Chapter 23: Confused

The sudden eruption of fire left him at a loss as to what to do. By the time he came to his senses, it was too late and the entire room was engulfed in flames.

But what surprised Ito was that even though the house was burning, he didn't feel the heat at all, and even his clothes were intact.

He tried to reach out and touch the flame, and the firework was like a well-behaved bird, clinging to his fingertips obediently, dancing and changing shapes as he wished.

"This is. A superpower. No!"

Ito hurried out and found that the smoke had spread. The alarm was ringing and people were running down the stairs. Adults and children were crying and screaming.

He could clearly feel that the cheering flames seemed to be singing loudly. All the floors above him were ignited and spread uncontrollably in all directions.

The fire came too suddenly and too violently. Unlike other fires, it did not give people any time to react. Many people were woken up by the flames in their beds and had nowhere to escape.

Ito lowered his head, pulled up his hood, put on a mask to hide his face, and ran downstairs.

When we arrived at the open space downstairs, there were already many people watching from a distance.

He looked back and looked up. The apartment was like a bunch of burning roses, releasing charming fragrance to him.

"Mr. Ito!"

Ito trembled and looked towards the place where the sound came from. It turned out to be his landlord.

It seemed that he lived on the third floor, so he came down very quickly.

"Mr. Ito, I'm so glad that you're okay!" The landlord had a deep impression of Ito Seigo, not only because of his appearance and his daily dress, but also because he had paid attention to the deeds of this 'White Dragon of Fire'.

Ito felt a little guilty, wondering if the landlord had noticed that the fire actually started from his room.

However, when he looked back just now, he found that there was thick smoke billowing out of the floor downstairs, and it was difficult to tell at a glance which household caused the fire.

The discussion among the people around also tended to be about the problem of the natural gas pipeline, otherwise it would be impossible for so many floors to burn at once.

"I'm fine. It was a close call." Ito tried his best to pretend that he had survived a disaster. "But I'm injured in some places. I need to go to the hospital first."

"Okay, okay, hurry up and don't delay." The landlord nodded, and continued to look up at the fire with worry, muttering, "Oh, it's gone, my house is gone."

Ito left the place in a low-key manner, passing by the crowd who were holding up their mobile phones, taking pictures, and discussing in amazement.

He kept walking like this until he reached a park, then he gradually slowed down, covered his heart with his right hand, and gasped violently.

He knew the horror of a fire.

Under such a raging fire, even oxygen becomes a luxury. The high temperature burns the whole body, and every breath is choked by the thick smoke. The turbid gas seems to burn the lungs.

Therefore, people who live on the floors above him are bound to be in great danger.

In other words, he killed someone.

But he didn't feel much of it, perhaps because he had never witnessed the death of others with his own eyes.

As he hurriedly fled the place, he might as well have been deceiving himself by not wanting to see the dead.

Sitting on a bench in the park, next to a lonely street lamp, he looked blankly into the distance. In the night sky illuminated blue by the neon lights, he could see thick smoke rising.

There's no going back.

Society is so developed now. When the authorities react and start investigating, they will definitely list him as a key suspect when they see the fire starting from his own house.

He didn't have the confidence to survive the interrogation, and he didn't want to be caught, otherwise how could he explain his abilities? A weirdo called the Fake gave him a round stone, and after swallowing it, he caught fire?

He didn't want to be an outlier who was studied every day. But if he wanted to hide, where could he hide?

Although he had his wallet with him, it did not contain much cash. His face and clothes were too conspicuous, so there was no way he could escape capture.

"I seem to have another ability?" Ito hesitated, and tried to activate another ability according to his instinctive will.

However, compared to manipulating fire, this ability did not seem to have caused any changes to him.

Only the ability that had become his instinct vaguely revealed its effect to him.

Reduce your presence.

Similar to Doraemon’s stone hat?
After looking at a convenience store chain a little further away, he used his ability and walked towards it.

There was no customer in the store. A woman was standing at the cashier counter, playing with her nails out of boredom.

The doorbell rang, but she didn't even look up.

Ito didn't control his footsteps as he walked to the shelf and picked up a bag of potato chips. The crisp sound of plastic packaging was heard and he looked straight at the woman.

Still no response.

So will all the noise caused by myself be ignored?
"Bill, please."

The woman suddenly shuddered and her body shook violently.

"I'm so scared! Can you please walk quietly, sir?" the woman complained, patting her chest.

Ito didn't say anything more and paid the bill as usual.

After walking out, he threw the potato chips into the corner, walked around to make sure he was out of the clerk's sight, and then walked back into the convenience store.

The doorbell rang again. Although the woman looked at the door, her eyes were not on Ito at all.

It seems that even if the other party is aware of his presence, he can reactivate his ability as long as he leaves the other party's sight.

The nemesis of this ability is speaking on your own initiative, touching others, and... He raised his head and glanced at the monitor.

After experimenting with his abilities, he formatted his phone, threw it into a pond in the park, and then wandered aimlessly in places with little surveillance.

Now he has no idea what to do with his super powers.

If possible, he only hopes to exchange this for his parents.

Shiraishi Kou, who had been keeping an eye on him, was a little disappointed. Ito Makoto was the first symbiotic target he had carefully selected.

Both parents died, he was disfigured, he was sick, his girlfriend broke up with him, and the child he saved grew crooked. It was a tragic template, and just as he expected, such a painful experience made his subconscious mind extremely regretful, and he could only rely on self-anesthesia to suppress it. Then, when he bloody revealed the reality, Ito Makoto could no longer avoid his subconscious mind. The negative emotions exploded in an instant, and he directly mutated into the superpower that Shiraishi Hang currently believes is most like a superpower.

【combustion】

Can manipulate flames; the body and even clothes will not be accidentally damaged by flames; the more flammable materials nearby and the bigger the fire, the greater the power.

There's even a passive ability that Ito Makoto himself doesn't know about.

【Firework Knight】

Give control of the body to negative emotions, and the [Burn] ability will be increased tenfold. The body will become fire elemental, immune to all physical attacks, and can instantly appear in any flame within the perception range of 100 meters in diameter.

The blackening is literally ten times stronger.

(End of this chapter)