A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 187: Dark Night Seabird
"Maybe...right?" Faced with the question raised casually by Franda, Kinuhata's favorite expression also became ambiguous and subtle.

"Maybe? What does this mean?" Flanda asked, tilting her head.

"There is indeed another esper who can manipulate nitrogen, a girl named Kuroyoro Umidori," Kinuhata admitted. "But she's very low-key and doesn't seem to have much of a presence. And she didn't have her ability level re-tested this time, so it's uncertain whether she's also successfully advanced to Level 4."

"So that's how it is." Franda and Takitsubo Rikou nodded repeatedly.

Kinuhata's favorite asked, "So, you guys want Kuroyoru Umidori to join as well?"

"No, there's no such arrangement," Takitsubo Rikou said. "Gougi has a limited number of official members, and we don't have the resources to support a fifth official member. And Mugino also said we need defensive and close-combat talents, and the Nitro Blaster doesn't fit our needs."

"That's right, that's right. I'm just a little curious." Frenda nodded repeatedly. "After all, you two are a shield and a spear. Putting such a combination together, it's hard not to make associations and comparisons."

"I see," Kinuhata's favorite nodded in understanding. "Before my promotion, Kuroyoru and I had the same ability level, and our output levels were pretty much the same. There wasn't much of a noticeable difference."

Even before becoming level 3, because the dividing line between spear and shield was not yet clear, the effects of their two abilities were all basic "nitrogen operations".

In Kinuhata's favorite opinion, in terms of superpowers, Kuroyoru Umidori is like another self - another possibility and promotion path for "Nitrogen Operation".

"But I believe that Kuroyoru has definitely been promoted to level 4," Kinuhata said, "As long as she takes another ability level test, she will definitely get this result."

"It's just..." Shaking his head, Kinuhata sighed, "Kuroyano Umidori has left us."

"Leaving you..." The other two girls felt their hearts tighten and were about to say something.

"It seems she was spotted by a new research institute and signed a contract." Kinuhata's favorite shook his head. "So it seems she is indeed talented, that's why she was chosen."

"What? In the end, this is how he left..." Frenda complained, "Don't be discouraged. Didn't Mugino also take a fancy to Kinuhata and add her to the 'Tools'?"

Kinuhata nodded.

However, strictly speaking, being spotted and signed by the research institute and being absorbed by the Anbu are actually two completely different routes.

That's why Kinuhata thinks Kuroyoru Umidori is another possibility for herself.

——I am the shield and she is the spear.

——I chose to stay with everyone and continue to take care of everyone; she chose to leave and pursue the life she really wanted...

So, in the final analysis, Kuroyoro Umidori and Kinuhata Kaai are two completely different people.

Kinuhata's favorite thing is to look at this "companion" with the greatest kindness.

However, Kuroyoro Umidori regards Kinuhata Saiai as a "wrong counterexample". She does not agree with Kinuhata Saiai's beliefs and persistence, so she always makes choices that are completely opposite to Kinuhata Saiai's.

For example, when Lin Wuming returned to Black Moon Technology to rescue them, Kuroyoru Umibird, also a Level 3 expert, chose to remain as low-profile as possible, hiding beneath the light of Kinuhata's beloved, and contributing only slightly to the escape. Even after the incident was over, few remembered her contribution.

For example, Kinuhata loved to actively cooperate with the guards, helping the adults comfort and care for the experimental children; Kuroyoru Umidori simply stood by, quietly observing the entire process like an outsider. Unless she was directly approached and asked for help, she would never actively intervene.

Later, Kinuhata took the ability level test and successfully advanced to level 4, while Kuroyoru Umidori deliberately avoided it and did not participate in the test.

However, Kuroyoro Umidori knew that the only aspect in which he and Kinuhata Saiai were the same was in the development of superpowers. Since Kinuhata Saiai had already become level 4, he could be confirmed without any special test that he was also a level 4 powerful ability user.

After becoming a person with great abilities, more people came to invite Kinuaki's favorite, including famous universities and large research institutions. If she accepted the invitation, she would definitely no longer be a guinea pig like before, but a collaborator of the research institution, and her status and position would be incomparable.

But Juanqi Zuiai refused all of them because she had become the backbone of the children and she wanted to stay and take care of them. So she refused to enjoy a better life alone.

If it were Kuroyoru Umidori... she felt that she would never make such a naive and foolish decision.

Kuroyoru Umidori seeks to improve his own strength.

She might be the only one among all the experimental subjects who did not hate the "Dark May" project so much - of course, it cannot be said that she likes this experiment very much.

For Kuroyoru Umidori, what she really wants is an experiment that can improve her ability level. On this basis, she also does not want to be treated like a guinea pig and abused by those researchers.

Different from the attitude of Kinuhata's favorite and other children towards Lin Wuming, Kuroyoru Umidori does not regard Lin Wuming as a hero and benefactor who saved him, but as his "predecessor" - a "predecessor" in terms of improving his ability level.

Kuroyoru Umidori respected Lin Wuming because he had demonstrated strong enough strength. She shared similar views to the researchers of the "Dark May Project" during their lifetime, believing that the improvement in Lin Wuming's ability level was the experimental result of the "Dark May Project."

Moreover, compared to "nitrogen operation", "telekinesis" is undoubtedly closer to the "vector operation" which is the prototype of thinking mode.

So although Lin Wuming is only level 3, he has demonstrated powerful strength comparable to level 4.

Therefore, Kuroyoru Umidori believes that the existence of Lin Wuming, himself, and Kinuhata's three favorites has already proved that the "Dark May Plan" is effective!
——If the research institute had not been destroyed and the experiments were still going on, could I have gone one step further and reached that miraculous level 5?

Kuroyoru is full of anticipation for this.

Unlike Kinuhata's favorite who is content with the status quo, Kuroyoru Umidori wants to go further in pursuit of opportunities to improve his personal strength.

So, after moving into the abandoned school, she secretly returned to the Black Moon Technology headquarters building more than once, trying to find remaining research materials.

Of course, the information room there had long been burned to ashes by Lin Wuming, and had been searched carefully many times by the security forces, so it was impossible to find any valuable information.

However, Kuroyoru Umibird did not gain nothing.

When she sneaked into the building for the third time to investigate, she met a young man who called himself "Kihara".

(End of this chapter)