001 | (accidental) voice

[railgunning]

[There's the sounds of a scuffle---with a girl's voice cursing and complaining about 'stupid idiots, I'm not handing over my marques or whatever the money here's called! I told that little girl I'd buy her some bread!' ---when the tablet's voice feed suddenly clicks on:]

Okay, now let me get this straight. We're supposed to be soldiers, off fighting this war, right? So tell me this---

[The girl speaking quickly grunts as she dodges the thugs' attacks. The sounds of her footsteps make a scurrying noise as if she quickly backpedaled away. Afterward, she takes a deep, irritated breath.]

---isn't part of our job supposed to be keeping the peace? Why are there still moron thugs running around?

[After she poses this inquiry, there's the sound of electricity cracking, and the tablet suddenly shuts off.]



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[railgunning]

Means I'm the strongest.

[She rolls her eyes, huffing. The one good thing about this was that Pidonus was at least a stranger, so she wouldn't fawn and preen over Mikoto like she were royalty----because Mikoto really, really found that awkward more than anything. Nevermind annoying.]

But I had to work to get to that point. Still...magic? Like magic as in...spells?

[Guess that kind of explained the 'bard' thing. Mikoto frowns. Mages, however, were written off as more or less an urban legend back home---and weren't particularly viewed in a positive light for some reason in spite of that.

But now she's curious. Mikoto gets up from the railing she was leaning on, putting her hands on her hips.]

What kind of spells can you do?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Yeah. Where I'm from, 5 is a quarter of the way up the "standard" range. I'm a couple levels past that range.

And, yeah. Spells. I get a mix of enchantments, illusions, and bits and pieces from most other schools, in addition to my Bardic Music talents, which aren't technically magical. They call on a slightly more primal power, thus why they can inspire courage and then also make your weapons or fists hit harder and channel enough lightning to stun most species of element.

[railgunning]

Huh...then magic's way more complicated than psychic abilities.

[Mikoto scratches her head. No wonder people are so paranoid about it back home. It sounded dangerous, even more so than her own powers, and she was one of the few Level 5 Espers in existence.]

So...basically, by playing music...you stir up emotions, which strengthens someone else's power. That is pretty interesting.

[She looks back to the orphanage.]

The Initiative really will take what they can get, huh? With so many different people with different powers, you'd think they'd have won by now. [She grumbles a bit.] Unless these United Earth guys are really that powerful?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... They are. Which is the scary part.

[railgunning]

[Mikoto stares. Pidonus didn't seem to be exaggerating.]

On a scale of one to ten...how strong would you consider them?

[have_hat_will_travel]

Where I'm from, the scale would be their Effective Encounter Level. I'm rated 22 by that scale, and just one squad out of an army of untold millions would be somewhere in the fifties.

A Demon Lord or Middle Deity could probably take them head-on, but we don't stand a chance.