Although Tatsumaki was the older sister, her physical development—and even her temper—were like an undeveloped middle schooler. Under the power of her superpower, Tatsumaki rarely encountered enemies. She could solve almost anything with her superpower. Aside from her troublesome sister, she had hardly encountered any major setbacks.
But now, with the appearance of someone who could completely overwhelm her, she naturally couldn't calm down.
But Akira had already taken down the angel Gabriel. He had fully realized the benefits of lolis. Coupled with this contrasting cuteness, Akira truly held Tatsumaki in his arms like a doll. So, she was wearing anti-exposure shorts and a lining.
Hmm—the slope of this hill was steeper than expected. The hardness of the rocks on the hilltop was also considerable—making Akira's trip worthwhile.
Tatsumaki covered her mouth. Her sister was right behind her—she couldn't make any strange noises.
"You—what exactly do you want to do!"
Akira didn't answer, but Psykos behind him couldn't hold back. She had once followed behind Tatsumaki, working very hard to improve herself. But she was still too weak and was never remembered by Tatsumaki. That casualness and unintentional verbal harm slowly accumulated, making her gradually develop hatred toward Tatsumaki. Now seeing Tatsumaki also have such a day, she felt extremely pleased.
"What do I want to do? Of course, I want you. Accept Lord Akira's discipline well and become a little puppy that only wags its tail and begs."
Akira turned his head and looked at Psykos, who immediately became well-behaved, not daring to utter a single peep. However, that sharp gaze scared her so much that cold sweat broke out, and her panties became a little wet.
Lord Akira is truly too domineering—I love it so much.
Tatsumaki was slightly stunned, struggling even more violently. But Akira's psychokinesis became tighter and tighter, almost cutting into her. The intense friction caused subtle changes in Tatsumaki's body.
It must be a lie. How could this be happening to her?
She dared not move anymore, but some things, merely being bound, were enough to produce an undeniable sensation. Even if Tatsumaki wanted to divert her attention, she was completely unable to succeed.
"Hey—are you all Akira's women? Sister, why aren't you saying anything?"
Tatsumaki looked at the three people behind her, riding abreast. Both their height and figures were outstanding. If Akira liked this kind, then she might still have a little chance.
Damn it—she didn't expect that Akira also had a superpower, and was even stronger than her in this regard.
"Hmph~! So what if we are?"
Psykos was the first to speak. "You will be soon too."
"Are you talking to me?"
"Yes."
In an instant, Tatsumaki's psychokinesis appeared in a spiral shape, twisting and flying toward Psykos. But the next instant, her attack was nullified.
Slap.
"Bad children will get their butts spanked—I'm not kidding you."
"You…"
Tatsumaki was like a bullied child, unable to fight back, only able to sulk.
"Sister—stop making a fuss. Soon, you'll experience the best feeling in the world."
Fubuki finally couldn't help but speak. Although she knew that Tatsumaki would basically not listen to her words, with Akira's slap, Tatsumaki really quieted down. There was no other way—the bonuses from God's Hand and Bystander made her perceive the changes in her body more acutely, making her unable to help but swallow.
Sakurajima Mai shook her head. Everything started because of Akira's hand. When she was on the tram, it seemed to be the same. It looks like another sister is about to fall.
Upon reaching the room, Akira closed the door.
"Given your strong self-esteem, I will break down your psychological defenses little by little."
The wind blew across the bare hilltop. The rocks on it swayed, moved by the wind. The surrounding soil was relatively loose, but because the slope was gentle, it was not greatly affected.
Tatsumaki gritted her teeth, her face stubborn, refusing to admit defeat. But Akira looked at her playfully. His psychokinesis began to move.
"Your mouth is really hard. But—what if I add High-Frequency Vibration?"
Akira used High-Frequency Vibration. No one could resist this ultimate skill.
The dry riverbed was cracked by the sun. But a torrential rain had fallen upstream of the river—pouring rain. The flash flood suddenly swept everything on the riverbed, rushing forward. River water splashed, dropping onto Tatsumaki's face. The sticky sensation with mud and sand made her a little uncomfortable. However, she still gritted her teeth, refusing to relax.
Still not surrendering even after seeing the flash flood erupt? So stubborn.
Akira raised his hand and brought countless huge wooden stakes to build a dam at the river mouth. To prevent sediment from accumulating and raising the riverbed, he also had the logs fitted with barbs—constantly dredging the channel at the river mouth. To facilitate ships that had not returned for a long time to go upstream to the dock.
Watching the channel being cleared, Tatsumaki's eyes began to glaze over. And after confirming that the water level met the standard, ten-thousand-ton giant ships began to enter the port, advancing through the large river mouth. Once through the lock, the path ahead was unobstructed.
"Hmph—you bastard."
Although Tatsumaki was ashamed and annoyed, she couldn't ignore the fact that she had indeed benefited greatly from it.
"Bastard? I didn't mix the eggs in. And your mouth is so sweet…"
A few seconds later, Tatsumaki found her superpower suddenly surged by a large margin. She immediately tried to turn the tables. But how could the tables be turned? In the end, she was still completely suppressed.
[Spirit +19]
[Capture target "Tatsumaki the Terror" progress reached 80%. Reward: Spirit +25]
Total Spirit increase: 34. Now, Spirit was charging toward the peak of five hundred. Other attributes were less than three hundred, but Spirit was about to reach five hundred.
When he came out of the room, Fubuki was waiting at the door. Then she was pulled into the room. He was still a few Spirit points short of a round five hundred—Fubuki arrived just in time. Tatsumaki was already asleep on the side. She could only grit her teeth.
Hmm?
Tatsumaki groggily opened her eyes. Before her was the scene of the estuary. However, the navigation channel had been cleared, and the riverbed was lower than the sea level, posing a risk of seawater backflow.
[Congratulations, Player—your Spirit has reached 500 points. You have received the trophy [One-of-a-Kind]: When the player uses a single ability, the ability will gradually strengthen with each use (no upper limit), with an interval of no more than ten seconds.
Upon seeing the notification, Akira felt completely relaxed. Spirit had reached 500 points. He also got a trophy with a passive ability.
One-of-a-Kind could be combined with any ability, and the effect would be incredibly powerful. For example, God's Hand—the more you touch, the more you feel, the more stimulating it becomes. For example, Wall Hugger—the range of what you hear gets wider and wider. For example, Train Barrage—the more you hit, the higher the damage, and the more powerful it becomes.
Tsk, tsk, tsk—incredible, truly incredible.
On the other side, Sakurajima Mai, having nothing to do, began to teach the newly arrived Psykos some basic magic knowledge. Due to the existence of psychokinesis, superpower users naturally learned magic faster. Within just a few hours, Psykos had basically mastered the basic theoretical knowledge. However, without Akira's permission, Sakurajima Mai did not teach Psykos any spells. She only had the basics but couldn't activate them—a fire burning in her heart.
But then she thought—it's truly bizarre that magic exists in this world. Monsters were produced by sudden monsterification. The Monster Cells she researched also accidentally created an existence like Monster King Orochi. In fact, when she was researching at the time, she almost failed to develop it. But a strange power appeared out of thin air, bringing the already dead research sample back to life. She had never understood this before. But now that magic exists, there's nothing strange about it.
The employees who had evacuated in an emergency were stunned when they returned to the surface.
"This… the surrounding environment hasn't changed, so why is our Skyscraper X gone?"
"It doesn't seem to be gone."
Someone peered through the glass. "It's inside our Skyscraper X building."
Although they said that, no one dared to walk into the building, fearing that something might go wrong. The company manager called the landlord there and asked what had happened. And for the heads of those consortia, the Cognitive Distortion period had passed, and their minds were now a mess.
However, Ark Academy was already completed. The money transferred to Mr. Akira's account was also depleted. So they told the manager to wait in place until everyone arrived, then go in together.
The media, hearing the news, naturally swarmed in. Viewers in front of their TVs and phones were also extremely curious about this suddenly appearing building. Everyone was following the further developments of the situation.
Finally, within half an hour, luxury cars filled the road in front of Ark Academy. Some important figures, who usually kept a low profile, gathered in front of this magnificent building.
"Ark Project."
One of them uttered a phrase, and everyone else looked surprised. Before this, they hadn't known that all of them were involved. So, this wasn't a scam, or fraud? Without seeing the interior, no one was certain yet.
And as they entered the interior, they were immediately awestruck by the ubiquitous elevator shafts, like vertical corridors, and didn't know what to say. Especially the heads of those consortia—they knew about the Ark Project. Almost immediately, they confirmed that these elevator shafts were for both vertical and horizontal use, and those seemingly vertical corridors and passageways were also walking paths prepared to become horizontal when the Ark was flying.
This was no joke—this was for real.
From the outside, the building looked incredibly gloomy, but after entering and looking inside, they found it was large and spacious, with plenty of natural light. It was as if there wasn't that translucent structure covering the outside.
Someone curiously pressed the elevator's up button, but the screen displayed a message: "Access personnel—insufficient authority—cannot activate."
"Eh? It's that smart?"
Among the crowd, Yukinoshita Haruno walked in with Yukino, and after a few steps, she saw her mother.
"Mom—do you know what's going on here?"
Mrs. Yukinoshita also shook her head, confused. "But why did you bring Yukino here?"
So Haruno explained about Yukino receiving a notification from a Hero Association staff member.
"Ark Academy? And it's on the 80th–86th floors of the skyscraper? Isn't that Mr. Akira's floor?"
"Yes—but Mr. Akira's phone is unreachable, so I brought Yukino to take a look."
"Not just Yukino—many people have received the same notification. For example, Yukino's school nurse Kukawa Shizuka, and the homeroom teacher Hiratsuka Shizuka."
Hearing Haruno's words, Mrs. Yukinoshita's brows furrowed. But now a group of bigwigs was walking at the front, with their bodyguards clearing the way, and the Yukinoshita family, being small fries, had no say at all.
"You continue to call Mr. Akira."
Haruno nodded—that's what she was thinking too.
Is this the interior of Ark Academy?
Kitagawa Marin was somewhat shocked—who would open an academy in such a place? It was incredibly extravagant.
"Kitagawa-senpai!? You're here too?"
Kitagawa Marin turned her head in confusion and saw Amano Ririsa walking out of the crowd.
"Ririsa—you received a notification too?"
"Hmm! I was originally here to visit an exhibition today. So—Kitagawa-senpai—you are too."
Kitagawa Marin, who now works as a photographer instead of cosplaying, was called "senpai" by Amano Ririsa because she entered the cosplay scene earlier.
"Hmm! It seems many people around me have received notifications."
"Indeed—I know many people too. But the scene here is so grand—even more technologically advanced than a tech exhibition hall."
Kitagawa Marin nodded. "Since we've met, let's go together."
She wished she hadn't come—she didn't expect so many people. And those guys in front—they seemed like the bigwigs her father occasionally ran into at banquets. This kind of scene really made one feel a little suffocated.
Eriri adjusted her glasses and pulled down the brim of her hat—her tracksuit, while not inconspicuous, was quite noticeable, and many people had noticed such a blonde, twin-tailed girl.
As for Kato Megumi, due to her low presence, no one noticed her existence at all.
"At this time, I should be sitting at home or going out to work."
Despite her complaints, Kato Megumi was still interested in this school that suddenly notified her that she could attend with pay. Not only was it paid schooling, but the salary was also not low, and the academy was even in Skyscraper X. Anyone would be tempted to make this trip.
Yuuki Asuna got out of the car, surveyed the luxury cars lining the road, and walked toward the building.
Ark Academy? She never imagined such a miraculous thing.
"No anomalies."
The bodyguard who went ahead to scout returned from the elevator, giving a simple and decisive answer. "However, there's a private elevator next to it, and we don't have access."
"No need—we just need to go up to the eightieth floor."
That was the base of Ark Academy. It was a place that a group of bigwigs intended to inspect thoroughly. As for the workers, they naturally returned to their positions to continue their work. So, after the bigwigs went upstairs, all the elevators were full of passengers, heading to their respective floors.
Ding!
The elevator stopped on the eightieth floor. Yuuki Asuna stepped out of the elevator. She turned her head and saw several girls about her age consulting at a table. One of them was wearing a helmet and gloves—it was as if she was collecting some information.
"Welcome to Ark Academy. I am your classmate and your Magical Girl class teacher, Sakurajima Mai."
"Hello—my name is Yuuki Asuna. I want to…"
"I know you have many questions, but since you are here, it proves that you have passed through layers of selection and are a carrier of high-quality genes among humans. You are an important part of the Ark Project."
At this moment, Eriri, who had finished collecting information, took off her helmet and gloves. The whole process took only ten seconds.
Esdeath sat at the control panel, spacing out. Because the program was fully automated, she didn't have to worry about it at all.
As for Psykos, she was currently by Akira's side as his secretary, leading those bigwigs on a tour of Ark Academy. When she saw the portable cold fusion reactor, she felt her head buzz. With this technology, human energy would be updated many generations. It was also this reactor that made the bigwigs directly make up their minds: the Ark Project must be launched.
And this cold fusion technology—Akira had to provide it. Akira didn't understand fusion, but he could easily produce a bunch of these portable ones, so he directly gave several people a physical object to take back and study. How much they could research, Akira didn't care. The bigwigs had people bring a briefcase, and they left in a hurry with the portable reactor.
Akira finally freed himself to meet the students who reported today.
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