Academy City Temperature Control

"Natsume-san, how did you find the prisoner? According to the intelligence, the human eye should not be able to see him." Uiharu-san continued the topic that Saten-san just talked about. To be honest, she was also very curious, Natsume-san. I had just checked the information at Branch 177 of the Disciplinary Committee and caught the prisoner more than an hour later.

"This is really nothing." Natsume Sonoko felt a little confused. It was obviously just a small matter, why did everyone pay so much attention to it.

After briefly explaining his method and satisfying the curiosity of Uiharu's classmates, Natsume Sonoko and the others arrived at the entrance of a chain supermarket.

"Natsume-san has a lot to buy?" Misaka-senpai said as she saw Natsume Sonoko pushing a shopping trolley in the supermarket, who seemed to be worried.

"Well, I need to replenish two boxes of snacks." Natsume Sonoko looked back at Misaka-senpai and said.

Much like before the time travel, Natsume Sonoko still retains the habit of saving money.Although the scholarship is not yet distributed, it is more than enough to afford some snacks.

"Natsume-san, do you believe that there are really people in this world who can invalidate abilities?" Feeling a little bored, Misaka-senpai picked up a bag of potato chips and put it into Natsume Sonoko's trolley before asking.

"You may look so weak, but you can block an all-out attack with just one right hand." Misaka-senpai absentmindedly put a bottle of soy sauce into Natsume Sonoko's trolley.

"Is it an urban legend? I have indeed seen such rumors." Natsume Sonoko, who was squatting in front of the shelf and selecting the latest flavor of strange candies, responded.

"If there really is such a guy, wouldn't it be enough to attack from behind or on the head?" Natsume Sonoko threw a few packs of strange-flavored candies into the trolley and then answered.

Natsume Sonoko didn't know much about the Demon Ban. She hadn't even watched a few episodes of the first season of the Demon Ban anime. She was able to know a few main characters thanks to the railgun, and various urban legends played an important role in this.

As for the owner of the right hand mentioned by Sister Pao, Natsume Sonoko has naturally admired his name for a long time.

"It's useless. No matter which direction the attack comes from, the opponent seems to be able to predict it in advance." Misaka-senpai shook her head and rejected Natsume Sonoko's proposal.

"That is indeed difficult to handle." Natsume Sonoko filled the trolley silently while thinking about Misaka-senpai's problem.

If it were Natsume Sonoko, she probably wouldn't be able to directly use her ability to cause any harm to someone.

Maybe Natsume Sonoko just changed the temperature of the air or something else, and the right hand exposed to the air will automatically invalidate the ability, just like erasing any good luck.

I just don’t know what the scope of the right hand’s erasure is. Anyway, it shouldn’t be the entire Academy City, otherwise there won’t be any ability users.

"It's so troublesome, can't I just hit him with a stone?" Natsume Sonoko felt that it was a waste of brain cells and decided not to think about it. Even if the stone controlled by her ability was ineffective against him, it would be fine if I just threw it with my hands.

Stones and abilities are no different to Natsume Sonoko.

When they walked out of the supermarket, the four of them were carrying several large and small bags, most of which were Natsume Sonoko's things.

You may feel a little embarrassed, but Natsume Sonoko created some updrafts on both large and small bags to help reduce weight.

These rising airflows are like an upward booster installed at the bottom of large and small bags. The airflow flows upward along the bottom of the package and along the whole body without affecting everyone's skirts or anything.

Looking at Saten Ruiko's classmate who was very interested in updrafts, Natsume Sonoko suddenly felt that she was a little bit suspicious of Saten's anger.

"Is it an updraft created by ability? It feels so interesting. It's great to have abilities."

Student Saten on the side was fiddling with the updrafts curiously, feeling the flow of air around the package. His eyes widened unconsciously, full of yearning.

"Saten-san." Uiharu-san turned his head and glanced at Saten Ruiko, with inexplicable worry on his face.

"Why are you worried? Although I am only level 0, as long as I live happily every day, it will be fine." Saten Ruiko showed a hearty smile and involuntarily touched the back of her head.

"As for abilities, there seems to be an urban legend recently."

"It suddenly appeared on a website two days ago. It seems that there is a prop on the Internet that can improve your abilities as long as you use it. Many people have already obtained it and improved their abilities."

Speaking of urban legends, Saten Ruiko became very excited and told all the known information about this prop along the way.

"Props that can improve abilities?" Misaka-senpai said with some novelty after hearing this.

Natsume Sonoko also listened very carefully, and she was going to browse the forum when she got home. She very much suspected that Saten-san and she were using the same website. If she wasn't paying attention, urban legends would start to spread again.

Speaking of which, a certain person has not officially started her own urban legend investigation yet. Aren't you worried that the investigation agency will fire her, a salty fish among salted fish?

"Saten-san, do you want to use this item to improve your abilities?" Uiharu-san asked worriedly.

"No, ability is valuable only if you work hard." Saten Ruiko made a fist with one hand and raised it to her chest, saying with bright eyes.

Chapter 25 Under Investigation-Moving Temperature Abnormal Area

On the way back from the shopping street to the student dormitory of Tokiwadai Middle School District [-].

Natsume Sonoko had a friendly meeting with Saten Ruiko, an urban legend enthusiast. During the cordial and friendly exchanges between the two, the two parties finally reached a certain consensus.

Sure enough, Saten-san's gossip was also obtained from the urban legend website "A Hundred Heards Is Better Than a Seeing". In this case, he should be considered a netizen.

It is said that this website is different from the irresponsible and casual attitude of other similar websites. It not only records various urban legends, but also conducts follow-up follow-up investigations. You can often get first-hand information on this website.

"It's really amazing. There have been a lot of hot spots recently. Academy City is really not peaceful at all." Saten Ruiko said excitedly. Saten Ruiko was also particularly interested in finding a like-minded urban legend enthusiast. Happy.

"Well, it's been really chaotic lately."

Natsume Sonoko and Saten-san have very similar views. Judging from the recent increase in the number of posts on this website, we can roughly deduce the chaotic situation in Academy City these days.

If there are more posts about vending machines being broken for no reason, it may mean that Misaka-senpai has been in a bad mood recently.

While thinking about it, Natsume Sonoko accidentally bumped into Misaka-senpai who was walking in front.

Unlike the usual Misaka-senpai, she had a look of horror on her face.

"It's the dormitory-sama, but it looks so strange." Looking away from Misaka-senpai, Natsume Sonoko saw the dormitory-sama not far away, holding a bag and not knowing where he was going.

Once the dormitory master doesn't put on the serious and neat women's suit, his whole appearance seems to change, and he looks like an ordinary older young woman.

Different from the usual dormitory master who would be punished if she was fierce enough to kill someone for more than one second, she was wearing a cool summer dress at this time, her hair draped over her shoulders, and she was walking on the road absentmindedly.

"Great, you didn't see us." Misaka-senpai said with a sigh of relief when she realized that the dormitory master didn't notice this.

Although Misaka-senpai has not made any mistakes recently, she is still subconsciously afraid of the majesty of this dormitory master.

"Is Misaka-senpai afraid of the dormitory?" Saten Ruiko, who was standing by, saw Misaka-senpai's expression and asked curiously.

"How is that possible? I just don't want to disturb the dormitory master's rest time." Senior Sister Misaka quickly put away the panic on her face and explained hurriedly.

In the student dormitory of Tokiwadai Middle School District [-].

Natsume Sonoko threw all the big and small bags on the bed, and her whole body started to feel a little sore and backache again. Sure enough, she had been exercising too much recently, and she secreted too much lactic acid at every turn.

Because Saten-san and Uiharu-san still have to go to the music CD store to read music albums by some celebrities, Misaka-senpai also has to go to the comic book store to read free comics, and Natsume Sonoko just wants to go back to the dormitory to tidy up her things and lie down on the sofa. take a break.

When they returned to the dormitory, Natsume Sonoko was the only one left.

Several large boxes were pulled out from under the bed, each with its own purpose.Although there are shelves in the room, there are some things Natsume Sonoko doesn't dare to put on the shelves casually.

After opening the code of the box, he added the snacks he bought into two of the boxes. Not only did he fill up the two big boxes, but there was still a little leftover. Natsume Sonoko felt that her whole body was enriched. Maybe this was the Scoia'tael Party. Be happy.

"I even bought soy sauce this time, but luckily, it happened to be placed with my picnic equipment." Natsume Sonoko returned the two boxes containing snacks and pulled another one out from under the bed.

Put the soy sauce into the seasoning area in the box, and finally everything you bought this time is sorted out.

Lying on the sofa, Natsume Sonoko leaned against the giant bear doll, and the tablet in her hand began to light up.

Natsume Sonoko has decided to take a good rest today, and starting from tomorrow, she will actively participate in club activities and work hard to complete club tasks.

Opening a certain software, it was not an urban legend website, but an application similar to an encyclopedia. Natsume Sonoko entered an entry and started searching.

"Open Day of Dazzling Home Economics Girls' School."

The news about Natsume Sonoko came from a forum on a certain website.

There is a rumor that there is an incredible food festival held every year in a certain school, where you can eat all kinds of food from all over the world in one day. Not only is there a wide variety of food, but it also has an eye-catching exclusive maid service.

The most important thing is that Natsume Sonoko has confirmed this rumor with Tsuchimikado Maika.

That's right, the school and activity involved in this rumor are naturally the terms Natsume Sonoko is searching for right now - the open day of the Dazzling Home Economics Girls' School.

After roughly reading the introduction, Natsume Sonoko took out an invitation card from the belly of the stuffed bear, her eyes full of anticipation.

According to Natsume Sonoko's economic situation, although she can still spend a few meals in the fourth school district, which has delicacies from 190 countries around the world.

But compared to a food festival where you can taste all the delicacies for free, Natsume Sonoko prefers to participate in a food festival, no, an open day.

Every year on the open day, Dazzling Home Economics Girls' School will issue invitation cards to the parents and relatives of all students. At the same time, various rich and famous people will be invited.

Ordinary students like Natsume Sonoko usually have no chance of getting an invitation. However, after asking her married senior sister, Natsume Sonoko got an invitation card as she wished.

"Now we're just waiting for the open day to start, but before that, it seems that Tokiwadai Middle School's dormitory open day - Midsummer Festival is earlier."

Natsume Sonoko couldn't help but worry about whether she would have to wear a maid outfit and do a lot of things on her school's open day. It always felt like a hassle.

....Ordinary dividing lines....

[It’s true, that urban legend is true! 】Message from 'Elegant Photographer'.

[Are you talking about the legend of the fantasy charioteer?I've heard about it too, and it seems that many people have tried it] - A statement from 'Natsume-san who doesn't want to be named'.

In order to keep up with the trend in the group, Natsume Sonoko took the time to change her nickname, but it was still easy to tell who this guy was at a glance.

[No, it’s another one, which has already been trending. ] This is the speech of the only lv3 'Elegant Photographer' classmate in the group.

['Academy City's secret immortality project, a semi-successful experimental living body that exists somewhere', is this it? 】From the quiet moonlight.

[That's right, that living experimental subject was photographed recently. He is rumored to be 35 years old, but he looks really young] --'Elegant Photographer' classmate

Natsume Sonoko curiously downloaded the photo. This was a girl who looked like a 12-year-old child with pink hair and wearing a pink dress with white cuffs. She stood on the podium and wrote chalk words with difficulty on her feet.

Was this being secretly photographed during class?Natsume Sonoko suddenly thought.

From a visual inspection of the opponent's height, he was only a little taller than the podium. He really looked like a child.

[I think this urban legend is very credible. Maybe the technology of immortality has really been developed in the city. I have decided that this will be the target of the next stage of investigation. 】Another message from Maeda Kana-senpai.

Natsume Sonoko, who silently turned off her phone, was thinking about how to conduct her own urban legend investigation.

Although Natsume Sonoko has been investigating within the seventh school district for many days, as expected, basically nothing has been gained.

It's another day of club activities. After yesterday's sworn announcement, Natsume Sonoko began to welcome her first investigation mission with [-]% enthusiasm today.

"Really, who leaked the fact that you can fight the railgun with just your right hand? This is obviously my goal. Do you understand that it's first come, first served?"

When Natsume Sonoko read it before, she just felt that the news spread too fast, but now she feels inexplicably panicked.

Natsume Sonoko didn't want to have to investigate only urban legends like vending machines that were broken for no reason.

Although I know a lot of urban legends, I can't stand the speed at which various legends appear.

The last time it was a right-hand incident, but today, Natsume Sonoko actually saw the post about Misaka-senpai breaking the boxing game record last time.

Surprised, Natsume Sonoko felt that this was definitely not as simple as an urban legend website. Maybe there were some unknown secrets hidden in it.

However, Natsume Sonoko feels that she can still be saved. From now on, she will be a front-line real-time reporter and go to the front line of various urban legends.

[Is it a moving temperature anomaly area?I did hear people say that there was this rumor, but because the person involved is not very sure, it has not been included on the website yet. 】

[Yes, I have been following this rumor recently and have been investigating it for a long time. I think I will be able to investigate it soon. 】

Natsume Sonoko said confidently in the group, and the president, Amakusa-senpai, immediately gave an encouraging expression.

Chapter 26 It’s true, there are so many secret studies in Academy City

After someone in the group finished speaking confidently, Natsume Sonoko felt that she could play happily again soon.

But before that, she had to do something.

Natsume Sonoko was very clever and created a post on a certain website, and then chose a title that sounded very eye-catching.

In order to prevent accidents from happening, Natsume Sonoko feels that until she succeeds in directing and acting, she will never use her abilities on a large scale in Academy City, lest her creativity be included in advance.

[Men are silent and women are crying, the unknown secret research in Academy City!Is the moving area with abnormal temperature a mysterious machine that can control the astronomical phenomena? 】

I heard that the longer the title, the more attractive it is. Judging from the length of this title, Natsume Sonoko felt that it could at least be judged for an award or something.

Regarding this somewhat long title, Natsume Sonoko said that she had carefully considered it.

Her ability does include the ability to control the weather. Compared with other people with abilities, Natsume Sonoko feels that everyone is more interested in the secret research of Academy City.

It’s true. There are so many secret researches in Academy City. Natsume Sonoko thinks this is already a very interesting urban legend.

Natsume Sonoko has indeed changed the celestial phenomena several times intentionally or unintentionally. Since the range of her ability is about 100 meters within a radius of her, it can naturally also work below the ground.

I have to mention here that ability users need to perform a series of formula operations in their heads before using their abilities.

These formulas can be regarded as moves in martial arts novels. The development of these formulas is closely related to the use of abilities. Most ability users may only develop one or two sets of commonly used formulas.

If the ability of an esper is compared to a computer, personal reality is the basis for the birth of ability, which is equivalent to the concept of the existence of a computer. The computing power is equivalent to hardware, which determines the level of ability. These formulas are software, which determines how to use the computer. . (Bullshit)

There are definitely more formulas in Natsume Sonoko's head than those of ordinary ability users, but most of them have specific objects, such as nitrogen, oxygen, and water in the air.

If it is a rare gas in the air or a gas with a very small content such as carbon dioxide, the careful Natsume Sonoko also prepared the corresponding formula, but changing the temperature requires extra calculation power, so she has been too lazy to use it.

The reason why Natsume Sonoko can change the ambient temperature and water temperature relatively easily is because these formulas have been used so well. Even if there are many numbers and various conditions, it is just an application or change of the formulas.

In addition to these formulas that have been developed, they are areas that Natsume Sonoko has not yet touched. He can only continue to improve his knowledge reserves, strive to develop his own software, and improve the universality of his abilities.