Temperature Control in Academy City

"That's right. If you don't pay attention to small details like this, you'll end up making a fool of yourself."

"Come to think of it, when I first arrived at Academy City, it took me a few days to adapt and learn this change, but this little difficulty didn't bother me at all."

Flandaseviren held her chin in her hand as she recalled the incident, a dazed look on her face.

In his other hand he was holding the same type of three-color ice cream, and before he knew it he had blended into this strange group.

Occasionally, she would look at the eighth person. However, seeing the other person's lack of defense, Flanders vigilance had been reduced a lot, and she could already be sure that the other person had not discovered her identity at all.

As long as her identity as an Anbu is not exposed, she is just an ordinary transfer student in Academy City and can communicate normally with everyone without worrying about being suddenly attacked by the other party.

Even when the other party asked her name, she did not deliberately hide it.

Because this is totally unnecessary. The other party can only find out her identity in the surface world at most, and her four-digit friends also know her surface identity.

As for the information of the Anbu, if the other party can find out about it, then it doesn't make sense for me to tell it or not.

“But it must be very hard.”

"After all, I came to a completely unfamiliar place, and I have to take care of my sister."

She couldn't help but put herself in Franda's situation. Natsume has always been a good supporting actor, and she also thought of when she first came to Academy City.

What all students in Academy City have to go through is leaving their hometown and coming to a strange place to learn some superpowers.

But after the initial excitement subsided, only loneliness and panic remained, until I completely adapted to life in this city and became independent.

In order to alleviate this loneliness, the word "friend" has become the most important comfort for many students. The more people cannot stand loneliness, the more they care about everything around them, and the more they will do things that are inconsistent with their personality.

However, even though they paid the price of loneliness and endured the pain brought by developing their abilities, only a few people reaped the rewards in the end. More than 60 percent of the students became incompetent and gained nothing.

As the pinnacle of Academy City's more than two million people, the identity of a person with super powers carries too much.

Natsume doesn't like to see envious looks in other people's eyes, nor does she want to attract too much attention.

Those gazes made her feel uncomfortable, which was probably a manifestation of her inner uneasiness.

A certain girl with a bun hairstyle is destined not to become a so-called strong person. She is just an ordinary junior high school student who works hard to make a living. Her immediate goal is to trick Tsuchimikado-san into coming home to be her personal maid.

Originally, they thought it was nothing, but Senior Sister Severon’s words seemed to open the valve of memories, and the atmosphere between the few people became a little dull.

The initial period is the most unbearable and painful.

"Let's not talk about that. By the way, Senior Severon, your hometown must also be rich in mackerel, so it must be Norway."

Riri Saotome changed the subject in time, a thoughtful expression appearing on her face.

“Is there any necessary connection between mackerel and Norway?”

After a slight pause, Natsume came to his senses and keenly noticed something wrong.

The main production area of ​​mackerel should be near Northern Europe, but there are five countries there.

"Because the most popular fish in Academy City or even in Neon is Atlantic mackerel, and Atlantic mackerel is also called Norwegian mackerel."

Saten-san added.

What she just gave to the foreign senior student wearing a beret was a can of common Atlantic mackerel.

Chapter 446: Feast

If a mackerel on the other side of the ocean shakes its tail, the price of canned food in Academy City is at risk of fluctuating up or down.

When a popular show in Academy City aired a beauty recipe, the blonde girl from a distant foreign land could no longer buy canned mackerel to eat.

Senior Sister Severn, who was temporarily identified as the blonde and blue-eyed girl from Norway, looked back and forth between the two people opposite her with a scrutinizing gaze, feeling a little dazed.

I didn't expect that this ordinary girl who seemed ordinary had such a keen ability to gather information. She could actually guess her origins just by looking at the origin of the canned food. It was really an unexpected talent.

As for a person with super powers who suddenly became enlightened, Senior Sister Severon felt that she had lowered her expectations several times. She thought that the other party was just there to make up the numbers and was strictly speaking best suited to being a tool.

Has the top level of Academy City's esper users fallen to this level?

"That's it."

With her chin supported by one hand, Franda was somewhat skeptical about the conclusion that her hometown was Norway as obtained from the canned mackerel.

Although Norway is adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean and is frequented by mackerel, Sweden, which is next to Norway, does not pose any obvious obstacle to the flow of mackerel, and it cannot be used as conclusive evidence.

However, the probability of guessing correctly is only about one in two. Franda is obviously very cooperative with this new friend she has just met.

Whether it's Norway, Sweden, or Denmark, which has a common language with both, in fact, nothing about my hometown matters anymore.

After arriving in Academy City, Senior Sister Severon was destined to find it difficult to leave unless she took the risk of being purged by the Unified Council.

Even those with super powers may not be able to escape from the city's sphere of influence under the pressure of constant purges and recovery forces.

So for Flanda, the idea of ​​returning to her hometown was unrealistic, and she could only recall that place by the taste of canned mackerel.

"Speaking of mackerel, I ended up feeling a little hungry."

"If I don't eat mackerel for a long time, I will have severe palpitations, tremors in my hands and feet, and even hallucinations. Although one of my senior students said that this is a mental illness, I think that mackerel is the only thing that should not be wasted."

Holding the can of mackerel in her hand high, Frenda did not give a clear answer to Saten's guess. Instead, she looked at the can of mackerel in her hand with great anticipation.

Her feelings for her hometown gradually evolved into a heartfelt love for a certain kind of food. In some ways, she is truly a very simple girl.

This can obtained from Riri Saotome has not yet been harmed by her unique can opening method, so the tragic fate of being blown into two halves has not occurred.

Under the gaze of a certain famous psychic, after making sure that she was basically safe, the Anbu girl finally relaxed a little and prepared to throw the ice cream in her hand aside to taste the spoils she had worked so hard to obtain.

Unfortunately, with only one can in hand, I cannot reach my goal. However, before this body starts to hallucinate and collapse due to lack of mackerel, it will be enough for Academy City to restore its normal supply of mackerel.

And judging by the scope of the popular program, it should be out of stock in the next few days.

"If it's mackerel, I've got a few cans of it."

Recalling something, Natsume felt the girl's almost fanatical attitude towards canned mackerel, and said subconsciously.

"really?"

Franda stood up suddenly, holding the girl who was only slightly shorter than her with one hand, and the eagerness in her eyes could not be concealed.

Before his identity as an Anbu was exposed, it was no problem for him to communicate with the eighth person normally. If Mugino and the others knew about it, it might lead to a round of not-so-nice accountability.

But compared to canned mackerel, the small risk is nothing.

At most, their identities would be exposed and they would be taken to the security building by the eighth person in front of them. Then, they would pull the green armband and say the words of the disciplinary committee member, who would look down on them with contempt.

From this perspective, one's own safety factor is still quite high when facing the eighth person. At least there is no danger to one's life, which is much safer than most Anbu activities.

These greenhouse young ladies of Tokiwadai may not have even killed small animals, let alone killed people. The law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak does not exist for them at all.

The name "greenhouse" is completely worthy of it, and it has nothing to do with strength.

"of course it's true."

"There used to be a black cat near the student dormitory, and I always fed it canned mackerel. But later it was adopted by a friend, so the few cans at the bottom of the box were completely useless."

Natsume nodded seriously. She was impressed by the black cat that always came to disturb her at night.

But after all, she was not the kind of person who dared to blatantly violate school rules, or had enough patience to take care of small animals, so in the end she got nothing.

Besides, she wasn't one of those people who was keen on eating fish, so some of the cans she bought at a special price were put in the box.

As long as she thought about having to spit out the bones when eating fish, she was not so interested. However, if all the fish bones were picked out, the situation would be different. Obviously, the supplier of canned food did not take into account the opinion of Natsume, a picky guy.

"Feeding canned mackerel to a cat..."

"Even if he is a guy with dozens of stars in the Danger Category, he cannot be forgiven."

Looking dazed, Flanda couldn't help muttering to herself, and when she looked at a certain temperature control, she suddenly felt more dissatisfied.

If she could defeat that seemingly harmless girl, she would definitely make her apologize to the canned mackerel industry until she realized the charm of mackerel.

However, considering that the opponent's fist was a bit too big and the complicated Tokiwadai forces were involved behind it, Frenda had to calm down.

"Do not want?"

Natsume Sonoko asked with some concern. She was the kind of person who liked to give gifts to her friends.

Even if she meets someone for the first time, she will try to give them a little gift.

Of course, this seems to be limited to girls of similar age. When she first met senior Kamijou Touma and the elderly loli teacher Xiao Meng, she did not have such a good habit.

"want!"

Throwing aside her previous thoughts instantly, Senior Sister Severon nodded vigorously.

Forget it, as long as I have canned mackerel, I don’t have to worry about this little problem at all.

"Since we have extra canned food, we can make a few more beauty recipes. Natsume-san and Severon-san, please come along."

“Not only curry mackerel, but also soy sauce mackerel, steamed mackerel, and braised mackerel are all good.”

Suddenly thinking of something, Riri Saotome spoke excitedly.

That's great! Since Natsume has extra canned mackerel in stock, the beauty dishes that Kukousousou Soso prepared can be evolved into a rich mackerel feast.

Speaking of which, Riri Saotome is also very confident in her cooking skills.

Unlike a certain girl named Dumpling who records the heat and recipes and cooks according to a formula, Riri Saotome's cooking skills were developed through a long period of training and a self-sufficient life in a dormitory.

Chapter 446: Half-question

For humans, the most important thing is energy intake.

Natsume, who worked hard to implement this, finally left Saten's dormitory and solved some of the canned food inventory problems.

Including the space he had stuffed into the Discipline Committee branch, the storage space in the dormitory finally returned to normal levels.

It must be said that as long as there is food, Natsume-san will accept anything that comes his way. Unless it really doesn't suit his taste, he basically doesn't consider indirect factors such as weight.

Come to think of it, Natsume-san has become a little thinner now.

The cheeks that originally had some flesh gradually became thinner, and one could almost feel the bones.

Combined with her short stature, she looked somewhat malnourished. Not long ago, Index even said that something was not right with her condition.

Natsume herself could not notice this subtle change, but it was quite noticeable in the eyes of others.

"Have you really lost weight? I don't think there has been any change."

Natsume stopped walking and stood in front of the shop window on the street in a daze, looking at himself in the glass.

Just now, Saten once again mentioned whether she was losing weight, and a certain bun-head who never thought about such things naturally rejected it righteously.

But the fact that I eat more and lose weight actually happened.

“Is it because of the ability development?”

After a slight pause, Natsume thought of his own situation.

She uses her brain almost all the time, which means her brain is actually always in a state of development.

Even when he fell asleep at night, part of his mind was still maintaining the AIM force field network with Zero, and he would even unconsciously maintain the constant temperature layer on his body surface and some radar systems used for early warning.

Under this high-intensity development, her computing power has been growing in an orderly manner, and until now she has not reached the so-called period of stagnation in her ability.

Even among the group of people with super powers, there are many who have reached a state of stagnation in their abilities, and my own Shokuhou-senpai is precisely in this state.

It’s just that Shokuhou-senpai was unable to control her own abilities because the upper limit she reached at the beginning was too high, so now she must focus on refining the branches and improving accuracy.

As for how far it can be developed in the future, the external brain cut out from Shokuhou-senpai's brain probably explains the problem, but it is definitely still far from the level of an absolute ability user.

Then again, the rumor that people with special abilities will consume a lot of fat if they overuse their brains seems to have been proven true in her case.

The energy consumed by people with special abilities to maintain their brains is far greater than that of ordinary people. This is one of the reasons why there is a rule prohibiting weight loss in Tokiwadai Middle School's school rules.

As the ability user's level increases, this energy consumption will naturally become more intense.

However, compared with the psychological control of a certain fat white guy who also uses his brain frequently, this reason seems a little untenable, and the energy consumption at the level of a super-powered person does not seem to be a big deal.

"I must not be eating enough."

"Yes, I am in the stage of physical development now, so it is time to replenish my nutrition. I will ask Shokuhou-senpai for advice some other day."