"Zero?!" If not for her artificial larynx's mechanical pistons, the Spirit Exorcist would have nearly spat out a mouthful of blood.
She had seen plenty of prospective Qualified Users come in for testing, but not a single one had ever had a synchronization rate of zero... Even the technicians responsible for the tests could manage a synchronization rate of a few tenths when they tested themselves.
Even...
The smile on the Spirit Exorcist's face had not fully appeared before her entire body froze in place—she had suddenly remembered something.
No matter how bizarre or difficult to tame an Anomaly Equipment might be, its synchronization rate with a human could never be zero.
It was like living creatures on Earth. No matter how vastly different a creature was from humans, there would still be matching segments in their genes.
Though it was somewhat inappropriate, a joke she had seen before still surfaced in the Spirit Exorcist's mind.
The joke was about a family drama where a father discovered that his genetic similarity with his son was only thirty percent and suspected that he had unknowingly raised another man's child...
But in reality, humans and bananas shared over fifty percent genetic similarity.
Of course, if the family drama were changed into a sci-fi horror story, everything made sense—his son was not human at all, but a disguised spy sent by aliens...
"Zero... How could it be zero?"
A thought suddenly occurred to the Spirit Exorcist, one that even she herself did not dare believe.
Compared to the large-scale equipment in the institute that could measure more than a dozen decimal places, the synchronization rate measured by a Qualified User's wristband was only accurate to four decimal places, but that was already more than enough for everyday use.
Yet whether it was large-scale