A Scientific Urban Detective

Feeling the pressure on her body disappear and regaining her freedom, Shadan Shan stretched her body while examining the "Ability Development" device on Kiyama Harumi's head.

However, she wasn't particularly surprised. After all, even FIVE_Over, which can imitate Level 5 super powers, has been developed. This device, which can only generate Level 2 abnormal abilities up to Level 3 strong abilities, seemed very ordinary.

"Have you calmed down? Then let's have a good talk, Shadan Shan," Kiyama Harumi said. "Your things are in the drawer of the cabinet. If you're worried, you can take them back."

Shadan Shan opened the drawer and saw her phone, remote control, and panda doll. However, she only took them out, checked them, and placed them by the bed, without taking the opportunity to pick up the "token" to activate her ability.

Nodding, Kiyama Harumi continued, "Very good, you're willing to trust me. Then we can continue talking—I want to ask, Shadan Shan, why did you go to that research institute?"

Shadan Shan remained silent, seemingly contemplating how to answer.

Kiyama Harumi didn't wait for her and continued, "Let's just say I guessed—your target is Kihara Gensei."

This wasn't hard to guess, since that was Kihara Gensei's research center after all.

Having been told this much, Shadan Shan didn't continue to hide it: "Yes, I came for Kihara Gensei."

"Hmm," Kiyama Harumi nodded, then shook her head. "Unfortunately, you're too late. Kihara ol'… Kihara Gensei has already abandoned that research center."

"Abandoned?" Recalling the desolate scene she had seen in the research center, Shadan Shan accepted this explanation. "He's not there anymore?"

"Of course. Nominally, that research center is still Kihara Gensei's," Kiyama Harumi continued. "But as you can see, apart from the basic staff maintaining the facility's minimum operating state, it's long been deserted. And not just that, in fact, that facility was used as bait by Kihara Gensei, and is itself a huge trap."

"Trap?"

"Yes," Kiyama Harumi nodded. "Of course, his target isn't you."

"Then who is it?" Curious about this, Shadan Shan asked.

"Lin Wuming, or Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto," Kiyama Harumi said, mentioning several names that Shadan Shan found concerning. "You should know them, right? After all, you're all from the same school."

"Of course I know them," Shadan Shan said with a strange expression. "You know a lot. So, what's your relationship with that research center, with Kihara Gensei?"

During the conversation, this woman had more than once almost habitually said "Kihara-sensei," but then immediately changed it to calling him by name. Moreover, she knew a lot about that research center, and even knew the secret that Kihara Gensei had turned the research center into a trap.

Clearly, she had a close relationship with Kihara Gensei.

"My name is Kiyama Harumi," Kiyama Harumi introduced herself. "I am a teacher—an incompetent teacher."

Although it was only for a brief moment, Shadan Shan accurately caught the expression of regret on the face of this woman who called herself a "teacher."

It was because she saw this side of Kiyama Harumi that Shadan Shan felt she could trust her a little more.

"As for here," Kiyama Harumi looked around and continued, "it's my secret base, which can tentatively be regarded as my laboratory."

Shadan Shan carefully examined it and found that this so-called "secret base" was just an ordinary house.

It was just that Kiyama Harumi had filled it with a lot of instruments and equipment, making it look somewhat like a "laboratory."

Kiyama Harumi took out a drink from the refrigerator next to her, as a treat.

Then she looked at Shadan Shan: "Shan-san, can I assume that you're looking for Kihara Gensei for some negative reason? Simply put—for revenge?"

"Why do you say that?" Shadan Shan asked back.

"If it weren't for that, you wouldn't have had to sneak in so stealthily," Kiyama Harumi explained. "And also… intuition? I feel like you and I are the same type."

"The same type…" Shadan Shan smiled and asked her in return, "According to this, Kiyama Harumi-sensei wants to take revenge on Kihara Gensei?"

Kiyama Harumi shook her head expressionlessly: "No, although I do have reason to hate him, I'll forget about revenge—I don't have that kind of ability. The reason I went back there was just to get some information and equipment to save my students."

—Save her students?

Shadan Shan couldn't help but be secretly moved. If Kiyama Harumi was really also trying to "save people," then she and herself were really "the same type."

As Shadan Shan gradually lowered her guard, the atmosphere between the two became more relaxed and harmonious.

However, just in case, Shadan Shan still took the opportunity to quietly grasp the remote control and summon Shokuhou Misaki's phantom to judge whether Kiyama Harumi was lying.

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Kiyama Harumi glanced at the computer screen: "You've activated your ability—a psychological type? No, there are two mixed together… you can use multiple abilities?"

Kiyama Harumi's tone couldn't help but rise, completely different from her calm and indifferent appearance just now—her curiosity as a researcher was aroused.

Such high literacy and knowledge, strong curiosity, plus the room full of equipment…

Shadan Shan looked at the woman in front of her: "Kiyama Harumi-sensei, you're actually a researcher, not a teacher, right?"

"In this city, these two identities are not in conflict…" Kiyama Harumi said. "However, you're right, I am also a researcher, specializing in brain science and the AIM diffusion field."

Pausing slightly, as if to emphasize, she stressed again: "In addition, I am also an incompetent teacher."

"Although incompetent, you're still a teacher?" Shadan Shan pondered. "Compared to a researcher, you care more about the identity of a teacher."

"Yes." Kiyama Harumi sighed, telling Shadan Shan the story she had encountered—or rather, the "accident."

Perhaps because she had been holding it in her heart for too long, making Kiyama Harumi eager to confide in others, and Shadan Shan, as "the same type," was undoubtedly the best person to confide in.

Or perhaps, Shadan Shan was also a student, and as a teacher, Kiyama Harumi naturally had a better impression of her and was more willing to trust her.

In short, Kiyama Harumi didn't hide anything—including the tragedy of the "out-of-control ability law analysis induction explosion experiment," and the fact that she had broken with Kihara Gensei in order to save her students and had been struggling alone ever since—revealing everything in detail.