When Su Youzi arrived at the school hospital with the young female police officer, what she saw... was Soga Ishikawa Iribe, the father of Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi, confronting Kujo Ryuko.
The man blocking the hospital room door looked burly and powerfully muscled, standing there like a small mountain. He was Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's father.
Soga Ishikawa Iribe.
It was hard to imagine that such a robust, imposing man could be the father of the frail and delicate Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.
Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi couldn't even be called a "little bird clinging to a person" in front of the man.
Based on what Su Youzi had learned about Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's physique last night... she felt that the man could pinch Kiyomi's collar with a few fingers and lift her off the ground.
Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's mother must have been very happ... No, she must have suffered greatly.
The man blocking the hospital room door had his Soga clan's trademark crimson eyes wide open, and every strand of his short silver hair stood on end.
The eyes that looked jewel-clear and brilliantly beautiful on Su Youzi or Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi revealed an air of an unruly Demon King when set in the man's face.
Although he looked as robust as an ox, giving off the unmistakable air of a Physical Enhancement Ability User at first glance.
But... Soga Ishikawa Iribe was, in fact, a Mental Ability User.
Blocking the hospital room door, the man refused to give an inch.
It had been his daughter's fault that Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi had gone looking for trouble with the Young Lady of the main clan yesterday. Even if she had been attacked by the Anomalous Cult because of it, he still couldn't take it out on the Young Lady of the main clan.
But what did the Investigation Department's Fourth Action Division amount to?
Although provoking this group of terrifying hounds would be anything but wise, the person in the hospital room behind him... was his daughter.
Even if he had to stake the Ishikawa family's honor, even if he had to stake the meaning of the name Soga... he could never let these people take his daughter away.
Just then... he suddenly saw Su Youzi stepping out of the elevator behind the police officer from the Fourth Action Department.
Soga Ishikawa Iribe's heart suddenly lurched.
Perhaps those outsiders... and even the branches and cadet families of the Soga clan, only regarded Su Youzi as an abandoned child of the Soga clan's main family.
But... Soga Ishikawa Iribe had always maintained a good relationship with the main family, and yesterday he had personally experienced a wave of the main family's Young Lady, Soga Toyura's, thunderous wrath. He understood—
There was far more to Su Youzi than met the eye.
Perhaps because Su Youzi's mother had unfortunately died while giving birth to Soga Toyura and Su Youzi, the head of the Soga clan's main family had never treated Su Youzi particularly well.
But if anyone truly dared to bully Su Youzi...
Soga Ishikawa Iribe had every reason to believe that the head of the main family, Soga Lie, would make those people understand what the fury of a Sixth Sequence overlord was.
Not to mention... Su Youzi's older sister.
Even now, whenever he recalled Soga Toyura's thunderous rage, Soga Ishikawa Iribe still couldn't help thinking that he simply couldn't withstand it.
A sister complex?
That was probably more like a sister slave!!!
And she was... Second Sequence?
Miss Toyura... had probably broken through to Third Sequence long ago.
If those hounds from the Fourth Action Department were really using Su Youzi as an excuse, Soga Ishikawa Iribe truly had no good solution.
He could only grit his teeth and bear Soga Toyura's wrath.
Gulp—
The man's Adam's apple rolled with difficulty. He looked toward Su Youzi and saluted. "Miss Youzi..."
Beside him, the corner of Kujo Ryuko's brow suddenly twitched.
She had carefully investigated Su Youzi's background and circumstances.
By rights, the Soga clan's cadet families shouldn't have shown Su Youzi much respect, just like Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi yesterday.
But... the man's troubled expression and fear didn't seem fake.
As expected—
There were still plenty of interesting things about Youzi.
"Uncle Iribe." Su Youzi respectfully bowed to the man.
After all, she had thoroughly bullied his daughter last night. Showing a little respect today was only natural.
"Miss Youzi, this is..." Soga Ishikawa Iribe was genuinely worried that Su Youzi would open with, "Uncle Iribe, you'd better let Sister Kiyomi go to the Fourth Action Department to assist with the investigation."
After all, his useless daughter had offended Miss Youzi only yesterday.
"I'm here to visit Sister Kiyomi."
Su Youzi's words made the man breathe a sigh of relief.
Su Youzi looked at Soga Ishikawa Iribe and Kujo Ryuko, who stood opposite him, then waved at Kujo Ryuko. "And..."
"Uncle Iribe, you don't need to worry."
"Senior Kujo is very reasonable, too."
"If Sister Kiyomi was only just attacked, Senior Kujo definitely wouldn't force her to assist with the investigation."
"At most, she'll just ask a few simple questions."
Su Youzi smiled brightly at Kujo Ryuko. "Right~"
"Senior Kujo."
Kujo Ryuko's expression stiffened.
To be honest... she really did want to take Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi back to the Fourth Action Department and investigate her thoroughly.
She felt that Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's attack hadn't been as simple as it appeared.
She had countless reasons to refuse.
But... when she saw the pleading look Su Youzi directed at her, Kujo Ryuko could only force a smile. "Yes..."
There were ten thousand reasons to refuse Miss Youzi.
But agreeing only required one.
Beside Su Youzi, the young female police officer looked at her superior and somehow felt as if she were watching a romance unfold.
"She's got her completely wrapped around her finger!"
"Our superior has been completely wrapped around the seemingly 'weak and alluring' Miss Youzi's finger!"
Su Youzi had her own considerations.
Although she didn't know exactly how Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi had escaped her Anomalous state...
But... in the dream last night, she seemed to have done something truly excessive.
The reward items, useful or otherwise, in the Material Slot—
As long as they had appeared in the game, Su Youzi had played with them to her heart's content.
Su Youzi's memories... seemed to differ from Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi's by a tiny bit.
She had heard that the Fourth Action Department possessed items similar to truth serums. Su Youzi didn't want to reveal that she had bullied a girl.
Besides—
According to the "Battle Log," Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi had indeed fallen into an Altered User state yesterday.
She had been a Second Sequence Altered User who had already differentiated.
The fact that she had somehow escaped the Anomalous state alone was of immense research value.
Su Youzi didn't want the girl to end up soaking in a cultivation chamber because of her.
Moreover... the person who had most likely reversed the girl's Anomalous state was herself.
Su Youzi didn't want to end up soaking in a cultivation chamber alongside Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi.
Seeing how reluctantly Kujo Ryuko had agreed, Su Youzi revealed a smile of triumph.
She looked toward Soga Ishikawa Iribe.
The man gave her a grateful look.
Just look at how considerate Miss Youzi is.
And how magnanimous.
Then compare her with that arrogant, unruly brat of his. She really ought to learn from Miss Youzi.
He stepped aside and even bent down to open the door for Su Youzi. "Kiyomi... come see who's here to visit you."
The entire group looked into the hospital room.
Inside... the frail girl was curled up in the corner of the bed, tugging at her clothes and apparently looking at something.
She really is very frail.
Has Kiyomi reached the age where she's troubled by her figure?
With her neck stiff, Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi already looked like she had suffered a total social death. She even saw that terrifying figure who could only be described as a nightmare—
Su Youzi.
Her body seemed to be melting from the tips of her fingers. "Guh..."
"Just kill me!"
Why did I have to see her ahhhhh!!!
I want to transfer schools!
It's not too late. I want to transfer schools!
"Ahem..." The man took the initiative to "help" Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi out of her embarrassment. "Kiyomi."
"Why don't you hurry up and thank Miss Youzi?"
"You really are something... You like Miss Youzi so much, yet you deliberately provoked her yesterday just to get her attention."
Soga Ishikawa Iribe congratulated himself on his cleverness.
His wife's novels seemed to work like this.
In an instant, he had transformed the girl's arrogance and troublemaking into admiration for Miss Youzi.
"If you admire Miss Youzi, just say so."
"Your father isn't some old-fashioned man."
"You're a young girl... It's perfectly normal to have someone you admire."
"Miss Youzi really is outstanding." This was the truth, at least as far as Soga Ishikawa Iribe was concerned.
In his eyes, Su Youzi's physical skills and performance in Mixed Martial Arts class were certainly enough to earn his sincere praise. Telekinetic Ability was nothing more than a child's plaything. A real man should wield a greatsword and charge into close combat.
"Once you've recovered, train properly with Miss Youzi!"
"Just look at how frail you are... You nearly lost half your life just from falling into the water."
Soga Ishikawa Kiyomi trembled so badly that she could barely keep her lips closed.
She glanced at the "demon" in front of her, whom she desperately wished she could flee from as far as possible, then at the father behind Su Youzi who was trying to push her into a fire pit.
Th-this was really her biological father?
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