A Scientific Urban Detective

Seeing their leader, Komaba Ritoku, losing control and going berserk, Hattori Hanzō, the brains of the group, felt a bitter taste in his mouth. To make matters worse, the opponent he was facing was also a girl consumed by anger, fighting with equal abandon.

This girl seemed to completely disregard her beautiful blonde hair, cutting off strands without hesitation and turning them into projectiles.

Her fierce appearance even made Hattori Hanzō feel a sense of bewilderment, wondering if he had offended her at some point in the past.

Otherwise, there was no reason for her to harbor such great hostility towards someone she had never met before.

"So, she really is just a little girl, such a sore loser?!"

Thud!

A muffled sound echoed as Komaba Ritoku tripped over the psychic barrier set up by Lin Wuming and fell towards the ground.

However, Komaba Ritoku, already in battle mode, reacted quickly, like a true gorilla, immediately pounding the ground with both hands. Using this reaction force, he managed to propel his body back up!

The sound they had just heard was from him striking the ground.

Lin Wuming clicked his tongue again—with this kind of physical ability, if it were converted into superpowers, it would at least be a Level 3 physical enhancement, right?

Seeing this, Lin Wuming couldn't help but feel a trace of doubt—could Kiyama Harumi really subdue such a "monster" on her own?

"Speaking of which, we don't need to fight!" Lin Wuming shouted loudly, using this to remind Kohachi Mitsumi, who was already caught up in the heat of the moment, and also trying to calm down the two enemies in front of him.

While shouting, Lin Wuming glanced back at the van parked in the alley.

Their mission was to arrest the trio of thieves who had been robbing ATMs—or rather, to cooperate with Kiyama Harumi in arresting them. Theoretically, there was no need to engage in a direct fight with them.

Who would have thought that these two thieves would be so bold as to violently resist arrest!

"Huh?" Lin Wuming suddenly noticed something was wrong. "Two? Where's Hamazura Shiage?"

Because of the sudden and intense battle, Lin Wuming didn't have time to pay attention to too many details and hadn't noticed that one of the people opposite them had disappeared.

At this moment, the roar of an engine could be heard approaching from a distance.

A pink convertible sped into the open space where the battle was taking place, reversing at high speed.

Before the car even stopped, Hamazura Shiage stood up from the driver's seat and picked up two fire extinguishers from the passenger seat, throwing them out.

"Well done!" Hattori Hanzō praised softly, simultaneously throwing a projectile at the fire extinguisher bottles in mid-air.

However, this time he didn't use shurikens made from soda cans, but rather two short metal arrows that he flicked out from his sleeves.

The sharp arrowheads pierced the fire extinguishers, causing the high pressure to release and the powdery substance inside to spray out instantly.

"Smokescreen?" Lin Wuming narrowed his eyes. Because he was on the periphery of the battlefield, he wasn't affected by the dry powder.

However, it was indeed impossible to see the enemies' movements in the cloud of white dust.

He immediately used his telekinesis to sweep away all the fire extinguisher powder.

From the moment the smoke obscured their vision, only three or four seconds had passed, but he didn't know how Hattori Hanzō had managed it, but he had successfully brought Komaba Ritoku back to the car with him.

With the pink sports car not stopping, Hamazura Shiage directly shifted gears, changing from reversing to charging forward.

Seeing this, Lin Wuming quickly used his telekinesis to grab onto the car, trying to pull the people directly out of the vehicle.

But Komaba Ritoku stepped forward, using his beast-like intuition to judge the trajectory of the telekinesis, and then smashed it with his fist!

The projectiles fired by Kohachi Mitsumi also hit the car body and tires, but failed to stop the sports car from leaving.

"Wuming! Keep chasing!" The girl was very unwilling and ran back to Lin Wuming's side, urging him.

What a joke? She, Kohachi Mitsumi, had defeated the armed security of an illegal research institution and the espers of an dark side organization, but now she couldn't take down a few Level 0 crooks?

Kohachi Mitsumi would never accept such a thing!

Lin Wuming felt that this battle was meaningless, and coupled with the fact that the opponents were indeed very troublesome, he had no intention of continuing to entangle with them.

They had already recovered the stolen ATM, so it wouldn't be a problem even if they escaped—since they already knew their identities, it wouldn't be difficult to arrest them later.

However, looking at Kohachi Mitsumi beside him, who was in a rage, Lin Wuming felt that it would be easier to continue pursuing the thieves than to appease this girl who was in a berserk state.

Without hesitation, Lin Wuming once again took Kohachi Mitsumi into the air and chased after the pink sports car.

Although the color scheme of the sports car was very cute, its horsepower was the real deal, and with a good driver at the helm, the SKILL OUT trio sped away from the scene.

"Too bad, we finally got our hands on it!" Hamazura Shiage sighed loudly while driving.

The two people squeezed in the back seat remained silent.

After being pulled into the car by Hattori Hanzō, Komaba Ritoku also regained his composure and returned to his original taciturn state. His face was as wooden as usual, without any expression.

But as his companion and strategist, Hattori Hanzō knew that his leader must be unhappy in his heart.

This operation could be said to be the first time SKILL OUT had done something "big", but it had suffered a setback, and the spoils they had obtained were all lost.

Moreover, after their ruckus, they might not be able to get their hands on anything so easily next time.

"Do we have to find a way to raise funds again?" Hattori Hanzō pondered.

"Before that…" Hamazura Shiage looked at the rearview mirror, "Should we first find a way to get rid of those two lunatics chasing us from behind?!"

Hattori Hanzō looked back and saw that the man and woman who had been fighting him earlier were once again chasing after them, flying at low altitude.

"Do you have to be so persistent? We didn't offend you two, did we?" Hattori Hanzō couldn't help but groan.

Because Lin Wuming and Kohachi Mitsumi had been temporarily called in by Kiyama Harumi to help, they weren't even wearing the armband of Judgment. So, in Hattori Hanzō's eyes, these were two completely unrelated bystanders who had suddenly appeared.

Besides being filled with a sense of justice and doing what's right, he couldn't think of any other possibilities.

"Wait," thinking of doing what's right, a name suddenly popped into Hattori Hanzō's mind, "That 'hero' who suddenly rose to prominence and then retired, Lin Wuming?"

"Eh? Is that the guy who was interviewed on the TV show before?" Hamazura Shiage also reacted, "Oh yeah, without that signature wheelchair, I didn't recognize him."

Hattori Hanzō nodded with deep feeling. Even a professional like him hadn't been able to recognize Lin Wuming, a public figure who had been very popular recently, at first glance. A large part of the reason was indeed that Lin Wuming and the wheelchair, this iconic combination, had been separated.

If it was that hero, then being so full of a sense of justice seemed understandable…

"Like hell it is! We just stole some money, we're not conducting illegal experiments, why do you have to be so persistent!" Hattori Hanzō retorted.