All-Out

Kasuya silently closed the Rainbow Light chat platform.

He had just spent ages shooting the breeze with Red Whale again. Stuff about world planes, time vortices, and the like.

The other guy's tone was as big as ever, carrying that air of sitting back to watch clouds drift by while the sun and moon changed overhead.

Unfortunately, Kasuya had already seen through everything.

Red Whale was indeed strong, but not as strong as he made himself out to be. The guy seemed more like he was forcibly showing off with theories and realms that others had worked out.

At his core, he was actually just like Kasuya—an outsider living in unusual circumstances.

"Ah..." he sighed.

The chat platform had grown much quieter lately. Hardly anyone spoke there anymore.

Old-timers like Invincible Superman, Walking Wind, and Jewelry Processing had been lurking for a long time.

Ever since Holy Light helped everyone complete the platform, it seemed everyone had become busy with their real lives and no longer chatted idly on it.

"How helpless..."

Kasuya shoved his hands into his pockets and hunched his neck, trying to burrow deeper into the high collar of his woolen hoodie.

Without the chat platform to kill time, life was even more boring than sleeping.

He wandered through the late-autumn streets.

This unremarkable little city was full of smiling young women, dressed in colorful finery with flower sprigs in their hair as they strolled slowly along the streets.

It was the Flower Sprig Festival. At this time of year, it was said that girls who wore flower sprigs in their hair would receive good luck.

If the sprig sprouted after being worn for a day, it meant double happiness was on the way.

Kasuya shook his head speechlessly.

As one of the few powerful ability users