Academy City's Puppet Master

"Uh... Sister Yao, what are you doing over there?"

"What do you think? Of course they are cutting automatic puppets!"

As she spoke, she heard a stern voice, followed by a more violent explosion.

"Huh! It's finally quiet." Bai Yinyao said, "We can finally have a good chat."

"Is the situation on your side very bad?" Ling Xingye asked.

"It's not bad, but it's serious. After all, it lost one-third of its top combat strength." Bai Yinyao's voice sank, "No one expected that kind of result... It's a good thing you didn't pass. "

According to Bai Yinyao, she originally planned to come over in person to meet Ling Xingye again.

In the end, due to lack of manpower, they had to run around to hunt down the automatic puppets everywhere.

"All in all, sister, I just want to remind you one thing - be careful of automatic puppets!" Baiyin Yao said solemnly, "Looking at their recent movements, I don't feel like they have been seriously injured."

"You mean... Yanshi didn't get hurt?" Ling Xingye couldn't believe it. After all, twelve Yanshi also fell together, and such a large floating fortress also crashed.

"Now there is only a big vortex left, and there is no wreckage to be found." Bai Yinyao said, "They are automatic puppets, and they are best at this trick of Li Daitao's stiffness...Of course, this is only the concern of a few of us, and there is no one yet. That’s the evidence. But considering that Yanshi’s floating fortress has stayed above Academy City for such a long time, no one will believe it, right? So you must be careful at ordinary times.”

"I see, thanks for reminding me."

Hanging up the phone, Ling Xingye looked at the increasingly prosperous city under the night sky, and couldn't help but believe Sister Yao's judgment—this kind of metropolis is the best hunting ground for automatic puppets!

Thinking of those automatic puppets lurking in the corner, Ling Xingye had a headache.If it is some weaker automatic puppets, it will be difficult to be found.

All the way back to the student apartment worried.As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he heard a noisy frolicking sound coming from the front.There seemed to be quite a few people partying.

Considering that there are only a few residents on the seventh floor, even Kamijou's house, which is usually the noisiest, only has two people, so...

"Is it the Amakusa style again?"

Their female pope also lives here temporarily, so people often come to visit.It's just that there were only one or two people as representatives before, and there had never been such a noisy situation.

But after opening the door of his house, Ling Xingye was stunned by the scene in front of him.

A room full of Yingying Yanyan, more than a dozen girls packed this small one-person apartment to the brim, and there was almost no room for a cone.

Not only that, but the walls of the room were also broken through to connect with Kanzaki Kaori's apartment next door to expand the space, so that everyone could have a place to sit down.

Ling Xingye took a step back, closed the door and looked at the number plate.

Then pushed the door open again: "What's going on?"

===Chapter [-] Celebration Banquet===

"What's going on here?" Standing at the entrance of her own house, Ling Xingye inspected back and forth again and again, but in the end she still didn't continue to step in.

Even if the two apartments are connected, the current room is already too crowded for more people.

"Master! You are back!" Saten Ruiko, who was performing a puppet show for everyone, turned her head and greeted with a smile.

"Yo, Xingye, let's play." Misaka Mikoto waved her hand generously.

"Hmph!" Shirai Heizi turned his head.

"I'm very sorry to trouble you! Senior!" Only Uiharu Shiri still maintained the common sense that a normal person should have.

Misaka 10001 was acting like a waiter, bringing out snacks and tea from the kitchen to entertain others.

The first to bear the brunt were Misaka Mikoto's group of four and Misaka 10001. Because they were still junior high school students, they still had to be polite when facing a group of senior seniors, so they sat at the low table closest to the door and greeted Ling Xingye first.

Going further inside, Ling Xingye found that his "workbench" and other sundries such as tool parts had been tidied up and piled up in a corner, and the vacated space was also filled by a few girls.

Haruka Toyama, Miyu Yakushiji, Chie Isshiki, and Haruka Toyama's best friend, Meililu.

"Didn't you go shopping?" Ling Xingye asked.

"Who said you went shopping?" Yishi Qianhui asked back, "It's just Xingye who thinks so?"

"Sorry, Xingye." Hitomi Shiranui also came out of the kitchen, clasped his hands together and apologized, "I didn't expect that there would be so many people..."

"So... what's going on?" Ling Xingye asked expressionlessly.

"It's a celebration banquet." Misaka Mikoto replied, "Didn't you say that you would hold a celebration banquet before? But it has been delayed, so we decided to give you a surprise!"

"I was really scared." Ling Xingye nodded with a wry smile.

He did talk about holding a celebration banquet, but Ling Xingye didn't think there was any need for this "celebration banquet".In addition, in the next few days, I have been entangled in various chores, and the result has been delayed until now.

And according to Ling Xingye's original plan, he planned to treat everyone to a meal at a place like an underground bar, but he never thought that he would come to his own house to do so.

A total of ten people, thanks to the fact that they are all slender girls, otherwise this apartment might not even have room to turn around.

"Then..." Ling Xingye looked at the almost hollowed-out wall, "What about the walls of my house?"

Next door is the apartment where Kanzaki Kaori lives, and it looks very lively, but the girl Ling Xingye doesn't know each other, so I don't know what's going on.

"Ask her about that." Misaka Mikoto said angrily, and glanced coldly at the neighbor.

"Don't worry~ I hired a professional construction team, and absolutely did not damage the main structure of the building~"

Like the stars, Misaki Shokuhou, the queen of Tokiwadai Middle School, makes her debut.

Surrounded by eight girls from the bee-eater faction, they lined up neatly and bowed their knees to Ling Xingye together.

"Welcome back, Master!"

Even though they were forced by the opponent's aura, the girls here still glared at him immediately.

"You bastard, what did you do to these children?" Misaka Mikoto jumped up, immediately thinking that Shokuhou Misaki used her ability to do something wrong.

——This uninvited woman is simply here to make trouble.

"No~" Shokuhou Misaki said with a smile, "He won't abuse his ability like a certain person."

"But the title just now, is there really a problem?" Shirai Kuroko jumped out to support Misaka Mikoto.

Although they are all ignorant girls, the girls of the Shokuhou faction are also veritable young ladies. How could they really be willing to call others "masters"?

Fanfeng Runzi took a step forward, and said with some confusion: "Isn't it a rule in this family? When you come here as a guest, you must call Senior Ling the master..."

"How can there be such a rule!" Misaka Mikoto complained immediately.

"Master, are they the puppets you hired too? Misaka looked warily at the competitors who suddenly appeared." Misaka 10001 suddenly remembered his avatar.

"Ah, please don't make any more trouble!" Misaka Mikoto sighed while touching her forehead.

"Damn it! Little sister hasn't gotten rid of the clutches yet!" Shirai Heizi rushed up, opened his arms to separate Misaka 10001 from Ling Xingye, and stared at Ling Xingye unkindly.

Isshiki Qianhui sat on the side and took a sip of hot tea: "Ah, it's really lively."

Mei Lilu also leaned into Yuan Shanyao's ear and whispered, "There are a lot of competitors, Yao, you are under a lot of pressure!"

"Stop talking nonsense!" Yuan Shanyao said with a wry smile.

Looking past Shokuhou Misaki and her faction, Ling Xingye saw Kanzaki Kaori also had a helpless face, showing him a helpless expression.

——Although Kanzaki Kaori lived in the apartment next door, she actually belonged to a black household who "illegally occupied".This time Shokuhou Misaki specially obtained the official formalities, and in fact obtained the ownership of this apartment, so Kanzaki Kaori had no way to stop them.

Seeing that the scene was about to fall into chaos, Ling Xingye had to change the topic: "Stop, stop! The problem now is my wall, the wall!"

"Well, because the place is too small, there is no way to accommodate so many people~" Shokuhou Misaki made a natural expression, "So I can only expand the space a little☆"

"So why are you here?" Misaka Mikoto said immediately, "Go back if you think it's too small, who do you think makes this place crowded!"

As he spoke, the tips of his hair were still crackling and sparkling with lightning.

Facing the level 5 anger, Shokuhou Misaki endured it calmly, and puffed up his chest provocatively: "Indeed, for Misaka-san, this space may be quite loose~"

Misaka Mikoto and Misaka 10001 fell silent at the same time.

After a while, Misaka 10001 suddenly whispered, "It's all because of my sister."

Shirai Heizi announced loudly: "It doesn't matter, even if you are poor, black clothes will not dislike you..."

Before he could finish speaking, he was knocked down by a series of electric shocks.

"You're not much better, are you? Besides, I still have room to grow. Didn't you see the appearance of the individual in the episode?"

Seeing that Misaka Mikoto was very shaken and completely in a state of chaos, if she was not stopped, it would probably cause a large-scale power outage.

Ling Xingye had no choice but to comfort her: "Okay, okay, calm down..."

But the room was in a mess, and almost no one listened to him well.

"Hey...is this my house?" Ling Xingye could only complain helplessly.

"Then drive her away quickly!" Misaka Mikoto turned around and said.

"It's you who really want to drive away, how can there be any reason to come to the house empty-handed?" Shokuhou Misaki said.

At the same time, the girls behind them began to take out food boxes.

"They have prepared a souvenir~"

Under Shokuhou Misaki's deliberate provocation, seeing that a level 5 battle was about to break out in the room, Ling Xingye sighed and exited his apartment again.

"Calm down first... I'll sort out the situation too..."

The evening wind blowing in the corridor made Ling Xingye feel sober all of a sudden.But he still couldn't accurately grasp the situation inside the house.

"Hey, it's really lively." The voice of the neighbor Motoharu Motomimon came from beside him.

"Yeah, it feels like this place has suddenly become a girls' apartment." Kamijou Touma also continued.

Turning his head to look, he found that both of them looked miserable, with bandages all over their bodies and adhesive tape on their faces.

"Hey, are you two okay?"

"Well, small things are all skin injuries." Motoharu Tsuchimikado waved his hand, nonchalantly said.

Kamijou Touma also nodded in agreement: "After all, it was a head-to-head fight with Kanzaki-san, and this injury is already pretty good."

"Are you guys really fighting?" Ling Xingye asked in surprise.

"It's just a joke." Tsuchimikado Motoharu shrugged, "There were other people present at the time, so if you don't take it seriously, there is no way for the eldest sister to explain it."

Then Kamijou Touma asked, "By the way, do you have any extra food?"

"Dinner was robbed by your sister nun again?" Tsuchimikado Motoharu asked.

"No," Kamijou Touma shook his head, with a completely enlightened expression, "The refrigerator is broken, and all the food in it has gone bad; the microwave oven exploded just now, and the last can was scrapped; and the wallet can't be found, so ..."