"The Five Sisters, Ginko, the President..." Hakuto counted the names of his clients on his fingers.
"Senior, Eriri..."
Hakuto was now in a state of hesitation. Should he report these two?
The former had only completed a single transaction, while the latter's contract had expired!
After thinking for a while, Hakuto decided that it was better not to stir up trouble. After all, they were both students from the same school.
When the time comes, Shizuka-sensei will explain it for him.
Once I enter, great scholars will come to my defense!
With that thought, Hakuto decided to put down his phone, pick up his bag again, and head toward the Shunsuke base on his motorcycle.
The sound of the wind howling through his helmet reached his ears, and at the same time, a torrential downpour began.
It was probably the rain of autumn, and it came down with incredible intensity.
However, Hakuto didn't stop pressing the accelerator, even as the rain poured down.
The motorcycle tires left traces on the wet ground, speeding towards the base.
The rain roared along with flashes of lightning, echoing in Hakuto's ears.
Perhaps because of the supercomputer-enhanced body, the heavy rain, which would have obscured anyone's vision, was no problem for Hakuto.
"Boom~!"
The thunder was loud, almost drowning out everything else.
"Ugh, why does it have to be this kind of situation? Am I destined to die?"
As someone who had crossed over, Hakuto was too familiar with the pattern of disaster following heavy rain.
Besides, he'd just finished explaining a few things, and the rain started pouring down, almost as if it were eager to begin!
Hakuto felt speechless...
But at that moment, as the thunder boomed again, Hakuto's ears seemed to pick up an unusual sound.
No, not just hearing it — he felt it...
Hakuto instinctively slammed on the brakes, stopping in place, and a side-swipe of his motorcycle kicked up a large puddle of rainwater onto the ground.
Under the helmet, Hakuto scanned the surroundings, but besides the pouring rain, he could see nothing.
In such a heavy downpour, the only thing visible was the occasional car — no other figures.
Hakuto, riding his motorcycle, was quite the outlier.
Fortunately, back home, to adapt to the motorcycle, he had specifically put on leather clothing, and his backpack was waterproof.
Otherwise, he would have been scrambling for shelter by now.
But the key point wasn't this — that strange sensation he felt earlier was definitely not an illusion!
Although he'd experienced strange illusions due to the supercomputer's side effects before, at the time, Hakuto had brushed them off. But this time was different.
After surveying the area and finding nothing, Hakuto decided to activate the supercomputer.
In an instant, everything around him became silent; the torrential rain seemed to freeze in mid-air, and the roaring thunder disappeared!
Hakuto stood still in the rain, his vision unwavering, but his senses had already scanned the surrounding environment.
"Still... an illusion?"
Hakuto sighed. Just like before, he still couldn't sense anything unusual.
"Another side effect?" Hakuto frowned, finding it hard to believe that his senses had become so acutely sensitive.
Even a thunderclap was enough to make him feel something was off...
Just as he was about to close the supercomputer, however, Hakuto suddenly noticed a faint light coming from a residential house not far away.
It was the glow of a computer screen. Under the supercomputer's enhanced state, both the people inside the house and the images on the screen appeared frozen.
Inside the house, a family sat on the sofa, watching the content on the screen.
Seeing this scene, Hakuto sighed. There was a time when he, too, lived such a normal life.
Although he didn't have family, he still had friends.
Hakuto was about to shut off the supercomputer, thinking that if he couldn't detect anything in this state, it must truly be his illusion.
However, just as he was about to deactivate it, that strange feeling appeared again!
Hakuto's pupils contracted. If it had been an illusion in his normal state, it would be hard to believe it would remain in the supercomputer state.
But at that moment, Hakuto didn't detect any strange people or objects nearby.
Which meant that there was either a group of people or an individual who could avoid his detection...
Hakuto furrowed his brow and, following the guidance of his intuition — or rather, the supercomputer's guidance — he threw a stone the size of a fingernail toward the spot where he felt the strange sensation.
The stone, moving at an indescribable speed, sliced through the raindrops and struck the spot Hakuto had in mind.
Afterward, he deactivated the supercomputer, and the results of the stone's impact began to appear before his eyes.
The stone hadn't been thrown far, and due to its small size and the rain, Hakuto could only sense it vaguely.
"The sound of electricity..."
The electric sound Hakuto heard wasn't the typical sound of thunder during a storm, but rather the hum of an electronic device.
Hakuto frowned... It seemed he understood now where that feeling of being watched had come from.
Hakuto shook the water off his clothes, braving the downpour as he continued toward the Shunsuke base.
Back at the base, Nao had already moved all the necessary supplies in, guided by professionals.
Looking out at the heavy rain, Nao put on her headphones.
In the main hall of the base, Ayumi was immersed in the joy of gaining another family member, completely unaware of the serious expressions on her two older brothers' faces.
Otosaka Yuu had already taken away Ayumi's ability to cause collapse. Though this put him in danger, Otosaka Yuu still pressed forward without hesitation.
"Yuu, the eyes are a necessary factor for activating the memory jump. Even if only one eye is injured, it will hinder the ability's activation."
At this point, Shunsuke was almost a cripple in some respects. All hope now rested on Otosaka Yuu and Hakuto.
The relationship between Hakuto and Otosaka Yuu was like that of a main character and their healer.
If the main character died, the healer could still revive and heal, but if the healer died, the main character only had one chance left.
And after the memory jump, Shunsuke had ordered everyone to stay in the base. They couldn't leave unless absolutely necessary.
But that couldn't last forever — eventually, what was meant to come would come...
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