[Rei winces at the arm around his shoulders but doesn't do anything about it for now. Maybe being friends with Nagisa for so long has made him tolerant toward this sort of thing, or maybe he's just given up. The result is the same.

But the question throws him a little. He remembers Ferris mentioning "powers" at one point, but he was busy worrying about being kidnapped.

He had a copy of his file shoved in his backpack, but for once in his life he hadn't read the material given to him.]

I... don't know. I'm not sure if it's even real. How can you just give someone powers? It's scientifically impossible.