Walking slowly on the hot shopping street, Xia Qing silently calculated the remaining distance to the bookstore. As a time traveler, it was really strange that he still needed to work.

However, Xia Qing found it very interesting. With his strength, anyone who wanted money could get it through various methods at any time, but he still preferred this method, which was low-key and relaxed.

And among the achievements, isn't there also the task of maintaining the identity of an ordinary high school student?

All in all, money is still not as important to Xia Qinglai as points.

If you pursue money blindly, it means that your ambition will stop there.

While Xia Qing was thinking about it, a guard robot passed by Xia Qing. The guard robot also looked like a big iron bucket with wheels underneath.

The function is similar to a mobile crime prevention monitor. It is said that it was originally improved from a puppy-shaped robot. However, the puppy shape is too easy to attract children to watch, making it difficult to move. Therefore, these robots were eventually changed to an iron bucket shape. .

Chapter 18 Sister Gun (4/5)

"Ah! I finally found you, you guy! Wait...wait a minute! Stop! I'm talking about you! Stop!"

A girl's shout came from behind Xia Qing, and Xia Qing looked back.

Not far behind him stood a girl of junior high school age.

Her shoulder-length brown hair shone like a burning red light in the setting sun.

The girl's cheeks were also dyed red. She was wearing a gray pleated skirt, a short-sleeved top and a thin summer sweater...it was the "Railgun" Misaka Mikoto that Natsu Qing had fought with in a playful manner yesterday.

"Ah, Sister Pao, it's you again. Why, are you asking me to duel? It's not even ten days yet. I don't want to fight you for the time being."

"Don't call me this weird nickname that you've never heard of before. My name is Misaka Mikoto! Don't you remember me until now? I remember that you were like me from the first time you saw me. You keep calling me Paojie, Paojie, right? I’m obviously younger than you—"

The mention of the word "little" by herself made Misaka Mikoto's cheeks turn red at this moment, and she finally reorganized her words and continued.

"In short, I have found out that you are a student of Dichuan High School, right? A Level 0 incompetent person. You are seventeen years old, three years older than me."

When she first received this information, Misaka Mikoto also felt unbelievable that Xia Qing, who defeated her so easily, was actually just the lowest level of incompetent person.

But after hearing that Xia Qing had never attended a class, this suspicion became more intense. In other words, Xia Qing had never participated in a superpower development class.

The superpowers developed by Academy City are a major breakthrough in the theory of quantum mechanics. Through "reality that belongs only to oneself", that is, reality observed through deliberately distorted calculation functions and judgment abilities, extreme microscopic world probabilities appear. Unnatural changes to create certain phenomena.

On the surface, it is a "memory technique" or "recitation technique", but in fact it involves injecting drugs into a vein (drug administration), attaching electrodes to the skin to energize (physical stimulation), or using headphones to input rhythms (hypnotic suggestion). A way to develop artificial superpowers.

Because multiple abilities place too much burden on the mind, students can only use one ability and cannot have more than two abilities at the same time. The developed abilities cannot be changed, even if a brain is transplanted.

Academy City's ability development courses start from the youngest age of five. Here, the teacher's responsibility is only to "develop" students' superpowers. The teacher himself does not have any superpowers.

Based on the experimental results of "Where is the ability contained?", it was concluded that "the ability seems to be contained in the body itself where something that can be called a soul resides."

Ability names are divided into simple names decided by the school, such as "psychokinesis" or "power generation ability", and "railgun" decided by the students themselves.

"Abilities" developed for students vary from person to person and are divided into various types. However, based on their value, strength, and applicability, they are classified into level 0 no ability, level 1 low ability, and level 2 supernatural ability. There are five stages: level 3 powerful ability, level 4 great ability and level 5 super power.

Ability is rated by power and comprehensive interference coefficient, and will be re-measured at regular intervals. Most students are classified between levels 0 and 2, and about 60% of students are incompetent.

And [your own reality (Personal Reality)] - that is, the reality observed through deliberately distorted calculation skills and judgment ability, the source of various abilities and phenomena in the real world.

By artificially changing the brain structure to separate experimental subjects from normal reality, superpowers who obtain a "personal reality" that is different from ordinary people can distort their microscopic world and master it using laws that are different from ordinary people. Degree directly determines the strength of ability.

After hearing the news that Misaka Mikoto had a crush on Shirai Kuroko, Xia Qing raised the corners of her mouth and smiled.

"Then if that's the case, you should call me senior."

"Are you stupid? In this Academy City, as long as you are strong, you can ignore these meaningless etiquette. If you want me to call you this, you should show equivalent strength."

Xia Qing raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't you lose to me last time? Come on, come and let me know!"

Upon hearing this, Misaka Mikoto's pretty face immediately turned red and she shouted loudly to Xia Qing.

"I didn't lose. It was just because I underestimated my opponent too much that I was beaten by you...by you..."

The voice became weaker and weaker, and she really couldn't tell the details behind it, so the girl immediately got to the point.

"Anyway, now you have to duel with me!"

Xia Qing glanced at the time displayed on a tall building somewhere, and the red light flashed in the deep black pupils, making Misaka Mikoto blink, wondering if she had been dazzled just now.

It was only an hour before going to work, and Xia Qing planned to treat Teacher Xiaomeng, who had kindly taken in the poor boy who had just come to this world, to have a meal after the first week. Time wasted on such a thankless task.

With this in mind, Xia Qing decided to settle the matter casually.

"A girl was looking at a penniless boy who was about to starve to death at home if he didn't get a part-time job. She was very unwilling to lose yesterday, so she thought she had lost accidentally, so she came to find Xia Qing takes revenge, but she is destined to be casually sent away."

"...Who are you talking to now?"

"Although this girl has a tough attitude and refuses to admit defeat, she is actually very afraid of loneliness and needs someone to accompany her who can talk freely."

“Don’t mess around with weird character settings!!”

Misaka Mikoto was so angry that she waved her hands wildly, and pedestrians on the road couldn't help but turn their heads and cast doubtful glances.

It was natural that it would draw attention. After all, the ordinary-looking summer uniform Mikoto wore was the uniform of Tokiwadai Middle School, one of the top five star schools in Academy City.

The eldest ladies of Tokiwadai Middle School, known for their elegance, are particularly eye-catching even in this crowded station.

But the words and deeds of the girl in front of her seemed very irritable, like a little lion that was having fun, biting Xia Qing tightly.

"You've been wearing your school uniform even during the summer vacation. Are you afraid that others won't recognize you as the hot-tempered little lion from Tokiwadai Middle School~"

"Ugh...you...take care of me!!"

Chapter 19 The frightened Misaka Mikoto (5/5)

"Ah, I understand. You must feel that there are too many people, so you are embarrassed to express your inner thoughts, right? I remember that this characteristic is called... tsundere?"

"..."

Yesterday it was known that Xia Qing was wrongly accused, and the sudden dispute was just Heizi's error in judgment. Moreover, since the discipline committee's jurisdiction was only within his own school, the off-campus security maintenance activities Heizi often performed were actually beyond his authority. Because of his behavior, he often had to write letters of repentance. It was almost like living a life where writing aftermath reports was a hobby.

Even though she knew that Xia Qing was innocent, Misaka Mikoto, whose cheeks were red at the moment, still exploded because of Xia Qing's verbal stimulation.

"You guy! I must make you look good today! You will be trembling on your feet like an electrified frog later. Write a suicide note and distribute your property now!"

"don't want."

"Why?"

"Because I have no property at all and no parents, I don't know who to leave my suicide note to."

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