Chapter 145: An angel that almost died from starvation…
Academy City, inside a research lab…
“Chief! It’s bad ya’ll!”
An elderly guy dressed formally frowned when he heard this voice. He shouted back at the voice with annoyance.
“What’s the ruckus! Don’t you know I hate being disturbed?!”
The guy that got yelled at sheepishly said.
“But chief, s.h.i.+t’s going down!”
“What in the world happened?”
“The military clone samples are all gone!”
“Oh?”
The elder flinched and then he dismissed him with a few waves of his hand.
“Then let it be, just get the guys downstair to clone some more.”
“But…. But chief, the DNA sample is gone as well!”
“What!”
The elder is finally surprised.
At the same time, across Academy City, more than 5 firms under thesame name as this research lab encountered the same issue as well. Thesisters living there disappeared along with the DNA samples as if theywere spirited away without a trace!
When the researchers found out and reacted to the situation.Investigations through various mean were conducted for instance throughreplaying CCTV footage or other investigative methods all led to noresults.
After that, the other researchers conducting the same research heardabout the ones that got hit with this event and they all did a roll callof the sisters. Upon finding out that not a single one of their sistershad gone missing, the researchers all released a sigh of relief.
Soon, the researchers begun their search through the sisters, orrather through the Misaka network. If they want to locate the othersisters, the most effective method would be asking these sisters.
To their surprise, the sisters revealed that the other sisters got kidnapped by a strange thief.
The researchers all got really furious. To a scientist, getting theirresearch materials looted is probably the most infuriating issue ever.In fact, some of the researchers are so mad their eyes got red.
When they asked the sisters what the thief looked like they all couldn’t answer.
The reason is quite simple, they would only use vague terms likethief and monster to refer to the kidnapper. According to them, theydidn’t know how to describe the perpetrator.
When asked to track the other sisters down via MISAKA network, they said the connection got severed.
However, they are sure of one thing. There is some plot going on behind the scenes that involves the sisters.
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Academy City: School district 7..
There’s a very special building here that stands out like a sorethumb, it has no windows and although it in the central area of schooldistrict 7, there doesn’t seem to be human activities in the 10 meterradius of the building….
Within the building, in a room br.i.m.m.i.n.g with sci-fi feel, lined withcountless test tubes filled with mysterious yellow liquid that connectsthe ceiling and the floor, there’s a white haired man floating upsidedown in a tube while wearing a green hospital gown…
He is the general superintendent of Academy City, the mastermind behind almost everything that happens in this city, Aleister!
In front of him, numerous projections are currently playing, beingreplayed over and over. It’s unknown whether or not it’s because theowner is not satisfied with what he is seeing but the projections keptreplaying…
Being displayed over and over is the research labs in uproar afterthe sisters and DNA samples disappeared. After a bit of time, thedisplays stopped and disappeared. Aleister closed his eyes and by doingso, the surrounding fell into silence. A single barely audible sentencebroke the silence…
“A thief… is it…”
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While the upper echelons of Academy City is busy tearing out theirwig, the perpetrator behind it all is walking on the street like he ownsthe joint. He toured around with intrigue like he’s fresh off the boat.
The citizens of this city could never understand his feelings. Whenhe first arrived, the System f.u.c.ked up and decided to make him out to bea sc.u.mmy degenerate who molest young girls. He was finally releasedafter some trials and tribulations but then he immediately took up theprofession of a phantom thief. All in all, he didn’t have the luxury ofgoing around sight seeing Academy City.
Although, having done that, Academy City has its own unique charm. Asa high tech city, it is only to be expected that one could observesigns of high tech everywhere but even so it had some place that lookedretro. The contrast made for a very nice view, at least he feels likehis horizon is being widened by it.
He went a whole night without sleep but he’s not particularly tired.As a dedicated member of the hikikomori master race, going without sleepis elementary, what’s to say to go without sleep for a night.
He called Mikoto so she could rest easy and then he began his sightseeing tour. Apparently, Mikoto just wanted to know whether or not hewas still alive…
Walking on the streets, he saw students walking pa.s.s him and sighed.He feels so separated from his student days already, sighing at how oldhe is. However, the guy himself didn’t seem to have noticed that the twogirls he banged before are still going to school…
From time to time, he could hear them gossiping random stuff likewhat a guy in Academy City is up to or blowing their own horn about howthey are familiar with a Lv5. He could also hear some familiar names intheir conversations.
At first he treated the gossips with a pinch of salt. But then when he heard about a grapevine, he lost his cool.
“Hey, did ya hear, they say there’s this one hot chick collapsedbeside a bridge over the small stream. Countless dudes are going overthere to try their luck with her?”
“Seriously? A beautiful girl fainting, didn’t the discipline committee get the news and go check it out?”
“Of course they did but the girl would wake up the moment anyonetouch her and she wouldn’t go with discipline committee no matter what.”
“why?”
“Nn… apparently, she’s waiting for master… or something!”
“Woah! Could she be a maid that got abandoned by her master?”
“Haha, how can that be, who in their right mind would ditch such asmoking piece of a.s.s, if he did the guy should be shot to death!”
“Good point!”
He stopped in place with one foot fixed without hitting the ground.He looked like he got struck by lightning, when the gossiping studentsall went away only then did he manage to recover.
“Hey, erm, you said something about a girl, what did she look like?”
“Oh? I haven’t personally seen her myself but apparently she’s a foreigner with long golden blonde hair or something!”
Wu Yan’s lip twitched and his brows jolted.
“Where did you say the girl was located?”
The student looked at him in a judging manner. It’s like eh’s lookingat a troublesome inidividual, he turned his head the other way inannoyance and replied.
“Over at the bridge ahead of us!”
“Thanks!”
Ignoring the discriminating eyes of that student, he thanked him andheaded straight for that direction earning him many more pairs ofjudging eyes.
“Another d.i.c.klick that would lick the floor for any beautiful girl they see…”
Wu Yan didn’t hear this sentence but even if he did he didn’t havethe time to respond to them. He’s running full speed ahead while hisheart throbbed.
If he’s not wrong, that hot chick the student speak of should be someone he’s very familiar with…
He confirmed his guess when he saw the blob of moe collapsed in acertain place while being surrounded by people. He slapped his foreheadand stayed silent for a bit.
Maybe because she felt his presence, she lifted her head and lookedin his direction. Looks of elation slowly filled her exquisite face. Shejumped, giving the surrounding people a surprise, not minding them, sheran all the way to Wu Yan’s side while not forgetting to leave trailsof snot and tears.
“Uuuu, master, I tried so hard to find you, Astrea is so hungry she could die of starvation anytime now. Uuuu…”
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