Shinichi Izumi was utterly shocked. He turned to look at his right hand.
He saw it – he saw the bloody muscle fibers, the metallic-looking fingers, and the eye on the back of his hand that was rapidly disappearing.
In the blink of an eye, all the strangeness on his right hand vanished, leaving it looking like a normal hand again.
But this transformation had been seen by Shinichi Izumi, and the feeling in his heart was indelible.
He confirmed it: what happened last night was not a dream.
Something had burrowed into his body, and terrifying mutations had appeared on him.
"Michi!"
The little girl's mother ran over in a panic, and the car driver also stumbled out of the car.
Both of them saw the front of the car that Shinichi Izumi had stopped with one hand. The dented sheet metal and the smoking engine were shocking.
However, because the incident happened so suddenly, Shinichi Izumi's right hand mutated for only an instant. They just saw a blur before their eyes and then saw Shinichi Izumi stop the speeding vehicle, but they didn't know the specifics of what happened.
Kurozawa silently calculated.
A Parasyte's main method of attack is to harden and deform into steel blades, but like Shinichi Izumi just now, focusing the hardening on a small area and then strengthening the body's power – that power was likely over ten points, completely at the Lower Moon level, and among the stronger ones at that.
It could only be said that the upper limit of a Parasyte's strength was currently unknown, but the lower limit was truly high. In terms of aggressiveness, each one could be called a killing machine.
Stopping a speeding car by force with one hand, yet his body didn't budge at all... that was terrifying strength. With Kurozawa's current strength of only 4 points, even using Total Concentration, he probably couldn't do it as easily as Shinichi Izumi did.
However, this was related to Shinichi Izumi's Parasyte being in his right hand. The rest of his body was ordinary and fragile. If he were to truly fight Kurozawa, he wouldn't last long. One couldn't generalize.
The little girl finally realized what had happened and started crying loudly, scared.
Shinichi Izumi stood up, tightly clutched his right hand, and with a look of fear, turned around and ran.
The little girl's mother didn't even have time to thank him before only Shinichi Izumi's back was left in her eyes.
Immediately after, the passersby looked at the damaged vehicle, and surprise appeared in their eyes.
"I'm not seeing things, am I? That high school student stopped the car with one hand?"
"Impossible. It must have been a problem with the car itself."
"..."
There was a lot of discussion around them.
Kana came back to her senses, looked at the calm Kurozawa, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Nii-san, why are you so calm, like you knew this would happen?
"Also, I think I saw that person's right hand turn red."
Kurozawa shook his head and said, "You were nervous and saw wrong."
Without giving Kana a chance to ask further or refute, he pulled Kana and left.
"Aren't you in a hurry to go to school? If you're any later, you'll miss the third class."
Kana let out a sound of surprise, only then remembering her own situation.
Before leaving, Kurozawa took a deep look in the direction Shinichi Izumi had left, and then set off.
Although Shinichi Izumi was the protagonist, his combat power was only slightly more than that of an ordinary Parasyte; he wasn't a threat.
However, this type of protagonist must have something very special about him and might cause trouble for Kurozawa in the future.
He was thinking about whether to strike while Shinichi Izumi hadn't grown up yet and nip the problem in the bud.
Upon reaching the school gate, Kurozawa and Kana separated.
Kana was in the first year of high school, and Kurozawa was in the second year. They were not in the same building.
Kurozawa paced downstairs, a look of thought in his eyes.
"The individual strength of Parasytes doesn't vary much, but their behavior patterns and thought processes are completely different."
"The one on Shinichi Izumi is very unusual."
Perhaps due to different growth environments, Parasytes developed different personalities.
Some were extremely cruel, killing humans for food without any scruples; some wanted to integrate into human society and were cautious; and some wanted to gather teams and overthrow human rule. Their personalities were diverse.
Shinichi Izumi's Parasyte was named Migi, also called Righty.
Compared to many Parasytes, Righty was intelligent and calm, with a mechanical-like rigor in its thinking, and its combat instincts were strong, always finding a breakthrough in times of crisis.
If Shinichi Izumi's body were the shell, with Righty as the control center, and then integrating other Parasytes, it might be able to make the Parasytes coordinate and work together, more than five of them – this was the reason Kurozawa felt threatened.
However, having been through the Demon Slayer World, Kurozawa knew that the more a person was like a protagonist, the quicker they would be targeted by the Divine Will if something unexpected happened to them.
Kurozawa's current strength was not enough to deal with the Divine Will's targeting, so even if he wanted to eliminate the threat as soon as possible, he had to first think and make many decisions.
"Let's wait and see for now."
A few seconds later, Kurozawa turned and went upstairs, walking towards his class.
Class 2-4 was Kurozawa's class.
In this class, there was someone worth Kurozawa's attention.
A girl named Satomi Murano.
A minute later, Kurozawa arrived at the door of Class 2-4.
It was currently class time, and a middle-aged male teacher with thinning hair was lecturing on mathematical formulas.
He waited at the doorway for a moment until the bell for the end of class rang before entering the classroom.
He brushed past the teacher on his way in. The teacher frowned and glanced at the newcomer, but seeing it was Kurozawa, he lowered his head dejectedly and didn't bother with it.
Yes.
Kurozawa was a delinquent, a delinquent high schooler in the eyes of others.
Delinquent high schoolers, a common sight in Japanese culture, referred to those who liked to fight and cause trouble, didn't study properly, and formed gangs and groups.
Actually, Kurozawa wasn't like that; he just rarely interacted with other classmates and was quiet, which made him seem rather mysterious and cold.
But his body was packed with muscle, more intimidating than many boxers on television, and his short hair like needles, and his sharp, black eyes, made people afraid to meet his gaze and feel fear.
Many classmates speculated that Kurozawa's family was involved with the yakuza, and privately whispered that he was a yakuza prince, and that attending school was just a disguise of his identity.
They thought this for other reasons.
Once, a genuine delinquent classmate, who found Kurozawa's attitude very irritating, actively sought trouble.
In front of everyone, Kurozawa pressed one hand on his neck and lifted him up.
Someone nearby tried to break it up but found that no matter how hard they pulled, Kurozawa's body was as unmoving as a boulder.
Only when the delinquent's life force was as weak as a candle in the wind did Kurozawa let go.
Although he had experienced the fear between life and death and was deeply scared inside, that person, for the sake of appearances, rounded up over twenty friends who were also delinquents, as well as some adults from the streets, wanting to get back face.
Delinquents, especially those who were still young and hadn't been beaten down by reality, always felt that their face was very important.
In reality, it was worthless.
A few days later, the classmates discovered that when those delinquents saw Kurozawa again, every single one of them greeted him with fawning smiles, smiles full of fear.
If this were a place with an incomplete legal system like the Demon Slayer World, the grass on these people's graves would probably be ten feet high by now.
Even so, that delinquent classmate quickly vanished without a trace, never to be heard from again.
Some of his companions said that when they had surrounded Kurozawa, that guy had threatened Kurozawa's family, so it was likely Kurozawa killed him.
But the law enforcement department investigated for a while and never found the body, nor could they find direct evidence. The whole matter was dropped, defined as a missing person case.
"Occasionally having a variable appear in a peaceful high school life is actually quite interesting."
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