episode_0085

After I passed the test, while I was having lunch with Victor, I started asking him about the pure white room.

“Victor.”

“Why?”

“Who made that pure white room?”

“Mary.”

“Merry Christmas…?”

Victor nodded and moved his fork.

A large chicken breast was on his plate.

“What are Mary’s abilities?”

Victor mumbled and answered my question.

“Possibility.”

“Yes? Is that possible?”

“They said it was the ability to see possibilities.”

I opened my mouth in admiration at Victor’s words.

The ability to see possibilities.

Isn’t that the ability to foresee the future?

I pictured Mary smiling slightly in her white gown.

“Did Mary put her powers in that room?”

“You could say that.”

I clutched my pounding heart.

The ability to foresee the future was not common.

Even more rare than those with abilities like warp and teleportation were those with the ability to foresee.

What is the structure of the room?

I shook the knife in my hand slightly, lost in thought.

It was clear that he definitely didn’t make it alone.

It is highly probable that someone with hallucinatory abilities also participated in creating that room.

miss you.

I wanted to take apart the entire structure of that room.

“Jeff, try this.”

Unlike my mind that was lost in thought, my body responded naturally to Shine’s words.

A small fork held out in front of the mouth.

The fluffy texture of the steak spread across the fork and was pushed into the mouth.

“Yeah.”

I chewed and swallowed the steak, my mouth agape.

Shine, who was watching the scene, smiled brightly and started cutting the next piece of meat.

“Jeff.”

“Yeah.”

“I won’t give it to you?”

At Shine’s words, I picked up the pork cutlet on the plate with my fork and offered it to Shine.

She opened her mouth with a satisfied smile.

Shine’s mouth swallows the fork.

Her puckering lips fill her gaze.

The movement of the tongue transmitted through the hand and fork.

As I was flustered, Shine looked at me and smiled strangely.

“That… . Is it that delicious… ?”

Shine nodded and spat out the fork.

A soft tongue slipped out between the lips that were slowly moving away, and licked the fork that was moving away.

It was clearly just the act of eating, but somehow my face felt hot.

I moved my fork, picked up some salad, and pushed it into my mouth.

His face turned even redder.

After lunch, we went down the stairs to find Amy.

A laboratory that produces support items, located on the floor just below.

Amy was in Mary’s lab.

“Amy!”

As soon as I saw Amy, I ran to her and hugged her.

“Jeff?”

Amy looked surprised, as if she hadn’t expected us to come here since we hadn’t contacted her.

Amy, who had lifted me up, looked back.

“All the kids passed.”

With those words, Victor walked over to the chair in the corner and sat down.

His tired-looking face looked like that of an office worker returning home after working overtime.

Is taking care of us so tiring?

“Shine. Jeff passed both?”

“Yes!”

“Yeah.”

“Good job.”

Amy put me down on the floor and stroked my head along with Shine.

A smile naturally appeared on his lips as Amy’s hand stroked his hair.

“What did you see inside?”

“I saw a woman as tall as Amy.”

In response to Amy’s question, I told her everything I had seen inside.

Amy, who had been listening to me, nodded, touching her chin.

“I see.”

“I saw a big tower.”

Shine also told Amy what she saw in the room.

It’s not much different from what I said to Victor earlier.

Shine didn’t say anything about having a conversation with anyone.

“Amy. What exactly did we see inside?”

“Hmm… . Mary would know that better than I do.”

As Amy said that, she brought Mary over and made her sit in front of me and Shine.

She looked around with a bewildered expression as she sorted out her documents.

“What is it…?”

“Tell them about that room.”

Mary looked at me and Shine at Amy’s words.

They lock eyes across a small desk.

I looked up at Mary with sparkling eyes.

She was a genius.

“Mary!”

“Huh?”

“Is it true that Mary designed and built that room?”

Mary answered my question by patting her head.

“Yeah. I made it.”

“That’s really great!”

“So… ?”

“Yes! How can you make something like that? It hasn’t even been 3 years since the country started research on artificially reproducing abilities!”

I screamed in excitement.

Before I came under Dr. Heblum, I was researching the artificial reproduction of this ability.

How could I not be excited when the destination of my research was right there?

Although I had to give up all my research due to lack of research funds.

When I shouted excitedly, Mary answered with an awkward smile.

“Jeff is smart.”

It was only then that I realized my voice had been raised and I covered my mouth.

Everyone in Mary’s lab was looking at me.

“That’s hard for me.”

At that moment, Shine, who was sitting next to me, muttered quietly.

“Why does Jeff know?”

“Huh… ? Well, back in the old days… .”

I searched through my hazy memories.

In the old days…?

“Jeff.”

“Yeah.”

“The older sister must be better than the younger sister.”

Shine said that and grabbed my hand.

“A sister should always be smarter than her younger sibling.”

I tried to move my hand away from Shine, but Shine wouldn’t let go.

I looked at Amy with confused eyes, asking for help, but she just waved with a small smile.

“It… . Shine!”

“Jeff, just bear with it until then.”

As she said that, Shine grabbed my cheek and held my gaze.

Her eyes, which had turned pitch black, resembled the darkness that had dyed the pure white room pitch black.

“Ugh… .”

I nodded absentmindedly.

My thoughts become dull and dull.

The excitement that had been filling my head disappeared without a reason.

“Okay. So you have no more questions?”

I blinked blankly.

I can’t remember what I was doing just now.

“Huh?”

“I’m asking if there’s anything you’re curious about in that room.”

I tilted my head at Mary’s words.

“Room?”

“Yeah. I was wondering about the room you guys came out of after taking the test?”

Only then did I nod my head slowly.

I had a question.

The problem was that I couldn’t remember exactly what it was.

“Is everything you see there about things that will happen in the future?”

It was Shine who asked the question before me.

“No. It’s just one of the possibilities. There’s no such thing as absolute.”

“Then, should I make an effort to increase that possibility?”

“Can we see it that way?”

“Umm… .”

“I guess Shine was satisfied with what she saw there?”

“Yeah. I really hope so.”

“I guess you observed a pretty good possibility?”

“A good chance…?”

“The potential my abilities show is always random. That’s why I show meaningless things like fighting sharks like Lane or getting a driver’s license like Victor.”

“What does the possibility you see in that room have to do with the test?”

“It’s just a test of mental strength. If you have great mental strength, you can quickly get out of the hallucinations that room presents.”

“Then wouldn’t it have been better to just show the hallucination?”

“Then it lacks realism.”

Shine blinked her eyes widely, as if she didn’t understand Mary’s words.

I also had difficulty understanding the conversation between the two.

I was just amazed at how smart Shine was.

“The content that the hallucination ability shows is very limited. At most, it is limited to the imagination of the person using the ability. But what if I use it together with my ability to show possibilities?”

“I see… .”

“Is this the end of my curiosity?”

“Mary had some amazing abilities?”

“It’s not that great.”

“Why? It’s the ability to see the future.”

“Strictly speaking, it is not the future. It is just one of the possibilities. There is a huge difference between knowing the future and acting without knowing it. What happens as a result affects the possibilities you see, and eventually, the possibilities disappear.”

“Then in the end it’s just a meaningless ability… .”

“It depends on how you think about it.”

Shine lowered her head as if lost in thought at Mary’s answer.

The difficult words passed by in an instant.

Did Shine understand everything Mary said?

“I think I should be friends with Mary.”

After a while, Shine nodded and answered.

Shine seemed to like Mary, as he reached out to shake her hand.

Seeing the two of them looking so friendly, I quietly reached out and grabbed Shine’s hand.

“Jeff, do you have any more questions?”

“Yes.”

Mary said that and headed back to the desk where there was a lot of paperwork.

Amy sat down where Mary had stood and smiled at us.

“What did Amy see in that room?”

I was curious about the possibilities Amy saw.

What on earth did she see?

“I saw a huge tower.”

“Is that a tower?”

“Yeah. Maybe it was the same tower that Shine saw? ”

Shine said she saw a large tower in that room.

Amy also said she saw a large tower, so maybe they both saw the same possibility?

I envied Shine and Amy.

I also wanted to see the tower that the two people saw.

“I want to see that tower too.”

“I’ll show you later Jeff.”

It was Shine who answered my words.

Strength enters the hand that Shine was holding.

I felt a little suffocated by the hand that was held so tightly as if it would never let go.

“Yeah.”

I looked back at her, remembering what Rain had seen.

You said you fought big sharks with umbrellas?

What could have possibly caused Lane to fight the sharks?

“Mary!”

“Yes, Rain.”

“Is my umbrella finished?”

Mary pointed to the corner of the room without saying a word in response to Lane’s question.

At the end of the point her hand was pointing, there was a really pretty yellow umbrella.

Rain, who was watching the scene, ran towards the umbrella with sparkling eyes.

Dadadat- The sound of small footsteps echoes inside the laboratory.

puck-!

Lane, who had been running well, fell down.