"Hehe, Mr. Jonas, sniff, sniff..."
The girl clung to Jonas like a koala. Even someone who had never seen Iris before could have felt how dependent she was on him.
Although he felt a little helpless, the girl had been through so much that she clearly needed his company. So Jonas did not peel Iris off him. Instead, he stroked her head and said:
"Yes, everything's all right now... Next, I'll take you to the medical department for a checkup, Miss Iris, just in case this incident leaves any lasting effects."
"I don't want to go to the medical department."
Iris frowned, seemingly quite averse to places like that.
She looked up at Jonas with pleading eyes and said:
"I want to stay with you, Mr. Jonas."
There was clearly something wrong with the girl's mental state. Based on her earlier behavior, Jonas tentatively concluded that these were the aftereffects of her Psionic Energy awakening.
Awakening Psionic Energy amplified a Psionic's psychological flaws, and the higher their Psionic Energy level, the more severe those flaws became.
Judging by the strength of her earlier attacks, the Psionic Energy she had awakened was of a very high caliber. This was actually something of a departure from the original plot... After all, Iris was supposed to awaken her Psionic Energy late in the story, while, judging by the timeline, they had only just entered the middle portion.
In other words, some external factor had catalyzed Iris's Psionic Energy awakening, so a slight change in her initial Psionic Energy level was only natural.
Although he did not know what the Star of Dawn and people like Beigong Ling had done to Iris, the outcome, at least, was not too bad.
Besides, he remembered that the girl's ability was ridiculously powerful. In District 25, it