last post apocalypse

"That's not true. According to the previous arrangement, after the game is over, I'll go on stage to deal with it a few times and I'll be done."

Innis nodded.

The ability user competition and Master Owen are all gimmicks, the purpose is to attract more people.

Owen went on to say: "But if it ends like this, our mission here has also failed."

"Yes."

Innis had a bitter face, as if he was about to cry.

"It has become like this, how should we promote the new British spiritual outfit!"

The biggest purpose of Owen and Innis is to do business, especially to show everyone the magic equipment newly developed in the UK.

Innis' initial idea was to let his own people use the magical spiritual equipment developed in the UK to fight against capable people from all over the world on the stage.

Use the actual combat effect to demonstrate the performance, and then attract the magic-side investors who are planning to invest in Academy City to the UK.

But the result, everyone has seen it.

"As I said before, don't underestimate the power of A-level. Those people are not the same as the 'powerful' we imagined when they are serious. They are completely in two realms."

Owen's tone remained unchanged. Compared to Innis, who had a broken mentality, he seemed not affected by the setback of his plan.

"I took it for granted, I should listen to you. But what about Her Lady Queen's mission?"

Innis lowered his head, his voice trembling.

Owen looked at Innis and smiled.

"It's okay, just remember this lesson."

"The London branch needs these investors. We're running out of money to build Avalon."

"So, we must show our work!"

"However, our magicians have all been eliminated, so..."

"Aren't there three more people on the field?"

Owen squinted his eyes: "Isn't it better to let them help display our products?"

"But none of the three A-levels is a magician!" Innis looked at Owen, wondering if the old man had dementia and forgot?

"As a magical girl, Mami can still use magic-side equipment. Misaka Mikoto is just an artificial ability user, and she can't even use basic magic. It's the same with Kamijou Touma. No one knows which faction he belongs to until now. Of... besides, isn't he using Honkai now? How can two people who can't use magic at all use magic equipment?"

What's more, when people with artificial abilities use magic, their blood vessels will burst, and they may even die on the spot.

"Isn't that better? Just imagine, two ability users who are not magicians use our equipment to use magic. I don't need to say more about the effect."

Master Owen's beard was raised confidently.

"You go and arrange it, just leave it to me! Give me 10 minutes!"

"You, stumped..."

Having figured out what, Innis opened his eyes wide, and his expression gradually became agitated.

"I got it! I'm leaving!!!"

While speaking, Innis opened the door of the director's control room and ran out quickly.

"..."

Owen Russell walked through the door that was not closed in time, looked at Innis's back, and shook his head.

"The impulsiveness of young people, it's not too late to go. And..."

The old man looked at the locker and spoke.

"Little girl in the closet, how long have you been hiding, come out quickly~ The corner of your skirt is outside."

But no one answered, Owen called again, still no answer.

The old man raised his eyebrows, walked over and opened the door of the locker.

"Now is not the time to hide and seek, little girl... well, where's the person?"

The open locker contained only mops and rags for cleaning. What I thought was the corner of the skirt was just a corner of the rag.

"Huh? Where are people?!"

"Here~"

The voice came from the back, and Owen looked back to find that Shirai Kuroko was already standing behind him.

"Is this space movement? A power that can be used directly without any preparation."

Owen immediately guessed how Shirai got out of trouble.

"Where were you hiding just now?"

"It's under the table, and when she sat here, I moved outside."

Shirai Kuroko explained,

Owen understood, and he continued to ask.

"Well, did you find anything?"

"Absolutely not."

This time it was Shirai Heizi's turn to be depressed, she had not found anything so far.

"There are no clues, and the electronic tree has not found the problem. The difficulty is that we guessed wrong at the beginning..."

Under the pressure, the distraught Shirai began to doubt his initial speculation.

"No, I'm sure there must be a problem with Academy City. You think there's no problem, but it's more likely that you didn't see the problem."

"However, we have seen all the facilities inside the Electronic Tree. There is nothing suspicious at all..."

"I'm not talking about seeing with the eyes, but with the feeling... And if you really see it at a glance, how can Academy City fool the inspection of the Ability User Administration?"

Master Owen sounded like a young man who didn't understand anything, and at the same time, he also missed that he had a similar period, and he was stupid and didn't know anything.

"All I'm saying is that when a big force like Academy City does something that needs to be concealed, there are usually two ways to do it."

"The first is to secretly conduct secret experiments using the undetected inner world. That is, to hide the secret in the dark. This method is relatively rare, because the detection methods of the Administration are also changing with each passing day, and it is not safe."

"The second one is more common, that is, to put the secret in a bright place where everyone can see it. However, there are many solutions of this type, basically showing you normal things in a fair way. Then When needed, use something that is abnormal and use it~ or change the name of something that is not good, and use it as a good thing.”

In fact, this is how the real world works too.

Such as missile defense systems, defensive nuclear weapons, or the system of buying lives with money packaged as a 'private medical system', etc.

But Shirai couldn't listen to the follow-up nagging, she muttered: "It's normal, it becomes abnormal when needed..."

Seeing Shirai's eyes straighten, Owen stopped a long explanation: "It seems that you want to understand something."

"Yeah! But I need to be there! Thank you, Owen!!!"

"Don't be so impulsive, hey, I'm gone again... So, the impulsiveness of young people."

Owen, who was left alone, shook his head and went out.

He also has his own to do.

Chapter 57 Feng Shui and Guidance

Probably because of Ba Mami disrupting the rhythm, although the host Fuso Caiai announced the name of the third round.But the game did not start directly, but announced a 10-minute intermission.

The host, Aya Fuso, said that it was for the three 'overworked' A-level ability users to take a rest.

But everyone present knew it was bullshit.

The first game plus the second round, even if Fuso Aya's commentary is included, the total time does not exceed 5 minutes.

This amount of exercise isn't even considered a warm-up for an A-rank youkai.

Obviously, it is to make adjustments to the next activities.

The audience who just witnessed how Mami Asami, Misaka Mikoto, and Touma Kamijou disturbed everyone by themselves, as well as the contestants who have become audiences and held tissues, expressed their understanding.

It's only 10 minutes, and seeing the three-party battle of A-level ability users is really profitable, right?

And they're not here just waiting.When the flow of people gathers, the vendors on the side of the road also flow together, and they will never be bored in the past 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a similar background.

Nowhere to be bothered.

The top three contestants were sitting on chairs, each with a can of drink in his hand.

"How long shall we wait?"

Misaka Mikoto leaned back on the plastic chair, pinching the plastic bottle impatiently with both hands.

"Isn't it time yet?!"

"How long has it been?"

Kamijou Touma looked at the time on the phone, and replied to Misaka Mikoto: "Only 5 minutes have passed, there are about 15 minutes and 36 seconds left."

"understood!"

Misaka Mikoto gave Kamijou a blank look, then took a sip of the drink in her hand.

Kamijou felt that the drink bottle that was squeezed in Misaka's hand was like his own clone.

Kamijou, who felt a chill down his back, turned to Asami, who was reassuring.

"Mami, why don't you look in a hurry?"

"What do you mean you don't seem in a hurry?" Hearing Kamijou's words, Asami opened one eye and looked at Kamijou Touma. "Do you think I'm in a hurry?"

"Isn't it? You were so irritable during the game, even someone like Misaka wouldn't think about cleaning up everyone in one go."

"What do you call a person like me!"

Bilibili!

A tiny bolt of lightning shot out from the forehead of the brown-haired girl, Kamijou panicked and raised his hand ahead of time to block it with the Honkai power.

Ba Mami looked helplessly at the two people who looked like children.

"Don't make trouble, if you are seen by children, your longing for A-level ability users will collapse."

"What do A-level ability users look forward to? It's just a power rating, and it doesn't represent the character and cultivation of the ability user himself."

Kamijou doesn't think power has anything to do with 'greatness', it's just 'powerful' at best.

Children should worship 'great' people, not powerful people.

"But speaking of it, Misaka, you should also pay attention to your image~"

"Me? You said there is something wrong with my image?!"

"I heard what Shokuhou said."

Kamijou didn't notice that Misaka Mikoto's face darkened after he said the word 'Shokuhou'.

"She said that you are one of the three A-level ability users of Tokiwadai, and the third of artificial ability users. Not only Tokiwadai, but also many people in the school garden look forward to you."

"Oh, she said that? And then..."

"Then, she said that your indecent tone, rude behavior and other indecent behaviors will bring down other students." The more Kamijou said, the more excited he said: "Especially the way you wear safety pants and raise your legs, it's really human The greatest crime!"

"You bastard, the last sentence must be your own idea!!!"

The tea girl who erupted from the volcano raised her hand to shoot a lightning spear, but before she sent it out, her wrist was trapped by a yellow ribbon.

"Shut up both of you!"

Ba Mamei growled angrily, condensed a flintlock gun in her hand, and turned it upside down.

Using the butt of the gun as a hammer, he knocked twice on Misaka Mikoto and Kamijou Tomatou.

"It hurts so much, why did you hit me twice."

Kamijou covered his forehead, it was absolutely red.

Ba Mami shook the flintlock in her hand, and said with a serious face.

"Even in the other world, you can use super powers at will, and you can't mess around. Besides, your every move may be seen by this thing."