"Why are you forcing me!! Deep Purple, add points!!"
At that moment, a fierce firefight was unfolding in the streets of the "Virtual City."
Men came down the stairs, stepped out of elevators, and leaped from rooftops.
Men in sunglasses entered the streets from every direction. Some walked, some ran, and all carried various ranged and melee weapons.
One man in sunglasses walked out of the restroom and washed his hands. He glanced at the women's restroom sign and paused for a moment before smiling faintly. With a snap of his fingers, the man in sunglasses transformed into a woman in sunglasses. She had a curvaceous figure, and her straight suit pants climbed from her slender ankles to her flesh-squeezing hips. Her chest was also full, pushing the white suit into a curve, with the outline of her bra faintly visible.
"Lightning, you're getting more and more perverted. You even modeled the underwear."
One of his companions couldn't help but complain.
"Nonsense. If I wasn't going to mod it, why would I play Blade Runner? Who the hell wants to wear a suit every day? I'm not selling insurance."
Lightning spoke with righteous conviction.
Lightning came from Nightless City and was a "High-Speed Esper Test Subject." Early on, this esper ability had been hailed as one of the "Ten Useless Esper Abilities."
The reason was simple. His esper ability was "Neural Acceleration." His neurons fired a hundred times faster than an ordinary person's, but his physical constitution—or rather, his basic attributes—couldn't support such "speed." Thus, he had earned the nicknames "Five-Second Real Man" and "Kidney-Deficient Man."
After five seconds of high-intensity surfing, his body would be covered in debuffs.
After reflecting bitterly on his situation, Lightning decided to choose a path that could fully unleash the potential of this esper