34 I Experiment

Author: Bishamon Mine
Raw: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n0664js/37/
Translator: Lilia v4
Editor: Yuriko AYA

So no one hears, I flee into the playground equipment, cry for a while, and crawl out.

“This skill really isn’t something you use carelessly…… you don’t know what’s going to be there……”

It suddenly occurs to me and I look at the pilot suit’s residual thoughts, and memories like Alice’s (Suu-san’s embarrassed face is surely cute) get dug up.

A sadist, that person.
And I also see a wish, (please let there be no injuries or anything for Suu-san).
——I can’t say anything anymore.
Actually it protected me from bullets too. And it’s still protecting me.

While thanking Alice, I probe the distance 〖Psychometry〗 can read, head for the iron bar, and try reading residual thoughts.

“A memory of succeeding at a kip-up and being happy,” “a memory of dangling and talking lazily,” “a memory of walking on top like a tightrope, falling, and hitting the crotch.”

Various memories flow in.

If I try to read them, I even understand the pain……
I crouch holding my stomach and crotch, breaking into a cold sweat. So a man’s is like this……

To activate 〖Psychometry〗 I have to touch…… huh.

After that, if I read memories of the slide and cars I also understand how to use it.
I also see weird ways of using the slide and cars, though.

If I touch plants too, I don’t understand their words, but I see what they’ve seen.
Bugs are the same feeling. Incidentally I don’t need to touch them, so I have not touched bugs.

If I use it on people walking, I vaguely get what kind of person they are.

Old memories I can see, but I try not to look.
I can’t understand what they’re thinking right now, as expected.

Even so——I’ve been wondering for a while, I can see something like threads connecting people and objects and memories.
What are these line-like threads?

I put 〖Psychometry〗 on the iron bar again.
Then I try touching the memory of dangling and talking lazily.

“What’s this.”

I can also pull them.
When I pull a little strongly, the thread snaps.

“Eh!?”

The torn memory gradually thins and disappears.
Does this mean the memory disappears!?

I try putting the thread back, sticking it. Then the memory thinning stops.

“Well, I don’t think anyone cares about memories left on an iron bar……”

Wait.

I cut the thread of the memory of hitting the crotch left on the iron bar and stick it to the slide.

The thread sticks firmly, and the memory doesn’t thin either.

“——This…… means I transplanted a memory?”

What’s a slide having a memory of hanging from an iron bar and talking.

I try sticking the memory of hanging from the iron bar and talking to myself.
Then even without 〖Psychometry〗, I can remember hanging and talking as if it were my own.

“Holy crap, I’m completely transplanting memories.”

I suddenly try putting 〖Psychometry〗 on myself.

“Whoa…… I can see my own memories too.”

Or rather I can even see yesterday’s math class I was about to forget.
I can see clearly even the writing on the blackboard.

◣Suzuhi obtained Perfect Memory!◥

“This…… even without memory I could cheat——…… no, my brow glows so cheating would be totally obvious——”

I’m not that hung up on being top of the class anyway.

“——Okay, let’s experiment whether memories really disappear.”

I open my phone’s notepad and type “♥7” at random.

I close the phone, put 〖Psychometry〗 on myself, and cut the thread of the memory of typing “♥7” that comes out.

Once the residual thought disappears, I try to remember what I typed.

“Oh…… I can’t remember!”

But when I remember the part where I cut the memory thread, I can remember cutting the “♥7” thread.

“I can erase memories too, huh……——maybe I should erase my past trauma collection too……”

I think for a while and shake my head.
It’d be a problem if my memories go weird. Memories are apparently chained, so I’ll stop……

But memories that are way too harsh——…… for example in middle school, I went to school with a bandage on my left arm even though I wasn’t injured, and in class I did “I can’t stop the contract power running wild! Hold it down, me. If I run wild here a third personality will awaken! Everyone run!” or something——

“——aaaaaaaah! I want to disappear! Everyone’s cold gazes are stabbing me to death!”

Feeling like my face is on fire I hide it, sit down on the spot, and kick my feet.
Th-this one only, let’s erase it!

“……Sa, 〖Psychometry〗 experiments are done already. Let’s try 〖Sixth Sense〗.”

With a still-a-little-hot face I look around and find an onee-san walking a dog.

When I use it on her, I see something like what she’s feeling.

(Love love love, refresh, lively lively)

Whoa, sun-type.

Do the ones with strong emotions get more characters?

〖Sixth Sense〗 also seems not to need touching the target.

When I try it on the dog too.

(Love love love, happy happy happy, good good good)

It is full of love for its owner.
Mutual love. Be happy~.

The distance 〖Sixth Sense〗 reaches is also up to 20 meters ahead.

But there’s nothing else to experiment, this.
Or rather Sixth Sense seems important as a passive, so I can’t experiment.

“Then after that, 〖Super Night Vision〗? Well it’s just being able to see dark places.”

Inside playground equipment like a round——igloo, was it, a hemispherical dome that looks like that.

A place that should be pitch black looks like it’s lit by sunlight.

I understood a little from using it once, but I still am surprised.

“There are…… no shadows?”

And looking at bright places is fine, and looking directly at the sun doesn’t become a big deal either.

Only, my face while using 〖Super Night Vision〗 is reflected in my phone’s black screen, and my eyes are glowing and my pupils are vertical like a cat’s.
Is this okay……?

Last I try 〖Psychokinesis〗.
Inori-chan has this too, and I saw her use it, so the usage is easy to understand.

“〖Psychokinesis〗”

When I say it, my right hand glows.

When I think (move—) at a pebble, the pebble also starts glowing faintly and floats fluffy.

“Amazing! I really am like a psychic!”

Even if I quit being a pilot, I could make it as a magical girl too.

“Magical Girl Suzuhi★Magica”

I’d stay shut in forever, and there’d be no climax or punchline.

When it exceeds 20 meters around me, the stone falls.
Apparently this one’s 〖Psychokinesis〗 reach is also up to 20 meters ahead.

Even so, somehow I feel the pebble’s weight in my arm.
I don’t understand the principle, but is it a feeling of holding it in my hand?

I try crushing it as if squeezing the pebble.
It pops.

Even though it was a fairly large stone…… apparently because it’s μ (mu), quite a lot of force comes out.

I try with an even larger stone.

“Nngugu, break—!”

I hold my breath and go red in the face, but this time it doesn’t budge.
But I notice.

(——Huh? Wait. If it feels like lifting with my arms……)

“〖Super Strength〗”

I use 〖Psychokinesis〗 again, lift the pebble I couldn’t break just now, and squeeze it.

“Yo!”

Just squeezing lightly, the pebble shatters in midair as if bursting.

“Uooo……”

That’s a pretty vicious combo, isn’t it……?

“If there’s a holding feel, is operating multiple targets possible?”

It is possible. It becomes a sensation like multiple hands growing from myself. A weird sensation, but for me used to simultaneous VR and real operation it’s no problem.
What happens if I put this on my own body.

I can’t pierce or pass through a human body, but I can grab it, it seems.

I use 〖Super Strength〗 and 〖Psychokinesis〗 at the same time, first jump——then accelerate further with psychokinesis.

“Ah, bad!!”

I fly past the roof of an eight-story apartment to about ninth-floor height.
W-wait I’ll die I’ll die——even with a pilot suit I think this height is no good!!

I start falling at fierce speed.
Going pale, I notice “right, let’s float myself with psychokinesis!!” and float myself.
I somehow prevent slamming into the ground.

“I-I peed a little.”

Teary-eyed, I think about why I flew that much.

“I see…… Super Strength plus Super Strength & Psychokinesis power made me fly that much.”

I turn my teary eyes to the sky.
A white, blurred moon is visible.

Huh? Somehow my body is sluggish.
I’m consuming stamina like crazy. Even weak me has never gotten this tired from about this much exercise.

“Aah, maybe skills consume stamina?”

I look it up on the WIKI and it says that’s right. Only, unless you go quite unreasonable you apparently don’t collapse.

“‘Using a skill once is about as tiring as sprinting 10 meters full power,’ ‘however depending on output and skill type you get more tired,’ huh…… then normally, if I use it ten times it’s about sprinting 100 meters full power.”

Right now I’ve used skills about twenty times. Even with breaks, that’s about sprinting close to 200 meters full power——of course I’m tired.
I see, I have to be careful.

“Now, the sealstone experiments are done with this. But there’s one more thing I want to experiment. And I should shower——Swallowtail, come!”

When I finger-snap the signal, Swallow-san comes down in about the time it takes to make a cup ramen with a long wait.

Straight to the moon.

While sublight travel is happening, I shower.

“Right, let’s do that too. But no one has done it, so I probably can’t, huh.”

I deploy the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉 gate and put a fork I took from the dish cupboard halfway into the gate and try closing the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉.
The ripple that was born “slowly closes,” but as I thought.
It stops midway. Apparently this gate cannot cut things.

Well, if you could, everyone who has one would be doing it, cutting space itself is the strongest attack.

“Ah, but what about things that aren’t that hard?”

This time I try putting a cucumber in.
Then again the gate stops midway.

“I see…… maybe considering safety, fingers and such don’t get cut?”

I put a fingertip wearing a pilot suit into the gate and try closing it.
Aah, at this pressure fingers don’t get cut either. I see.
I pull my finger out with the gate still closed.
Then my finger slips through the gate’s frame and returns to normal space.

“I see.”

And somehow, in the back of the warehouse I can see a ball of light.

“What’s that……? Maybe I should search.”

When I search, that’s the spacetime warehouse’s main body, and if that breaks you can’t use the spacetime warehouse, apparently.
When something with contents breaks, the contents get dumped on the spot, they say.

A similar light sphere is floating in the back of the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse · Large〉 too.

Only, the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse · Large〉’s warehouse size is about a school grounds, so the light sphere is quite far back.
Incidentally, a normal 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉’s size is about one apartment room.

And, can I do that?

“Ill-san, is it okay to go into this warehouse?”

The 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉 doesn’t open a gate of a size you can enter, but the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse · Large〉 opens a gate of a size even a person can enter, right.

Ill-san holding a book appears pon in front of my eyes.

“There is no time inside, so it is extremely dangerous. If you enter you cannot come out on your own. You would need someone to rescue you.”
“Eh, seriously……”
“If you enter while wearing the necklace and the door closes, you can never come out.”
“I-is it okay to stick my hand into a place like that……?”
“It is only that time does not exist in the spacetime warehouse’s space, so if you put a hand in from this side it is fine.”

I see, time was born together with the universe, they say.

“How do you take things you can’t reach?”
“That necklace has a kind of VR system built in, and it detects brainwaves. So if you concentrate on what you want, it will move it to your hand.”

Naru naru. An amazing product of super science.

While I’m experimenting with the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉 like this, we arrive at the moon. I put Swallow-san in humanoid form and land making footprints.

“Yo.”

Swallow-san’s humanoid form is rabbit-like so the moon suits her.

Maybe I should keep a rabbit in Swallow-san’s one-room…… a Netherland Dwarf or something.

Watching animal videos is a hobby of mine.
I’d like to do a stream of flirting with animals.

“Ah, no good. Rabbits-san couldn’t endure the G.”

I can’t keep one in the apartment either, so eventually I’ll buy a house on Earth or FateLege and keep a rabbit. And stream.

“Not that. What I’m buying today is a 〈162mm Cannon〉 and a shield.”

If I obtained a Versus Frame 〈Key to the Dimensional Warehouse〉, that means I can hold weapons to store in it, right.

If asked “why did you choose a cannon and a shield”……

You know the “Sparkle Shot”? The thing where you plant a stupid-huge long-barreled gun on a shield stuck in the ground and shoot.
The kind where recoil comes dokan.
A way of shooting a gun that looks like it would sparkle in a storm.
I’ve been yearning for it.
“One thing on the want-to-do list, granted.”

There are a lot of 162mm cannons too, so I pick the biggest and longest.

It looks like an “M134 minigun” but the barrel is way longer, and the grip is sideways too.
And it’s not rapid-fire, you shoot one shot at a time.

A sideways gun with a tank cannon attached, that kind of feel.
You hang this from your arm and shoot.

For the shield I pick one shaped like the tip of a long thin shovel.
Like, or rather the handle extends and it also becomes a shovel.

There’s also the talk that a shovel is the strongest weapon, so I can probably use it as a weapon too.
Or rather, if I shield-attack it looks like it would hurt.

I stick the shovel-tip into the moon ground and rest the 162mm cannon’s barrel on it.

“This, this!”

The shield is a bit low so I make Swallow-san lean forward and spread her legs wide.
Right now I am sparkling!

I try shooting one shot.
The recoil is tremendous, and in the moon’s gravity Swallow-san blows into the air.

“S-so this happens.”

Even so amazing power. It might make up for Swallow-san’s lack of firepower.
With just one gun it’s limited…… 〈Critical Blackbody Beam〉 is way stronger anyway.

After that I buy anchors, fix Swallow-san to the ground, and go “dokaan, dokaan” shooting, and Ill-san says “You look like you’re having fun, Master,” and I get a little embarrassed.

“What happens if I shoot into the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉 gate.”
“The 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse〉 will break.”
“Desu yone.”

I have a lot of the small ones, but only one Large, so breaking it is no good.

Now, when I touch the necklace to put the 162mm cannon and shovel-shield into the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse · Large〉.

For some reason a window opens.

“……Nn?”

There’s notation like Door 1–8.

“Eh, does this mean opening multiple doors?”

I try pressing every button on the window.

A bunch of space distortions appear around Swallow-san.

“……This——I can do “that” too, huh.”

I buy one more 162mm cannon, plus machine guns and rocket launchers and various guns, seven, put them in the 〈Key to the Spacetime Warehouse · Large〉, and close the doors for now.

I used a whole 2,250,000 merit points tehe. Remaining 1,250,000.
Then I open the doors again and use 〖Psychokinesis〗 to lift the guns…… heavy.

I stack 〖Super Strength〗 too and stick the tips of various huge guns out the doors.

Two 162mm cannons.
Two 64mm machine guns.
Two rocket launchers.
Two charged-particle cannons, peek out from the doors.

Further I put Swallow-san in flight form and fire two 〈Multipurpose Vulcan〉, a 〈Multipurpose Sniper〉, and 〈Critical Blackbody Beam〉 at the same time.

“Doors of Kanagawa. Simultaneous sweep!”

With 〖Psychokinesis〗 I pull eight triggers.

A tremendous shock shakes the cockpit.
Then when the dust clears, a crater has been made on the moon.

“……This is absolutely strong.”