Originally, Red Ponytail wanted to let Louise take a rest for a night before studying, but Louise kept pestering her. In desperation, Red Ponytail had to take Louise out of the room and to a secluded open space behind the school. At this time, Louise could no longer wait.
"So, how do we learn the thing called Psionic Energy?"
Louise seemed excited and a little uneasy at the moment. She was excited because she had finally found the reason why she couldn't release magic. But she was uneasy because she hadn't tried it before. What if the method provided by Saber still didn't work for her? Then what should she do?
Thinking of this, Louise became somewhat uneasy.
"Ahem, calm down, Louise."
Seeing Louise so excited, Red Ponytail called out her name directly.
"We still have to start with the basics, which is about the nature of psionic energy... Well, first of all, you should not regard psionic energy as some special existence, but imagine it as your instinct."
"……instinct?"
"That's right. When you learn magic, you imagine it in your mind, then recite the spell, and then release the magic, right?"
After watching for a whole day, Red Ponytail had almost understood the magical nature of this world, and Louise nodded.
"But psionic energy is different. The use of psionic energy... well, it's more like physical exercise than magic."
"Sports... exercise?"
"That's right. It's just like running. If you want to run faster, you have to practice. The more you practice, the faster you will run. You can control when to speed up and when to slow down. You just need to control your body... You should understand this principle."
"Well... I know that..."
Louise nodded.
"But isn't magic also innate?"
"I'm not saying that the way you use magic is wrong. After all, you can still cast magic. But psionic power is different from ordinary magic. Yes, maybe you don't understand..."
Having said that, Red Ponytail's eyes rolled.
"By the way, Louise, can you take a walk?"
"Take two steps?"
"Yes, walk from here to there, and then walk back. It's simple, right?"
"……?"
Although she didn't understand what Red Ponytail was saying, Louise still did what she was told and walked from Red Ponytail to a tree not far away, and then turned back.
"Then walk again, but this time, you have to say which foot you stepped with. If it was your left foot, you have to say left foot, and if it was your right foot, you have to say right foot."
"OK."
Louise didn't say much, but nodded again, then turned around and continued forward.
"Right foot, left foot, right foot, left foot, right... Hey? No, left foot... No? Hey? Hey?"
Louise walked normally for the first few steps, but soon she was surprised to find that she seemed to be confused. It was her left foot that should have stepped out with her right foot, or she was walking with her left hand and her left foot at the same time. Louise tried to correct it in a hurry, but she tripped and fell to the ground with a scream.
"How could this happen? I was just walking?!"
Louise sat on the ground and looked at herself blankly, totally confused as to what was going on. It was clearly just a normal walk, she was just asked to say which foot to step with, why did she suddenly feel like she couldn't walk anymore?
"Because you care too much about it. The same is true for psionic energy. It was originally something you could use instinctively, but because you cared too much about it, you lost control. So the more serious you are, the more mistakes you will make."
“No wonder…”
Hearing this, Louise also murmured and nodded. The feeling when she released magic was the same as what Red Ponytail said. At the beginning, the magic power could be controlled freely, but later it began to lose control, just like when she walked just now. The more she cared about the consistency between what she said and how she walked, the more messed up she walked, and in the end she even fell to the ground...
"Next, do as I say. Close your eyes, concentrate, and focus your magic power on your right hand... Imagine that you are holding a snowball in your hand..."
“…”
Hearing what Red Ponytail said, Louise also stood up, then she closed her eyes and began to act according to Red Ponytail's instructions.
"Very good, then hold it tightly, and then imagine that the idiot in front of you during the day is there, and throw the snowball in your hand at him!"
“Go to hell!!”
And Louise seemed to really remember Beiye's stupid face during the day when she heard what Red Ponytail said. She was so angry that she yelled and then swung her right hand forward forcefully!
Then...
"boom!!!"
"Eh? Did I fail again?"
Hearing the explosion, Louise opened her eyes hurriedly, but Red Ponytail shook her head.
"No, it worked."
"Why?"
Hearing this, Louise looked forward and was shocked.
She saw that the ground not far in front of her had collapsed due to the explosion. In the center of the collapse, a small, strange black ball was floating in it and was constantly rotating. Broken and suspended stone fragments could be seen around it.
"Rather than calling it psionic power, it's better to call it supernatural power..."
Seeing this, Red Ponytail couldn't help but think of the superpower system in the Mass Effect world. In other words, Louise's power is actually between psionic power and superpower? This is not impossible to understand. After all, her physique is different. After all, Red Ponytail also knows that Louise is the protagonist. Moreover, when she signed the contract with herself before, Red Ponytail also got the fragment of the core of the order coordinate. This means that the power in her body must be different.
"This is……"
"This is the primary mode of using psionic energy. Hmm... once you become proficient in it, you can also use other modes to attack, such as singularity, weightlessness, distortion..."
Of course, the strongest one is the mental storm.
Among the Cursed Child, Xia Shi is the best at using Psionic Storm. The range of her Psionic Storm is enough to cover one-third of America. In this world, one Psionic Storm from Xia Shi is enough to destroy a country.
"I succeeded..."
However, Louise didn't pay attention to Red Ponytail's complaints, but stared blankly at the spinning black ball, muttering to herself, then she suddenly pounced over and hugged Red Ponytail.
"SABER! I did it! I did it!"
Louise was extremely excited at the moment. She had often created explosions before, but they were just ordinary explosions. But this time was different. Although it was also an explosion, it was not caused by loss of control, but it was caused by itself! After so many years, this was the first time that Louise had truly successfully used magic! !
Well, although strictly speaking, this is not magic, but it is a super power...
"SABER, let's continue!"
"No, go back to bed."
“Hey! Why?”
"Your mental strength is insufficient. Psionic energy requires a lot of mental strength, and you have released magic many times today. Although you have not succeeded, the loss of mental strength is undoubted. If you continue, you will only fail. Anyway, now that you have found the feeling, the next step is training. Go back and rest now."
"Ugh...Okay."
Hearing the red ponytail's words, Louise nodded although she was a little reluctant. In fact, she also felt that she seemed a little tired and dizzy after releasing the magic power just now. Although she wanted to continue working hard, since she had been told to rest, Louise had to rest.
"Okay, that's enough for today. Special training will begin tomorrow!"
After saying this, Red Ponytail and Louise walked back towards the room.
Before leaving, Red Ponytail turned her head and glanced at the city wall not far away, then retracted her gaze and followed Louise away without saying a word.
Louise did not show up in the classroom for the next few days.
"Hey, do you know what Louise did?"
During the break between classes, the hot red-haired girl poked the blue-haired girl next to her. Her name was Chuluk, and she was Louise's "natural enemy," a passionate and unrestrained woman. The skinny, taciturn short-haired girl next to her was Tabatha, and Chuluk was her best friend.
Having said that, one is extroverted and hot-tempered, while the other is cold and taciturn. I don’t know why these two became good friends.
"Louise hasn't been to class for a week. I heard she took a sick leave, but I didn't see her in the dormitory."
"She's in special training."
"Special training? That Louise?"
Chuluk was somewhat surprised. Although her family and Louise's family were enemies and the relationship between the two was not very good, Chuluk knew Louise very well. Although Louise's magic release success rate was always zero, she was indeed very serious in class. In short, her attitude was impeccable, but she had no results.
But now, she doesn't even come to class?
"She was training with that girl in the back hills, and that girl seemed to have found a way to enable Louise to perform magic."
Tabatha looked at the book in her hand and replied calmly. Hearing this, Chuluk suddenly became interested. She stood up and grabbed Tabatha beside her.
"what?"
"You know where it is? Take me there! I want to see what Louise is up to!"
After saying this, Chuluk grabbed Tabatha and walked out of the classroom excitedly, while Tabatha was held by Chuluk and read a book by herself, as if it had no effect at all.
"Where?"
"To the right."
Along the way, although Tabatha did not look up, she was able to give a definite answer every time Chuluk asked for directions. Under Tabatha's guidance, Chuluk quickly came to the grove not far behind the dormitory building.
"I didn't expect to be here..."
Looking at the grove in front of her, Chuluk was somewhat surprised. This grove has always been a place where students secretly talk about love under the teachers' noses. Chuluk had been here with other people before, but she never thought that Louise would come here one day.
Although her reason for coming here had nothing to do with romance.
"That's why I said he was just a little brat who never grew up."
After complaining, Chuluk went into the woods.
Then……
"boom!!"
“Aa ...
The sudden explosion in front of her scared Chuluk. She was completely unprepared and was sprayed all over her head and face by the oncoming debris.
“Cough, cough, cough!!”
While desperately brushing off the dust on his body, Chuluk rushed across the hillside in a rage and came to the other side.
"Zero Louise!!"
"what?"
At this moment, Louise was standing behind the hillside. When she saw Chuluk coming, her face suddenly darkened.
"I should be the one asking you this question. What are you doing?"
Looking at the scenery in front of him, Chuluk didn't know what to say for a moment. Looking around, Louise was surrounded by potholes and shabby scenes caused by explosions. It looked like she had been bombed by a hundred fireballs.
"What's wrong with you? Have you finally given up on yourself and decided to turn your explosive talent into magic?"
Looking at Louise, Chuluk spoke sarcastically. According to her experience, Louise would jump out immediately when she said a few key words such as "zero" and "explosion". But this time, Louise did not jump up and down like Chuluk expected, but folded her arms and looked at her proudly.
"Yeah, what's wrong? Aren't you willing?"
"I have nothing to be unwilling about. I just...are you really okay?"
Seeing Louise's completely unmoved expression, Chuluk became a little uneasy. How could such a big change happen in just one week? Not only did she no longer get angry when others said she exploded, but she was proud of it instead of being ashamed?
Is it possible that his brain is burned out?
"What can I do?"
"No, maybe I should report it to the teacher and ask you to go for a thorough check-up..."
"My brain is fine!"
Hearing this, Louise jumped up in anger, and seeing this scene, Chuluk breathed a sigh of relief.
That's right, this is the Louise she knows.
"So what on earth are you doing?"
“Hehe…”
Hearing Chuluk's question, Louise first glanced at the red ponytail next to her, and when she saw her nod, she spoke.
"I'm practicing a whole new kind of magic!"
"Brand-new magic? But haven't you tried every kind of magic? No matter what system of magic it is, it won't work."
"So I said, a whole new kind of magic!"
Having said that, Louise waved her hand generously.
"What I am learning now is void psionic magic!"
"…What is that?"