The Society for the Research of Special Powers

The Society for the Research of Special Powers, rendered in Japanese as Inō Kenkyūkai, was a school club that Fubuki headed during her student days. Its members were ordinary high schoolers drawn together by a fascination with paranormal phenomena, and outwardly none of them stood apart from any other civilian.

They dressed in everyday clothes or their school uniforms, blending in completely with the crowd. Of the whole membership, only Fubuki and her vice president Psykos are thought to have held genuine paranormal power before the Invisible Hand entered the picture.

The club took shape as a social circle for young people curious about the supernatural. As its profile rose and it drew closer to the Invisible Hand, Psykos soured on humanity and began steering the group toward extremism, going so far as to argue for wiping out humankind. The other members refused to follow her down that path.

With Psykos increasingly in the spotlight, Fubuki grew envious and locked her rival's powers away inside her own mind, branding Psykos an enemy. The group's final fate is never confirmed, but it is presumed to have broken up soon afterward, since the two women later speak of each other only as the former president and former vice president.

Fubuki served as president and Psykos as her vice president, and both remain alive well into the present-day narrative. The membership also came to overlap with the Invisible Hand, whose individuals are listed among the group with their status left unknown. The falling-out between its two leaders is what ultimately unraveled the society.