The presence of that figure was too natural, as if she had been there from the beginning, so much so that although Lin Wuming and the others clearly saw her appear out of thin air, they didn't feel the slightest sense of abnormality.
"A high school girl?" Shokuhou Misaki narrowed her eyes and looked at her.
Across the road was a beautiful girl with long black straight hair, her enviable long hair reaching down to her thighs, with a small strand separated near her ear and tied with a hair tie, showing a bit of playfulness in her elegance.
The girl wore a pair of thin-rimmed glasses, and from a distance, only the reflection of the lenses could be seen, making her seem a bit mysterious.
Apart from these two relatively conspicuous features, this girl had no other characteristics.
She was wearing a summer girls' uniform, a short-sleeved shirt combined with a small red tie, and a blue uniform skirt below.
In short, it was a common uniform style, recognizable at a glance to the extent of—"Ah, this is a high school girl."
But if you wanted to specifically determine which School she was a student of... just looking at the uniform offered no way to tell.
Therefore, Shokuhou Misaki's assessment was actually quite accurate—just a high school girl... and that's it.
The girl who suddenly appeared before them seemed like the final product of the concept of "high school girl" made concrete.
"Is she an enemy?" Hu Feng Toumi muttered with a frown, her ribbon in her hand ready to move.
"She shouldn't be..." Lin Wuming shook his head slightly.
The image of this girl before them—precisely because she was more like the concretization of some concept, without a specific appearance or image, Lin Wuming found it easier to recognize her.
—Shokuhou, what do you think?
—Unnamed Senior means... Kazakiri Hyouka?
The name "Kazakiri Hyouka" had just appeared—even if only in their minds—when the mysterious girl seemed to be summoned, taking steps and walking towards the road.
Hu Feng Toumi's brows furrowed tightly, her Absolute Penetration was poised and ready, already unable to hold back.
She felt this girl before her was very strange and had to be guarded against.
Although there had been quite a few strange girls appearing around Lin Wuming, this one before her, in particular, made Hu Feng Toumi instinctively feel that she was an especially abnormal character, different from everyone else she had encountered before!
"Lin Wuming..." Hu Feng Toumi spoke again, "Is this person really...?"
"Lin Wuming!" Almost simultaneously, the girl opposite also spoke, "Finally... I've met you!"
With that, a brilliant smile appeared on the girl's lovely face, she spread her arms and ran towards Lin Wuming, cheering.
Looking at her posture, she was about to throw herself into Lin Wuming's arms.
"Don't!" Shokuhou Misaki suddenly shouted.
In that instant, even Shokuhou Misaki herself wasn't quite sure whether she wanted to stop Kazakiri Hyouka from rushing into his arms, or to stop Hu Feng Toumi's actions...
Kazakiri Hyouka's action finally became the last straw that broke the camel's back.
The string named "reason" in Hu Feng Toumi's mind snapped, transforming into the ribbon in her hand, stabbing straight out.
Lin Wuming also couldn't stop her determined strike.
Hu Feng Toumi's attack was like a venomous snake flicking its tongue, stabbing out like lightning, and retracting like lightning.
For someone unfamiliar with her, they wouldn't even realize she had launched an attack.
During these days, her training with Kanzaki Kaori had finally yielded some results.
Although she used stabbing attacks while Kanzaki Kaori was skilled in slashing attacks, Hu Feng Toumi's movements clearly had some of the flavor of "Iai Slash".
Kazakiri Hyouka was hit head-on, but continued running forward as if nothing had happened, finally throwing herself towards Lin Wuming.
The attack path was blocked by Lin Wuming's body, and Hu Feng Toumi suppressed the killing intent in her heart—now, she could no longer draw her sword towards Lin Wuming without hesitation like she did at first.
—What's going on now?
Lin Wuming shouted in his heart.
—Heh, who knows?
Shokuhou Misaki rolled her eyes, her expression clearly showing her displeasure.
Of course, it's impossible to face this scene with a smile, right? More inexplicable rivals had appeared, and even if she wanted to complain, there was nowhere to reason.
In fact, if she weren't 100% certain that Unnamed Senior couldn't have known this "Kazakiri Hyouka" beforehand, Shokuhou Misaki's reaction might not have been any calmer than Hu Feng Toumi's.
"Wait, pause for a moment, everyone calm down and don't move!" Lin Wuming shouted loudly while grabbing the shoulders of the girl in his arms, moving her away by an arm's length.
"Let's figure out the current situation first!" Lin Wuming said.
A similar scene had already occurred once today—in Lin Wuming's perception, it felt like he was facing a huge trouble of "world destruction" level just now.
But precisely because of the previous experience, Lin Wuming was able to remain calm, or rather, he no longer had the extra energy to be surprised.
"We'll talk about other things later," Lin Wuming sighed, looking at the girl with a face full of pure smiles before him, "First, introduce yourself, who are you?"
"My name is Kazakiri Hyouka." The girl was very cooperative.
—Ah, just as expected.
Lin Wuming and Shokuhou Misaki sighed together, no wonder she took a sword strike from Hu Feng Toumi just now but still seemed unaffected.
If this girl was indeed the "Kazakiri Hyouka" from the original story, then she was indeed "immortal"; at least she wouldn't be simply stabbed to death.
Kazakiri Hyouka is an aggregate of AIM Diffusion Fields, she is an entity formed by the combined AIM Diffusion Fields of all Espers in the entire Academy City.
Without a doubt, such a Kazakiri Hyouka is not human, and can be regarded as a "ghost" unique to Academy City; or rather, the representative of the legendary "Imaginary Number District Five Element Organ".
But at this moment, Kazakiri Hyouka was a girl who appeared alive and well before them.
Lin Wuming, who was closest, couldn't see any difference between her and a normal human girl, and even Hu Feng Toumi, who had just attacked her mercilessly, didn't feel that she was any different from other girls.
Only Shokuhou Misaki...
"My Mental Out is ineffective on her." Shokuhou Misaki looked at her with some apprehension.
Since Kazakiri Hyouka is not human after all, it was only natural that Shokuhou Misaki's Superpower wouldn't work; it could even be said that this girl before them... had no brain.
The silver lining in this misfortune was that Kazakiri Hyouka was not an "enemy".
"What exactly are you? You were hit by Hu Feng just now, but you don't seem injured." Lin Wuming continued to probe, wanting to confirm whether this Kazakiri Hyouka before him was the one he knew from the original story.
Because there was a difference between the two, this Kazakiri Hyouka who appeared before him now was a bit too cheerful and lively.
It should be known that according to the description in the original work, Kazakiri Hyouka's personality was somewhat weak and she was easily timid, "like a trembling small animal," always acting cautiously.
It was really hard to imagine that such a timid and introverted girl would make a move to actively throw herself into someone's arms, and to a "stranger" she didn't know at that.
"I'm fine." Kazakiri Hyouka said cheerfully, as if to prove her words, she puffed out her chest, highlighting a pair of proud ample breasts.
Let alone wounds or bloodstains, there wasn't even a trace of damage on her uniform.
