Kiana thought Noldrei was messing with people.
She pulled Noldrei, urging him to leave those two teenagers.
She had come out to have fun, not to watch Noldrei trick people. Noldrei was still somewhat reluctant, but he kept his promise to the crown princess.
He remembered that he was supposed to be playing 'Dad' today, and was responsible for letting his crown princess relive her childhood.
Kiana saw that one of the teenagers clearly started believing Noldrei's 'human religious history.' She had to drag Noldrei away from this 'preaching' place.
It just so happened that Noldrei was speaking very seriously, talking about various religious figures with ease, even finding related historical pictures.
This was quite effective. His words were full of persuasive power, quickly making Miyuki Shirogane give up on the idea of finding relevant knowledge from religious myths.
And Miyuki Shirogane, whose mind had become slightly clearer, realized that he might have encountered an Esper in action. But Noldrei had already been pulled away, so he couldn't find anyone to ask.
"Hikigaya, do you think what I encountered that night was a so-called Esper? Was it because their power was too strong that I was affected?"
Miyuki Shirogane finally recovered and even put down his novel.
Hachiman Hikigaya was stunned, he hadn't dared to say a word just now.
Because he had indeed seen this person descend from the sky, even bringing other people down with him.
He was afraid of angering him by saying too much.
That feeling was truly like facing a god, no, not quite a god.
If Hachiman Hikigaya was facing a powerful politician, someone who could control his life and death, he would also instinctively feel fear and become timid and cautious.
"I don't know… But I don't think it's a good thing."
Hachiman Hikigaya sighed, pressing his trembling knees with his hands, and said, "I'm just grateful that that being only appears at night, where there are fewer people. If he appeared in the city during the day and started fighting with another being, like cleaning the sky that day…"
"Do you think we would even be able to sit here like this and think about such things?"
"Even the Japan government obediently follows their instructions, ignoring public opinion to conscript us all here."
Miyuki Shirogane was stunned when he heard this.
Shirogane said with a complicated expression, "So, I was closest to those people that night?"
"Not necessarily…" Hachiman Hikigaya wanted to say something, but didn't know how to phrase it.
'Just now, just now, you were closest to them just now! He was even telling you not to believe in superstitions, not to believe in those nonsensical religious stories!'
Hachiman Hikigaya felt obligated to tell Miyuki Shirogane. But thinking of his own precarious situation, he didn't know what good it would do, even if he told him.
"Shirogane, do you think… it's possible… that these people are pretending to be ordinary people during the day, appearing right next to us?"
Hachiman Hikigaya carefully reminded Miyuki Shirogane.
"Huh? Are they that bored?"
Miyuki Shirogane thought it was unlikely. Were these important figures really that bored?
"What if they are?"
Hachiman Hikigaya was anxious, those people were so bored that they went to the sky to fight each other. It wasn't impossible for them to dress up as ordinary people and walk among them.
"........."
Miyuki Shirogane wondered if something was wrong with his friend. But then he thought about it. All the people who had come here had been given 'special treatment' by the Japan government, so it was only natural that they were a bit sensitive.
He nodded in agreement, saying, "You're right, that incident in the sky last time, although I don't know what kind of weapon caused it. But I think the people who can do that kind of thing must be very bored."
Miyuki Shirogane agreed with Hachiman Hikigaya. Although he had temporarily abandoned the idea of finding answers from religion, he couldn't change his current unfavorable environment.
'Was that even a weapon? Couldn't that just be their power?'
Hachiman Hikigaya didn't really believe it was a weapon.
'Speaking of which, is that cute little girl really his daughter? Could she also be a strange being like the mini-sun?'
Hikigaya was terrified. He thought that just one of these beings was enough.
But he hadn't expected to see another one today.
Perhaps they were really father and daughter. Perhaps there wasn't just one mini-sun.
'Why? Could there be a third one? A fourth? More than ten? Hundreds?'
'Are the ones ruling our Earth really humans?'
As Hachiman Hikigaya was pondering, a strange woman approached them.
"Are you… also those who have been granted authority by Lord God?"
The woman seemed somewhat strange, her face full of fanaticism and excitement. She stared intently at them as she approached.
Hachiman Hikigaya and Miyuki Shirogane felt a chill down their spines, as if they were facing some kind of non-human entity.
'.........'
Hachiman Hikigaya and Miyuki Shirogane exchanged a glance, then immediately stood up and said, "No, we don't know this 'Lord God' you're talking about. We still have work to do, we'll talk later."
Hachiman Hikigaya grabbed Miyuki Shirogane and quickly left.
His heart was pounding wildly.
As he was being dragged away by Hachiman Hikigaya, Miyuki Shirogane subconsciously looked back at the woman.
The woman was still staring at them.
A sense of inexplicable dread filled Miyuki Shirogane's heart.
"My book! My book fell back there!"
Miyuki Shirogane suddenly remembered the book he had just bought was still there, he hadn't even read much of it.
"Forget about that damn book! Let's go!"
Hachiman Hikigaya didn't want to stay here any longer. He felt Nagazora City was becoming increasingly strange.
He walked so fast that it was almost like he was running.
Nakamura didn't try to stop them when she saw them leave.
She vaguely remembered that 'Lord God' had white hair and his voice.
She couldn't find the one who changed her sex with just these vague memories.
The scene where her female reproductive organs were pulled out had given Nakamura a huge mental shock.
Such tremendous power, and those incomprehensible words of power…
The original Nakamura Shin wasn't a medical professional, nor had he received proper medical education. But after seeing that scene, Nakamura frantically wanted to learn about human anatomy.
Nakamura instinctively pursued that great power capable of modifying the body.
'The Raiden family is closely related to the establishment of this Academy City. That means Lord God must also be watching everything here.'
This was the only information that Nakamura knew.
Noldrei, to protect the mental state of the primitives, had made sure that he didn't see what he looked like.
But precisely because the protection was too good, he only remembered the vague and strange feeling.
They were lucky, they had encountered the being they happened to be curious about.
And they were even luckier that Kiana just wanted to have fun today, so she had successfully persuaded Noldrei to stop 'infecting' other people with his ideologies.