「There are people that can swim even though they can’t breathe underwater, right? And anyway, it’s just that it’s easier to understand if you consider these two separately, Saki-chan. Basically, because I can’t swim, it’s already a struggle to make it to the 'Hero’s Sword’ at the bottom of the pool. And even if I do make it there, it produces a time lag until I can activate 'All Fiction’ to nullify the system that keeps the sword from being pulled out.」

“A time lag…”

A time lag until he can activate his Skill.

That could be considered the weak point of all Skill Holders, not just Kumagawa-kun. That was the reason why Skills that were constantly active without needing to be controlled–in other words, the Abnormalities of people who couldn’t exactly be called Skill Holders–that was why they surpassed Skill Holders, who you’d think would be higher in rank.

It was hard to say that Kumagawa-kun actually controlled his “All Fiction”, but regardless of whether we called it control or not, it was true that he himself decided when to use it—naturally, that meant that when he needed to apply it to the “Hero’s Sword” at the bottom of the pool, he needed to have the will, the intention, to “apply” it.

But, while underwater.

Before being able to have a will or an intention.

「I end up drowning from that time lag.」


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