“What a hassle… Seriously, I’m really losing out today.” Shokuhou Misaki complained loudly, stomping her feet, seemingly to express her dissatisfaction. “Not only did I not get to tour with Lin Wuming Senpai, but I was dragged here to help instead—don’t you think that’s unreasonable, Hu Feng? We’re supposed to be guests!”
Hu Feng Toumi said expressionlessly and calmly, “At least Misaka didn’t get to move around with Lin Wuming either—for you, that’s already enough, isn’t it?”
“It’s ‘for Our’,” Shokuhou Misaki corrected, then asked, “By the way, was last year’s Summer Festival this lively?”
“I don’t know,” Hu Feng Toumi shook her head. “Around this time last year, I was mostly at home.”
“That’s true,” Shokuhou Misaki nodded. She hadn’t paid attention to last year’s Summer Festival either, nor had she come to visit.
If Lin Wuming hadn’t been coming to visit today, Shokuhou Misaki wouldn’t have been here.
“I wonder if it’s Lin Wuming Senpai…” Shokuhou Misaki muttered to herself.
She suspected that it was a butterfly effect caused by Lin Wuming that made this year’s Summer Festival so “lively” and prone to frequent incidents.
Misaka Mikoto didn’t move with them because she had a performance, so she went to prepare early.
Shokuhou Misaki didn’t disturb her; instead, she did her best to help Misaka Mikoto adjust her state and eliminate the influence of the external environment…
“Oh dear, speaking of the devil…” Suddenly, Shokuhou Misaki couldn’t help but rub her forehead.
A group of five, one male and four females, was walking towards them.
Shokuhou Misaki knew them—the Item quartet, and their unofficial member, Hamazura Shiage.
“This is trouble…”
Behind Shokuhou Misaki and Hu Feng Toumi was an area of the dormitory not open to the public.
Misaka Mikoto and other students who needed to perform were changing, doing their makeup, and making various preparations there.
It could be said that it was the backstage.
It was well known that Mugino Shizuri and Misaka Mikoto didn’t get along well. If the two of them met, it was hard to imagine what kind of sparks would fly.
Perhaps because they were both Level 5, the relationship between Mugino Shizuri and Shokuhou Misaki wasn't particularly good either, at most not as tense as with Misaka Mikoto.
“Leave this to me, you go handle other matters first,” Hu Feng Toumi said. “Kazakiri Hyouka has already rushed over; she will protect you next.”
“Then I’ll leave this to you,” Shokuhou Misaki nodded decisively. “You should also be careful.”
“Don’t worry, nothing will suddenly break out for no reason,” Hu Feng Toumi said.
“…” Shokuhou Misaki rolled her eyes. “Anyway, I’m counting on you.”
With that, she turned and walked up the stairs leading to the second floor.
Hu Feng Toumi, on the other hand, proactively went to meet the Item members.
“It’s Hu Feng Senior!” Kinuhata Saiai greeted first.
“Hu Feng Toumi,” Mugino Shizuri stopped and carefully sized up the girl in front of her.
Hu Feng Toumi didn’t back down, staring back.
“I just saw Mental Out,” Mugino Shizuri asked. “Why did she run away?”
“Because there are many other matters that need to be handled,” Hu Feng Toumi said. “So she had to rush over as quickly as possible.”
As she spoke, Hu Feng Toumi reached out to block the path of the Item members.
“The area ahead is not open for visitors; visitors stop here.”
To everyone’s surprise, Mugino Shizuri actually stopped moving forward and turned around.
“Then forget it,” Mugino Shizuri said. “Anyway, we’ve pretty much seen everything, and I’m getting bored. Let’s go back.”
Takitsubo Rikou and Frenda had no objections to this. Only Kinuhata Saiai hesitated for a moment, then said, “I still have something I want to talk to Hu Feng Senior about, so…”
“Then talk,” Mugino Shizuri nodded, then walked to the side, leaving space for her and Hu Feng Toumi.
“Eh?” Kinuhata Saiai was stunned for a moment.
Mugino Shizuri leaned against the window sill, stroking her hair, then seemed to suddenly realize something: “Or… should we leave first and give you all the time and space?”
“No, absolutely not!” Kinuhata Saiai quickly shook her head.
After such a long time together, Kinuhata Saiai had also figured out her leader’s temper and personality. Since she had pointed it out, she couldn’t really hide it from her anymore.
“Well, actually, I really don’t care,” Mugino Shizuri said, but she showed no intention of moving her feet.
Because Hu Feng Toumi was on Lin Wuming’s side, and those two were the heroes who saved Kinuhata Saiai during the Dark May plan.
Even now, that girl Kinuhata Saiai was still grateful to Lin Wuming.
Therefore, Mugino Shizuri felt it was necessary to keep a close eye to prevent her subordinate, who had cooperated for over two years, from inexplicably jumping ship.
Kinuhata Saiai, of course, had no intention of changing teams, so she didn’t mind Mugino Shizuri observing.
“It’s like this, Hu Feng Senior,” Kinuhata Saiai said. “I’d like to ask for your help with an experiment.”
“An experiment?”
“Yes, I want to verify the strength of my Nitrogen Armor,” Kinuhata Saiai said, pulling a bottle cap from her pocket and holding it between two fingers. “I will use Nitrogen Armor to provide super protection to this bottle cap, and then I’ll ask Hu Feng Senior to attack it.”
Just as Kinuhata Saiai said, she wanted to verify the upper limit of her Nitrogen Armor’s defense.
Mugino Shizuri’s Atomic Destroyer, needless to say, Nitrogen Armor definitely couldn’t block it.
The other Level 5s—except for Mental Out, who wasn’t good at direct combat—were also the same; they knew without experimenting that it couldn’t be blocked!
Otherwise, there would be no need to differentiate between esper ability levels.
Therefore, Kinuhata Saiai set her sights on Level 4 Great Ability User. As far as she knew, among Level 4s, the most powerful attacker was undoubtedly Absolute Penetration Hu Feng Toumi.
“Eh? Why do something like this?” Frenda couldn’t help but ask. “In the end, it seems to have no meaning, right?”
“Perhaps the last few missions made Kinuhatata feel challenged?” Takitsubo Rikou said. “So she wants to seek a breakthrough and become stronger.”
Hu Feng Toumi didn’t think that much. She readily agreed, pulling a ribbon from her pocket: “Let me know when you’re ready.”
“I’m ready,” Kinuhata Saiai nodded.
Before she finished speaking, a pitch-black lightning bolt shot out from Hu Feng Toumi’s hand.
Almost simultaneously, Kinuhata Saiai felt her Nitrogen Armor being penetrated.
When she shifted her gaze to the bottle cap in her hand, she found that it had already been pierced, leaving a long, slender cut.
