I'm putting on a vest

After Akashi finished the line that the principal couldn't utter when the annual award was given to the three best students, Fuji and Elliot's faces turned red instantly.

Just like eating too much sweets will make you feel tired, and it will be strange to praise too much.Crash, rattan and the draft paper he was holding all fell to the ground.

Her trembling palms covered her face, but because they were shaking too much, they didn't serve as a cover, it just made people want to stare at the trembling fingertips even more.

Her lips squirmed like an octopus' mouth, but she couldn't express any words that could express her meaning. She just made a "wow" sound like a trampled hamster.

And her cheeks became redder and redder with Midorima's gaze, and at the end, she gave up with a cry, bumped away from Midorima and ran away from him.

This is exactly the same as the originally expected scene, which is the scene where he smashed open the door and escaped, but it is definitely different from the originally envisioned situation.

As Midorima thought about it, she heard the rattling sound of running from behind, the sound was very soft, and she didn't wear shoes by the way.

Then there was the sound of a soft object hitting the floor and a small cry of pain, probably from a fall.

After that, there was another sound of cloth rubbing, and I slowly got up with my hands on the floor. After a few steps, the sound of falling was heard again.

During the time when Midorima was restoring the scene in the corridor behind him according to his hearing, the sound of falling had already sounded twice.

Is this really okay?He couldn't help thinking.

Even if you are not a member of the sports club, as an ordinary person, how did you live with this sense of balance?

The source of the sound began to descend, and she finally stepped down the stairs, and her running speed became faster and faster.

The student union room is on the 7th floor, so I ran down the stairs without taking the elevator, I hope she doesn't fall down on the way.

Midorima thought, while Akashi watched Fujikazu leave.

At this time, she was no longer seen in his red eyes facing the open door, so he jumped off the table, bent down to pick up the draft papers on the ground one by one, folded them and put them in the drawer.

He turned his head to smile at Midori.

"Let's go." Akashi said.

Midorima fell in love with this composure.

On the way back, Midorima deliberately lowered her head to observe the floor, and really found that just like the heroine in a fairy tale sprinkled bread crumbs along the way as a mark when entering the forest, the floor was also scattered with water-blue particles of vines and Elliot.

There are a lot of particles gathered in some places, that should be the place where she fell.

...It turns out that those particles are really not an illusion of light and shadow, but do they really exist?

"What kind of structure is Fujiwa...?"

Midorima was shocked, and when he heard the voice echoing in the corridor, he realized that he couldn't help asking this sentence.

Now that the question came out, he decided to seek an answer.

Midorima looked to the side, Akashi can be said to be the person who knows her best in this school at present, at least other people will never be able to communicate with her normally.

Akashi didn't seem surprised by this question.

After all, everyone asks the same question when they see her.

"She's a real genius."

He just said.

"...you said that before."

"Yeah." Akashi nodded, "In the future, not only me, but many people will say it many times."

...is he serious?

Midorima thought, the word genius is too far away from reality, at most they are considered to be 'talented' in basketball, this is already a very remarkable vocabulary.

"If you want to talk about geniuses, 80.00% of people can only think of great scientists like Einstein Edison." Midorima said.

And now you say Fuji and that guy are geniuses...?

Although the scientists that appear in novels and anime also have various eccentricities, it seems that they can enter a mental hospital directly from the research institute.

"But no matter what you say about Fujikazu, it's too ridiculous."

Midorima said, remembering that from the interaction between the two just now, Akashi and her might already be friends, so he lowered his head slightly and stopped talking.

"No. Nothing. Forget it..."

"You think so."

Akashi's words didn't sound like any accusation.

"…Um."

Midori quickened his pace.

Akashi smiled.

"It's nothing, people usually think so."

That's true, and if anyone sees Vine and Elliot and thinks the girl isn't weird, then they're out of their minds.

"But she's really... um." Akashi weighed his words.

"I initially hoped that the girl would get away with it."

"You know, she's not in the right mental state to compete, and it's better to quit now than face failure later, that's what I think."

"...Is that what you told her?"

"Of course I should say it more tactfully." Akashi turned his head and smiled at him, this smile really looked like someone his age.

I'm not stupid.This kind of meaning was faintly revealed.

"But she doesn't understand." Akashi said.

"…Um."

Green Room was not surprised at all.

The particles around the vine and Elliot are like an electromagnetic wave barrier, blocking out all the things she doesn't want to know.

If you don't gather your words into a knife and pierce that barrier, you won't be able to reach her heart.

Is it because of this that the color of her eyes is so similar to the clear sea that has not been polluted?

"Then what did she say?"

"Fujika said he wanted to enter the competition."

"…want to."

Vine and Rare 'want' something.

Of course, she usually says things like 'I'm going to communicate with aliens' and 'fly in the night sky', but she's talking about it like you say you're going to a soda shop after school to get a drink , so it cannot be understood as the meaning of desire.

Thinking about it this way, Fuji and Elio, who said they wanted to be astronauts when they first entered school, might be more realistic.

"Yes, if you want to build a spaceship, you really need a lot of knowledge in this area." Midorima said.

"I remember that she should have taken the initiative to submit the list at that time."

"But wanting to do something is not the same as being able to do it, let alone doing it well," Akashi said.

"So I put a test on her."

"test?"

"The scope of the test is only in the student union room, only the two of us, and the results will not be exposed."

"Even if it hurts not to pass the test, it will recover slowly without the ridicule of others to open up old wounds."

"If she can learn from this lesson and work hard, then there will be competitions next year or the year after that, I think so."

"...So you have to file her hard there?" Midorima asked.

It should be said to be well-intentioned, but as a person who is going to be frustrated, it is very uncomfortable.

Akashi nodded.

"but…"

"But Fujiwa passed," Midorima said.This conclusion is well drawn.

"No. More than that."

"Do you know how fast a computer runs?"

"8 digits after the decimal point, it should be like this." Midorima said casually, he didn't know much about these things, "In short, it far exceeds the processing speed of the human brain."

"Yes. But Vine and..."

Akashi thought back.

"As if without any thought, she just took a look and wrote the answer directly."

"The time given for that question in the competition is two hours."

"When this question was proposed last year, less than three people in the audience solved it without any mistakes. The highest record set was one and a half hours."

"54 seconds," Akashi said.

"What?" Midorima looked over.

Akashi stared ahead.

"It took only 54 seconds for Fujiwa to write the pen and hand the paper to me."

"..."

"... Has she seen the original question?"

This is the only conjecture that Midorima can think of.

When he entered school, Fujiwa also beat Akashi to get No.1 in mathematics, so he should have practiced a lot.

"After that there were three more questions, and the last one I got yesterday from my tutor, who is also the instructor of the Olympic Youth Academy."

"...you know the answer just by looking at it?"

"She thought it was easy."

"..."

"very simple."

"Tenghe didn't even know it was a test after she finished it. She just thought it was a small puzzle game I played with her before the test, just like filling in a Sudoku game on a newspaper with a pencil."

"When she handed me the third piece of paper and said 'when is the real test going to start?', I knew this girl was a real genius."

"..."

Green has nothing to say.

He'd seen movies where autistic child prodigies seemed like that.

At the end of the movie, did that character win the Nobel Prize, or did he advance the technology of the entire human race to the level of colonizing alien planets by himself?

"...did you ask her exactly how she did it?"

"asked."

"She told me..." Akashi smiled slightly, "She told me that she has an auxiliary calculation system on her body."

"..."

"She said that's what every alien has, about 2 years ahead of human technology."

"...How is that possible?" Midorima said.

Not to mention 2 years, even if you search Elliot's body, you can't find any objects with technological significance. She doesn't even have a mobile phone.

"If you want to load such a powerful computing performance, it must be at least the size of a brick."

"So that should be just her delusion again."

"But it has a basis in reality."

Akashi said.

Green did not speak.

"If that's the case, it's understandable why she thinks she's an alien."

"There have also been examples in the past of people being hit and awakening a certain area of ​​the brain and suddenly becoming a genius."

"If you want to escape reality just because of the shock of the abduction, there are many ways to choose besides thinking that you are an alien."

Indeed, it would be better to say that other paths are more convincing to myself.

"The reason why Fujiwa feels that she is an alien is probably because she thinks that she has the conditions to think otherwise."

Going a little further, he was about to enter the range of the basketball court, Akashi stopped and turned his head to look at him.

Despite being beaten in an area he prides himself on, he seemed to be in a good mood.

"Fujiwa can't even understand why something so simple would be my test for her."

"So for her, what about us who are racking our brains for this kind of thing and can't get an answer?"

"...For her, this is as strange as people on earth seeing aliens." Midorima admitted this unwillingly.

"She believes that she is an alien and that she has a system that can assist calculations. If it weren't for her talent that is absolutely superior to others, she would not be able to maintain this firm belief."

"Because if you don't do this, Fujiwa won't be able to convince yourself to accept the reality."

Akashi said.

"The problem is not with Fujika, but with this world that doesn't match her."

After finishing speaking, he entered the basketball court one step ahead of Green Room.