Chapter 805: Kihara Gensei's Objective
“Oh my, a signal from Misaka? It seems you two were prepared for my plan. I'm truly impressed by you, Shiokishi, and Lin Wuming.”
Kihara Gensei said leisurely.
Shokuhou Misaki's heart tightened. She even ignored the situation with Lin Wuming and focused on examining the current circumstances.
“Are you surprised, Shiokishi? Calm down, don't forget, I left a backdoor program in the External Brain, so I also indirectly possess your esper ability.”
In any other situation, the Mental Out Kihara Gensei possessed would of course be no match for Shokuhou Misaki's original esper ability. At most, it would only allow him to resist Shokuhou Misaki's Mind Reading and mental control to a certain extent.
As for trying to turn the tables and read Shokuhou Misaki's thoughts, that would be as impossible as a fairy tale!
However, the current situation was that Shokuhou Misaki was performing long-distance mental interference, descending into Kihara Gensei's sea of consciousness from afar.
Thus, Kihara Gensei, who held the home-field advantage, also possessed certain “privileges”—while being read by Shokuhou Misaki, he could also perceive Shokuhou Misaki's inner thoughts.
Both parties were consciousness entities, theoretically equal, with neither holding an advantage.
Although it hadn't reached the level of Mind Reading, it was not difficult to make a binary judgment between truth and falsehood.
Shokuhou Misaki knew that if she lied, she definitely wouldn't be able to hide it from Kihara Gensei now.
“Heh heh, as expected of Shiokishi, you reacted so quickly? But there's no need to worry, because you are indeed stronger, and you hold the absolute advantage.”
Shokuhou Misaki remained silent, but her heart was filled with murderous intent—having spent a long time with Hu Feng Toumi, she had been somewhat influenced.
At least when facing a greatly threatening enemy, Shokuhou Misaki did not reject using “killing” as a means.
“Oh my, such strong killing intent.”
Kihara Gensei, however, still smiled unhurriedly, unsure if he was bluffing or truly had nothing to fear.
“Let's calm down first, Shiokishi. This is a good opportunity for me to have a good talk with you. Thinking about it carefully, we have been connected for a long time, but I've never had the chance to communicate 'face-to-face' like this.”
“Heh, I'm not interested, nor do I have time to chat with you.”
Shokuhou Misaki responded with a cold laugh.
“Don't refuse so decisively. We have plenty of time now, a brief chat won't delay your matters.”
Listening to Kihara Gensei's leisurely tone, Shokuhou Misaki finally realized—the flow of time in the real world seemed to have slowed down considerably.
Having experienced intervening in Lin Wuming's mental world, Shokuhou Misaki was not unfamiliar with this scene.
In fact, it was precisely because she was so familiar that she didn't react immediately.
“Bullet Time”?
“A very apt name, Bullet Time. Oh, don't be too nervous, I'm just sighing a little; this name, and Lin Wuming's special ability, have long been no secret.”
Kihara Gensei stated this—at least to me, it's no secret.
Shokuhou Misaki made no further reaction, to prevent this old fox from finding another weakness.
However, what was certain was that Kihara Gensei was indeed not lying—this old fox's understanding of Unnamed-kun far exceeded Our imagination!
Thinking of this, Shokuhou Misaki suddenly felt a chill down her spine.
There was an obvious fact before her…
“Unnamed-kun… When exactly did your research target become Unnamed-kun?”
Kihara Gensei replied with a smile—strictly speaking, from the day Lin Wuming became a Level 5? After all, I've never been interested in espers below Level 5.
“However,” Kihara Gensei continued, “Lin Wuming is an exception, because I was already paying attention to him before he became a Level 5.”
“From the very beginning? It wasn't Misaka Mikoto, that's… beyond my expectations!”
Due to her extreme surprise, Shokuhou Misaki didn't bother to hide her thoughts.
“Oh my, Misaka?”
To her surprise, Kihara Gensei was also very surprised—I'm very curious, why would you think my target was Misaka? Your and Lin Wuming's judgment doesn't make sense.
According to Kihara Gensei, his initial research subject was Shokuhou Misaki, and then he changed it to Lin Wuming.
As for Misaka Mikoto, she was never even considered.
Because Kihara Gensei knew that “Misaka” was a target Chairman Aleister had already chosen, wasting time and resources on her was meaningless.
Shokuhou Misaki remained silent, making no reaction.
In this special situation, they absolutely could not expose their true secret—Lin Wuming's identity as an esper and the information about the “original plot” they possessed.
Kihara Gensei was not at all surprised by Shokuhou Misaki's silence; many times, “silence” and “acquiescence” are synonymous.
“As expected, there is some basis, considering the various achievements you have made in the past, it's not surprising.”
Despite her reluctance, when she came to her senses, Shokuhou Misaki found that she still had no choice but to “chat” with Kihara Gensei.
Pure consciousness communication is very fast.
Kihara Gensei was right, now, they had “plenty of time.”
Shokuhou Misaki was also interested in Kihara Gensei's plan, and it now seemed that Kihara Gensei was quite eager to express himself and wanted to “have a good talk” with her, which was a good opportunity to gather information.
Although she was unwilling to admit it, it was true—in this “war” with Kihara Gensei, her side had already fallen into an absolute disadvantage.
After all, only her side had treated the experiences of these days as a “battle,” while Kihara Gensei, this old fox, showed no intention of “fighting” at all.
“This old fox is just conducting an experiment at his own pace.”
The confrontation between the two sides was actually not valid, because they were not on the same wavelength from the beginning.
In this situation, in order to bridge the information gap between the two sides, Shokuhou Misaki didn't mind “wasting a little time” here with Kihara Gensei.
“Look, it's about to start.”
Kihara Gensei suddenly said.
Following his gaze, Shokuhou Misaki saw Lin Wuming suspended in mid-air…
Nothing special had happened; he was exactly the same as when she had seen him just now.
This was normal, after all, Shokuhou Misaki and Kihara Gensei were in a special state at this time, with their subjective time flow accelerated, while in the real world, less than two seconds had passed.
In such a short time, it was normal for nothing to have changed… under normal circumstances.
