well, focus on the present rather than the future. In any case, during this operation, consider psychokinesis as if it doesn’t exist, understand?”
“Understood.”
“Go to the hangar and determine how much you can move. Start there.”
“Alright, I’ll go right away.”
After finishing my report, I decided to head to the hangar.
Upon arriving at the hangar, I began training to gauge my psychokinesis ability in a corner, so as not to disturb the maintenance crew.
Spanners and wrenches, I can do it.
A motorcycle, impossible. Then how about a small toolbox? This one I can do.
A large toolbox, impossible.
Hmm, I think I can move things up to around 10 kilograms.
“Yo, fellow psychic. Starting training right away?”
“Oh, it’s fellow Axel. Isn’t it?”
“Rare ability psychokinesis, huh? Tell me, comrade, we are comrades, aren’t we?”
“What are you talking about now? Of course, we are comrades.”
“Yeah, yeah. After this operation is over, let’s take a vacation together and go to Rocktown.”
“Rocktown?”
“It’s the closest city to the Garden. It’s an out-of-the-way town surrounded by rocks, but the girls there are top-notch.”
“Are you saying we should go pick up girls together? Like searching for girls with the golden ratio of breasts?”
“Weren’t you against the golden ratio of breasts?”
“I admit my mistake on that matter. The golden ratio of breasts and Laputa do exist.”
Given the existence of an image of the Milk God as proof, I have no choice but to admit it.
I don’t know what this “Laputa” is, but admitting the existence of the golden ratio of breasts shows growth, comrade.”
“I’m growing, just like the breasts of pubescent girls. Getting back to the topic, are you serious about going pick up girls in Rocktown?”
“That’s not it. I’m talking about utilizing that psychokinesis effectively. From what I’ve seen, you can move weights up to about 10 kilograms, right?”
“It seems so.”
“Fellow Kanata, a girl’s skirt doesn’t weigh 10 kilograms, you know?”
That’s another way to use it, isn’t it? I just heard something good.
“Indeed, but it’s not psychokinesis. It’s just a gust of wind, a gust of wind blew. We just happened to be there, right?”
“Yeah, it’s not unusual for a gust of wind to blow. It’s not surprising if such coincidences happen a few times around us, is it?”
“They say what happens twice will happen a third time. Coincidence is terrifying.”
At that moment, sparks flew from my eyes. Fellow Axel was also clutching his head and crouching over.
Tatiana-san, holding a wrench in her right hand and a spanner in her left, had punished us.
“You perverts! The saying goes that coincidences don’t happen twice!”
“It hurts a lot, Tatiana-san.”
“Those who try to use rare abilities for sexual crimes deserve to experience a little pain.”
“…Tatiana… I understand you’re in a bad mood due to your irregular period, but taking it out on us…”
Fellow Axel, still clutching his stomach, was hit by Tatiana’s whirlwind kick and collapsed.
“Kanata, let me tell you, if you really use psychokinesis for lecherous purposes…”
“I know! I know! It was just a light joke between us, comrade. A witty joke.”
“What’s witty about it? If you don’t stop, I’ll have the nameplate on your coffin changed to ‘Sex Offender Kanata’.”
That’s worse than being called a lolicon. Though being a lolicon is also a sexual offense.
“Tatiana-san, you welded the nameplate, didn’t you? That’s too much.”
“You two should reflect a little, you vulgar, lewd brat. Honestly, it’s good that Kanata’s rare ability is telekinesis. If it were X-ray vision, it would have been a terrible situation.”
“Huh! You have X-ray vision too? I really want that!”
Ah! I shouldn’t have, my true feelings slipped out!
Tatiana-san cracked her neck,
“…I don’t have such an ability. Your true feelings have slipped out. Are you ready?”
Tatiana-san’s uppercut, delivered with a spanner still in her hand, struck me.
Guh, guh–. Th-this power, this sharpness.
It’s an uppercut worthy of a one-eyed Muay Thai emperor.
As I fell, knocked out, next to fellow Axel, I thought:
Tatiana-san should be a soldier, not a maintenance crew member.
It was discovered through reader feedback that an error occurred in Chapter 8.
The correction will likely be made tomorrow. I want to disappear into the ground.
