Black Robe: How can Saiki Kusuo not be considered a superpowered individual?

"Can you hear me, Qi Mu?"

Inside the cabin in the woods.

Qi Mu and Nanzi were sitting on the sofa, and a video conference was playing on the TV screen.

Homelander and Rolner's faces appeared on the screen.

Homelander gave the camera his usual Walter Sr. smile.

"John, your feed is a bit choppy..."

Qi Mu noticed the constant frame drops on Homelander's screen and gave him a heads-up.

"I knew it, Ashley!"

Homelander's image disappeared for two minutes, and then smoothly rejoined the video conference.

"Yeah, it should be done now, right?"

Homelander smiled at Qi Mu again and asked.

"Yes, I feel much better now."

Qi Mu and Nanzi both nodded.

When Rohrner, who was sitting on the sofa, saw that Homelander and Qi Mu had arrived, he spoke up.

"So, Mr. Homelander, is there anything you want to ask?"

The video conference was initiated by Homelander.

"Hey, Rolner, could you please not interrupt my greeting with my best friend Qi Mu?"

Homelander glared at Rorna on his screen with displeasure.

The latter rolled his eyes.

"Uh, John, I'd also like to know why we're having a three-person meeting."

Qi Mu also raised his hand and asked curiously.

"Oh! Of course, that's how it should be."

The impatient expression on the man's face vanished instantly, replaced by a pair of sincere, azure eyes.

"The main thing is, uh, well, Qi Mu, there's something I haven't told you. Actually, like you, I'm a superhuman created through Wot's experiments."

Nanzi's gaze was somewhat unfocused, her peripheral vision falling on Qi Mu sitting next to her.

"And my biological father, the soldier boy, was recently found by storm in a Russian laboratory."

Homelander skipped over more details about his experiences in the lab back then, not wanting his own repressive and dark experiences to affect Qi Mu.

He brought up the topic directly to his father—the soldier boy.

"Soldier Boy...Benjamin?"

Qi Mu asked the man from the motherland.

A look of surprise flashed across Homelander's face. He turned to look at Rolner, who rolled his eyes.

"How many times have I told you? How could a mere old popsicle like Ququ possibly pose a threat to Qi Mushen?"

Rorna's words made Qi Mu and Nanzi, who were sitting in front of the TV, feel a little embarrassed.

"Actually, a little bit..."

Qi Mu scratched his head.

"No, didn't you say the soldier boy didn't meet with Qi Mu?"

"It definitely doesn't exist in this world, but I've seen it in another world."

Rolner's eyes, hidden behind his gold-rimmed glasses, seemed somewhat unfocused.

He wasn't lying.

Homelander asked about Benjamin in this world, not about the other world.

"What the hell is this other world...?"

Homelander took a deep breath, feeling somewhat out of place with the rest of the meeting.

Is it because I missed too much of Saiki's childhood?

Fortunately, he has excellent emotional management skills.

"So, Saiki went to Kusunoki's world, and met a soldier boy there?"

He tried to sort out his thoughts and asked.

Those blue eyes fell on Qi Mu and Nanzi.

Nanzi shook her head.

Her world is just a slice-of-life anime world, although there is a world-ending crisis, but he has already resolved it.

"..."

The people of the motherland have given up thinking.

"John, that's how it is."

"I am just an ordinary superhuman."

"He has many superpowers, and these superpowers are getting stronger every day, with new superpowers appearing every now and then."

This is the first time Saiki has formally introduced his superpowers to Homelander.

"Currently possessed superpowers include [telekinesis], [psychic abilities], [time reversal], [equivalent exchange], [clairvoyance]...."

Qi Mu listed over thirty superpowers in a row.

"There are also several hundred that we don't usually use."

He felt his throat was a little dry, so he stopped reciting his superpowers like he was listing dishes.

John's expression on the television screen became visibly dazed.

Those blue pupils were filled with utter bewilderment.

"Wait, so many?"

The people of the motherland tried to understand it, but found it to be somewhat difficult.

He himself possesses superpowers such as [super strength], [super hearing], [super vision], [super speed], [flight], and [laser eyes].

Now tell him that Qi Mu has more than a hundred superpowers.

"Yes, and many more were thrown into the junk pile, like the [mind reading] you asked me about before, and the [creation] from when I was a child."

Rolner, standing to the side, proudly raised his head.

That's right, this is the true god he believes in. When superpowers become powerful enough, they can change their name.

[Theocracy]

"..."

The people of the motherland were at a loss for words.

"But your physical fitness..."

"That's because I usually suppress all my superpowers with [Power Seal]. After the superpower suppressor was made, the seal was reduced considerably."

Rolner chimed in from the side.

"Homelander, you need to understand one thing: you may indeed be the strongest superhuman in the world."

"But Qi Mu, he is the strongest god in this world."

This can be considered a confession.

Actually, the main problem lies with Homelander; he never asked Saiki how many kinds of superpowers he actually possessed.

Telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, time travel...

He originally thought that Qi Mu's superpowers were all there were. Even if there were a few more, they shouldn't be piled up all over the storage room, right?

"Then, just a month ago? The day before you took me to visit Vought, a superpower that suddenly grew out of control went out of control."

"Transmigrating through the same dimension, I went to... a world where you ascended to godhood."

Nanzi, standing to the side, showed a sympathetic expression, understanding the situation.

She understands, she understands it all too well.

I was sleeping soundly in my bed the night before, and when I opened my eyes, I found myself in Antarctica with my blanket, surrounded by a group of penguins, and oh, Elizabeth was watching me.

Upon returning to the mainland, they found that nuclear war had broken out and the entire world had been destroyed.

Then that guy, Sora, hid in some corner and started fiddling with the time machine again.

It's just... well, you know.