“Why is it so hard to live like an ordinary person?” Suzuki Yuma grumbled about it every morning as soon as he opened his eyes.
As someone with a “passive skill constitution,” his daily life was one spectacular mishap after another. Want to get to school on time? [Distorted Time Perception] made time feel 30% faster than it really was, so even after running himself ragged, he'd still burst into class just as the warning bell rang. Want to keep a low profile? [Malfunctioning Traffic Light Perception] always caused trouble when he was right on the verge of being late, making a red light “stretch” from 15 seconds to two whole minutes. Even eating a bento could trigger [Amplified Taste: Salt Specialization], leaving him so overwhelmed by the “slightly salty plum rice ball” specially made by his childhood friend Akari's mother that he drank half a bottle of mineral water...
He thought he'd spend his whole life struggling with passives that made him want to escape but never let him get away, until one day after school...
His classmate Kenji stepped on a loose manhole cover and fell into the sewer. Yuma instinctively reached out to grab him but missed. The next second, the cover snapped back into place, and Kenji climbed out of the filthy sewer. His first words were, “Yuma, did you secretly use your superpower to save me just now?”
Even stranger, an unknown text suddenly appeared on his phone: [Abnormal passive energy fluctuations detected. Tomorrow at 7 p.m., third floor of the old wing of the municipal library. I'll be waiting.]
It turned out that the passive skills that had given him such a headache he wanted to bang his head against the wall were hiding a secret even he didn't know about.
When the obsessive desire to “live like an ordinary person” runs into the absurd daily life of “passive skills at full power”...
Could his disastrous life be about to turn into something extraordinary, starting with “being saved by a manhole cover”?
