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Join the ServerSeptember 13th was the opening day of the new semester at Tokiwa Armed Autonomous High School.
It was cloudy and might rain.
Summer was giving way to autumn, and the early autumn morning still held a faint trace of heat.
Vehicles drove along the roadside streets, where the deep green leaves of the trees planted on both sides were already turning yellow.
Facing the energetic golden sunlight, the light filtered through the branches and leaves, leaving copper-coin-sized spots of light on the road.
The light reflected on the paving tiles, on the passing pedestrians, and on a lazy orange cat lying on the flower bed.
Cute high school girls wanted to take advantage of the time before the morning newspaper bell rang to get close and cozy with this cute creature.
However, one second before the two girls could touch it.
The cat suddenly spread its wings!
It flew into the sky!
It flew away, oh, it just flew away like that.
“…”
“…”
What?!
A superpower cat!
…
Having already witnessed this kind of situation, I was long used to it and found nothing strange.
(Cross that out)
Holy crap!
A superpower beast?!
Damn it!
Why would a superpower cat appear in a livable city like Tokiwa?!
——This is a scene I really haven’t seen before.JPG.
Before Yoji could accept the early morning disdain and disgust from the students of Tokiwa Armed High School, the cat that suddenly took flight from the roadside street caused instant panic among the crowd.
The excitement of those two girls instantly turned into panic, and their eyes widened in helplessness: “A… a superpower beast?! How… how is there a superpower beast here?! Ah!! Help!!”
Shouting and screaming.
Yoji’s deep black eyes instantly emitted a faint red light, tinting his pupils red.
His field of vision deepened and magnified, instantly locking onto the image of the cat flying in the sky…
In appearance, it was just an ordinary orange cat with a pair of white wings on its back, flapping its wings as it flew into the sky, aimless and still lazy.
Observing closely, Yoji even noticed that the cat’s fluffy front limbs hadn’t even extended their claws; it was simply spreading its wings to fly, and there seemed to be a necklace around its neck.
Yet, a cat that suddenly flew up like this easily scared the passing students and office workers into scurrying in all directions.
“Where are the officers?! Where are the officers?! Why did a superpower beast sneak into Tokiwa City! Where are the officers!”
Yoji only felt it was funny.
He thought about using telekinesis to drag the orange cat into a trash can in the nearby alley and shut it in, then removing the cat’s wings and dyeing its fur to make it a normal cat again when he returned after school.
However, hearing footsteps coming from behind him, Yoji lowered his right hand, changing back into a truly innocent bystander: “Oh my! What are you doing—”
“Oh, Onii-chan! It… it’s okay, Onii-chan, it’s okay, I’m here!”
The one rushing up from behind was naturally Aikawa Ritsuki!
Her figure was like an arrow, stepping twice to reach Yoji’s side, anxiously patting Yoji’s shoulder: “It… it doesn’t matter, brother, it’s just an ordinary superpower beast, it should just be frightened and isn’t dangerous!”
The well-endowed… ahem, neighbor girl Keiko hurriedly rushed in front of the two panicked girls, putting her arms around their shoulders and pulling them back five meters, turning sideways as a kunai appeared from nowhere, held tightly in her hand.
“It’s okay, senior schoolmates, I will protect you.”
“Your… your bowtie, aren’t… aren’t you a freshman at our school?”
“Wait, Yui, she… this junior schoolmate seems to be a freshman in the superpower class?”
“Eh?”
Keiko chuckled softly: “No need to be afraid, senior schoolmates. Ritsuki, come help me!”
“Mm.”
After confirming that her brother wasn’t frightened, Aikawa Ritsuki stepped out, her brows furrowing with a solemn expression.
The heat of early autumn lingering around them vanished at some unknown moment, the air grew heavy, the color of the entire street turned a bit gloomy, and the dew on the leaves of the bushes under the trees solidified.
——Domain.
It was a special ability that altered the surrounding environment based on the strength of one’s superpower.
Originally, a Domain was an ability that only C-rank superpower users or above could potentially use, but because of Aikawa Ritsuki’s tyrannical superpower talent, her domain was already taking shape during her apprentice stage.
Raising her hand, frost surrounded her, her brows, eyes, and even her deep black hair turned into the color of pure white snow in an instant.
Aikawa Yoji, sitting on the steps behind, unceremoniously gave his cheap younger sister a thumb-up, widening his eyes to appreciate her operation.
Control-type spirit… wait, no, ahem, basic ice-attribute superpowers weren’t particularly lethal; their initial classification was only in auxiliary control, and victory mainly relied on teammate cooperation and one’s own martial skills.
Teammate cooperation?
But what kind of cooperation could two apprentices without systematic training possibly have?
“…”
Keiko flung the kunai in her hand, like a fully drawn arrow instantly entering the vision of the cute superpower cat!
Then!
——It twisted its head and easily dodged it.
Miyatsubaki Keiko shouted Ritsuki’s name again, waved her hand, and out of thin air manifested a small pink hammer!
Ritsuki responded immediately!
Stepping on the ground, the surrounding circulating ice mist instantly solidified!
A massive ice pillar rose into the air right from under Miyatsubaki Keiko’s feet!
Aikawa Yoji really wanted to applaud!
Could this be the legendary… hammer coordination? (Laughs)
The target of the rising ice pillar was naturally the cat flying in the air.
The distance of over ten meters was instantly closed, Keiko tapped her foot on the ice surface and leapt into the air, her pink weapon aiming directly at the flying cat!
Rather than being afraid, the orange cat seemed to have found an interesting toy, flapping its wings to retreat half a meter backward, then extending its meat-padded paw to meet the pink hammer head-on!
“Meow!”
Clang——
However, the orange cat clearly underestimated the power of the pink hammer and was knocked flying toward Aikawa Ritsuki.
“Ritsuki!”
“I know!”
Stars might have been spinning over its head, and the cat in the air flapped its wings, wanting to counterattack, but cold ice had already blocked all its future paths!
“Cage.”
The white-haired girl gradually clenched her fingers into a fist, and the mist spreading from the ice pillar instantly wrapped around the orange cat, solidifying into a crude, ice-made birdcage.
“Thud.”
It fell onto the ground.
The moment the cage took shape, the crude ice pillar also disintegrated out of thin air, turning back into a trace of chill in the air.
Keiko landed toward a tree on the sidewalk, stepping heavily on a branch with one foot, causing the entire tree to shake violently.
It frightened the pedestrians under the tree, but looking up, they didn’t find it scary, but rather beautiful.
Keiko leaped back to the ground along the branch, spun the hammer in her hand into a flourish, stuffed it back into her chest, and chuckled: “Ah, this superpower beast doesn’t seem very smart! It actually dared to take a hit from me! Haha, let me see, what a cute cat.”
“Meow meow meow!”
The orange cat frantically clawed at the cage from inside, as if cursing someone.
Another black cat emerged on the street, heard it, turned around, and walked away.
‘Just how foul must those curses be?’
Keiko smiled, crouching down to tease her first victory in her future career as a superpower practitioner.
However, Ritsuki grabbed the back of her neck before she could extend her finger: “Don’t mess around, this is a superpower beast after all, be careful in case this little guy has some trick left, you might get hurt if you get too close.”
“Aiya, Ritsuki, didn’t you also call it a little guy! It’s just a little cat, a little cat with wings——”
Ritsuki slapped Keiko’s hand away: “Wait for the officers to arrive! Stop messing around.”
“Ugh——” Miyatsubaki Keiko felt aggrieved, being bullied by the big bastard Yoji early in the morning was one thing, and now Ritsuki wouldn’t even let her touch the cat, no love anymore, no love anymore!
Aikawa Yoji, who was suddenly thought of, was a bit confused.
‘Why glare at me when you get yelled at?! Did I eat your rice or something?!’
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…
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For a major event like a superpower beast appearing in a residential area, the relevant departments reacted swiftly.
Less than two minutes after Ritsuki trapped the cat, the superpower police department arrived at the crime scene, running several red lights with siren calls, and set up a police line!
A scarred burly man holding a long blade and a short man holding a firearm were the first to charge into the scene.
‘Superpower practitioners.’
Yoji detected faint superpower fluctuations in the air.
The two officers exerted extreme caution as they arrived on the scene, but they only saw two high school girls.
“?”
Seeing Keiko, the burly man immediately gripped his long blade alertly: “Officer! That’s the cow-type superpower beast, right?! It’s even humanoid!! It’s really so huge, be careful officer! Very dangerous! Let me…”
“Bang!!”
The short officer kicked the burly man flying, slamming him heavily into the ground, shattering the stone pavement.
“Cough cough cough! Cough cough cough!! S… sorry, young lady, th… this guy is new and doesn’t know better, he spoke recklessly, please absolutely don’t mind!”
Miyatsubaki Keiko felt like killing someone; if Aikawa Ritsuki hadn’t been holding her back, her hammer would have already smashed into the scarred officer’s face.
“What do you mean! Who is a cow-type!! Who is a cow-type!”
“Ugh, I… I didn’t say minotaur, okay?”
“The superpower beast is here.”
Ritsuki controlled the ice cage to move in front of the short officer: “Oh, ah, I understand.”
The apologetic expression on his face instantly turned serious, and he performed a very standard military salute: “Thank you very much for the assistance of the two apprentices!”
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…
After that, it was standard procedure: checking surveillance cameras and interviewing eyewitnesses.
They had Ritsuki and Keiko register their names; enthusiastic apprentices like them who protected the safety of citizens could receive commendations and rewards.
After one last kneeling apology, the burly man finally gained Miyatsubaki Keiko’s forgiveness through repeated apologies.
They prepared to continue their journey to school.
As for the cat that caused the chaos, it was restrained by officers using a superpower suppressor, transferred to an iron cage, and loaded onto a police car.
“Hey, hey! Ritsuki, did you see my moves just now?! Wasn’t I really cool!” Keiko wanted to show off her performance to Ritsuki on the way.
“Don’t say such pointless things.”
Ritsuki didn’t want to talk about these meaningless matters and carefully followed by her brother’s side.
“Onii-chan, how… how do you think I performed just now?”
Yoji tilted his head.
How did I think?! How could it be.
I already said it was hammer coordination.
The other side was a harmless, non-aggressive, cute superpower cat, did capturing it really require so much trouble?
Creating an ice pillar right at the start consumed so much stamina just to send Keiko up for a basic attack? Did you eat the surrounding environment?! There was water on the sign by the road! Wasn’t the cat flying right next to it? Having Keiko attract its attention while you directly turned it into an ice cat, wouldn’t that have worked?
This series of moves wasn’t even as practical as a cat teaser wand.
Aikawa Yoji mercilessly complained in his heart, but felt a bit reluctant.
She was still his cute (crossed out) hateful younger sister after all, and the two of them were still just apprentices who had only awakened their abilities without real combat experience; being able to react and cooperate this quickly was already quite impressive.
So Yoji still intended to offer some encouragement, raising his pinky finger.
“I think the two of you are pretty trash…”
“BANG!!!!!”
A loud gunshot suddenly rang out from behind!
It frightened the surrounding pedestrians who had just calmed down, making them turn their heads toward the source of the noise, their faces universally showing smiles.
Aikawa Yoji didn’t turn around to look.
The convex mirror at the corner told him the source of the sound was the police car.
A large spray of blood leaked out from the car door, dyeing the asphalt concrete on the ground red.
The surrounding crowd cheered wildly for the blood.
“…”
Yoji wiped a drop of water off his cheek with his finger, looking up.
“It’s raining, let’s hurry up and leave.”
Dark clouds covered the sky, as if the sky were crying.
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