Chapter 206
[Master, Master... Master, do you want me no more? ] Because it was a telepathic communication, it was closer to reality than verbal communication, and the panic and reluctance in the girl's tone were expressed very clearly.
[Hmph! Don't be such a little girl! All good things must come to an end. I have taught you everything I can, and you have almost mastered the power I gave you. I am also very confident in your character.
As my only disciple in this world, you have to walk the rest of the way on your own.
] After saying this, the man's voice disappeared, leaving the girl shouting in her heart, but there was no response.
At this time, the girl really understood that the master who had been with her for the past few months, teaching her carefully, and making her, a Lv.0 lying in the mud, truly possess extraordinary power, had really left.
"Master..." The girl murmured with a sense of loss, her heart was empty, as if she had lost her support, and the inexplicable panic and loss came for no reason, making the young girl almost breathless.
However, the girl is worthy of being the only disciple chosen by the "master" whom she has never really met. Her will is completely different from that little girl a few months ago.
After being lost for a while, she raised her head again. There was no panic and fear in her expression. Instead, she was full of determination and faith.
[Master, don't worry! As your disciple, I, Saten Ruiko, will never let you down! ] The girl swore in her heart.
... The next day, even without an alarm clock, Saten Ruiko woke up on time at 6:30.
Unlike the usual little girls who drag their feet when getting up early, the girl lifted the quilt at the first time, changed her clothes quickly like a well-trained soldier, went into the bathroom to wash, and then spent 20 minutes making a simple and nutritious breakfast.
After quickly finishing breakfast, she changed into shoes for going out at the entrance, opened the door of the apartment, and started a new day in the bright sunshine.
... In Academy City, Zhachuan Middle School, a short-haired girl with a wreath on her head was walking and operating a terminal in her hand, looking very busy.
Just then——"Hatsu~haru~"Accompanied by a very energetic voice, the girl felt a cool breeze suddenly coming from the back of her lower body.
This familiar voice, this familiar touch... The skirt... was lifted up! "Ah, I'm wearing a light pink dot pattern today~" The voice behind her said so.
The wreath girl's cheeks suddenly turned red——"Ah——!!!" The wreath girl, blushing with shame, immediately turned around and saw the unexpected figure.
"Tu, what are you doing to me suddenly! Saten-san!" The wreath girl complained with tears in her eyes.
"You are still so reserved to use honorifics to your classmates! Then, let's lift it up again to enhance our relationship!" "Wooooooaaaaa——!!!" The screams of the girls fighting and playing resounded through the sky.
… After the fight, the two girls were walking on the street with two other girls in different school uniforms.
This is Kuroko Shirai, the senior of Hatsuharu Shikiri in the Discipline Committee 177, and Kuroko's roommate, who is also one of the seven Level 5s who dominate all the people with special abilities in Academy City, and the third Electromagnetic Cannon, the electric shock user named Misaka Mikoto.
Today is the first time that Saten Ruiko has met these two seniors, especially this Level 5 Tokiwadai senior. If it were her in the past, she would probably maintain a normal and decent smile while secretly feeling inferior in her heart when she saw such a beautiful and elegant big sister with outstanding abilities! However… let alone the "unbearable" live drama that these two seniors just performed in front of her and Hatsuharu (well, it was the hysterical look of a certain Kuroko holding her sister in the Guanyin sitting lotus posture), the cold and arrogant lady personality of this "Electric Gun" (Saten's self-imagination) has collapsed instantly.
Even without this, Saten, who has power, will no longer feel inferior because she is just a powerless person, and can get along with these powerful power users with a relatively equal mentality.
While walking, the four girls came to a crepe stand while chatting - no, to be precise, they came here on purpose.
For the limited edition Quata gift for the first 100 people, a Quata-loving sister strongly requested to taste the new crepes of this stall. At this time, she was among a group of elementary school students, patiently queuing in a long line.
"Sorry to have kept you waiting! Please take it, this is the last one!" The salesperson took a cheap green Quata ornament and put it in Saten's hand.
"Eh? The last one?" Ruizi was stunned.
"Masaka..." There was a sound of falling behind her. Ruizi looked back and saw a Lv.5 railgun kneeling on the ground in an OTZ posture.
Although she was surprised that Misaka Mikoto would have such a childish interest in the famous railgun, Riri Saten did not dislike her. Seeing that she was so depressed, she couldn't help but squat down and handed the Quata ornament in her hand to Misaka Mikoto.
“… This… If you don’t mind, I can give it to you…” “Really?!” Misaka Mikoto, who had almost turned gray, revived instantly, turned around and grabbed the Quata ornament in Ruiko’s hand, refusing to let go.
“Yes… yes!” Riko nodded in a daze.
Just then—— Boom——!!! A violent explosion sounded from a bank opposite the crepe stand, and billowing smoke poured out from the exploded door.
“No! It’s a bank robbery!” As a discipline committee member, Shirai Kuroko reacted immediately, swallowed the remaining crepes in her hand, took out the discipline committee member’s armband and put it on, preparing to arrest the robbers rushing out of the bank.
However, before she started to move, Saten Ruiko took action first—— [SHAZAM! 】 Accompanied by the spell silently recited in her heart, thunders poured out from the girl’s body.
At this moment, time in the girl’s eyes stopped! ')269'>Chapter 268 Academy City, Superpowers, and... Cheats!
Academy City, located in the western district of Tokyo, Japan, is about one-third the size of Tokyo. It is a huge collection of educational institutions consisting of 23 school districts.
This "school city" includes dozens of universities and hundreds of elementary, middle and high schools, with a total of more than a thousand "research institutions" of all sizes.
The population is nearly 2.3 million, and 80% of the residents (more than 1.8 million) are students.
It has the most advanced technology in the world, at least 20 to 30 years more advanced than the outside world. It is the leader of the scientific world. It was built by the chairman of the General Council, Aleister Crowley, for more than 50 years and is fully managed by the "General Council".
However, this city, which is almost entirely composed of schools and students, does not teach ordinary knowledge, but - superpowers! Telekinesis, water control, fire, electromagnetic manipulation, space movement, telepathy... Yes, the superpowers that only appear in novels, animations and movies actually appeared in the Academy City, which is known as the "Headquarters of the World of Science". All students acquire superpowers in the name of ability development courses through drugs, hypnosis and electrical stimulation.
Various abilities are divided into seven levels according to the range and power of abilities: no ability (Lv.0), low ability (Lv.1), special ability (Lv.2), strong ability (Lv.3), great ability (Lv.4), super ability (Lv.5), and absolute ability (Lv.6).
Of course, the absolute ability user, who is the highest level of superpower, is still only a guessing level in the Academy City. The strongest ability users currently exist have only reached the level of Lv.5.
With one person's strength, it is enough to fight against an army alone. This is the power of Lv.5 superpower users.
There are only seven people who have reached this level of superpowers in the Academy City with a population of 2.3 million! Vector manipulation, unreal matter, super-electromagnetic gun, atomic collapse, psychological mastery, ???, telekinetic bombs. These are the seven people who have reached the top among all the 1.8 million students who have received superpower development. The principle of superpowers, in the theory announced by Academy City, is to influence the microscopic world through the personal reality in the brain, and amplify its influence due to chaos theory, thus forming macroscopic superpowers. However, at this moment, the power emerging from the girl named Saten Ruiko has nothing to do with this so-called "superpower". When the codeword for the power activation was silently recited in the heart, a special information body called "spiritual base" was activated from the dormant state between the girl's soul and body. The power called magic power, which is very different from superpowers, spread out at this moment and covered the girl's whole body. The girl's appearance did not change, nor did her clothes, but her body and mind entered the extraordinary realm at this moment.
Solomon's wisdom (S) gave her rich learning, perception, understanding and insight. She could deduce the truth of an event from the smallest details, learn a completely unfamiliar language in a short period of time (a few hours to a day), and actively or passively perform limited future vision through intelligence collection and thinking deduction.
Hercules' strength (H) gave her extremely powerful strength. Although it was much weaker than the legendary supreme power that could lift the sky, it was also a huge force calculated in tens of thousands of tons. Even with the girl's familiarity and development of this power, even feats such as lifting mountains and shaking continents were not impossible.
Atlas's endurance (A) gave her almost unlimited endurance. Even if she did not eat, sleep or rest, she could always maintain sufficient physical strength and spirit, and even allow her to have an endless life - as long as she did not remove the ability.
The power of Zeus (Z) gave her the ability to control thunder and even transform herself into thunder, which not only gave her a strong resistance to magic, superpowers, and all kinds of mysterious forces, but also allowed her to connect with the electromagnetic force fields that are everywhere on the earth. Not only can she sense and investigate very large areas through the electromagnetic force fields, she can even continuously obtain energy from the electromagnetic forces contained in nature.
Achilles' courage (A) gave her a strong body that was invulnerable to swords and guns and immune to physical attacks. It also gave her powerful fighting skills and strong control over her body as if it were instinct. Even if she had not learned any fighting skills, she could become a top-notch fighting master just by fighting instinct, and she could also master the use of cold weapons such as swords, spears, and bows.
Mercury's speed (M) gave her an affinity for the wind and an incredibly amazing speed. Under the magical interference of magic, she could move at high speeds at several or even dozens of times the speed of sound without triggering sonic booms and violent shock waves.
Moreover, when this ability is used together with the power of transformation into thunder, she can even move at super-high speeds at the speed of lightning propagating in the air (150,000 meters per second, which is 436 times the speed of sound).
This is the plug-in tailored for his lovely disciple by a certain alchemist who descended into this world with a split spirit, the power of SHAZAM! (Isn't this really plagiarism?) Although she has only acquired this power for a few months, under the guidance of a certain teacher, the girl has been able to master this powerful and exaggerated power more skillfully.
And now, facing the bank robbers who use super powers to commit crimes unscrupulously, Ruiko Saten, who has been practicing with criminals in Academy City for several months, reflexively activates her own extraordinary abilities.
However, she also knows that she can't be too exaggerated in public, so she only uses the ability of body transformation and extreme speed to improve her body and mind to the realm of super speed. Therefore, in her eyes at this time, the time of the whole world seems to have stopped, and only she can move freely in this static world.
She let go of the crepe in her hand, letting it fall down at a speed that was almost stopped under the action of gravity, and then walked leisurely across the street at the speed of "normal walking", came to the front door of the bank opposite, passed through the black smoke that seemed to be stagnant in the air, and walked in front of the three robbers who had just crossed the blown-up bank door with their faces covered and backpacks on their backs.
Then, as if she was playing with life-size puppets, the girl first took off the backpacks full of banknotes on the backs of the three robbers one by one, and then arranged their bodies in a circle, grabbed their arms, clenched their fists, and carefully moved them to the front of the face of another robber beside her, and then gently pushed their arms forward, estimating that the strength of the fist was just enough to knock someone out.
After looking around and finding that there was nothing missing, the girl walked back to the original place with the same leisurely posture, picked up the crepe she had just put down, and returned to the original posture.
The next moment, Saten Ruiko released her ability, and the time in her eyes returned to normal.
Bang, bang, bang——Three fists hit the bridge of the nose almost at the same time. Three low-level robbers who robbed the bank in Academy City fell to the ground at the same time and fell into a painful coma.
"Eh? What happened? 0_0" Shirai Kuroko jumped in front of the three robbers and looked at the inexplicable scene in front of him with a confused face.
')270'>Chapter 269 Urban Legend
Amid the sound of sirens, the belated security guards finally arrived at the scene.
Looking at the three bank robbers with crooked noses, tears streaming down their faces, and frowning painfully even in coma, Huang Quanchuan Aiho, who was in charge of the police this time, looked at Shirai Kuroko with some doubts: "Shirai, why are you so violent this time?" Well, as a security guard who often cooperates with the discipline committee, Huang Quanchuan and Kuroko are naturally familiar with each other. She remembered that this space movement Lv.4 powerful person, although he has strong fighting skills, doesn't he usually like to use small steel needles to subdue criminals without injury? Why did he hit so hard this time that he broke the criminal's nose! "...Ha-I said this is not what I did, do you believe it?" Shirai Kuroko sighed and said in her unique voice.
"...I believe it!" Huang Quanchuan looked up and down at Shirai Kuroko, then nodded.
She knew this member of the Discipline Committee who often wrote letters of repentance for overstepping her authority outside the school, and she knew that Kuroko would not joke about such things. Besides, this was the entrance of the bank, and the surveillance camera was there. If she really wanted to know what happened at that time, she could watch the surveillance video.
"So, what happened? Did someone do something righteous?" As he said this, Huang Quanchuan could not help but turn his eyes to other people around him, trying to find the one who did something righteous.
The one wearing a wreath... She is Kuroko's colleague, so it shouldn't be her... The little girl with long hair? No, she looks weak, so it shouldn't be her either... Then, could it be this girl who looks very boyish... While scanning the companions behind Kuroko, Huang Quanchuan analyzed in his mind.
However, what Kuroko said next surprised her - "No, in fact... I don't know what happened!" Shirai Kuroko shook his head and said, "When the bank door was blown open, I I acted immediately, but when I used space movement to jump in front of these three guys, I found that they had fallen unconscious, their noses were broken, and all the money they had taken away had been put back. In the bank...it was probably only a few seconds. I didn't see anyone moving at all, and I had no idea what was going on."
"Hmm...is this the case again..." Yomikawa Aiho held her chin with her hand and nodded thoughtfully.
"Huh? Senior Yomikawa, do you know anything?" Shirai Kuroko obviously noticed the abnormality in Yomikawa's expression and couldn't help but ask.
"Well... I just thought of a rumor that has been going on for a while.
Shirai-san, do you know the latest urban legend - 'The Ghost Avenger in the Midnight'? "As an adult, Huang Quanchuan actually talked about urban legends at this time, which made Heizi filled with astonishment for a moment.
"Urban legends? Aren't these things just based on rumors? I never pay much attention to them.
Could it be that this ‘ghost avenger in the middle of the night’ has anything to do with this incident? "Although I am very dissatisfied with things like urban legends and feudal superstitions, since Huang Quanchuan mentioned this, it means that this legend is very likely to be true, so Heizi will not really ignore it. One thing.
"Well! It must have been a few months ago. In various school districts in Academy City, many bad elements and groups of armed incompetent people were defeated by unknown people and then sent collectively to the gate of the security department. previous situation.”
When Yomikawa said this, Kuroko stiffened and glanced at Misaka Mikoto who was standing behind him rather uncomfortably.
This kind of thing could not be done by onee-sama... "However, the strange thing is that those arrested bad elements and armed incompetent people all claimed that they did not see anything. Next, he was subdued in just a moment.
Some people think that this is the ghosts of those who were bullied to death by them and came back for revenge. There is also such an urban legend of "Ghost Avenger in the Midnight" on the Internet. "
"..." Heizi felt speechless at these bad guys like scum. Since he was afraid of the ghost's revenge, why did he do so many illegal things in the first place? However, she also understood what Huang Quanchuan meant. If those bad elements and armed incompetent people did not lie in their confessions, plus today's incident, then it is certain that there is indeed a very powerful person with abilities. , able to subdue criminals unconsciously in an instant without anyone noticing.
Moreover, this person will definitely not be her elder sister! Her elder sister is so handsome, so chic, so powerful, and so handsome when she uses her powers to teach young gangsters a lesson. She is not the coward who doesn't even dare to show her face! (Clenches fist) Well, from a practical point of view, it really doesn’t look like Misaka Mikoto’s approach.
After all, the arc sparks that she could not hide when she activated her ability had nothing to do with "ghost".
In addition, Misaka Mikoto's behavior is completely different from that of this "Ghost Avenger". She basically uses herself as a bait to lure those bad guys to take action first, and then she can use it as a "reasonable and legal" reason for self-defense. to inflict a sanctioning electric shock on the opponent.
Therefore, today there was indeed an unknown powerful user who, right under the noses of Shirai Kuroko and everyone around him, openly and honestly knocked down three bank robbers in an instant, and no one noticed it yet! ..."The midnight ghost avenger..." Misaka Mikoto, who was standing not far behind Kuroko, raised her ears and listened to the conversation of the two people in front of her, thinking deeply in her heart.
No wonder she recently found a lot less "fish" when she was wandering around in various alleys "fishing". She didn't expect that a fellow fishermen appeared... Moreover, unlike her, this fellow fisher did not use fishing to enforce the law. Instead of teaching those gangsters a lesson, she took the initiative with more secretive methods, and the scale of the operation was much larger than hers.
Hmm - is this the difference between amateur and professional? Misaka Mikoto admitted that in this aspect, she did lose to the "Ghost Avenger".
However, the unknown ability user just now should be someone at the scene. As a Level 5 user with the highest level of electromagnetic manipulation system, Misaka Mikoto did sense the activation of some abnormal electromagnetic power at that moment. .
But that time was too short, so short that she almost thought it was an illusion, so she didn't have time to calculate the other party's position.
Who could it be? The princess of Tokiwadai narrowed her eyes and scanned everyone around her one by one, trying to find the "Ghost Avenger" who was hiding deeply.
')271'>Chapter 270 Aleister is looking at you
School District 7, windowless building.
In the huge cylindrical glass tank, in the red culture fluid, a figure with ankle-length silver hair and a green surgical suit was suspended head to toe.
How to describe his appearance? He looks like a man and a woman, an adult and a child, a saint and a prisoner. It is as if all the possible qualities of a human being are gathered into one person, and it seems that this person himself is too lacking in personality. The illusion produced.
This is none other than the founder and controller of Academy City, the headquarters of the science side, and the chairman of the board, Aleister Crowley.
This being who controls everything in Academy City, the true portrayal of the words "behind-the-scenes" and "conspirator", is currently using the nanoscale intelligence collection agencies throughout Academy City, the "Sky Loop", Observe every movement in this city.
According to past situations, he usually focuses most of his energy on "Fantasy Killer", "Accelerator", "Railgun", these important characters in his plan, but today, no, exactly It is said that in the past few months, a large part of his attention has been focused on another existence.
In a light curtain formed by holographic projection, dozens of videos are being played on screens about a foot in size.
Most of the scenes played in these videos take place at night. You can see the bad scum that live at the bottom of the city in dim alleys, abandoned construction sites, and deserted areas with few people. They are either robbing others, bullying others, teasing women, or engaging in various illegal transactions.
But after an almost undetectable flash of light, these people all disappeared. Then in the next moment, in another shot, this group of people appeared unconscious at the gate of the security office of each school district.
Comparing the time scales on the two lenses, we can see that all of this happened in less than a second, which is incredible.
Slow down the video, then slow it down again, until it is fixed to a certain frame in the middle, and finally you can see a blurry spot in the picture.
With the help of supercomputer, this spot of light continued to become clearer, and what was finally revealed was a black figure that was still very blurry, but had a human shape.
There are also some pictures showing the figure of a girl changing out of her black night clothes in a dimly lit bedroom.
The only scene that looked like it was daytime was playing scenes from a bank robbery that had happened in the past few days.
On the screen, a girl wearing a Zhachuan Middle School uniform, a petal-shaped hairpin on her head, and long straight black hair was placed in the center of the screen, and the moment frozen in the screen was exactly what happened to this girl. When tiny lightning just burst out.
"There are unexpected variables. Maybe your plan will be messed up by this little girl and the existence behind her~" A voice mixed with many noises came to the ears of the "Hanged Man" in the huge test tube. sounded, but his indifferent tone could not hide the emotion of "wanting to watch a good show".
"No, this is not a variable, but a boost!" The "person" suspended upside down did not speak, but instead was the simulated electronic sound emitted by the machine - an existence named Aleister, with the help of life The maintenance device transfers all life activities and even thinking itself to the machine, and speaking is no exception.
"Having a special power that is very different from the magic of the Osiris era, and at the same time being very close to the third one, it would be better to say that with the help of her power, my plan can progress faster."
Said this by the super conspirator who has countless plans hidden in his heart, and each plan has countless backup plans.
"Haha, okay, this girl is indeed nothing to worry about, but what about the existence that gave her power? This kind of law is completely different from the current world, and there is also the kind of fog that even I can't see through. Maybe the other party is... An existence that is more troublesome than the devil~" said the voice full of noise.
"Can't you see through it either?" Aleister's slightly surprised voice came from the life support device.
"Yes, although the total amount of power can be said to be insignificant, not to mention compared with the devil, even compared with those angels, it is far behind, but I can feel that the essence of the other party is extremely high, and it is displayed in front of us It's only an insignificant part of the opponent's body.
However, what really scares me is some kind of unknown that even I feel afraid of. "
"Even you are afraid of the unknown..." Aleister seemed to be chewing on the words in that voice, while the life support device was running, thinking, and fell into a long silence again.