My transformation into a beautiful girl started with a hemorrhage.

"and many more--"

click!

Before Hui could finish speaking, the door was opened by Misa.

As soon as Misa entered the house, she saw her daughter huddled in the blankets, her eyes still brimming with tears.

Her heart ached instantly. She went straight to the bedside and sat down, leaning slightly forward. Her concerned and warm gaze gently embraced Hui, and she softly asked, "Hui, can you tell Mom what happened?"

Hui turned her head away, leaving Misa with a cascade of smooth, soft hair like black satin. She didn't want her mother to see her in this disheveled state.

"I...I'm fine." Hui's voice was still slightly choked.

Misa wasn't annoyed. She lay down on her side, wrapped her arms around Hui from behind through the blanket, and pulled Hui into her embrace.

Although Hui's bed wasn't very big, the mother and daughter were both slim, and they lay close together without feeling crowded at all.

"Hui, why are you crying? Can you tell Mommy what happened?"

As Misa spoke, she tightened her embrace around Hui.

Hui naturally felt it, and her heart warmed. She turned over and leaned against Misa's chest. Her mother's breath was very warm, as if it had a special magic that made Hui let down all her guard.

She couldn't hold back her previous grievances and worries any longer and poured them all out: "Waaah~, Ogasa-san, I had a fight with Kouta, and I said some really hurtful things to him. Will he... hate me?"

Misa then realized that her daughter and Fujiki-kun had argued.

Looking at her stunningly beautiful daughter in her arms, she thought to herself that her daughter was adorably silly, completely oblivious to her own flaws.

'Doesn't she know how attractive she is to men?'

"Don't say anything 'too much.' Even if she does something outrageous, no man would be willing to be angry with her; in fact, he might even find it endearing."

She gently stroked Hui's hair as she said, "Hui, it's okay. Trust your mother's experience. Fujiki-kun will definitely not dislike you."

"Really? But, but I really said some really hurtful things—"

"Can you tell your mom what it is specifically?"

Huiwei paused for a moment, then said, "I told Kouta that I didn't want to see you, and to stay away from me..." and other similar things.

Misa smiled slightly, feeling relieved. She thought it was serious, but this was nothing. When she was dating Soto back then, she had said much harsher things to him, but Soto still obediently listened and came to her the next day.

"Hui, don't worry, trust Mom's judgment. Fujiki-kun definitely won't dislike you, Mom promises you!"

Looking at Misa's confident expression.

Hui believed it most of the time and added in a weak voice, "Really?"

"Of course it's true! If you don't believe me, wait until tomorrow and you'll see. Fujiki-kun will definitely apologize to you."

Hui calmed down, but then she felt confused: "Mom, why did Kouta apologize to me? Did I say something hurtful to him? Even if anyone should apologize, it should be me apologizing to Kouta!"

“…Well, boys are all like that, you’ll get used to it,” Misa said with a smile.

"Is that so?" Huihu asked doubtfully.

“That’s it!” Misa asserted.

"Hui understands."

Misa added, "By the way, your homeroom teacher called today to say that you didn't participate in the club activities, so remember to apologize to the teacher tomorrow."

Hui then realized that she had forgotten to ask for leave when she skipped the club activity.

In fact, it is not uncommon for members of the dance club to skip club activities.

The dance club at Misaki High School is all girls, and it's common for girls to skip club activities for a few days each month.

However, you must ask for leave in advance, even if it's just by sending a message on Line.

Hui's decision to simply leave and go home naturally caught the attention of her homeroom teacher.

"Okay, I understand," Hui replied.

"Remember to come down for dinner later," Misa said, then got up and left.

"Ah."

……

Chapter 314 Gravitational Waves

Sumida Town, Aomori City.

The people in this region are destined to have a sleepless night.

The towering fire could be felt even from hundreds of meters away, its scorching heat palpable. The smoke billowing from the fire blotted out the sky and the moon, shrouding the previously cloudless, starry sky in a thick haze. Many people inhaled the smoke and coughed incessantly. Moreover, the towering flames, surging upwards, were faintly visible even across half of Aomori City. The sounds of fire trucks and ambulances were deafening. Countless people rushed out of their rooms and into the streets, staring in awe at the raging inferno before them.

The fact that the Shiba family's vast manor was engulfed in flames was unimaginable to the locals.

Moreover, recalling the gunfire that had lasted for several tens of minutes earlier, these people felt a chill and began to speculate about the fire.

The Aomori City Fire Department has dispatched all of its fire trucks, and countless firefighters are busy moving around like orderly ants. However, the flames are too intense, and all they can do is confine the fire to the Shibamiya family's estate area and prevent it from spreading.

The Shichimiya family's manor is surrounded by a wall, and outside the wall is a wide two-way four-lane road, which naturally serves to prevent fires, greatly reducing the difficulty of the firefighters' work.

The designers of the manor probably never imagined that the design they used to deter intruders would also effectively prevent the fire from spreading.

And it was amidst this apocalyptic scene.

Several black cars sped over and stopped in an inconspicuous corner outside the fire.

The group hurriedly got out of the car and stared at the raging fire for a long time without saying a word.

They were Hiroki Imaizumi and his entourage.

Since the "astronomical event," their previously nameless special operations team has been officially renamed the "Supernatural Operations Section," directly under the cabinet and incorporated into the organization. Their living conditions, salary, benefits, and the resources they can mobilize are incomparable to what they were before.

They were tasked with investigating the truth behind the "astronomical event" and everything in the world related to the supernatural.

Currently, all countries in the world with astronomical observation capabilities share a common secret.

The reason is that new findings have been made regarding the mysterious incident that affected the entire world more than two months ago.

The department that came to this conclusion is not some mysterious department that people usually think of, but a very obscure astronomical observatory, or more precisely, an even more obscure gravitational wave observatory.

Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime, propagating outward from the radiation source in the form of waves.

At the time of that mysterious event, gravitational wave observatories around the world simultaneously observed gravitational waves far exceeding the threshold ever recorded.

Its intensity is so great that it reaches the level of spacetime distortion caused by the enormous mass of a neutron star.

Moreover, by integrating and calculating observations from observatories around the world, scientists pinpointed the location of the spacetime curvature to the west coast of the Pacific Ocean, specifically within 10,000 meters above sea level.

In other words, when the mysterious event occurred, something must have appeared there and then quickly disappeared, as if it had just brushed past Earth. That unknown thing directly distorted the spacetime there to a degree visible to the naked eye.

Earth was extremely lucky; it merely "brushed past" that thing.

Scientists are still terrified when they think about it. If that unknown, mysterious thing had stayed longer, they could have deduced its mass from the measured degree of spacetime curvature, and the entire Earth would have been pulled into its gravitational pull, leading to the collapse of the Earth's crust and the extinction of humanity.

But what exactly is that thing?

No one knows.

Some speculate it's a small, forming black hole; others think it's a spaceship from a super-advanced civilization; still others believe it's fragments of a higher-dimensional spacetime...

Anyway, nobody thinks it's human behavior.

Because for human civilization, which cannot even leave Earth, things like warping spacetime are just myths in our imagination. With the current understanding of Earthlings, we can't even dream of achieving that.

Meanwhile, countries around the world were secretly swept up in an astronomical frenzy.

The Japanese authorities, however, unusually established a so-called Supernatural Operations Division.

This is not because they've gone mad, but because they know more. The photo of the "angel" has become a top secret among the Japanese leadership.

They knew that what appeared on Earth that day was not a black hole, a spaceship, or a fragment of higher-dimensional spacetime, but... an angel!

Hiroyuki Imaizumi and his team have traveled to every corner of the new territory over the past two months, searching for any possible trace left behind.

However, Hui, the person in question, had already left Xinyu, so their efforts were destined to be in vain.

While they were foolishly investigating urban legends in the new region every day, a bizarre case caught their attention.

In Aomori City, separated from Shin-mi by Tokyo, a murder case occurred with a crime scene that defies rational explanation.

They are skeptical of the so-called "inexplicable" claims because they have seen far too much misinformation using this as a gimmick these days.

Now, whenever they hear words like "inexplicable" or "superpowers," they can't help but suspect that it's another scammer trying to steal rewards...

However, as they learned more about the case, they discovered that this time it might be real, because it was a police case file that detailed relevant pictures, videos, and other documents.

So they rushed over overnight, hoping to find out what was going on from the Chai family...

However, to their surprise, this is the scene they encountered upon arrival.

"Damn it, I'm too late!" Hiroyuki Imaizumi said angrily.

"Captain, what do we do now?"

"Let's go back and discuss this further. We can't find any clues here." Hiroyuki Imaizumi understood that a fire of this magnitude would melt even steel bars, and after the fire, only scorched earth would remain, with nothing left.

……

The next morning.

While eating breakfast, Hui looked at the news on TV with some surprise.

News of the fire in Sumida Town swept through major news media outlets in Aomori City.

Even mainstream media in Tokyo dedicated a section to reporting on this.

There's no other reason than that the fire was simply too large in scale, and too many people died.

The mayor of Aomori City held a press conference overnight and bowed deeply to apologize to all the citizens of Japan!

This is a traditional skill in Japan: when something goes wrong, they bow. The moment I raise my head, you can't criticize me anymore, because... I've already bowed, what more do you want?

Hui stared in astonishment at the scorched earth on the television screen.

'Isn't that the place where I was kidnapped before?'

'Is there a fire there?'

'Well, whatever, never mind...'