Chapter 113: A Superpowered Crime from Osaka Prefecture

[Sick Emi-chan is so lewd]

[This sickly feeling is suki]

[It’s you, Lu Mingfei!]

[I want to exchange my Star Universe for money]

[What a strong Ability]

[Yabai, isn’t this Ability basically a flag?]

Viewers who watch a lot of anime would recognize that Saori Saiyonji’s new Ability is equivalent to a death flag!

Even if the Main Character gets this Ability, it’s dangerous, let alone Saiyonji as a side character.

[Is Life Equivalence real?]

[Hard to say]

After this topic passed, they started talking about holiday travel.

[Nice, swimsuit episode]

[No, bro, it’s winter in the anime]

[A Hokkaido swimsuit? That’s beautiful but freezing]

[So Lake Toya is actually a real place!]

[Classic]

[Pat the poor little one]

[But Yuki’s money should be enough]

[Does the Minister of General Affairs’ Daughter really have such a hard life?]

After the meeting ended, the camera followed Yamanoi Yayoi leaving, and Jiang Jian Yue let out a sigh of relief.

If they had shown Yuki Asahi following her out, it might have inserted a flashback of that day when he got soaked.

Fortunately, it wasn’t shown.

Kaori Onishi returned to her detached house and greeted the servants politely before asking when her Father would be back.

The answer she got was “very late.”

She ran alone to her cold, empty bedroom, put on her glasses, and started knitting a sweater.

[Care for the empty-nest Old Yayoi]

[So cute]

In the corner of the bedroom, there were piles of knitted items, making it clear that Yamanoi Yayoi really loved knitting.

A memory flashed back to when Yamanoi Yayoi was very young, with a hazy filter over it.

Her Mother, with beautiful water-blue long hair, sat on a lounge chair with half-knitted fabric in her lap.

Are we doing childhood flashbacks now?

Jiang Jian Yue squinted.

Now, only she and Kaori Onishi hadn’t had a childhood flashback—Kaori Onishi, being the “female lead” ranked just below Yuki Asahi, would definitely get a personal episode in the future.

What about herself?

As an “Antagonist” not counted among the Main Character group, she probably wouldn’t get a personal episode!

Damn it, she actually wanted to see what her personal episode would be like too!

But there probably wasn’t anything worth broadcasting—would they just show her dementia moments?

As a Political Family, Yamanoi Yayoi was supposed to have siblings… but for some reason, the Imai Family had only one child in the previous generation, and this generation still hadn’t produced any heirs.

It was as if low birthrate had become a curse for the Imai Family—until Yamanoi Yayoi was born, bringing some warmth back to the once cold household.

But not much warmth, really.

Since childhood, Yamanoi Yayoi saw her Father on TV more often than at home.

The Madam became a widow at a young age.

The role of Father was a traditional Japanese patriarch to Yamanoi Yayoi—strict, never showing concern, and the brief moments together were filled with lines like “You must work hard” and “You are the daughter of the Imai Family.”

Things like that.

Though he never said it aloud, Yamanoi Yayoi sensed from a young age that her Father was… disappointed that she wasn’t a boy.

In Japan’s political world, female figures are rare.

Though cruel, women in such Political Families are often pushed into arranged marriages.

Father didn’t want to give up, so when Yamanoi Yayoi was young, he brought in various Private Tutors for her to study.

Under family pressure, Yamanoi Yayoi developed her current introverted, quiet personality.

[So suffocating]

[Uuu, Yayoi-chan]

[Too stifling]

[It’s not even a gender issue, anyone would be crushed by this]

Though the pressure from Father was heavy, there was still some comfort from Mother—but the emptiness of the house already foreshadowed her fate.

Imai Mother fell gravely ill… Yamanoi Yayoi watched her Mother grow frail day by day, powerless to do anything but watch her suffer in bed.

In Yamanoi Yayoi’s pale yellow eyes, the reflection of her Mother’s pain became a scar she couldn’t erase.

Mother passed away suddenly, and Father didn’t even see her one last time—after that, Yamanoi Yayoi didn’t speak a word to Father for a long time.

Father remained strictly unfeeling, but perhaps he finally understood, or sensed his daughter’s silent rebellion, and reduced Yamanoi Yayoi’s Private Tutors.

But the rift was already there, and their relationship had dropped to freezing point.

[Heartache]

Jiang Jian Yue silently liked this comment.

From now on… she should take more care of Yamanoi Yayoi.

When her Superpower awakened, Yamanoi Yayoi was knitting at home.

The surge of power made the needle instantly scratch her palm.

Yamanoi Yayoi frowned slightly, then looked in surprise as white light welled up from her fingertip, quickly healing the scratch as if it had never existed.

The camera cut to the street outside.

It wasn’t clear when this scene took place, but Yamanoi Yayoi’s clothes had changed, so it clearly wasn’t the same day.

She noticed a small kitten whimpering in the flowerbed, its leg injured.

She gently reached out her hand, her pale yellow eyes shining softly.

Light dots flowed into the kitten’s wounded hind leg, healing the wound quickly.

The kitten noticed too, realizing the human in front of it was healing it, and rubbed its head against Yamanoi Yayoi’s arm.

A faint smile appeared on Yamanoi Yayoi’s face.

After the kitten was completely healed, it meowed and ran off, disappearing into the flowerbed.

Her smile remained, but her eyes grew red and tears gathered, finally rolling down her cheeks.

On the street, the girl didn’t try to hide her sadness and cried out loud.

“Why… why only now…”

“Mom…”

As mentioned earlier, Jiang Jian Yue’s tears came easily, and feeling exhausted now, she couldn’t control her tear ducts, her eyes reddening.

Mamaa… Yayoi-chan…

Jiang Jian Yue wanted to dive into the screen and hug Yamanoi Yayoi tightly in her arms to comfort her—well, comforting her afterward wasn’t too late either.

The plot then connected to the GPRI Hunter Incident.

Yamanoi Yayoi received a call from her Father, ordering her to head to the Tokushu Jishou Taiou Honbu building near Chiyoda.

It was the first time Yamanoi Yayoi had heard her Father so agitated and anxious.

Her heart filled with panic, she immediately set out for the Tokushu Jishou Taiou Honbu building.

That was also the first time Yamanoi Yayoi met Yuki Asahi—a gloomy boy.

Though she was always afraid of Hunters, hearing how this boy, barely older than her, had resolved many major crises gave her a sense of relief and trust.

She tended to trust what others said by instinct—even if “resolving multiple major crises” wasn’t exactly a lie.

That feeling of trust quickly grew, and of course, Yamanoi Yayoi didn’t know why.

[Here it comes, mind-control TV]

[Invincible Ability]

[Hypnosis APP energy]

Afterward, she was assigned to a group and began gathering Superpower users nearby.

During this, she also faced an assassination attempt but was saved by the team’s combined efforts.

As a Healing Ability user, Yamanoi Yayoi treated everyone’s injuries and received a lot of praise.

This was something Yamanoi Yayoi rarely experienced before—the smile on her face grew even more genuine.

After gathering enough, everyone moved to a safe point.

Yamanoi Yayoi kept watching footage of Yuki Asahi fighting on her phone, her heart full of longing.

When Jiang Jian Yue in the same car said she wanted to go to Roppongi, Yamanoi Yayoi hurriedly raised her hand too—

The screen went black, and the timeline jumped back to the main story.

It was already night.

Yamanoi Yayoi opened her phone and saw Jiang Jian Yue’s question, frowning and thinking hard, but unable to decide.

The faces that floated through her mind were all members of the Supernatural Club—poor little Imai didn’t seem to have any other friends.

[Why is Emi-chan asking this?]

[Scary, is she going to tie someone to the tracks?]

[She’s revealing her true nature, witch]

[What does this mean]

[Momo’s answer matches her Ability’s vibe]

Jiang Jian Yue looked at the barrage speechlessly—

She didn’t get much screen time last episode, so her groupmates kept asking if she was plotting some earth-shaking conspiracy.

Jiang Jian Yue shamelessly replied, “I’m plotting to bomb the Imperial Palace.”

Before long, it became a “Forum Rumor” on the community forum—that the Dawn Resources Group would declare war on Japan and bomb Chiyoda in future episodes!

The chat logs were so detailed, they had to be real!

After the scene transition, the camera cut to someone else—a police officer with light brown hair who appeared in the OP.

His ID said “Hanyu Yukiki,” a rookie officer in the Osaka Prefectural Police Fourth Investigation Division.

The Fourth Investigation Division mainly handled cases related to the Extreme Path, illegal drugs, and fraud.

He and two fellow officers were heading to deal with a gang fight.

Reaching the narrow alley the witness had mentioned, Hanyu Yukiki cautiously drew his gun and walked in front.

When he saw several gruesomely dead bodies, this rookie didn’t even flinch and stepped closer to investigate.

His police colleague behind him was reporting in, reminding the rookie not to disturb the scene.

“This isn’t a simple bleeding case.”

A flash of displeasure crossed his orange-red eyes, the pupils reflecting the wounds on the corpses that were rapidly decomposing.

A layer of green viscous liquid covered the wounds, as if devouring all the flesh.

He quickly covered his mouth—not to vomit, but to cough, avoiding spitting on the corpses.

The scene shifted.

Photos of the bodies were pinned to a whiteboard, and the smoke-filled conference room echoed with coughs.

The Superintendent detailed the case while a bunch of police, looking more like gangsters, smoked and coughed.

“Is it an epidemic?”

Someone muttered quietly.

“Sorry, Department Chief! I have to take this call!”

Someone hurried outside with their phone.

“Don’t answer calls during meetings, kora!”

Then, as if it were a comedy, the Superintendent’s own phone rang.

The man with the pompadour quickly pulled out his phone, glanced awkwardly at his “subordinates,” and walked to the corner to answer.

[Is this the legendary Osaka Prefectural Police?]

[Where are the police? Why do they all look like gangsters?]

“What? Ai is sick, and you’re sick too?”

The Superintendent loosened his tie and coughed.

Hanyu Yukiki stared at the whiteboard and whispered.

“Superpower crime?”