"How the hell is that even possible?" Houshou asked.
"Gene is dead," Masako agreed.
"We aren't too sure, but the results saw that Noll was 85% related to Kairu and Koyuki. 90% and above means he is the father. Because he was so close to being related to them and there is only one other relative of Noll's that's alive -well, was- was Gene. Gene is the father."
Mai turned her head to them, the first ever sign of life since Naru's verbal lashing.
"I wish..." she murmured, drifting off.
"Mai? What is it? What do you think of this?" Ayako asked but it was useless, that was all they could get from her.
"Damn it, it doesn't make sense!" She hissed.
Seeing the frustration on everyone's face, Koyuki turned to Mai.
"Kaa-san, let's go to the study. I've gotted better at Moonlight Sonate."
"'Gotten', Yuki-chan," Luella corrected. "And it's 'Moonlight Sonata."
Koyuki blushed and nodded. "Yeah, that!"
Ayako wheeled Mai after them.
"Please," Yasu started. "Professor Davis, allow me to help you figure out this mystery," he offered.
Martin ran a hand through his hair and nodded. "Thanks."
Masako stood there and watched as Mai focused to listen to Koyuki's piano playing. Surprisingly, Kairu stood beside her, accompanying her with the violin.
A small smile graced Mai's lips and her eyes closed. Feeling out of place, Masako left the touching family scene.
When the door closed behind her and her children played their last notes, Mai let out a sad sigh.
"I'm sorry..." she whispered.
Koyuki and Kairu turned to their mother in surprise.
"K-Kaa-san!" Kairu gasped.
"I've been a terrible mother," Mai whispered, fists clenching in her lap. "I-I've been so caught up in my own pain that I've neglected you, my beloved children."
A tear trailed down her cheek, followed by another and another, dripping onto her hands in her lap.
"I just wanted you to have a father. Your father. But this...I never imagined things would get so out of hand. I'm sorry."
She looked up at her children. "I'm so sorry, my little darlings. My little angels. I couldn't give you what you wanted most."
Kairu's eyes watered as Koyuki burst into tears.
"I don't care!" Koyuki cried as she ran to her mother, gripping her hand as if for dear life. "I-I don't care if I don't have a father! I never wanted Naru in the first place! If it were just us like before, I'd be happy! I don't want you to hurt, kaa-san!"
Kairu's lip quivered as he joined them. "We want you to smile, Mama. We only need you. We don't need tou-san."
Mai crushed her children to her chest and they cried together.
As a family.
A couple of days later...
"It's so strange," Martin sighed as Kairu and Mai stepped out of the testing room.
He tested both children, hoping maybe the answer was in their powers but they showed powers of both Gene and Naru and also Mai.
While he didn't find the answer to their impossible parentage, he did find the extent of their powers and he was impressed.
"Kairu, these machines will not only monitor your brain waves, but also your heart rate so we can see how much energy and focus is put into your powers. This will help us determine if your powers could have negative affects on your body."
Kairu nodded, confused yet understanding.
"Okay, go ahead and lift this pen," Martin spoke, placing a pen on the desk.
The pen rose without hesitation or falters and the scientists behind the screen jotted down notes, as did Martin, taking down brain activity and heart rate.
"Good, not even a falter in it's beating cycle," he said to himself.
Using his pen, he pointed at the encyclopedia beside the pen.
"Try the encyclopedia."
Again, same result.
"You are much stronger then Noll and Gene were when they were your age, even when they were together."
"Thank you," Kairu nodded.
"Do you think you could lift this table?"
A floating table was his answer.
"Amazing!" Martin spoke in awe.
He turned and nodded to the scientists behind the one way window. Two scientists brought in an adjustable dumbell, then the weights followed. Using a combination to weigh fifty kilos, he tested Kairu again. He was met by the same result.
Raising it higher and higher, it eventually got to 150 kilos. There, he met resistance. The dumbell rose slowly and hovered in the air a bit before he had to lower it.
"Hmm...it seems 150kg is your limit. Luckily, you can lift multiple heavy things at a time, quantity doesn't affect quality. That is a good thing. You can also lift things in another room, which is an amazing feet in it's own, but you can't control what you lift since your senses halt at the wall. You grab blindly. All in all, you are a very gifted child."
"Thank you."
It turned out, Koyuki was stronger of the two, lifting five hundred kilos before reaching her limit, but she could only affect three things around her, instead of limitless like Kairu. She also couldn't manipulate anything outside of the room without there being a door, but her senses expanded expinentially, covering the entire estate and more.
Together, these twins could take down even the most experienced telekinetic he knew ten times over; Alone, two times.
And he was only scratching the surface of their powers.
A couple more days later, Mai looked at the report Martin made on not only her children's powers, but her own and she remembered the tests she went through.
"Okay, so this is the same test Lin told me Noll performed on you. It's just to test your intuition."
Mai nodded and proceeded to point and a bunch of lights in a row and see how many she guessed correct.
After all five hundred, she got all of them.
Not a single one she missed.
"That's perfect, Mai," Martin praised. "Shall we try with a type of lotto?" He asked.
He pulled out a small round cage with a bunch of tiny wooden walls inside. Underneath was a hole that only one ball could go down.
"There are a thousand little balls in here, Mai. I will roll and allow ten to come out. I want you to tell me what numbers they will be."
He began to turn the side handle in a Jack-In-The-Box motion. Mai watched before.
"721."
A ball exited the cage. Martin checked it.
"721," he confirmed.
Mai smiled happily.
"594. 363. 980. 456. 538. 628. 214. 165. 6."
Martin finished spinning and read the other nine.
"594. 363. 980. 456. 538. 682. 214. 165. 6...wow. Simply amazing. This goes beyond intuition. This is almost like foresight."
"You think so?" Mai asked.
"Without a doubt. Now, we will come back to this. Masako told me there was a time where you experienced Astro Projection. Could you tell me what happened from your point of view?"
"W-Well, we were working on one of our cases and we weren't to leave anyone alone. I-I had left Masako by herself in the room and she was taken. I felt so bad and no one knew where to find her. By now, we already new about my special dreams. So I took a nap, hoping that Naru (which was really Gene who is my spirit guide) would tell me. Instead, I found Masako, hiding. She was so scared and alone. I talked to her and gave her my old house key that I always kept with me so she'd feel safe. When I woke up, I knew where she was and I ran for her. Afterwards, she gave me back my key."
"Incredible. This is better then Astro Projection. You were able to give a solid object to someone else in your spiritual body. Before this, that was impossible. Would you mind if we practiced this so you could increase this ability?"
"Sure, why not?"
Mai smiled at the memory. She was strong and she knew it. Not only could she enter the spirit world at will, she'd been practicing in secret so that Gene could inhabit her body while she was out, in case of an emergency.
It worked on the first go.
Mai sighed as she laid her head down and drifted to sleep.
Mai was staring at her own body.
"What?" She asked, confused.
Flashes appeared around her. She was in a different room, filled with a lot of material things like expensive perfumes and jewellery. As she walked around the room, she saw on the desk, some strange things. One thing, was a type of voodoo doll and strangely enough, it looked like her.
"A doll...of me?"
An image of her sleeping body appeared before her before she was back in the room. So she's in a memory.
Moving closer, she saw pieces of papers with writings on it.
Going through it, she gasped.
The inscriptions were to summon a demon.
"Who would ever try to summon a demon?" Mai asked, horrified.
Suddenly, Mai was looking at herself again and Gene was by her side.
"Mai, wake up!" He yelled at her, not the body.
"Gene, what's going on?" Mai asked.
"WAKE UP!"
He smacked her body's face.
Her body jolted in it's sleep. Opening her eyes, she was staring into glowing red eyes.
The eyes of the ghost haunting her and her children.
