SSS-Rank Awakening: My Talent Multiplies Everything novel Chapter 57

Chapter 57: Interference [2.]

Meanwhile, inside the alleyway, the situation was rapidly reaching its conclusion.

One of the bandits stepped forward with a disgusting grin on his face, casually twirling a dagger between his fingers as he approached the silver-haired girl. At almost the exact same moment, the second bandit shifted his footing, intending to move closer as well.

Then something strange happened.

Perhaps it was a tiny miscalculation. Perhaps it was bad luck. Or perhaps fate had simply decided to play a cruel joke on them.

The first man’s boot landed directly on a crushed metal can lying on the ground. The can rolled beneath his weight, causing him to lose his balance. Startled, he instinctively reached out to steady himself, but in doing so crashed into his companion.

The second bandit stumbled as well.

Instead of helping each other recover, the two became entangled.

Both men lost their footing completely and fell.

Unfortunately, neither had released their daggers.

For a split second everything seemed to slow.

Two falling bodies.

Two sharp blades.

Two perfectly unfortunate angles.

Then...

Puchi!

Puchi!

The daggers plunged straight into each other’s throats.

Silence immediately descended upon the alley.

The two bandits froze.

Their eyes widened.

Shock spread across their faces as they stared at one another, neither capable of understanding what had just happened. Blood poured from their wounds while their mouths opened and closed soundlessly.

A second later their bodies collapsed heavily onto the ground.

Dead.

At the entrance of the alleyway, Kael stared at the scene with a blank expression.

He blinked once.

Then twice.

"...Damn."

He rubbed his forehead as though trying to confirm he hadn’t imagined what he had just witnessed.

"You’ve got to be kidding me."

Even now he struggled to process it.

He had expected Interference to be useful.

But this?

Two enemies accidentally stabbing each other to death?

That was far beyond anything he had expected.

The more Kael thought about it, the more terrifying the ability became.

He hadn’t attacked.

He hadn’t moved.

He hadn’t even entered the alley.

All he had done was tug on a single thread among countless possibilities, and reality itself had arranged the rest.

To anyone watching, the bandits had simply been idiots.

Nobody would suspect another hand was involved.

Nobody would know they had died because someone had manipulated probability from the shadows.

For a moment Kael almost felt like a puppeteer.

Not the kind who controlled strings attached to limbs.

The kind who controlled fate itself.

Suddenly the enormous mana cost didn’t seem nearly as unreasonable.

A grin slowly spread across his face.

An incredibly smug grin.

"Killing enemies without moving an inch."

"Saving a beautiful girl in distress."

"And looking cool while doing it."

He folded his arms and nodded to himself.

"Yeah."

"I’m pretty amazing."

The grin widened even further.

For several seconds Kael stood there shamelessly admiring his own greatness before finally coughing awkwardly and regaining his composure.

"Ahem."

"Anyway."

"Problem solved."

With that, he turned around and resumed his journey home, completely unaware of what was happening behind him.

Back in the alleyway, the silver-haired girl stared at the corpses lying on the ground.

For a few moments she remained silent.

Then her expression suddenly changed.

Her lips puffed into a pout.

"Aww..."

She crossed her arms dramatically before kicking one of the corpses.

The body rolled slightly.

The pout on her face deepened.

"That’s no fun."

"I was going to play with them a little longer."

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