A Scientific Urban Detective

After listening to Mugino Shizuri and Takitsubo Rikou's explanations, Kinuhata Saiai finally understood why they were so concerned about what had happened that day.

After all, the dark side organization 'Item' had indeed suffered losses as a result, and it sounded like a considerable amount.

"In the end, it's really a pity, isn't it?" Frenda said with particular indignation. "That Lin Wuming isn't a member of any dark side organization, so even if he destroyed the research institute, he wouldn't get a penny of reward! What a waste, it's like saving the client a lot of money."

Kinuhata Saiai originally wanted to defend Lin Wuming a little, but after inquiring about the amount of the mission reward, she immediately shut up and didn't dare to say anything more.

Although it wasn't her fault, Kinuhata Saiai couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive when she thought about how the three people in front of her had indirectly lost so much money because they couldn't complete the mission.

What followed was a somewhat inexplicable, but extremely possible, possibility.

—The reason why the dark side organization 'Item' chose her, could it be that they wanted to use her to make up for the lost rewards?

Kinuhata Saiai felt that she was already level 4 now, so she should still be considered valuable, right? But she wasn't sure if she was worth the amount of the mission reward.

Thinking of this, she suddenly felt restless. After thinking it over and over again, she finally couldn't help but ask, "Excuse me, is the reason you decided to recruit me into the team because you want me to repay those losses?"

Kinuhata Saiai asked very seriously, but Frenda burst out laughing, and Takitsubo Rikou couldn't help but chuckle.

"Don't worry, how could we do such a thing?" Frenda said, "In the end, you are also a formal member of our 'Item', not a subordinate organization doing odd jobs. We won't bully you no matter what, so don't worry..."

"Well, in a sense, there's no problem with you understanding it that way," Mugino Shizuri said lightly at this time.

"...Eh?" Frenda's laughter suddenly stopped, and she looked at her in astonishment.

—As expected, a super bad development!

Kinuhata Saiai's heart sank, and she had already begun to silently prepare herself.

Mugino Shizuri chuckled and waved her hand, saying, "Well, don't be too nervous. It's not like we're going to sell you off. It's just that you were originally chosen by me and were going to be absorbed as talent."

Takitsubo Rikou nodded with a smile on the side, obviously she had known about this for a long time.

"Originally, according to my plan," Mugino Shizuri explained, "after destroying Black May Technology, I would take you out in the chaos—my team needs someone who is good at close combat and defense to be Takitsubo Rikou's personal bodyguard—and your ability just meets my needs."

Kinuhata Saiai's superpower is level 4 "Nitrogen Armor". She can freely manipulate the nitrogen with the highest content in the air and turn it into armor. The defense power generated is at the level of a tank...no, it should be a battleship.

As a bodyguard, it can be said to be perfect.

And the current personnel composition of "Item" has obvious shortcomings, that is, the lack of professional defenders and close combat personnel.

The real core of "Item" is the combination of Mugino Shizuri and Takitsubo Rikou—the level 5 "Meltdowner" is a powerful artillery, and Takitsubo Rikou's "AIM Stalker" is a "radar".

Without the guidance and calibration of Takitsubo Rikou's "radar", Mugino Shizuri cannot truly exert her full strength as a level 5.

After all, if you can't hit the target, it doesn't matter how powerful the attack is.

Not to mention, the real function of Takitsubo Rikou's "AIM Stalker"—"tracking". According to her own statement, as long as she locks on to the target, no matter where they escape, she can find them.

From this point of view, perhaps Takitsubo Rikou is the real core command tower of "Item"!

Such Takitsubo Rikou is certainly an amplifier of "Item"'s strength, but also "Item"'s biggest weakness—because she is not good at fighting, or rather, when she concentrates on activating "AIM Stalker", she cannot take care of protecting herself.

Takitsubo Rikou's superpower can be seen at a glance that it is not a combat type. In addition, activating the ability to "track" requires a lot of her physical strength and energy, so she always looks lazy and sleepy on weekdays, and she has no extra energy to use on fighting skills.

Originally, when Mugino Shizuri made an exception to recruit the level 0 Frenda, she was attracted to her close combat skills and wanted her to act as Takitsubo Rikou's personal bodyguard.

But unexpectedly, although this doll-like cute girl also has good fighting skills, what she is best at is all kinds of explosives.

Frenda, who doesn't know where she learned from, has mastered the expert professor-level explosive development and configuration technology at a young age, and always likes to use various explosives to solve problems during battles.

Only when the enemy is really close to her, will she show off her gorgeous female self-defense skills and defeat the invading enemy.

Because of this personal preference and fighting style, Frenda always carries at least five or more explosive devices with her at all times, and the whole person is like a walking ammunition depot.

If it weren't for the fact that she trusted Frenda's technical skills very much, and that Mugino Shizuri and Takitsubo Rikou, who were in the dark side organization, had strong enough nerves, other slightly more normal people probably wouldn't want to get too close to such a "human-shaped explosives depot".

But conversely, even Mugino Shizuri, a dark side boss with thick nerves, is not at ease to entrust the safety of the key command tower to this "bomber".

Therefore, Mugino Shizuri has been looking for a suitable candidate, wanting to find a qualified bodyguard for Takitsubo Rikou.

—Of course, the first requirement is a girl, and it is best to be a superpower user.

Therefore, when she received the task of dealing with the "Dark May Project", Mugino Shizuri read the relevant information and took a fancy to Kinuhata Saiai, who was still level 3 at the time.

After all, Kinuhata Saiai's superpower is named "Nitrogen Armor", is there a more suitable bodyguard than her?

At the first time to determine the candidate, Mugino Shizuri had planned it—when she made a big fuss in the Black May Technology building, she would take Kinuhata Saiai away while completing the task.

At that time, the scene was in chaos, and no one should notice the disappearance of a girl.

Even if she is a level 3 strong ability user.

Moreover, in that case, "Item" would be the benefactor who rescued Kinuhata Saiai, and it would be easier to persuade her to join.

It's a pity that the plan was good, but before the first step was taken, everything was over...

She was intercepted from the task she took over, which led to the promised generous reward being wasted. All three members of "Item" felt very depressed.

Especially Frenda—she had already planned how to spend the money.

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