Hikaru is truly an odd duck. He completely expects a flood of the sort described in the Christian Bible to sweep everyone away momentarily. Meanwhile, he hangs out with Sadaro, a very critical friend, who occasionally beats up on him just for fun. One day, after getting whomped on, Hikaru finds that he has several unusual and virtually useless powers: he can bend spoons and explode light bulbs. In one respect, his life improves at this point, because he meets a cheerful young woman who lives, handily enough in his view, on a barge. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi