Academy City's Puppet Master

What a great harvest!

Suddenly, a group of people pushed through the crowd and squeezed in.

All members wore fancy shirts, ripped jeans, and metal objects such as earrings, nose rings, and skull necklaces.

The onlookers stepped back one after another to distance themselves from this group of people.The atmosphere at the scene instantly cooled down.

Guys that exist as long as there are schools, groups that appear as long as there are cities—bad students, street hooligans.

They stopped in front of the little monkey collecting money, and the leader, a strong man with yellow hair, looked down, reached out and grabbed the shoebox where the money was kept, and then kicked the little puppet monkey away.

"What the hell! It's blocking my way!"

The accomplices behind laughed arrogantly and presumptuously.

The surrounding students stared wide-eyed, but dared not speak out.

It is true that the guys who have been reduced to being gangsters in this Academy City are basically level 0 incompetents, but the vast majority of students are also level 0 or level 1. If there is a conflict, that point of ability is actually fundamental. It doesn't work much.

The yellow-haired man rummaged through the shoebox, grabbed all the banknotes worth more than five hundred yuan, and then threw away the remaining coins along with the box.

Hundreds of coins rolled all over the ground, making a crisp sound.

A 50 yuan coin rolled to Misaka Mikoto's feet and stopped when it hit the shoe.

The girl bent down to pick up the coin, and there was a faint flash of lightning between the bangs on her forehead.

"Calm down, calm down, Misaka-san!" Hitomi Shiranui quickly persuaded the girl who was about to lose her temper.

"However, you dare to snatch money in front of me!" Misaka Mikoto held the coin tightly.

"Leave this to Xingye, he won't like us intervening in this matter."

Misaka Mikoto said excitedly: "The so-called treatment is to swallow your anger!"

She pointed to Ling Xingye and asked, only to see that the puppet master let the gangsters walk away swaggeringly as if nothing had happened.

Instead, he concentrated on controlling the little monkey to pick up the coins on the ground one by one.

"I'm sorry for letting everyone see such an unpleasant scene. As compensation, let's add a dance."

As if he didn’t know what anger was, the young puppeteer said cheerfully. He manipulated the little monkey to make flexible and exaggerated movements, like an impromptu funny dance. While dancing, he dexterously picked up coins scattered on the ground.

The antics and superb skills quickly re-mobilized the atmosphere of the audience, and today's performance ended smoothly.

Only one girl was always aggrieved.

"This guy is really bad! He has no spine at all! Is he a boy? Is he a clown?" Misaka Mikoto kept complaining.

Shiranui Hitomi looked normal, and instead explained for his companion: "Xingye is not like that, because you don't know him yet."

Misaka Mikoto couldn't listen: "If I encounter such a thing, I will definitely not let them have a good time!"

Hitomi Shiranui laughed helplessly: "Who will provoke you... what about the electromagnetic gun."

"Really?" Misaka Mikoto raised the hair beside her ears, "There are quite a lot of such guys recently."

===Chapter 4 Battle===

Ling Xingye packed up the puppets and the simple stage, and the crowd gradually dispersed.Today's performance is finally complete.

Then it's dinner time.Although more than half of the income has been robbed, the rest is still enough for two people to have a meal.

Misaka Mikoto declined Hitomi Shiranui's invitation to have dinner together, and seemed quite dissatisfied with Ling Xingye's weak attitude.

He didn't say hello to Ling Xingye again, and left directly.

Ling Xingye, who had been busy in the crowd, didn't even know that such a small episode happened behind him.

The two were not affected by the previous unpleasant incident at all, and happily went to a Chinese restaurant to order a big meal.

After the meal, I bought a large bucket of ice cream at the street shop.

I played until [-]:[-], when most of the dormitory buildings had to close their doors, before I was ready to go back.

Hitomi Shiranui lives in the dormitory of Shangji Academy. Even if the summer vacation is coming, the entrance guard at night is still at nine o'clock, so he has to rush back.

Ling Xingye, who has already moved out, has no similar troubles.He sent the girl all the way downstairs in the dormitory before turning around and leaving.

"Starry night!" Hitomi Shiranui called out behind him.

The girl fiddled with the corner of her clothes, carefully considering her words: "...don't go too far!"

"Don't worry, I will be careful." Ling Xingye waved his hand, "I will report the results to you tomorrow, good night."

"Good night..." Shiranui Hitomi could only smile helplessly.

Ling Xingye strode away carrying a huge travel bag, and quickly disappeared into the night.

Although she was misunderstood by Misaka Mikoto before, as Hitomi Shiranui said, Ling Xingye's ability is not controlled by a puppet, but a strong ability of level 3 - "phase fulcrum".

In his line of sight, there will be an "independent space" of one cubic decimeter. This space or something called "matter" is a reality that only exists for Ling Xingye himself.

It can be divided arbitrarily and moved arbitrarily.The reason Ling Xingye was able to become one of the pillars in the circus was because he was able to control thirty puppets to perform stunts at the same time.To be able to achieve the impossible miracle is to rely on the "phase fulcrum" - Ling Xingye divides the cube into a large number of small squares, and then connects the other end of the silk thread to the divided small squares, becoming his "invisible finger".

Currently the limit operating distance of these small cubes is 1000 meters.

But they won't disappear within a radius of thirty kilometers, it's just that they can no longer be precisely controlled.