Lying on the ground, Su Yuzu looked up at the brilliant starry night she had never seen in her past life.
Under the devastation of Catastrophe, the sky of this world was actually much clearer than the world Su Yuzu used to know.
When Su Yuzu was still little, her favorite thing to do was to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with Soga Yura, leaning against each other, gazing at the starry sky.
Su Yuzu panted softly.
Beside her... was a completely naked woman... draped only in a Keigunen Private Academy uniform jacket.
To be honest, saving this woman would actually bring Su Yuzu a lot of trouble.
For instance... how exactly a woman who had already stepped into the Third Sequence as an Aberrant returned from the Abyss.
This was a completely different and far less secretive situation than Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's.
Raven's Aberrant form had practically been witnessed by the masses.
But—
Panting softly, Su Yuzu looked at the woman in front of her, whose entire body wanted to curl up and shrink into a ball due to excessive spasms.
Since she wanted to save her... then she would save her.
Just as Su Yuzu had said.
It is said that when a person is about to die, their words are sincere.
In the final moment of the woman's life, the one she missed was Zero, the one she had personally created, treating her as a daughter and her most perfect creation.
Just based on the relationship between her and Zero, Su Yuzu had enough... reason to save her.
Not to mention—
When she said that Zero's birthday was in six days.
Which was exactly Su Yuzu and Soga Yura's birthday, Su Yuzu keenly caught the scent of something unusual.
She absolutely could not die.
It wasn't even early summer yet.
Even though the charred flames around them were still crackling and burning, the piercing night sea breeze still made Su Yuzu feel a bit cold.
The girl huddled her shoulders and slowly stood up.
Noisy human voices gradually emerged around them.
It was somewhat beyond Su Yuzu's expectations.
The first to arrive at the scene wasn't Soga Yura, nor Kujou Katora.
Instead... it was Ms. Unohana.
The woman's outfit—a jacket draped over a nightgown—looked almost comical, but the worry in her eyes made Su Yuzu couldn't help but smile.
"Yu... Yuzu..."
Melted asphalt stuck to the woman's shoes, and Unohana Chiyo nearly tripped and fell.
But soon, she simply kicked off her slippers and trotted barefoot up to Yuzu.
Unohana Chiyo saw the naked woman on the ground.
There was no Aberrant aura.
No visible injuries.
On her exposed limbs... there were no marks left by bindings typical of a captive.
Unohana Chiyo's initial judgment was that she was someone who had been corrupted into an Aberrant, and then brought back from the Abyss by the girl.
Exactly—
The woman's completely powerless state also fit this characteristic.
Raven's ability was very unique; her power was entirely concentrated on that dark red raven.
After Su Yuzu had ruthlessly devoured all the Catastrophe power on her body, she seemed to have reverted to that defenseless state of a powerless researcher.
Completely ignoring the woman on the ground, Unohana Chiyo looked heartachingly at the girl in front of her who seemed to be shivering in the wind, and draped her own jacket over Su Yuzu's shoulders.
Su Yuzu could smell the soft, subtle fragrance belonging to the woman lingering on the leather of the jacket.
"I'm fine..."
"It's you, Teacher, who should..."
"Ugh—" Su Yuzu suddenly bit her lip.
In front of her, Unohana Chiyo reached out... her slender fingertips gently touching the wound on Su Yuzu's chest.
That was a scrape she had accidentally gotten while rolling.
It was just that Su Yuzu's figure was a bit too exquisite.
If she had shared a bit of it with Soga Yura, this definitely wouldn't have happened.
"Why are you so careless..."
"What if it leaves a scar?"
"It's fine~~~" Su Yuzu let the woman gently caress the wound, taking out medicine and wound-cleaning supplies from her Material Inventory and handing them to Unohana Chiyo.
During their time living together, Unohana Chiyo had long become accustomed to the fact that Su Yuzu would casually pull out all sorts of strange things from her person.
Arriving at the scene closely behind Unohana Chiyo were Director Saionji and the others, along with the Investigation Bureau's Fourth Action Division.
Actually, they had hurried over the moment the erosion domain erupted.
But the road leading here had long been blown up by someone.
So they arrived a bit late.
It was only Unohana Chiyo—after Saionji Sagara noticed the girl leaving the campus on a bicycle, she immediately called Unohana Chiyo to get up quickly.
That was why she arrived most promptly.
By the time the large crowd arrived at the bay highway, Su Yuzu had already been checked over once by Unohana Chiyo.
Only after confirming there were just a few scrapes and bandaging them up did she feel relieved.
Raven was lifted into the exclusive ambulance of Keigunen Private Academy.
Her condition was very bad.
Her life was already like a candle in the wind.
And then she had her Catastrophe Crystals nearly savagely devoured by Su Yuzu.
Facing Raven, who had hurt Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, Su Yuzu naturally couldn't be as gentle as she was with Little Mihou.
The girl's 'brutal' method of feeding would probably leave the woman with an indelible psychological shadow for the rest of her life.
Even when she was being carried into the ambulance to have the asphalt cleaned off her body, the woman's knees were still pressed tightly together.
Whenever her body was touched, her muscles would tremble rapidly, trembling to the point of near paralysis.
Aside from the unscrupulous tabloid reporters blocked on the perimeter, the last wave to arrive were people from the [Investigation Bureau] police station.
By the time the Miss Superintendent of the [Investigation Bureau] police station hurried over, it was all over.
Looking at Kujou Katora who had arrived a step before her, the Miss Superintendent could only silently take up the grunt work of setting up roadblocks and cordoning off the scene.
Meanwhile, Su Yuzu, who was protected by a group of girls, was frowning.
Where is Soga Yura...
Soga Yura wasn't currently living in the Imperial Capital University dormitories or the Soga family mansion.
She was living next door to Ms. Unohana together with Sakura Mai.
Logically speaking, even if Soga Yura wasn't the first to arrive, she should at least be the second.
Yet... even until the bay highway scene was cordoned off, Su Yuzu didn't see any sign of Soga Yura.
Swiping open the Operator Development panel.
Su Yuzu could see Soga Yura's Q-version chibi lying exhaustedly on a pile of rubble to rest.
Sakura Mai... didn't seem to be doing much better.
On both of their status bars, there was an exhaustion prompt.
Su Yuzu dialed Soga Yura's phone.
"Yu... Yuzu..." Soga Yura, who just a moment ago seemed so out of breath she couldn't even sit up, immediately sat up from the grass.
She frantically gestured at Sakura Mai beside her.
"Ah..."
"Y-Yes... yes..."
"Sister is fine."
"Just exercising, yeah—"
"Exercising."
"That's why I'm a little tired."
To the side, Sakura Mai, having recovered a tiny bit of strength, dragged the girl who had been knocked unconscious by Soga Yura's indiscriminate mental attack out of the car.
Her body was still incredibly sore and weak.
Drawing the Sword of Erasure... was still a bit too much pressure for her.
After only fighting for a short while, she felt as if all her energy and spirit had been drained.
So she couldn't understand it at all.
Why did her mother, who was merely a Healing-type Esper, treat drawing the Sword of Erasure like a game?
She remembered watching her mother chase after her father with the Sword of Erasure for an hour straight without even panting.
Sakura Mai, pulling the Aberrant girl out, looked at the girl's bleeding right ear.
"Yura."
Sakura Mai's expression gradually turned serious. "Yura!"
"Sister... Sister will go see Yuzu in a bit."
"Hanging up now."
"I'm fine... I'm really fine!"
"Your Sister Mai seems to need something from Sister." Soga Yura hung up the phone, forced herself up, and walked over to Sakura Mai. "What is it?"
Then... without Sakura Mai needing to say it, she saw it too.
The heroine of the story... Yuzu's story that had been going viral on the internet.
The cute girl's right ear was dripping with blood right now.
And beneath the girl's bleeding right ear... thin data connection cables were pulled out, the ends still sizzling with static noise.
"She's been modified."
"She was indeed that photographer."
"No—"
"To be exact... she was indeed that camera."
"The Data Module has already been taken away by the woman just now."
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