“Wuming-senpai! You really came out…” Seeing Lin Wuming’s “ghost form,” Yuri Chiya immediately let out a long sigh of relief, then immediately questioned him, “Don’t play pranks and scare Our! Since you’re already free, wake up quickly!”
Lin Wuming, however, gave a helpless bitter smile: “I wish I could, but I can’t…”
As he spoke, he flew downwards, seemingly wanting to dive into his own body, but it was as if he hit an invisible barrier and was harshly bounced away.
“See, just like this.” Lin Wuming said helplessly, “Yuri, you’re the expert, so what do you think I should do?”
“This… I don’t know either?” Yuri Chiya also looked dumbfounded, saying confusedly, “I’ve never encountered a situation like this.”
When “possessing” other people, she might be bounced away due to the other party’s strong mental power, but when returning to her own body, Yuri Chiya had never encountered any problems.
“This is ridiculous,” Lin Wuming muttered, “So what exactly is going on with me?”
“How about I go ask others?” Yuri Chiya said, looking at the worried people in the Hospital room, “Oh, right, I need to quickly tell the others, at least to stop them from worrying.”
“No need, she’s already heard.” Shokuhou Misaki’s voice suddenly cut in.
Lin Wuming and Yuri Chiya both looked down together, just as Hu Feng Toumi’s gaze met theirs as she looked up.
—Hu Feng’s intuition is really sharp!
“Misaki-chan, can you see Our?” Yuri Chiya asked in surprise.
“I can’t see you, but since you’re in the real world, there’s always a way to observe you.” Shokuhou Misaki replied, “Wuming-senpai, long time no see…”
“Yeah,” Lin Wuming also sighed with emotion, “Long time no see…”
Because he had once lost his perception of “time,” that period truly felt like years, giving him an astonishingly long subjective experience.
“Oh, right, how long have I been unconscious?”
“Not too long,” Shokuhou Misaki checked the time, “Less than five hours.”
“Only five hours…” Lin Wuming murmured, feeling as if five centuries had passed.
“Wuming-senpai, do you have any idea about what’s happening now?” Shokuhou Misaki asked.
“To be honest, I’m completely lost, it feels inexplicable.” Lin Wuming shook his head helplessly.
“I see… It seems the cause of the problem can only be discussed later.” Shokuhou Misaki asked again, “Wuming-senpai can’t return to his own body now?”
“It seems so.”
“Seriously, troublesome problems keep coming one after another. But at least he’s back…” Shokuhou Misaki sighed, “Anyway, I’ll tell the others this news first, so they don’t worry so much anymore.”
Immediately after, Hu Feng Toumi was seen taking out a remote control, seemingly intending to use her esper ability to “mass message” everyone directly…
“Wait! Hold on!” Lin Wuming suddenly realized what the sense of incongruity that had been lingering in his mind since just now was all about.
“Who exactly are you?” Lin Wuming quickly asked, “No, what I mean is, Shokuhou—are you going to use the remote control?”
“Of course.” Hu Feng Toumi looked up, shaking the remote control in her hand.
“Shokuhou… You’re not playing a prank, are you? Like controlling Hu Feng’s body or something?” Lin Wuming said.
“Eh~~”
“Hu Feng Toumi” narrowed her eyes and raised her hand to caress her face.
“So, in Wuming-senpai’s eyes, I look like Hu Feng Tong Xue?” Shokuhou Misaki’s voice said, “Indeed, my guess is probably correct.”
Shokuhou Misaki did not seem surprised by the question Lin Wuming posed.
“Wuming-senpai, according to the information Our received, Kamijou Touma today… no, it’s already yesterday—yesterday afternoon, he suddenly left Academy City, reportedly for a vacation.” Shokuhou Misaki said, “Mentioning such a plot development, Wuming-senpai, does anything come to mind?”
In the original plot, the first time Kamijou Touma left Academy City…
Lin Wuming let out an “Ah” and his face turned somewhat gloomy.
“Angel Fall…”
“Hu Feng Toumi” nodded: “That’s the event I thought of too. Combined with Wuming-senpai’s observations, it seems to further prove this point.”
In the original work, “Angel Fall” was a standard magic-side event. Except for Kamijou Touma and a very small number of magicians, most people in the world barely noticed that such a major event had occurred.
“Soul displacement, body swapping” — as long as no one discovers it, it can be completely regarded as “nothing happened.”
Although he didn’t know why, Lin Wuming in this state seemed to be able to see through this “displacement” phenomenon, thereby proving that the “Angel Fall” event was indeed happening.
“Wuming-senpai…” After a moment of silence, Shokuhou Misaki’s voice sounded again, but this time she was only speaking to Lin Wuming, excluding Yuri Chiya.
“If it really is the ‘Angel Fall’ event, I think…” Shokuhou Misaki said, “I should be able to guess what happened to you.”
Lin Wuming also nodded in response: “Hmm, I thought so too.”
As he spoke, Lin Wuming looked down at the body on the Hospital bed.
“At this very moment, the one occupying this body should be his original soul, right?” Lin Wuming said, “Experiment subject number Ling Ling Qi, Kobayashi.”
“Wuming-senpai…”
Lin Wuming shook his head: “Don’t worry, unfortunately… no, for me, it should be quite fortunate, right? The original owner of this body, Kobayashi, is indeed dead—at the moment I arrived in this world—what’s inside this body now is just his last wisp of lingering soul.”
Three years ago, when Lin Wuming transmigrated, the original Kobayashi was already dead, which is why Lin Wuming was able to “usurp the magpie’s nest.”
However, while Lin Wuming survived in place of the original owner, he also preserved a wisp of the original owner’s lingering soul.
esper ability is the concretization of “Personal Reality.” The Level 3 Nen that Lin Wuming initially mastered was essentially the last “legacy” left to him by the original owner, Kobayashi.
And at this moment, due to the outbreak of the “Angel Fall” event, souls were displaced and bodies swapped.
Through this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Lin Wuming’s soul and the lingering soul of the original owner, Kobayashi, exchanged places.
As a result, Lin Wuming was forced to sink into the deepest part of consciousness; while Kobayashi’s lingering soul returned to his body.
That’s why the Hospital concluded that Lin Wuming was “brain dead.”
Because at this very moment, “Lin Wuming” had indeed already died.
