บท 93: Watanabe Saori

*Ding Dong*

The sound of the doorbell woke the three women from their daze.

"Let me get the door."

Wiping away a few tears from the corners of her reddened eyes, Nanako stood up and went to open the door.

She didn't want her two daughters to see her in such a sorrowful state. As a mother, she had to remain strong in the face of situations like this, not add to the sadness.

"Sigh..."

Seeing Haru sobbing in his embrace, and Kosaki crying silently beside him, Eiji turned off the TV.

Watching news broadcasts showing the harsh reality would only further break the hearts of the two girls.

Friends, fathers, men they liked... In a short amount of time, the three women of the Onodera Family had lost their normal lives.

"Mhm... Looks like I came at a bad time. Should I come back later?"

Nanako arrived with two guests, Akihiro and Ayumi. They were government agents assigned to communicate with Eiji.

"Haru, let's go back to your room."

Nanako gently patted her youngest daughter's back. She felt that the next conversation was something ordinary people like them shouldn't know about.

"Mom, let me stay with Kamiki-kun for a while."

"Don't be stubborn, Haru. You're making it difficult for Kamiki-kun. Listen to your mother, let's go back to the room."

"I don't want to."

Even after being persuaded by her sister, Haru refused to let go of Eiji. She clung to him like a koala.

"Don't force her, Nanako-san. If Haru wants to stay here, let her. And also, you and Kosaki-san don't need to leave if you want to hear our conversation. You don't mind, right, Ichijo-san?"

"Of course not. Just, I hope none of you will spread this information to others. It's classified as top-secret by the government."

How could Akihiro refuse Eiji's simple request?

He had been instructed by the prime minister to fulfill all his requests as long as they didn't harm the country.

Last night, he had investigated the backgrounds of the three women brought by Eiji and had ensured their backgrounds were clean. The surprising thing is, there is not a single piece of information about Kamiki Eiji in the national database

"Um." Eiji nodded without intending to say thank you.

"Ayumi-kun."

Sitting on the opposite sofa from Eiji, Akihiro nodded.

Without needing to exchange words, Ayumi set up the projector screen on the wall, placed the InFocus projector on the table, and turned it on. Then, she stood behind Akihiro as his guard.

Sitting between Kosaki and Haru, Eiji raised an eyebrow slightly, but didn't ask.

Nanako had just returned from the kitchen with hot tea.

"Thank you very much." Akihiro thanked with a smile.

"You're welcome." With a forced smile, Nanako sat next to her eldest daughter.

"Ahem... First, please watch this video."

The smile on Akihiro's face vanished and was replaced with a dignified expression.

Pressing the remote, the InFocus projector started playing the recording on the projector screen.

The video was recorded from above and showed a city that looked very small. After zooming in several times, the view of the city became clearer.

Nanako, Kosaki, and Haru immediately recognized the city.

Bonyari City!

Although there were many doubts, the three women obediently kept quiet and watched calmly.

The video recording showed the earthquake from yesterday.

"Hm?"

At first, Eiji didn't understand why the other party showed him a recording of an earthquake. It was only after an unknown woman appeared in the video that he felt she wasn't an ordinary person.

Why didn't the woman look like an ordinary person?

The reason was simple, both of the woman's wrists were glowing with white light. Furthermore, when people around her were running to find a safe place from the ongoing earthquake, she just stood there as if the earthquake didn't affect her at all.

(Who is she? This woman is not in the plot)

Accessing Lin Fan's memory, Eiji found no clues about the woman.

(Could she also...)

A guess appeared in his mind.

He watched the video more seriously.

On the projector screen, the ground shaking became more terrifying due to the powerful earthquake after the woman in the video punched forward, which even triggered a tsunami wave reaching hundreds of meters. Although not very clear because the recording was taken from a satellite, the people watching could see a satisfied smirk on her face.

"It's impossible..." Kosaki covered her mouth with her hand.

Nanako and Haru also felt shocked in their hearts.

Although unbelievable by common sense, they had to reluctantly admit that the woman was the cause of the earthquake that struck Bonyari City!

Moreover, the three of them had witnessed and experienced it themselves when Eiji froze the tsunami and teleported them.

Since then, their worldview had collapsed, and they had doubts about life.

Could there really be supernatural things in this world?

"Hmmm..."

Now Eiji understood where the vague sense of danger he had felt came from. If he were to fight that woman in a state of depleted Cursed Energy, Eiji doesn't see any chance of winning

In the video, after the tsunami suddenly froze, the light in the woman's hands became brighter, and the space around her cracked like a spiderweb, which was the manifestation of space itself unable to withstand her power.

Then, she struck the ground causing an even more devastating earthquake than before, completely destroying Bonyari City.

After being satisfied with her masterpiece, she left by flying a helicopter.

The video recording ended.

There was silence in the living room.

Akihiro and Ayumi didn't look as calm as they appeared. Even though they had watched the video several times, their fear and shock hadn't disappeared.

Both of them, who were previously atheists, began to doubt whether the existence of gods in legends was real.

They had also watched the video recordings of Eiji freezing the tsunami and teleporting.

With two individuals possessing superpowers, who guaranteed there wouldn't be a third and so on?

If every superpower had that level of strength, the world would be plunged into chaos!

"Who is she?"

Eiji was the first to break the tense atmosphere.

"Watanabe Saori, 28 years old, a NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) who survived on her deceased parents' inheritance due to a traffic accident. After graduating from high school, she didn't continue to university and spent her time at home. That's all we know about her."

Akihiro conveyed all the information they had gathered. Even with the nation's intelligence, they didn't obtain much information about the woman.

There were 1.05 million NEETs in Japan, besides basic information, it was impossible for the government to know what they were doing by staying at home.

NEETs were considered garbage in society. It was unlikely for the government to pay attention to their existence.

"As Kamiki-sama thinks, she is the cause of the tragedy that befell Bonyari City." Akihiro's voice trembled.

"So that's it... From the beginning, I felt that the earthquake felt unnatural, as if it were man-made. Turns out, it was true, huh."

There was no change in Eiji's tone of voice.

Only calmness and indifference.

Akihiro and Ayumi's hearts turned cold as they realized there was no visible sympathy from the other party.

Both of them had also undergone psychological training and could understand changes in others' emotions.

What they feared the most was that Eiji was a ruthless and unfeeling person like Watanabe Saori, who would flatten an entire city and treat human lives like ants.

Saori alone had already caused anxiety and panic in Japan, and if Eiji were added to the equation...

Thinking about this possibility made Akihiro shudder.