Temperature Control in Academy City

Breathing heavily, the red and white witch leaned tiredly on a neatly cut tree stump, with a blank expression on her face.

In her mind, she had begun to lose track of her own identity. Was she Natsume Sonoko, Hitomi, or someone else?

She always felt that there were a lot of people living in her brain, and the chattering made her feel very uncomfortable.

Chapter 524: Collective Thoughts

"What kind of brilliant power wiped your consciousness from your body?"

"If I try to empty this body and make some space, will you come back, Hitomi?"

Looking down at the bewildered red and white priestess, the aloof god revealed a cold gaze, not caring at all about the wishes of mortals, but just thinking about a possibility.

She had some feelings for Miss Hitomi, but not for Natsume Sonoko.

In order to maintain her fragile emotions that were about to collapse, she couldn't help but act with some obvious purpose. Perhaps the god chose to erase the existence of the later ones in the divine punishment just to try to deceive her own feelings.

In the eyes of the Great Goddess, only the people she cares about have value in existence, otherwise they are no different from stones and weeds on the roadside.

This seems to form a sharp contrast with a guy hanging upside down, who lives in a large jar filled with nutrient solution all year round, but his brain is extremely clear.

Even when talking to the older loli named Letili, he did not choose to ignore the girl with a bun and try to resurrect the shrine maiden Hitomi.

Strictly speaking, it is also because of the consent of the Hanged Man that Natsume Sonoko's own consciousness has been able to exist successfully to this day.

All men and women in the world are stars.

There is no meaningless part in this world, and everything is designed to be intertwined with each other. Natsume Sonoko exists because the world wants her to exist, and she has an obligation and responsibility to the world.

Hitomi and Natsume Sonoko are both indispensable parts of the big machine of the world.

They look like one person, but they are parallel to each other, with no superiority or inferiority.

...

"Hey, what comics should I read today? It looks like a new volume of 'Pillar Slayer' is going to be published."

"Just keep your eyes open and watch. I will save everyone from the evil guy in one fell swoop."

"I failed the level 2 assessment again. I should just give up, but I still feel very unwilling to do so."

"I'm going on a date with Kenta tomorrow. Do you want to go to the underground mall and buy a nice skirt?"

“My seniors in college were all so good, but I didn’t even understand the basics.”

“…”

The confusion and struggle on her face kept changing, and her various personalities and emotions were interfering with her thinking ability, causing the girl to fall into a state of extreme confusion.

At this moment, in the mind of the red and white miko, not only Hitomi and Natsume Sonoko appeared, but also the chaotic emotions of many unknown passers-by in Academy City, joining in this battle of subtly modifying cognition.

In order to collect data intelligence about the mastermind controlling Feng Zhan, Natsume Sonoko recorded a large amount of aim force field information in her head, which caused her brain to swell for a period of time.

These AIM force field information are actually the thoughts and emotions of each ability user. Putting them into the brain is actually a very risky thing.

However, at this time, Natsume Sonoko had almost lost the ability to distinguish and suppress.

These memories and thoughts burst out all at once, pushing the consciousness of the bun-head into a corner.

But because of the existence of these thoughts, the speed of change in Natsume Sonoko's cognition was slowed down, creating a cognitive buffer zone.

"What the hell, how could I be a boy? This must be someone else's memory and emotions."

"And that super bitter coffee, how could anyone like it. Eh, don't I like bitter coffee? It's so disgusting, I can't tell the difference at all."

Unable to help but hold her head, the red and white priestess no longer had the energy to attack the huge fireball.

As her cognition became increasingly confused and changed, she even felt that she might be a boy.

Since more than half of the people in Academy City are boys, there is a 50% chance that she is a boy. What a weird idea.

The attack from God is rapidly modifying and replacing Natsume Sonoko's cognition and erasing everything unimportant.

This feeling is like encountering Shokuhou-senpai who is going all out and holding nothing back.

In fact, even Shokuhou-senpai couldn't cause Natsume Sonoko to fall into such extreme cognitive disorder. The difference in computing power between the two of them was not that big, and it was impossible for them to cause such an attack that almost erased their personality in a short period of time.

Moreover, Natsume Sonoko is not having her cognition or personality modified in the true sense, but is becoming another person with the recognition of the universe, even including her body in the outside world.

If this situation cannot be reversed, Natsume can only hope to meet Senior Kamijou one day, and maybe he can recover.

"Everything about me is being affected, which means that nothing can be trusted. The body's instincts and habits, the brain's memories and emotions, and even the soul have become unpredictable. So I need to use an anchor point that cannot be affected by the other party in any way to guide all my thoughts."

"An anchor point that both Hitomi and Natsume Sonoko know and will not be changed."

Facing the dazzling light of the gods, a pair of determined eyes appeared on the face of the red and white priestess.

It was becoming increasingly difficult to tell who was in charge of the red and white priestess, but a sharp and tough aura emanated from her entire body.

As the cognitive buffer zone gradually disappeared, Miss Hitomi in Omikami's mind almost occupied most of the red and white priestess's thinking ability, and her consciousness gradually moved closer to Miss Hitomi.

But just like what the Great God said, although the two girls' personalities were very different, they were almost cut from the same mold in one aspect, that is, the unyielding will to fight, which unexpectedly connected together smoothly and naturally at this moment.

"Thank you so much for calling me out of hell and letting me reappear in such a special way."

“It took me a while to understand where I was at.”

The red and white priestess, who was gradually dominated by Miss Hitomi, frowned slightly, with complex emotions appearing on her face, and spoke at this time.

"You copied me into your future generations, and even transferred the remnants of information I left in the 'prototype' to make my image complete. If I didn't know what kind of existence you are, I would have almost changed my perception of you."

The red and white miko once again met the other party's cold gaze and spoke word by word.

The moment she met the other party's cold gaze, the red and white priestess understood a lot of things. The god in front of her didn't even have the interest to say a word to her.

At this time, she was still not the Hitomi that Oomikami really wanted, at most she was just the Hitomi in his mind.

As expected, he is still that dangerous and cold guy. A god who cannot understand humans is destined to bring only disasters, and it has always been like this.

However, the red and white priestess showed a beautiful smile at this time, and her consciousness began to take over the brain, using her perception ability freely as in the past.

As her vision continued to expand, almost the entire Academy City appeared in her mind.

She saw Index and Tsuchimikado in the spore energy, and of course the new discipline member she met.

I also saw everyone who was attending Tokiwadai Middle School, and Hatsuharu and Saten from Kagawa Middle School...

When her sight came to the student dormitory, two teddy bears were neatly placed in the two corners of the sofa, and the box under the bed was filled with someone's treasures. This was her most accustomed daily life.

"Just like you think, I'm not the real Hitomi."

"Even if I have many more memories of Hitomi in my head, and even my habits and personality have become the same as hers, there is one thing that will not change, and that is this Academy City, where I lived. There are too many traces of me here, so I can only be Natsume Sonoko."

The smile on the red and white priestess's face became brighter and brighter, and her perception finally fell on Feng Zhan.

If I am destined to become a stranger, then before that, I will try to let everyone's emotions fill my brain and completely destroy this strong, courageous, and firm-minded alien pupil.

The collective thoughts of two million people with special abilities are enough to break through the punishment of a mere false god.

Chapter 525: One-Day Tour

The hymn of mankind is the hymn of courage.

Natsume is an ordinary and useless girl who ultimately does not have enough courage to make the decision to self-destruct, but Miss Hitomi does, and this is a difference caused by the differences in the two people's experiences.

Once she chooses to let Hitomi's consciousness occupy Natsume Sonoko's brain, then when facing a desperate situation, she will take all means to defeat her opponent, even if it means destroying herself.

However, just like Natsume Sonoko, she also did not choose to destroy the magic barrier from the outside, just to protect those friends she was not familiar with.

These people, who are extremely unfamiliar to Miss Tongzi, are proof of the existence of another girl.

“The world is full of errors and confusion, so don’t let the valuable things disappear.”

"Occupying someone else's body and resurrecting to become a meaningless and worthless replica personality is an infuriating act that is an insult to my pursuit of my own existence."

The red and white witch widened her eyes and loudly scolded the energy life in the sky.

With the gradual transformation of cognition, the red and white priestess not only absorbed the pupil information from Omikami, but also the fragmented memories of various pupils in Natsume's body gradually gathered on her, which also led to the increasingly perfect consciousness of Miss Hitomi.

"I am different from you guys who are high and mighty. My existence can only be proved by myself."

"After sealing you, the real me must have found the meaning of existence that I must practice even if it costs me everything, so I absolutely cannot tolerate your trampling on the meaning of my existence."

The nihilistic girl exerted her unwavering subjective will. She refused to exist in the world in this way and defended the meaning of Natsume Sonoko's existence at the first opportunity.

Pursue the Tao, pursue possibilities, pursue everything, and put all the future on the right track.

She believed that after sealing the Omikami, she must have walked an unprecedented path. From the clues she saw in this body and the various information input by someone into Natsume herself, the existence of so-called personal reality seemed to represent a brand new possibility.

More importantly, the information input by others actually has Miss Hitomi's own style, because this is almost the content that she, who has the ability of observation, would explore and think about, and it even contains content related to people with special abilities and aim force field energy.

Just by using her observation ability to conduct some normal observations, Miss Hitomi found many things that Natsume Sonoko had not discovered. This also shows that a certain ball-head girl has not used her observation ability at all until now, and may not even be able to examine her own personal reality through the aim force field energy.

"And this Feng Zhan Bing Hua seems to be the prototype of a special angel?"

"Not an angel in the religious sense, but a 'fate beyond destiny' that is based on the physical universe itself, based on the collective consciousness of people with special abilities, and in a sense, implements the will of the world."

The red and white priestess withdrew her gaze and suddenly muttered to herself. She was observing the attributes of Feng Zhan Binghua.

It was at this time that the red and white miko truly discovered that the chain connected to Feng Zhan's back extended all the way to the end of the imaginary number district, affecting and interfering with everything in Academy City in a mysterious and incredible way.

And somewhere among these chains, the aim force field energy belonging to Natsume Sonoko is entangled with the other party, forming the other party's anthropomorphic body temperature, which is also an integral part of the lazy character in Feng Zhan's consciousness.

Upon observing this, the red and white priestess couldn't help but smile knowingly.

Natsume's lazy personality not only affected Reiko, but also seemed to have affected the shy girl from Kirigaoka Junior High School.

"All the emotional content contained in the AIM force field energy is incomplete, and almost no complete memory is carried. Therefore, as long as Hitomi's consciousness collapses, Natsume Sonoko will naturally reappear."

"We are enemies, future generations, try your best to survive. Don't feel sad, because Tongzi has never been resurrected. I am you, there is no difference at all."

Without any more hesitation, the red and white priestess, led by Tongzi's consciousness, communicated with the imaginary number area and activated an almost boundless ocean of force field.

Almost in an instant, the vast collective consciousness rushed into the brain of the red and white witch like a flood that had opened a valve, and her originally firm eyes gradually became blurred.

Only the brain of a person with super powers can withstand such a massive information shock without fainting immediately.

......

Natsume Sonoko, who attends the Elementary School affiliated with Kunugigaoka Junior High School in the 13th District, is the only person with strong abilities in the class.

However, it was a little different from what one might have imagined. This girl was not welcome in the class and was even somewhat isolated.

As they are about to enter junior high school, everyone faces the almost cruel pressure of continuing their studies. Natsume Sonoko will either go to Tokiwadai or Kirigaoka Junior High School. She stands out in this class where most people are incompetent or have low abilities.

"It's beautiful, isn't it? This is an ice sculpture of a puppy I just made for you."

With a well-behaved smile on her face, little Natsume Sonoko held up her homework and showed it to a girl.

"I do not want."

"You may only find people like you in Tokiwadai."

The girl whose face couldn't be seen clearly couldn't help but say that she was just a person without abilities and was very envious of the girl with a bun in front of her who could use her abilities freely.

"What's the difference? I'm the same as everyone else."

Little Natsume Sonoko paused and said with some disappointment.

Is the level of a person with special abilities really that important? She also started out as a person without special abilities and put in a lot of sweat and effort.

"It's different, completely different. I can feel everyone's emotions."

"If hard work doesn't pay off, everyone will be disappointed, but I really can't do anything about it."

In the false space, the red and white priestess stood there muttering to herself. More and more thoughts of passers-by entered her brain, continuously impacting the blank spaces in her mind, replicating all kinds of emotional feelings on Natsume Sonoko's short life.

These thoughts were constantly dissipated and transformed by the power of the Great God, and were used to strengthen Miss Hitomi's existence. However, Miss Hitomi continued to introduce new thoughts from passers-by to fight back. The two immediately fell into a strange balance in the stalemate.

The energy of the AIM force field in the imaginary number zone is almost infinite, which means that this balance will last for a very long time until someone's brain collapses.

As for the ball-headed student who was in a daze and was squeezed into a corner, he was staring at everything that was happening in his brain with stagnant thoughts.

Passively sensing the collective activities of the students in this bustling Academy City, a day trip in the brain of the psychic Natsume Sonoko.

The day when everyone has super powers seems not far away.

Chapter 526 Energy

Outside the small park, there were already fully armed security teams, and even members of the Advanced Situation Rescue Team driving engineering drive armor had arrived at the scene.

However, everyone was blocked outside by the strange blue mist in the park, and no order to attack was given for a while.