Like a waterfall of blooming fireworks, the young girl stood graceful and erect.
"Eld..."
"Eldest Young Lady."
Soga Ishikawa Irube looked at the girl's slender ankles in front of him with some shock.
To the outside world, including most of the Soga family... Soga Yura's image was likely that of a somewhat cold genius girl who maintained a polite distance from everyone with a smile.
Not yet an adult, but already stepping into the peak of the Second Sequence, with the potential to step into the Third Sequence at any moment.
But... for someone like Soga Ishikawa Irube, who was slightly closer to the main family and knew a bit more about Soga Yura—
He knew that Soga Yura's power had actually stepped into the Third Sequence long ago.
Thinking back, when Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi formally stepped into the First Sequence at fifteen, she was so overjoyed she clung to his arm, asking Soga Ishikawa Irube to celebrate with her.
A seventeen-year-old Third Sequence... it would probably make people gasp in breath, marveling at how terrifying this girl was.
Yet... Soga Ishikawa Irube still hadn't expected it—
His own knowledge and imagination were still not broad enough.
At this moment... the strength of the girl standing before him had clearly stepped into the peak of the Third Sequence.
She was even more powerful than him, a veteran Third Sequence ability user.
In the face of Soga Yura's instantly erupting, terrifying mental pressure, even Soga Ishikawa Irube... felt an illusion in his heart as if he were being dominated.
He could feel it.
Soga Yura was not merely as simple as a Level.39 Mind Control User.
Moreover... she was a Level.39 Mind Control User with Experience: 99%.
She was only a thin line away from stepping into the Fourth Sequence.
Between the Third Sequence and the Fourth Sequence lay a natural chasm that was difficult to cross.
Crossing that chasm meant the sky was high and the sea was wide; like a fish leaping over the dragon gate.
Soga Ishikawa Irube had already been stuck at this final point for nearly six years, but... the Eldest Young Lady was truly already very close.
Raising her small head, the sky full of raven feathers was crushed one by one in the face of the power of "Domination".
Soga Yura looked through that raven, meeting the gaze of the dark golden vertical pupils of the Aberrant behind that raven.
A thousand meters away, the woman controlling the raven cut off the connection with the raven at the fastest possible speed.
"Caw—" A miserable cry.
Boom—
Grand fireworks instantly bloomed directly above the heads of Soga Yura and the others.
"Soga Yura!???"
The eyes of the woman who had jumped down from the office building reflected the girl's indifferent crimson eyes.
"Moreover..."
"She's also Third Sequence!?"
She had already severed the link fast enough. But the girl's nearly tyrannical and invincible mental power still completed the impact on her in an instant.
The woman leaping down from the air knelt heavily on the ground.
Even as a Third Sequence Aberrant, she seemed unable to bear it, stumbling as she barely stood up.
"Bad luck, bad luck, bad luck..."
"Those guys aren't deliberately sending me to my death, are they?"
No matter how she thought about it, she couldn't figure it out.
It was just sniping a single Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi; why did it provoke two Third Sequence ability users to come out?
And... both were strong individuals located at the peak of the Third Sequence.
"Seriously..."
She propped herself up on her knees.
"Could I be any unluckier?"
Facts proved—
If a person starts getting unlucky... there really is no end to it.
Tap tap—
Within the erosion domain, the woman heard the clear sound of... solid leather boots stepping on the concrete ground.
She looked at the leather boots that stopped in front of her.
Her gaze lifted upward bit by bit.
Her expression became incredibly ugly.
Slim-fitting jeans, a white shirt, and a trench coat; the girl's long hair was just casually tied back, fluttering slightly in the wind.
But what was most eye-catching were the girl's emerald green eyes, clear as a lake and dazzling as gems.
Where there was Soga Yura, how could there not be Sakura Mai?
The Knight Princess sized up the Aberrant in front of her.
Her figure was quite voluptuous, just very frail; one look and you could tell she was a shut-in who didn't exercise much.
The Aberrant's attire was a very distinctive white lab coat, the getup of a researcher.
This color tone... was rare even among Aberrants.
Inside the white lab coat, however, was a black-purple pencil skirt and the black silk stockings that were nearly standard equipment for Aberrants.
Sakura Mai had seen the woman before her.
In the K423 Laboratory surveillance footage that Kujou Raptor had analyzed from Sylvia's laboratory.
She was that researcher who used the Aberrant activation gears to convert herself into an Aberrant.
"You are that guy from Laboratory No. K423... who was taken away by the 'Eye of Insight', right."
Sakura Mai's right hand gently clenched.
A sword of light quality emerged in the girl's hand.
That was Sakura Mai's ability—"Sword of Will".
No matter what weapon she held, she could endow it with extremely powerful attributes and power. She even had the ability to draw a light sword just by gripping empty air.
The intensity of the "Sword of Will" depended entirely on the sword in Sakura Mai's hand, as well as the girl's will.
Usually, to hone herself, Sakura Mai would just directly grip the "Sword of Will" empty-handed.
"Why sell your life for them?"
"Clearly, they were the ones who caused you to fall into the Abyss, right?"
Sakura Mai knew that this group of invading Aberrants was completely different from previous Aberrants.
They possessed independent self-will.
Just like... Sister Yuzu's pet.
"What does that matter?" The woman looked at the girl in front of her.
"On the road to pursuing the truth—"
"Who the companions are... or even what they are, is completely irrelevant."
Since the "Eye of Insight" promised.
Promised to help her capture Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi and decipher the secret of Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's ability to complete "Inverse Aberration" and return from self-Aberration.
Then the "Eye of Insight" was her companion.
Sakura Mai's brows locked tight.
"Wrong—"
"Completely wrong!!!"
For girls, partners and such were very important!
Soga Yura was very important, and Sister Yuzu was also very important.
The guy in front of her didn't understand at all.
Accompanying the fluctuations of her emotions, the light of the "Sword of Will" in the girl's hand surged.
The woman had absolutely no intention of accepting the challenge.
She was a researcher.
Even if she had fallen into the Edge of Aberration, she was still not an Aberrant for frontal combat.
She was a summoning-type Aberrant.
Her ability was those ravens.
But she understood that her ravens... posed absolutely no threat to the girl in front of her.
Bang.
At the same time Sakura Mai sprinted, the woman's figure transformed into dozens of ravens flapping their wings and flying up.
Large patches of dark red feathers with a metallic luster drifted down in the air; Sakura Mai hurriedly slammed on the brakes, retreating out of the blast zone.
The erosion domain on the Bay Highway vanished instantly.
Meanwhile—
In the park, the fist blade of the girl in the deep green cheongsam pressed against Su Yuzu's blade.
The distance between the two was very close.
Close enough that... she could completely smell the clear fragrance drifting from the girl's hair in front of her.
The girl looked indignantly in the direction of the bay.
"Useless trash—"
Her figure also instantly transformed into a chaotic wind; the erosion domain disappeared, and the azure blue sky reappeared.
The wind brushed past Su Yuzu's ears.
It blew the girl's hair into a mess, sweeping upward, leaving a voice beside Su Yuzu's ears that was as unwilling as words left behind by children fighting.
"Next time—"
"Next time, we will meet again."
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