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Chapter 167 Everything is ready
The girl with long black straight hair wearing a flower ornament in the shape of a five-petal white plum took a step forward, her face was full of tension and bewilderment, but her slender palm directly grabbed the corner of someone's clothes, and her eyes turned into star eyes Generally, sparkle.

"You...are you really an ability user who has reached Level 5? You have never been famous before, is it because you just reached it recently, just like Misaka-senpai's step-by-step efforts, from Level 1 to Level 5? ?!"

The rapid-fire speech, combined with the slightly fanatical expression on her face, made people unconsciously think of groupies, and they were particularly crazy.

"what?"

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Sunny and cloudless.

"Well, manager... good morning hahaha..."

Kamijou Touma stood in front of the sliding door at the entrance of the second-hand bookstore, scratching the back of his head with one hand, laughing dryly, walked in through the sliding door cautiously, and then stood still in front of the counter.

Then this high school student with hedgehog hair couldn't help but look around, and then he couldn't help but let out a sound that seemed to be admiration, but he suddenly felt that this was very rude, so he abruptly turned the back The pronunciation swallowed back.

The result was just a meaningless short syllable, which made him even more embarrassed, and he couldn't help laughing embarrassingly.

The storefront of this second-hand bookstore is very spacious, and the lighting conditions are quite good. There is more than one central air conditioner in the store, and it is running air-conditioning.

In the depths of the store, there are tables and chairs that look like a library. The light is much softer. At a glance, there are many boys and girls who look like students sitting there, either quietly, or whispering. In short, the atmosphere It's pretty quiet.

It feels like a place that people will fall in love with immediately, and although it is called a second-hand bookstore, it seems that the latest manga periodicals are also available.It's just that what the hedgehog head laments is how much electricity bills will be paid for such a large area of ​​air-conditioning broadcasting in a day.

Anyway, for this guy himself, it is probably a desperate number that will keep increasing.

"Kamijou boy, are you here?"

The black-haired boy behind the counter raised his head after a minute, and he didn't know what he was doing, but what was reflected in his unusually clear eyes seemed to be the invisible computer screen in front of the counter.It is a kind of rapid exchange and change of graphics, a large number of text columns and flickering reflections of data streams.

What are you doing at such a fast speed, reinstalling the system? !Otherwise, the operation speed will not be able to keep up at all, right?
The hedgehog-haired high school student secretly slandered, but still nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, I came to work to pay off the debt as agreed, so... it shouldn't be too late, right?"

As he said that, he looked around a little uneasy, but he couldn't see any clocks in this bookstore. He just happened to be standing in the area where the cold and heat meet at the entrance of the store, and Kamijou Touma shivered inexplicably. .

"No problem, after all, most of the time most people just look at it and don't buy it—" Mu Xiu said with ease, and he stood up and walked out.

"You don't even need to do the cashier settlement. You just need to sort out the books and put them back in the original sequence. Generally speaking, it's a pretty easy job. You only need to come over during lunch break and afternoon school, and you can spare a day on Saturdays and Sundays." That's it."

Because this was something that had been agreed before, so he didn't write any ink, and directly cut to the point.

"Oh, that's right." Then Mu Xiu seemed to have thought of something, and added, "Until the compensation you owe me is settled, there is no salary. After the settlement is settled, it's up to you. By the way By the way, only Chinese food and dinner are provided here for free..."

"Yeah, I get it, manager—eh? Wait, wait, what did you just say, manager?"

Kamijou Touma, who looked weak and absent-mindedly accepted his fate, blinked, then suddenly came back to life, happily confirming the treatment issue with Mu Xiu, his eyes almost sparkled.

Originally, he just accepted the fate of working part-time to pay off his debts helplessly. He didn't think there was anything lucky about such an unlucky development, but now that he came back to his senses and thought about it carefully, it seemed...

From now on, I have a pretty good place, so I can at least avoid the bad luck I encountered in the food issue? !

Because he is an ordinary student of level 0, the scholarship that Kamijou Touma can receive is quite limited.For him, the basic attitude towards everything is to hope that it can be cheaper, and even cheaper. Basically, he calls impulse purchases of more than [-] yen a "special attack".

Especially in the aspect of preparing meals, he pays more attention to the quantity of food rather than the quality of food, and he has been racking his brains almost all day long to improve the cost performance.

After all... If he didn't do this, he wouldn't even be able to solve the most basic food and clothing problems.

It's like having managed to snag two dozen early-month specials on protein sources after standing in line for a full four hours.And then just a mere half hour later, he was about to say goodbye in tears to his vital source of protein, which had turned into chaos, as happened often.

Basically, it can be said that more than half of his monthly expenses are wasted on food and medical expenses.

But now, there is a job opportunity that provides free lunch and dinner, and it's only a part-time job. This is a good thing that brings tears to his eyes.Being able to eat directly without a bunch of processes in the middle greatly reduces the probability of accidents, how much money can this save!

As for the essence of this matter is the problem of working to pay off debts, but it was directly ignored by this hedgehog.

From Kamijou Touma's point of view, there is actually no big difference. Even if he doesn't need to pay back the money every month, most of the living expenses are wasted in various accidents.In this way, it seems that the current changes are not a big deal, and because of stability issues, maybe it is still a good thing? !

"He's such an easy-to-satisfy guy..."

The corners of his eyes twitched as he saw the young man with the hedgehog head suddenly full of energy and began to work part-time to pay off his debts. Mu Xiu couldn't help but shook his head.

He is indeed the manager of this second-hand bookstore now, because he bought the bookstore just yesterday, and changed from a part-time job to a direct operation.Anyway, although it is not as good as the certified Level 5 superpowers, the allowance is scary, but he is not short of money.

Especially after mastering top-notch hacking technology, he is not like Sister Pao, who has a full sense of morality and public-spiritedness, and often adds value corrections to his account without any burden.

As for suddenly starting to run a bookstore, it was naturally not some inexplicable whim, but something he had just thought of yesterday.

It only takes such a simple move to deflect Kamijou boy's actions to his next planned route.

In this way, not only do I have more choices, but I don’t even have to deliberately create a reason to participate in certain plots. The boy Kamijou doesn’t have many friends, so he asks himself for help when he has no other choice. The probability will be greatly increased.

This can be seen from the fact that in the original plot, after Index was injured, he could only go to Teacher Xiaomeng for help.

"I hope the trouble-making attributes unique to the protagonist's aura will continue to take effect..." Squinting his eyes slightly, looking at the young man with the hedgehog head who was patrolling between the bookshelves, standing on tiptoe to pull out the wrong books and reorganize them, Mu Xiu did not change at will. The awareness of other people's life trajectory, he just hopes that the other person's unfortunate physique involved in troublesome things can be stronger.

The spearman is just a lucky E, but this guy is the same as the indebted butler. The lucky attribute has fallen out of the alphabet, and he often gets into trouble. Isn't it too much to unfold?

With such inexplicable expectations, Mu Xiu returned to his original seat, looked at the frozen pages on the computer screen, and smiled with satisfaction.

"Finally got it, let me see...the last experiment was—tonight?"

The irregular and frequent intrusions that the "library" has been encountering for the past few days finally came to an end at this time, but this does not mean that the hacker has been caught, but only because the information that the hacker coveted has been seized, so The invasion ended.

But this matter, apart from Uiharu Shiri, who is scrambling in the 177th branch of the Disciplinary Committee and whining at his laptop...

Probably only a certain chairman knows.

But Mu Xiu didn't seem to know at all.

He hummed a brisk tune leisurely, while manipulating the electronic signal, he erased the traces left by the countless huge tentacles that he had just spread in the network, and saved and downloaded all the materials he found. Erase the traces of intrusion and restore the records to their original state.

After doing all this, he disconnected from the network, and skillfully connected the terminal in his hand to the printer next to him.

A piece of information was printed out in a hurry, and they were neatly stacked together.

During the whole process, he did not check the relevant data items one by one, just like his intrusion into the "library" these days, it was never aimed at the "Absolutely Capable Person Evolution Plan" with a clear goal. Instead, it is aimed at the undisputed number one among all capable persons in Academy City.

——From the beginning to the end, he was only collecting relevant information about Accelerator, and other related plans were only searched "by the way".

That's right, Mu Xiu didn't know anything.

He is just an ability user who has finally reached the standard value of Level 5 in ability development, found the first place through special means before being promoted, and then wants to become famous in one fell swoop by defeating the opponent.

As for this action, you will find that everything is just "by the way".

(End of this chapter)