Midnight.
Zhu Mengmeng wanted to cry.
In her imagination, she had taken it for granted that Chu Ge, who had an esper ability, had brought a girl with an esper ability here for underground boxing. She had never considered that Chu Ge had neither a membership card nor an invitation, and was not even a competitor.
They had not even known there was underground boxing today.
As a result, she and her husband each had a card, and each card happened to allow one guest, so they brought Chu Ge and Moon Shadow inside while inwardly cursing up a storm.
She felt like a living saint delivering herself to their doorstep.
Her husband, Cai Zhijian, from whom she had been separated for two years, instead kept smiling as he led Chu Ge into the underground arena with interest, as though he found it quite amusing.
Chu Ge and Moon Shadow had secretly exchanged their assessments.
They could pretty much conclude that Cai Zhijian had no esper ability and was just an ordinary person-at last, Chu Ge could stop doubting himself over why everyone he met had an esper ability. Finally, an actual ordinary person. Sob, sob, sob.
Yet this ordinary person faced the bloody brutality of the Underground Boxing Arena, or the fact that he was clearly bringing people here to cause trouble, with even greater composure than they did as people with esper abilities. He showed no fear of possible retaliation afterward, and even seemed faintly excited.
True... had the spectators back then not all been like this, with madness buried in their bones...? He was merely one of them.
Zhu Mengmeng was a little more normal, whispering to Chu Ge the whole time, "If you're going to cause trouble, make sure you keep us out of it."
Then