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Chapter 136

I wonder, can you please stop lying?

Translated by Dawn
Edited by Dawn

I wonder, can you please stop lying?

As of 2040. The term “TV program” was often used to mean a video produced by a TV station.

Videos were distributed both on TV and on the Internet.

Since it was mainly elderly people who watch TV, TV stations tend to broadcast only news, dramas, and videos for elderly people on TV among the videos they broadcast.

As an example, our debate program would be broadcast simultaneously on both TV and the Internet as an emergency special program.

Two days later, on the night of August 15.

We were in the studio of a TV station.

The program was live.

Kiriha and the others were standing among the ADs and other staff members as escorts.

Two men and a woman were sitting across from me, Miina, and Vice Minister Sayuri.

All three of them were looking at us with lecherous smiles and licking their tongues.

They were really sickening.

It was as if Miina was being visually raped, and it was unpleasant.

『Hello everyone. We will now be broadcasting a live emergency debate on the pros and cons of the Ability League.』

When the program started, the MC greeted the audience and gave a brief introduction of us and the three people on the other side.

『Let’s start by listening to the opinion of Chito Hairo-san, the chairman of the “Society for Thinking about the Hetero-Psychic Society” and the author of “When the World is Ruled by Psychics”.』

“Hello, I am the psychic critic, Chito Hairo.”

—What a shady-looking critic.

The middle-aged man, who identified himself as Chito, had a swollen face.

His eyelids were so swollen that his eyes were nearly closed.

He was not fat.

His body shape was quite normal.

Rather than fat, he was rather swollen.

It was as if he had been bitten by an insect.

—Ah.

I remembered. I remember on the day of the game, Shisae said something to the abolitionist group.

“I’ll order the mosquitoes around the area. Tonight, I’ll sting them in the nose, eyelids, and groin.”

“I also order the cockroaches around the area. Starting tonight, I will make their houses his bed.”

—He’s been stung too many times…

I looked at Chito, who was scratching his face and making a criminal smile, with a bit of pity in my eyes.

—I wonder if he eats cockroaches every night…

“First of all, do you have any idea how dangerous this extraordinary ability wrestling thing you guys are doing is?”

“It’s called Ability League, not Extraordinary Ability Wrestling.”

Suddenly, Miina fed him a counter-jab.

“What does it matter what name you use, as long as it gets the message across? It’s childish to correct me just for that. That’s why children are so childish. Isn’t it too early for a child like you to be involved in an adult world like this?”

It didn’t work on him at all.

And when his mistakes were pointed out to him, he struck back with his age difference.

I was so disgusted with his vulgarity that I couldn’t shut my mouth.

“You used the wrong name, so I just told you. If you don’t care about the name as long as it conveys the message, then I’ll just call you Pokotaro Round Face.”

“Ugh! Are you making fun of me?”

“You’re the one making fun of yourself, no? When someone points out that you call someone’s work by the wrong name, don’t you feel ashamed of pointing out the age difference of the person? I think it’s too early for you to come into a debate if you don’t have the language skills to distinguish between pointing out and picking on someone, don’t you think?”

—Miina-san, so good!

“What a rude child! This is why young people are no good! Today I’m going to teach you what it means to be an adult!”

—Ah, he ran away.

While Chito snorted, Miina replied in a voice so flat that it answered the day’s weather.

“Ah, you’re talking about the dangers of Ability League, right? There’s no more danger in Ability League than there is in watching a baseball game.”

Chito smiled triumphantly.

“Haa, that’s shallow thinking. What if a psychic’s attack hits a spectator?”

“We’ve switched to VR viewing as announced, so there won’t be any spectators in the audience, will there?”

“The Extraordinary Ability battle spectacle is a common development in a manga, but it’s only possible because it’s fiction. In reality, a blasting attack can reach the audience, and if it’s not handled properly, it can result in death. And what did you say? That it’s no more dangerous than baseball?”

“How can you get hurt watching a VR game when there are no audience members in the seats?”

Miina explained in an orderly manner, but Chito ignored her and continued to ramble on.

“It’s so childish that you can’t even tell the difference between manga and reality. You can’t take back what you’ve done after someone dies.”

“I wonder, can you please stop lying?”

I was shocked.

It was a surprise.

I was not prepared for what Miina said in so flat a voice.

Chito’s face turned bright red and he was visibly upset.

“I’m saying that it’s dangerous to let an audience in!”

“Then tell me then. I don’t understand why you are criticizing us for setting up a dangerous situation that doesn’t exist when we are making it a VR viewing game by stopping it because it’s dangerous to let spectators in.”

“It’s too late for that! It’s not right to let Extraordinary Ability people do battle in the first place. It would be encouraging criminality!”

“Do you have any data on this?”

“Huh? …No, I don’t.”

“Then, it’s just your opinion, right?”

“We can’t wait until something bad happens. Bring me proof that there will never be a crime.”

“Then bring me proof that you will never commit a crime. If you can’t, you’re going to need supervision.”

“You little shit!”

Chito stood up, scratching his mosquito-bitten face.

But his companions restrained him from doing so.

『Then, let’s hear what Hannichi Kenzo-san, the president of Hinomaru Future Association, has to say about this.』