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The arena of the Daihasei Festival was bustling with noise and filled with the heat.
Mugino Shizuri weaved through the crowded throng, a blatantly malicious smile on her face.
Her seemingly innocent dress could not contain her breathtaking curves at all. With each step, her long legs and full hips, encased in black stockings, outlined alluring curves, attracting countless admiring or covetous glances from those around her, but no one dared to approach.
Because she exudes an undisguised aura of violence belonging to the Dark Side of Academy City.
Her goal was clear—to be the blonde queen in the center of Tokiwadai Middle School's competition zone, surrounded by countless girls like stars around the moon.
Misaki Shokuhou was elegantly holding a glass of juice, casually playing with the white remote control in her slender fingers.
The sunlight shone on her dazzling golden hair, as if coating her with a divine halo.
Her voluptuous figure, far exceeding that of her peers, made the Tokiwadai school uniform shirt bulge out, and her fair neck and collarbone looked as delicate as fine white jade in the sunlight.
The smile on his face was confident and composed, and the starlight in his pupils seemed to be able to see through and manipulate the hearts of all people.
"Your Majesty, did you enjoy yourself?"
A voice, tinged with mockery and provocation, rang out in front of her.
Misaki Shokuhou raised her eyes and saw Mugino Shizuri walking towards her.
She was naturally familiar with this fourth-ranked esper in Academy City.
just,
The way the other person was looking at her at that moment was like looking at a trophy that was about to be packed up and taken away.
"So it was the leader of the 'props' group,"
Misaki Shokuhou put down her juice, her smile unchanged, but her tone carried a hint of queenly aloofness, "Is there something you need? If you want to challenge me, I'm afraid we'll have to wait for another time. I'm very busy today."
"Challenge you?"
Mugino Shizuri chuckled, stepped forward, leaned close to her ear, and said in a voice only the two of them could hear, "You overestimate yourself. My master wants to see you."
Owner?
Misaki Shokuhou's eyes gleamed slightly, and a sense of vigilance rose in her heart.
She could sense that when Mugino Shizuri uttered those two words, his tone carried an almost fanatical adoration emanating from the depths of his soul.
This is not normal.
"Who is your master? I'm very busy and don't have time to meet some nobody."
Misaki Shokuhou leaned back gracefully, creating some distance, and pointed the remote control in her hand at Shizuri Mugino.
"You'll find out soon enough."
Mugino Shizuri smiled even more broadly, "Master said he wants to 'invite' you up."
"What if I say no?"
Misaki Shokuhou's smile took on a hint of coldness.
"You have no right to refuse."
The moment she finished speaking, Misaki Shokuhou pressed the remote control without hesitation.
"Kneel down and beg for my mercy, you stray dog."
She spoke softly, her eyes gleaming with absolute confidence.
This is her domain, the world of the spirit, where she is God.
However, one second, two seconds...
Mugino Shizuri remained standing in the same spot, covering her mouth and chuckling softly, her smile full of mockery.
"Pfft~ What are you doing? Are you... trying to make me laugh by dressing up as a clown? It is indeed very funny."
Misaki Shokuhou's pupils suddenly contracted.
failed?
How can it be!
Her "mental control" is not entirely ineffective, even against other level 5 superpowered individuals.
But the mental world of Mugino Shizuri in front of her was like a fortress surrounded by an invisible barrier, and her mental power could not penetrate it at all!
"Looks like your little tricks didn't work."
Mugino Shizuri straightened up, her smile turning sinister. "Since a polite 'invitation' won't work, then we'll have to resort to a brutal approach!"
She raised her hand, and a ball of emerald green light shone in her palm, radiating a destructive aura.
The voice has not fallen,
A beam of emerald green light grazed Misaki Shokuhou's cheek and struck the ground in the distance, blasting a huge crater and scattering debris everywhere.
The terrifying heat and energy fluctuations caused the surrounding students to scream in terror, and the scene instantly descended into chaos.
"Stop! Mugino!"
Misaki Shokuhou's expression changed, and the faction girls around her immediately shielded her behind them, watching Mugino Shizuri warily.
"A bunch of useless puppets."
"You don't actually think you can stop me with these guys, do you?"
Mugino Shizuri scoffed disdainfully, preparing to teach these arrogant and ignorant young ladies a lesson.
The surrounding crowd erupted in terrified screams, and the scene instantly descended into chaos.
The guards' alarm blared shrilly.
Just as Mugino Shizuri was about to strike again, blasting away the manipulated "dolls" along with Shokuhou Misaki, a hand suddenly landed on her shoulder.
That familiar aura, the one that sent shivers down her spine, instantly extinguished all her violence.
"Owner."
She bowed her head respectfully.
Su Hui's figure appeared between the two of them at some point, as if he had always been standing there.
He waved his hand, and an invisible force spread out, as if the surrounding screams and alarms were isolated in another world, becoming distant and indistinct.
The panicked crowd seemed to be guided by an invisible hand, subconsciously avoiding this area.
"This farce should end. Mugino Shizuri, I asked you to invite them, but I didn't expect it to cause such a commotion."
Su Hui's gaze fell on Misaki Shokuhou. The blonde girl was looking at him warily, her eyes sparkling with vigilance and unease.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Misaki Shokuhou. I've heard a lot about you. But your abilities are useless against me."
Su Hui calmly stated a fact.
Misaki Shokuhou's heart tightened.
The gaze that made her feel so uncomfortable on the observation deck just now came from this man!
She doesn't believe in evil.
She is the strongest psychic in Academy City, a queen who manipulates people's hearts!
How could anyone be completely immune to her abilities!
Misaki Shokuhou took a deep breath and pushed her "Mental Control" ability to its limit.
The starlight in her eyes suddenly intensified, transforming into a dazzling sea of stars that surged towards Su Hui.
She wanted to pry open this man's brain and turn him into her most loyal slave!
However, her mental strength seemed to have crashed into a wall of sighs that stretched across the ends of the universe.
That wall is indestructible, eternal, and exudes an aura of immortality.
Her spiritual power was completely annihilated the moment it came into contact with the wall, without causing the slightest ripple.
Then,
A will far stronger than her, of a higher rank, which she could not resist, followed the mental tentacles she had extended and entered her mental world in reverse!
"Well--!"
Misaki Shokuhou let out a low moan as dizziness struck her. She raised her hand to press her head, and her body went limp.
Her inner world was easily invaded!
She felt like a child with a toy water gun trying to attack an adult wielding a planet destroyer—laughable and pathetic.
"Who...who are you?"
Misaki Shokuhou gasped for breath, her knees buckling as she collapsed to the ground in a duck-like position. Cold sweat soaked her long golden hair, which clung tightly to her cheeks, leaving her looking utterly disheveled.
Su Hui walked slowly to her and looked down at her.
“I admire smart people.”
He didn't answer her question, his tone flat, "Compared to Misaka Mikoto's tsundere naiveté and Mugino Shizuri's impulsiveness and fiery temper, you know better how to use your advantages. So, I'm willing to let you see more."
The voice has not fallen,
Misaki Shokuhou immediately felt the terrifying will that had entered her mental world transform into a torrent of information.
Her mental fortress, her proud spiritual defenses, were as fragile as a sheet of paper before this will, easily pierced.
Su Hui didn't crudely alter her memories; that would be too simplistic.
He simply unfolded a series of "real" scenes in her chaotic mental world with an air of supreme authority.
In the screen,
The world she inhabits is merely one of countless derivative worlds, fragile and unreal like a bubble in water.
The scene shifts to the vast and boundless main universe, and the dimensional demons who feed on dimensions and exude an aura of despair.
Then,
It is an immortal rank that transcends mortal comprehension, a power that can distort laws and annihilate time and space with a mere gesture...
The truths that were far beyond her comprehension were like the most violent tsunami, crashing against the mental bulwark she had built with "common sense".
"Boom——"
Under the onslaught of these messages, Misaki Shokuhou's mental world began to groan in despair, teetering on the brink of collapse.
Her wisdom, which she was so proud of, the rules she relied on for survival, the world she lived in... all seemed so small and ridiculous in the face of these truths.
She suddenly raised her head, staring at Su Hui in utter horror, her body trembling uncontrollably with fear.
"These...these are all...real?"
Her voice was hoarse, filled with confusion and despair.
"of course."
Su Hui's answer was simple and cold, like a heavy hammer that completely shattered her last bit of hope.
Her gaze instinctively turned to the distance, and she was surprised to see her long-time hated rival, Misaka Mikoto, wearing the Tokiwadai school uniform, following behind her, along with Mugino Shizuri, who had just tried to attack her.
"They...they also..."
"You can think so."
Su Hui said.
Misaki Shokuhou's breath hitched.
She got it.
No wonder Misaka Mikoto stayed by this man's side so obediently.
No wonder Mugino Shizuri calls him "master".
It turns out that they, too, have seen this despairing truth.
Faced with such a cruel truth, the so-called Level 5, the so-called Queen of Tokiwadai, the so-called Academy City... it's all just a joke.
Resist? With what can we resist? With our laughable mental manipulation, how can we fight against a god who can easily crush the world?
Misaki Shokuhou is not an impulsive fool; she is very smart, smart enough to determine the optimal solution in an instant.
The shock, fear, and bewilderment on her face eventually turned into a deathly stillness.