Chapter 81: I’ll reduce you to zero.

“Ah,” seeing Charlotte floating in mid-air like a balloon, Aya looked bewildered.

Charlotte was not flustered by the gravity reversal as Aya had predicted. Instead, she was casually putting a handful of potato chips into her mouth, completely ignoring Sakurako Aya.

And Huangquan Ai, who was lying in the pit, also didn’t fall onto the ceiling when the gravity reversed.

“What is going on? Are these two people who defy Newton really not human?”

Sakurako Aya decided to increase the gravity multiplier, boosting it to fifty times in one go.

Instantly, cracks began to form in the surrounding walls, and the air became agitated.

This was the maximum the room could withstand. Any more gravity and the room would collapse.

Yet, even so, Charlotte looked just as unconcerned as before. It was as if her fifty times gravity pressure felt like a massage at a foot spa.

“Hey, what the hell is wrong with you? I’ve increased the gravity to fifty times! No matter how strong you are, you shouldn’t be completely unaffected!”

“Oh? You’ve increased the gravity to fifty times? Sorry, I don’t feel anything at all yet!”

Charlotte’s response infuriated Sakurako Aya. She truly couldn’t understand why this girl was so calm in the face of her gravity manipulation.

“Do you know that if an object has no weight to begin with, increasing the gravity to a thousand times is still meaningless?”

Hearing Charlotte’s explanation, Sakurako Aya suddenly understood everything.

“Wait, don’t tell me…”

“I used Levitation Magic to turn my own weight to zero, so your gravity manipulation is ineffective against me, no matter how much you increase the gravity.”

“What? Magic?” This time, it was Sakurako Aya’s turn to be stunned.

She hadn’t misheard. This ability to change one’s weight wasn’t a superpower, but magic.

Although she understood what magic was, she couldn’t believe she was witnessing someone use magic in the real world.

Magic should not exist in the real world, although superpowers were also pretty absurd.

“Are you kidding me? Are you trying to tell me you’re a witch who crossed over from another world?”

“Yes! How did you know I was the strongest Star Witch from another world?”

“Who asked you that!”

Sakurako Aya didn’t take Charlotte’s words seriously. She simply assumed Charlotte was an incredibly chuunibyou genius Esper.

But even so, the ability to turn her own weight to zero was quite tricky for her. It meant the advantage she had created was instantly negated.

She could only defeat her through close-quarters combat.

Fortunately, her Gravity Manipulation still worked on herself. As long as she utilized the mobility granted by her Gravity Manipulation and engaged in physical combat with her, she wouldn’t lose.

After all, that girl only had one power—the ability to turn her weight to zero. She couldn’t possibly pull out another powerful ability.

Thinking this, Sakurako Aya gave a triumphant smile, reversed the direction of her own gravity, and accelerated toward Charlotte.

“Huh?”

She thought she would instantly rush into Charlotte’s face and deliver an attack. But two seconds later, the distance between them was still the same, as if it hadn’t changed at all.

Sakurako Aya looked down in confusion, finding that she was still standing motionless on the ceiling.

No, to be precise, her feet were about two or three centimeters away from the ceiling.

“Strange? Did I not make it clear just now? If you set your body’s weight to zero, your gravity manipulation is completely nullified. You didn’t think my Levitation Magic only works on myself, did you?”

Hearing Charlotte’s words, Sakurako Aya’s eyes widened in shock.

Her own weight had also been set to zero by Charlotte.

Her plan to use high-mobility to attack was completely useless.

Seeing Sakurako Aya fall into a panic, Charlotte looked smug. She moved her body toward Sakurako Aya as if swimming in a pool.

“Don’t come closer!”

Sakurako Aya tried to escape, but experiencing a zero-gravity state for the first time, she couldn’t master the trick of moving while floating. Soon, Charlotte pinned her against the ceiling.

“What do you want?” Sakurako Aya stared at Charlotte, who was now inches away, in horror.

She was unarmed and completely at Charlotte’s mercy. Charlotte could do whatever she wanted, and she couldn’t offer any meaningful resistance.

Moreover, she was wearing clothes that were particularly easy to remove today. If Charlotte had any ill intentions, her virginity would certainly be lost here.

“Don’t be so scared! I’m not going to eat you. Just answer a few questions honestly, and I guarantee you’ll walk out of this room alive.”

“Living with only half her life left still counts as walking out alive.”

Undoubtedly, Sakurako Aya had no choice now. Even if she tried to resist, Charlotte had ways to force the truth out of her.

“What organization are you in? Who is your boss? And why did he send you to target us? Answer these questions honestly, and I’ll let you go.”

“You want me to tell you everything? If the boss finds out I sold him out, he’ll definitely kill me!”

“But if you don’t tell me anything, I can’t guarantee that I won’t do something extreme!”

Saying this, Charlotte pulled a small pill out of her dimensional space, intending to shove it into Sakurako Aya’s mouth.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk! Our organization is called the Five Element Agency, a secret Esper organization. We usually rely on our powers to solve all sorts of strange commissions. Today, we received a commission to attack a girl suspected of being an Esper. The boss sent me, who is also a girl, to handle it. But as you can see, I think I got the wrong person…”

“A girl suspected of being an Esper? Who is that girl?”

“I forgot her name! I only remember that her surname is also Bai. She wears the same school uniform as you, and she also has silver hair, but her hair is much shorter than yours, and her body is much taller and bigger…”

Hearing this, Charlotte paused. The person Sakurako Aya was describing matched Yukina perfectly.

Yukina was being targeted?

“Who sent this commission?”

“I don’t know that. Only our boss knows the details of the commission.”

“Then who exactly is your boss? Where is he now?” Charlotte’s questioning tone became urgent. Since Yukina’s safety was at stake, she couldn’t afford to waste time.

“I can’t say anymore! If I say any more, the boss will definitely kill me!”

“Then I apologize. I’ll have to use force!”

Charlotte pried open Sakurako Aya’s mouth with her hand, preparing to shove the pill inside.

Sakurako Aya’s pupils contracted in horror.

Just then, a large white cat suddenly jumped onto Charlotte’s face, scratching it wildly.

“Ah—” The sudden attack from the cat caught Charlotte completely off guard.

“Good job, Sasha!”

Taking advantage of Charlotte’s distraction, Sakurako Aya broke free from her hold. She grabbed the cat, used her Gravity Manipulation on it like a rocket booster, and instantly fled the room through the exit.

With cat-whisker-like scratches on her left and right cheeks, Charlotte frowned tightly.

“I was just getting to the crucial part! Why did that bad cat have to interfere!”

She had only set her and Sakurako Aya’s weights to zero, completely forgetting about the cat Sakurako Aya had brought with her.

As a result, Sakurako Aya had seized the opportunity to escape.

There was no point in chasing after her now.

Instead, Yukina was the priority. Since someone had issued a commission targeting Yukina, she wasn’t safe. She had to rush back to protect Yukina, after all, she was her most important little sister!

Thinking this, Charlotte broke the weight-zero spell on herself, grabbed her broomstick, and blasted out of the room, flying toward the school.

‘Yukina, you have to be okay!’

‘Wait a minute, did I forget someone?’

‘Crap, Huangquan Ai is still lying unconscious in that pit.’

‘Well, she should be fine! I’ll go protect Yukina and then come back to save Huangquan Ai!’

Thinking this, Charlotte effortlessly flew over the school.

‘Wait, I almost forgot! Yukina said I can’t use magic in the school.’

Suddenly remembering this, Charlotte immediately stopped flying.

As a result, she shot across the sky like a cannonball, tracing a beautiful parabola, and slammed headfirst into one of the school buildings, smashing a hole in the ceiling and falling heavily onto the first-floor hallway.

Instantly, a large cloud of dust billowed up.

“Oops, was my entrance a little too sudden?”

She had expected her sudden crash to panic the surrounding students, but no screams of alarm came.

Instead, a familiar voice came from behind her.

“Brother…”

“Eh?” Charlotte looked back and saw Yukina sitting on the ground, staring at her with a strange expression.

It was only then that Charlotte realized she had crashed right back into the Kendo Club.

“Yukina, are you alright?” Charlotte ignored her own injuries and immediately rushed to Yukina’s side to help her up.

“No, I’m fine, but…” Yukina pointed behind Charlotte.

Charlotte followed Yukina’s gaze and saw Zhong Shuixi, holding a silver baton, staring at her with an equally strange expression.

And in the center, between her and Zhong Shuixi, Mika, holding a bamboo sword, was lying motionless on the floor like a rug.

“What on earth is going on here?”