Temperature Control in Academy City

Almost at the same time, Natsume Sonoko's eyes met with Shirai's, and according to the plan they had made before, the three of them acted separately.

If the attack misses, he will immediately flee thousands of miles away to prevent Kihara Gensei from using psychological control to counterattack.

This practice is somewhat similar to that of assassins in ancient times.

This is not quite appropriate. Natsume and the others' goal is just to control Kihara Gensei, not to assassinate him like an assassin.

Separation is also necessary, as no one knows how Kihara Gensei will use psychological control and to what extent his abilities can reach.

Even though it might be faster to act with Shirai-san, the possible risks would also be greater.

According to Murphy's Law, the more likely something seems to happen, the more likely it is to happen.

Natsume felt that Kihara Gensei would definitely use psychological control to counterattack at the first possible moment, and in fact this prediction was very accurate.

Almost at the moment he noticed the movement in space, information about a certain discipline committee member appeared in Kihara Gensei's mind.

[Name: Shirai Kuroko]

[Ability: Space Movement]

[Trigger condition: Skin contact]

[Capacity limit distance 81.5 meters; maximum moving mass 130.7 kilograms]

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At the same time, as the distance of ability release increases, Shirai Kuroko's accuracy will also decrease.

Therefore, the straight-line distance between the attackers should not exceed eighty meters, and can even be compressed to about fifty meters.

Before the absolute ability user experiment began, Kihara Gensei conducted a thorough investigation on several super-powered people through various means, and even made preparations for some possible situations.

The investigation also included members of the Queen's faction, and he even had information about Hokaze Junko.

These investigations are basic work for these scientific researchers. After all, if you don’t even understand your own mice, you would be considered unqualified.

Moreover, the best way to deal with people with special abilities is to see through their details in advance and then make arrangements based on their weaknesses.

As long as the arrangement is proper, even a person with super powers can be killed with one strike. Three people with super powers who do not want to reveal their names said that this makes sense.

Natsume Sonoko and the others' sneak attack was almost the same, taking advantage of the special features of spatial movement.

However, they knew too little about Kihara Gensei, so little that they could only make plans based on their inherent ideas, and the result was naturally a failure, as Kihara Gensei's level of technological advancement was unbelievably high.

The large-scale back-and-forth battles in Academy City usually only occur in unprepared encounters or ambushes due to a severe lack of intelligence or even errors.

Of course, with the exception of some people with inexplicable super powers, the gap between people is greater than that between people and dogs.

Even if you have collected information very carefully and made various preparations in advance, in the end, your backbone can still teach you a lesson.

The violent air currents collided and squeezed each other according to someone's intention, and the surrounding air area became chaotic and elusive.

Natsume-san input a lot of strange atmospheric formulas into his head.

Raising his eyes slightly, Kihara Gensei silently looked at the sky that had changed color. The powerful storm that had appeared out of nowhere had covered up all the movements.

Almost at the moment he stood firm, he pressed the metal remote control in his hand, and invisible special waves instantly covered a vast area with a radius of 300 meters with his body as the center.

Although the spatial movement penetrated the vector operation calculation suit on his body, Kihara Gensei looked to be in a very dangerous situation.

But in fact, his situation has not changed much, allowing him to fight back calmly.

The girl named Shirai Kuroko avoided the vital points of the brain and adhered to some boring bottom line and morality. This weak hostility posed no threat at all.

This attack looked as ridiculous as something like the Daihastarai.

Various rules and regulations bind all those who choose to stay in the light.

A flexible moral bottom line is something that ordinary students in Academy City do not have. People like Kihara Gensei, who are almost in a moral vacuum, are able to thrive in this environment.

Those who have powerful abilities but are naive enough can only be used as experimental materials to be picked and chosen by others. If they do not have a strong enough heart, they will easily be swallowed up by the darkness of the Academy City.

Back to the topic, Kihara Gensei's counterattack made Natsume inadvertently breathe a sigh of relief.

The threat of psychological control to Natsume and her friends is that they cannot predict where it will appear.

However, Kihara Gensei chose to attack from all directions, which instead dispersed the coverage in a single direction.

It could originally affect a distance of several kilometers in a flat direction, but now it has become a sphere facing all directions.

The volume of the sphere increases exponentially as the radius increases.

Perhaps the area that can be affected at the same time has not changed, but the straight-line distance traveled has been shortened a lot.

The mind of the security teacher who came over to support went blank in an instant, and even unrelated passers-by were affected, while Natsume and the others barely avoided the psychological control that was so close.

The flying skills that a certain ball-head has practiced for many years came in handy once again when he was facing danger.

Unless Kihara Gensei has real-time knowledge of the actions of Natsume and the others and obtains the accurate trajectory of their movements, it would still require some luck to use his ability to control them.

"Have you left already? You are surprisingly decisive."

"It seems that the character of the Eighth needs to be re-evaluated."

Kihara Gensei's expression was slightly surprised, as if he felt that the information he got from the bun-haired girl's head was not complete enough.

At first, he obtained special information about the eighth from Tsuchimikado Motoharu, and then he broke free from the psychological control he exerted, and was able to accurately find his location while hiding his heat and body shape.

Kihara Gensei is becoming more and more interested in a girl with a bun hairstyle, but this is obviously not a good thing for the person involved.

"Shirai-san, what's going on?"

Mixed with some electrical noise, a weak voice from early spring came over.

The signal in the headset was still a little patchy, and there seemed to be some residual electromagnetic disturbance caused by Misaka-senpai in this location.

"It's not good. Kihara Gensei has a serious problem. Our action was unsuccessful."

"And Hatsuharu, I seem to have lost Natsume and the others, but given that guy's abilities, there's a good chance they'll be fine."

On the rooftop of another building, Shirai Kuroko said weakly.

Because the movement was too large, the wounds on her body showed signs of tearing again, and waves of pain made it difficult for her to lean against the edge of the vertical wall.

Shirai looked up at the sky, trying to find her teammate with disheveled hair and a pitiful bun, but the man was obviously not running in the same direction as her.

"How's Onee-sama doing? Is it true that Shokuhou Misaki has been found?"

Shirai Kuroko's eyes suddenly lit up.

Kihara Gensei's most difficult problem is his all-pervasive psychological control ability. If it were Shokuhou Misaki, there might be a way to solve it.

Chapter 385: Non-existent opponents increase

Messages from both sides were transmitted through the Internet, and busy conversations could be heard in the earphones.

As the middleman, Hatsuharu felt a little dry-mouthed. She was busy receiving the signals from Misaka-senpai and Shirai-san in turn.

Trying to deal with things on both sides at the same time is actually quite physically and mentally exhausting.

"That's about it. Although we've found the exact location, we've encountered some trouble there."

Uiharu couldn't help but clear his throat and continued.

"That Shokuhou-senpai seems to be in a bad condition. She is still in a coma and has some serious injuries."

“In this case, even if we rescue Shokuhou-senpai, we probably won’t know what happened until she wakes up.”

After a pause, Hatsuharu said with some concern, but there was something strange in his tone.

"It is rumored that Miss Tokiwadai, who is competing with Senior Misaka, lives in different dormitories because they dislike each other, and sometimes they even confront each other in school..."

"But is this how the relationship is in private?"

Mumbling a little, a look of interest emerged on Hatsuharu's face, as she remembered some rumors she had collected about aristocratic girls' schools.

In order to help her opponent, Shokuhou-senpai was accidentally attacked and injured. Although Misaka-senpai had just escaped from danger, she rushed to rescue the opponent without hesitation.

On the surface, they are enemies who are incompatible with each other, but in private, they are extremely close partners.

The love-hate relationship, love-hate relationship and vengeance among the noble ladies are vividly portrayed on the paper.

This is undoubtedly in line with the plot of girls' comics.

A certain student named Hatsuharu Shikiri, who was deeply 'poisoned' by these comics and longed for the life of a young lady, could not help but have her pair of dark eyes slightly shining.

"Hatsuharu, please put away your imagination."

"How could Onee-sama have any private relationship with Shokuhou Misaki? Besides, now is not the time to discuss such things."

Shirai-san on the other end of the headset said unhappily, obviously having heard Uiharu's mumbling.

Although she said that, her mind was firmly drawn to it, and even the threat posed by Kihara Gensei seemed to have diminished.

Shirai-san has always scoffed at such statements, but based on the current situation, it is not impossible to infer the opposite.

Moreover, the elder sister didn't explain much about the reason why Shokuhou Misaki joined, and she just glossed over it in order to save time.

She just said that Shokuhou Misaki was involved because of her, so Onee-sama must save Shokuhou Misaki.

Is there something fishy going on here?

Thinking of this, Shirai Kuroko's face became anxious, because elder sister already has me.

Oh no, it seems that the non-existent opponents have increased again.

"But, could someone like Shokuhou Misaki actually end up in such a dangerous situation?"

The anxious expression on Shirai Kuroko's face gradually subsided, and apart from some fluctuations in her tone, there seemed to be no other changes.

Unlike her elder sister who kept a low profile at school, Shokuhou Misaki formed a large faction that almost ruled over half of Tokiwadai.

The members of this faction include not only the three grades of Tokiwadai, but also students from other schools in the Gakusha Garden, and there are quite a few people with great abilities among them.

However, Shirai Kuroko has never been interested in the fifth most powerful person in the school, and she is very impolite when speaking to him by calling him by his name.

What surprised Shirai Kuroko at this time was that such a guy actually made the same choice as his elder sister.

Without relying on the power of the Queen's faction, he faced the danger alone.

Although their styles of doing things seemed completely different in the past, they both had the same gentle and kind heart, and were unwilling to put irrelevant people in danger.

As expected, he was a very strong opponent. Shirai Kuroko lowered his head, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, the wound on her body was affected again, and she grimaced, looking unladylike at all.

"By the way, where did that guy Natsume go?"

Finally thinking of a classmate with a ball-shaped head who was still out of contact, Shirai Kuroko said helplessly while enduring the pain.

That guy didn't come to find me?

.....

At this moment, an ordinary girl with disheveled hair stood high in the air with an expressionless face.

A white cloud floated past my feet and was cut into countless pieces by the ruthless updraft.

Her beautiful hair danced naturally in the wind, and the shriveled blisters on her right arm seemed particularly eye-catching.

Usually when Natsume has a blank expression on his face, his brain activity is quite intense. To put it simply, he is in a state of divergent thinking.

No one knows where Shirai-san ran off to, and Reiko has now moved to a safer place.

Due to the limited number of communication devices, Natsume was not allocated any props such as headphones, which resulted in her being unable to contact Hatsuharu and the others for the time being.

The expected strategic shift was successful, but new problems emerged after the shift.

The bad old man Kihara Gensei must be dealt with, as it concerns the safety of everyone. In addition, Natsume's brain has been hacked, and a lot of information is in Kihara Gensei's hands, which leaves her with no choice.

But Natsume now feels like she has no idea where to start, because of the psychological control, she has no way to deal with Kihara Gensei.

Once you get close to it, you might be killed, either being controlled or having a bunch of inexplicable memories implanted in you.

Even if I team up with Shirai-san again, it would probably just be a repeat of the previous story.

Unless Shirai chooses to attack Kihara Gensei's brain, it would be possible to break the deadlock, but this is also not feasible.

"What should I do? No, I should say what can I do."

Natsume Sonoko pursed her lips with a sad look, and she was obviously unwilling to retreat like this.