It's raining from the sky.
Since it's not raining in Bern City, it seems to be raining only in this area.
Today too, I change clothes as prepared by the lodging, eat breakfast, and head to the Royal Academy.
I walk along the edge of a road wide enough for 6 cars to go simultaneously.
Maybe because it's raining, there are many cars going inside. And the road from the dormitory to the school is colored in various hues.
Umbrellas are blooming like flowers.
I'm also using an umbrella given to me when I went out. Fortunately, the wind isn't blowing that much.
As you go, there's a circular driveway with a large statue in the middle. Cars are parked around the edge and students are getting off.
Many people came by car because it's raining. Maybe that's why there's a long line of vehicles.
After passing that, stone pillars like temple columns are standing. After passing there, there's a door with the kingdom's emblem carved on it. I open that wooden door and enter.
When you enter the building, there's a large central hall. Looking ahead, buildings extend left and right, and there are stairs going up in front. I go to the left on the first floor from there.
Then, a long straight corridor appears. The classroom I'm in is about halfway down. Around the time I entered the classroom.
Victoria left the dormitory.
She doesn't need an umbrella. Raindrops fall sideways as if a transparent sphere is blocking them from above.
Superpower.
This is a bit enviable.
No, of course it's not that I can't do something similar, but if I did that and the world broke, it would be a major disaster... She's running over using abilities that are difficult for me to use, so she'll be here soon.
Meanwhile, in the capital's slum, Brightshin is already bustling with people waking up and working from dawn.
But a sad incident occurred as it started raining in the morning.
There are small squares between the areas of Brightshin. They're small spaces created when buildings collapsed or were built.
Until just yesterday, they were full of writing. It was writing of techniques from the Great Kraken and the Primordial Heavenly Lord's memories.
People who had already filled their living spaces with writing came out and wrote it outside.
An interesting point is that even normal people who saw it participated as if enchanted and wrote together.
The sad thing is that the writing was erased as it rained.
There's no way something like a permanent marker exists in the slums, so they used ash powder left from lighting fires to write.
That was erased by the rain. As the writing disappeared like that, people woke up one by one as if coming to their senses. And they returned to their daily lives.
Since writing like that is proof that it's properly entering their minds, it would have been good if it continued like that.
The rain is disappointing.
Bow-
While waiting for class to start, Freesia bows her head to greet me and goes to her seat. I thought she was just a sharp person, but looking at Kanna's memories, she was an extremely blunt person.
I can't believe her uncomfortable attitude when looking at people wasn't because she was sensitive and sharp, but because she had difficulty dealing with people.
I thought I could understand everything if I knew emotions, but to think interpretation changes depending on how you look at it.
Maybe.
Among the people I've seen so far, could there be people I misunderstood like this?
From now on, I should look a bit deeper.
"Belle! Good morning!"
Victoria quickly entered the classroom. And she runs to me and sits next to me.
"Don't they say rainy days aren't good days?"
I asked that thinking generally. No matter how much superpower you have, isn't it hard since it's like exercise that makes you hungry?
"It's good because the world becomes clear enough to grasp when it rains? Ah, right. Belle, stand up for a moment."
Victoria says something amazing. Hearing what she just said, isn't she exerting control over the raindrops falling from the sky?
Thinking it was a more powerful ability than I could imagine, I stood up from my seat as Victoria said. Then all the water droplets that were slightly wet under my shoes fly up into the air.
Victoria, who threw that out the window with a swish, stares out the window. Judging by her eyes not focusing on a clear image, she's thinking about something.
Victoria suddenly stood up from her seat and went down to the podium where the teacher speaks, leaving me behind. It's not a problem to go up since it's not class time yet. Although it's not like that is not strange behavior.
"If you're damp now. Come forward! I'll dry you!"
Victoria shouted loudly looking at the students. But no one tries to come down recklessly. Is it because of Victoria's position?
At that moment, one male student carefully came forward. Whatever he fell into on the way, only his left ankle is soaking wet.
"Can you dry me?"
"Of course."
As Victoria waves her hand, not just the left ankle but all the moisture in his clothes floats up into the air and flies towards Victoria. And after shooting that out the window, Victoria smiles at the male student.
"How is it?"
"Perfect."
The male student moved his legs a few times, then answered with a grin and returned to his seat. Then one by one, students stood up from their seats and lined up in front of her, and Victoria removed the moisture while facing each person one by one.
If she wanted to, she could remove all the moisture here at once, but she's deliberately doing it like that.
Giving favors while making a good impression.
She's using her ability smartly. If she did it for the group, it would be buried, but doing it one by one makes it a meeting between individuals.
The awareness of receiving a favor is created whether they like it or not.
As most of the students became fluffy dry and returned to their seats.
Even the teacher who had entered his seat stood in front of her with an awkward smile, and Victoria greeted him loudly and dried him cleanly.
Then the teacher thanked Victoria and encouraged the students in the classroom to applaud. The students clapped without complaint, and Victoria came and sat next to me with a smile.
"The ability you gave me. It's convenient and good."
"I'm glad to see you using it well."
Of course, it's not a superpower I chose and gave.
The harsher the situation faced, the easier it was for superpowers to emerge, and Victoria's situation was harsh enough that she couldn't escape without a superpower.
Meanwhile, there are 49 superpower users created in Brightshin.
It's less compared to Bern City. We can guess that Brightshin didn't need superpowers because there wasn't a special hardship ahead, but they were rotting away while retreating from daily life.
I guess it's because it was an urgent situation in Bern City, while just living in Brightshin slums wasn't something special.
Like that, class starts and ends.
We eat lunch, and afternoon classes start again.
Originally, school life is very static.
When class ends, Victoria separates to study for becoming a clockwork knight.
She has to live here for 4 years, but Victoria is living very busily.
I wonder if she doesn't need some time to play too.
Hmm. It wouldn't be good to interfere that much. There are people who live passionately like this.
When it's time to go home, the rain stopped. I return to where I'm living holding an umbrella. Looking from the central hall, while there are students returning like me, there are also people heading elsewhere.
The bent parts on the left and right of the ㄷ-shaped building. There are no classrooms for teaching here. It's close to club rooms. Or after-school study rooms. Or it's also called a space for strengthening faction bonds.
It's a place to gather and study together, chat, give work and receive reports.
So they stay semi-forcibly until dinner time and then return.
Kanna is doing that.
Of course, not everyone does that. Polaris, who is in a relatively high position, says it's a bit lighter place.
Although Kanna thinks that's due to lack of leadership skills.
Ah, speaking of Kanna, I remembered.
Kanna isn't at the Royal Academy today. She urgently returned to her family yesterday.
So now she's meeting with her family at home.
I thought she would act a bit more cruelly now that her body has healed, but they just all hugged and cried together as a family, or said they're glad she's better, or talked about how her hair color changed, or how her skin is too pale.
In short, they had really family-like conversations.
And now.
Kanna is trying to say something while gathering all family members.
Oh.
Kanna is now saying she'll leave the family.
Where did the family of struggle go?
Or, to fully realize her power and grasp everything she can grasp...
Huh?
The reason doesn't make sense. She says she'll leave to protect the peace from now on because the peace that came due to her distortion will be broken.
She says honor is for protecting family, not something to be obtained by trampling on family.
She says a family built up through fratricide will only drown in that blood, while gathering people including her father who is the head of the family.
When asked if the family head is abandoning the family, Kanna smiles. She says such a shell isn't important, but the people inside are more important.
You, where did the inferiority complex you had until now go?
Didn't you envy seeing family members doing their own things?
Didn't you become close to your family to survive, and create a space where you could live by binding them with affection?
Isn't it normal for human desire to become more harsh when gaining power?
Why are you putting everything down like an enlightened person?
Ah!
Maybe it's because she's too young. If it's an immature choice, someday she'll realize how powerful a weapon a name built up with greed was.
When she realizes it was herself who let go of that from her hands, she'll change. It's because she hasn't faced reality yet.
As long as there's a class system, there's a limit to how high you can go with ability alone. I look forward to when she hits that wall.
One person can be a bit strange!
To think Kanna was the strangest one out of 10 people. It's disappointing that a person in a high class was like that, but.
But don't worry.
Harvesters move as I wish.
The world is flowing smoothly according to my plan.
There are groups everywhere who forget they were working for a charity organization because they don't like becoming uncomfortable themselves, and only try to take care of their own interests. Harvesters in Bern City. The bad group of 1/10 among them.
They gather and start working.
Maybe the clouds moved there, it starts raining in Bern City now as they lead people to raid the office.
Yes.
That's it.
Go fight and give warmth.
I like best that the person who first incited is standing in the back. They'll step back if things go wrong and create forces again, right?
Just looking at strength, it increased twofold. If you strike hard with that, people die easily. Each of them is holding construction site pipes or tools.
It would be strange if no one dies.
Slam.
People enter the office by opening the door, give warmth from those praying while hanging up my picture made by cutting out newspapers.
Clatter.
No. I mean.
Why are you dropping the weapons you were holding and praying together?
Why are you crying tears like repenting people and collapsing together? Why are the praying harvesters patting them with expressions like they understand everything?
To think I want such a thing, no, I was just thinking of eating the warmth of you living according to your desires and dying trampled by them.
The person who first incited shouts what are you doing.
Yes. That's it. There's no way they'd easily give up their desires! Since many people foolishly follow loud-voiced people, they'll at least fight.
No.
Why are you collapsing while opening up about how you did that because you were anxious about the future?
Especially the second, the person with the worst past crimes among the five people I made harvesters. Why are you at the very front soothing people? Saying salvation isn't far away.
What are you saying now...
This is strange.
Where on earth did it go? The humans I knew. The plan I made.
What do you mean the world is turning smoothly as I planned?
Nothing is going smoothly at all.