Beep~! Woo~!
Beep~! Woo~! Beep~! Woo~~!!
Just as a certain troublesome little girl had turned off the city expressway, hopped out of a taxi, and hurried toward the sound of the sirens, a certain poker-faced female researcher had already arrived at the scene in her luxury sports car. She was the developer of the Level Upper and the mastermind who had spread it across the internet in audio form. Now she was trapped in the middle of the elevated highway, surrounded by a line of armored police cars, a large group of fully armed officers, and almost as many cylindrical police robots, with nowhere to go.
"!!"
"Harumi Kiyama!!"
"You are surrounded by Anti-Skill! Do not offer any further resistance. Raise your hands, place them behind your head, and stand still!"
When the suspect in the lab coat finally stepped calmly out of the luxury sports car, Aihou Yomikawa, who had led her team here to intercept her, finally felt a weight lift from her shoulders.
After all,
she recognized the woman standing ahead of her with her hands raised in surrender at a glance. The woman in the researcher's lab coat was Harumi Kiyama, the developer of the Level Upper—and the exhibitionist rumored to take off her clothes whenever the mood struck her!
So, when she saw that this was indeed the person they had been looking for, and that Kiyama had no intention of making a desperate last stand or going down fighting, she ordered her subordinates to stay ready and turned to her companion, Tsumuri Tetsuzan.
"!!"
"Aihou..."
"I can see them. The hostage, Kazari Uiharu, a first-year student at Sakugawa Junior High and a member of Judgment's 177th Branch, is in the passenger seat. She looks fine. I don't think she's in any danger."
Tetsuzan used