CHAPTER 6

I saw my first plus today; actually it should be I found my first plus today. There was a fire a few days ago and the family inside died so for the next few days I walked around the area using my ESP to scout for any spiritual presence. It was something I usually did when I heard of a sudden and violent death which weren't many and up until now I hadn't gotten any results but then while I was walking through a park close to their home I heard the sobbing and inwardly screamed; 'Jackpot'.

It took a hell of a lot of convincing and sweet talking, I don't think I've ever been that persistent in my life but finally she didn't run when I walked up to her;

"What's your name?" I asked beaming a smile.

"Megumi" she answered after what seemed like an eternity.

"Nice to meet ya, I'm Kuro" I said but she didn't answer.

"Why are you crying?" I asked her but still no answer.

'This isn't getting me anywhere'

"Where are your parents" I asked as she looked up for a while.

"They're gone"

"Wow! you must really be something if they let you stay here by yourself this late"

"Yeah!"

"But it's getting late, I can take you home if you'd like" I offered but was given silence as an offer.

"Don't you want to go home" I asked her; 'more silence'

"Huh! Are you fighting with them, did they throw you out or something"

I seemed to strike a nerve as her gaze shifted.

'Perfect'

"Hmph! Well, if you don't want to go home you could come over to my place. My mom won't mind and when you're ready you can leave" I said as she looked up at me.

"What do you say" I told her outstretching her hand, I was trying to make myself look as innocent and friendly as I could and I think I was doing a good job because before long she took my hand or at least tried to since her hand went through mine and she shrunk back, but I already saw this coming;

"Woah! Cool magic trick"

Let's just say I put in a lot of effort making sure everyone thought Megumi was an Imaginary friend despite the fact that I would argue to the point of getting angry that she was right there. It was actually quite funny seeing the look on Tatsuki's face when I said everyone meet Megumi and she said 'who' but then Ichigo walks in and starts a whole conversation with her. 'Priceless'; but to be honest this is better than I could have imagined.

Due to the presence of Megumi I've been able to improve my abilities by leaps and bounds, I've realized that the Reishi belonging to sentient beings is much harder to manipulate than the Reishi that is in the atmosphere. Even when I somehow managed to manipulate it, it ends up causing her slight to serious discomfort or causes her to cry out in pain so I've suspended the experiments until I can find someone I don't mind torturing.

My greatest breakthrough I've made however is on the nature of Reiryoku itself, this helped me to realize that I was being very wasteful with how I used my ESP and telekinesis. Basically, when I was going to use my psychic abilities my ESP had to activate first; it was an unspoken rule. The area under my ESP was the area my mind could affect, much like Reiryoku which was an internal energy for soul reapers, only Quincy used external energy i.e Reishi beacause when you think about it they are spiritually aware humans but still humans nontheless.

Reiryoku is easier to control when you're a soul because stimulus from the physical body interferes with the stimulus being sent to draw out Reiryoku, so even if you had more Reiryoku it's hard to draw it out.

Reiryoku much like my ESP had a range of within the human body, and both had to be drawn out so the range they affected could be wider. But learning from soul reapers and Ichigo's Getsuga tensho, spiritual energy is most powerful when concentrated so instead of spreading my ESP domain across a wide area I concentrated it to only affect a specific area and found out that I had a much better output. I was easily able to lift 12kg off the ground and even then the control was so good that I could write a letter; without a pen. I could even tell you how many sand particles were in a handful of sand. The progress was really crazy.

It's become a daily routine to sit next to Megumi and use her to improve my abilities, ever since she finally admitted that she was a ghost and I pulled such stellar acting into my look of shock that even Cid Kagenō would be jealous. Anyway, since then I've claimed that it's me trying to figure out why only I can see her and trying to find a way others could see her too. I told Ichigo my plan but he didn't seem too interested, he even asked me if I was sure she was a ghost which I made a show of thinking about.

Honestly, 10/10 on my acting.