Anime, Girlfriend Shokuhou Misaki

Let's put it this way, without considering anything else, the cost of this laboratory alone could equal a year's tax revenue for a first-tier city.

Such extravagance, just to build himself a safe haven, could only be done by a guy like Chao An.

After all, he's one of the twelve directors with the most authority, and the area he's responsible for is the easiest to embezzle money from.

Naturally, the effect of this room is sufficient.

To what extent is this room sturdy?

Even a magnitude twelve earthquake couldn't shake this room, and only a few special abilities of certain superpowered individuals could break through its defenses.

Now, inside this room, located in the center, is a medium-sized mech.

It's about two and a half meters tall, different from the humanoid mechs in the traditional sense.

It's clearly custom-made, a different model from ordinary powered armor.

Inside this powered armor is an old man in a suit, his face full of wrinkles, his hair already gray.

He's lying in the powered armor, his eyes closed, seemingly resting.

"Damn the Artificial Workshop, damn Fune Motonaka."

Suddenly, the old man woke up from his slumber, his silver teeth grinding, his face as ferocious as a ghost.

Just from his appearance now, you can tell that he truly hates those people he just mentioned.

"As expected of someone who makes weapons, your composure isn't very good."

Chapter 351: Arrival in France

"As expected of someone who makes weapons, your composure really isn't very good."

The calm voice fell in this empty room, like a thunderclap from out of nowhere. Chao An reacted as if he had been electrocuted, and he jumped up in the cockpit of the powered armor.

The next second.

He quickly focused his gaze on the screen inside his powered armor, and found the sudden figure in the bottom corner.

However, when he saw that face clearly, he couldn't help but gasp, and his brow furrowed deeply.

"Haramura Sei, how did you get here?"

"I shouldn't have left you any coordinates here, and there are signal waves that interfere with ability users around here."

Recognizing Haramura Sei was normal for Chao An.

Or rather, he had memorized the faces of almost all the great ability users and superpowered individuals in Academy City.

After all, when an ability user reaches the level of a great ability user, their combat power is far from comparable to when they were a strong ability user.

Not to mention that some ability users have quite bizarre abilities, and you might get tricked if you're not careful.

In order to be able to respond at any time, he remembered this information very clearly.

Especially the members of the Artificial Workshop.

He had been wary of Fune Motonaka's revenge. As the only force under Fune Motonaka, he had naturally maintained a high degree of vigilance against the Artificial Workshop.

Among them, he was most wary of two people in the Artificial Workshop.

The first was Mugino Shizuri.

In terms of destructive power alone, her Atomic Destroyer is the strongest of all superpowered individuals, and his superalloy and powered armor can't withstand her Atomic Destroyer.

The second is Haramura Sei.

This is the only space ability user in Academy City who has reached the level of a superpowered individual.

No one knows the limit of his space transfer ability. The data registered in the Library may not be accurate, and Chao An is very clear about this.

Therefore, he specially brought in an ability jammer and turned it on 24 hours a day around his room.

Therefore, he really didn't know how Haramura Sei managed to sneak into his room without the alarm sounding.

"Oh, you mean that thing?"

"That thing is useless to me."

Haramura Sei shrugged, showing an indifferent attitude, and at the same time, he started walking towards Chao An.

The leather shoes tapped on the ground, making ticking sounds. Each sound was like a heavy hammer hitting Chao An's heart.

The cold sweat that suddenly appeared directly soaked Chao An's clothes.

"Has Fune Motonaka finally given up on the justice she claims to uphold?"

The powered armor stood up, and Chao An's gloomy voice sounded from inside, mixed with some electronic noise.

"Tch—!"

Haramura Sei directly chuckled.

"Come on, stop trying to provoke me with such meaningless words. This decision was made by me, and has nothing to do with Fune Motonaka."

"Besides, even if it was an order issued by Fune Motonaka, wouldn't that be normal?"

"You know, even a rabbit will bite when cornered."

Silence spread between the two.

What broke this silence first was the powered armor driven by Chao An raising its hands. The palms of its hands quickly deformed, and in less than a second, two dark muzzles were aimed at Haramura Sei.

"The movement of all space ability users requires direct contact with the target's body, or at least visual contact."

"I'm sitting in the powered armor, which has eliminated the possibility of this happening."

"You don't have any weapons in your hand that can penetrate my powered armor. I'm still confident that I can hold out until rescue arrives."

Chao An narrated unhurriedly, and along with his voice was the red alarm light.

"From the alarm sounding to the removal of safety restrictions to the arrival of other powered armor units, the total time will not exceed thirty seconds."

"Now there are twenty seconds left."

There was a strong sense of confidence in Chao An's words.

He firmly believed that there was nothing wrong with his layout.

If Haramura Sei hadn't come here alone today, but had brought the ability user troops of the Artificial Workshop, he wouldn't have been so confident.

But Haramura Sei came alone.

Chao An was very confident that he definitely couldn't beat him, and the troops that came later definitely couldn't beat him either.

But he believed that when the troops arrived, the time gained would be enough for him to transfer from the secret passage.

"Very good."

Haramura Sei's voice suddenly appeared somewhere else. Chao An's heart instantly sounded an alarm. Relying on his intuition, he opened the weapon bay above his head, and rows of missiles were ready to launch.

Haramura Sei did appear above the powered armor as he had predicted, standing on it from a high position.

Even his foot was on the missile launch port.

"You're right."

"But you've overlooked one thing."

"For example, what if I don't transfer you away, but transfer the powered armor away?"

As soon as he finished speaking.

Chao An suddenly felt like he was floating in the air, followed by a strong sense of falling.

"Bang!"

Along with this loud noise, a sound like bone cracking rang out.

From a height of about one and a half meters, Chao An, an old man of almost sixty years old, fell freely in a sitting position.

Even a normal person would never be able to withstand such pain. The lightest estimate would be a fractured pelvis.

Not to mention an old man like Chao An.

The pain that struck him instantly almost made him faint.

"Also, I didn't say I was going to kill you."

Haramura Sei reached out and directly pressed on Chao An's shoulder. The light golden pupils were blurred with a faint purple color at some point.

"There are still five seconds, plenty of time, right!"

...

The sun is still scorching hot.

This Academy City is as hot as ever even in autumn, but these have nothing to do with Haramura Sei.

For him, the thing he is least afraid of is heat.

He has now left Chao An's research institute, and left the moment the so-called powered armor troops rushed into Chao An's room.

"With the technological capabilities of Academy City, this guy's bone fracture should be able to be cured, right?"

"No matter what, he won't be limping in a wheelchair, right?"

Touching his chin, Haramura Sei's eyes followed the cars whizzing past him, and a smile appeared on his face.

There is no doubt that Chao An is sitting inside.

The hit just now was quite ruthless. With his eyesight, he directly judged that Chao An's pelvis was almost broken into bone fragments.

This, in other places, is undoubtedly hopeless.

But in Academy City, there may be hope, but for Haramura Sei, it doesn't matter what happens to Chao An.

Anyway, all he needs is for this guy to be alive.

He came to Chao An not to kill him. Killing this guy has no meaning. The so-called director of the Board of Directors looks quite glamorous, but in fact, in Aleister's eyes, he is just a pawn that is a little stronger than a pawn.

There are as many replacements as you want.

So he came here to brainwash Chao An.

Using his charm ability to modify the brain of an ordinary person can be said to be as simple as it gets.

Next, Academy City's strong attitude towards the outside world will change.

"Then."

Haramura Sei took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed a phone number that he had never dialed before.

"I'm going to go on a business trip to France."

"Please help me prepare someone to pick me up."

The other end of the phone instantly stagnated, the feeling was like surprise, surprised why Haramura Sei called him.

"Why should I do such a troublesome thing for you? I'm very busy now, do you understand busy?"

The fire on the other side rose all of a sudden, like a firecracker being lit. If he was talking to him face to face, Haramura Sei even felt that his saliva could splash on his face.

"Stiyl, don't forget, you owe me a favor."

"..."

It was like a basin of water was poured directly on the candle. Stiyl, who was still furious just now, immediately wilted.

That's right, the other end of the phone is Stiyl, a magician of the British Puritan Church who has met Haramura Sei a few times.

In the Index incident, this guy and that saint each owed him a favor.

He is going to ask him to pay back this favor now.

It took a long time before Stiyl spat disdainfully, spitting the unburned cigarette butt on the ground, and directly crushed it with his foot.

"I know, I will arrange this matter."

"You have to get to the place as soon as possible, so I can arrange it for you along the way. It just so happens that woman seems to have arrangements here."

There was an unspeakable irritability in Stiyl's tone, and Haramura Sei could clearly hear it.

However, he doesn't care whether this guy is in a good mood or not.

Anyway, when he gets to the place, he can quickly find the source of the matter, that's fine.