A Scientific Urban Detective

"A bad sense of direction? That kind of rumor has no intelligence value!" Accelerator scoffed. "Even if he really has a bad sense of direction, it doesn't affect his strength. What kind of weakness is that!"

Yomikawa Aiho, who was typing on the screen, turned her head to look over: "Then... should I delete this?"

"Whatever, it doesn't matter what kind of rumor it is," Accelerator thought for a moment, then waved his hand. "Just leave it as filler, after all, he's the actual commander of the other group, so stuff a little more content in."

"Just write a little bit about a small fry like a Level 3," Rikou Umi said, lying on another hospital bed. "The big shots above really want to see the Level 5 part, right? That woman has already made her ability public and has been recognized as the seventh Level 5, right? The Level 5 battle between her and the boss is the focus of the report. Everything else is just extra—including that crazy woman, just write a few sentences about her!"

The dark side "School" was currently writing a mission report.

According to regulations, even dark side organizations have paperwork, such as summary reports after each mission.

In the past, these trivial matters would be left to a professional writer from an affiliated organization, and the three official members of "School" would never bother with such trivial matters.

But this mission was different. First, because their mission failed—the actual situation was even more complicated. Accelerator, the leader of "School," judged that the actions of the client, Kuramochi Junzo, would endanger Academy City's safety. So he decisively turned his guns around, targeting the original client and cooperating with Lin Wuming and his group, who were originally the mission target.

If Accelerator wasn't a Level 5 with extremely high authority, just making such a decision would mean huge trouble.

To make matters worse, they let Kuramochi Junzo escape after everything was over!

"Betraying" a client isn't really a mistake. For a dark side organization, the real mistake is failing to silence them in time, leading to the spread of information.

So, as punishment, the three members of "School" were required to personally complete a mission report, requiring them to deeply summarize and reflect on the failures of this mission, and to explain and defend their last-minute change of heart.

Of course, as Rikou Umi said, the big shots above didn't care about these trivial matters at all. Anyway, it was just a "private commission" for the dark side organization to make money. Betrayal or no betrayal didn't matter.

What they really cared about was the seventh Level 5 who was just born today, "Mental Out" Misaki Shokuhou!

And just today, Accelerator, who was also a Level 5, had a direct, head-on conflict with Misaki Shokuhou.

Even in Academy City, this was an extremely rare Level 5 battle.

Any detail was crucial, and they valued Accelerator's firsthand feelings as one of the parties involved.

From this point of view, Rikou Umi was right. Of course, she hoped that the details of her crushing defeat could be reduced as much as possible in the report.

"Don't worry," Yomikawa Aiho, of course, knew what his companion was thinking. While typing, he distracted himself to respond, "The higher-ups already know about that crazy woman's deeds—Lin Wuming almost became a member of the dark side, you know—don't worry about being defeated by that kind of lunatic."

Rikou Umi immediately retorted, "At least that crazy woman's ability level is higher than mine, which is better than you, being defeated by a lower-level ability user of the same type."

"Hey, I didn't lose!" Yomikawa Aiho quickly said, "I just didn't win."

"Stop talking nonsense and write the report!" Accelerator glared at him. "Focus on writing about that Lin Wuming, any little gossip is fine, just fill up the entire report."

"Eh?" Yomikawa Aiho was stunned. "But Misaki Shokuhou..."

"She's a Level 5," Accelerator said. "How can words accurately describe a Level 5 superpower? Moreover, neither she nor I went all out, we were just probing each other, what's there to write about."

Yomikawa Aiho shrugged: "Okay, I'll listen to you, boss."

Although he didn't say it explicitly, Yomikawa Aiho knew what his boss meant.

Compared to the big shots above, in Accelerator's mind, Misaki Shokuhou, who was also a Level 5 esper, was his companion, or rather, his "kindred spirit."

Whether it was selfishness or tacit understanding, including "Atomic Destroyer" who joined the dark side organization, they would deliberately keep the secrets about Level 5 superpowers—even the ability information of other Level 5s.

The report submitted by "School" was destined not to be satisfactory.

Just as they had predicted, the big shots above were most concerned about the ability information of the newly promoted esper Misaki Shokuhou, so they asked Accelerator to describe the battle details in detail in the report.

As a result, the focus of the entire report was almost entirely on the battle between Yomikawa Aiho and Lin Wuming, two telekineticists.

—Who wants to see that kind of thing!

You should know that among the vast number of espers in Academy City, the most common are telekineticists. Even if these are the two most powerful telekineticists, the information about their battle is not of great value.

Not to mention, in the previous battles, Lin Wuming's battle scenes and ability analysis have been almost completely exposed.

Therefore, the intelligence value of this report is even lower.

However, the higher-ups did not show any dissatisfaction with "School" because of this, nor did they return the report for rewriting.

They actually understood that it was somewhat unrealistic to expect Accelerator to honestly explain the ability information of a Level 5.

So from the beginning, they only asked to use the form of a written report to describe the specific process of the battle, rather than a more detailed investigation.

One's own ability information is a crucial secret and asset for an esper, especially for espers who join a dark side organization. The leakage of information can easily lead to failure in battle, and ultimately even lead to serious injury or death.

Therefore, Accelerator is very concerned about the information security of "Dark Matter".

And if you want to analyze Misaki Shokuhou's "Mental Out" through battle details, then "Dark Matter" as the opponent will inevitably become part of the analysis!

So, even for the sake of keeping his own secrets, Accelerator could not honestly tell the whole battle process.

A more high-sounding reason is that Accelerator also has cooperative research institutions, and the ability information of "Dark Matter" is strictly speaking an important asset belonging to the corresponding research institution.

In theory, even Accelerator himself cannot privately disclose his own ability information—this is also an unwritten rule of tacit understanding in Academy City.

This report is more of an expression of a "punishment" attitude.

Although the information obtained from the report was limited, they were not very disappointed, and instead focused their energy on other directions—such as the security forces' investigation report and the surveillance video of "Artificial Intelligence Factory".

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