Vol 1 Prologue (2/2)
The moment Mineshi+ma Yujiro’s nas the men held
“Just what happened? There was no report of any kind of ability like this!”
“It's the legacy of Mineshi+ma Yujiro, so it's not unexpected It really should be destroyed”
“Yes, it’s not too late yet Let’s just kill it”
The fear grew, spreading ah it were a wildfire To the other than the unknown, so they instinctively feared
The girl looked at the her lips, indicating she was speaking
“In ould the disposal be performed?”
Hearing her words that the rew tenser For theon The other men, in their confusion, had not realized as actually happening either
“Hey, what I just said…”
The next words added even more pressure It seemed the men present had finally realized
“Just now, your words and those words…”
Another man had spoken out, but cut off his sentence irl’s words heard from the speaker were the sahtest delay when she and the
There was no one else ould speak Sed up in a fear they could not understand, they looked down at the girl They wereback up at them
“We were careless To have that conversation here in front of her, that is”
As the fear of the men reached a critical point, a relaxed voice came from behind them When they turned around, they faced a man in his mid-thirties, with a very calm expression on his face
“Date, I presume? What do you mean by careless?”
One of the men spoke out to Date, but quickly stifled his words However, the girl’s voice couldn’t be heard froreatly relieved Date drew close to the men with a rythmatic step
“Date, that is indeed Mineshi+acy We’re not sure how, but she knoe are saying”
“A reading technique?”
“No, there was no report of that from the research”
“That Mad Scientist’s Research can’t all have been discovered, right?”
The ain fell into disorder
“Still, it’s not like ‘that’ can actually read peoples' minds It just reads your lip movements”
Date’s two statements finally calmed the men down
“Lip-reading?”
“Exactly A my subordinates, there are quite a number with such a skill Of course they can also perform similar behavior to e have seen just now”
One irl
“Yeah but she was speaking at the same time I was How do you explain that?”
“Experience with lip reading If you listen closely, there is a slight difference in tiht? At least that is what I heard What do you think?”
“Yeah, now that you mention it”
“That’s how it must have been”
“Once you've understood it, it really is not such a big deal”
The co all the ree with
“As long as we proceed with extre in that cell is only a young girl, who is just playing around,fun of us”
With that, Date switched off the irl continued to stare up at him
“By the way, how is your unit doing? It’s about tiet out into some real action, don’t you think?”
“Froanizations after Mineshi+y will only continue to increase I think it’s been half a year too long for the legacy-criacy Counter, to start operations”
In thedown, only Professor Kishi+da maintained his wary expression He was the only one who noticed the falsehood in Date’s speech
Only Date and Professor Kishi+da had been able to quickly recognize the girl’s actions However, the skill she had just displayed wasn’t some ability she had as one of Mineshi+ technique It wasn’t an ability that other humans couldn’t possess Yet upon contemplation, it really was quite a troublesome skill
–These guys actually don’t understand a thing
Date laughed at the h But turning his gaze to the girl on the other side of the glass, he felt his
– What is to be feared a her abilities isn't the enormous aence, and keen sense of observation which can utilize that information
One skill derived that way had just been shown She had observed their conversation, analyzed their personalities and thought patterns, and created the perfect strategy for dealing with theiven circumstances Those h those times, those interactions that she had analyzed them
If that was a basic pattern for specific circumstances, it was easy to conjecture what had happened First she had read their lips, created confusion a so, and limited their conversation After the conversation had been li the next words became easier for her
– Mind reading? Impossible If there was an ability like that, ould be in serious shi+t You were all deceived by that thing
Date and the otherthe rooave a final, troubled look at the girl before leaving the room after Date
A thick, irl was of course left alone in the ensuing silence
But before our story truly takes place, still another ten years have to pass