When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace: Volume 13 [Parts 1 to 4] by Kota Nozomi

Author:Kota Nozomi
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Light Novel, partial, satire, high school, anime, superpowers, comedy, otaku, slice of life, weak protagonist, chuuni, inou battle, reference humor
Publisher: J-Novel Club (generated)

World Alight Route: The End

Chapter 2: In the Beforemath of the Battle’s Aftermath

“Innocent Onlooker: the power of premature disclosure,” Sagami said before launching into an extended exposition dump about the nature of his ability.

He’d only just awakened to it moments before, but he already had a perfect grasp of how it functioned...which wasn’t much of a surprise at all, really. I’d had an intuitive understanding of how Dark and Dark worked back when I’d awakened to it as well, even before I’d actually tried using it. The knowledge had sort of just manifested in my mind. It hadn’t been the deepest or most specific of information, but it was enough to give me a general grasp of how my power functioned and what it was capable of.

“To put it simply, it’s the power of precognition. I can’t use it to see people’s futures, though—instead, Innocent Onlooker allows me to make other people have visions of their own future.”

So, it lets you give other people foresight?

“That’s right! Anyone except myself.”

Huuuh...

“Let me guess: you’re thinking that sounds pretty pointless, right? Ha ha ha... Yeah, can relate. I was all ‘What kind of lame-ass power is that?’ at first...but when I took a moment to think about it, I realized that there are a surprising number of ways to make use of it,” Sagami continued. “Here’s an example for you, Andou: you know how whenever a precognitive character shows up in a supernatural battle manga or anime, their visions of the future usually turn out to be wrong in the end? It’d almost be more of a surprise if their predictions didn’t end up missing the mark, and everyone knows it from the moment they’re introduced. Sometimes it feels like they’re put in the story just for the sake of being wrong, doesn’t it?”

I mean, yeah, I guess.

I got what Sagami was trying to say. Characters with precognitive powers spurring the main character into action by predicting a hopeless future for them to avert was a very common trope. The character with foresight would predict that somebody was going to die, or some horrible cataclysm would occur, but in the end, the main characters would usually rally together and beat the odds to make sure that the terrible future they’d been warned about doesn’t come to pass.

“So, precognitive characters are put into stories to make predictions that end up being wrong, and precognitive powers almost never give characters visions that are guaranteed to come true. My power falls into that category as well—it doesn’t have a hundred percent hit rate. I haven’t exactly tested it, so I don’t have any hard numbers to give you, but I can tell that it’s not perfect intuitively. In fact, it might be more accurate for me to describe it as a power of intentionally imperfect precognition.”

Intentionally imperfect? Meaning that your predictions being flawed is a feature?

“Right. It gives me the ability to give other people precognitive visions, and I don’t need their permission to do it. As long as they’re within my power’s range, I can force my visions on people.

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