Before long, Miyuki Shiba and Tatsuya Shiba boarded a plane for the United States. Only a handful of close friends came to see them off—after all, Tatsuya Shiba had kept an extremely low profile at school over the past year and had barely made any friends. Miyuki Shiba, meanwhile, was always glued to Tatsuya Shiba, so the only people who could really be called her friends were Honoka Mitsui and Shizuku Kitayama.
After that, everyone's lives returned to normal.
Just like they were now.
"'Seeing' is an especially unique way for humans to understand the world."
Fang Zheng tapped the blackboard in front of him. Shibata Mizuki watched it with great seriousness, writing something down from time to time.
"Simply put, the act of seeing represents the intensity with which one absorbs information. Every race perceives the world differently through 'seeing,' and the cost differs as well. Your eyes are an exceptionally special kind. To put it simply, what you see is merely something others cannot see, but which still exists there."
As he spoke, Fang Zheng made a gesture.
"Think of it like looking at our skin through a microscope. To the naked eye, our skin looks smooth, but magnify it under a microscope and you can see the epidermis, the stratum corneum, the granular layer... Yet none of that can be seen with the naked eye. Those things already exist; we simply cannot perceive them with our eyes."
"Ugh... That sounds kind of unpleasant."
Hearing this, Chiba Erika rubbed her arms, while Fang Zheng merely shrugged.
"Still, seeing can be dangerous. I'm sure you've all heard the saying: when you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. So, Mizuki, you must be careful when using this ability. Especially since you do not possess sufficient power