"This is..."
As they watched the luxurious modern living room before them transform into an ancient, dilapidated structure, everyone was left bewildered.
Espers at their level were neither here nor there. They were not as dull as ordinary people, but neither were they as powerful as high-level Espers. In an online novel, they would be the sort who could watch someone perform a ritual and still have no idea whether anything was actually happening, only seeing them chant spells and recite scriptures.
"Telepathy?"
"Doesn't look like it. More like PLK!"
"To manifest an illusion of this magnitude... It's unbelievable!"
A group of people threw around various terms, completely unsure how they were supposed to react. Fortunately, they were professionals. Seeing how serious Shizuku and Mayu Hinase looked, they knew this was their doing and wisely fell silent.
Taniyama Mai, standing nearby, was completely dumbfounded. She had only been an ordinary high school student before this. Aside from telling ghost stories with Ai and her classmates, she had never encountered any supernatural incident. Although she had joined the institute, the first supernatural incident she had experienced had not involved any ghosts at all. It had simply been structural damage caused by subsidence from groundwater.
This time, however, she finally witnessed firsthand how a real Esper dealt with things.
Though everyone was watching, Mayu Hinase was not particularly nervous. She had been practicing her abilities under Shizuku's guidance and had gained a certain understanding of her power of regression. Although Mayu was not yet a qualified Esper, by the standards of ordinary Espers, she was already quite impressive.
Of course, the reason she could manifest the regression outwardly was because Shizuku's power was strong enough.
With enough force, even bricks could fly into the atmosphere. What was this little matter?
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