章 23: Another Problem?

Kai and Ayaka started running. It was a pretty normal run until Kai felt something wrong. He was someone who didn't want to have much exposure, and that trained his skills to feel others' gazes on him. And at this time, he felt as though someone was watching him.

Kai suddenly took his headphones off.

"Kai?" Ayaka was confused by his action. It was abnormal to have Kai remove his headphones. She didn't know why, but she also felt something wrong when Kai took his headphones off.

Kai didn't answer her as he tried to focus on listening to his surroundings while running. And not long after, he suddenly picked up something.

"I see. So that is the guy I need to cripple. He doesn't seem like it, but he surely feels dangerous. I can't act now since the girl beside him is the Kudo Group's princess. I'll blow up his leg with this sniper after he finishes school," A guy on top of a huge tower said while using his binoculars to observe Kai and Ayaka.

Beside him was a huge sniper rifle powered by magic power. It also had a suppressor. It was a well-known weapon for assassination.

Kai immediately frowned when he heard that. Of course, he didn't notice the sniper rifle as the weapon didn't make a sound.

"Kai? For you to frown like this, did something happen?" Ayaka asked worriedly.

Kai shook his head. It seemed that this guy wasn't going to do something when Kai was completing the task from Shirotsuka Sanae. So until school was over, he would be fine. But he wouldn't put his headphones back.

"It's fine," Kai assured her while contemplating. He had no idea as to who wanted to cripple him. He was thinking about calling his sister, Tasha Carter, for help. He would request her to take him to that building with her space magic.

He was sure that Tasha would immediately be enraged if she heard this. But for safety reasons, he would still need her help. So, he was thinking about how to calm her down later.

Ayaka was looking at him with a worried expression this entire time. Looking at him, she knew there must be something wrong. After all, Kai didn't put his headphones back on.

They continued running with their magic power. Kai and Ayaka were running at 40 km/h. As a magician, they could run faster than that, but it still wouldn't exceed 60 km/h. But that alone made them pretty powerful compared to normal people.

They chose not to run that fast because they wanted to conserve energy. And around two hours later, they finally finished their long run. Some students finished earlier, but they were tired as hell.

They thought they could rest longer if they finished as soon as possible. But it was actually a bad idea, as they became like this after they finished. They were not sure whether they could fully recover before the time limit.

On the other hand, Kai and Ayaka just used their optimal speed to conserve their energy. When they arrived, Ayaka pulled him to the side.

"Kai, tell me honestly. There's something wrong, isn't there?" Ayaka asked.

"It's fine. You don't need to worry about it." Kai tried to assure her, but to no avail. Ayaka kept pressing him, and eventually, he sighed.

"There's a guy that seems to want to blow up my legs. I don't know who he is and why he wants to do this," Kai finally told her.

Ayaka was startled when she heard that. She never expected something like this as she asked, "Why? Do you have someone who wants your life or something?"

"Well, he just wants to cripple me, and not take my life. I don't know what he's planning, but I'm going to find out," Kai said.

"I'll ask my grandfather for help," Ayaka said. At first, she wanted to help him, but she knew that if there were to be even a single misstep, their lives would be in danger. She wasn't foolish enough to let Kai or herself die, even if it meant that she needed to rely on her grandfather. After all, it was more logical to ask for help in this situation.

But it was different for Kai. He didn't want to receive help from that geezer. Not because he was a fool, but because he couldn't afford to owe him a favor. After all, he knew Kai was Tasha Carter's younger brother. That alone made him think twice before owing someone a favor.

After all, they might use it for something unexpected. Of course, they could also ignore it, but if they did, they might also be targeted by those people. After all, with such a reputation, they would only get scorn from other people.

So, the best solution to this problem was to ask his sister for help. She could teleport them to that person and ambush him.

"But-!" Ayaka wanted to protest, but to no avail. She thought about calling her grandfather in secret, but she was afraid that Kai would hate her for that. After all, no matter what secret conversation they would have, Kai would be able to hear it since he took off his headphones.

She shook her head helplessly. She chose to believe in him. "Fine. I'll believe in you. But you can't get injured, all right? After all, we're part… partners," Ayaka voiced, blushing when she said the word 'partner'. She didn't know why, but it felt weird when she said that.

"Thanks." Kai nodded his head.

And finally, the time limit for the run had ended. They would need to do some more exercise. First, push-ups… The guys in the class started looking right and left, trying to behold a 'glorious' sight.

When they moved to the sit-ups, the guys who had a female partner looked at them with perverted eyes. After all, it came up and down right in front of them as they needed to hold their legs to help them.

When Ayaka looked at them, especially their perverted eyes, she twitched her eyebrows. She looked at Kai, whose eyes didn't have any trace of perverted thoughts. She also twitched her eyebrows at this.

She didn't know if she should be happy or not about Kai not having perverted thoughts on her. She was wondering if she didn't have a good figure or wasn't beautiful enough. But with her 82-58-79 body, she thought it wasn't that bad.

She somewhat hurt when Kai treated her like this. Even when she was helping him stretch, there was a lot of 'skinship,' but Kai just acted as he usually did.

"Kai, do you think I'm bea-" She suddenly stopped before she finished her words. She almost blurted out her thoughts.

No matter what other people said, she almost asked him whether she was beautiful or not. From others' perspectives, it was the same as flirting. She suddenly became too embarrassed to speak as her face suddenly became as red as a tomato.

Kai didn't understand her. But when he asked her, she glared at him. Once again, he couldn't understand her.

They finished their exercises and finally moved into the run with weight. It was a hard run. Surprisingly, Kai didn't break a sweat despite having that twenty-kilogram weight on him while running. He even asked her if she wanted him to take the weight.

Ayaka only rebuked him by asking, "Are you a monster?"

Kai then didn't ask her anymore and continued running. And after the session of two hours of continuously using magic, they were utterly exhausted.

Even though they were exhausted, Kai moved his body to find his sister, leaving Ayaka alone. He thought that if they delayed it even a little bit, they would be in a dangerous position.

Not long after, he found his sister. Well, they usually went back together, so they would meet sooner or later. But to see Kai suddenly come to her on his initiative, she was overwhelmed by emotions. After all, Kai had never done anything like this.

"Kai finally knows my efforts, and he's coming to me on his own initiative." She jumped toward him, trying to hug him. Unfortunately, Kai avoided her as usual, letting her pass him and fall to the ground.

"This isn't the time for that. I heard someone say he wants to blow up my legs," he said.

"What?" Tasha was baffled. But Kai wasn't someone who liked to joke with something like that, so she immediately became furious. "Who is he?"

"I need your help." Kai asked her to follow him. They were completely covered by the building, so the sniper wouldn't be able to spot them. He pointed his finger toward one of the tallest buildings. "You see that building? He is at the top of that building."

"Then it'll be easy. Let's go immediately." Tasha said.

Kai nodded, and they teleported to their target.

The sniper was trying to search for Kai's position since they should have finished the class and would leave the school at this time. But then, he suddenly felt killing intent from behind him.

"!!!"

He turned around, but it was too late.

"Argh!"

Kai cut his two legs while Tasha immediately destroyed his sniper.

"You, how did you come to this place?" the sniper asked with great difficulty as he was trying to hold back the pain.

"And why do you want to blow up my leg?" Kai asked with killing intent.

He was surprised to see killing intent like this from a student. He immediately recognized this particular killing intent as he felt that this Kai must have killed someone.

"How do you know?"

"If you don't even know how I know about it, then you're not qualified to ask me. Just answer my question," Kai asked casually.

"You won't be able to get anything from me."

Kai looked at his sister. She nodded her head and put her hand on the man's head.

"Argh!" the sniper suddenly screamed.

Tasha was using her lightning magic to torture him a little bit, but it seemed that her effort was futile.

The sniper only smiled and said, "You won't be able to get anything from me. ACTIVATE!"

When he said that, a magic circle appeared on the position of his heart. He suddenly spat out some blood and died.

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章 24: Request

"You won't be able to get anything from me. ACTIVATE!"

When he said that, a magic circle appeared on the position of his heart. He suddenly spat out some blood and died.

Kai and Tasha furrowed their eyebrows. They never thought he would kill himself. Tasha was just going to use her lightning magic to interrogate him, but he had killed himself before she got the chance to.

"So what should we do with this?" Tasha asked.

Kai approached the dead guy and started searching his body. He tried to search for any useful information on his body, but to no avail. There was no clue or whatsoever.

"Maybe we should dispose of this dead body first," Kai suggested.

Tasha nodded her head. "Let me handle that."

She approached the corpse. At the same time, Kai made some distance from the corpse. Tasha then waved her hand toward him, "I'll be away for a bit then."

Kai nodded. Tasha then used her teleportation magic and disappeared along with the corpse.

After around twenty seconds or so, she came back alone. She said, "I've thrown the corpse to the ocean. I needed to use my teleportation magic a few times to reach that place and a few more to come back here. I-!"

"Thank you for your hard work," Kai said hurriedly. There would be a demand from his sister if he didn't cut her off like that.

Tasha only pouted a little before asking him again, "What about this incident? This is really abnormal. After all, I would usually be the one who targeted."

Tasha was curious. They had been targeted by a few people from time to time because of the reputation of her being an S-rank. But they were targeting her, not her family. That was why she was curious as to why Kai suddenly got targeted by a hitman.

"I also don't know about this. I think we should be on more alert," Kai said.

"All right. I'll investigate this since I can teleport if they find me. Protect our parents. Make sure to call me if there are any suspicious people around the house," Tasha instructed.

"Got it. I'll be careful."

"But something's bugging me. Because of this incident, I think you should be more careful when you explore the outside world. After all, you'll need to go to the outside world in another two weeks to gain experience.

"I feel that whoever wants to harm you might specifically choose that time to strike after this failure. So make sure to be careful."

"I know," Kai nodded. They could only solve this by themselves. After all, they couldn't bother their parents with this because even if they knew about this, their parents wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

Reporting to the authority would also have its problems. They thought about asking the academy, but it was outside of their jurisdictions, so they could only rely on themselves to solve this problem.

"Let's go home first," Tasha said.

Kai nodded his head, and they came back home with Tasha's teleportation magic.

…

The following week, Kai didn't wear his headphones. Although it was pretty taxing for him, he also wanted to investigate the matter with his own hands to help Tasha. Unfortunately, there was no clue whatsoever.

Even Katsuragi Takaki didn't make any suspicious movements. He was wondering who was the real target. Was their target truly him or was it his sister? If they knew about it, it would be far easier to investigate this. Sadly, they didn't know anything, so they could only blindly search for clues.

Ayaka was obviously surprised to see Kai not wearing his headphones the entire week. She knew about Kai's extraordinary hearing and even saw his health certificate. She tried to ask Kai about what was going on, but Kai didn't answer her.

She then asked her grandfather without his permission. Of course, she was also included in the investigation. She tried to learn everything from her grandfather as this investigation might be able to increase her understanding of being a scout.

Unfortunately, even with the help of her grandfather, they didn't find anything. She was frustrated.

And finally, once again, the practical class arrived. It was the time where they would experience that world once again.

"We're going to the gym again. This is the chance for you to prove yourselves. After all, I know you have no experience two weeks prior. But now that you have the knowledge, you should be able to perform far better than you did two weeks ago. I wish you luck." Shirotsuka Sanae explained. She added, "Kai Carter and Kudo Ayaka, come outside, I need to talk to you."

Kai, who was trying to think about the investigation, was surprised to hear his name called by Shirotsuka Sanae. It was the same for Ayaka. They then rose from their seats and came out of the class.

Shirotsuka Sanae looked at them for a few seconds. She finally said, "How was the world two weeks ago?"

Ayaka was surprised by the question, but she immediately replied with the same answer she gave the principal, "It's challenging."

Kai only nodded his head, telling her he agreed.

Sanae sighed, "Well, I don't know why you would think that. Usually, new students like you would be traumatized by that world. Fortunately, you two weren't, or the principal would be handed to the authorities or be handled by your families.

"Anyway, what I wanted to tell you is about that world. You won't go to that world again as it was a bit unfair to you and to the other students. I don't know why you two can get such a high score. That must be because of you, right, Kai Carter?"

Ayaka was startled, while Kai remained calm. But because of Ayaka's expression, his achievement had been blown up.

"Don't worry. I learned about this two weeks ago, so you don't need to mind her startled expression just now. She might need to learn to control her expressions, though," Sanae smiled slightly and said.

When she heard that, Ayaka was really embarrassed. It wasn't unintentional for her to make such a face.

"Anyway, although she's an A-rank magician as well as the famous Kudo Group's princess, I don't think she can get such a high score. After all, no matter what her background is, it's normal to have a bad first day due to lack of experience. But it's different for you, Kai. You are an enigma that I can't see through. So you should be the one who did it. I don't know what you did, though."

She looked at Kai, who remained silent, She added, "You don't need to worry. I won't blabber. After all, judging from your explanation back then and this girl's reaction, I assumed there might be some price to pay.

"As expected of the younger brother of one of the three S-rank magicians. Anyway, I won't ask you anything. But there is one thing that I should tell you. No matter how high your talent or prowess is, it's impossible to challenge the whole world alone.

"Even an S-rank magician who's had numerous experiences under their belt won't be able to achieve that. That's why, no matter what, you should also rely on someone... Sorry, I deviated from my initial topic.

"Anyway, you won't be able to experience that world again for the time being. So today, you'll be going to the same world as the other students. But I want to remind you about your score.

"If you get a lower score than your previous one, the others might notice something. And even that student from the Katsuragi family was threatening me to get hold of your score details. Your score aside, it's different if it's the details about which monster you killed.

"After all, in the world that you two will face after this, there are no A-rank magical beasts and only a low number of B-rank magical beasts. So my suggestion to you would be trying to get as many points as you can." Sanae explained.

Ayaka and Kai were surprised to hear another lecture from her. Normally, it wasn't possible because of her character. Even if the students asked her a question, if school was over, she wouldn't answer it no matter what.

That was why seeing her like this surprised them. But Ayaka noticed something. She remembered the last thing that the principal said two weeks ago.

"You can ask Teacher Shirotsuka Sanae if you have any questions about the outside world. Her personality aside, she is indeed an elite amongst elites."

She didn't know what he meant, but judging from her observation alone, it was truly impressive. She could notice such a small detail and even made such a detailed conclusion.

Ayaka nodded her head, "I understand. I'll try my best."

Kai also nodded his head and said, "I'll try my best."

"All right, you can go back first. I'll lead you to the gym in a few minutes."

They nodded and came back to the class. But Ayaka suddenly stopped him and said, "Kai, this time, I want to ask something from you."

"What is it?"

"You remember the last magic you used two weeks ago, right?"

Kai nodded.

"Please don't use it again this time. After all, watching you back then, I doubt you'll be able to use it in the real world. After all, you'll die along with the magical beasts if you use that magic. So please, don't use it again."

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