World Record Chapter 7

TL note: Apparently I mistranslated Iwato's best friend's name. It's not Kota but it's Eita.

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A shoulder length brown hair, top is a white jersey and bottom is a bloomer for some reason. She's also wearing a quite long blue coat, and she's sleeping in the cardboard.

[N....Nnn? Faaaaa, good morning!]

She woke up.

Then she look towards Iwato with her sleepy eyes--she opened her eyes wide when she saw his chest, and started to look around restlessly.

Although this is only known by the government higher ups and a small amount of people, the Unknowns have the ability to see the size of the soul of a person.

Iwato knows about Humanoid Unknowns from a certain circumstances. Therefore, it can be perceived that those who didn't anticipate that they will be seen through are Unknowns, and they will either show impatience or they will attack.

However, the girl doesn't have such a face. Although she may be concealing it in her mind, Iwato doesn't consider that this girl has the brain to do it.

[I'm not particularly a ghost. If I say that I'm powerless, you should know what I'm saying, right?]

In the first place, an Unknown won't be thrown away in such a place. Above all, there's no way an elite that infiltrate until here would be an idiot.

However--the girl doesn't let him.

Iwato was stopped by the girl who pulled his coat.

[W-Wait! Isn't this where you feel pity on me and pick me up?]

[Why are you being polite suddenly!?]

It's a complete lie.

Although she may be the exchange student that Nakajima-sensei said, she said that the exchange student will come in either Saturday or Sunday. There's no way the exchange student will be abandoned in such a place at Friday night.

[Anyway, I have no obligation to pick up a stranger. There's a hotel nearby, so just stay there]

Iwato said so and points at the hotel.

He said those words with such thoughts, but--

[No way! After all, I only brought 2 days of lodging expenses, the reward for the place I'm going to stay at and a little food expenses from Sendai! I'm out of money all because I reached here one day earlier]

--Iwato hardened by those words.

In addition to that, this brown hair and the superpower's crest on the back of her left hand.

The exchange student will stay in the hotel during the weekends. Everything is according to the information, and Iwato said this unintentionally.

[You... Don't tell me that you're the exchange student from Sendai's Force Academy?]

What returned was her consent.

[But still, is it alright? Didn't you say that no pets are allowed in the apartment?]

[I see, that's great!]

Stupid.

After that, Iwato head to Tanaka Electric quickly and bought a refrigerator and requested a home delivery. And he decided to bring this stupid girl to his house. That's because he thinks that he don't know how to talk to her when the meet again if he decided to abandon her.

[Eh!? You're the one providing the home stay!? I'm sorry for being rude so far!]

Iwato who sees that had a wry smile thinking that [It's an exaggeration], but even if it's exaggerated, he can hold a favorable impression by her courtesy. If she were to say something rude while laughing, she would be blown off to the moon.

She bowed her head and when she raised her face, she started to introduced herself while smiling.

[I'm Komauchi Karen, a one-sixteenth! Roughly a Japanese!]

--One sixteenth.

[Well, a child of a foreigner and a Japanese is a half. Next is a quarter, then one-eighth, and then one-sixteenth!]

--So one out of eight is called one-eighth....

If it's only half and quarter, Iwato had heard of those before and even seen those before.

When they talked about such things, Iwato was interested on why Karen can see souls.

[Come to think of it, Komauchi-san, you seem to be able to see souls, but that's not what a normal human can do, right?]

Then, Karen's shoulder twitched and her eyes opened wide.

[I-I'm surprised... I can't believe that Nagumo-san knows that I can see souls... Or rather, how you know that I'm looking at the soul? As expected, you're a ghost, right? And also, you can just call me Karen]

[Hee! According to rumors, there's only one person in the world, but as expected, as much as you don't have superpowers, you're other ability is terrific]

A person without superpowers is just an ordinary person who has not powers, but there's no way to proof it to Karen or to the world. After all, Iwato is the only one in the world.

She thinks that this is something that must be kept as a secret, but this person doesn't have a bad presence and above all, there's no sign of him lying. That he is a person that she can trust. Even if Karen is an idiot, she's an idiot that thinks well.

[If you promise to not tell anyone, then I can tell you about it]

Iwato nods.

[I...I'm actually a Mahou Shoujo]

M-Mahou Shoujo? Did this person said Mahou Shoujo just now? Calling herself a Mahou Shoujo... Is her brain alright? Iwato has already abandoned to trust her.

[W-Wait a minute. If I remember correctly, your superpower is [Wound Water], right? Something like Mahou Shoujo...]

Iwato can see through a person's lie just by hearing it and looking at the person. That's why, he guided her to here without seeing her status, but this girl seriously thinks that she is a Mahou Shoujo.

[Why are you looking at me pitifully? I'm real! I'm really the same Mahou Shoujo as the one shown in the television!]

Apparently, she's a regrettable girl who's convinced so but it seems to be wrong. Or she may really be convinced that she is.

[Average size. In other words, about the size of a head!]

That is splendid. Iwato guessed the size from the man's footwork and physique, and it was about the same. Saying it in Battle Rank, the man will be around 5-7.

[Then, that person]

[Then, there]

[... How about that one?]

It doesn't mean that Iwato can see souls. Therefore, what he can do at most is estimate it from the walking technique and the result will differ if there's superpower.

When Iwato smiles in his mind, he said this while pointing his finger at his house.

[Then, what you can see there?]

Karen looks at the direction in the same way as before, and inclined her head because there's no one in the residential area--The next moment, she raised a short scream.

[Hi!? Wh-Wh-What, What's that... What's that!? What's that idiotically big soul!?]

Karen raised a scream even though it's night now.

As what said before, an ordinary person's soul is a head size, and the Battle Rank is around 5-7. As for a newbie of the Special Forces--the Battle Rank is 20 with the size of a child's height.

However--taking into account of those, Karen can only thought of one word.

There exist a huge soul that took the shape of fire that can swallow several houses wholly.

Now, how much is her Battle Rank?

Chapter end