“Are we about to do the sorting?”
 
“What are you talking about? the sorting was already done.”
 
“Well, yes, that’s true… but the visual is completely that thing where they decide which of four houses you belong to…”
 
“Four houses…? What are you talking about?”
 
Playing dumb, I see.
 
“Anyway, let’s begin. Sit in that chair and put on the hat.”
 
“…”
 
Though unconvinced, I sit in the chair as told and try to put on the ha—
 
“Alright, that’s enough.”… Read more

 
At the same time, I felt as if the temperature in the classroom suddenly dropped. Well, it was already freezing cold because of Tachibana-sensei to begin with. I mean it got even colder than before. There was no mistaking it, given that the applause that had always occurred after every self-introduction until now didn’t happen at all after his.
 
Why?—Just as I was wondering about this, from somewhere toward the front seats, I clearly heard someone mutter “An outsider, huh.”… Read more

Chapter 1: How I Became a Mob Character

I suddenly skipped over the first-year arc and became a second-year student, but I’ll give a digest version of the first-year arc.
 
April—I made one friend. The end.
 
That’s not just the end of April—that’s the end of the entire first-year arc. I’m serious.
 
Of course, being a school where supernatural powers exist as a matter of course, there were plenty of things I saw and experienced for the first time.… Read more

Prologue

“Watarigaya, Yukiharu, you possess a special power.”

It was summer during my third year of junior high, when my future path was starting to solidify.

For me—caught up in that uniquely troublesome adolescent stubbornness, convinced I was nothing special, just another cog in society’s machine—those words were pure hope.

Special powers—magic, psychic abilities, memories of past lives—any healthy adolescent boy would undoubtedly yearn for them at least once. Of course, I was no exception. A man who suddenly visited my home declared that I, too, possessed such unique abilities.… Read more