Shunsuke could truly be described with the word "hero." He had genuinely embodied the idea that "with great power comes great responsibility."
"It's been a long time since I've heard you say 'thank you'..." Shunsuke sighed.
"Let's save the catching up for later."
"Hmm? Can what we're doing now even be called catching up?"
"That's not important..." Shunsuke shook his head. "Shiratori, your guess on the phone just now was right. The reason I activated my ability was indeed because someone among us died an unnatural death..."
At his words, everyone around fell into confusion.
Except for Otosaka Yuu and Nao, the others all knew that Shunsuke's ability required sacrificing his eyesight to activate.
They also knew that the reason he had suddenly become blind was surely due to using his ability again. Although they had speculated about the reason, they hadn't expected it to be this.
Seeing the puzzled expressions of Nao and Otosaka Yuu, Shunsuke smiled.
"Memory jump — it's an ability similar to time reversal, like how I now have memories from a few months in the future."
"It's normal that Yuu doesn't understand, but Tomori... didn't Shiratori ever tell you about my ability?"
At these words, Nao immediately shot a fierce glare at Hakuto beside her.
"Don't look at me like that. Not long ago, I told you that I'd answer anything you asked, but you never asked about this."
"Huh~? Now you're blaming me? Also, what did they mean just now about you 'remembering'? Did you have your memory erased too?"
Hearing Nao's question, Maedomari smiled and took over the conversation.
"I don't have the ability to erase Shiratori's memory. What Shunsuke meant earlier was that Shiratori recalled memories from his past life."
Hearing Maedomari's explanation, Nao frowned.
"(눈_눈)? You were hiding things from me again?"
"Wait, wait! You never asked me about this either!"
"Enough. We don't have time to watch you two flirt. I'm more interested in figuring out why Shunsuke came back," Shichino interrupted.
Hearing Shichino's words, Nao suppressed what she wanted to say, though she sneakily kicked Hakuto, clearly indicating that the matter was far from over.
Hakuto didn't mind, coughed lightly, and focused on the serious matters at hand.
"Could it be that Ayumi died in the Collapse?" Hakuto glanced in the direction where Otosaka Ayumi had left.
However, as soon as he spoke, Otosaka Yuu instantly lost his composure!
"What?!" Otosaka Yuu grabbed Hakuto's shoulders, urgently asking, "What happened to Ayumi?"
"Calm down. No matter what happens to Ayumi in the future, right now she's perfectly fine, resting in the next room."
Hearing this, Otosaka Yuu took a deep breath and calmed down.
"What do you mean by 'Collapse'?"
"Ayumi's ability is called 'Collapse.' It's a power that puts everyone around her — and herself — in danger."
"You kept this from me?"
"That's not my fault. I did warn you to seize Ayumi's ability, but you didn't take it seriously."
"Couldn't you have just said it outright?"
"I told you, there are things beyond my control. If even his own brother wasn't in a rush, what right did an outsider like me have?"
Otosaka Yuu truly lived up to being a classic siscon; he became this agitated the moment he heard about his sister.
Then Otosaka Yuu turned toward Shunsuke, who was standing at the center, hoping to get some answers from him.
Maybe because of their blood connection, even the now-blind Shunsuke could sense what Otosaka Yuu wanted.
Shunsuke shook his head. "Ayumi is fine..."
After hearing this, Otosaka Yuu finally breathed a sigh of relief. Even if bad things were to happen in the future, he didn't want his sister to go through them.
But the next moment, Shunsuke's gaze swept over Otosaka Yuu, Hakuto, and Nao.
Under that gaze, Hakuto suddenly felt something wrong, an intense uneasiness.
"Shiratori... you claim you can predict everything. Then can you guess from my expression what I'm about to say next?"
Hakuto swallowed hard and glanced at Nao and Otosaka Yuu beside him.
To be honest, for a small question like this, Hakuto wasn't planning on activating his full computation power.
But just now, when Shunsuke's gaze swept over the three of them, it implied that the one who died might very well be one of the three.
Hakuto frowned. Besides dying of sudden causes, he couldn't imagine another way he might die while still in his youth.
He had originally wondered why Otosaka Yuu didn't just seize Shunsuke's ability and perform the memory jump himself.
That way, although Shunsuke would suffer severe myopia, he wouldn't have gone completely blind.
But now it seemed there was a reason for it.
At this point, Nao frowned and poked Hakuto's waist.
"Hakuto, actually, I dreamed about a death scene..."
"Huh? It was just a nightmare. Don't overthink it. There's no way it was you."
"No, I dreamed of you dying..."
Though Nao's voice was quiet, everyone around heard it clearly.
Shunsuke, upon hearing this, didn't speak, but his dull, lifeless pupils stared toward Hakuto not far away.
"Wait... Shunsuke, what's with that expression?" Hakuto frowned. "Me? Is it really me?"
"That's right... And not just you — Yuu lost both his eyes because of that incident too. In the end, only I was left to activate this ability."
"No way..." Shichino and Maedomari both wore shocked expressions after hearing Shunsuke's words.
Honestly, before the answer was revealed, they had speculated about every person in the room — but never Hakuto!
It couldn't be helped — Hakuto's ability was too unbeatable! You could practically call him invincible!
"...Did someone use a nuclear bomb to wipe everything out?" Hakuto muttered, a bit unable to imagine it. "No, wait — is there even a technology now capable of killing me?"
"Shiratori... you're still so confident."
"It's not that I'm confident; it's that I have no choice but to be."
With his full-powered computation ability, Hakuto was confident that no missile in the world could even catch him.
Not to mention, no missile could kill him even if it hit directly.
Come on! He could tear through alloys with his bare hands! What's wrong with tanking a missile?
"Shiratori, honestly, the abilities we possess are like a disease. And since it's a disease, there must be a cure..."
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