Tokyo, the Fourth Layer.
Night was as dark as ink.
A pretty girl raced down an empty street, a drone hot on her heels.
After turning down several streets, the girl suddenly leaped into the air and landed on a building beside the road.
She spread her arms and legs like a gecko and swiftly climbed along the wall, rounding a corner.
The drone pursued her, but a long tongue suddenly shot around the corner and, with a sharp smack, smashed it to pieces.
"Ah!"
Ye Yuqing's furious voice rang through the team members' earpieces. "That damn monster smashed my drone! Sato, hurry up and take her down!"
The girl clinging to the wall had just pulled her tongue back when she spotted a boy in black tactical gear emerging from a dark corner by the roadside.
He seemed to have been waiting there for a while.
Sato Hayato stared at the girl clinging to the wall, pulled a handful of steel balls from his tactical pack, and took a deep breath to steady himself.
He was a decent shot with firearms, but Fang Cheng wouldn't let him use a gun yet. He wanted him to fight with his superpowers and build up some real combat experience.
Steel balls were the easiest things for him to control right now.
Noticing how nervous Sato Hayato was, the monster girl suddenly sprang off the wall and leaped toward him.
Sato Hayato flung more than a dozen steel balls at her and accelerated them with his superpower.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Accelerated, the steel balls flew like bullets, letting out shrill whistles.
The monster girl opened her mouth wide and shot out her long tongue. It wrapped around a streetlamp in the distance and yanked her toward it.
The steel balls flew past her,