"The alarm has been ringing for a while, and the Security Officers should be in position soon. As long as I can stall for a bit longer, I can ensure the safety of everyone in the bank."
"Haha, you must be thinking that, right? You Judgement Members really love treating others like idiots. If I didn't have any skills, how would I dare come to rob a bank?!"
The culprit's lips curled up sharply. He pulled an iron pellet from his pocket and threw it toward the rolling shutters on the right. The moment the pellet touched the shutters, it didn't stop as if meeting resistance; instead, it forcibly continued moving to the right.
[Absolute Constant Velocity]
This was the culprit's Level 3 ability. Any object he threw would continue forward regardless of the obstacles in its path, unless the object itself was completely destroyed or he manually deactivated the ability.
In just a few short seconds, the iron pellet thrown by the culprit instantly pierced through the bank's rolling shutters, and a confident smile appeared on his face.
"Alright, time's up, kid. Hurry up and use your ability to help me transfer the money out of the bank. If you do, I won't lay a hand on those shivering fools."
"By the way, why don't you join us? Space-type Ability Users are very rare. With your ability and my power, we could walk tall anywhere in Academy City and have as much money as we want!"
The culprit spoke with a loud laugh. The excitement in his voice made it hard to tell if his invitation to Shirai Kuroko was serious or a heartless mockery.
However, whether it was a genuine invitation or mockery, Shirai Kuroko was unaffected. Panting, she turned her head to look around, her fists slowly tightening.
Her first job as a Judgement Member was truly terrible. It was just as her senior had said—she was still just a child. Her senior had been injured and was lying on the ground to save her, and as a Judgement Member, she couldn't even save everyone.
But even so, she could not betray the expectations of others or her own principles. No matter how twisted the process, she would uphold the justice she believed in.
"I will absolutely... never associate with the likes of you!"
Shirai Kuroko shouted with determination. The culprit clicked his tongue in annoyance. Although it was expected that a 'goody-two-shoes' like a Judgement Member wouldn't join him, it was still irritating.
"Haha, then just die!"
The culprit reached into his pocket again. Shirai Kuroko watched him with a heavy gaze; she was preparing to use her ability to perform two consecutive teleports in a short time.
The first teleport would dodge the iron pellet he threw, and the second would take her to the optimal position to tackle the culprit using close-quarters combat.
But just as everything seemed about to go as Shirai Kuroko expected, the culprit actually pulled out nearly ten pellets from his pocket.
These pellets scattered in all directions like flower petals, coincidentally blocking several of the teleport coordinates where Shirai Kuroko had planned to land.
"Oh no!"
Shirai Kuroko's eyes widened. At that moment, she felt as if she saw the Reaper of despair swinging his scythe at her.
BOOM!!!
Suddenly, a roaring thunderous blast shot through from outside the bank. With incomparable precision, it instantly enveloped all the pellets aimed at Shirai Kuroko, the searing heat melting them into nothingness in an instant.
The culprit blinked blankly. The view in his vision rapidly rose, changing into a top-down perspective.
By the time he realized what was happening, his entire body had soared to the top of the bank, and his head had a very 'passionate' encounter with the ceiling.
BANG!!!
One didn't need to experience it personally; just hearing the sound was enough to feel the pain. Then, the culprit's eyes rolled back, foam came from his mouth, and he fell vertically to the ground, losing consciousness.
"What on earth... happened?"
Shirai Kuroko blinked blankly. Everything had happened too fast. The bolt of electricity that shot in from outside and the culprit's clearly manipulated movement occurred almost simultaneously.
Are there two high-level Ability Users outside?
With an anxious heart, Shirai Kuroko turned to look outside the bank. Unfortunately, the rolling shutters still hadn't been raised, so she couldn't see the situation outside clearly from within.
And even if the shutters were fully raised, those two 'good Samaritans' had already walked away from the area holding their parfaits, heading toward Tokiwadai as if nothing had happened.
"If I had known you were going to act, Sister, I wouldn't have bothered. That Railgun shot just now really terrified the people nearby," Mikoto said casually while eating her parfait.
"I knew you were going to act, so I just joined in. Actually, even if I hadn't stepped in, that little Judgement Member inside would have surely found an opportunity to control the culprit with her ability."
Chinatsu answered Mikoto very honestly. After hearing this, Mikoto nodded thoughtfully, wondering to herself if her sister knew that little Judgement Member in the bank.
A few minutes later, the Security Officers arrived late, handcuffed the culprit inside the bank, and took him into a police car. Uiharu used bandages to provide emergency first aid to Shirai Kuroko.
The senior who was injured for Shirai Kuroko's sake had also regained consciousness and was receiving treatment from the Security Officers. The entire bank robbery case ended without further incident.
"Uiharu, I really am far from mature enough, just like my senior said. Before, I always felt like she was looking down on me. I definitely need to apologize to her later."
Shirai Kuroko let out a breath. She recalled how many times she had grumbled about her senior in her heart; now she just felt ashamed, wanting to dig a hole and use Space Movement to teleport herself inside.
Along with apologizing to her senior, she also wanted to express her gratitude to the two benefactors who helped her, even though she didn't know who they were.
"Uiharu, did you see anyone outside using their abilities to help me? One person's ability is likely Psychokinesis or a similar Manipulation-type, and the other is most likely an Electromaster Ability User."
Shirai Kuroko analyzed the information of these two people in her head as she spoke. At that moment, after a brief thought, Uiharu suddenly showed a shocked expression as if she had just remembered something.
"Tokiwadai?!"
"What about Tokiwadai?"
Shirai Kuroko tilted her head in confusion. Uiharu seriously held up a finger and said while recalling: "It was the Tokiwadai uniform! I couldn't have mistaken it. I definitely saw the Tokiwadai uniform, and there seemed to be two of them!"
Just as Uiharu said, she could never mistake the Tokiwadai uniform. Shirai Kuroko hadn't expected that it would be the 'arrogant rich girls' she often spoke of who had saved her.
"An Electromaster and a Manipulation-type from Tokiwadai... Could it be..."
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