Dark clouds pressed down on the city as though threatening to crush it. The sky over Sapporo City grew increasingly gloomy as clouds converged from every direction, piling up overhead. Faint sounds of wind and thunder drifted through the gaps.
"Have we still not uncovered the real identity of the girl who broke into the mall?"
Inside the temporary base set up near the mall, the somewhat scruffy Superintendent Shimono Tadashi scratched his stubbly chin and looked at the final frozen image on the monitor.
The street surveillance cameras and the onlookers' phones had all captured Yamanashi Inaba catching the mother and child as they fell from the building.
Although Yamanashi Inaba had deliberately concealed her head and face beneath her hood, the cameras filming from so many angles had still captured a few blurry pictures of her face.
Superintendent Shimono Tadashi treasured them as though he had struck gold. This was an excellent breakthrough.
The Superhumans the Metropolitan Police Department had encountered so far fell into two categories. The first consisted of ancient Superhumans who had descended from the Heavenly Realm, such as Master Chiriku, Akatsuki, and the Toad Sage Jiraiya. They might have been people from hundreds or thousands of years ago, but after so long away from the mortal world, even seeing their faces would yield no records to investigate. The Metropolitan Police Department could only search myths and legends for clues.
The other category consisted of new-generation Superhumans such as Doctor Satomi, Tosu Hideo, and Mineko Yuki, who had undergone a complete transformation through some chance opportunity.
As long as these new-generation Superhumans were citizens born and raised in modern society, photographs of their faces would allow the police to follow the clues and soon uncover their identities.
The beautiful wind-wielding girl who had broken into