Chapter 82: Pain Sensory Diffusion.

Ten minutes earlier.

“Yukina,” Zhong Shuixi, holding a sharp silver dagger, looked down at Yukina, who was standing not far away, like a murderous demon.

“You who utterly forgot the brother who cared about his sister, you no longer deserve to live in this world!”

Seeing Zhong Shuixi suddenly appear at the Kendo Club entrance like this, Yukina’s eyes widened in shock.

She couldn’t imagine that her good friend Xiaoxi would one day show up with a dagger to confront her.

“Xiaoxi, what are you doing? That dagger is too dangerous! Put it down quickly!”

“Dangerous? You think it’s dangerous, do you, you traitor!”

“Traitor?”

“Senior was so good to you, caring for you every moment, always thinking about you. But how did you repay him? After he died in a car accident, you showed no grief at all, instead arguing and flirting with another girl! Yukina, was Senior someone you felt disgusted by, someone you were only relieved to see gone?”

Realizing Xiaoxi was doing this because of her brother, Yukina was utterly shocked.

“No, Xiaoxi, you’ve misunderstood. I didn’t…”

“Stop lying! Yukina, even now, you show no remorse? In that case, I will take the place of your deceased brother and punish you, the rebellious sister!”

Saying this, Zhong Shuixi raised the silver dagger in her hand, aimed it at Yukina, and then…

She swung the dagger, cutting a shallow wound on her own shoulder.

Blood slowly trickled down her slender arm from the wound.

But Zhong Shuixi’s face showed no sign of pain. She was like a machine.

Seeing this, Yukina paused. She couldn’t understand why Zhong Shuixi would cut herself.

‘Did she not feel pain?’

But before Yukina could react, an intense, sharp pain suddenly shot through her own arm.

“Ah—”

She felt like a fresh melon that had just stepped onto a scale, but due to a fierce dispute with a customer, a cleaver had suddenly chopped her body in half.

An unprecedented, severe pain tore at all her nerves, making Yukina fall to the ground, clutching her arm and drenched in cold sweat.

But strangely, the arm that felt the severe pain had no wound on it.

“What is this…”

Before Yukina could figure out what was happening, Zhong Shuixi swung the dagger again, cutting another shallow wound on her arm.

The same intense pain erupted from inside Yukina’s body again, making Yukina cry out in pain.

“Ah—”

Zhong Shuixi was the one harming herself, yet for some reason, Yukina was the one who felt the pain.

Moreover, the pain was far more intense than the wound Zhong Shuixi inflicted on herself.

There was no scientific explanation for this. Could it be…

“Xiaoxi, did you contract a superpower?”

If this continued, Xiaoxi would eventually kill her here.

Yukina’s gaze fell upon the bamboo sword only two steps away. She endured the intense pain, trying to get up and roll over to grab it.

But Zhong Shuixi inflicted two more cuts on her own body.

Instantly, Yukina felt as if she were pierced by ten thousand arrows. The pain was so intense she nearly lost consciousness and collapsed onto the floor.

Every nerve in her body screamed in agony. Her body started to tremble uncontrollably, her breathing became rapid, and her vision blurred.

‘Crap, at this rate, I can’t even offer the most basic resistance.’

“Xiaoxi…” Yukina used her last remaining strength to open her mouth and call out to Zhong Shuixi. “You’ve misunderstood… I haven’t forgotten my brother… because my brother…”

But Zhong Shuixi had no intention of listening to Yukina’s excuses. To her, Yukina was merely struggling at the brink of death.

The so-called “words of a kind person nearing death” weren’t a sign of regret, but a sign that she knew she was about to die.

“Yukina,” Zhong Shuixi slowly walked toward Yukina, the silver dagger in her hand gleaming with a deadly light. “You can confess directly to your brother. I’ll send you to see him!”

She intended to stab Yukina directly in the chest.

She would use Yukina’s blood to pay tribute to her Senior’s spirit.

However, just then, a figure suddenly rushed in from the side, swinging a bamboo sword and slamming it down on Zhong Shuixi’s body.

Zhong Shuixi saw the attack and quickly leaped backward, creating distance from the assailant.

“Yukina, are you alright?” A familiar voice came from the side.

Yukina looked up and saw that the person standing before her was her senior in the Kendo Club, Aiba Mika.

Mika, who had accidentally cut her hand during the spar with Yukina, now held the bamboo sword, coldly staring at Zhong Shuixi.

“Was it you who beat up our Yukina like this? I won’t let you off easy just because you’re Yukina’s friend!”

Zhong Shuixi’s face filled with displeasure.

“One annoying person after another keeps appearing…”

She tried her old trick again, swinging the dagger and cutting her arm.

However, Mika seemed to sense something and suddenly dodged to the side.

Instantly, the chair that had been behind Mika suddenly exploded, scattering fragments everywhere.

Zhong Shuixi was slightly stunned.

She didn’t believe it and inflicted several more cuts on her arm.

But unexpectedly, Mika perfectly dodged all of them with her nimble body movements. Instead, the floor, the wall, and the window behind Mika all suffered, exploding as if struck by an air cannon.

Zhong Shuixi’s face showed complete disbelief. She couldn’t believe Mika could dodge all her attacks.

“Stop hurting yourself! I’ve figured out your trick!”

Mika stood leisurely in front of Yukina, leaning her bamboo sword on her shoulder, completely unharmed.

“If you harm yourself, it creates a powerful shockwave? What a simple superpower!”

“Superpower?”

Hearing Mika’s words, Yukina paused.

‘Zhong Shuixi’s strange ability really is a superpower?’

‘Wait a minute, how does Aiba Senior know that? Is Aiba Senior also an Esper?’

“Damn it, what good is it to just keep dodging?”

“You’re right. Just dodging doesn’t mean much. In that case, let me show you my strength!”

Saying this, Mika tightly gripped her bamboo sword, adopting a stance to meet the attack head-on.

Since she could see the shockwave Zhong Shuixi unleashed, deflecting the shockwave should be simple for her.

However, for some reason, a feeling of unease suddenly welled up in Yukina’s heart.

‘Something is wrong.’

Xiaoxi’s superpower is definitely not just about unleashing shockwaves.

After all, she had endured such intense pain multiple times, yet no wound had appeared on her body!

And the other members of the Kendo Club had all suddenly collapsed instantly.

Their reaction suggested they had all simultaneously felt an unbearable pain and passed out.

That was Xiaoxi’s true ability.

By harming herself, she amplifies the pain she suffers and transmits it outward.

Realizing this, Yukina endured the intense pain and used all her strength to shout at Mika.

“Aiba Senior, that’s wrong! Dodge quickly!”

However, it was too late.

Zhong Shuixi had already violently stabbed the dagger into her own shoulder.

Instantly, Mika, who had been about to deflect the attack she thought was a shockwave, was shocked, her pupils dilated. Then, her entire body collapsed to the ground, unconscious.

“Senior!” Yukina screamed in shock.