Cover Blown! A Mutant Appears

Sing Sing walked out, scratching the back of his head, a harmless smile on his face.

"Just passing by! I'm here to discuss academic issues with Mitsuhashi and Ito in the second year!"

Kobayashi Amiko scrutinized him for a few seconds with some skepticism, but then ignored him.

"They eat in the classroom," she said, then turned and went downstairs.

This girl is quite wary.

Sing Sing strolled into the second-grade classroom, where Mitsuhashi and Ito were huddled together at a desk eating their lunches.

Without any hesitation, he reached into the Mitsuhashi bento box, grabbed the tempura shrimp, stuffed it into his mouth, and casually pulled out chopsticks from his pocket to take Ito's thick omelet.

"Hey! Those are my shrimp!" Mitsuhashi cried out, trying to snatch them away.

"My omelet!" Ito clutched the lunchbox protectively.

Sing Sing said while chewing, "Eat faster, I'll take you to the rooftop for some fresh air after we finish. I have something to do."

"You stole my food, and you still want me to eat more?" Mitsuhashi was furious.

"Tempura shrimp is the soul of my bento! A bento without shrimp is just a pile of sand!"

"Stop rambling and hurry up and eat! You'll have the energy to answer questions when you're full."

The wind was quite strong on the rooftop where we took a lunch break.

Sing Sing leaned against the barbed wire fence and directly asked about Kobayashi Amiko.

Mitsuhashi retreated repeatedly, staring at him as if he were a ghost.

"You were having an affair with Saeko Busujima yesterday, and today you've set your sights on Kobayashi Amiko?"

"Are you trying to turn the pinnacle of Toyo High Schools into your harem? I always thought we were a shonen anime!"

Sing Sing Chow raised his hand and gave Mitsuhashi a sharp rap on the head, leaving a large, bright red bump on his forehead.

"You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want! I, Hoshino Seiichi, am a respectable person, and I have no interest in little girls!"

Sing Sing Chow blew on his knuckles, "I'm just concerned about my classmates' physical and mental health."

Ito answered honestly, "She usually goes alone, and is picked up and dropped off in a black car every day."

"He doesn't join any clubs, doesn't talk to people much, and has a pretty short temper."

"Anyone who messes with her will basically get a severe beating. The other day, a third-grader provoked her and was taken away by ambulance."

Sing Sing stroked his chin, pondering.

If that old man Logan knew he had a wild daughter who could break someone's spine at the drop of a hat, wouldn't he be laughing in his sleep?

Sing Sing turned around and quickly sent Yukio a text message.

"Are you sure this Mariko is raising is just an ordinary high school girl? I saw her almost break someone's spine with an over-the-shoulder throw!"

Less than half a minute later, my phone vibrated.

Yukio replied quickly.

"To protect her, Mariko arranged for her to be taught close-quarters self-defense by the family's core instructors from a young age. However, she was forbidden from engaging in any underworld activities. She always believed that she was practicing ordinary martial arts for physical fitness."

Sing Sing looked at the screen with a helpless expression. How could they package their deadly killing techniques as a form of healthy exercise?

The Yashida Family's educational methods are truly eye-opening.

This girl is quite something; she can swing someone around and still maintain the self-awareness of an ordinary high school girl.

After school in the afternoon, at the Kendo Club dojo.

Saeko Busujima knelt upright, her hands resting flat on her knees, and earnestly asked Sing Sing for guidance on difficult sword techniques.

"Hoshino," Saeko Busujima asked, bowing her head, "In actual combat, an opponent's muscles are constantly changing. How can I anticipate this in advance?"

Sing Sing was preoccupied with the matters concerning the archives and the underground air-raid shelter, and didn't hear what she asked at all.

He casually made up a story. "No moves are better than moves; with a sword in your heart, even falling leaves and flying flowers can injure you."

Sing Sing, with his hands behind his back, randomly recited lines from martial arts movies. "The highest level of swordsmanship is forgetting that you have a sword in your hand."

Saeko Busujima's eyes shone even brighter. She suddenly stood up, grabbed a bamboo sword, and began to brandish it in the center of the dojo.

Every strike defies conventional power generation habits, aiming straight for the opponent's blind spot.

Is this girl crazy?

Can you really deduce this underworld counterattack technique from just some random, made-up sentence?

I just memorized a line from a movie!

After a training session, Saeko Busujima sheathed her sword, wiped the sweat from her brow, and leaned closer, saying, "Last night, when I stayed at the dojo for extra training, I heard a strange sound."

What was that sound?

"A clanging sound, but it disappeared when I tried to find its source."

Could it be that the experimental process below is progressing faster?

"That concludes today's training." Sing Sing thanked them and hurriedly ran out of the Kendo Club.

He rushed back to Class 3-D to get his schoolbag.

Pushing open the classroom's front door, I saw that all the curtains were drawn tightly shut.

All the troublesome delinquents in the class ran away.

Only Ichirai Hisako sat alone in her seat.

As soon as Sing Sing stepped across the threshold, Ichirai Hisako immediately went up and locked both the front and back doors.

"What are you doing? Are you trying to rob me or assault me?" Sing Sing, bewildered, crossed his arms protectively. "Let me tell you, I've always been an artist, not a prostitute!"

Ichirai Hisako didn't pick up on his lame joke.

She turned around and looked him straight in the eye.

"You went into the archives last night. You saw Ueda Kenji's file, didn't you?" she asked bluntly.

"What file? What toast? I had food poisoning last night, I had diarrhea all night, my legs are weak." He was talking nonsense.

Ichirai Hisako raised her right hand, palm up, and in the blink of an eye, a transparent demon-faced arm armor appeared on her arm.

Ichirai Hisako, codename: Armor; her early armor was typically blue, cyan, or dark-colored, but later appeared in red, orange, purple, and other colors.

"I am Mutants."

Ichirai Hisako deactivated her powers, turned her back, and pulled open the back of her collar. Embedded in the flesh of the back of her neck was a metal plate the size of a coin.

"This is a surveillance camera controlled by the school Council." Ichirai Hisako released her grip and turned to look at him.

"Once we awaken our abilities, we will be forcibly implanted with inhibitor locators."

Sing Sing's smile faded. "What if you don't follow instructions, or your abilities go berserk?"

"They would be stripped of their social identity... and then... become living subjects for mechanical chimera experiments."

"You knew I was an outsider, so why did you give me the patrol route map?" Sing Sing retorted. "Aren't you afraid I'll turn around and tell on you?"

"Because I don't want to die, and I don't want to become a monster! I knew you weren't an ordinary high school student from the first day you arrived. I know what happened in United States. Your cheap tricks won't fool me."

"I'm giving you the roadmap in the hope that you, as a variable, can disrupt the Council's plans."

"Oh?" Sing Sing became serious. "How did you know about me?"

"I know someone named Jean Grey, whose teacher is Professor Charles. How do you think I know about you?"

"There's no time, Stephen," Ichirai Hisako, calling him by his other name.

"The Council originally planned to go to United States to find Wolverine and seize his healing abilities, but you brought Wolverine back to China, causing them to fail at the last minute."

"But they didn't give up, they even contacted the Silver Samurai! They learned that Wolverine has bloodlines in this land, and they'll definitely take action against certain people!"

Sing Sing had a brilliant idea!

Healing Factor!

There's a chance that the offspring left behind by Old Goldhead inherited that terrifying regenerative ability.

The biggest headache for these crazy people who practice live chimera is the rejection and necrosis that occur when machinery and flesh are combined.

Once the Healing Factor is used as a fusion agent, a defective product like Ueda Kenji will become a truly perfect monster!

This is why there are files on Kobayashi Amiko in the archives.

Furthermore, Kobayashi Amiko was a transfer student who came from last year, so the Council must have made some promises to Mariko Yashida, coaxing her into letting her child transfer schools.

Its true purpose is to find the Healing Factor that Kobayashi Amiko may possess!

Damn it!