August 31, 12:00 PM.
Kamijou and Mikoto walked to the main road, discussing what to do next about Unabara.
"Alright, what do you plan to do now? Do you want to continue the act? Or do you want to give it up?"
"…Sigh, what do you think we should do?"
"I'm planning to withdraw from the act. There's really no point in continuing. And anyway, Unabara's not the kind of person you think he is, right? Even if he's rejected, he wouldn't be angry at you."
"Maybe so, but recently he changed; it's like he's a different person… Anyway, why are you helping him? What happened?"
"Nothing much, just asked him for some help on my homework."
Mikoto frowned, so Kamijou passed the old Japanese homework over for her to have a look. After Unabara's help, most of them were correctly answered.
But after Mikoto took a look, her expression became serious.
"Indeed… the answers are correct."
"Hmm? What are you trying to say?"
"Was he this smart? From what I remember, he shouldn't be this good."
"What? But he got the correct answer, didn't he?"
"Mm… His grades at school are indeed top of the class… but his ability is Level 4 Telekinesis, a kind of unseen power that can control objects from a distance."
"Does that have anything to do with his grades?"
"Of course it does." Mikoto crossed her arms and said, "According to that nosy Shirai Kuroko's behind-the-scenes investigations, he actually got his grades through cheating. His method is to put a thin layer of his ability on the computer screen for the exam, feel the minute heat and radiation, and reverse-engineer the correct answer… Simply put, it's like a stethoscope. So, his grades and his knowledge have no connection."
"Uwaa…" Kamijou was speechless. He had heard of a special kind of machine that could measure the slight magnetic field released to decode the electronic flow of information. But for a human to be able to achieve the same thing really surprised Kamijou.
"How come you can just stand there and say it like it's nothing special?"
"It's not that rare, is it? As an Electromaster myself, I can do similar things—for example, stealing information from a credit card's magnetic strip."
Looking at Mikoto saying it as if it was nothing special, the Level 0 Kamijou Touma could only choose to keep silent.