Part 39: I Am Truly a Pure Love War God

Morning.

A small sliver of warm sunlight pierced through the gap in the curtains, scattering into dappled, golden patches on the girl's bedroom floor, landing on her face.

Frowning slightly, her fair, slender fingertips trembled.

Her still-hazy, beautiful crimson eyes slowly opened.

Su Youzi blinked.

She hugged her bedding and slowly sat up.

Her body still seemed to be adrift in the lingering remnants of last night's dream, and the girl's expression gradually became strange.

Last night, she had a rather enchanting dream.

In the dream, the girl was bullied by her until she was... pitifully like a cat whose tail had been grabbed.

But--

What Su Youzi couldn't understand at all was... the protagonist of the dream wasn't Soga Toyura, wasn't Little Rabbit, wasn't Teacher Unohana Chiyo, and certainly wasn't Yamabuki Nanako or Kujo Ryuko.

Instead, it was... Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, who had looked down on her with arrogance yesterday morning, but then cried and shivered in front of her dorm late at night, waiting to apologize.

This was too strange.

Could it be that she possessed such a... bad habit of bullying people in her dreams who annoyed her during the day until they cried, and then even beyond tears?

But... she hadn't even dreamed of Soga Toyura that many times.

Besides.

Su Youzi hadn't really paid much attention to Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi yesterday.

In Su Youzi's opinion, Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi was just a walking treasure chest monster.

And not even a treasure chest monster with a good figure.

It was just... the dream was too real.

So real it felt like a lucid dream from the legends.

Even now, Su Youzi reached out her hand and still felt... Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's powerless struggle and trembling.

Su Youzi fell into deep thought.

Then... she realized an even more serious problem.

Her ability had improved.

It wasn't an illusion.

If, before, when she twisted open the shower gel in the bathroom, her "Reverse Logic Hand" could only be used once in a short period, and its range was limited to about one meter around her, an area the size of her palm.

Then now--

Su Youzi felt that using "Reverse Logic Hand" continuously wouldn't be a problem.

The range she could distort seemed to have increased a bit.

To confirm her guess, she tilted her head and looked at the curtains.

The girl's crimson eyes lit up.

The next second... rip--

A harsh tearing sound of fabric, the curtains twisted and torn in rapid succession were ripped apart. The blinding sunlight made Su Youzi instinctively raise her hand to shield her eyes, and her bedding slid off.

"Oops..."

As expected, it's easy to do stupid things right after waking up.

"I broke the curtains... Replacing them will probably cost a lot of money again."

But fortunately, Su Youzi, who picked up her bedding again, counted on her fingers.

She seemed to have quite a few 'ATM machines' now.

At least she wasn't as 'financially strapped' as before.

At worst, for the next week, she could treat Little Rabbit to four Strawberry Cream Crepes every day and Kujo Ryuko to forty skewers of spicy chicken wings.

She could earn all the money back quickly.

She could even afford some equipment for herself.

But... Su Youzi, hugging her bedding, looked at the torn curtains.

It wasn't an illusion--

Her ability had indeed improved.

She pulled up her game interface.

"Good morning~ Senpai."

"How was your dream last night?"

"Ah... thinking of me?"

"In the dream... was I good?"

It was a perfectly fine good morning greeting, but... Su Youzi felt that Sakai Miho's voice from the assistant's position was tinged with a hint of grievance.

Is this assistant a little too intelligent?

Actually, she's the Pure Love War God.

If she could choose, Su Youzi would definitely pick the obedient junior student over Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.

It's just that dream...

Su Youzi still doesn't understand why Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi appeared in her dream. And wearing such a seductive Koi skirt and black stockings that tempted crime.

It's like an Anomaly.

Knock knock--

Her heart stopped.

In the "Operator Compendium," the girl with short black hair, cut at shoulder length, lazily gazed at her with her flushed red eyes.

[Su Youzi]

[Level 7 - Reverse Logic Hand Ability User]

[...]

When... when did this happen?

Su Youzi flipped through the logs.

Then, seeing the message that the Second Sequence Anomaly, Nightmare Singer, had launched an attack on her, she gradually understood what had happened.

Last night's dream... was not just a dream.

Although she didn't know what exactly happened to Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.

But, it was probably after she apologized to her last night that she suffered Descent into Anomaly and became an Anomaly.

And she was a Nightmare Type Anomaly, which was quite rare and troublesome even among Anomalies.

Through her Anomalous state, her Ability smoothly broke through to the Second Sequence, and she launched an attack on her.

It's just a shame--

She had the Guardian of Domination from Soga Toyura.

Any mental attack with less than half of Soga Toyura's spiritual power would have no effect on her.

And Soga Toyura's strength... was not the widely rumored Second Sequence.

Instead... she was a prominent figure even among the Third Sequence, Level 39 - Mind Control Ability User.

The gap between each Sequence felt like a leap.

It was more than double the difference.

In the face of the "Guardian of Domination," even the Anomalous Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi could only pitifully become a plaything.

Su Youzi only remembered Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi struggling... like a cat.

Her voice too.

Su Youzi's fists suddenly clenched.

Recalling the black and purple eye-shaped totem drawn on the lower abdomen of the girl in the Black Koi Skirt in the dream, her expression slowly became solemn.

"Eye of Insight."

No matter what.

She had already forgiven Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi last night.

And... for "Eye of Insight" to dare to lay hands on Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, this was something Su Youzi could not forgive or pardon.

An Anomaly who stepped into the Second Sequence was completely different from a First Sequence Anomaly like Sakai Miho.

An Anomaly who stepped into the Second Sequence... could almost be called 'hopeless'.

There was no chance of recovery.

At least--

Except for the lover of the "Seat of Evil," Kiriye Hana, whose Rule-based Ability--

"Clear."

Su Youzi didn't know any way to save her.

"Eye of Insight's" target was her.

In other words, Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi could almost be said to have died because of her, and died by her own hand.

Even if... the method of death was quite enchanting.

Although Su Youzi didn't care about Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, she... couldn't not care about a girl dying because of her.

Gritting her teeth tightly.

Inside her mind, Su Youzi had already sentenced the "Eye of Insight" to death.

She got up and washed up with a rather heavy heart. Su Youzi changed into a dress and opened the door.

Then... she froze.

Someone was waiting by the door of Su Youzi's room.

It wasn't Kujo Ryuko.

It was the young female police superintendent from the Fourth Action Department that day.

The woman stood quietly by her door, as if she had been waiting for her all along.

"Soga..."

"Miss Su." The woman saluted Su Youzi.

"Lord Kujo has gone to handle last night's 'Eye of Insight' attack case and should be at the hospital now."

"She asked me to wait for you here."

"And to follow your instructions."

"Hos...pital...?" Su Youzi caught the keyword.

"Yes." The woman nodded gently. "The victims attacked last night are still being treated at the hospital."

"You..."

"We've met, I suppose."

"Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi?" Su Youzi answered instinctively.

"Yes." The woman nodded in surprise.

"What's going on?"

Su Youzi was also stunned in surprise.

Weren't ability users who had been converted into Second Sequence Anomalies beyond saving?

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