Yeah, This Is Cheating!

[Note: The limit of a certain ordinary human's specialty: can fill one technical skill possessed by humans to max.]

Use it!

Oreki quickly made his choice.

And for the limit of a human specialty, he chose the painting route.

If the conditions weren't enough, supernatural powers would make up the difference.

Oreki had always been direct.

So this was outright cheating—using max-level painting skill to display art and get Yukino Takari hooked.

"..."

The kindness of a tissue. Was that really all it amounted to?

Yukino fell silent for a moment. Then she crouched down beside Oreki.

Oreki's hands quickly mixed the colors, then brushed a deep green across the drawing board.

The sheet of paper was split into two parts, black and green.

It looked like something anyone could do.

As she watched Oreki's hands, she also watched his face.

For some reason, though she was clearly looking at a lively girl, Yukino felt as if she were seeing a delicate-looking young man.

It was an extremely strange feeling.

Ah.

She noticed a drop of paint rolling onto Oreki's left hand.

??

Yukino froze for a moment.

Then she hurriedly focused her attention on the drawing board.

What had originally been black and deep-green graffiti anyone could make had, at some point, already turned into half a picture.

An exquisite artificial hill.

A small forest soaked in the curtain of rain, and then a broad pond... How had these things appeared?

When had they appeared?

Was this the same painting?

"Look, this is how you paint..." Oreki said.

But Yukino's thin lips parted slightly. "Wait, what did you just... do?"

Just now, while she had been observing his profile and marveling inwardly at that strange feeling of looking at a young man, what had he done?

"Looks like you