When Su Yuzu woke up.
She found that the entire Keigunen Private Academy... no, the entire Guanzheng District and even the Tokyo metropolitan area seemed to have entered a state of martial law.
[Last night...]
[An Aberrant attack event occurred at Keigunen Private Academy.]
[Currently, no casualties have been reported...]
[...]
Su Yuzu watched the broadcast on the morning news. On the screen, the walls were mottled and torn, bearing massive traces resembling the claw strikes of a vicious beast.
It was precisely the Healing-type girls' dormitory of Keigunen Private Academy.
Just looking at those traces on the wall that resembled the claw strikes of a vicious beast.
Su Yuzu instantly reenacted the scene in her heart: a figure holding long and short tachi, stabbing the blades into the wall to use as climbing picks to rapidly scale to the target floor, and then breaking through the wall to launch an assassination operation.
That was... an Aberrant?
Su Yuzu found it somewhat hard to believe.
Such clean and efficient blade work, such a precise attack target—could this really be an attack launched by an Aberrant?
And... it was inside Keigunen Private Academy.
This time was completely different from the Aberrant attack events involving Mihou Sakai or Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.
Mihou Sakai's incident took place at a training field on the edge of Keigunen Private Academy.
Moreover, before Mihou Sakai fell into being corrupted, she had not revealed any obvious abnormal posture.
Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's case was even more miserable.
She was attacked after leaving the academy.
And the reason Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi was able to complete her attack on Su Yuzu was also because the Aberrant she became after being corrupted was a Nightmare-type Aberrant, which is extremely rare even among Aberrants.
The distance in dreams is completely different from reality.
But this time was different—
The location of the Aberrant's attack... was inside Keigunen Private Academy, in the Healing-type girls' dormitory, which was arched and protected in the very center by several Assault Department student classrooms and dormitories.
Whether the attacker had been parasitized by that strange pitch-black gear and broke into Keigunen Private Academy to carry out retaliatory strikes, or... the Aberrant had silently intruded into the academy.
Regardless of the situation, the problem was huge.
"Yuzu... Yuzu... Woo woo woo!!!" Soga Yura's crying voice rang out.
That was the communication ringtone Su Yuzu had... maliciously set.
Of course—
In order to prevent some unexpected situations that would lead to instant social death.
Only the fixed communication device inside the dormitory had this almost malicious ringtone.
Su Yuzu, who was washing up, swiped open the communication screen.
Ms. Unohana, appearing stern and exhausted, appeared on the screen.
"Good morning~ Yuzu."
Su Yuzu could hear the fatigue in Ms. Unohana's voice. "Good morning, Ms. Unohana."
She bowed respectfully to Unohana Chiyo.
"How did you rest yesterday?" Unohana Chiyo greeted Su Yuzu.
"Thank you for your concern, I rested quite well." Su Yuzu knew that Ms. Unohana's exhaustion was most likely due to the Aberrant attack event last night.
Although Ms. Unohana looked like just a gentle, beautiful, and slightly 'frail' PE teacher who often had to give up her class hours to teachers of important subjects because of 'poor health'.
But... Su Yuzu looked at the [Frenzy] and [Death Squad] in Unohana Chiyo's Operator attributes, knowing that some things were definitely not as simple as they appeared on the surface.
"Did Yuzu see the news and the campus alerts?"
"The Aberrant attack event last night." Unohana Chiyo got straight to the point.
Su Yuzu flipped through the campus alerts.
The girls' dormitory attacked by the Aberrant was... a first-year freshmen double dormitory located near the top floor of the Healing-type dormitory.
First year... double dormitory?
Connecting this with Unohana Chiyo's action of contacting her.
Su Yuzu suddenly felt a bit uneasy in her heart.
The image of Little Rabbit's harmless, pitiful smiling face almost instantly surfaced in her mind.
No—
Su Yuzu pondered.
Although Little Rabbit was the Eldest Young Lady of the Saotome family, as a registered pharmaceutical research and development company known for its philanthropy, the Saotome family had a quite good reputation in society.
And Little Rabbit herself wasn't the type of person to provoke trouble.
The target of the Aberrant's attack... was Lyudmila?
This was very likely.
Lyudmila was the Saintess of the "Holy Royal Court". If there was any organization in this world that Aberrants would definitely want to get rid of quickly, the "Holy Royal Court" would definitely rank among the top.
But... Su Yuzu's expression suddenly turned somewhat ugly.
That Saintess was already her Operator.
Then she was destined to be her person.
Moreover... Su Yuzu would not forget that Lyudmila and Little Rabbit were roommates; she was the grass by the rabbit's burrow.
"Yuzu has already guessed it, right?" Unohana Chiyo looked at the girl who was still washing up.
"The dormitory that was attacked was the dormitory of Student Saotome and Student Lyudmila."
"What is the situation? Is Yukina injured? What about Lyudmila?" Su Yuzu asked Unohana Chiyo.
"Student Saotome was not injured." Unohana Chiyo simply stated the situation at the time.
"Student Lyudmila only suffered minor injuries."
Temporarily not mentioning that dangerous black gear, Unohana Chiyo recounted the situation at the time to Su Yuzu.
Lyudmila 'coincidentally' broke through from Level 9 to Level 10 yesterday.
The promotion rules saved her and Saotome Yukina.
Surrounding the Healing-type girls' dormitory building was the Assault Department teachers' dormitory building. Director Saionji arrived very keenly, and that Aberrant had absolutely no chance to continue her hand.
"They said your condition yesterday was very bad and you needed rest."
"So they didn't notify you."
"Idiots..." Su Yuzu couldn't help but complain softly. She swiped open [Operator Development].
Looking at Saotome Yukina and Lyudmila, who seemed to still be alive and kicking, only then did she relax a little.
Unohana Chiyo was not lying to comfort her.
They really didn't have any major issues.
"Do you want to come and see them?" On the screen, Unohana Chiyo, who had labored all night and only relaxed a little after seeing Yuzu, forced a slight smile. "It's in the ward you were hospitalized in a few days ago."
"It's the same room."
"Director Saionji said you don't have to attend today's classes."
"Okay." Su Yuzu nodded to indicate she understood.
After cutting off the communication, she immediately sped up her washing, then immediately set off for the school hospital.
On the way to the school hospital, Su Yuzu looked at the familiar commercial street and slowly slowed her pace.
She planned to go to that crepe shop to buy a crepe for Lyudmila and Little Rabbit.
Just as a morning dessert.
She hoped that the cute shopkeeper lady hadn't been scared into closing her door by the successive abnormal situations yesterday.
It was just that... just as Su Yuzu turned to head towards the crepe shop.
She suddenly had a strange feeling.
Someone was looking at her.
Su Yuzu turned her head to look across the commercial street.
A quiet girl with long black hair stood at the intersection, gazing at her, her gaze peaceful yet deep.
"Su... Yuzu..."
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