"Something that could make an Esper's abilities go out of control..."
Fang Zheng narrowed his eyes at the machine before him and chuckled. Beside him, Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko watched him with grave expressions.
"Mr. Fang Zheng, can you analyze it?"
"Of course I can, but this sort of thing is better left to someone else... Hmm, hold on."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng opened his Personal Terminal and connected to Kiyama Harumi.
"Kiyama, come meet one of your relatives."
"...A relative?"
Everyone exchanged puzzled looks at Fang Zheng's words, but they soon understood what he meant.
"...This should operate on the same principles as the Fantasy Hand."
After putting on headphones and carefully listening to some of the noise, Kiyama Harumi quickly gave her answer.
"Whoever made it probably used my paper on synesthesia as a foundation."
"Then does that mean there's someone's brainwave pattern in there too?"
Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko knew about the Fantasy Hand, so Kiyama Harumi's explanation immediately gave them an idea. However... Kiyama Harumi shook her head.
"It's different. The reason I inserted my own brainwaves into the Fantasy Hand was that brainwave resonance was needed to connect everyone and form a network. But this program's sole purpose is to disrupt Espers' brains. It doesn't need to insert any specialized brainwaves to achieve that."
"I see..."
The two of them looked somewhat dejected, but Misaka Mikoto quickly thought of another question and looked curiously at Fang Zheng.
"By the way, Mr. Fang Zheng, when that machine activated earlier, Kuroko and I were affected, but Saten was completely fine. Why was that?!"
To be honest, this question had troubled Misaka Mikoto the entire way here. No matter how hard she thought about it, she could not understand why. In terms of ability level,