Shaking his head to deny Saki's guess about Nanalie, Xiao Ran said that Nanalie was not an innate Mental Power user. In Lelouch's world, there seemed to be no Mental Power users born with special abilities. There might be people with greater mental strength, but they still had to obtain their own special abilities through GEASS.
At most, Nanalie could be considered strong-willed, exceptionally perceptive, and slightly stronger mentally than average. She was not some one-in-a-million anomaly, but she was certainly not completely ordinary either. Compared to truly ordinary people, there was always something a little different about her.
The sight of Xiao Ran's body changing, green particles filling the entire room and mostly enveloping Nanalie, left C.C somewhat dumbfounded. Perhaps she could remain indifferent and composed before others, but before Xiao Ran, C.C had forgotten how long it had been since she had so easily lost her emotional balance as she had over these past few days.
Previously, Xiao Ran had told her that his eyes were an outward manifestation of excessively powerful Mental Power. But now, these green particles and hair that had completely turned into something like ribbons of light could not simply be explained by strong Mental Power. This was a more unusual ability, different from CODE and GEASS—an ability C.C could not understand at all.
Xiao Ran, however, paid no attention to C.C's astonishment. He controlled his Mental Power and GN Particles to begin examining Nanalie's body, scanning every unusual part of her from top to bottom. Yet he did not immediately pull Nanalie into the world of mental communication.
For Xiao Ran, examining Nanalie with Mental Power or telekinesis was an extremely simple matter. Scanning with GN Particles and telekinesis made it easy to discover exactly how Nanalie differed from normal people. As for