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After saying that, Kihara Kazuta turned and left. Mugino Shizuri exchanged a glance with the three people behind him and immediately followed.

Although Mugino Shizuri and the others had secretly resolved to prioritize their own safety, they couldn't show too much resistance at this point. Otherwise, Mugino Shizuri believed that the madmen here would definitely not mind adding another item to their enemy list.

Mugino Shizuri believed himself to be very strong, but in the face of this group of lunatics, he lacked the resolve to fight against everything.

For now... let's pretend to be obedient.

……

"This is the treatment procedure. With it, the current chaos in Academy City can be resolved."

Kiyama Harumi took out a USB drive and handed it to Theristina, saying, "You'll be in charge of the cleanup afterwards, right? I've done everything I could. It's time to free those kids, isn't it?"

Kiyama Harumi's dark circles seemed to have deepened. As an accomplice of Kihara's group these past few days, Kiyama Harumi has been constantly tormented by his conscience.

As a teacher, in order to save her former students, she dragged even more people down with her—now nearly 100,000. Is that really the right thing to do?

If the 100,000 people were merely unconscious, Kiyama Harumi might be able to comfort herself with various reasons. However, even though Kiyama Harumi had been in the laboratory, she was well aware that due to the widespread distribution of the Imagine Might Hand, the entire Academy City had fallen into chaos.

Such chaos will undoubtedly cause countless injuries, tears, and sorrow, and will bring immense damage to Academy City.

This outcome was something that Kiyama Haruo could not bear.

These past few days, Kiyama Harumi dared not look into the details, burying herself in the laboratory. This ostrich-like behavior made Kiyama Harumi feel much better; saving those children and waking them from their comas became her last straw for self-redemption.

Theristina took the USB drive and looked with interest at Kiyama Harumi, whose face showed a hint of pleading. She knew clearly what Kiyama Harumi longed for.

As Kiyama Harumi said, Theristina, as the captain of the Advanced Situation Rescue Team and the director of its affiliated research institute, does have a responsibility to prevent anything that could harm Academy City.

The Advanced Situation Rescue Team possesses comprehensive medical facilities and is equipped with various vehicles, powered armor, and helicopters. Its headquarters is equipped with large and complete power-degrading devices, and its members are equipped with a large number of powered armors, making it a formidable force.

If Theristina were a responsible and good person, she could indeed use the treatment program offered by Kiyama Harumi to end the chaos in Academy City...

But Theristina isn't a good person!

As the first subject of the ability crystallization experiment and also a victim, Terestina did not hate her grandfather Kihara Gensei, who treated her as an experimenter. Instead, she inherited Kihara Gensei's theories and wanted to continue to work on the ability crystallization experiment and continue to pursue the path of LV6.

Meanwhile, the children that Kiyama Harumi wants to save are currently in a dormant state where their abilities are out of control. These children, in this state, can be transformed into ability crystals, or body crystals, by extracting and refining their brain secretions.

The body crystal used by Takitsubo Riko is this kind of thing. It is a consumable used to make her abilities go berserk and reach a stronger state. The production of this consumable depends on these sleeping children.

To Academy City, they are not a group of living children, but a farmland used to produce body crystals.

Body crystals are useful and good things. How can we destroy farmland just to save a few brats that can be found everywhere?

Therestina's smile widened, becoming a smile brimming with malice.

233 The moment to witness a miracle

The malicious smile radiated the malice within Theristina. Originally, she was the one who received Kihara Gensei's malice, but now she had become the one who released it.

Perhaps Theristina's behavior can be explained by Stockholm syndrome, but in any case, the fact that Theristina went from being a victim to a perpetrator is undeniable.

Regardless of what hardships or tribulations Theristina may have, she is destined to be a villain, and a villain who is opposed to Kiyama Harumi.

Looking at that malicious smile, Kiyama Harumi's face turned deathly pale. She had long realized the danger of cooperating with these people, because they were all liars and villains, and expecting them to keep their promises was a joke.

The children that Kiyama Harumi wanted to save were originally Kihara Gensei's test subjects, and Kiyama Harumi was unaware of the truth of the entire experiment from beginning to end, immersing himself in the gentle warmth of being the teacher of those test subjects.

It wasn't until Kihara Gensei completed his experiment, turning the children into vegetative states and transforming them into farmland and factories for producing body crystals, that Kiyama Harumi realized the truth behind it all.

If given a choice, Kiyama Harumi would never have cooperated with these people, much less allowed them to touch his Imagine Might and Magic, but Kiyama Harumi had no choice.

Before the Fantasy Hand was even formed, these people, led by Kane Teitoku, found Kiyama Haru and tied the defenseless Kiyama Haru to their warship.

In this way, if Kiyama Harumi wants to save those children, she can only trust this group of people, trust these madmen who originally harmed those children; otherwise, her Illusion Hand will be taken away, and she will lose all hope.

Kiyama Harumi wanted to save these children and couldn't let them continue to sleep. So even though she knew that these people might have been using her from the beginning, Kiyama Harumi still chose to cooperate with them.

This was the last straw that Kiyama Harumi was clinging to.

"You... will keep your promise, right?"

Kiyama Harumi murmured these words, as if asking a question and pleading at the same time. It was as if the most humble and weak person was asking the perpetrators to spare the children with the most devout tone, preserving the last bit of dignity by simply looking at Theristina.

“Hey,” Therese didn’t even bother to call Kiyama Harumi by name, and said, “If I told you that kneeling down would guarantee those children would wake up, would you kneel down?”

As she spoke, Theristina took out a candy box, opened it, took out a colorful chocolate bean, and threw it into her mouth, revealing a touch of girlish innocence and naivety in her seemingly mature professional woman.

However, few people know that hidden beneath this facade is her ruthless and vicious personality, as well as her abnormal obsession with Level 6 Absolute Abilities inherited from Kihara Gensei.

Upon hearing Theristina's words, Kiyama Harumi almost instantly lost all her strength. Reason told her she had been deceived. Yet, emotion made her knees weak, and she wanted to kneel before Theristina.

"As long as... I can save those children, kneeling down is nothing, it's a small thing!"

Such thoughts filled Kiyama Harumi's mind, and the smiling faces of those children seemed to appear before her eyes one by one. Those sweet "Teacher" calls drained all of Kiyama Harumi's courage and dignity, making her body grow shorter and her knees bend more and more.

Just kidding!

Theristina laughed mischievously, put her hand on Kiyama Harumi's shoulder, and said, "I was just joking, look how excited you are."

After saying that, Theristina turned to Kihara Gensei and said, "Grandpa, you should make a decision on how to handle Kiyama Harumi's matter. You're the one who decides things here, aren't you?"

Theristina called Kihara Gensei in a sweet voice, as if there was a deep affection between the grandfather and granddaughter.

However, Kihara Gensei ignored Theristina's voice. Theristina called several times before Kihara Gensei finally reacted, turning his hunched body towards Theristina. A faint light shone through his almost closed eyes.

"Grandpa, you're daydreaming again!"

Theristina gave a reproachful, angry sound, while Kihara Gensei forced a smile. What should have been a kind, elderly man's smile instead carried a sinister undertone.

"As people get older, I develop this problem: once I see something I like or something unexpected happens, I become so focused that I ignore everything around me."

"You know how many times I've been injured because of this."

Theristina nodded, pointed to the weak and exhausted Kiyama Harumi whom she was supporting, and said, "Grandpa, make a decision. She is indeed a pitiful person. She has struggled for so many years for those children, and now she has become like this. She has even become our accomplice, harming the entire Academy City."

"No matter what, we have to give her an explanation, right?"

Theristina seemed to be pleading for Kiyama Harumi, and Kihara Gensei nodded, saying, "That's true."

Kihara Gensei looked at Kiyama Harumi and said, "Don't worry, I'm not lying to you this time. Once all this is over, the children you care about will wake up. But before that, I think you need to rest well. After all, Emperor Kanemoto hasn't woken up yet, and we may still need your knowledge."

Upon hearing this, a hint of relief appeared in Kiyama Harumi's despairing eyes. She nodded, straightened up, and turned to leave.

However, after taking just one step, Kiyama Harumi fell straight to the ground with a loud "thud," and even her forehead turned purplish-black with faint traces of blood flowing out.

Exhaustion and panic finally drained all of Kiyama Harumi's strength, causing her to lose consciousness.

"He fainted?"

Theristina looked at Kiyama Harumi in surprise, then kicked him in the waist. Seeing that he didn't react, she said, "He's not dead, is he?"

"Honestly... I really don't understand why someone like you would go to so much trouble for those test subjects. Now you want me to take care of you instead. If you can't resist, why not just accept it?"

After saying that, Theristina clapped her hands, and two members of her rescue team came out from outside the door and dragged Kiyama Harumi out as instructed by Theristina.

"Treat her injuries, and then let her rest in this secluded and quiet little room to recover. Otherwise, when we need her again, she'll be listless, which will make us sad."

"understand!"

Watching Kiyama Harumi leave, Theristina skipped over to Kihara Gensei, hugged her grandfather's arm, and asked, "Grandpa, Grandpa, how did it go? What will Kanemoto Teitoku become?"

Kihara Gensei had been staring intently at Kane Teitoku, his eyes gleaming, and said, "Judging from the current situation, he will at least be a multi-talented individual. Countless kinds of abilities will become his power, and the level of most of his abilities will be close to that of a high-level ability user."

"Oh!"

Theristina's mouth dropped open in surprise. "Isn't that amazing? A multi-talented individual! He can switch between different abilities at any time to deal with different situations and enemies. Wouldn't that give him incredible combat power?"

"The first multi-talented individual in Academy City's history, this is big news!"

"Big news?"

Kihara Gensei smiled slightly and said, "Yes, it is indeed an interesting experiment, but unfortunately, what we were hoping for was not a multi-talented individual, was it?"

Kihara Gensei suddenly changed the subject, and Theristina smiled and said, "That's right, Grandpa. What we hope for is an Absolute Ability User, a Level 6 Ability User, an existence that listens to the will of the gods with a non-god's body."

"What meaning do a mere multi-talented individual, even a hundred thousand LV4s, have against a single LV6?"

"That's exactly right!"

As he spoke, Kihara Gensei's eyes widened, and he said, "This is the pursuit of my grandfather and me, a secret that neither of us knows. It was right for Emperor Huangen to value our technology and invite us here, but he doesn't know that in our eyes, he is not our leader, but just a test subject."

"I think that Emperor Huangen is willing to be our guinea pig, and then use it to gain power, defeat Accelerator, and crush the director who made Emperor Huangen stumble. He is willing to pay any price for this!"

"The price of everything?"

Kihara Gensei laughed, his voice hoarse, like the sound of wind echoing through the cracks of a withered ancient tree, and said, "It's a pity he doesn't know that the price we need him to pay is beyond his ability to bear. I wonder if he will regret bringing us to his side then?"

"No, not at all."

With a body that is not a god, he listened to the will of the gods and bit into a chocolate bean again. Then, with a clench of his teeth, the fragments flew in all directions. He said, "Because at that time, the Emperor of Huangen was no longer the Emperor of Huangen. Instead, it was something that kept evolving and changing in order to reach LV6. Even its final form was beyond our imagination."

How can you have regrets about something?

Kihara Gensei and Theristina have clearly become like-minded accomplices, and are obviously planning something, targeting Kanemoto Teitoku, who is currently still asleep and shows no signs of waking up.

"Yes, it's just an object. Let's witness its birth."

At this point, Kihara Gensei turned and left the laboratory with Theristina, saying as they walked, "Your troops should be moving out soon. This time, that director named Momo seems to have organized quite a large operation."

"It won't be long before Emperor Huangen wakes up. Until then, we must protect Emperor Huangen and our test subjects."

"After that, we will witness the birth of a miracle together!"

234 Academy City Great Crisis

Just as the Kihara family finally couldn't help but take the initiative to gain an advantage, Misaka Mikoto and Accelerator, who were originally both quelling the riots in Academy City, arrived at the General Council Office of the First District, where the council members usually worked.

"You promised to come with me to deal with Huan Gendi, but now you're making me sit here with you?"

“Third,” Accelerator said, his eyes filled with suppressed dissatisfaction, “Don’t think that I’ll listen to you just because of what happened before. You yourself said that all of that is in the past.”

"If I find out that you dared to mess with me, I won't let you off the hook."

Despite Accelerator's threat, Misaka Mikoto showed no fear, saying, "Hey, hey, hey, I know, you've said it three times already. Accelerator, can't you be a little more patient? You don't understand that you can't solve problems by force alone?"

"If your power can solve everything, how could something like what happened to the sisters have happened?"

Misaka Mikoto's indifferent attitude fueled Accelerator's anger. When had he ever been treated like this?

However, Accelerator really didn't have any temper when facing Misaka Mikoto at this time.

Even if Accelerator really went berserk and forgot everything that happened before, the outcome of his real fight with Misaka Mikoto would be uncertain. The fact that his sleeves are empty right now is the best proof of that.