Academy City's Puppet Master

No matter how you look at it, she is an overly rebellious girl.

Chewing gum in her mouth, the rebellious girl held a mobile phone in one hand, and unscrupulously used a flash to shine on Misaka Misuzu's face.

"You are..." Misaka Misuzu couldn't figure out the opponent's routine for a moment.

The rebellious girl looked back and forth between her face and the phone screen, then nodded.

"That's a dead end, come with me..."

Saying that, regardless of Misaka Misuzu's reaction, he pulled her and ran into the building behind him.

It's an abandoned mall full of scattered shelves and counters.There is only a central position, and a platform is piled up with sundries such as counters, and some musical instruments and stereos are placed on it.

There were five boys and girls with the same style inside. Seeing their companions bring Misaka Misuzu in, they quickly beckoned her to run into the depths of the mall.

"Quick, quick, you guys are playing music! Fool Viper and the others!" the rebellious girl said quickly while running.

When Misaka Misuzu came to the back door, she heard a loud bass behind her.

"Why are you helping me?" Misaka Misuzu asked hastily.

But she was pushed out of the back door by the girl: "Run straight ahead, turn left and then turn left and you will reach the main road."

Seeing that Misaka Misuzu didn't move, the girl gave her a hard look and urged, "What are you doing in a daze, run!"

Only then did Misaka Misuzu come to her senses, and ran away.

"Hmph," the girl looked at her back with satisfaction, and took out her phone, "How can I hand in the task if I don't run out of my territory?"

Misaka Misuzu went around in this unfamiliar area, but finally she still couldn't find the so-called main road.

But it also temporarily escaped the hunt of bad guys.

At this time, she was in the open space between several abandoned apartment buildings. This place was originally a mini city park, but it had also been abandoned, leaving only a bare concrete floor.

Misaka Misuzu leaned against the dilapidated and faded slide, panting, recalling the magical experience along the way just now.

Although the situation is critical, she can always get help from "passers-by" in time, and she escaped here smoothly in this completely unfamiliar place.

It's like a godsend!

"Although the ones who helped me were... children with more personality." Misaka Misuzu couldn't help complaining, "Also, everyone pointed to different directions, and ended up running to this place... ..."

"But you won't be able to run away from now on!" Suddenly someone continued, "Damn it...you ran so far!"

Many people came out from all directions and surrounded Misaka Misuzu.

Misaka Misuzu recognized a few people who were about to attack her in the office building just now, and they ran all the way, and the number of them not only did not decrease, but increased to more than [-] people!

"Run! Run again if you have the ability!" A delinquent boy in the lead brandished a pistol and shouted out of breath, "Come on, kill her!"

Misaka Misuzu looked pale.

"Hey, who are you going to kill?"

Suddenly, another voice sounded from behind the crowd.

Then, there was a short and dull crash and even shorter screams.

These ominous sounds made people's hearts tense, and the unscrupulous teenagers looked back one after another, and subconsciously gave way to a passage.

Standing there was a pair of teenagers and girls, wearing school uniforms in a neat manner, and they were out of tune with the bad boys next to them.

What is even more striking is the figure behind them—slender, two meters tall, wearing a ghost mask, following them like a bodyguard, and holding a fainted bad guy in his left hand.

Misaka Misuzu also saw them along the passage where the crowd separated.

She recognized the two at a glance, they were Ling Xingye and Hitomi Shiranui whom she had met after the opening ceremony a few days ago, and they were students from Shangji Academy.

Ling Xingye and Shiranui Tong also saw her and walked up immediately.Sprites dropped the bad in their hands and followed closely behind.

"Aunt Misaka, are you okay?" Hitomi Shiranui stepped forward quickly.

Ling Xingye turned around and stood in front of them, looking at the group of bad boys.

Ignoring the weapons in their hands, Ling Xingye asked, "Who are you?"

"Are you an obedient and good student? Don't you know that we arm groups of incompetents?" The leader pointed his gun at him.

Ling Xingye had a strange expression on his face: "Okay, let's change the question - which club are you from? Who is the boss?"

"Can you control it!" The latter didn't mean to have a serious conversation, and waved his hand, "Let's go together, get rid of this obstructive person first!"

The delinquents, confident that they had weapons in their hands, rushed forward one by one without fear.

In the alley beside, Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko just arrived.

——It is true that the speed of space movement is very fast, but Misaka Misuzu's position is constantly changing, so instead, she was notified by Hitomi Shiranui to find this place.

Seeing that Ling Xingye had arrived, Misaka Mikoto was relieved.It turned out that these bad boys didn't know Ling Xingye at all!

It's no wonder that the people who knew Ling Xingye had already stopped after receiving the group emails, so why would they chase here so hard?

Seeing that the battle was inevitable, Misaka Mikoto just watched from the side, and was about to rush out immediately.

At this moment, a blind stick suddenly crossed in front of him, blocking the way.

It turned out that there was a person standing next to them from the beginning, it was Ling Xingye's friend, the "blind" swordsman - Tufanghu.

Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko used space travel to come here, but they didn't realize that someone was already ambushing here.

"Don't worry, just leave it to Xingye." Tufanghu said.

There was only a sound of ping-ping-pong-pong, and the open space quickly calmed down again.

In just a dozen seconds, more than a dozen people were neatly knocked down by sprites.

All the weapons and equipment they carried were disarmed and piled up in a small pile in the open space in front of Ling Xingye.

At the same time, those who were knocked down were also piled together to form a hill.

Ling Xingye sat on this "human mountain", crossed his fingers, and looked at the rest of the villains who dared not act rashly.

"Ah, are you all new rookies? Didn't seniors teach you the rules—don't mess with street performers, especially puppeteers!"

Misaka Mikoto on the side listened and said, "Wow, this line...seems familiar."

===Chapter 27 I am the high-level ===

"This line... seems familiar." Misaka Mikoto said.

On the last day before the summer vacation, Ling Xingye said similar lines when he was also facing a group of delinquent teenagers.

But since he was hit by the "Dragon King's Sigh" later, Ling Xingye should have lost that part of his memory, and he doesn't remember this happening.

Suddenly hearing it again at this time, Misaka Mikoto was quite emotional.

"However, compared to the last time, he is a different person. I have never seen him so courageous..."

Shirai Heizi said: "Have courage? I think his true nature of the leader of the underworld has been exposed, right? You really can't get too close to him, my lord..."

Misaka Mikoto was already able to automatically filter her companion's words, but she sighed weakly.If it weren't for Heizi's hard work to bring her here, she would definitely have been served with an electric shock.

At this time, Tu Fanghu also said: "This is also the first time I have seen Ling Xingye like this."

He showed an interested expression: "Have you finally gotten serious? It feels like things are getting interesting."

During the conversation here, there was a dead silence in the small open space.Ling Xingye sat on the "mountain of corpses" and looked down at the people below. Although he didn't say a word, it made dozens of people below stay silent. Even with weapons in hand, they didn't dare to act rashly.

The puppets and sprites stood in front of them and also stepped on the two "corpses". Under the dim light, a ghostly face was particularly eerie.

The person under its feet groaned, showing signs of waking up, and was immediately stunned to death by its foot.

The unscrupulous boys swallowed their saliva all together, and some of them even dropped the weapons in their hands to the ground.

The leader of the delinquent boy's face was pale, and what happened in front of him was really unexpected and very strange.Even though this was Academy City, he couldn't help but think about "Damn" - literally.

But the remaining reason and the powerful weapon in his hand gave him some confidence.

"Hey, hey, what are you afraid of! Don't get close, shoot him to death together!"

"Uh... are you really going to kill someone?" All the younger brothers hesitated.

It's no problem to let their weapons show off their power, but when it comes to the actual function of the weapons, not many people can immediately make up their minds.

"Tsk, a bunch of useless trash!" The little boss cursed, "Hurry up, what are you afraid of! We are doing things under the orders of the higher-ups!"

Looking at the little boss below who was screaming fiercely, Ling Xingye was exposed to dozens of gunshots. Not only was he not afraid, he even felt amused.

It's like seeing a clown put on a farce, and it's not even worth his serious attention.

Hearing him mention "high-level orders", Ling Xingye finally reacted.

"Ah... Regarding this, who is the high-level person you call?" Ling Xingye raised his eyelids, "According to the agreement, in this underground world—I am the high-level person!"

So, who is this guy?There was commotion from below again.

At this moment, dense footsteps came from all around.From the shadows between the buildings, figures emerged.

In silence, the newly arrived crowd surrounded the small square like a shadow.

Although they only have cold weapons such as explosion-proof shields, batons, and wooden knives in their hands, they have no fear in the face of enemies armed with guns.

All of them looked at these ineffective "junior people" with indifference or mockery.

The law enforcement team and the temporarily gathered personnel from various nearby clubs easily filled the square, and there was a steady stream of follow-up troops in the darkness behind.

The biggest feature and violence of the group of armed incompetents—"quantity"—is evident at this moment.

The delinquent teenagers who were surrounded really felt such heavy pressure.

Suddenly, the scene fell silent.

Under the leadership of who knows...

"Big brother!"

"Boss!"

"leader!"

"boss……"

The group of armed incompetents erupted into a mess of names, and they all bowed to the center of the square in salute.