Temperature Control in Academy City

Shokuhou Misaki reached out and gently took the arm of the girl next to her, and asked with some concern.

The two of them wasted almost no time. It took less than five minutes from the time Natsume Sonoko entered the house to the time she went out again. This also led to the fact that Shokuhou Misaki still doesn't know the reason why the bun-haired girl launched a night attack.

"Eh..."

"Actually, it's because of what happened to Misaka-senpai. By the way, Shokuhou-senpai, do you know about the 'recycling movement'? Misaka-senpai's mother is a representative of it, and she's a very capable college housewife..."

Natsume Sonoko was slightly stunned, and suddenly an embarrassed expression appeared on her face. After a while, she organized her words and spoke.

Of course, there was no way she could really forget something so important.

It’s just that a certain girl with a bun-like hairstyle is easily influenced by others, and the anxiety displayed by Shokuhou-senpai made her subconsciously lower her own priority.

Although both matters were equally important, she was still prepared to deal with Shokuhou-senpai's current trouble first.

"Has it really come to this? Even Misaka-san's parents have been included in the target list."

"This is pretty much what I expected. Academy City is really in big trouble. No wonder the surveillance of me has become more frequent recently."

Shokuhou-senpai frowned slightly, but soon relaxed again.

She suddenly felt that there was no need for her to worry about such things, except for the college housewife parent of Misaka-san mentioned by Kozonoko.

Although she didn't care much about Misaka's parents and was neutral about whether they would be attacked by bad boys, once Sonoko spoke up, it became something she needed to take seriously.

In fact, if Academy City encounters troubles that are temporarily difficult to resolve, it will be beneficial to some students in the Academy City.

Unless one openly confronts the Academy City officials or does something intolerable, the more important the students are, the more valuable they are to be won over.

In other words, the greater the trouble Academy City encounters, the greater the value of the unity and war of super-powered people like them. This can be deduced with almost the simplest logic.

"Actually, this matter is not difficult to solve."

"Compared to the representatives of a 'recycling movement', the attitudes of the three esper users are obviously more important to Academy City at this stage. It would be fine if Misaka-san was kept in the dark, but since everyone knows about this action, it is naturally meaningless."

Shokuhou-senpai responded with a smile.

Chapter 662: Kumokawa Seriya

The attitude of people with esper powers is important to Academy City, but it is not as decisive as Shokuhou Misaki says.

In fact, even if all the superpowers were added together, it was hard to say whether they could shake the dominance of Academy City. Judging from some of the rumors or intelligence obtained through spies, Academy City had the strength to suppress all superpowers in a short period of time.

Before a person with absolute ability who can comprehend the will of God without being a God is born, there is almost no possibility of making up for this gap in strength, which means that students have only a very limited say.

Moreover, even if someone with absolute ability appears, it may not necessarily achieve the desired effect. This can probably be seen from a series of crazy "god-making" plans in Academy City.

Even Shokuhou Misaki herself did not deny that her many small actions so far were just efforts to increase her bargaining chips in the negotiations with Academy City.

However, when the girl with the bun in front of her suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, the starry-eyed girl's eyes softened and she no longer cared about the big words she had just said to appease the other party.

"However, it is also important to choose a person to communicate with Academy City."

"At least in order to successfully express our attitude in the Unified Council, we need to find someone who has enough power and can listen to our opinions."

Shokuhou Misaki couldn't help but rub her schoolmate's big head, feeling the other's cool body temperature, and thought for a while before speaking.

"Who could that be?"

Turning her head with some surprise, Natsume Sonoko asked.

She originally thought that Shokuhou-senpai would help her communicate.

"A high school student named Kumokawa Seriya."

"Although he is a powerless person with no abilities, he is a guy who can become the think tank of a certain director of the board of directors with his speaking skills."

A genuine JK appeared in Shokuhou-senpai's mind, a girl who was not inferior in physical development and fat accumulation.

Unlike her, who uses her ability to see into people's minds, the other party relies entirely on language to manipulate others. At the same time, with the support of Academy City's various technologies, even Shokuhou-senpai is unwilling to confront him head-on.

"Hey, it's that senior sister Kumokawa."

Natsume Sonoko was surprised, obviously knowing who this senior was.

"This senior also helped me a lot when I was going through the formalities to leave Academy City and spend the summer vacation outside."

Recalling things that happened long ago, Natsume Sonoko counted on her fingers and spoke word by word.

"If we can express our attitude to the General Council through Kumokawa Seriya, we can at least convince a lot of the directors."

"Of course, that's assuming the order to attack Misaka's parents really came from the directors of the Unified Board of Directors."

Shokuhou Misaki spoke up.

After all, the attitudes of people with super powers are just illusory things. The key lies in what is hidden behind the people with super powers.

Whether it's the huge number of corporate groups and parents behind Tokiwadai Junior High School, the social and economic power currently held by the Shokuhou faction, or the huge wave that the three psychics can create in Academy City, these are the important factors that are enough to force the Unified Council to make concessions.

And in Shokuhou Misaki's opinion, the only person who could gather all this power into one and punch the adults in a gentle way such as talking was Kumokawa Seria.

She herself might be able to do so, but due to the particularity of her own abilities, it was almost impossible for her to talk face to face with the directors of the General Council.

You can't expect a bunch of guys wearing 'anti-psychology mastery helmets' to come up with anything.

"But will that senior help?"

With a hesitant expression on her face, Natsume Sonoko couldn't help but speak.

That senior student might be a nice person, but they didn’t have much in common, and strictly speaking, they were not even friends.

“I don’t know.”

"But even for someone like her, there are things that she doesn't want to see."

Shokuhou Misaki bent down and cupped her schoolmate's face, speaking in a rather doting manner.

"By the way, Senior, how did you get to know Senior Kumokawa?"

Suddenly there was some gossip in her voice, and Natsume Sonoko raised her head and asked.

"Well, there is a middleman who I can't tell Sonoko about. It's an important secret of mine."

...

It wasn't difficult to find the cooperative organizations of the Talented House, as this was all public information posted on the corresponding websites, not to mention that Shokuhou-senpai had the corresponding memory reserves.

There were some staff on duty at this time, which brought a lot of convenience to the activities of the duo of girls.

Because there is no need to do things like breaking into doors and picking locks, all you need to do is control the staff and you can do everything. Sneaking in has become a legitimate way to visit.

Since Shokuhou-senpai knew exactly where Yuuri Chiya's life-sustaining measures were, without wasting too much time, the few of them quickly arrived at an empty medical room.

"It was moved away a month ago."

"The person who signed the transfer agreement was a doctor at a university hospital named Hojo Shizuo. He also used his authority as a researcher at the Saigoku Lab."

Standing in the now deserted treatment room, Shokuhou-senpai directed the staff to retrieve the historical data of the past few months in this ward, and the surprise on her face became more and more intense.

Hojo Shizuko's sister, Hojo Ayane, was involved in the attack previously planned in Tokiwadai, and she is the only person she has confirmed to have a real motive for committing a crime after reading everyone's memories.

The other students who were controlled by Indian Poker have gradually returned to normal life, only Hojo Ayawada is still under the close surveillance of the Shokuhou faction.

Of course, this kind of surveillance itself is meaningless, because the other party's memory has all been read by Shokuhou Misaki.

It was only after unifying the external propaganda line for the 'dangerous technology spread incident' and making some deals with the board members of Tokiwadai Junior High School that Shokuhou Misaki did not hand the other party over to the security department for handling.

However, Hojo Shizugo was originally supposed to be a suspect in the Indian Poker case.

However, after gradually confirming that 'the ghost lady is Yuuri Chiya' and 'the name Hojo Shizuku was discovered in the cooperative organization', in Shokuhou Misaki's thinking logic, the ghost lady herself was quickly linked to Indian Poker.

The two events do not exist independently, there must be a key that connects them.

Shokuhou Misaki couldn't figure out the connection yet, but she vaguely felt that it was related to 'Chiyoko'.

Chapter 663 Daily Tracking

Standing there, Shokuhou Misaki held her chin and thought about something.

The information from 'Xiao Qianye' and 'Hojo Shizugo' was constantly summarized in her head, and then compared with a large amount of information and intelligence that had been investigated before. The blonde girl was almost able to sort out most of the context of the relevant events.

However, there are still many missing puzzle pieces in the context, and when Hokaze Junko's whereabouts were unknown, Shokuhou Misaki obviously didn't have much time to think about other things.

"Hey, Senior Fanfeng is not here."

The radar map in her head scanned the entire surrounding area, and Natsume Sonoko suddenly spoke with some surprise.

This was obviously the place where Senior Fanfeng was most likely to come, but besides the staff, there were only the two of them left.

It seems that after confirming the fact that Yuuri Chiya's body was not in the cooperative institution, Senior Fanfeng went to investigate somewhere else.

"Hanfeng's visit record was three hours ago. In other words, the most likely place for Hanfeng to go now is where Doctor Hojo Shizuo is."

Shokuhou-senpai nodded and said, immediately coming to a conclusion in her head.

As long as he saw this transfer record, given Fanfeng's stubborn personality, he might have gone straight to see Dr. Hojo Shizuo.

By the way, Hojo Shizugo had a certain railgun next to her that she had tricked as bait, but it seemed that the man behind Mitsuari Ayumu was not fooled.

Once a conflict occurs between the other party and Misaka-san, depending on how noisy Misaka-san is, Shokuhou Misaki will be able to receive eyewitness information from a long distance away.

But it was obviously past lights-out time, and Misaka-san had already returned to the student dormitory. If Hokaze confronted that guy alone, there was no guarantee what would happen.

In addition, it is also very likely that Hokaze Junko went to the former site of the Saigoku workshop, because this is the research institution where Yuuri Chiya once stayed, and it is also the place where Hojo Shizugo once worked. It is very likely that the other party hid Yuuri Chiya's body there.

The former site of the artificial room was actually the location of the internal evolution project. As for Shokuhou Misaki's external brain project, it was located in another building. This also led to very limited contact between Shokuhou Misaki and Hokaze Junko and the others at that time.

"So we're going to a university hospital next, but judging by the time, they might have already finished get off work."

Natsume Sonoko said nervously.

She has a very high liking for a purple-haired princess girl, who is also the perfect senior schoolmate that she works hard to learn from. In addition, the information about senior schoolmate Fanfeng was provided by herself, which makes the girl with the bun feel an inexplicable sense of urgency.

But at this moment, Natsume Sonoko suddenly remembered something, and her originally anxious face suddenly calmed down.

She almost forgot that she had recorded the frequency and characteristics of Senior Fanfeng's aim field, and it was entirely possible to find the opponent's position through the perspective of the imaginary number area.

In fact, her record of finding people in this way is currently zero.

For example, Feng Zhan was nowhere to be found at all, and even after investing a lot of time and energy, we couldn't find his location in the imaginary number area.

But if it was Senior Fanfeng, it might be a lot easier.

Senior Fanfeng's force field information is relatively obvious. After all, she is a person with great abilities, and there is no need to go deep into the force field ocean of the imaginary number zone. It is only necessary to sort out the part of the force field that is instantly born in the real universe.

In addition, since we already know where the senior sister might be, there is no need to search the entire Academy City like looking for a needle in a haystack. We can just circle a few areas that are not too big or too small.

Thinking of this, Natsume Sonoko's expression gradually became dull, and a large amount of computing power was instantly invested in observing the imaginary number area.

"I can only go to a university hospital first."

"Misaka-san hasn't even figured out where this Hojo Shizuka is staying. It's true that we shouldn't expect too much from a primitive person with a brain full of muscles."

Shokuhou Misaki spread her hands helplessly and commented on the recent inefficiency of the work of a certain railgun master.

Not only did she fail to lure out the guy behind the scenes, but she didn't even get much useful information, which completely disappointed her eager expectations. She had originally thought that whatever Misaka-san said would be of some use.

However, when Shokuhou Misaki looked at the bun-haired schoolgirl next to her, a look of surprise suddenly appeared on her face, because the cheeks of one of the bun-haired girls had turned red.

Her breathing quickened unnaturally, and her little face remained expressionless.

Even the energy limiter on the neck, which is the electric shock collar, was flashing a red light rapidly, indicating that it had been set to the maximum level.

“It should be around here.”

The next second, Natsume Sonoko's perception completely covered the vicinity of a university hospital, constantly analyzing and sorting out the surrounding AIM force field intelligence.

There aren't many student dormitories near the hospital, and the number of force fields released by people with powerful abilities is not large, so it's easy to distinguish the force field marks of people with powerful abilities.

However, this became more difficult as the observation range continued to expand, but it was still within Natsume Sonoko's ability.

......

At the same time, Runko Fanfeng, who was being thought about by her queen and the school girl with the bun-haired look in her arms, stood with her teeth gritted on the edge of a pier of a steel bridge somewhere in the seventh school district, which was quite a distance away from a university hospital.

The surrounding ground was full of potholes caused by the intense fighting, and the Tokiwadai clothes that Fanfeng Junko was wearing were also worn out due to the long-term fighting.

However, due to some regularities that are inconvenient to mention, the physical laws here are temporarily distorted. During this period, there is no possibility or risk of any exposure, and the fabric is also unlikely to be worn out.

At this time, Miss Ghost was floating right above Senior Fanfeng.

Miss Ghost's illusory body was firmly connected to Junko Hokaze's brain, constantly sorting out the pain and swelling in her brain caused by excessive use of her abilities, which temporarily increased Junko Hokaze's strength a lot.

Opposite the man and the ghost is a scarred man in a white coat, who was the former researcher in the talent workshop.