No one moved after my last words
The room suddenly felt narrower
As if the walls had stepped one step closer to all of us
Riko did not look at me directly
He was staring at the floor
At an invisible point
As if he was trying to organize something inside himself before speaking
Miyuko remained silent
She did not deny
And she did not confirm
But her hands were tighter than they should have been
I broke the silence in a low voice
"Riko… not now"
He did not turn to her
Riko finally broke the silence
"Ginso… what you saw earlier
Was not an ordinary vision"
I raised my head slowly
"If it was not ordinary… then what was it?"
Miyuko inhaled sharply
"Riko, this explanation will not help him"
He replied without looking at her
"It will hurt him more if he does not understand"
He took a deep breath
Then spoke with a steady but tired voice
"Seers do not see the future the way people imagine
No magical images
No ready prophecies"
He stepped closer
And nodded toward my temple
"The mind… does everything"
Miyuko stepped closer to us
"Ginso does not need all this right now"
Riko slowly raised his hand
Not to silence her
But to calm her
"He needs to know what is happening to him
Otherwise he will think he is losing his mind"
I froze
I was listening
But something inside me already knew that what he was about to say would change everything I had lived through
"In the moment of a vision
A seer's mind works at a much higher level than normal
Not twenty
Not thirty
But ninety… sometimes more"
My eyes widened
"Ninety?!"
He nodded
"In a few seconds
The mind analyzes everything around you
Sounds
Movement
Weather
Human patterns
Small probabilities we never notice"
Miyuko closed her eyes
As if she knew these words too well
Then he said the most important sentence
"Then it builds every possible path of the future
And shows you the path with the highest chance of happening"
A chill ran down my back
"So… what I see
Is not the future
But a calculation?"
Riko gave a short smile
Empty of any joy
"Exactly
A terrifying calculation
Because it consumes both the mind and the body"
He paused
Then added
"That is why seers collapse
That is why they suffer headaches
And that is why some of them die young"
Miyuko moved suddenly
"Enough, Riko"
He finally looked at her
And there was something firm in his voice
"A small truth
Is better than a complete shock later"
I swallowed
And remembered the weight in my head
That moment when I saw three endings in a single second
I spoke in a low voice
"But what happened to me… was different"
Riko lifted his gaze to me
This time his eyes did not try to hide
"Because you did not stop at ninety"
The air left my chest
"When you tried to see more than one possibility at the same time
Your mind did not choose one path
It opened all the doors at once"
I remembered
The light
The collision
The bullet
The impact
"And when that happens…"
Riko continued
"The mind does not just collapse
It redirects itself"
I whispered
"To what?"
He looked around
At the room
At the table
At the door
"To everything
Not just time"
He fell silent for a moment
Then said
"What you have started to see now
Is not the future
But the trace of what already happened
As if your mind
Instead of calculating what will occur
Began analyzing what left its mark on a place"
I remembered the cup
The handle
The feeling
The tension that was not mine
I said with a hoarse voice
"As if the place… is speaking"
Riko nodded slowly
"And as if you can hear it"
A heavy silence filled the room
Not the silence of ignorance
But the silence of terrifying understanding
Then I asked the question that had been crushing my chest from the beginning
"And can this… be controlled?"
Riko did not answer immediately
Miyuko looked at him sharply
A silent warning
But he finally said
"Not now
And not easily"
Before I could fully understand his words
That feeling returned
Light
Distant
As if the air itself was moving in an unnatural way
And I knew
Without seeing anything
That this explanation
Was not only a warning
But a preparation for something
We were not ready for yet