Chapter 23 23: Confusion
The sudden eruption of flames left him at a loss. When he came to his senses, it was already too late, and the whole room was engulfed in flames.
But what surprised Ito was that even though the house was burning, he couldn't feel the heat at all, and even his clothes were intact.
He tried to reach out and touch the flame. The fireworks were like well-behaved sparrows, obediently attached to his fingertips, jumping and changing shapes as he pleased.
“This is a super power. It’s wrong!”
Ito hurried out and found that thick smoke had spread, alarm bells were blaring, people were running down the corridor, and adults and children were crying and howling continuously.
He could clearly feel that the flames of cheers seemed to be singing loudly. All the floors from his position upward were ignited and spread uncontrollably to the surroundings.
The fire came so suddenly and violently that it didn’t give people much reaction time like other fires. Many people were directly awakened by the flames in their beds and had nowhere to escape.
Ito lowered his head, pulled up his hood, put on a mask, hid his face, and ran downstairs.
When we arrived at the open space downstairs, there were already many people watching from a long distance away.
He looked back, and the apartment was like a cluster of burning roses, releasing its charming fragrance to him.
"Mr. Ito!"
Ito trembled and looked towards the place where the sound came from. It turned out to be his landlord.
His family seemed to live on the third floor, so he came down very quickly.
"Mr. Ito, it's great that you're okay!" The landlord was deeply impressed by Ito Seigang, not only because of his appearance and daily dress, but also because he also paid attention to this "fire scene white man" Dragon's deeds.
Ito felt a little guilty, wondering if the landlord saw that the flames actually started burning in his room.
However, when he looked back just now, he found that there was also thick smoke billowing from his downstairs. It should be difficult to tell at a glance which household caused the fire.
The discussion among the people around them also tended to focus on the issue of natural gas pipelines, otherwise it would not have been possible to burn so many layers at once.
"It's really too risky that I'm fine." Ito tried his best to pretend to be surviving the disaster, "But I'm injured in some places, I need to go to the hospital first."
"Okay. , OK, go quickly, don't delay." The landlord nodded, and continued to look up at the fire worriedly, mumbling, "Oh, it's gone, my house is gone."
Ito left here in a low-key manner, passing by people who were holding up their mobile phones to take pictures and marvel at the discussion.
He kept walking until he reached a park, where he gradually slowed down, covering his heart with his right hand and breathing heavily.
He knows the horror of fire.
Under that raging fire, even oxygen will become a luxury product. The high temperature will burn the whole body, and every breath will be choked by thick smoke, and the turbid gas seems to be burning the lungs.
Therefore, the people living on his floor above must be in bad luck.
In other words, he killed someone.
However, he didn’t have much sense of reality, perhaps because he didn’t witness the death of others with his own eyes.
While he was escaping from the place in a hurry, he had the self-deception of not wanting to see the dead.
Sitting on a seat in the park, with a lone streetlight next to him, he looked blankly into the distance. He could see the thick smoke rising against the blue night sky illuminated by neon lights.
There is no going back.
Now that society is so developed, when the authorities react and start investigating, they will definitely label him as an important suspect when they see the flames erupting from his house.
He doesn't have the confidence to withstand the interrogation, and he doesn't want to be caught. Otherwise, how can he explain his ability? A weirdo named the Forger gave himself a round stone, and after swallowing it, he caught fire?
He also doesn’t want to become an outlier that is studied every day. But if he wanted to hide, where could he hide?
Although he had his wallet on him, he didn’t have much cash. His face and clothing were too eye-catching, so it was impossible to escape capture.
"I think there is another ability?" Ito hesitated and tried to activate another ability according to his instinctive will.
However, compared to controlling flames, this ability does not seem to have caused any changes in him.
Only the ability that has been integrated into instinct vaguely revealed the effect to him.
Reduce the sense of presence.
A stone hat similar to Doraemon?
Glancing at a chain convenience store a little further away, he used his ability and walked towards it.
In the store, there was not a single customer. There was a woman standing at the cashier, playing with her nails out of boredom.
The doorbell rang, but she didn't even raise her head.
Ito did not control the sound of his footsteps, walked to the shelf, and picked up a bag of potato chips. The crisp plastic packaging sound sounded, and he looked straight at the woman.
Still no response.
So any movement caused by me will be ignored?
“Check out.”
The woman suddenly trembled and her body shook violently.
"Scared, scared me to death! Guest, you are walking silently!" The woman complained, patting her chest.
Ito didn’t say much and paid and settled normally.
After walking out, he threw the potato chips into the corner, walked around to make sure he was out of sight of the store clerk, and then walked back into the convenience store.
The doorbell rang again. Although the woman looked at the door, her eyes were not on Ito at all.
It seems that even if the other party is aware of his existence, the ability can be reactivated as long as he leaves the other party's sight.
The nemesis of this ability is talking on his own initiative, touching others, and... He raised his head and glanced at the monitor.
After testing his abilities, he formatted his cell phone, threw it into the park's pool, and wandered around aimlessly in some sparsely monitored areas.
Now, he has no idea what to do with his superpowers.
If possible, he only hopes to use this switch to return to his parents.
Shiraishi Hang, who has been paying attention to him, is a little disappointed. Ito Seigang is his first attempt at a carefully selected symbiosis target.
Both his parents died, his face was disfigured, he was in pain, his girlfriend broke up, and the child he saved grew crooked. It was a tragic template, and as he expected, such a painful experience made his subconscious extremely regretful, and he could only Relying on self-anesthesia to suppress it, and then when he revealed the reality in a bloody manner, Ito Seigang finally could no longer avoid his subconscious. The negative emotions exploded in an instant, directly mutating into the superpower that Shiraishi Ko thinks is most like a superpower.
【Burning】
Can control flames; the body and even clothes will not be accidentally injured by flames; the more combustible objects nearby, the greater the fire intensity, and the greater the power.
There is even a passive ability that Ito Seigo doesn't even know about.
[Firework Knight]
Give control of the body to negative emotions, the [burning] ability is increased tenfold, the body is transformed into the element of fire, immune to all physical attacks, and can instantly appear in a 100-diameter Any flame within the sensing range.
The veritable blackening is ten times stronger.
(End of this chapter)