Three years after Xelif ended the superpowers his life still goes on. He is a freshman at a university taking up political science. Even though superpower is now non-existent, good guys and bad guys still exist and he wants to be on the good side. On a particular afternoon after his class ended, as all normal afternoon for Xelif is, he walks his usual path to his dormitory which is located about a ten-minute walk from his university. His path is dyed is orange-red that signifies that the day is starting to end.
His mind is wandering into what dinner he should it and if he still has underwear tomorrow. Money will never be a problem for him but he still wants to have a life where he works hard and gets things he deserved. He only uses money that is awarded to him as part of his scholarship and never caused an ATM to "glitched" giving him a bigger balanced than it should be. He still washes his clothes to save money rather than taking it to a laundromat.
"Normal is good"
Words that escape from his thought as he appreciates his daily life.
"Crap I think this is the last clean underwear I have"
He decided to take a detour to buy some detergent so he can wash his dirty underwear before going to bed. He remembers a shortcut to the convenience store.
"Ahh, A Cat"
Xelif blurted out as he saw a white cat on the tip of the pole seemingly stuck. This the first time he encounters a cat in the city. To explain three years ago there are no stray cats in the city. No one in his family owns a cat so he only sees the cat as a pet in a pet shop or when his friends brag about it on their social media account. Stray cats are nonexistent because a hero name CatGirl who can talk to cats and decided to adopt all the stray cat in the city and use it as his information gatherer. Cat back then has become creatures akin to ninja where it reaches the point where people have never seen a cat that is not a pet.
Xelif observed the cat carefully it seems that it's gonna fall any time soon. He is worried that the cat might get injured. He checks his surrounding. He needs to think fast about how he can save the cat. He considered climbing up the pole but decided against that since he might startle the cat resulting in it falling.
"Should I use my power?"
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He asked himself. This a situation where making the probability of the cat getting injured be zero will surely make the problem go away. Xelif's power that controls the probability only increases the chance of the outcome that he desires which fundamentally taking control of the cause. What causes the cat to safely go down. The cat can simultaneously grow wings caused by a genetic mutation in all cats since we all gonna live in a normal where all cats can safely go down from a pole. This is what happens when Xelif erased all the superpowers in the world it causes all the P-gene to be erased from the human DNA losing all of the power in mankind.
His power in order to have the outcome the wielder wants will create a cause to make it happen. The different outcomes may have different causes that have different weights. For money, his power can cause a "glitch" in his bank records. For a cat to fall safely it may cause a genetic mutation where all cats will gain wings when they are in trouble.
"What should I do?"
Xelif checks his surrounding for witness. Beads of sweat are visible in his face. He holds his right wrist using his left hand, fist clenched, he is pondering whether to use or not to use his powers.
"I don't care! I need to save someone who is in front of me before I can save the world!"
He strengthens his resolve. Dim light ooze from his hand signifying that he is about to activate his power.
"Kacha!"
But before his power manifested the cat jumped from the pole and landed on all fours in the ground. Xelif was dumbfounded. His lack of knowledge of cats caused him to have an oversight of the fact that cats love heights and have evolved to survive a fairly high fall without injuries.
"Are you kidding me!"
All the stress from the thinking to come with a decision that didn't matter after all caused him to fall on the alley floor with a clenched fist.
"Mommy, what is he doing"
"Stop that. You shouldn't point at strangers. Leave him be as he is not bothering us"
A mother and son who happen to pass by saw Xelif sitting with a depressed look on his face.
This is not the first and certainly not the last that he would contemplate in using his power for the greater good or something that his common sense or lack of common sense deems as important. As his power controls the probability like the butterfly effect where the storm can be caused by a flap of butterfly wings, it can go the other way around where a storm will be caused by his power in order to make the flapping of the butterfly wings be the most probable outcome.
Xelif stand up and headed home, prepared cup noodles for dinner.
"It seems I am forgetting something"
He soon slept, wakes up, and goes to university in the same underwear since he forgot to wash the dirty ones.
He has to most powerful power in the world yet he will struggle in the normal life that he created but the people he will meet, the situation he will undergo will make everything worth it.