Hero Association headquarters.
A meeting on the recent monster disasters was underway.
On the enormous Electronic Screen played surveillance footage the Association had just captured on the streets of Z City, showing an extremely blurry figure from behind.
"According to the report we just received."
An Association official pointed at the screen and said:
"Just a few minutes ago, a monster with the disaster level 'Wolf,' the 'Giant Centipede,' appeared in Z City. But the instant it was about to attack civilians, a mysterious being eliminated it in a flash."
"Because it happened so suddenly, the surveillance cameras only captured this blurry view of its back."
"Hmm..."
Since the eliminated monster's disaster level had been too low, and it had caused no large-scale destruction.
The Association executives present paid little attention to the matter.
They merely followed standard procedure and registered this mysterious being, who had appeared and vanished like a phantom-
[Disaster level: Wolf.] [Codename: Phantom.]
Meanwhile, the "Phantom" they had classified as Wolf-level.
Had found a dilapidated, unoccupied apartment in Z City's deserted district and temporarily settled in.
Z City, the Hero Association's B-Rank branch.
As monsters appeared with increasing frequency, competition within the Hero Association also grew ever fiercer.
Especially in "B-Rank," which lay at the very middle of all the hero classes and contained the most mixed assortment.
A beautiful woman with smooth, short, dark green hair sat in her own luxurious office. She was tall and curvaceous, her face always carrying a measure of queenly confidence.
She was the number-one hero on the Hero Association's B-Rank rankings, an esper with powerful psychokinesis-
"Hellish Fubuki."
To consolidate her absolute position as the ruler of all B-Rank heroes.
She decided to carry out a thorough sweep of every monster that had recently appeared in