Kneeling on the ground, she held the completely unconscious, naked girl in her arms.
She opened the oil-paper umbrella.
Su Yuzu did her best to cover the girl's vital areas.
Regardless of who she was before, or even if she was an Aberrant, right now... she was just a weak, helpless girl.
Besides... Su Yuzu recalled the 'Aberrant · Puppet' title above the girl's head and the dark purple eye-shaped totem drawn on her lower abdomen.
"She's just a puppet."
She checked her inventory.
The clothing and accessories she had obtained from Saotome Yukina were mostly decorative... small items that increased attack speed.
There were no clothes like a maid dress or an apron that she could temporarily put on her.
So, Su Yuzu could only hold the unconscious naked girl in her arms and wait for the academy's teachers to arrive.
Thankfully.
Perhaps as a continuation of the fan-service settings found in an eroge.
Although the Aberrant girl had been struck in a vital spot on her abdomen, after her Aberrant transformation was undone, the wound seemed to have vanished along with the Aberrant material.
Her body was so weak that her breathing was almost inaudible, but it was a blessing that she wouldn't bleed to death.
Behind Su Yuzu.
Clutching her hands to her chest, Saotome Yukina watched the naked girl in Su Yuzu's arms, her expression a complex mixture of envy and concern.
After all, this was the girl who had nearly sliced her Yuzu-senpai with a single slash just moments ago.
But... she was so envious.
To be held in Yuzu-senpai's arms like that.
Without making a fuss.
She just moved a little closer to Su Yuzu. The girl quietly crouched down, obscuring the last bit of the brilliant scene from view.
The sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the combat practice grounds.
Just like the police in most anime or movies who always arrive a step too late.
The teachers of Keigunen Private Academy also arrived belatedly, only after the incident had concluded.
"Yuzu!!!" From a distance... Unohana Chiyo spotted the girl who inspired both pity and affection.
She had always had an excellent memory for her students.
Especially... this little Yuzu.
Saotome Yukina, crouching beside Su Yuzu, looked toward the voluptuous, beautiful woman jogging toward her and Yuzu-senpai.
For some reason... the little rabbit's intuition sensed the scent of a 'threat' for the very first time.
"How are you..."
"Are you hurt?" Unohana Chiyo asked, looking at Yuzu, who was tightly holding the naked girl.
Since retiring from the battlefield.
It felt like a very, very long time since she had been this nervous.
A "Catastrophe Domain" had suddenly manifested in the academy.
And the victim was one of her own students.
It was... Yuzu?
The moment she saw the crimson eyes of the girl kneeling on the ground.
It was as if an invisible thread connected Unohana Chiyo and Su Yuzu.
Kneeling on the ground and protecting the Aberrant girl, Su Yuzu looked up.
The scent of ripe peaches seemed to drift over.
She shook her head gently. "I'm fine."
Su Yuzu had dealt with the Aberrant girl too quickly.
So fast that the few students inside the practice grounds with support abilities hadn't even had time to react before the battle was over.
She glanced at Unohana Chiyo.
Ms. Unohana, the PE teacher, was the first teacher to appear?
Was it because of the Operator Development game?
Or just a coincidence.
"But the most important thing right now..."
She glanced down at the girl in her arms.
Without the guise of an Aberrant, the girl's face looked rather childish.
Probably a first-year underclassman.
"...is to figure out the truth behind the Aberrant attack."
"And..." Su Yuzu glanced at the Aberrant's blade, which had fallen to the side, bent into the shape of a mosquito coil.
"...my own Psychokinesis."
She could feel it.
The moment the blade in the Aberrant girl's hand came swinging down at her shoulder, an invisible seed...
...had burst forth within her chest.
Unohana Chiyo glanced at Su Yuzu and the naked girl in her arms.
She took off her teacher's jacket and draped it over the girl.
As teachers from the Assault and Healing Departments arrived one after another, the incident was brought to a temporary close.
Standing at the entrance of the combat practice grounds.
Su Yuzu watched as the girl was carried away on a stretcher by the Healing Department teachers. She had a feeling the incident was far from over.
In fact... it might have only just begun.
Gazing toward the distant street.
Su Yuzu felt as if someone was standing there.
Standing in the shadows, spying on her.
"Don't worry~" said Unohana Chiyo, who thought the girl was worried about 'hurting' a fellow student. She gently patted Su Yuzu's shoulder. "It was just a rudimentary Aberrant transformation..."
"And it was undone in time."
"Little Sakai will be fine."
"Sakai?" Su Yuzu made a mental note of the Aberrant girl's surname.
"But..." She shook her head gently. "I'm not actually worried about Sakai-san's safety."
She looked at the ambulance in front of them.
Inside, a pair of pitiful, watery-blue eyes stared in Su Yuzu's direction.
As a freshman in the Healing Department, Saotome Yukina had been 'dragged' onto the ambulance by her teachers.
Treating the injuries of Aberrant victims was a required course for Healing Department Espers.
How could the girl possibly escape such a good internship opportunity?
The girl couldn't possibly escape.
Saotome Yukina could only watch helplessly as her Yuzu-senpai stood together with Ms. Unohana.
For no reason at all, she always felt that Ms. Unohana was 'dangerous.'
In every sense of the word—
"I have a feeling this isn't over."
Unlike many protagonists in stories who hide things from their teachers to investigate on their own.
Su Yuzu directly confessed the reason for her worries to Unohana Chiyo.
There was something strange about Sakai-san's Aberrant transformation.
It was completely different from a normal Aberrant.
Sakai-san's Aberrant form had rope marks on it, as if she had been bound.
And unlike the typical first-sequence Aberrants who are tightly wrapped in black threads, her slender waist was deliberately exposed, and there was a strange, dark purple eye-shaped totem drawn on her lower abdomen.
All of it felt wrong to Su Yuzu.
Also—
Su Yuzu gazed into the distance toward the street.
That eerie feeling of being watched.
"I understand—"
"Yuzu-san." A gentle smile, completely unlike her 'Frenzy' and 'Death Squad' attributes, appeared on Unohana Chiyo's face.
"As a mental-type Esper, Yuzu-san..."
"...your senses are surely completely different from a brute like me."
"I will report Yuzu-san's findings to the Director."
"Also..." She looked at Su Yuzu.
That gentle smile finally bloomed into something genuine.
The woman's serene eyes gazed at Su Yuzu.
Her slightly curled long hair was tied up with a thin hairpin, a small strand falling naturally from beside her ear.
A charm unique to a mature beauty bloomed with her smile, completely natural. "Congratulations, Yuzu-san..."
"Eh?"
"On finally awakening your ability." The corners of the woman's eyes seemed to hold a bright smile.
Su Yuzu looked at Unohana Chiyo before her.
"[Ding—]"
"[Successfully Developed Unohana Chiyo.]"
"[Unohana Chiyo's combat experience has increased.]"
"[Level 22 Metal Manipulation User EXP: 13%→17%.]"
"[Development: Unohana Chiyo Favorability +1.]"
"[Favorability Increase Reward Acquired: Single Fishnet Stocking (Left).]"
"[Compensation for Development Materials Acquired.]"
"[「Basic Combat Records」*2.]"
A pity.
You could only feed one Combat Record at a time.
Otherwise, Su Yuzu would have definitely fed the little rabbit and Ms. Unohana Chiyo until they were full.
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