The fireworks, blooming brilliantly like flowers, were in reality a rather dangerous spectacle.
The awe-inspiring young girl stood beneath these dangerous fireworks, her long hair, resembling splashing ink, blown upward by the wind generated from the explosions.
This composition was actually quite beautiful.
Unfortunately—
Soga Yura seemed to be under some curse of persecution; she couldn't stay cool for more than three seconds.
The girl watched the falling firelight getting closer... and closer...
Compared to those rather dangerous feathers of the [Raven], the firelight posed almost no threat to an [Esper]. Yet, it made Soga Yura panic directly, squatting down while holding her head.
"Ahhh—"
"Clothes, clothes, clothes..." A tiny falling spark singed Soga Yura's coat.
The girl seemed to be on the verge of tears as she swatted at it, then retracted her hand from the heat, using her empty sleeves to flap wildly.
The result... was useless.
Soga Ishikawa Irube looked at the [main Soga family] [Eldest Young Lady], who had been full of dignity just a second ago, and saw that in the next second, she looked like she was about to be bullied to tears by a tiny bit of flame.
In an instant, a huge sense of disparity emerged in his heart.
It felt like something... silently collapsed.
Was this the same girl who, when she called him before, had an expression so indifferent and majestic that he even felt as if he were seeing the former eldest brother?
Smiling bitterly, Soga Ishikawa Irube finally remembered. The girl in front of him... was even slightly younger than his own Kiyomi.
Standing up and walking to Soga Yura's side, Soga Ishikawa Irube squatted down, reached out, and directly pinched out the small flame singeing Soga Yura's coat.
For Soga Yura... she only felt as if a small mountain had shifted over, blotting out the sky and sun.
[Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi] was so petite that in the man's arms, she looked just like a doll.
Gulp.
She subconsciously swallowed, whispering her thanks to the man in front of her who was excessively burly and tall.
Soga Ishikawa Irube paused for a moment.
He had never seen the [Eldest Young Lady] reveal this kind of... this almost naively charming attitude of a young daughter.
In Soga Ishikawa Irube's impression, the [Eldest Young Lady] always maintained that indifferent calmness, unfazed by changes.
The only time she got angry was when the idiot from his own family provoked Miss Yuzu.
"Why is the [Eldest Young Lady] thanking me?" Soga Ishikawa Irube stood up.
The man was truly a bit too burly and tall.
Even if Soga Yura stood up, wearing round-toed leather boots with low heels, she would probably only reach level with Soga Ishikawa Irube's stomach.
"I should be the one thanking the [Eldest Young Lady]—"
"For taking action at such a critical moment."
"Moreover..." Soga Ishikawa Irube hesitated, "When my daughter fell into the water last time, it was also the [Eldest Young Lady] who saved her, right?"
When he wanted to thank the passerby who had fished [Little Kiyomi] out of the sea last time, he was surprised to find... the other party had absolutely no impression of how they saved [Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi].
It was as if they just closed their eyes and opened them... and they were already standing by the dam holding the girl who had fallen into the water, having even dialed the number for the [Keigunen Private Academy] [school hospital].
Perhaps some would think that was a sequela of a rush of adrenaline from a hot-headed moment.
But... as a [mental-type Esper] himself, Soga Ishikawa Irube understood.
Those were symptoms left behind after being under [Mind Control].
Originally... if a series of accidents had been triggered because of Soga Yura's interrogation, causing [Little Kiyomi] to be injured in the attack event. Even if Soga Ishikawa Irube was a reasonable person and didn't make a scene at the [main Soga family].
Towards Soga Yura, there would likely only remain awe and distance.
But she saved [Little Kiyomi], so things were completely different.
"I was just passing by..." Soga Yura didn't try to hide it either.
Except when facing Yuzu, she was never someone who would be submissive.
"The most important thing right now is to hurry and send Sister Kiyomi to the hospital." Soga Yura looked at the girl in Soga Ishikawa Irube's arms.
The girl's condition was very bad.
That woman had directly attacked their off-road vehicle with the feathers of the [Raven] at that time.
Even though Soga Ishikawa Irube reacted quickly and tried his best to protect Kiyomi, but... in the violent explosion, the girl still suffered injuries.
[It would be good if that rabbit who goes around rooting up cabbages was here right now.] Soga Yura lamented, when suddenly a whistling sound tore through the sky.
Under Soga Yura's pitiful gaze as her eyes went wide, her own Su Yuzu descended from the sky, holding a woman she didn't recognize at all in a horizontal carry.
Soga Yura knew that Yuzu had seized a [Concept Armament].
[But...]
[But...]
Soga Yura looked at that [Investigation Bureau] police station [female superintendent] with teary eyes.
[Yuzu... Yuzu hasn't even taken me for a ride yet.]
[She actually carried another woman.]
"Uncle Irube—" Putting down the Miss [Superintendent], whose cheeks seemed to be burning, Su Yuzu greeted Soga Ishikawa Irube very obediently.
She looked worriedly at the girl in the burly man's arms.
The girl's forehead was dripping with fresh blood.
"Kiyomi is fine." Soga Ishikawa Irube looked at the twins in front of him, hesitated, and signaled Su Yuzu with his eyes.
Su Yuzu turned her head and saw Soga Yura, who had completely turned into a °00° appearance.
"Why is [Sister] here?"
!!!
It was just that Soga Yura didn't have an [ahoge] on her head like the [little rabbit].
Otherwise, it definitely would have stood up at this moment.
"Ah, ah, ah..." Soga Yura's mouth hung open, unable to even speak. Hearing Yuzu's address for her, Soga Ishikawa Yura felt like her entire being was about to get high.
Ehehe... Yuzu... Yuzu called me [Sister].
Woo~~~
Soga Yura even wanted to go back to the dormitory and roll around on the bed hugging her Su Yuzu life-sized body pillow.
It was just that the girl's inner thoughts could no longer be heard by anyone.
Otherwise... Su Yuzu would probably twist Soga Yura's ear, hating iron for not becoming steel.
The opportunity was laid out right in front of you, how can you still be so useless?
Can't you be a bit bolder even when having delusions?
"I'll take Sister Kiyomi back to the [school hospital] first." Su Yuzu looked at Soga Ishikawa Irube. Soga Ishikawa Irube frowned, then nodded.
"Okay."
—
On the other side.
Completely different from the imagination that [Aberrants] should hide in urban drainage systems or other dark places.
The staggering woman, after changing her disguise, returned to a magnificent star-rated hotel.
The largest shareholder of this hotel was [Epiphany Manufacture].
Inside the suite, the girl in the deep green cheongsam looked grumpily at the woman who had fled back in a near-wretched state.
"Trash."
"You..." Under the sunglasses, the woman's [Dark golden vertical pupils] looked ferocious.
There should have been a strict hierarchy between [Aberrants].
Subordinates must absolutely obey superiors.
But... because she was a [man-made Aberrant], while possessing rationality, [Feng Ke] also possessed a self.
"Enough—" A majestic voice.
[Feng Ke] restrained her contemptuous look.
"Three top-tier [Third Sequence] users. It was already lucky for '[Raven]' to come back alive."
"However... [Feng Ke]—"
"How did your recording go?"
Although she didn't know why the Boss wanted her to film Su Yuzu looking so good, the [Aberrant girl] nodded, "No problem."
She filmed very carefully, and she also filmed that girl looking very dashing.
She was also very careful with propriety when filming; there was not a single possibility of an upskirt shot, yet the flying hem of the skirt happened to be very teasing.
[Strange...]
Gently biting her lower lip.
[Feng Ke] gazed at the warm and sunny sky outside the window. Although the interior of the hotel was magnificent, hidden beneath that magnificence... was a coldness as inorganic as metal.
The transparent floor-to-ceiling windows separated two worlds.
[Myself, existing in this world...]
[Is just like.]
[A cage.]
And outside the cage, the girl's beautiful [crimson eyes] flashed in the [Aberrant girl]'s eyes.
"[Feng Ke], [Feng Ke]!!!" The majestic voice.
"Here!" The awakened [Aberrant girl] hurriedly pulled her consciousness back from those strange, spreading thoughts.
She was somewhat puzzled.
[I...]
[What exactly is wrong with me.]
But what lingered in the [Aberrant girl]'s mind for a long time at this moment was the hem of the girl's skirt fluttering lightly.
And... the fragrance, faint as citrus, amidst the girl's hair.
—Su Yuzu.
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