Then, Mio Takamiya, who seemed to have been absent for a very, very long time—who seemed to have died at a construction site—landed before them. She wore a hard hat, her eyes beautiful and moving, and carried a plastic bucket in her hand, looking pitiful and delicate.
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The sight left Mobius, Herta, and Ruan Mei utterly stunned.
What was this supposed to be?
Was he dragging a beauty out of film school, dressing her in construction-site gear, and using her to trick high school seniors into applying for civil engineering?
Other than taking revenge on society, it seemed pretty useless.
Mio Takamiya, who had been summoned here without warning, was equally confused.
—She only remembered being assigned to the fringe galaxies, searching abandoned planets where the Legion had once fought chaotically, where the Swarm had ravaged everything, and where Abundance people and colossal beasts had lingered. She had been preparing to work honestly, using the money she earned to buy back the possibility of reviving her beloved.
But now, she had been summoned here for no apparent reason...
"What did you need me for?"
She turned to look at Russell, whose expression suddenly took on the proud bearing of a champion-level trainer.
Before anyone could react, Russell lightly picked up a chess piece and tossed it into Mio Takamiya's hand. In an instant, the beautiful woman's posture straightened.
Yet almost at the very moment that happened, Russell clenched his fist and drove a punch straight into Mio Takamiya's abdomen!
Countless streams of information surged wildly through that punch, instantly scattering the pupils of that exceptionally handsome figure...
Then she smashed viciously into the ground, reverting into her gorgeous feminine form, her head practically embedded in the floor.
Mobius: "..."
The scholar who had wanted to see what