The wind atop the skyscraper was fierce, fierce enough to blow even the stars from the sky.
"Alright, we should go." Crow clapped his hands and helped Bai Zhou to the edge of the rooftop.
"Jump down just like this?" Bai Zhou hesitated as he looked down at the tiny streets below.
The wind on the rooftop was truly strong, strong enough to make Bai Zhou draw in his neck.
Crow nodded. "If you jump, I'll jump."
"That won't be necessary." Bai Zhou hurriedly waved his hands. "I suddenly realized—I'm a little afraid of heights."
Bai Zhou, the Adventurer who slept every night atop Air Conditioner Outdoor Units, soared through the skies, and leaped between buildings, was discovering for the first time that he was actually afraid of heights.
"Afraid of heights?" Crow rolled his eyes. "Why did you used to jump faster than anyone else?"
"Caw!" The crow on Crow's shoulder raised its head and called twice, nodding solemnly as if to say that was indeed true—it had seen it with its own eyes.
"A wise man submits to the circumstances; one time is one thing, another time another." Bai Zhou corrected him with a grave expression, then sighed. "Things have come to this. We can only find some stairs and go down."
The past was the past. With a teacher like Crow, someone who never took the beaten path, how well-behaved could his student possibly be?
After becoming Extraordinary and gaining that windbreaker equipment that allowed him to glide, Bai Zhou's favorite thing had been scaling walls and racing along the sides of buildings, playing extreme sports.
In the history of the Extraordinary, some anonymous kindly father-like senior had once said, "People who can fly cannot use stairs." He used this to argue that lawless Extraordinary needed strict