Soga Yura and Sakura Mai did not manage to send Dai Ling back to the Edge of Aberration.
On the overturned and shattered ruins of the highway, only a splash of blood as thick as pitch... silently stated what had happened at that time.
Two Third Sequence Espers had fought head-on, repelling and even heavily injuring a Fourth Sequence Aberrant.
Considering the chasm-like gap between the Third Sequence and the Fourth Sequence...
This battle result... could already be called a miracle.
However—
Looking at the girl curled up on the ground, exposing her blood-dripping right ear, Soga Yura's expression remained very cold.
To be honest—
She did not like this person.
In this person's video... her beautiful Yuzu seemed as if she didn't belong to her.
The distance between this person and Yuzu seemed even closer than her own.
At the very least, she... she herself had never been wall-slammed on a bench by Yuzu, having her knees pushed apart and asked if she looked good.
When the barrage of comments spammed things like 'I ship it,' only Miss Yura would tearfully hug her precious little sister's private body pillow, whimpering, 'No touching, no touching.'
However—
The reason Soga Yura disliked this girl even more was that she was full of malice towards her Yuzu.
Or rather—
The organization behind her was full of malice towards Yuzu.
They had completely exposed the Yuzu that Soga Yura had carefully hidden and protected to the spotlight.
Yuzu was just like how Soga Yura had watched her in their childhood.
Once again, the center of everyone's attention.
For Yuzu, this was very dangerous.
Soga Yura could roughly guess the organization's purpose. They wanted to gather the world's gaze upon Yuzu.
And then... uncover the secrets hidden within Yuzu.
To liberate that kind of power within Yuzu... a power capable of overturning the world.
They wanted to make Yuzu stand on the opposite side of the world.
Soga Yura absolutely would not allow such a thing to happen.
But!!!
Soga Yura looked at the girl curled up on the ground. She similarly could not tolerate... those vicious people reaching their hands toward a girl who had already been marked by her Yuzu.
Soga Yura hating this person was one thing.
But... she had already been acknowledged by her Yuzu, so that was another matter entirely.
Since she had already been acknowledged by her Yuzu.
That meant she was Yuzu's pet.
Even if she was a pet, she was a pet of the Soga family.
A mere... a mere Fourth Sequence bastard.
Soga Yura squatted down in front of Feng Ke and pressed her hands against the girl's temples, checking Feng Ke's mental state.
Sakura Mai's eyes twitched.
That was an Aberrant...
No matter how innocent the girl looked right now, she was still an Aberrant.
An ordinary mental-type Esper would absolutely be unwilling to perceive and touch an Aberrant's mental domain.
Perceiving and touching a mental world linked to the Abyss Will... a mental world full of despair... hatred... and negative emotions, would make one extremely susceptible to being corrupted.
More often than not, they would just savagely bomb it, much like Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi did.
Attacking was completely different from touching and perceiving.
But... Soga Yura didn't mind at all.
Over ten years ago, she had already personally entered an even more terrifying despair.
That was a darkness that eroded through the light.
That was a deathly silent Abyss where you couldn't even see your own fingers when you lowered your head.
And it was from that day on.
That cowardly girl... the girl who wanted to throw herself into her younger sister's arms and cry whenever she encountered a menacing bug, worked hard to mold an image of herself in her heart, based on her imagination... an image of herself that resembled her sister's brave and heroic back.
When the hourglass deep in her eyes flipped, she was fearless and dauntless.
And now—
Soga Yura, who had chosen to shatter the hourglass for Yuzu, would only possess an even stronger will.
"She's fine."
Soga Yura lowered her eyes, looking at the Aberrant girl with some annoyance. "Her memories were repeatedly accessed in a short period of time, and then she was indiscriminately bombarded by me, so her mental state is a bit poor."
"She just needs some rest."
"However, this wire..." Soga Yura looked at the connection cable that had been pulled out of the bloody wound by the girl's ear.
"If it's just about repairing it, a surgery of this level isn't hard to do," Sakura Mai observed. "The more troublesome part is her identity—"
"An Aberrant."
"That's not a big problem, we can just send her to the Soga family's hospital," Soga Yura pondered. "But her whereabouts and identity cannot be exposed for the time being."
"Her relationship with Yuzu is too deep."
"If it's exposed... it might be detrimental to Yuzu."
"The doctor performing the surgery must be someone trustworthy." Soga Yura calmly and quickly thought about suitable candidates.
"I have someone in mind."
A slender figure quickly surfaced in her mind. When she thought of that woman, the corners of Soga Yura's eyes twitched.
The Ishikawa family's matriarch.
Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's mother.
She happened to be a doctor.
But... recalling that woman's terrible habit of attacking her and... Yuzu by smothering their faces in her chest every single time they met since they were little.
Soga Yura gritted her teeth.
It was definitely that woman who had warped her younger sister's aesthetic tastes.
Resulting in the girls who appeared by her younger sister's side now having better and better figures.
Even that Aberrant cat girl who looked quite childlike. Even her figure could overpower hers by two sizes.
Soga Yura didn't reflect at all... on whether there was a possibility that her own barrenness was just too far beyond imagination.
Sakura Mai grabbed the girl's arms and then hoisted the unconscious Feng Ke onto her back.
She looked at Soga Yura, who had puffed up like a pufferfish again after thinking about who knows what.
"Right now..."
"We might have a much more troublesome issue."
"How are we going to get back?"
"No need to worry!" Soga Yura confidently put her hands on her hips. "I've already notified Sister Iori."
"The Soga family's cars will be here soon."
"We'll take a shower, change our clothes, and still make it in time to go see Yuzu."
Sakura Mai looked at the deeply confident Soga Yura. "Are your family's cars... over there?"
Sakura Mai pointed at a row of headlights shining in the distance.
The headlights were very conspicuous in the dark night.
"Yes, yes!" Soga Yura sensed it for a moment, then nodded her small head vigorously.
"Then... have you thought about why your family's Head Maid hasn't arrived yet?"
Sakura Mai irritably wanted to give Soga Yura a karate chop.
Because of the battle they just had with that Aberrant, entire stretches of the highway and the mountainside had completely collapsed.
The winding earth was covered in overturned giant rocks and clods of mud.
Soga Yura suddenly froze.
"Idiot..." Sakura Mai couldn't resist retorting.
Feeling both her legs trembling, Soga Yura looked pitifully at Sakura Mai. "Mai..."
She rarely called Sakura Mai by her first name.
Sakura Mai also knew that when this girl called her by her first name, it was definitely nothing good.
She hoisted Feng Ke up on her back.
"Walk yourself!"
"I can't carry two people."
"Waaah!!!" Soga Yura braced her knees in miserable sorrow.
The night wind rustled bleakly.
Only the surging sound of the tide remained.
The girl in the thin white dress standing in the tide vanished into the night once again.
Leaving only the shattered moonlight shining upon the deep, dark sea.
The Miss Superintendent gazed out at the pitch-black sea.
It had been a long, long time since she had seen the sea at night.
The nighttime sea was always shrouded in a white fog that seemed like a living creature.
A sea surface as empty and clear as tonight's... was truly rare.
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