"Our Kusuo is healthy in body and mind, has morals, quality, and culture. He wouldn't care about the safety of thieves, right?"
Why are you worried about the thief's situation at this time? Of course, it's because you're worried about your computer.
"Don't worry. If it's not me opening the computer, they'll get shocked. I've set up high-voltage current defenses. If their resistance is a little weak and they pass out, the tacks on the floor are a bit dangerous. If they open the drawer improperly, a blade will fly out. Oh dear, will it cause someone's death!"
I'm worried you'll go to jail for excessive self-defense.
"Well, at least I didn't install a bomb. The Super Ionic Blue Light Gatling gun was just set up today and hasn't been loaded with bullets yet. What a pity, haha."
You seem even more dangerous than Nen users.
"Almost done," Saiki Kusuke suddenly said.
What's almost done?
"It's almost time to start talking frankly, like the part that hospitals have, where you chat about the patient's mental state after the diagnosis! Kusuo, shall we go up and chat?"
Didn't we just chat?
"If you don't say anything, I'll take it as agreement. This way."
Hey, you clearly know what I'm thinking, right?
It might be a little late to explain now. Saiki Kusuke, relying on his understanding of his younger brother since birth and his own super high intelligence, can read his younger brother's thoughts just from his expression and complete a telepathic conversation with the psychic!
Saiki Kusuke takes Saiki Kusuo in the elevator.
Riding the elevator is a privilege only teachers have. If Saiki Kusuo had this privilege earlier, he could have gone straight to the bottom floor and heard Meruem's opening speech.
In the elevator, Saiki Kusuke directly pressed the top floor.
18th floor.
Wait a minute, it's just a high school, why are there 18 floors? Did it look that tall from the outside earlier?
"Huh? It is that tall. Kusuo doesn't pay attention very well?"
Really? The first-year classrooms are on the 6th floor, with the second and third years below. What are the 12 floors above used for?
"Clubs also have activity rooms. I haven't explored all the secrets of this school yet."
The elevator doors open on the 18th floor, and right in front is the rooftop.
Hey, usually, the elevator should take you to the top floor, and then you walk up a flight of stairs to the rooftop. Which elevator goes straight to the roof?
"Don't worry about the details. And if you want to investigate carefully, Kusuo is complaining about himself by complaining about this weird building structure!"
Ah, that's right.
The rooftop doesn't have the safety nets that often appear in school dramas. Saiki Kusuke walks directly to the edge of the rooftop, sits down, and pats the spot next to him.
"Sit down, Kusuo."
Do you know that if you fall, you'll plummet eighteen floors?
"It's a pity to come to the top and not look at the scenery from the top. Are you scared?"
Who would be afraid of a mere eighteen-story building? I wasn't even scared when I went to space.
Saiki Kusuo sits to Saiki Kusuke's left.
Eighteen stories above ground, with no buildings blocking the view, the wind is strong, and the entire school can be seen. The new building, the arena, is behind the principal's office. The roof is a large flat surface, and the sports field is very large. Saiki Kusuo suddenly looks back and sees the elementary and middle school sections, which are only six stories high.
That's too sudden. So the high school section was only six stories originally, right?
"Over there, that's where brother lives, by the river..." Saiki Kusuke points far away.
Let's get to the point. Didn't you say we came to the rooftop to talk frankly?
"Don't be so hasty. I'll show you something."
Saiki Kusuke extends his left arm. His wrist guard is on his right hand, and his left arm is empty. Saiki Kusuo doesn't know what he's going to do.
Suddenly, there's movement below. A pair of mechanical hands, driven by thrust, pushes the arm into the air. When it encounters Kusuke's arm, it brakes suddenly, and various parts disassemble and reassemble, successfully fitting his arm.
"Haha, success!"
It looks like something I've seen in a movie.
"Next step is to put a nuclear reactor in the heart position..."
You can't just copy Iron Man!
"Hahaha, just kidding! If I were really going to do it, based on the energy consumption and supply center, it should be placed in the lower abdomen!"
You'd explode with the nuclear reactor when it explodes.
"How does it feel to be an ordinary person?"
Suddenly, we get to the main topic. But someone has asked this question before. Don't waste time.
"Or what are your life goals now?"
What are with these "death questions" for psychics? And someone has asked this before too.
...
However, the answer might have changed now.
After becoming an ordinary person, it's true that I've caused trouble for others.
Losing the superpowers that I've had for over 30 years is very uncomfortable. There are many moments when I unconsciously try to use superpowers but there's nothing there.
But, as the time as an ordinary person increases, I'm getting more and more used to being an ordinary person. Eating too much sweets doesn't just make you fat. That's an effect that comes from eating sweets for a long time. Before that, the body will send out a "too sweet" warning. The sweetness that brings happiness will instead make you feel sick. An ordinary person's body has its own alarm system. If you don't understand what the body means, it will use a stomach ache to warn you, and you'll know next time. A fever in an ordinary person is also to protect themselves. Although if the fever goes above 40 degrees, an ordinary person also has the risk of being burned to death, this is also a self-preservation gamble to live!
There are many similar examples. How should an ordinary person climb up to the 6th floor in one go? You can risk climbing the water pipes. How should an ordinary person move a steel plate weighing 20 tons? You can get dark creatures to help. Putting yourself in the position of an ordinary person who absolutely cannot get help allows you to truly observe and experience the life of an ordinary person.
Most of the things that superpowers can do, ordinary people can do with their intelligence. If they can't do it themselves, they can do it with others.
After repeatedly noticing these surprises, Saiki Kusuo sincerely exclaimed: Ordinary people are amazing!
Being amazing is one thing, feeling it is another.
Without a way out as an ordinary person, he has seen all kinds of situations where people cry and laugh, the gamble of not knowing each other's cards in dangerous situations, the medical student kneeling and crying because the pharmacy wouldn't accept them. The complexity of people, the wishes of people, the expectations of people, those grudgingly weighed choices, some struggles, the will to definitely achieve something, etc.
It's not necessarily worse than what I felt in comics and novels.
The time as an ordinary person isn't long enough yet, and I always encounter surprises that I can't understand. If I choose to continue being ordinary, will I one day be able to become one of those people who cry and laugh too?
The answer should be yes. By permanently erasing his superpowers, he is a regular player in this game called life, he will have an ordinary life like everyone else, powerless to defy fate, constantly finding a suitable position between the gears of society and himself.
He knows that the life of ordinary people will have helplessness, stifled feelings, and forced compromises.
But no matter how comprehensively he thinks about the unexpected events he might encounter, he cannot dispel the expectations that arise for that kind of life.
"Kusuke," Saiki Kusuo interlocks his fingers and looks down.
Eighteen stories below, pedestrians are rushing by. Even during a short 10-minute break, some people run downstairs to gather. Saiki Kusuo realizes that there's a snack shop downstairs.
People are walking back and forth with their own purposes, gathering in groups of twos and threes, having their own conversations.
"Ordinary people are good..." Saiki Kusuo says, saying it seriously, saying it with anticipation and imagination in his eyes.
Saiki Kusuke adjusts his mechanical hand, not saying anything.
"But, psychics aren't bad either."
?! Saiki Kusuke looks at his younger brother.
"There are 99% of things that ordinary people can do in the world, and doing them will bring a sense of accomplishment and happiness, but there are also 1%, 0.1%, things that ordinary people can't do."
"From large-scale things like tsunamis, meteorite impacts, and volcanic eruptions, to small-scale things like penetrating wounds, car accidents where the body is smashed to pieces, hearts being blasted..."
"None of these disasters will have a major impact on humanity as a whole. People will learn from the lessons and avoid the next danger. Ordinary people are a complete system that can self-adjust."
"But, if I have people I want to protect, if I have selfish desires, when encountering these disaster moments."
"Superpowers are necessary."
"I myself can get hurt because of my choices, but I want to protect the people I want to protect, even if they don't know it, I don't want them to lose the opportunity to be saved by me."
"Superpowers are necessary, Kusuke, this is my future, my ans..."
"Beep--beep--"
The sound comes from Saiki Kusuke's mechanical arm. The mechanical arm suddenly twists and slaps Saiki Kusuo on the back!
Saiki Kusuo is also shocked. His body, already leaning forward on the edge of the rooftop, suddenly takes off into the air.
...Takes off into the air?
Falling!!
"Hey, Kusuke!!" Saiki Kusuo exclaims in shock.
The wind rolls Saiki Kusuo's body over in mid-air. He sees the sky and the edge of the rooftop. Saiki Kusuke didn't jump down.
Right, jumping down would be irrational behavior. Kusuke's shoes only increase elasticity and cushioning, they're not flying rocket shoes... But what should I do!?
On top of the rooftop.
"It's better not to move," Saiki Kusuke says, grabbing the edge of the rooftop, his eyes incredibly calm. "If I saw you running to save him, I would definitely feel relieved. Only a real accident can wake him up."
Next to Saiki Kusuke, Kusuko clings to the edge of the rooftop. It doesn't dare to show its head, but uses clairvoyance from this position to watch the main body fall below.
Yes, increasing the floor height to 18 stories was the result of Saiki Kusuke's calculation based on Saiki Kusuo's body strength, urgently built by Kusuko. Even if Saiki Kusuo falls without his superpowers returning, he won't actually die hitting the ground.
But he will definitely get injured.
That is, at the moment Saiki Kusuo lands without any protection, Kusuko will disappear due to Saiki Kusuo's injury.
Saiki Kusuke's hand presses on Kusuko's neck collar. Kusuko's clairvoyance is canceled.
Whether you want to continue existing or have any hidden thoughts, Kusuko no longer has a chance to regret it.
Superpowers, have been erased by Saiki Kusuke.
Light cracking sounds are heard from the wall. Kusuko's keen hearing hears it, takes a step back, and pulls on the corner of Saiki Kusuke's clothes with its mouth, pulling him back.
Whether it was unintentional, intentional, or the result of a malfunction, Saiki Kusuke's mechanical arm has already created a crack in the wall.
There was no loud sound of a human body hitting the ground from high above, but a psychic didn't appear at his side as he had hoped.
Saiki Kusuke lowers his head and backs away from the dangerous position at the edge of the rooftop. Kusuko follows worriedly beside him.
What happened...
"Ah, it's a shame, but there's nothing I can do..." Saiki Kusuke says something, and walks into the elevator with Kusuko.
As Saiki Kusuo fell, many people saw him.
At first, it was the alert hunters below. Within a short fall of 5 floors, people had already noticed him and shouted anxiously to each other.
The Nen of the people near the junior and senior high school departments isn't strong, and they can't easily catch someone with their bodies.
The people below were noisy, and the sound gradually reached the people above.
However, all the dark creatures received instructions to only dare to peek at the person falling outside the window, and not dare to take action.
On the sixth floor, in Chrollo's office, the door was being installed. Three dark creatures suddenly chatted with him non-stop, and the tightly drawn curtains prevented him from noticing anything outside the window.
On the fifth floor, the classroom where Killua and others were having a heated discussion. They were stunned for a long time when they saw Saiki Kusuo falling, and thought of...
Anyway, Kusuo has teleportation, what's he playing at?
On the fourth floor, the student council patrol had just finished their patrol. Only one person was left picking their nose. The red-haired girl with semi-circular head ornaments on both sides of her head was eating pickled kelp. She widened her eyes the moment she saw someone flying past the window.
On the third floor, the student council president with black hair, along with the white-haired vice president and a glasses-wearing lackey, had long noticed the commotion downstairs. After noticing the abnormality, they also looked up along the eyes of the people below.
Before Saiki Kusuo landed.
When he was about to reach the height of the third floor, a black shadow flashed past him and hugged him, spinning him and kicking him against the wall of the second floor he encountered during the fall. The black-haired person transformed the large amount of falling force into horizontal force. The force was somewhat offset in this kick. Using the point left on the second-floor wall as the origin, the man hugged Saiki Kusuo and flew out of the building in a projectile parabola with a very high initial velocity. The horizontal direction is uniform rectilinear motion, and the vertical direction is free fall. Everyone write down the equations yourself because there's no time!
The man hugged Saiki Kusuo horizontally and landed. His lower body was stable. He slid briefly on the cement ground and took two steps back to dissipate all the force, stopping in place.
Saiki Kusuo opens his eyes.
He can't see anything. His vision is blurred with a mass of black hair. Then he hears a familiar voice.
"Kusuo, what are you playing at?"
...
[Did Kusuo just fall down? Is he really okay?]
[I actually fell into the embarrassing situation of not bringing enough money. I only broke the door lock. The door was broken by someone else.]
[Aren't the rules of the arena allowed to be cheated?]
[If his superpowers recover, he should appear by my side and question me, right, what a pity]
[I don't know if the main body's superpowers have recovered or not.]
[I even decided that if he recovered, I would say, 'Superpower Kusuo, congratulations on your birthday comeback!' Well, there's nothing to celebrate about August 16th in another world, right? This isn't his home after all.]
So many thoughts.