The Crisis World XX

Chap. 43: Unique Skill

The second match is over. But now that's not my main focus. Because now I managed to uncover who the mysterious Exception that hid its existence in the school, as well as save me first.

"You also said that you felt the Exception at school, right?"

"Right, I feel it."

"Then it might be him. And the name 'Kurobane Mei' is a name I've heard in school."

"Hm ...."

Herlin then turned his gaze to Kurobane Mei who was in a limp position, the woman looked still in disbelief that she had lost to Oukami. He lowered his head long enough and his hands clenched hard.

But in the end, he walked away from the arena slowly while bowed limp. No one cares about it. All the attention was on Oukami — even the one who mocked her before was no longer concerned.

"It's so sorry." Herlin suddenly spoke.

"Hn ...? Why the sudden pity?"

"none. But if he really is our schoolmate, let's make sure to welcome him with a warm welcome."

"Good-Good." What's wrong with her all of a sudden. How strange.

A few minutes after the second match was over. The battle arena had also been sterilized and was ready to be reused. The buzz of the mic then echoed in this room and Mitsu excitedly immediately welcomed the third match.

"Yes, everyone! Are you ready for the third game?!"

"YEEEAHHHH !!!"

His excited voice could really move this entire room. At first I was doubtful of a woman filling the course of the match, but after hearing it, I now know why she was a commentator.

By the way, no rest at all, huh? The previous two games were pretty stressful. Moreover the first match — ekhem .. I won, by the way.

"Oh yeah, Herlin, do you know how many matches will be held today?

"The number of participants this year is thirty-two, meaning there will be sixteen non-stop matches throughout the day. And the next day we're into the round of sixteen."

"It's really barbaric. And a lot of it too."

Then all the matches were brought by Mitsu. Talk about the power to keep the attention of the audience in order to keep the spirit to watch all the matches. Well ... he does have a partner, anyway. But ....

I recall my strange encounter with the white-haired woman — if not mistaken Caramel's name. Imagining her innocent face and soft voice, I felt that it would be very difficult for her to compensate for the burning spirit built by Mitsu.

"... Urushihara?"

Considering he mispronounced my name when he called it before the game, it strangely made me grateful. There are people who are far more stupid than me.

"No, you're still the dumbest." Cecilia suddenly broke my positive thinking.

"Why don't you let a little bit of my confidence increase, anyway?"

His mind-reading ability and heart-piercing selection made me sometimes want to push him out of my body. Although in the end I buried all those desires because on the other hand he also helped me in many ways.

As I was facing an existential crisis from Cecilia's words, suddenly someone's voice resuscitated me and called out to me from behind. Oho! I know this voice. The voice I heard recently.

"Yes! Satou-kun's." And after turning around, it turned out to be true that my guess was that the one who called was my previous opponent, Hayate Kendou.

"Hayate-san is? Are your wounds healed? And what business is it?"

"Nothing, anyway. The health room was very boring, so I decided to take a walk. And as for my injuries, there's nothing to worry about because there's nothing serious there."

"Thank God."

Yep. Mercifully. Because at the end of the match I had a moment of release and accidentally attacked Hayate-san with the power of the Electric Elemental which made him bounce far out of the arena.

"By the way, you were still holding back, huh? The last attack you launched felt very different from your previous attacks."

Lothawat! He realized. Hayate-san even looked curious and waited for my answer impatiently. I have to answer something, so that my true abilities are not revealed as early as this.

"Ti-no, really. Y-you know .. that, you know. Because my very fast movements so cause burning and heat effects. I-it makes you hot and bouncing."

"Hnm?"

God fucking. I even stammered making Hayate-san even more suspicious. Even a sweaty grain of worry appeared on my forehead, but luckily Hayate-san decided not to press me further and let me loose for this time.

"I understand. Everyone has their secrets, so I'll assume I didn't see anything."

"Thank you very much ...."

I don't know why I was so grateful when he said that. Lucky Hayate-san is someone who is understanding and can be invited to work together. I don't know anymore if he leaked it to my next opponent.

"What's up with this 'hiding your power' thing'? You don't have to go this far, do you?" Cecilia asked.

"Whispering."

A creature that knows no human feelings. He may never feel when someone is at his highest level of confidence because he feels he has won. But suddenly his almost defeated enemy unleashed an absurd force and defeated him.

The feeling when his hopes were soared and then dropped inhumanely. Their expressions are really my favorite.

"I feel like I don't want to understand that one human feeling" Cecilia muttered.

"Basic creatures of antiquity don't know fashion."

"It seems like you're imagining something exciting, huh, Satou-kun?"

"Eh?! Ahh .. no, really. Sorry for ignoring you so, Hayate-san. I'm just making plans for my next game. That's all it is."

Again the detachment spoke to Cecilia in front of a stranger. I really need to be careful when I talk to him. Let's ignore all the chatter, let's ignore all the chatter.

"Then fight, Satou-kun. Be champion one because you beat me, huh?"

"I can't promise, but I will."

We both got into a fun chat for quite a while and unknowingly left Herlin alone. If I hadn't glanced at him who was watching us in silence, maybe the two of us wouldn't have been aware of his whereabouts.

"God ... I almost forgot about you, Ririsaka-san. It's good to see you again."

But Herlin did not greet him back. It seemed like Herlin was still angry with his defeat two years ago. He also looked at the two of us quite cynically.

"I-I was ignored, huh?"

"Pardon him, Hayate-san. I think he's still mad at his defeat two years ago."

But he immediately looked at me cynically and made my hair goosebumps. It seems like I was right, it's just that he didn't want to talk about it. But in the end Herlin answered his greeting, albeit with a quite strange reply.

"It's nice to meet you too, People-who-beating me-two-years-then-but-if-fight-again-I-will-be-beating you-with-telak-san."

"No, still upset."

"That's all in the past. I'm also sure you've grown a lot by now. So let's just forget about it, shall we?"

"By the way the match really surprised me. Though I was already very confident in my strength and thought it would be easy to win, but it seemed like my head was too big. Ahhaha ...."

I understand his feelings. If I didn't have Cecilia and Herlin telling me how to deal with it, I might not have a chance at all.

But it made me curious. And without further ado, also directly inquired.

"Hayate-san, if I may know what kind of exception you are?"

"As you can see before, I am a Physical Strength type. I can strengthen the muscles in my body and be able to move quickly."

"And what about that 'Unique Skill? That Teleportation ability .. I'm pretty sure that it has nothing to do with your Exception type right?"

"You're not wrong at all."

It turns out my guess is correct. Means there are other factors that cause a person to be able to obtain Unique Skill abilities. Things that even Cecilia herself does not understand about.

"Can you tell me? How did you get the Unique Skill?"

"It could be, anyway. But even I myself am not too sure about how this ability came about, so perhaps my explanation is not very clear. Don't you mind that?"

"Absolutely not! No matter how small or unclear, information is information!"

"Wah .. somehow those words made me feel de Javu." Cecilia suddenly muttered to herself. But this time I'll let it go because there are more important things to take care of.

"Then I started the story. It happened about five years ago ...."

Hayate-san then started to tell a story and I heard it carefully. At that time, he said that he was walking with a woman who was wearing an SD uniform right at school — home was his sister.

Passing through the bustling shopping district during rush hour, the two of them join hands so as not to separate in this crowded state.

So far it is still a normal story and there is nothing that can be used as a clue. Sometimes Hayate-san also let go of talking about unrelated things, so I had to resuscitate her.

"At that time, my sister was still very funny and stuck with me. Ahh .. the beauty of those days." Hayate-san is nostalgic again. "Even he thought hard when I asked him what he wanted to eat that day."

"Hayate-san, Hayate-san?! Back here."

It's critical. I have to keep him so he doesn't get carried away by the nostalgic currents too deeply.

"But the next thing that surprised me happened ...."

"What's that?"

"After she decided what to eat, I called my parents at home. But when I lost sight of my sister, she was distracted by a butterfly that flew in front of her and eventually chased her all the way."

"Thanks to someone's shout, I managed to come to my senses but it was already quite late. A truck drove at high speed towards him and my sister could only fall silent" he continued.

"Then what happened?"

He looked up before continuing his story. "This is where the incident became strange, I who was panicking without a second thought immediately shot towards my sister without looking right and left. Then I jumped. Suddenly my arms reached my sister and spared us both from an accident."

"At that time you didn't know what was happening?" Suddenly Herlin entered into our conversation.

Although it was still with a bit of indifference, but this talk was too interesting to pass up even for her so she could not help but join in on the conversation. And Hayate-san smiled at that.

"Yes, I still don't understand even being surprised by myself. What the hell is going on? Did I really save her? Those questions were in my mind. But when I saw my sister crying loudly in my arms, and still breathing, I felt like it wasn't all that important."

And Hayate-san's story was done getting there. Since then he has always trained his new abilities to master it. But for me, the clarity of the story is still very lacking. It just happened, randomly, and all too suddenly.

I can't even deduce any results from Hayate-san's story just now. Then I put my chin on to help me concentrate more on thinking, who knows it's influential.

"Don't think, I know you don't understand anything." But Herlin commented on me who was silent in thought, again stabbing me with an imaginary arrow.

"Mkh ...! Then, can you take something from the story?!" God fucking. Instead of helping, he made me look like a fool. Even though I don't understand anything, anyway.

"Of course." He doesn't understand either! Then why would he call me stupid?! "By the way, does it have any side effects?" ask Herlin.

"Of course there is. After that incident, I tried to do it again as an experiment. But after that, I felt intense dizziness and nausea in my head and stomach."

"Did you feel something when you could suddenly teleport like that?"

"Hm ...." He's back to thinking. "It seems like I feel like a blaze suddenly appearing in my subconscious."

"Fire flames?"

"I don't really understand either. But it was like seeing a pitch-black room, and in the middle of it there was a fire that was originally small becoming increasingly uncontrollable."

A blaze? It had nothing to do with the ability of Hayate-san who was a Physical Strength. God fucking. It's just free. Everything became more confusing than I expected. The hints Hayate-san gave me even more lost.

"You still need more clues" said Cecilia.

"Huh ... Yeah, I think you're right."

Our conversation was over and did not forget to thank Hayate-san. Although he also apologized because the explanation was not understandable, but I understand it. Because it's better to have a messy map than to have no map at all.

**

The whole game was finished today. The participants who advance to the next round can use the rooms provided for participants, located one floor above the arena.

And here I am. Lying on the bed looking at the ceiling. Time was not too late either and there was nothing I could do, so I took advantage of those leisure times to fall asleep doing nothing.

"Haye-san ... Teleportation ... Brother ... Fire ...."

The clue was like a piece of the puzzle floating in my head at this moment. If Hayate-san got it when she wanted to save her sister, then why didn't that apply when Mom was attacked back then? Argh ...! It sucks!

"Everything is too vague!" I was desperate and my feet were kicking around the bed. "Hey, Cecilia, do you really not know about this?"

"I tried to dive into my memory, but still haven't found anything. Maybe the cause of someone can get it is different."

"If that's true, Hayate-san's information becomes useless, dong."

Well...it's useless to think now, maybe I'll find it as time goes by. Might as well.

In the end, I decided to rest and close my eyes. But just a few seconds before I entered into sleep mode, someone suddenly knocked on the door.

"Hngh?! Who's trying to come at this hour?"

Lazily, I got up and grabbed the door and opened it. Whether it's Herlin or Oita-san, I will scold anyone who comes to my room at this hour. Will not hesitate!

"Who the hell is that—?"

My speech shrinks when the person at the door is not the two people I think I am. Except strangers — well, not too foreign, anyway. But it would still be very strange if he came to my room. And at this hour.

"C-Caramel-san? Do you have business with me these nights?"

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