You are the one being looked after—Torami Toumi spoke the truth of their relationship.
Yomikawa Aiho fell into an awkward silence.
"Seriously, Yomikawa-sensei!" Torami Toumi said bluntly. "Lin Wuming is still injured, and he's still a kid. You, as his guardian, need him to look after you instead... Don't you think that's a bit inappropriate?"
Faced with the girl's sharp lecture, Yomikawa Aiho, knowing she was at fault, had no way to fight back.
"It's Wuming-kun's fault for being too capable..." Yomikawa Aiho mumbled. She had compared their skills and found that she couldn't match the child she had adopted in either housework or cooking.
"Besides, Wuming-kun said that doing chores helps him train his psychic ability, so I just left it to him..."
Torami Toumi seemed to agree, having thought of Lin Wuming's incredibly delicate and precise psychic manipulation skills.
Both of them had encountered other "psychics," but regardless of ability level, they didn't seem to have seen a second psychic who could control their power as intuitively as Lin Wuming.
"Speaking of which, is Lin Wuming really just a Level 3?" Torami Toumi muttered.
"I took him for an ability level test before he was discharged, and he is indeed Level 3," Yomikawa Aiho said.
Then, both of them sighed in wonder.
After a moment of silence, Torami Toumi looked at her phone again: "Why hasn't he come back yet?"
"Oh yeah, why don't we call and ask?" Seeing the phone, Torami Toumi suddenly suggested.
"Wuming-kun's phone was only bought yesterday," Yomikawa Aiho said awkwardly. "I haven't asked for his number yet..."
Although Yomikawa Aiho paid for it, because Lin Wuming was very self-sufficient, she confidently let him handle everything himself and did not participate in any part of the process except the payment.
"What kind of guardian are you!" Torami Toumi exclaimed in surprise. Compared to her guardian, Sakurai-sensei, the difference was like the vast gap between Level 0 and Level 5!
Yomikawa Aiho grew even more embarrassed.
Fortunately, a ringing tone saved her at that moment.
"The phone, the phone..." She quickly ran to find her cell phone.
Upon seeing the caller ID, the expression on Yomikawa Aiho's face immediately fell.
A call from a colleague—one of the last things she wanted to receive while on vacation.
However, due to her responsibilities, she had to answer the call.
"Yomikawa, Yomikawa, something bad has happened!" Sure enough, the moment she connected, her colleague's loud shouts came through the phone. "The boy who lives with you was attacked on the street!"
"What! What happened to Wuming-kun?" Yomikawa Aiho instantly cried out.
"Lin Wuming?!" Torami Toumi, standing nearby, also jumped up and quickly approached.
Startled by Yomikawa Aiho's exclamation, the person on the other end stammered: "Nothing... well... he was attacked, in the city park next to the supermarket. It was a group of thugs... Sato and the others who were patrolling nearby have already arrived at the scene..."
"Never mind all that," Yomikawa Aiho impatiently interrupted, not hearing the information she cared about most. "How is Wuming-kun? Is he injured?"
"You don't need to worry about that," the person said. "It was Lin Wuming who called the police, and all the thugs at the scene were beaten down."
"I knew it," Torami Toumi said, crossing her arms and nodding repeatedly. "Lin Wuming is so strong; how could he be taken down by a bunch of delinquents?"
"But," the person on the phone continued, "Lin Wuming was not found at the scene."
"Eh?" Before she could be happy, Yomikawa Aiho was stunned. "Then where did he go?"
"I thought maybe he went straight home, which is why I called you," the person said. "If he's back, remember to take a statement from him."
"Okay, okay, I got it." Yomikawa Aiho rolled her eyes and hung up. "That lazy bum..."
Although she confirmed that Lin Wuming was fine, the unease in her heart grew stronger.
"I really shouldn't have let Wuming-kun go out alone!" Yomikawa Aiho said remorsefully. "The enemy obviously hasn't given up!"
Torami Toumi narrowed her eyes: "Is it the same group of people who tried to assassinate Sakurai-sensei at the hospital last time?"
"They are likely members belonging to the same organization," Yomikawa Aiho said. "Which is the research facility Wuming-kun was at before his amnesia—it's a shame we haven't found their true identity yet! Damn it, are they still up to no good!"
Otherwise, why would Lin Wuming suddenly be attacked by a group of delinquents for no reason?
Because her recent life had been too comfortable, coupled with Lin Wuming always being a "homebody," Yomikawa Aiho had forgotten that someone was still chasing him. When she groggily woke up this morning and heard Lin Wuming planning to go out, she didn't think much of it.
Who knew that this one moment of carelessness nearly led to a disaster! It was only thanks to Lin Wuming's own reliability that he wasn't ambushed by the enemy...
"Huh? What's this email..." While routinely clearing the red notification dots on her phone apps, Yomikawa Aiho suddenly found an email in her inbox from an unknown number.
"Wuming?" But when she opened it, it was an email from Lin Wuming!
Because she hadn't saved Lin Wuming's number, it naturally showed up as an unknown sender, and the notification sound had been silenced by her phone's do-not-disturb setting for strangers.
"Wuming is going to track down the enemy's headquarters?" Seeing the email content, Yomikawa Aiho instantly couldn't sit still. "That's completely reckless! What is he doing!"
"What? What's wrong with Lin Wuming? Let me see!" Torami Toumi squeezed closer, trying to grab the phone.
But a new incoming call ringtone stopped her attempt.
Yomikawa Aiho stopped her and answered the phone. It was the same colleague.
"Things are serious, Yomikawa, you need to come down here quickly," the person said in a lowered voice. "There's a fatality."
"Who?" Yomikawa Aiho's heart tightened.
"The identity is being verified. He was shot in the head with a high-caliber bullet, making facial recognition impossible. We can only tell he's an adult male, around twenty-seven or twenty-eight."
Hearing that the deceased wasn't Lin Wuming, Yomikawa Aiho immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then asked, "But what does this have to do with Wuming?"
Lin Wuming didn't own a gun and didn't need to use firearms in combat, so the deceased shouldn't have been killed by Lin Wuming.
"It's not just the deceased; there are also thirteen injured people at the scene. According to their testimonies, the one who injured them was Lin Wuming." After a slight pause, the person continued, "Of course, they also confessed that their mission was to capture Lin Wuming—being beaten up this badly is probably what they deserved."
Yomikawa Aiho immediately reacted: "Anbu?"
"Yes, it's that 'Hunter' group."
"I'm on my way!" Yomikawa Aiho immediately declared.