A Scientific Urban Detective

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu adjusted her hairstyle, re-covering the right side of her cheek, as she didn't want to expose her imperfect side just yet. For the same reason, she didn't notify Lin Wuming about her discharge today, and even asked him to stay home and not pick her up.

"I wonder how Wuming would react if he saw it," Tora-Bachi Tomitsu muttered to herself, looking at herself in the mirror again, "But knowing him, he probably wouldn't be perceptive enough to notice these things, right?"

After re-arranging her appearance, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu picked up her luggage and turned to leave the hospital.

Outside the hospital, unnoticed by Tora-Bachi Tomitsu, more than one pair of eyes had already locked onto her.

"Target acquired, alone. Operation can commence!"

A squad of twenty "hounds" blended into the crowd, beginning their hunt...

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu walked with light steps. Despite her personality, she was actually an athletic girl, and being cooped up in the hospital for nearly ten days had really stifled her.

If not for the newly healed scar on her face, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu would have definitely run all the way home.

--But I can't get excited, or do strenuous exercise, otherwise there will be discoloration on my face. I finally completed the surgery and endured a week of waiting, if I can't show off my perfect side, wouldn't all that effort be wasted?

The girl calmly and deliberately paced herself, increasing her speed as much as possible while keeping movement to a minimum.

"Hmm?" Her emerald green eyes suddenly narrowed slightly.

Without making any rash moves, the girl reached into her luggage and fumbled around, finding her phone, but instead of taking it out, she directly activated the one-button call function.

After confirming that the information had been sent, the girl was completely relieved.

Then she took out a bottle of water from her bag.

Under the guise of drinking water, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu quietly observed her surroundings.

She was currently on a tree-lined avenue, with lush ginkgo trees planted on both sides, forming a golden dome overhead.

This place is not suitable for long-range sniping--after confirming this, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu breathed a slight sigh of relief.

She wasn't afraid of ambushes and sneak attacks, but the first shot from a long-range sniper was truly unavoidable.

Not everyone is like Lin Wuming, who can always detect and block enemy snipers in time.

--This feeling, the number of enemies is more than ten, the distance is within ten to fifty meters, and they are elite soldiers.

The intuition honed on the battlefield allowed Tora-Bachi Tomitsu to quickly understand the situation, but only to this extent. Other more detailed information could not be discerned through this almost metaphysical method.

As for who the enemies were, and what their purpose was, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu was even more clueless.

--But none of that matters, what needs to be done now is to fight!

The signal for help has been sent, and she believed that Lin Wuming and Instructor Kiyama would arrive soon.

So Tora-Bachi Tomitsu wasn't worried at all, instead, a hint of eagerness rose in her heart.

"I've been lying in bed for so long, let me stretch my muscles a bit first..." The girl grinned, revealing a pair of fangs.

She changed direction, leaving the current route and entering the "natural battlefield" of Academy City--the alleyways hidden in the gaps between buildings.

After walking for a few more minutes, until she reached the depths of the alley where even sunlight couldn't reach, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu turned around.

"Eh? You're not going to hide anymore?"

Behind her, two fully armed soldiers with guns were following.

Judging from the style of the equipment, they were very similar to the elite mobile units of the security forces; however, there were no obvious badges or markings on these two people, and the camouflage pattern was also different from that of the security forces.

"So you noticed us a long time ago?" One of them responded, his gun always aimed at Tora-Bachi Tomitsu, "To actually come to a place like this on your own initiative, how arrogant."

He pulled the trigger, firing before he even finished speaking--the "hounds" were professional combat troops, and didn't have the habit of talking nonsense with their targets. The reason he spoke was only a tactic to distract the target.

However, their target, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu, also didn't have the habit of talking nonsense.

The moment she saw the muzzle pointed at her, Tora-Bachi Tomitsu had already launched her attack.

The hound who had been speaking noticed an anomaly. His partner didn't fire at the same time as him during training...

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw his partner's rifle suddenly break down and scatter into a pile of parts, and the mask on his face was also torn by some kind of attack, blood seeping out.

He felt a sense of foreboding in his heart, because he also felt a sudden lightness in his hand--there was no gunshot, and no feeling of firing. When he came back to his senses, he saw a large pile of broken parts in front of him.

And the cause of this effect... was a bandage.

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu retracted the bandage. She didn't rashly kill the enemy directly--after all, she had just recovered and been discharged from the hospital, and she was in a good mood. If someone died, it would be very troublesome to cooperate with the security teachers in the investigation, and Lin Wuming would probably nag her.

"Where are the others? Aren't you all coming out!" Tora-Bachi Tomitsu sternly rebuked, "With this terrain, you can't outflank me from other directions, so don't waste your time!"

The two enemies whose weapons were destroyed didn't panic either, they just raised their hands and stood against the wall, as if surrendering...

But immediately afterwards, a barrage of bullets came from behind them.

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu had also expected this, and took the lead to rush to the enemy whose face had just been scratched, using his body and her travel bag as a shield, blocking the bullets...

This enemy instantly fell silent.

"Don't struggle, just give up, little girl," the other enemy shouted, "Didn't you notice? We're using tranquilizer bullets, we won't stop shooting, no one will die. But you will be captured."

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu checked and found that the enemy she was using as a shield was indeed not dead, just unconscious.

"Are you still waiting for rescue?" The enemy on the other side continued, "It's useless, your phone signal has been blocked long ago, you can't send any information out!"

Tora-Bachi Tomitsu was stunned for a moment, took out her phone to check, and sure enough, it showed that she was out of range, with no signal. And the one-button call she had just pressed probably failed to transmit the information.

"Did you notice?" The enemy smiled triumphantly, "So, be a good girl..."

Puchi!

The white bandage was stained crimson black with blood.

The enemy's face was full of disbelief, his eyes glanced downwards, only to see a bandage extending from his jaw, all the way to the girl's hand.

A palpitating red color was spreading along the bandage...