Part 1[edit]
Mugino Shizuri.
The #4 Level 5.
She was a true monster that could freely use the power known as Meltdowner. And she was also Hamazura’s archenemy who he had twice defeated in the past. As she had appeared before him after he had fled from Japan’s Academy City all the way to Russia, she could be called without exaggeration history’s most fearsome hunting dog.
From what Hamazura knew, she had lost one of her arms.
The sleeve of her yellow coat was oddly baggy. It was possible that only the portion past the wrist was made to look human and there was something like a robot arm within the sleeve.
“Hee hee.”
There were no words.
As Mugino cast her eyes down, her shoulders moved up and down in an ominous almost mechanical way.
“Heh heh heh. Kah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!”
“…!!”
When Mugino lifted her head, her tongue was sticking out.
A small case lay on top of that damp piece of red meat. It was a small rectangular case similar to a box of mechanical pencil lead. A white powder was contained within. Hamazura was quite familiar with the substance.
It was Body Crystal.
It was the substance that had made Takitsubo Rikou suffer. The drug(?) purposefully forced an esper’s power out of control. Hamazura and Takitsubo were even then wandering through Russia in order to battle its side effects and Mugino Shizuri had appeared with the root source of it all.
Hamazura completely forgot about the boundaries of Level 0 and Level 5.
He started to wonder where Takitsubo was. Was she okay? Had someone done something horrible to her?
As Hamazura’s head boiled, he spat out some words.
“Are you still trying to make Takitsubo use that stupid shit!? And for no rational reason!! Just to make us suffer even a little longer!!!!”
Mugino sneered at his outburst.
She moved her mouth.
However, no response came. This was because she had not moved her mouth in order to speak.
Mugino Shizuri broke the Body Crystal case between her teeth.
Hamazura’s eyes trembled as if he were watching something he truly could not believe.
A crunching sound continued. It was coming from Mugino’s mouth. It was the sound of her chewing on the sharp fragments of the case after having shattered it. Of course, the human mouth was not that tough. Mugino’s mouth had to be filled with the taste of blood.
And yet that monster’s face had nothing but a smile stuck to it.
“…Takitsubo? Why do I have to care about someone as insignificant as that?” Mugino muttered as the sound of fibers tearing could be heard from within her mouth.
She was filling up with something.
A strange cycle began within the girl’s body.
“Body Crystal… It purposefully forces an esper’s power out of control. Some researcher from ‘something or other Rescue’ said it was the path to Level 6. Given that she ignored the hopeless response from Tree Diagram and used resonance and Telepaths in a vain struggle to make it work, there must be something more to Body Crystal, but I don’t need to think about it that deeply.”
Hamazura Shiage had been mistaken.
He had been mistaken about how serious the fact that he had twice defeated the #4 Level 5 was. And he had been mistaken about just how far the strong would go to eliminate a Level 0 once that Level 0 had put himself up on the stage of the strong.
“Hey, Hamazura. If the #4 Level 5’s power is forced out of control, how far do you think the damage will spread?”
White beams of light that were much too dreadful shot out.
It wasn’t just a few of them.
With the girl named Mugino Shizuri at the center, tens of thousands of beams of light shot out in every direction.
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