"Strange. I clearly ate so much—I should've replenished quite a bit of energy. Why do I feel even more tired?"
"Breaking down food requires an additional expenditure of your power. The energy these foods provide is not enough to make up for your own consumption." As though she had answered this question countless times before, Nagato Yuki answered the moment Jiu Ming voiced his doubt.
"Is that so? Forget it, it's nothing important anyway. But why can I suddenly eat now?"
Jiu Ming was certain this change had not existed before—at least, not before he came to this world. Back then, eating was like chewing rocks; there was no taste whatsoever, and the chewed-up food would simply pass through his Soul Body and fall to the ground.
Shaking her head lightly, Nagato Yuki continued explaining, "Because Suzumiya Haruhi's perception of you has deviated, your body has undergone an anomalous adjustment. If you are dissatisfied, I can correct that adjustment."
Change it back? Was that a joke? Jiu Ming immediately shook his head. "No! I'm very satisfied. I'm just afraid this anomaly will suddenly disappear."
"As long as the deviation in Suzumiya Haruhi's perception of you is not corrected, it will not disappear."
"What a terrifying girl." Having received a definite answer, Jiu Ming was finally at ease, but he also gained an entirely new understanding of Suzumiya Haruhi's abilities. A mere deviation in her perception of him could fundamentally alter the fact that he was unable to eat. Though it was not the utterly unreasonable kind of "unscientific" power—he had to expend his own strength to break down what he ate in order to "digest" it—it was terrifying enough.
Can't feel how frightening that was? Put another way: Jiu Ming felt that, in this world, Suzumiya Haruhi could, in a