Became a Human Rights Advocate

41 – Episode 8. Ability Development.

＜5＞

Lunch time. I sat on the rooftop and ate, staring blankly at the sky. A donut-shaped cloud moves slowly eastward with a tailwind.

It resembled one of the colorless elements I used yesterday. The idea of rotating and amplifying power in a cylindrical shape and releasing it all at once.

I failed miserably, and threw a bunch of dirt in Nicola’s face.

“Is it ‘fundamentally wrong’?”

I muttered as I put the bread I bought at the store in my mouth after a long time.

The last words Nicola said are stuck in her head. Maybe that’s the correct answer.

I only imagined Lee Si-hyeok in the game, but I have no idea how this ability works in detail.

“You look worried about something, junior Sihyuk.”

A senior from the Newspaper Club who was eating cup noodles nearby spoke to me. Blue eyes unique to Westerners sparkle like jewels.

“Come to think of it, what is the ability of a senior?”

“Well, it’s not something to brag about. At best, it’s a D-class ability. Now, take a good look at me.”

After saying that, the senior opened her three fingers and started counting down.

“Now three, two, one.”

“Huh?”

At the same time as her fingers folded, the senior disappeared before my eyes.

“… Do you have the ability to become invisible?”

“hehehehe, it’s not that grandiose ability.”

The senior’s voice came from the front. However, the seniors still do not exist in front of me.

“It refracts light. Refraction is limited to a few meters close to my body, even a very small area.”

“It seems to have refracted the light and disappeared from my sight.”

“Yes. But, this is a very strange ability. Junior Sihyuk, would you like to get up and move to the side?”

I obediently followed the senior’s words. However, after taking a step or two to the side, the appearance of the senior appeared in the place where there seemed to be nothing until just now.

“I can only refract light coming from one direction. That’s why, if I or my opponent move even a little, it’s an ability that will destroy me right away.”

The senior said that and let out a deep sigh.

“Well, thanks to this ability, it’s easy to hide somewhere. Surprisingly, if you deceive your eyes at one point, then there will be a place that cannot be found because of a psychological blind spot. Like the stairs going up to the roof.”

Come to think of it, when I first met Lee-senpai, she suddenly appeared next to me. Next to the door on the roof is a stack of crates containing miscellaneous items, which obscure all views looking up from down the stairs.

If you hide in the narrow space between the box and the wall and only distort the light in front of it, you can instantly become invisible.

“I did quite a bit of reporting with this ability, hehehe.”

“… Is that coverage right?”

“For now.”

After saying that, the senpai unlocked her ability. The strange sense of incongruity felt in the background near the senior disappears in an instant.

“But why is my ability? Junior Si-hyeok.”

“… I’ve been having some trouble lately.”

“Troublesome? What is it, this senior will advise you.”

A senior who bangs his chest with his fist. However, with a body that only looks like a middle school student, it only looks cute, not trustworthy.

Well, still, this senpai probably knows the details of her abilities better than I do.

All I know is information about specific people and events in this world, and I don’t know the detailed principles.

As I roughly explained what had happened yesterday, the senior put her hands behind her head and began to ponder with a huff-sound.

“Not just amplification… , Didn’t you say that the kid who said that was a student from Central First High?”

“Yes.”

“It’s something a student from the first high school said, so it’s worth paying some attention to. Also, if amplification is not a fundamental ability for the imposition effect.”

A senior who keeps worrying while frowning his face strangely. Then, as if thinking of something, she nodded her head.

“Mmm!”

“Did you remember something?”

“I don’t know a thing.”

… This human?

“Please don’t look at the senior with such a pitiful expression. I’ve never seen junior Sihyuk’s ability beforehand. In particular, the abilities of the auxiliary classes are different in type and principle than general abilities, so it is impossible to guess just by hearing them.”

“… Shall I show you then?”

“Good! Can I use it as an article?”

I thought for a moment and then nodded.

Now, it is an ability that everyone knows. Taking lessons learned from the last raid on the booster factory, I roughly finished talking to the rest of the special department members about their abilities.

“For now, this is my ability.”

“Does it look like a cube?”

“Would you like to take this and use your abilities?”

“Yes, I understand.”

The senior who caught the colorless element spread her fingers once again and started the countdown.

“Now, three, two, one-.”

The moment her fingers were all folded, the senior disappeared in front of my eyes. She waits for a moment, but hears nothing.

“Hey, senpai.”

I tried moving from side to side like before, but the senior was still nowhere to be seen. I called several times, but no response.

… What?

Then suddenly, a senior appeared on the spot.

“Why didn’t you say anything, senpai?”

“What are you talking about? I kept answering what junior Si-hyeok said?”

“… ?”

“… ?”

They both made puzzled faces. There was silence for a while, and the senior’s face became quite serious. The senior, who put his hand on her chin as if thinking for a moment and let out a strange moan, opened her mouth only after a while.

“… Certainly, it doesn’t seem like a simple ‘amplification’ series.”

“Is that so?”

“The refraction of light means that the wave of light is refracted after all. Did you know that all matter has properties of waves and particles in common?”

… ?

I don’t know. I was a liberal arts student.

“My ability was limited to refracting light only a little bit. But after receiving your ability, it refracted not only light but also sound waves.”

“… How serious is that?”

“Seriously. I think you didn’t simply ‘amplify’ my ability, but rather ‘interfere’ with my ability itself.”

What kind of difference does that make? I honestly don’t feel much of a difference as I’m ignorant of the theory of abilities.

“Could you explain a little bit easier?”

“That is impossible. In fact, this is the limit of reasoning for me too.”

“… Okay.”

“Um… Wouldn’t it be better to visit the research center for details?”

Throbbing.

When I heard the word research institute, my temples hurt again. It was only after I closed my eyes and took a few deep breaths that I was able to come to my senses.

“Are you okay, Junior Sihyuk?”

“… Slowly come back I am not feeling well.”

“Ah, then let’s go back quickly. I will help you.”

I obediently leaned my body on the senior’s shoulder.

“Oh, and I won’t include this interview in an article, because if you write down a story that the reporter himself doesn’t even know what it is, it will only be a third-rate article. Unless you investigate a little more closely.”

“Then can you tell me later?”

“Yes. I’m waiting for you!”

Looking at the sunbae with sparkling eyes, I swallowed the words I was going to add.

No matter what the senior’s journalistic spirit is, the Accademia Daily is a third-class newspaper.

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Because that’s how the official setting came about.

＜6＞

“… It’s complicated.”

After school, I returned to the dormitory, lying on the bed and staring at the ceiling, lost in thought.

Nicola said that ‘amplification’ might not be my fundamental ability, and the newspaper club senior said that my ability might have ‘interfered’ with the senior’s ability.

However, my ability is clearly ‘amplifying’ the ability of others, and I had no intention of ‘interfering’ with it.

The opinions of the two are only speculation.

As expected, it would be quicker to ask Ju Ji-young for details.

… As a teacher, I am completely dependent on the topic that I thought of as a senior and all, but in reality, I am.

“Whew.”

I made a small colorless element in my hand. Rolling the colorless elements around in the palm of my hand, I fall into my thoughts again.

Ability. Amplification. Nature. Interference. And Lee Si-hyeok’s skill. Is there a connection? If related. In what way? It is true that amplification cannot explain all of Lee Si-hyuk’s abilities. Assuming that the first skill, a colorless element, is not a base, but an applied type.

… Then maybe.

… It just feels like something flashed in my head.

If the essence of my ability is in the realm of ‘interference’ as the newspaper club senior said, then the effect of the second skill and ultimate is also understandable-

Ugh-

The vibration of the mobile phone stopped the accident that seemed to catch something.

… Who the hell are you this late at night?

“Hello.”

– Mr. Sihyuk?

What came over the phone was Suisei’s voice.

– Ah, sorry for the late night. Did I disturb your sleep?

“No, it’s okay. Because I was still awake.”

– I’m glad. I called um… It’s not different….

Suisei blurs his horse’s tail. There seemed to be a moment of silence, but a stern voice sounded as if he had made up his mind.

-Do you have time this Friday?

“… I don’t have any specific plans.”

Tomorrow is Thursday, the day we are supposed to meet Nicola again. There is no particular schedule for Friday, which is sandy.

-So, maybe… Could you lend me some time?”

Again?

This is the third. Maybe this lady sees me as a convenient playmate.

Well, it’s true that there’s nothing to do, so there’s no reason to refuse. I still haven’t been able to get the price of 100 won last time.

“What is it?

-I want to invite Sihyuk to the cherry blossom festival!

“I will refuse. I suddenly remembered the schedule.”

– Yes? Sihyuk? What is that-

I immediately hung up.

Cherry Blossom Festival.

A little over a month after the start of the new semester, it is an event at Edelweiss Academy that invites family and friends in small groups.

And I never intended to go to this event.

In Edelweiss Academy, there is that woman.

One of the best crazy b*tches in Legends of Academia that should never be filmed.

The lily girl who quarrels with the teacher at every step and always stands by Suisei’s side in the academy.

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‘… My ears are itching.’

Chloe, who was holding her breath under the covers, turned over her body. It seemed that someone was gossiping about him.

But I can’t make big moves. Now Chloe was paying her full attention to eavesdropping on the conversations of her roommate, Suisei.

‘Just before, that guy named Lee Si-hyeok… , Is it a girl this time?’

Chloe couldn’t hear the details, but she could guess the gender from the faint voice she heard.

“Yes, yes. Then I beg you. Sosoyang.”

The phone call that lasted for a long time ended with those words.

Chloe stood up rubbing her eyes as if she had just woken up.

“Oh, Chairman. Did I wake you up by any chance?”

“No… are you okay. Rather, who are you calling like that in the middle of the night?”

Suisei slightly blushed at Chloe’s question, then lowered her head and continued.

“There is someone I want to invite to the cherry blossom festival somehow.”

“… Friend?”

“Yes. He is a precious person who was greatly favored in the past.”

Susei smiled softly as he said that. Seeing this, Chloe felt a dark emotion welling up inside her.

“Hmm… I mean.”

Two days until the cherry blossom festival.

Will Lee Si-hyeok be able to escape Chloe’s clutches…!