Black Robe: How can Saiki Kusuo not be considered a superpowered individual?

"Looks familiar."

Qi Mu looked at the man in the alley and blinked.

"What's wrong? Your enemy? Want to drag him to hell?"

Wearing a black Lolita dress and black leather shoes, Lucy followed Qi Mu's gaze and saw a burly man and a woman talking in the alley.

"No, he seems to be my mom's husband."

Qi Mu shook his head; he recognized Bu Che's identity.

"...Your mother's husband? I understand."

Lucy is quite knowledgeable.

"Would you like to see it?"

Qi Mu asked Lucy.

"Well, since you've invited me, it's not impossible."

Lucy finished eating the kebab that was as long as a medieval greatsword in her hand, took out a white handkerchief from her pocket, and wiped the corner of her mouth.

"...Actually, you just wanted to go see the excitement, right?"

Qi Mu saw through Lucy's intentions.

"No way! Are you going or not?"

"Go ahead, Mom's been looking for him lately too."

"But I didn't expect him to show up in Manhattan."

Qi Mu originally thought that Butcher should be hiding in some deep mountain forest.

Like the protagonists in some novels and comics, they endured humiliation and hardship.

Inside the alley.

"Tell me, what do you want from me?"

"Salary, office, exemption."

Butcher looked at Susan in front of him and spoke seriously.

"After all, if I asked you to help me subdue Homelander, you wouldn't agree, would you?"

Susan rolled her eyes.

"We can stand against Vought, but not against Homelander. Do you understand?"

Butcher spat out a mouthful of phlegm and cursed in annoyance.

"Shit."

"But immunity...you want immunity from the crime of entering this hospital?"

Susan asked with some curiosity.

"No, we killed the invisible man."

Butcher revealed a cruel smile.

"An invisible man?"

"What is that?"

Butcher and Susan both froze.

Their gazes fell on the two figures that appeared behind Butcher.

A white-haired loli dressed like a porcelain doll, and a salted fish child with short pink hair.

Butcher blinked, turned around, and said to Qi Mu and Lucy:

"Hey kids, here's twenty dollars. Take it and go buy some food, okay?"

"This is an adult conversation; kids, go and eat something."

Lucy glanced at the US dollar in Butcher's hand, blinked, and turned to ask Qi Mu.

"Is this worth a lot of money?"

"It's worthless."

Qi Mu shook his head.

Lucy put her hands on her hips, looked at Butcher in front of her, and said:

"Foolish mortals, do not use your filthy money to insult the noblest spirit of my hell!"

Butcher and Susan both settled into the clam shell.

"Whose chuunibyou (middle school syndrome) girl and boy are these?"

Butcher said to Susan with a hint of helplessness.

"They are superhuman, able to appear silently."

Susan's expression was far more shocked than Butcher's. Qi Mu and the other person appeared behind Butcher, and Butcher thought he hadn't noticed them, but Susan saw them clearly.

These two appeared suddenly, as if they had teleported.

Speed-type superhuman?

If they were superhumans, they wouldn't be unaware of the Invisible Man from The Seven.

But the child just asked again...

"Superhuman...shit. Hey kids, you didn't see anything. Can you just leave quietly?"

"This lady is a high-ranking government official; we are discussing important matters."

Butcher tried to trick the two into leaving.

"Butcher".

Qi Mu's pale purple eyes fell on Bu Che.

The air seemed to suffocate in that instant.

Butcher and Susan's pupils suddenly contracted, and their hearts raced.

Susan had even drawn a heavy pistol from her waist.

She took a deep breath, just about to raise her hand and point the dark muzzle of the gun at Qi Mu.

next moment.

A fair hand grasped her gun.

Lucy, dressed in a long black dress, looked at the pistol in Susan's hand and clicked her tongue in curiosity.

"Tech stuff, but it's old-fashioned and not as good as those canned goods." (Canned goods: Space Marines)

Lucy offered her own assessment.

Damn it.

Susan tried to pull the trigger, but the next moment she found that her pistol had disappeared.

Completely, on a material level, it disappeared.

[Annihilation]

Lucy gently placed her hand on Susan's head and whispered to her:

"Mortal, Qi Mu is here. I don't want things to get too bloody."

"Even if I wanted to erase you, it would only take a snap of my fingers."

"However, I still have some pride and won't go so far as to harm mortals."

Lucy easily subdued Susan and kept her in place.

Meanwhile, Butcher looked at Qi Mu.

"OI, you pink-haired brat, it looks like you know me."

Butcher squinted; he seemed to recognize the kid.

He had previously sat with Homelanders at Starlight's victory celebration.

It's that damn bastard's lackey.

Butcher couldn't possibly forget such obvious pink hair.

He originally thought the other party wouldn't recognize him and that he could get rid of them with some money.

But now it seems, haha, as expected, superhumans are just a bunch of beasts.

Butcher pulled out a crowbar from behind him and winked at Qi Mu.

"Kid, you'd better get out of the way."

Qi Mu looked at Bu Che, who was tense all over, and his eyes showed a complex emotion. He took a deep breath helplessly.

"Um, my mom is Becca."

"Your...wife?"

Clang—

The metal crowbar fell to the ground.

Butcher's heart stopped beating at that moment.

He stared in disbelief at Qi Mu, the name the other had just uttered echoing in his ears.

"Becca...Becca is still alive?"

He muttered to himself, his tough-guy spirit completely gone at that moment.

"You're Becca's son? How is that possible? Wasn't she...?"

"John, Homelander, my biological father."

Qi Mu looked at Bu Che in front of him, a hint of helplessness flashing in his eyes.

What John did back then was really... difficult to handle.

"She didn't die. After becoming pregnant, she was sent by Walter to P&G Base, which is the Genesis Experiment Base, where I was born."

Qi Mu gazed into Bu Che's dark eyes and spoke calmly.

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