Temperature Control in Academy City

"Use your brute strength to press Xiao Misaki and Xiao Mikoto onto the table, and then feed each of them half of the biscuits that Xiao Run worked so hard to make."

A certain ghost lady, with a pursed mouth and looking very dissatisfied, was desperately giving all kinds of advice to Fanfeng Runzi. She was angry that the two girls were busy chatting and ignored Xiaorun's cookies.

"But it's not like I can't tell you anything."

Changing the subject, Shokuhou Misaki put her hands on the chair, adjusted her sitting posture and sat up properly, supporting her chin with both hands, looking as if she wanted to say something but stopped.

"What do you want to say?" Senior Misaka frowned.

"Among yesterday's attackers, there was a person named Hojo Sairin. From what I know, her brother works at a university hospital, and the attacker happens to be a former researcher at the Saigo Institute."

"If we were to speculate on someone who was involved in spreading Indian poker, this person would be the most likely."

Shokuhou Misaki thought for a moment and then spoke.

After obtaining Hojo Ayano's memories, many clues were connected together, and they quickly identified Hojo Ayano's brother whose perception was impaired due to an experimental accident.

She almost knew what kind of opponent she was facing, but she was not sure how the opponent would attack.

However, it would definitely not be wrong to make more efforts before the other party launches the plan. In this regard, she can make use of the power of Misaka Mikoto in front of her.

If Misaka Mikoto really has some latent violent tendencies, she should vent them on those guys. According to experimental data, most of the guys who were bewitched by Indian Poker would almost sober up after venting their anger once.

But what is more likely is that the classmate Mitsuari Aiyu who was hiding in the dark had already completed all the preparations and plans, and that's why she sent people to attack me so unscrupulously.

"You want me to investigate this person?"

"You just want to be lazy."

There was some dissatisfaction on Misaka-senpai's face; it was obviously completely different from what she had expected.

Is there an inevitable connection between a researcher from a talent workshop and Indian poker?

But even though she was confused, Misaka-senpai still considered it seriously.

From the very beginning, Misaka-senpai wanted to find out why Natsume-san was attacked.

In other words, this railgun came to stand up for his schoolmate. And investigating the source of Indian Poker is the key to finding the person behind it.

Whenever she thought of her junior schoolmate's eyes wrapped in gauze and her pitiful appearance, Misaka-senpai felt a little angry, so she wanted to intervene in this matter.

"You mean Indian Poker comes from the research institute called Talent Workshop?"

"But the janitor's room should be where you used to stay, so yesterday's attack was actually aimed at you."

She reacted immediately and said with some sudden enlightenment.

This is consistent with Misaka Mikoto's previous guess. Although her junior often stays out all night and occasionally gets into street fights, she is indeed a good girl who is kind to others.

If the problem was with Shokuhou Misaki, it would be much easier to accept. Maybe her own junior was just affected.

At this time, in an abandoned building of a certain factory, a girl named Mitsuari Ayu was staring at several wide-screen monitors in front of her. The monitors densely displayed the locations of various cards released by them, like a big network connected to the entire Academy City.

There was a longing smile on her face, as if she was imagining a coming future, or reminiscing about something.

However, some unexpected things seemed to happen in Academy City, forcing her to slow down her plans.

It sounds good to launch the plan while the adults are in a state of panic, but it will inevitably lead to a counterattack from the Unified Council.

The adults in high positions could just laugh and ignore her actions because her plan was essentially verifying the experimental projects that the adults had once formulated, and she was even prepared to be punished.

And if she chooses to launch the plan at this time, the adults will not be able to tolerate it, and there will be almost no chance of the plan succeeding.

Chapter 480: Semi-'Ideal Ability'

Walking on tiptoe in the deserted building, the girl with chocolate-brown hair clasped her fingers behind her back and moved slowly with her lips pursed.

The windows, tightly closed with wooden boards, allow very little sunlight from outside to shine in, and the dim light makes the surroundings feel eerie.

This is also the legacy of the original artificial workshop, but it is not the same building as the one that houses the external surrogate brain. It was just a research base for the internal evolution project and was abandoned after the artificial workshop collapsed.

Mitsuari Aiyu, who has become accustomed to this kind of loneliness and desolation, has cold and aggressive eyes, but she also has troubles and sorrows that are not convenient for her to confide to others.

After all, she is only a junior high school student now.

However, people like her are destined to have no connection with the bustling school. Once immersed in the false atmosphere of success through hard work, her heart will unconsciously twist and hurt.

Although they had similar starting points, she and the blonde girl standing in the sun headed towards completely different futures. A gap called the super-powered people completely separated the two.

As such, she can only survive in the dark corners of this city, doing things she thinks are right. Then, as one of the remnants of the newly built house, she makes the last effort and redemption for the dreams of a group of losers.

"Everyone who has evolved internally is probably unhappy right now. No matter how lively the environment is or how things are changing around you, the past cannot be changed."

"Xiao Run didn't become a superpower due to physical limitations, Xiao Qianli fell into a long sleep after an experimental accident, and I voluntarily gave up the opportunity to become a superpower."

"The little Jagdala didn't develop his abilities until his brain was damaged, the little Iruka lost one eye in the accident, and Mr. Tomine had a fragment piercing his heart... Such tragic endings are so despairing that they make people collapse. Everyone who evolved internally has failed."

Kicking away the debris scattered at her feet, the smile on Mitsuari Aiyu's face gradually faded, leaving only a feeling of helplessness and confusion.

The classroom where she had stayed during the internal evolution appeared in her sight. Figures flashed before her eyes one after another, leaning against the edge of the door like they did before, but the children she had taken care of were no longer there.

"If just one person succeeds, everyone's sacrifice will be rewarded."

"I can't accept such a total defeat. What on earth does this cold city think of the sacrifices of so many people?"

Coming back to her senses, Mitsuari Aiyu tried hard to suppress her emotions, leaving only an even hotter fire in her heart.

She wants to redeem everyone's past, and among them, there will definitely be a person with super powers who can fulfill everyone's dreams.

Even if that person wasn't her.

"Besides, this is the apocalypse."

Thinking of this, some longing appeared in Mitsuari Aiyu's eyes again.

When she was ready to give up completely and accept this tragic ending, Indian Poker suddenly appeared in the city.

This legacy from internal evolution is related to the 'ideal ability' experiment that caused a serious accident in the artificial room, that is, the experiment that created the so-called 'God-sama'.

Chapter 481 Yuri Qianye

The 'ideal ability' experiment means that as long as a certain value is input into a specific object, the corresponding interference phenomenon can be fed back in the real universe.

According to the easy-to-understand statement of the ability users, the experiment will create an output terminal that can theoretically carry all known types of abilities in Academy City. Using Indian Poker as a medium, the personal realities of many ability users are superimposed to form a huge AIM force field aggregation similar to a wishing machine.

However, there is a huge difference between theory and reality. The upper limit of "ideal ability" that can be achieved depends highly on the resource investment of the experimenters and the support of the overall council.

But even an imperfect ideal ability can easily exceed the lower limit of ordinary super-powered people.

Similarly, this ideal ability easily reminds people of multi-talents.

In fact, there is no essential difference between the two. Multi-talent can even be seen as the change that occurs when "ideal abilities" possess ordinary people.

However, humans are too fragile to bear an 'ideal ability' with such a high upper limit, and even a little aftermath could destroy a person's body.

Given the huge limitations of humans themselves, the researchers who conducted the experiment proposed changing the experimental subject to Yuuri Chiya, who possessed the dual attributes of human and aim.

A girl named Yuuri Chiya has the ability to separate her own aim field and create a force field thought entity with a human appearance.

Then, by taking this aim force field thought body as the core and accepting the aim force field from other ability users, we can avoid the fragility of human beings themselves and form a special product that can be born in the natural space with the aim thought body as the core. This is the true nature of the "ideal ability" experiment.

"Dip..dip.."

The shrill cell phone ringtone rang out in the silent and dim environment, giving people a sudden feeling like a silver bottle suddenly breaking.

"Huh? It's Hojo."

Looking at the name Hojo Shizugo on the phone screen, Mitsuari Aiyu suddenly showed a happy smile on her face, as if she regarded the other party as a very important partner.

In this city, having a companion to work towards a goal together is a very uplifting thing, especially for someone like her.

"It's a shame. Cailing's plan had a chance of success, but it ended up in a mess."

"After all, if you want to deal with two superpowered people at the same time, it's still too much of a stretch to rely on the power of an ordinary person."

"In this way, our existence should be noticed by Shokuhou Misaki."

There was no unnecessary expression on her face. It seemed as if Mitsuari Ayu was just explaining something that had already happened, but one could hear some emotion in her tone.

Capturing Shokuhou Misaki is only a small part of the entire experiment and not the most critical part.

In fact, if the attack in Tokiwadai went smoothly, Shokuhou Misaki would have read the specially made Indian playing card.

Then according to Mitsuari Aiyu's experimental plan, Shokuhou Misaki will become a part of the new 'ideal ability' experiment that is about to be launched because of some kind of medium left in the card, and part of the opponent's aim force field will be involuntarily drawn to the designated person.

That is, on the body of Youli Chiye.

However, even if it is impossible to recruit high-level ability users, a large number of ordinary ability users are enough to form a basic version of the 'ideal ability'.

As for why Shokuhou Misaki had to be involved, this was probably Mitsuari Ayumu's inner thoughts.

Mitsuari Ayumu's thoughts about Shokuhou Misaki, the person who replaced her as a psychic, have become increasingly extreme. This is a strong side effect of being in the shadow for so long, both physically and mentally.

Having said that, this behavior of using Indian poker to pull or assimilate other people's personal reality and aim field is actually the failed experiment of the artificial room just before the replication.

However, the current situation has changed a lot compared to the original experiment.

Because of the experimental accident that happened at that time, Yuuri Chiye, who suddenly went berserk during the experiment, is still in a special coma state. The aim thought body created by her ability has completely separated from her body, forming an existence similar to the aim force field core.

There is no need for an AIM force field that is strong enough to break through the barrier of the universe. It is just that due to the attributes of Yuuri Chiye's own abilities, after the force field and the body are separated, he can still move within the real universe.

In this case, establishing a basic version of the 'ideal ability' by spreading Indian Poker is no longer the sole purpose of this behavior itself. Instead, Mitsuari Aiyu is more inclined to do more to create a true 'God-sama'.

"If all the people with special abilities believe the same rumor, then perhaps that rumor will become 'true'. Behind this statement lies another special experiment that Academy City is secretly conducting."

"In this city, nothing is not carefully designed. Everything related to people with special abilities is deliberately guided by someone. According to a hypothesis that few people know, the reason why various urban legends in Academy City are so popular is that they are deliberately cooperating with this special experiment."

"To put it simply, the subjective consciousness of the ability users can affect something in Academy City. And that thing is most likely the AIM diffusion field."

The little hand holding the phone suddenly stopped in the air. Hojo Shizuka on the opposite side was still saying something, but Mitsuari Aiyu's thoughts suddenly drifted far away.

"So, the main purpose of spreading Indian Poker is not to assimilate the user's personal reality and establish a small-scale 'ideal ability', but to form some new urban legends in Academy City and let more people know about Yuuri Chiya's existence."

"As long as Yuuri Chiya is tied to the urban legend in Academy City, the AIM force field unconsciously emitted by the ability users will most likely be guided and converge on Yuuri Chiya, who is equivalent to the core of the force field."

"Similarly, the more people know about Yuuri Chiya, the tighter the AIM diffusion field concentrated in the Academy City will bind her. And without her human body, Yuuri Chiya will be able to bear the power brought by those AIM force fields without limit."

Mitsuari Aiyu was thinking absentmindedly.

Among the poker cards she spread out, Yuuri Chiya had been secretly added, and had gradually gained some attention in Academy City.

...

Although he really wanted to tear off the gauze wrapped around his eyes and throw it aside, Natsume stopped moving his hands unconsciously when he thought of the instructions of the Hades Chaser.

She still trusted the frog-faced doctor who looked a little weird.

I can’t give a specific reason, but trust is probably an emotion that gradually accumulates from small things.

"By the way, the dorm supervisor has already left, why should I jump out of the window and leave?"

"Maybe it's because I've done this kind of thing too many times, which has led to a kind of inertial thinking. This may be what adults always say, it takes three years to learn good things and three days to learn bad things."

With two feet on the edge of the window (good kids, don’t imitate this), a girl with a bun on her head suddenly fell silent, frowning and thinking for a while.

She felt that she seemed to have a tendency to become rigid in her thinking, and she regarded jumping out of the window and sneaking out of the door as an important way to resist the strict rule of the matron. In fact, all she wanted was to hang out outside for a while, and she could have gone out through the front door openly.

"What a strange feeling. Am I being influenced by the thoughts of that miko?"

"I would never consider such a matter of course before."

With a look of doubt on her face, Natsume seemed to be worried about the possibility that she might have been influenced by that girl.

Because of a small negligence before, Natsume found that he had unconsciously picked up some of the other person's habits and thinking, and it was not easy to digest.

In the other party's opinion, jumping out of the window is something that is very unethical, but Natsume doesn't care, after all, she has been doing this for a long time.

Tilting his head, his round bun swayed a few times with the movement, Natsume sighed with a look of annoyance, obviously feeling that he was in big trouble.

If you want to experience someone else's life, you must accept the result of being assimilated. Natsume feels extremely uncomfortable about this.

Chapter 482 The Girl at That Time

Walking through the small garden in the student dormitory, I couldn't help but smell a faint fragrance.

Even though there is no obvious autumn in this island country, there is no shortage of flowers blooming in autumn. In order to maintain the dignity of the young ladies' school, the headmistress often deliberately collects flowers of various seasons.

Lacking a pair of eyes that are good at observing beautiful things, Natsume-san is no longer surprised by the various scenes in his student dormitory. As his body jumped down, a gorgeous parabola accompanied by a chaotic wave of air broke the quiet atmosphere around him.

In fact, Natsume did not have a clear destination. She was just acting on an idea that came from nowhere.

During the hard-earned day off, while others are still busy with their school life day after day, wouldn’t it be a waste for me to just stay in the student dormitory?