Sumireko felt it too, was the nightmare over? –Lights out? No way! –No, the voices were still there. She knew Komoe from a long time, Komoe even based her theory of multiple personalities equaling multiple ESPer abilities from her, she could prove it but they wanted to keep it secret to others. Sumireko was not a schizophrenic, every voice she held there were part of her genetic memory. When a kid she was involved in an accident that activated every female memory inside of her, she didn't know her mother, though she didn't have to, she was inside. Every woman in the Usami family was an ESPer, with the exception of Renko who was held back by many drugs Komoe had developed. Sumireko was something very unlikely but not impossible, every personality she held inside of her mind was one of her ancestors, and every one of them held one power that could manifest in her body. She could read minds on her own, but she needed her mother to take over to allow fire, her grandma to take water, the one before psychionic beams and so on.
She feared at times that Renko was so smart because she was inside of her head, torturing her daughter the same way her family did too –Hey don't be so rude! We are the reason you are here –her mother was the one who made sure the voices didn't take over her head, she was her guardian. –Sorry… I just felt like I was free –We are not a burden my dear, we are the reason why you could do all this. Everything we know, you know, everything we could do, you can. You are a go… –Mom last time you said that I got beaten up –Last time was a week ago, the Gensokyo incident was decades! And you liked it there didn't you? Mamizou was nice to us and all –her grandma now.
–I think she was a good influence on you! She is right those cellphones do have small keys… Hey wait here it comes little Renko, she has your grandpa's eyes! –Could you please shut up?! –Don't be rude please… I was listening to granny –one of the eldest personalities she had she never said her name –let's turn on that wet dream with Mokou, that my family was amazing! –Sumireko had learned to let those comments not affect her face with others, she always held to conversations at the same time, one with her own family and one with people outside.
She had spoken about it to few people, Komoe treated it as the key to multiple ESPers but she didn't want that. It was a curse for others, one had to keep fighting for control over one's mind. She also spoke it with Mamizou, she called it the Bene Gesserit effect, because in a book a group of women held the same burden and used it as weapon. Mamizou was the one who knew about it the most, according to her a genes carry many unused characters, they activate when they are needed. It is not limited to humans and that is why some animals get special skills, the obvious example Mamizou used, shape shifting in tanuki. Sumireko was involved in great stress, and she survived it which activated the genetic memory inside of her, though with it came too the minds of her ancestors. ESPers were a variant of that too, some drugs were specially made to cause pain and stress in the subjects, which activated their abilities. Aleister knew little about it, he only knew about gene activation, but everyone knew that. She never shared much with him, she was allied to him because she needed the funds he gave to her developments, they didn't like each other but each one held a thing the other needed.
She though felt how every single especial skill she held was gone, the voices were still there. Something had happened and it wasn't to her, she had to go meet some people. Now the city was going to be a chaos but she remembered every single part of this city, after all she saw how it was built. –Renko don't open the door to anyone, you understand me? –The girl nodded, she was completely calm –Mommy is everything alright? No noises no lights right? –Has somebody told you that –Renko shook her head, Sumireko hoped it wasn't the same curse she carried.
She left the building she lived in, well guarded now that the city was in a rampage. She opened one of the sewer lids and hopped inside. –You sure this is the best way? It stinks –Yes mom, nobody will look for me here –What do people in this city eat?! –Granny please –Seriously say that ESPers need to eat less fiber, they will listen to you –Do we have to go over this again? –What does it taste like? –very funny, now shush! –Don't shush me I'm your great grand mother! –Are we seeing Komoe again? –Yes mom… –She is old as you Sumi… yet you look a bit older how do you do two do that? I had killed to know that during my time –Supreme body control… I hope I could control my mind more easily than I control others –Shush Mental Out –Revenge? –Maybe maybe hahaha! –Sumireko kept her eternal conversation going.
–I must not fear, fear is the mind killer… –Mom stop it –But it works! –It doesn't, please stop –then I will open my third eye and see the way… wait how did it go? –Not telling you! –Pretty please? –I curse the day I decided to read Dune… –Has anyone noticed we are here? Tsukuyomi Komoe lives exactly next to that place –Is her house guarded too? –Of course not! She lives in a poor part of the city right now the one in danger is Renko… –Why did I left her home? –Because you didn't listen to me –Grandma you are crazy I never do… –I wasn't crazy now.
–She knocked at the door –She will notice the smell… You should have brought clothes, you should have brought Renko! –Mom! –On it… –grandma was silenced, she experienced a bit of silence but then every other voice spoke out. Komoe opened the door –Mrr? Who is this, what is it? … Sumi? What happened to you?! –Power is down… The voices are still there so I guess I'm not the only one –The voices? Hey we are your family! –No you are not my family is dead –How mean of you! –Sorry my child is alone in a room I'm not in the mood –Komoe invited her in –I'd tell you to change your clothes but… –Sumireko nodded –We also have little time. Did we have a plan for this?
Komoe reached on a cabinet and looked through many paper files –Accelerator going rogue… we have to throw this one out Kihara already exploited it. Do we have a plan in case Fantasy loses control? –Pray and hide… –There should be another way –There are, but we are not capable of doing them… Maybe you are –What do you mean by that? –Oh some arts ESPers are not capable of doing… –Magic? Don't tell me you are into that too! –How did you even?! –Long story… Have you tried making magic? –Yes… remember that day in the hospital? –Oh… Well found it! Plan for reativation of ESPer skills! –Komoe placed the thick file on the table.
Their plan was mostly made out of pure calculations to prove it was going to work. Komoe was about as old as Sumireko, they both took classes for graduate studies, the basics for theoretical chemistry and advanced physics, old classmates who developed half of the ESPers in the city, either directly or indirectly, at least the sane half. The plan was simple, for them, the simple explanation would be like putting a ball on a table.
ESPers are walking talking quantum uncertainties, they are capable of presenting those uncertainties in different ways, position, direction, energy levels. The definition was completely understood by those two and even partly done by them. Years ago it was discovered that a human could change Plank's constant inside of their body, every human could do that however few could learn how to control it. When the Plank's constant is changed uncertainties become way more likely, though the human body can control it one variable at a time. Most of times what a person does is control the uncertainty to raise one's energy states of every particle in your body to reach unstable levels. When the Plank's constant is back to normal the body will need to release that energy in order of becoming stable again, in the end the ESPer skill present itself when that happens. What others do is become unstable and get back to stability by moving in a point in space, and many other variables could be done.
Sumireko and Komoe both started devising contingency plans when Komoe's house was cut in half by a light beam. They hoped never to use any of them since some of those files had pretty dangerous ideas, most of the times they were emergency plans for cases like this. Sumireko thought it was Yuuka, Komoe that it was Touma, they both had good reasons to think that. Now that all ESPers were deactivated they were going to make them stable again, by creating a radiation wave, every non lethal wavelength had to be included, preferably but not mandatorily. That way some ESPers would become unstable again since some of them were capable of absorbing energy, from them the aim field network would be rebooted and by resonance of those few ESPers the rest would slowly get back their skills. They didn't think of it, but their idea also worked for magicians since the principles are nearly the same but with a few differences in the basis.
Now the problem was getting an energy source, they had thought of using an EMP but that only would get electromasters back, a plain explosion would bring telekinetics, a head wave would kill everyone but the pyrokinetics and so on. The ones who got the most influence were lvl5's, Mikoto Misaka was the first candidates since getting an EMP was easy and non lethal, also the Misaka network played an important role, by rebooting the original or Last Order the whole network would slowly reboot, then the others would come.