I have become stronger, but also shorter [comprehensive]

The (basically) omnipotent psychic suddenly finds himself confronted with the first more difficult people to deal with outside of the duo of the strongest fools.

This person's name is Isabella, no surname, younger than him, a month to 12 years old, currently living in an orphanage in a different world, and is a genuine human being.

The reason why I want to emphasize "genuine goods at a fair price" is not because there are precedents of those two guys who are human beings but not as strong as human beings.

Compared with Saiki Kusuo himself and his friends, Isabella, who is a girl, is normally not in the same world as them.

During the period of secretly peeping (crossing out) surveillance, Saiki Kusuo watched the children playing games carefree under the blue sky and white clouds every day, and even had the illusion of being "purified".

This is the life a normal person lives.

once Upon a time--

No, even now, this is the ordinary life he yearns for...

"Are you watching us?"

A voice suddenly sounded out of nowhere. To outsiders, it looked like the black-haired girl sitting under the tree was talking to herself in the air again.

The girl's expression didn't change significantly, as if she was just saying something rather ordinary: "It's almost like what the book said, when aliens come to Earth, they will find a place for human observation..."

"—Sorry, I'm not an alien, nor am I observing humans."

"Well, if it's not aliens, then it means other non-human beings exist..."

"No, it's a human being. I'm a human being just like you."

"But I don't know how to listen to other people's hearts, nor can I communicate with others with my mind, let alone hide..."

"Who said—

"It's okay to admit that you're not human."

"..."

"After all, no matter what your identity is, big brother, it has no effect on me. This is the truth, please believe it."

The girl said so casually.

Psychic (attempts to explain but fails): "..."

Isabella is a talented girl who is extremely rare to appear in the normal human category.

It's just that because Saiki Kusuo, who is not a normal human being, has too high a vision, he insists on making the genius less prominent.

But, even so.

The "ordinary" Miss Isabella can still cause a little bit of trouble for people with superpowers.

The most obvious manifestation is that not long after meeting Saiki Kusuo, Isabella quickly understood the unusualness of the pink-haired boy.

And, she quite capablely discovered that this inexplicable pink hair can telepathize.

Discovery is not over yet.

Within a few rounds, the black-haired girl, who was a few years younger than Saiki Kusuo, had a faceless face, and spontaneously learned to control her mental activities, preventing the superpower who could hear people's voices from seeing her heart.

Regarding this, Saiki Kusuo could only: "???"

correct.

Ignoring the strength gap between superpowers and ordinary humans, there is no doubt that he has met an "opponent" in this regard.

"Big brother from 'outside'."

Girls who are unwilling to open their hearts to weirdos often use this opening line.

In many cases, she doesn't care about the connection between the previous and the previous topics. It doesn't matter what was said earlier or what questions were asked, and she seems to be very free-wheeling.

As she said, she doesn't care about the identity of the mysterious stranger at all.

"Can you please tell me?"

just ask.

"'Outside', what is it like?"

This is the question I have been asking all the time.

I don't know the reason, but what is certain is that Isabella's obsession with the "answer" can be said to be quite deep.

Saiki Kusuo didn't understand.

However, he could tell that this girl was very strange.

She was lively with the other children in the orphanage.

But when she was alone (in fact, she was communicating with Saiki Kusuo who was in hiding), she was very silent, and her settled eyes were inexplicably deep.

Isabella has something on her mind.

Moreover, it is still not at all willing to let the superpowers who are likely to know the details discover the secret.

Saiki Kusuo clearly realized that he had become the object of being vigilant and being used.

Except for a formal face-to-face meeting with Isabella, the relationship between him and Isabella is very cold except for the last conversation every other day or two.

Not to mention friends, not even familiar strangers.

Isabella really didn't care about his background, but it was based on very suspicion and complete distrust, and there was no need to question it at all.

Very contradictory, right?

Mingming persevered every time to ask the stranger who came from "outside" what the place he came from looked like.

But, in the final analysis——Isabellas was expecting, but she didn't trust his answer.

This is the main reason why Saiki Kusuo started to get serious.

He temporarily left his friends who didn't need to worry further away, and couldn't help thinking about it further.

Oh, and throw the deaf Eric a little farther away.

Isabella is the most prominent special case he has encountered so far: he can hear his heart, but he can't figure out what the other person really thinks.

"Outside? You want to ask, outside the orphanage?"

Saiki Kusuo didn't have any objection or dissatisfaction with being so guarded against him, he was just a little strange about the reason.

Since the girl asked, he thought about it and answered.

"Isn't there a forest outside?"

"The forest is basically full of dangerous things, such as fruit that bursts with acid, vines that can drag people and animals away, piranhas that eat people, and—"

Isabella raised her eyelids slightly, as if there was a desire to inquire about Qi Mu Kusuo's slight pause: "What else?"

Qimu Nanxiong: "..."

Saiki Kusuo (expressionless): "There are still bugs."

Isabella (dumb): "Huh? Bugs?"

"That's right, no matter what it is, it's an annoying bug that I don't want to recall."

"Aren't bugs everywhere? Ah, right now there is a little ant crawling onto my book..."

whoosh-

On a cloudless and sunny day, a strong wind blew up for no reason and blew the big tree behind the girl whirring.

People who don't know the truth may find it strange, but they don't take it to heart.

However, Isabella, who was sitting under the tree safely, but her braids were blown dangling behind her, had a clear mind, and she could guess what happened roughly.

The girl kept her composure, and very calmly flicked back the whip that was dangling in front of her, then raised her hand calmly, and turned over the pages of the book on her lap.

Sharara, the not unusually balmy breeze was delayed.

At that time, the pages of the book that the girl turned had already added another layer.The light and shadow of the leaves falling from the top of the head are like swaying pieces of gold, falling on the black and white words, still appearing bright and radiant.

She didn't care when the vanished stranger came back—or, if he didn't.

Not much lighter than a book page, not much thicker than white water, and even a strange connection full of contradictions and doubts, which has continued for a long time like this.

Saiki Kusuo was stranded in the orphanage, and sometimes went around to inquire about information, but he didn't go too far, at least he hadn't been to places outside the circle cut off by the cliff.

He only realized the strangeness after the fact.

Logically speaking, the shapes of the separated orphanages are particularly strange.

The only path connecting the orphanage to the opposite bank leads to a prominent building, and this iconic building stands out in particular.

Saiki Kusuo had noticed it a long time ago, but unexpectedly, he never explored it once.

Every time he just came up with the idea of ​​"going there to see", before he started to put it into practice, he changed his mind inexplicably and went back home.

Either it was cloudy, it rained suddenly, a spider fell from the sky... all kinds of accidents happened suddenly, and Saiki Kusuo immediately gave up his original idea.

——It's not that he is timid, has a perfunctory attitude, and doesn't take important things to heart.

It seems that there is a special force here.

Whenever Saiki Kusuo is about to come into contact with the "truth", this force will appear, quietly affecting him and pushing him away by himself.

At the very beginning, Saiki Kusuo himself could not realize that he was being affected.

He was only vaguely aware of the weird existence, and felt that he seemed to be very unlucky recently, and he might have been infected by the silver-haired unlucky guy who was still missing, resulting in a sharp drop in luck.

wrong.

wrong.

Unknowingly, the superpowers from another world were "trapped" in the orphanage.

He could barely wake up.

Time, then, to enter the most crucial turning point of this short story.

The observation of the strange girl Isabella was carried out until the third month.

The next day, just one day apart, happened to be Isabella's 12th birthday.

Needless to say, Saiki Kusuo would never say happy birthday to her, let alone prepare a present.

Perhaps it was a whim.

Perhaps it was also a sign that the psychic, who still couldn't figure out what the girl was thinking after wasting so much time, gave up.

Saiki Kusuo hasn't explored what the world outside the forest looks like. He only gave a completely different answer when Isabella asked the same question again and again.

"I don't know where you mean by 'outside', but I can still describe to you what the place I came from looks like."

The "place of coming" he described was, of course, his hometown.

It was really a world that was so ordinary that it wasn't brilliant.

It may be that at the beginning of its birth, all the highlights were concentrated on the superpower Saiki Kusuo alone.

Introducing the ordinary world to a girl from another world seems to have nothing to say.

The superpower thought for a while——

Forget it.

He still stopped talking.

Not talking about it doesn't mean leaving the stall alone, Saiki Kusuo suddenly remembered the method used by an annoying magician to harass him, and he should be able to learn to use it once here.

Rich real pictures are always more vivid than words.

So, with the bell of a new day coming at night, Isabella had a dream.

Images of a different world that seemed to be not far away from her but could not be reached by crossing came one after another.

There are many high-rise buildings that have never been seen before, and the outer layer of glass reflects the dazzling golden light under the sunlight.

The cars that have only been seen in the pictures in the books shuttle non-stop, driving between the streets and gliding in the shadows of trees on both sides of the road.

In addition, there are mountains and rivers in the center of the land, located in steep high cliffs and deep seas.

——really... wide.

and also.

And the joyful smiles of people that seem to be everywhere, everywhere.

What touches the girl in the dream most is-adults and adults, children and parents, happy family.

——Is this... real?

it is true.

——Children from 'outside', can you smile like this?

Why not?

……

……

--I see.

After an unknown amount of time, Isabella didn't smile calmly for the first time.

--Thanks.Thank you very much.

She seemed to be relieved of something, and her whole body was relieved.

Although Saiki Kusuo still didn't know what she was thinking, but he felt that at this moment, Isabella's happiness was real.

She finally believed him.

And he-