In the end, Aleister chickened out.
He had no choice but to chicken out. His greatest trump card had been reduced to nothing with a single glare from Fang Zheng, nearly sending him home to get married. Under those circumstances, Aleister had no confidence whatsoever in opposing Fang Zheng. At last, he understood why Fang Zheng had swaggered around Academy City doing whatever he pleased without ever caring whether Aleister discovered him.
After all, to Fang Zheng, Aleister was just a little brother.
For Fang Zheng, killing him was merely a matter of turning a thought.
But Aleister still could not understand why that man found him so disagreeable.
Of course he could not understand. Fang Zheng had never intended to make Aleister understand.
In fact, after such a long investigation, Fang Zheng had figured out what Academy City's esper development really was—it was, in essence, the theory of the Order Clan.
Just as the Goddess of Order had told Fang Zheng long ago, the Order Clan had once attempted to "confirm" that the entire world fell completely within the bounds of order. They had used order to "fix" the world in place, eliminating the variables of chaos. But chaotic variables could not be eliminated, and in the end, they had produced The Wave.
Meanwhile, extending one's "Personal Reality" to cover the world and produce esper abilities in Academy City was essentially a crude, simplified version of the Order Clan's method. After all, they were only mortals. Expecting them to possess the godlike power of the Order Clan was clearly impossible, so this was as far as they could go.
But to Fang Zheng, this was extremely dangerous, okay?!
The Order Clan had used order to forcibly observe and define the world, and in the end they had created The