Leaving aside Yukino's thoughts for now.
The moment Hayashi put the husky's headgear on 096, the sound of the Golden Finger rang out.
[Congratulations to the host for successfully containing SCP-096—The Shy Guy.]
[Drawing ability...]
[Congratulations on acquiring the ability: Super Perception]
[Super Perception: A tracking ability almost like a causality law. As long as someone has seen your face, whether through a painting, photo, or video... you can perceive them regardless of distance.]
'Super Perception? Not bad.'
Hayashi was quite satisfied with this ability. After all, 096's strongest abilities were this and its indestructible bones.
As for its other abilities, like speed and defense, while they could strengthen his basic attributes, he wasn't in urgent need of them.
After all, it would just mean gambling his life a few more times.
And for him, who could reload, life was the least of his worries.
However, compared to the indestructible bones, Hayashi still felt Super Perception was better. After all, 096's indestructible bones could resist Yukino's Judgment rule.
Perhaps it could also resist his Gambling Authority.
In that case, not being able to die would be a weakening for Hayashi.
As for the Super Perception ability... after acquiring this ability, Hayashi immediately tried it. Instantly, he felt his consciousness being pulled into a higher dimension.
Countless red dots floated in his mind.
'A dimension of observation—it seems I can do this...'
With a thought, the dimension shifted, and a blue planet appeared in Hayashi's mind, with sparse red dots appearing on it.
Most of them were in Japan. As Hayashi focused his consciousness on the most concentrated red dots.
Hayashi soon saw —
Inside Sobu High School.
Hiratsuka Shizuka-sensei was in the principal's office. The principal held a document from the Paranormal Management Bureau, stating that Hayashi was attending academic training and wouldn't be at school often.
He saw Yuigahama Yui and her normie group singing about youth.
He saw Hachiman Hikigaya chatting and eating with Totsuka Saika... These red dots were all students from Sobu High School who had seen Hayashi's face.
Then some were near the Paranormal Management Bureau.
There were soldiers, investigators, agents... And then... it seemed someone was talking about him.
The location was Kyoto.
The person was Elysia.
Following Hayashi's perception.
A girl with soft, long, pink hair like a spring peach forest, a pair of blue-pink eyes filled with starlight and smiles, a perpetual smile on her lips, and dressed in a white and pink interwoven dress, appeared in his perception.
At this moment, she seemed to be dealing with a traditional urban legend from Japan, seemingly the Slit-Mouthed Woman, who had already been pinned to the ground by Elysia, unable to move.
Beside her was another equally beautiful and holy girl.
Under the M-shaped silver hair ornament, her golden hair was dazzling and beautiful, and her armored monastic robe made her look like a battle saintess.
She was Jeanne d'Arc, the Heroic Spirit from Type-Moon.
Not the purely historical French savior saintess, but a fantasy-Department Heroic Spirit saintess, with history as her foundation and faith as her aid.
It's her... are they talking about me?
Such a doubt flashed through Hayashi's mind.
Then he perceived their conversation.
"Jeanne ♪~~ Look, the Anomaly Control Division has a new recruit!"
Elysia held Hayashi's file and leaned towards Jeanne to share it.
"Elysia, you're too close!"
Jeanne, unable to bear Elysia's enthusiasm, said awkwardly.
"Hehe~ it's normal for girls to be close ♪."
Elysia ignored Jeanne's faint resistance and said with a smile.
"And let me tell you, this new recruit is very special!"
"Hmm!?"
Elysia's words caught Jeanne's attention. There weren't many people in the bureau she would call special. Jeanne looked at Elysia with a puzzled expression.
"How to put it~~"
Tapping her red lips with her index finger, Elysia pondered for a moment, seemingly organizing her thoughts, then continued.
"It's just that I have a feeling that I've known him for a long time... I feel like I've been on a very long journey with him, on a battleship...?
But when I think about it carefully, I don't have such a memory. I just feel a sense of familiarity... a sense of nostalgia... and also..."
At this point, Elysia mischievously paused.
Making Jeanne give a helpless smile and cooperate by asking.
"And what else, beautiful Miss Elysia?"
"Resentment!!! Intense resentment!!!!"
Her fair slender hands on her waist, amidst layers of blue and pink gauze, starlight and crystal flowers shimmered. Elysia tried hard to put on an angry expression.
But her lively and amiable pretty face clearly lacked intimidating power.
Making Jeanne not find her scary but rather cute, causing Her Holiness the Saintess to laugh out loud.
"It's the first time I've seen you make such an expression, Elysia. Why do I feel like you've been abandoned?"
"Hmph hmph!!! I, Elysia ♪, would never be abandoned!
I'm the cutest girl!
But, Hayashi, right! Although I don't know what this resentment is about, this young lady has noted it down! Hehe~~♪"
"Haha, let me see, who is this Hayashi who can make our Miss Elysia angry? That's something no one else can do!"
Saying that, Jeanne took Hayashi's file and looked at it. And when she first saw Hayashi's photo... she fell silent.
"What's wrong, Jeanne? Why did you suddenly stop talking?"
"Elysia, to be honest, I also feel a sense of familiarity with him, as if we've experienced many unforgettable adventures together..."
"Ha~~ Could his photo have some kind of mental contamination or charm effect?"
Elysia asked suspiciously.
"Probably not..."
Jeanne shook her head. As a Saintess, her resistance to mental contamination and charm was very high. She was absolutely certain that what Elysia gave her was an ordinary document.
But this sense of familiarity... "I feel like we might be receiving residual memories from parallel world counterparts... but I'm not clear on the more specific details..."
Jeanne said thoughtfully. After all, in the Type-Moon world, there were countless parallel worlds, and as a Heroic Spirit, she was very clear about those concepts.
"Parallel worlds, counterparts~~ I see! Hehe—!"
Elysia nodded in sudden realization, and the final sneer, of course, was for Hayashi.
After all, Elysia from a parallel world is still Elysia!
... Withdrawing his perception, Hayashi couldn't help but show a troubled expression. He probably guessed what Jeanne and Elysia didn't understand.
After all, he used to be a Master and a Captain... it's just that before he transmigrated, due to various circumstances, he hadn't logged into the game for a long time... so he understood the girls' resentment very well, so much so that his teeth ached.
'I've basically been resented by my direct superior!'
'Elysia won't make things difficult for me, will she!'
He had a bad premonition; the girls' resentment was a bit terrifying.
Then Hayashi perceived the other scattered red dots again.
He found that these people were all high-ranking ordinary people from various countries.
There seemed to be very few transcendent beings like Elysia and Jeanne... 'Huh~! Is the Paranormal Management Bureau's information security that weak? Information is like a sieve!'
'The power of this world doesn't seem as strong as I thought...
If that's the case, I could totally establish my own organization!
Or perhaps learn from the Emperor…'
Editor's Notes:
(つ╥﹏╥)つ Forgive me… I hurt my hand and consume something bad… Even when dealing with a stomachache, my phone's battery is dead…