Clip exposure, the savior Kamijou Touma

The words fell.

She looked at the video in shock.

Looking at the familiar figure appearing on the screen.

That person...what did she see...

She saw—herself?

An indescribable emotion surged into the girl's heart, and she watched the scenes in the video anxiously.

Looking at the few people who were almost forced into a dead end by Kihara Yuanzhou.

A thin and slender figure.

.............................................

The images in the clip are still playing.

Just as the girl in the ninja uniform tried to pierce the hard forehead with her kunai—

Another right fist hit.

It was neither Omi's hand nor the attacker's girl's hand.

A complete third party.

An ankle-length white coat, paired with a full-face helmet of the same color.

No one understood when this person approached.

Then, the third person's right fist actually knocked the kunai out of Omi's hand, protecting her skull at the critical moment. The attacker's target changed. She aimed at the third person's face and punched accurately and precisely.

But the sound was very faint.

The helmeted man decided that he couldn't defend himself, so he kicked the girl's foot at the same time she punched. The girl's fist was weak because she couldn't put her weight on the attack, so the helmeted man just leaned back a little to avoid the attack.

The attacker girl remained alert and retreated to create some distance.

The helmeted man whispered:

"...Are you Kihara Enzo? I heard that you, as a 'Kihara', did not get a passing score."

"who are you?"

"If you want to kill those two girls, I'll have to be your enemy."

"If you want to save these two girls, you'll just have to become my enemy, right?"

The chart flickered in the girl's pupils.

"Please give me some advice, Uncle Shuduo."

As she whispered, the patterns of the graphs changed significantly. Every time Muyuan Yuanzhou said a name, the color of the graphs changed accordingly.

"No. Uncle Random Number, Sister Mixed Crystal, Brother Measurement, Aunt Solution... No, no, no, no. That's right, it's not like that. Uh... uh... um, Sister Only!"

"…You want to make up for your lack of thinking through automatic input from the outside? Your original specialty was 'learning devices', right? I doubt whether your personality can remain the same."

"Yeah, yeah, sister. If it was Kihara, she would do the same thing at this time...!"

The chart was reflected in the little girl's pupils. She raised her middle finger and shouted:

"So, let me shock the carbon dioxide in your body and rupture your blood vessels! ... This is very much in the style of 'Kihara', so please give me your advice!"

"Do not."

Facing the imminent attack from Kihara Enzo, the helmeted man calmly reached for the buttons on his coat.

What emerged from it was——

"A convex... directional mine?"

"That's the way of Kihara."

He detonated without hesitation.

Directional mines are mines that can adjust the direction of the blast. For example, in order to penetrate armored weapons such as tanks, explosives can be attached to a plate that is concave like a meteorite hole to concentrate the blast in the same direction to increase the destructive power. On the other hand, if you want the blast to spread over a large area, you can attach explosives to a plate that is convex like a mountain, so that the blast spreads outward in a fan-shaped range. Directional mines are mainly used as anti-personnel mines to deal with a large number of people at once, so they are often loaded with a large number of small iron balls.

The thing the helmeted man installed on the inside of his coat was this convex directional anti-personnel mine.

He scattered 500 scattered bombs in the fan-shaped range formed by the blast, which was 300 meters away and 200 meters wide at its maximum.

Because she also knew how to use explosives, this made the girl in ninja costume, Kouga's Omi, gasp.

Directional gunpowder adjusts the direction of the blast to produce the destructive force the attacker wants. In other words, as long as you stand outside the attack range, you will not be injured even if you are near the gunpowder. However, everything has its limits. If you hold a mine and detonate it, it is impossible to be unscathed.

That's right.

If this is true within the scope of common sense that has nothing to do with supernatural powers.

“…Escaped?”

The helmeted man, whose coat was blown off, muttered. As if to make an excuse, a piece of bent iron plate fell from his chest, but the impact of the mine was certainly not something that could be blocked by that level of defense.

"Perhaps the distance is too close. Is the mine too close to me? After all, the closer to the root of the fan, the narrower the horizontal killing area will be."

The helmeted man turned his face to the unconscious Kumokawa Maria, and then looked at Omi's hand. He said to Omi who couldn't help but pick up the kunai again and posed:

"Give up. You can't beat me like that."

"..."

"I don't look down on you. Rather, it's because you are too powerful that you can't kill me."

Incomprehensible logic.

Or does it mean that those who don't understand this sentence are not qualified to stand on the battlefield? It's like asking a major league player the secret of victory, and the other party only answers "Don't be nervous". The feeling hits Omi.

Obviously, her real purpose was to eliminate this confusion.

"And to be honest, I don't have much advantage in fighting you. After all, I specialize in dealing with 'Kihara'."

(…‘Kihara’, ‘Troublemaker’, and now an unofficial ‘Kihara’ expert…? How many forces have entered Bagagegi Castle?)

The helmeted man said to Omi, whose eyes were filled with growing murderous intent, as if nothing had happened:

“So I will tell you how to survive if you don’t have to fight. The most important thing is to find Kamijou Touma.”

"...?"

"He has also entered this Bagageji Castle. But he must have been forced to run around because of this emergency. Whether you can meet Kamijou Touma is directly related to your life and death. I tell you frankly, if you don't meet him, you will definitely die."

The helmet man said it very frankly and directly:

“The Kihara Circle attacked you because it was a safety consideration that attempted to eliminate the uncertainties surrounding Kihara’s pathology, as Kihara Circle had a different way of thinking than Kihara. That being said, since you have been made into a character by Kihara, it will be difficult for you to survive using conventional methods. That’s why we have to bring up the example of Kamijou Touma.”

“…Kamijou…Touma is…?”

"He's just an ordinary boy. He can't solve all crises, and he probably can't stop the destruction of Bagageji City, where Kihara and the Troublemakers are rampant. But on the other hand, he has the trait of saving all the characters who appear in his eyes. Just like Kihara always wants to destroy everything. In order to escape from Kihara's clutches, he can only use people of that level... Originally, the best helper against Kihara should be Accelerator, but there is nothing he can do without him, so he has to try other ways."

The helmeted man squatted down beside the unconscious Kumokawa Maria and checked her pulse and breathing. After confirming that she was fine, he said to Omi again:

"When she wakes up, tell her what happened. If you continue like this, there is no doubt that you will die with a high probability."

"…So what are you going to do?"

"I'm sorry, but I have my own purpose. Didn't I say that I was specifically dealing with Kihara? More importantly, I don't have the confidence that I can protect your safety right now."

The helmeted man answered as he walked towards the exit, dragging his tattered coat.

He spoke in a whisper, yet impressively:

"Because I am also a member of 'Kihara'."

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Chapter 150. Repeated Glory

【Kihara Kagun】

[This is the man’s name]

[As a member of the top clan in the scientific industry, he is a top talent who betrayed science and stepped into the field of magic. He was recognized by Gremlin and became an important scientific core.]

[His arrival is destined to add the final whistle to this battle filled with interests and political struggles]

With the sound of the BGM that sounded vaguely from nowhere, and the man wearing a helmet who appeared on the stage against the backdrop of this long-lost BGM, everyone was paying attention.

The life-and-death duel between the two Kiharas ended with an easy victory for the intruder named Kihara Kagun.

He was reminding the girl dressed in ninja style to lead the lying girl to shelter quickly.

Kamijou Touma's name is mentioned.

And when he evacuated here.

For some reason, he turned around and glanced at the girl lying on the ground.

Immediately, he turned around and left without any reluctance.

His story has come to an end for the time being, and on the other hand, as the focus shifts, it is not Kamijou Touma who enters the audience's view this time.

She is a petite dark-skinned girl wearing glasses, and the person she is confronting is a woman who relies on a wheelchair and has a pale and haggard complexion.

Just a first glimpse of the footage in the clip.

Tsuchimikado Motoharu casually mentioned the woman's name: "Oh, isn't this the Kihara pathology of the Kihara family?"

The know-it-all Tsuchimikado once again easily told the names of the people who appeared in the video.

Touma was stunned, mumbling the awkward new name, "Kihara Pathology?"

"Yes, that's how it's pronounced."

Under the gaze of his best friend and a group of people from the magic side, Tsuchimikado Motoharu, a dual intelligence agent-level figure, showed a mischievous smile:

"Ah, yes... She is also a member of the Kihara clan, one of the highest-ranking families in Academy City, just like Kihara Suta who fought against Accelerator. And from the records I investigated, it seems that her nature is well-known even in the Kihara clan, which is full of crazy people."

“I’m called an expert at giving up.”

He reported in a catchy manner the content of the news he had obtained from the information intelligence database.

The man named Tsuchimikado Motoharu smiled a smile that Touma found dazzling and a little eye-catching.

Damn... His glittering gap between teeth really makes people feel endlessly frustrated. I didn't expect that my good friend had so much information. He was simply an encyclopedia.

damn it..

Could it be that this bastard is actually an encyclopedia?

His magic name simply cannot match the amount of reading on such rich interpersonal relationships.

“Don’t worry, this is just child’s play. Haha… If it’s A-Shang’s turn, who can save the world single-handedly, to praise my insignificant connections… Ah!~ I wonder if Maixia would have even greater respect for her Onii-chan if she knew about this.”

When Touma looked at him with strange eyes, Tsuchimikado let out a proud smile, "meow meow" and then spoke boastfully as if it was a matter of course.

Well...how should I put it, it's like a bastard who suddenly became rich overnight, and people can't take their eyes off his show-off face.

No...it's too dazzling!

"Then please give us a little bit of science, Tsuchimikado."

It was obvious that Touma had lost his fighting spirit in front of the almighty Tsuchimikado.

It was Stiyl who took over the conversation.

He held a cigarette in his mouth, taking a deep puff without caring whether he was indoors or not, his eyes never leaving the battle scene in the video: "But it's really unexpected. The one who broke the boundary between magic and science... the Kihara family, this is really an act that goes beyond our imagination."

"Kihara is known as an expert in giving up because her research direction and life concepts are closely related to the word 'giving up'."

The dark side of Academy City on the scientific side has never been a place worth remembering deeply.

Even though Tsuchimikado Motoharu had witnessed all kinds of dark, negative and dirty events as well as all kinds of people from both the magic and science sides, he had to admit it.

The Anbu of Academy City.

Especially those people known as the Kihara family, they are basically a bunch of lunatics.

"I conducted an in-depth investigation using the archive record card given by Chairman Aleister, and have roughly figured out what happened to the incident three years ago described in the voiceover in the video."

He showed off his status as the chairman's confidant without a care in the world... No, it should be said that it was just an employment relationship in which they cooperated with each other to ensure the interests of both parties.

However, no matter what, Tsuchimikado Motoharu was indeed able to investigate and learn in depth many things because of Aleister, which other people could not find out at all due to their status.

For example, all the information about the woman in the video, and the crime and punishment she needs to bear...