The Puppeteer of Academy City

Through the direct spiritual connection of the ability users in the same class, Yuan Shanyao's ability can be improved to a certain extent. Ling Xingye already knew this, but...

"I don't have a direct connection yet, can I still get an increase?" Ling Xingye asked.

Hitomi Shiranui understood immediately, and explained: "That's right, although the effect is limited, it is indeed useful. Haruka predicts our future, indirectly obtains the information we receive, and forms positive feedback to strengthen her. The ability to predict..."

"It can still be done like this? But it's not bad..." Ling Xingye was surprised and suddenly moved. Recently, his financial deficit has been relatively serious, and he was admitted to the hospital for treatment for a few days not long ago. Although Academy City and the school have corresponding insurance, but it is still unavoidable to have some extra expenses, "Where can I buy scratch-off tickets recently?"

If it’s okay in the outside world, but there are too many people in Academy City who can “hack” it, and activities such as scratch cards are easy to lose money, so few businesses will sell them.

"Xingye..." Hitomi Shiranui pulled out her folding fan and knocked on the boy's head, "Don't just use Haruka's ability for profit."

Ling Xingye hurriedly begged for mercy: "I was just joking... After I get back the monster, I can resume street performances and pay the bill soon."

The young puppeteer estimated quite optimistically. Fortunately, manipulating puppets is a skill deeply rooted in his bone marrow, and he has not been affected by amnesia. Otherwise, he really can only cry without tears.

"Then," Hitomi Shiranui looked at the embarrassed girl beside her, "Haruka, can we leave now?"

"Huh? Yes!" Yuan Shanyao nodded quickly, and at the same time quickly tidied up his stationery.

"I'm really sorry to bother you." Yuan Shanyao asked with an urgent and anxious expression, "Can you take me with you next?"

"Huh?" Hitomi Shiranui looked at her in surprise.

"It just so happens that I also want to go shopping, but I feel...a bit boring by myself." Yuan Shanyao summoned up all his courage to request.

"But we're not going shopping next time."

Ling Xingye interrupted Tong's explanation: "It's okay, I just passed by the shopping street on the way, so it's not wrong to treat it as shopping."

This time it was Hitomi Shiranui who looked at him in surprise. From what she knew, Ling Xingye didn't like "time-wasting" activities like shopping at all, and she rarely took the initiative to communicate with other students. Why did you suddenly change the mode today? Sure enough, you still can't integrate the memory in your brain?

"Really, that's great! Thank you so much!" Yuan Shanyao stood up and bowed excitedly, his tone didn't sound like he was invited to go out to play together, but he felt saved.

The three of them packed up and were ready to go.

In the corridor, class monitor Hitomi Shiranui was stopped by students from the student union, it seemed that there were some tasks that needed to be checked briefly.

So Ling Xingye and Yuan Shanyao distanced themselves slightly and waited aside.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when only the two of them were alone, Ling Xingye suddenly asked, "So? What did you 'see' just now?"

"Hey!" Yuan Shanyao looked at him in surprise, and immediately raised his hand to cover his mouth, suppressing his exclamation.

"Besides, according to Yao's personality," Ling Xingye continued with a calm face, as if chatting, "Is something wrong with me or Tong?"

…

Meanwhile, Misaka Mikoto was killing time in the shopping street.

Accompanying her were friends Saten Reiko and Uiharu Shiri who had just met, and Shirai Kuroko who forcibly followed.

The quartet of middle school girls formed a picture of youth and vitality on the street.

However, since this is Academy City, 80% of the city's 2.3 million population are students.

So scenes like this can be seen everywhere. The only thing that stands out is probably the Tokiwadai Middle School uniforms of Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko.

According to the school regulations of Tokiwadai Middle School, uniforms must be worn in off-campus activities even during normal holidays. This is probably the only one in the entire Academy City.

In addition, Tokiwadai Middle School is a famous private aristocratic girls' school, and the young lady studying there is probably not a character that can be seen casually on the street.

So it will attract the attention of passers-by.

But that's all there is to it. The itinerary of the four of them was not affected in the slightest.

In the coffee shop carefully selected by Shirai Kuroko, four people sat down. In the warm and harmonious atmosphere specially created in the store, the girls tasted today's special recommended pastries in the store, and at the same time started the topic among girls...

Like Misaka Mikoto's complaints about being forgotten about recently.

For example, in early spring, Zhu Li eloquently expounded her reverie about "Miss Qianjin".

For example, Shirai Kuroko's continuous harassment of "sister"...

And, Saten Ruiko enthusiastically recounted the urban legends she had collected.

Judging by the appearance alone, Saten Ruiko is definitely a beautiful girl above the standard. When she is quiet, she feels the same as Shiranui-senpai. They are all black, long and straight. The five-petal white plum-shaped flower ornament on her head highlights her youthful beauty. True color.

However, in comparison, Saten-san is more lively and vigorous than Shiranui-senpai, and feels more like a tomboy in character.

This is Misaka Mikoto's evaluation of her new friend, completely unaware that her own temperament is also very boyish.

And unlike Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko, Saten Reiko and Uiharu Shiri have no so-called talents in ability development. The two of them are level 0 and level 1 at the bottom of Academy City.

Saten Ruiko is an incapable person. She was able to dine at the same table with Misaka Mikoto, a level 5 superpower at the top of Academy City, and even became friends, largely because of the personalities of these two girls.

Misaka Mikoto is a little careless, with a very heroic personality and informality. She will not be proud of her own ability at all, let alone look down on others because of it.

The optimism in Saten Reiko's nature also enabled her to ignore the huge gap in rank and become friends with Misaka Mikoto.

In fact, apart from ability development, Saten-san is really a perfect girl!

Misaka Mikoto added comments in her heart, but she has some strange hobbies...

Although we haven’t known each other for long, judging from the information we have so far, this black-haired girl who is always full of energy likes to lift up the skirt of her friend Uiharu Shiri the most—this makes Misaka Mikoto very lucky that she wears safety pants~www. NovelMTL.com~ In addition, Saten-san's biggest hobby is collecting ghost stories and urban legends, and he never tires of it!

At this moment, the topic among the four has been mastered by this energetic girl, and it has become a big discussion on the topic of "urban legends".

In other words, it was just Saten Ruiko's unilateral lecture.

"Haunted alleys," "drone locomotives," and "phantoms in empty classrooms" are just the beginning, because they're the stuff of legend.

Only those "urban legends" with the characteristics of Academy City are the focus of Saten Ruiko's tracking and attention!

Such as "Fantasy Killer", "Mystery Buster", "Puppet Manipulation", "Handsome Blind Swordsman" and so on.

"I always feel like hearing some familiar terms." Misaka Mikoto looked at Saten Renko with a strange expression, "Where did these legends come from?"

"There is a website dedicated to collecting urban legends!" Saten Ruiko proudly displayed a certain website on her mobile phone.

The dark interface, mixed with scarlet spots that seem to represent blood, is full of the atmosphere of a cheap B-grade horror movie.

In normal times, the other three girls would not care about this broken website at all, let alone waste time clicking on it to browse.

But everything must have an atmosphere, just like now, anyway, it's nothing to do, and it's the interaction between friends. So they don't mind watching these urban legends with Saten Ruiko.

Right as a kind of leisure and entertainment.

"Let me see..." Misaka Mikoto stood up and leaned out in front of the phone, "The most popular comment recently is 'Legend of Vampires'... Hehe, it really is just a legend."

She was a little disappointed that she couldn't see the entries of "Fantasy Killer" and "Puppet Control" in the first place.