A Scientific Urban Detective

In the world of scientific research, there has never been a shortage of legends about the "Kihara Family," both positive and negative.

It wasn't until today, when he saw a "Kihara" in person, that Amaai Kinou confirmed that those urban legends were definitely not exaggerations.

The good news was that his bankruptcy crisis was resolved—Kihara Suuta stepped in and took over the entire "Mass-Produced Ability User" project, including all the debts Amaai Kinou owed.

Furthermore, Amaai Kinou himself and the entire team of the project were retained, so there was no danger of unemployment.

But the bad news was that their boss was now this Kihara Suuta.

"To be honest," Kihara Suuta said, not paying attention to Amaai Kinou's complex expression, "the progress is much faster than I expected. I thought you could hold on for a little longer, but I didn't expect you to go all-in directly…"

"You… you've been plotting against me all along?" Surprised, Amaai Kinou almost jumped up instinctively, but considering the other party's identity, he held back.

"Plotting?" Kihara Suuta sneered. "I was just watching you fail—what's the point of plotting against a study that's destined to fail?"

"…" Amaai Kinou was silent. As the person in charge of the project and the chief scientist, he could naturally tell that his experimental process had not been interfered with by any external forces.

Failure… was just pure failure.

Kihara Suuta seemed to be in a good mood, so he patiently explained a few more words: "However, it's also a fact that I used you and your project… that's why I came out to clean up the mess and am willing to continue employing you."

"…"

The courage that had arisen from the excitement just now came and went quickly, and Amaai Kinou returned to his state of not even daring to breathe loudly.

"In any case, let me introduce the new plan." Kihara Suuta pulled a blank sheet of paper from the desk and wrote a few capital letters and a number on it with the pen in his hand—LEVEL6.

Amaai Kinou was stunned. Anyone living in this city could understand the meaning of this phrase at a glance.

"Level 6, Absolute Power…"

"That's right," Kihara Suuta nodded. "'Absolute Power Evolution Plan'—this is my project, and it's also the content of the work you're taking over. You must work hard, Amaai-kun."

Because the time to take over the "Mass-Produced Ability User" project was earlier than expected, Kihara Suuta was actually not fully prepared.

In the end, the purpose of his coming to the research institute this time was quite pure—simply to save Amaai Kinou, to prevent this gambler from really thinking of going to the roof.

Because the "Misaka Clones" were the key to the next stage of the experiment, these valuable experimental subjects could not be lost before the experiment officially began.

Therefore, according to the original plan, the project team of the "Mass-Produced Ability User" project had to be retained to continue to be responsible for the care and management of the "Misaka Clones."

The project team could not be disbanded before that.

After appeasing Amaai Kinou's emotions and then asking him to stabilize the morale of the entire research institute, Kihara Suuta's purpose for this trip was achieved.

So, he didn't stay any longer and immediately got up and left in a hurry.

In order to compete for the "exclusive research rights" to Accelerator, Kihara Suuta had just won the fierce competition within the Kihara Family, and now he still had a lot of things to deal with, so he didn't have time to manage these trivial matters here.

In any case, the "Absolute Power Evolution" plan had not yet started, so there was no rush.

On Amaai Kinou's side, after receiving the task from the new boss, he immediately gathered all the members of the project team and announced the current situation and future direction of the research project.

After declaring that the research institute would not go bankrupt and be dissolved, and that everyone would not lose their jobs, and stabilizing the morale of the people, Amaai Kinou took his confidant assistant back to his laboratory.

To do great things, especially a big project like the "Absolute Power Evolution Plan," it was of course impossible for Amaai Kinou to manage it alone.

And now that the morale of the people in the research institute had just stabilized, it was not suitable to directly announce this important news, so he decided to first inform his confidant assistant.

"According to the needs of the 'Absolute Power Evolution Plan' in the future, we need to contact and understand Accelerator's situation in advance," Amaai Kinou said. "I'll leave this matter to you."

"Ah, ah? Me?" The confidant assistant was really taken aback. "It is said that Accelerator has a bad temper!"

"What are you panicking about!" Amaai Kinou glared at him. "It's not like I'm asking you to challenge him. Observe, do you understand observation? You don't need to worry. According to Kihara Suuta, the preliminary preparations for the experiment have already begun. All you have to do is go to the site to observe and see how the progress is, so that I can make a plan next."

Confirming that this task was not life-threatening, Amaai Kinou's confidant felt relieved and left to carry out the order.

A few hours later, the confidant returned to report.

"President, the situation seems a bit wrong," the confidant assistant said with a serious expression.

"What?" Amaai Kinou frowned. "Didn't you find Accelerator? Kihara has always sent people to monitor Accelerator's whereabouts. They shouldn't make such a mistake."

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"No, I did find Accelerator," the confidant assistant said, "but he doesn't seem to be entangled by endless challengers as you said."

"What do you mean? You didn't see him fighting with others?" Amaai Kinou asked. "That's not surprising. After all, even the Kihara Family can't find so many fools willing to challenge the strongest superpower."

According to the information Kihara Suuta revealed during the handover of work today, the preliminary preparations for the experiment targeting Accelerator had already begun a year ago.

Specifically, it was to find people to challenge him, mainly gangs of armed ability users.

The quality of such personnel, of course, cannot be expected in terms of strength, but the experiment party does not care about this. On the contrary, the weaker the strength, the better. It must be ability users.

Because only in this way can Accelerator's spirit be tortured to the greatest extent—under the premise that he is unwilling to kill.

Under the premise that there is no danger to life, there are surprisingly many fools who challenge Accelerator for the honor of "defeating the strongest", and there is even no need to spend extra money to hire people.

Over time, dripping water wears away stone. Although each challenger is just an ant-like existence to Accelerator, if the number increases, and such short-sighted "ants" come to provoke him every day, every hour, it is an imperceptible erosion of Accelerator's spirit.

Although Accelerator is already the de facto "strongest superpower", if this erosion continues, he will inevitably doubt his strength and the so-called "strongest" title.

At that time, they can come to the door and promote their "Absolute Power Evolution Plan" to him.

Accelerator is special, because his strength is strong enough, so as long as it is something he is unwilling to do, it is difficult to make him submit by external force alone, even if it is a great experiment to help him advance to level 6.

Therefore, he must be willing and actively cooperate with the experiment.

According to the Kihara Family's calculation, such erosion will be able to achieve the expected effect in about four to eight months.