Above Academy City, the slowly floating airship suddenly began broadcasting.
"Academy City's eighth Level 5 esper confirmed. Academy City's eighth Level 5 esper confirmed."
"Name: Fang Li."
"School: A certain high school."
"Year: First year."
"Ability name: Impasse Observe."
"Rank: The Seventh."
"Esper rankings updated. Please check them yourselves."
As the broadcast played, Fang Li's photograph also appeared on the airship's screen, displaying his personal information to everyone in Academy City.
This news immediately caused an enormous reaction.
"An eighth Level 5 esper has appeared?"
"Is that for real?"
"A certain high school? What kind of school is that?"
"No, isn't this new Level 5 that pretty boy the songstress and the School Garden ladies had their eyes on?"
"It... it really is him!"
"He's actually a Level 5 esper?"
Uproar began to spread through every corner of Academy City.
People pulled up websites on their phones one after another to check the current esper rankings.
No. 1----"Accelerator."
No. 2----"Dark Matter."
No. 3----"Railgun."
No. 4----"Meltdown."
No. 5----"Mental Master."
No. 6----"Unknown."
No. 7----"Impasse Observe."
No. 8----"Attack Crash."
This ranking told everyone that it was all true.
Especially since photographs of all the espers except the sixth-ranked one were attached, there was no way they could mistake it.
For a time, Fang Li, who had already risen to fame, became even more famous.
The young ladies in School Garden, in particular, were all thrilled.
"So that gentleman is also a Level 5 esper?"
"As expected of that gentleman!"
"I knew that gentleman couldn't possibly be an abilityless person!"
"Exactly!"
"That's amazing!"
The young ladies' admiration for Fang Li practically soared to its limit.
As for those who knew Fang Li, such as the students at a certain high school, they were all dumbfounded.
"That repeat-year upperclassman is actually a Level 5 esper?"