What Science Are You Talking About When You Have Super Powers?

　　7 p.m.

　　Ryota took Misaki and left Hayasaka Ai's villa.

　　The moment he stepped out of the gate, Ryota felt relieved for some reason.

　　As if before, he brought another woman to his girlfriend's house while his girlfriend was away, and had an affair.

　　Uh... what a state of mind.

　　Hayasaka is definitely not his girlfriend.

　　The other side.

　　After Misaki left the villa, the joy on her face was visible to the naked eye.

　　She took out her cell phone and flipped through the stored documents. Due to his good eyesight, Ryota subconsciously glanced at the girl's cellphone screen.

　　The documents seem to include some strategies about dating.

　　Misaki highlighted some of the content in it. And while watching, smiling slightly, the pupils of the beautiful star's eyes are full of anticipation.

　　Ryota suddenly felt depressed.

　　It was just a cover for him to send a date request, and he didn't really want to date.

　　And he would be engaging in a cult tonight, so he didn't have time.

　　Doesn't Misaki know? Why is she still so interested?

　　Looking at the notes on her phone, it seemed like she was planning on going to a lot of places and experiencing a lot of new things. In this situation, Ryota was slightly flustered by the words "Let's go and eat".

　　"Shiro-chan, regarding the date, how will you proceed?"

　　Misaki suddenly tugged at her sleeve and asked:

　　"What exactly are we going to do?"

　　Misaki looked a little nervous, and her movements were stiff. There is no usual grace and poise at all.

　　"First time?" Ryota asked.

"Of course!" Misaki answered worriedly: "Why do you think I have experience, really..."

　　She seems to really care about that. In other words, she was deeply concerned about Ryota's impression of her.

　　"Do you have a plan? Shirou-chan." Misaki asked again, and added:

　　"If you don't know what to do, I just downloaded some..."

　　"Misaki."

　　Ryota cut her off abruptly, and said viciously: "If you were looking forward to this date, I should probably apologize."

　　"...Why?"

　　"Until the cult matter is resolved, I can't be bothered doing anything else tonight, so..."

　　After a pause, Ryota sighed slightly and said: "My idea is that we only choose the most efficient way to go out to eat. With this behavior, whenever a task was turned in, it could be considered complete. Excuse me..."

　　"Why are you apologizing?"

　　Misaki waved her hand and said indifferently: "Just eat with you, without any other conditions, I get your points for nothing."

　　"It can't be calculated like this, I even gave you the ability to read memories for nothing..."

　　Ryota shook his head.

　　Misaki was clearly looking forward to this date, and probably already had a lot of things she wanted to do in her heart already planned.

　　At this time, she suddenly became indifferent, who would believe it if she didn't act?

　　Ryota knew that the girl was trying to get rid of her psychological pressure.

　　After taking a deep breath, he could barely control the anger in his heart, and said with a slight smile:

　　"Thank you Misaki."

　　"Thank You...?" Misaki glanced at him quietly "Thank you for what?"

　　"This..."

　　Seeing her playing dumb, Ryota didn't say anything clearly. Instead, he said:

　　"I have a lot of points now."

　　"...You're not going to take any more risks, are you?" Misaki asked back.

　　"You guessed so quickly...don't worry, I didn't encounter any danger this time."

　　Ryota suddenly said with emotion: "This adventure was the most comfortable of my three adventures, and I even gave vent to my pressure at the last moment… Wait a minute, that's not what I wanted to talk about."

　　Seeing that the topic was wrong, Ryota quickly stopped, and changed back: "In short, my points are enough for me to send you a lot of nomination assignments. So I will accompany you how you want to play in the future."

　　"…Don't make it sound like I'm playing."

　　Misaki stared at Ryota blankly. However, the corners of her mouth curved up, and she was clearly in a very good mood.

　　This was actually a psychological trick she had learned while studying love experiences after returning to Academy City.

　　That is backwards.

　　Ryota is busy tonight, he's not a fool, can't he see?

　　A good date is naturally impossible.

　　But she still expresses her wish to date as much as possible through actions, words, attitudes, and comes with tools.

　　The goal, of course, is to make Ryota feel guilty. Then use this guilt psychology to seek more benefits.

　　Of course, it can't work to print objects.

　　For people with Ryota's personality, this is of course very useful.

　　Misaki turned around. In a corner where Ryota couldn't see, a triumphant smile appeared slightly.

　　...

　　In line with the idea of simplifying everything.

　　Taking Misaki with him, Ryota quickly accomplishes two things namely buying a cell phone and having a date for dinner. He called halfway to tell the minister what information he had about the cult.

　　The latter noticed it immediately, and quickly contacted the psyker organization in Tokyo.

　　Presumably, the encirclement and suppression operation is about to begin. However, if the number of Psykers approaching was large, being discovered by the enemy was basically a certainty. In this way, it became impossible to secretly detect the cult's goals.

　　Ryota also wants to capture several cult members and torture them out of the cult's lair.

　　In order to prevent his plans from being ruined, he took Misaki, one step ahead of the official organization, and went to the gathering place of the cultists.

　　Misaki's abilities are perfect for spying on information.

　　There was no need for the two of them to risk themselves and sneak into the party venue.

　　Stay directly on the periphery, let Misaki take action, control the weak cult members, and then manipulate the other party to participate in the process of the party, basically the work of intelligence exploration can be completed.

　　Thinking of this, Ryota felt a little regretful.

　　Cultists who were frozen earlier shouldn't be killed so quickly.

　　Otherwise, thaw out, wait for that person to recover, and use him for spying first, obviously there will be less openings.

　　Of course, these are only minor flaws, harmless.

　　...

　　Soon, the two arrived at their destination.

　　Yokohama Harbor on Tokyo Bay.

　　The gathering place for worshipers is on a cruise ship that is currently docked.

　　These people are very good at hiding among humans.

　　If they didn't know it beforehand, who would have thought that the banquet of the rich being held on the cruise ship would become a gathering of worshippers?

　　"Choose a meeting place here... Is it for the convenience of escaping after an accident?"

　　Ryota looked at the sea outside the harbor, thinking.

　　"It's convenient for us. Fighting where there is water is very beneficial for us."

　　Misaki looked excited.

　　Perhaps what she was doing now made her feel like a member of a mysterious organization on a mission.

　　Looks like she's still in her second year of junior high school.

　　"Shiro-chan," Misaki Suggested: "Let's dive straight into the water, and I'll create some breathing space."

　　"If it sinks to the bottom, the water pressure will be very high?" Ryota wondered, "Can you hold it in for long?"

　　"The bottom of the water near the shore is very shallow, and we don't need to dive to the bottom." Misaki said: "Just let the water support us and lurk near the surface of the sea."

　　"...Isn't this scientific?"

　　"Is super scientific power?"

　　"Of course, I remember Academy City's capabilities, and the development based on quantum fields..."

　　Ryota stopped in the middle of his speech. Because he remembered, superpowers were just a scientific shell.

　　In essence, this is actually an alternative magic created by Aleister, which does not obey the conservation of energy.

　　"Okay, let's dive."

　　Ryota didn't dwell on these side details, and agreed to Misaki's proposal.

　　The two sneak ashore away from the cruise ship.

　　Misaki activates her ability, and a vortex appears on the surface of the water.

　　She jumped into the vortex first, followed by Ryota. Then, the sea actually picked them up and brought them down from the surface, not far from the cruise ship.

　　There's also plenty of breathing room.

　　Ryota didn't know the reason behind it, so he didn't bother complaining.

　　After all, his army command made the system even less scientific, and completely leaning towards idealism.

　　The other side.

　　Misaki pressed the remote control in her hand. Then she closed her eyes, and her ability activation extended to the interior of the yacht.

　　In the five months since returning to Academy City, she had wasted no time and had worked hard to become stronger.

　　Under the dual effect of drug stimulation and point increase, she had been promoted to Esper LV 5 before.

　　Now, by relying on the "External Brain Replacement" augmentation, she could even use herself as the center to radiate her range of abilities several kilometers away.

　　Although there is no "external surrogate brain" here.

　　But at that close range, even across a cruise ship, it didn't affect her appearance at all.

　　Misaki starts eyeing someone on the cruise ship, and carefully selects people with weak feedback to start with, reads their minds, and discerns who is a cultist.

　　Ryota had reminded her that there were monsters among cultists who could rival third-level psykers, and psykers of the third stage had formed their own rules in other worlds.

　　Basically, they could be considered as a different world apart from this world.

　　Psychological control can't achieve world invasion, and cultists who can compete with the third stage, although they don't have their own "other world", but the concentration of evil god power they have can already simulate a similar effect.

　　Presumably Misaki's ability also can't invade them.

　　Otherwise, is there anyone strong on this cruise ship, it is better to act accordingly.

　　If not. If caught, let alone dangerous questions or not, if you investigate the mission first, it will immediately end in failure.

　　"Did you find it?"

　　Ryota asked very quietly.

　　"Shiro-chan, shut up, I need to concentrate."

　　Misaki might be a little nervous, beads of fine sweat appeared on the sides of her forehead.

Ryota wiped it with his sleeve.

　　About half a minute later, Misaki suddenly said:

　　"Found it!"