Nao walked up to Tomori Kazuki, who had already calmed down.
"Brother, are you feeling better now?"
Tomori Kazuki stared blankly at Nao in front of him, not saying a word.
"I'm Nao. How are you feeling?"
"Nao...."
He seemed to have a special reaction to the name "Nao," as he kept repeating it afterward.
"Nao... Nao..."
"Still like this..." Nao shook her head and returned to Hakuto, who was standing at the doorway.
"How is he?"
"Shiratori... Do you have a way to cure my brother?"
"In theory, no disease in this world is really a problem for me..." Hakuto spread his hands. "Of course, that's only in theory."
Hakuto was confident that if he disregarded side effects, not only could he cure a mentally ill person, but he could even bring the dead back to life.
But, as he had said, that was only if side effects were ignored.
When using his full supercomputing ability, the time his consciousness experienced flowed at about one ten-millionth of the real world's speed.
In other words, if there were no side effects, he would experience millions of years for every hundred years in the real world.
For someone with a brain enhanced by millions of years of experience, there was nothing they couldn't accomplish.
"But I'll keep an eye out for a solution, President."
"No need, I'm already used to it. You should use supercomputing as little as possible."
Nao sincerely hoped Hakuto wouldn't use his supercomputing ability. Even though he never spoke about it, she could guess the consequences.
The most obvious one was the toll on his lifespan... but she didn't dare think too deeply about it, nor did she dare to ask him directly.
She knew that Hakuto understood the risks, but she still couldn't help but remind him.
Besides, the question she had just asked was merely out of habit.
"When is ZHIEND's next concert in Japan?"
"Huh? Why are you asking that all of a sudden?"
"We should take your brother to the concert. It might help with his condition..." Hakuto said with a smile.
"Don't worry, with me around, there's no need for sedatives or anything like that."
Hakuto wasn't just comforting Nao; he genuinely believed that ZHIEND's songs could help with Tomori Kazuki's condition.
If even listening online had a soothing effect, experiencing it live would be on another level.
It didn't take long for Nao to bring Hakuto outside the psychiatric hospital.
The two of them leaned against a motorcycle, each holding a canned soda.
"I've always wondered... If my ability had awakened back then, what kind of person would I be now? Would I also be in that psychiatric hospital like my brother?"
"Hahaha!" Hearing this, Hakuto couldn't help but laugh.
"What's so funny?"
"President, there's no point in thinking about things that never happened—just like I don't bother wondering what my life would be like without supercomputing."
Nao put down her soda and looked at Hakuto beside her.
"Then what do you think your life would be like without your ability?"
"Eh? Didn't I just say I don't think about that kind of thing..." Hakuto scratched his head helplessly.
"But since you're curious, I guess I can think about it now."
After saying that, he actually fell into deep thought. Only after a long while did he finally speak.
"It probably wouldn't be much different. I just wouldn't have gone to Hoshinoumi as an exchange student, and I wouldn't have met you, President."
Hakuto tried to imagine it—if he didn't have supercomputing, his life wouldn't have changed much.
At the very least, he wouldn't have to worry about saving the world, and in his previous life, he wouldn't have been taken by scientists.
But those were just meaningless fantasies. He believed thinking about such things was a complete waste of time.
"That being said, I'm sixteen now. My adolescence will probably end around nineteen or twenty, so it's only a few more years."
The only question was whether the side effects would disappear once adolescence was over...
Hakuto could already feel significant changes in his body—not just in physical abilities, but more importantly, in his brain.
In the past, for example, he wouldn't have dared to guarantee that he could defeat Kuzuryuu Yaichi without activating supercomputing.
But now, he actually has. And based on his past life's experiences, he knew his body was adapting to supercomputing.
Or rather, supercomputing was changing his body...
That wasn't necessarily a good thing. After all, any adaptation or transformation came with a price.
It was like developing drug resistance—when the body becomes accustomed to a certain drug, it builds resistance, which is usually a bad thing for patients.
Unless he convinced himself that bullets were medicine, and if he adapted to bullets, he'd be invincible!
Hakuto felt that even after his adolescence ended, the traces left by supercomputing wouldn't disappear.
If he didn't limit how often he used supercomputing in the next few years, then after his adolescence, he would carry a weakened version of it with him.
But... whether he could limit it or not wasn't up to him. The thought of having to restrain someone like Otosaka Yuu made him want to cough up blood.
Hearing Hakuto's words, Nao nodded thoughtfully.
"Yeah, just a few more years... but superpowered people will always exist."
"And Hoshinoumi will always be there. Not to mention, there's still Otosaka Yuu, that guy."
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