A Scientific Urban Detective

“I'll continue to rely on you.” Kiyama Haruue said, “We need to adjust the entire 'Level Upper' system before summer vacation arrives, and promote it during the vacation to gain as many users as possible.”

Only with a sufficient number of users could they obtain enough AIM diffusion field waveform data to lay a solid foundation for awakening the students and for Uiharu Kazari.

“I know, let's start quickly!” Satén Ruiko nodded, “I'm ready.”

The current 'Level Upper' is only a system targeting Satén Ruiko alone. Kiyama Haruue needs to upgrade it to allow herself, an ordinary person, and other espers to use the system without any obstacles.

On the other hand, as the number of users increases, Satén Ruiko's abilities as a 'Multi-Skill' user will also become more diverse.

Therefore, both publicly and privately, she had no reason to refuse this decision.

Satén Ruiko hugged her panda plushie and began to spend her days in Kiyama Haruue's laboratory.

Although Uiharu and other faction members felt troubled and worried about this, considering that summer vacation was approaching and the final exams were already completed, this period was relatively free anyway, so there was no reason to say anything more to their leader.

The school also did not express any objection—Shokuhou Misaki had taken care of everything for her own convenience, indirectly clearing up a lot of trouble for Satén Ruiko.

Finally, in early July, an urban legend called 'Mental Out' quietly arose within Academy City.

……

After school, Lin Wuming finished his routine patrol work as a Judgement member and returned home.

“Finally back, you're so slow!” Kohachi Mitsuko complained.

Tokiwadai Middle School's final exams ended earlier, so Kohachi Mitsuko had recently moved back to Family Side.

You should know that according to Tokiwadai Middle School's school rules, even during vacations, they must live in the school dormitory. If they want to change their place of residence, they need to apply in advance, and the review process is often very strict.

But this was, after all, the nest of the Anti-Skill, so Kohachi Mitsuko's application was not hindered in the slightest and was approved in one go.

Kohachi Mitsuko was actually exploiting a loophole. She planned to return to her original home during the summer vacation and live with Sakurai-sensei for a while.

However, if she applied in Sakurai-sensei's name, the review would be very troublesome, far less effective than the Anti-Skill's name.

“I patrolled for a while.” Lin Wuming explained.

“That's not our Judgement's job, is it?” Kohachi Mitsuko retorted, “It's not a vacation now.”

Usually, Judgement members only patrol the streets during vacations to supplement the Anti-Skill's insufficient manpower.

Lin Wuming's behavior could only be described as particularly dedicated.

“There's nothing else to do anyway.” Lin Wuming said.

Accurately speaking, Lin Wuming was using the patrol as an excuse to familiarize himself with the terrain.

Now that summer vacation was approaching, calculating the time, in another year, it would be time for 'A Certain Magical Index' to officially 'descend'.

Regardless of whether he wanted to or not, Lin Wuming was now an 'Unnamed Board Member'. Being in a high position, it was impossible for him to quietly avoid the series of major events that followed.

He remembered that in the original plot, when Fiamma of the Right invaded, he casually killed several Board Members, which was extremely brutal.

Once he made full contact with the magic side, Lin Wuming didn't think he could stay out of it.

Lin Wuming felt that he could at least be considered a 'local' of Academy City, so he had to grasp the 'geographical advantage' in his hands.

Otherwise, when the magicians invaded, he wouldn't be able to find the enemy's location when he wanted to attack, and he wouldn't be able to distinguish between east, west, north, and south when he wanted to escape.

Lin Wuming had completely given up on his 'directionally challenged' attribute, so he started preparing a year in advance.

“Where's Komoe-sensei? Isn't she back yet?” Lin Wuming returned to his room, changed his clothes, and came out, but he didn't see his guardian's figure. “Didn't she say she had to work overtime today?”

But he had barely finished speaking when Yomikawa Aiho opened the door and came back.

“...I'm back...” Seeing the two people already waiting at home, Yomikawa Aiho greeted them weakly.

“What's wrong?” Lin Wuming asked, “Did you encounter another tricky case?”

“Ah? No... no?” Yomikawa Aiho shifted her gaze, not daring to meet his eyes.

She inexplicably felt guilty.

“?” Lin Wuming and Kohachi Mitsuko looked at each other, not knowing what was wrong with Komoe-sensei.

After hesitating for a while, Yomikawa Aiho seemed to have finally made up her mind, and suddenly knelt down, performing a very decisive dogeza.

“I'm very sorry, Wuming!”

“Pfft!” Lin Wuming was really startled and quickly waved his hand, using his telekinesis to grab the woman kneeling in front of him and throw her on the sofa to sit down. “Komoe-sensei, what are you doing?”

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“I'm really not good at managing money...” Yomikawa Aiho said with a bitter face, “A physical education teacher should really stay away from huge sums of money...”

“Uh... did you lose money in the stock market?” Lin Wuming immediately knew what was going on. “How much did you lose?”

“More than five million...”

“Hmm...” Lin Wuming subconsciously counted the zeros behind the number. “It's okay, don't take it too seriously.”

Since receiving the 10 billion subsidy, Lin Wuming's sensitivity to the amount of money had decreased again.

After all, that money was like a windfall to Lin Wuming; and because the amount was huge, it was received from the beginning in the form of a bank transfer. In Lin Wuming's concept, it was just a long string of numbers, and it was really difficult to have any intuitive feeling.

Yomikawa Aiho's failure to manage money and losing 5 million yen was just a reduction in that long string of numbers.

Lin Wuming gave Yomikawa Aiho 50 million yen as activity funds and asked her to help manage them.

Back then, for those 10,000 Misaka sisters, Yomikawa Aiho specially selected a group of trustworthy Anti-Skill teachers to help take care of and protect them.

Although the Anti-Skill was a part-time obligation for teachers, and they didn't receive a second salary, there would be special allowances issued during special operations.

After having money in his hands, Lin Wuming certainly didn't want the Anti-Skill teachers to continue working for free, so he allocated a sum of money to Yomikawa Aiho and asked her to find a way to distribute it as some kind of benefit.

It was impossible to directly give money to the Anti-Skill, which was a very bad act of bribery.

Fortunately, Lin Wuming now had the title of 'Board Member', and with this name, it was barely justifiable to indirectly distribute some benefits to some Anti-Skill members.

As a guardian, Yomikawa Aiho knew Lin Wuming's current situation very well, so she did not refuse the money.

However, 50 million yen was not a small number, and it could not be distributed all at once.

Therefore, she had 20 million yen left in her hands.

Lin Wuming did not take back the remaining money but asked Yomikawa Aiho to manage it and try to achieve a positive cycle of money making money.

The result... is now seen.