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Chapter 375: Chapter 375: The Scientist with High Kung Fu Skills Chapter 375: Chapter 375: The Scientist with High Kung Fu Skills I suddenly realized that, without my knowing, my hopeful and leisurely holiday had already gone up in smoke.

Zuotian Tsuruya’s… *cough cough*, Ability Granting Project, Sister Misaka Redemption Project, Fantasy Master incident, Silvia disappearance incident… It seemed as though someone possessed a natural tragic halo, attracting all sorts of dumbfounding troubles to themselves as soon as they arrived in this world. Conversely, after sending out a few Xyrin agents specifically for surveillance, I found that Kamijou Youth, who should have been the protagonist of all these troubling incidents, was now living a shameless happy life with his silver-haired white-robed pet, a fact that fully proved…

“The world’s tragedies are limited; when you’re unlucky, someone else becomes happy. So, Wood, you should face the upcoming challenges with a compassionate heart–that’s right, pass me the soy sauce.”

I nodded and handed over the soy sauce… Soy sauce my ass! Your outlook on life needs correcting, girl!

“I’m beginning to suspect that it’s because of you, this trouble magnet, that such a series of troubles has befallen me,” I said speechlessly as I watched Miss Lin, devoid of her typically elegant demeanor, compete with Visca in eating crabs (with Sandora not around, that girl had indeed become a tyrant at the dining table), and I seriously lamented, “In a sense, you’re giving me more trouble than Kamijou Youth does with his flirting.”

While eating, Miss Lin shot me a glare and then quickly snatched the last meatball in front of me, saying, “You have the nerve to say that? It seems like the real womanizer in all these incidents is you, you beast.”

“Ha eh? Is that so?”

“Besides, the only incident that had nothing to do with flirting was passed off by you to the sister you just picked up…”

I was thoroughly defeated…

There was a wild urge inside me to contradict Miss Lin’s words, but the sight of the ten thousand incubation tanks prepared for the sisters in Shadow City rendered me speechless; to tell you the truth, ten thousand sisters… The last time I video chatted with Bubbles, the look in her eyes had changed, muttering suspicious things like “The children’s father needs a dose of humanity,” which made me break out in a cold sweat.

“With Zuotian Tsuruya’s current abilities, handling the Illusion Beast shouldn’t be a problem, and besides, that was her own request. I can somewhat understand her thoughts…”

Qianqian, of course, wasn’t really pondering the same concerns as the wildly thinking Miss Lin about whether her boyfriend was womanizing by the battalion. She was thinking about something else.

“Once in pain because of her own powerlessness, she now wants to prove herself. To demonstrate that she, now empowered, is no longer a burden to her friends. Zuotian Tsuruya’s current thoughts may not be entirely correct, but they must be respected. After all, I once harbored the same thoughts when I went to Mother Nest to receive an overdose of radiation…”

The nerve of this girl to say that; when I heard she and her sister fainted in the Mother Nest, I was nearly scared to death.

But, just as Qianqian said, Zuotian Tsuruya wanted to rely on her own strength to help her friends resolve the Fantasy Master event, to prove her worth. Despite the influence of Academy City’s unreasonable Level system, it was a choice worthy of respect. With the Storm Commander’s absolute control, even if she didn’t know what sort of creature the Illusion Beast was, there shouldn’t be too much trouble, right?

Well, in theory, that is… I think it’s still better to prepare some emergency plans. Honestly, I don’t have the slightest bit of confidence in my own luck anymore.

When the real mastermind was finally uncovered, the girls of the Disciplinary Committee Branch 177 found it utterly unbelievable.

Kiyama Haruaki, a woman researcher who was a bit eccentric and air-headed but had always been approachable and made significant contributions in her research, was the creator and spreader of the Fantasy Master?

But as incredible as it seemed, the reality was undeniable.

After discovering that there was partial overlap in the brainwaves of the comatose students, the search for this mutated segment of brain waves led to a single name logged in the Academy Library, and that was Kiyama Haruaki.

“Miss Kiyama… was actually the culprit behind all this?!”

Not just Misaka Mikoto let out a cry of surprise, even Kushida Meiwei, who was always so composed, showed a look of shock.

“AIM diffusion field…” Bai Jing Heizi murmured this term. When one clue appeared, the chain of events gradually became clear. If Kiyama Haruaki’s main research direction was the application of the AIM diffusion field, then it could explain why all the students who used the Fantasy Master fell into a coma at the same time.

“In other words, use the AIM diffusion field as the network cable and use your own brainwaves as the network protocol to construct a parallel computational system consisting of tens of thousands of brains…” Being the most computer-savvy among the group, Chichun Shili understood this point and immediately grasped the principle of the entire Fantasy Master network, “With that, one could gain astonishing computational power… even enough to rival the Tree Diagram Designer’s calculating ability!”

“But what’s the point in doing that?!” Misaka Mikoto asked, puzzled, “Kiyama Haruaki should just be a researcher who hasn’t undergone ability development, right? The computing power of these power users to her…”

“No matter what her goal is, we must stop her immediately!”

Bai Jing Heizi decisively interrupted Misaka Mikoto and then turned her head towards Kushida Meiwei, “Senior Kushida, can we request support from the security team?”

Although they are part of the same security organization for the entire Academy City, members of the Disciplinary Committee are still students. Despite possessing various abilities that could rival the regular army, in missions that required armed apprehension, the Disciplinary Committee still needed to seek help from the security team which held official military power.

Kiyama Haruaki probably never expected her identity to be discovered so quickly by a few young girls. Or perhaps she had foreseen this moment and was fearless. Almost minutes after the security team accepted Kushida Meiwei’s request for help, Chichun Shili located Kiyama Haruaki through the surveillance system of Academy City.

A blue Lamborghini sports car–since it was rare for anyone to drive such a car in Academy City, and Misaka Mikoto had seen it once before while helping Kiyama Haruaki find a parking space, she recognized it instantly.

“Teacher Yomikawa! The target’s movements have been spotted!”

Chichun Shili immediately contacted Yomikawa, who was the local security team sub-leader, and quickly relayed the information she had.

“It’s a blue sports car, on the No. 3 highway behind you! It will leave the main road in about fifteen minutes!”

“With the teachers from the security team stepping in, the problem should be resolved quickly…”

Seeing that the armed personnel from the security team had gradually started to block the entrances and exits of the third highway, Misaka Mikoto patted her chest and let out a sigh of relief.

Those were teachers who had received regular military training and were equipped with firearms and warning robots. If the opponent was just a researcher, wouldn’t they be able to capture her in an instant? And then… they would have to ask her why she did this, why she used those innocent students.

That’s what Misaka Mikoto thought, but Zuotian Tsuruya, who was behind her, gradually furrowed her brows.

A sentence echoed in her heart. Although she still didn’t understand the meaning of those words, she instinctively felt it was a reminder from Big Brother Director:

“Even a scientist skilled in martial arts cannot be stopped by thugs.”

That sentence must have some deeper meaning!!

And then Zuotian Tsuruya understood the deep meaning behind those words.

The security team members sent to apprehend Kiyama Haruaki were all knocked down in a single encounter!

Power users, is Kiyama Haruaki actually a power user?!

Watching the footage transmitted back to the screen, the office of the Disciplinary Committee suddenly fell silent.

“How could this be… Kiyama Haruaki, she’s just an ordinary researcher, right? And there’s no record of her undergoing ability development in the library either…”

Chichun Shili quickly shuffled through the data on the computer, murmuring incredulously to herself.

“Hey! Big Sister, what are you–”

Bai Jing Heizi’s sudden exclamation interrupted Chichun’s astonishment. She looked up in shock to see Misaka Mikoto being tightly gripped by her lily junior, yet she still maintained an action as if ready to sprint out.

“Of course, I’m going to stop Kiyama Haruaki!” Misaka Mikoto declared as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

“Big Sister is just too impulsive,” Bai Jing Heizi said helplessly, “This kind of thing should naturally be handled by us Disciplinary Committee members!”

“But…” Misaka Mikoto had barely begun to speak when Kushida Meiwei stood up: “Although I don’t want to involve ordinary citizens, if you, as a superpower user Misaka Mikoto, can help, then that would be great–Heizi, it’s an emergency situation, and do you think, with your current physical state, you’re fit to go out on a mission, especially against such a power user?”

While speaking, Kushida Meiwei turned the LCD screen on the table towards them. The screen displayed the view of the security team members being steadily driven back under the relentless attacks of Kiyama Haruaki’s various abilities.

“Kushida senpai!”

Her carefully guarded secret exposed so bluntly before Big Sister, Bai Jing Heizi yelled out nervously, only to have her forehead flicked by Mikoto neither too harshly nor too lightly: “Heizi, did you really think you could hide your injuries from me?”

In the recent spate of superpower users’ attacks, Bai Jing Heizu, as branch 177’s strongest combatant, had single-handedly taken on nearly eighty percent of the interception tasks. Even with LEVEL 4 spatial abilities, getting injured in the constant missions was inevitable, and up till now, her wounds still had not fully healed.

“You should find some time to visit the research institute; at least their body repair technology is quite dependable.”

Without any hesitation, Misaka Mikoto casually betrayed some inapplicable research institute.

Kushida Meiwei, who was listening in, touched her forehead with her hand: “I always feel that that research institute you mention sounds like an incredible place… seems like they cover everything from superpower development to psychological counseling to treatment of complicated diseases…”

“And also take on saving the world, protecting peace…” Tsuruya added silently in her mind.

“Anyway, let me take care of this,” having dismissed the younger girl’s reckless intentions, Misaka Mikoto confidently declared, “Heizi, you just stay back with Chichun and the others to provide my logistical support this time. Wait for the good news at the branch! No matter how strong Kiyama Haruaki is, I’m the Super Electromagnetic Cannon after all!”

“Me too! I’ll go with Misaka senpai as well!”

Zuotian Tsuruya’s voice suddenly interjected.

“Tsuruya? You…” Misaka Mikoto was about to say that those without combat ability should stay at the branch, but then she remembered that her close friend in front of her was already a LEVEL 3 superpower user and choked on her words.

“My ability is very suitable for combat support!” Tsuruya quickly seized the moment, while inside her, that persona that loves chaos weirdly began to boil with excitement, “So you must take me along!”

“Ah,” Misaka Mikoto hesitated only briefly before nodding in agreement, “I almost forgot, Tsuruya has become a formidable power user herself now.”

At the side of a road that had completely collapsed due to the discharge of abilities, a signal car bearing the special emblem of the Disciplinary Committee screeched to a steady halt, and three petite silhouettes descended.

Misaka Mikoto, Zuotian Tsuruya, and another person, Chichun Shili, who had no significant combat ability.

The Flower Pot Girl, originally without combat ability, was supposed to stay at the branch for backup, but considering the need to handle the prime sample of the Fantasy Master immediately if it could be obtained from Kiyama Haruaki, Chichun Shili, skilled in computing, also came along.

“Chichun, you stay in the signal car later,” Misaka Mikoto hurriedly instructed, “Such important research data, Kiyama will definitely carry it with him, once we get hold of it, it’s all up to you!”

“Mm!”

The girl with the garland nodded vigorously, then cast a worried glance towards Tsuruya: “Zuotian classmate, please be careful!”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. Although I’m still not proficient, I am a LEVEL 3 power user after all, self-protection is definitely not a problem.”

Although the security team had been wiped out by Kiyama Haruaki, the interference of those armed personnel still had a certain effect. By the time Mikoto arrived, the female researcher with dark circles under her eyes had not yet managed to leave the scene.

“This ends here!”

When the girl, surrounded by lightning, suddenly appeared before him and shouted this phrase at him, Kiyama Haruaki merely scoffed disdainfully.

“Hmph, are you also trying to stop me?”

Electric light entwined around Misaka Mikoto’s arms, yet she did not immediately launch an attack, instead, she quietly watched the woman before her.

“Why are you doing this? Why are you using those innocent students!”

Kiyama Haruaki fell silent for three seconds, then spoke in a low voice, “Because I have things I must do…”

“Can you not stop me? It will be over quickly, then everyone will awaken, no one will be hurt…”

“What a joke!” Misaka Mikoto yelled angrily, “No one will be hurt?! You have already–involved tens of thousands of innocents!”

“Shriek–”

A piercing boom tears through the air as a bright white lightning spear suddenly erupts from Misaka’s forehead, then in an instant, it crosses dozens of meters and strikes at the motionless Kiyama Haruaki.

But the usually infallible tens of thousands of volts of electricity lost their effect this time, as Kiyama Haruaki merely seemed to casually extend her hand in front, and the dazzling lightning spear scattered in all directions as if it had hit an invisible barrier.

Using the ability to manipulate air, she created a vacuum capacitance barrier in front of her and then used the moist air to form a lightning rod-like disbursement channel in front of the barrier to disperse the high-voltage electricity that couldn’t be released into the ground and the atmosphere around it. With just a LEVEL 3 ability, it was possible to neutralize a LEVEL 5 electric strike–although that was not Misaka Mikoto’s full strength.

This fully proved that scientists knowing martial arts is quite a terrifying thing.

The failure of the first attack did not panic Misaka Mikoto; she quickly used electromagnetic effects to pull herself up to a nearby street lamp, then took out a game token.

The Super Electromagnetic Cannon, the famously formidable attack, is in principle quite simple: using the effect that magnetic conductors continuously accelerate in a magnetic field, with a precision-controlled 100,000-volt current, a series of acceleration “coils” is created that launches the metallic coin as a projectile at supersonic speed, and the coin itself continuously melts and evaporates during its flight. The magnetic trajectory that’s formed directs the remaining electricity to produce a secondary stage attack in the form of a plasma jet stream. Despite the coin melting, limiting the Super Electromagnetic Cannon’s attack range to a mere 50 meters, within this range, even a main battle tank could be easily pierced.

Unfortunately for her, Kiyama Haruaki’s powers were not limited to just a single ability.

Just as the “Super Electromagnetic Cannon” was about to be fired, Kiyama Haruaki suddenly vanished from Misaka’s field of vision.

“Space Transfer!” Misaka had time only to shriek in surprise when she felt a violent shaking beneath her feet.

The asphalt-like road surface started churning as if melting, and the street lamp beneath her feet quickly tilted.

Once again using electromagnetic effects to move herself to a nearby concrete bridge pier and magnetically clung tightly to the steel reinforcement inside the pier, she was temporarily out of the trap, but her enemy had still not appeared before her.

At that moment, another voice suddenly rang out over the battlefield, “Enemy of the Legion!”

It was Zuotian Tsuruya’s voice. Seeing her friend in a tough battle, she abandoned concerns about secrecy and directly engaged the Commander’s ability.

A vast array of information scanning instantly covered the entire battlefield, and then the invisible Kiyama Haruaki, who was preparing to launch a sneak attack, suddenly appeared not far in front of Misaka. Above her head floated a strange mark that looked like a targeting frame, but contained indecipherable symbols.

“Tsuruya!?”

Misaka called out in surprise, this situation seemed to be quite different from the superpowers of Academy City.

“There’s no time to explain!” Tsuruya shouted from a distance, “Attack her now! This ability only lasts for a limited time!” (To be continued, for more details, please visit www.NovelFire.net. More chapters are available, support the author, support genuine reading!)

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