Chapter 3 Superpowers [Superpower - Trayastrimsa Heaven]

The six of them walked into a ramen shop. Date Wataru and Kitagawa Ryusei were at the back, watching Hagiwara Kenji and Morofushi Hiromitsu talking, as well as Matsuda Jinpei and Furuya Rei beside them, who were trying to kill each other with their eyes.

"How did you do that?" Date Wataru asked in a low voice, his eyes wide with amazement.

He had considered the possibility of being rejected before this.

"All we need to do is convince Hagiwara and Morofushi," Kitagawa Ryusei replied simply.

Whether you want your friend to get along well with your classmate, or you have a mischievous urge to see the other person get angry and frustrated, having these two people handle it will definitely be effective.

Ida Kou seemed to be deep in thought, and secretly gave him a thumbs-up behind his back as a sign of respect.

"So that guy really is annoying!" During dinner, Matsuda Jinpei overheard Kitagawa Ryusei's first impression of Furuya Rei and felt quite empathetic: "He practically has 'I want to be a cop' written all over his eyes!"

Rei Furuya felt a pang of pain in his eyes from the description and retorted without hesitation, "Please, I'm a police academy student! It's weirder for someone like you to act like you're about to use excessive force!"

"You blond bastard, haven't you had enough of being beaten up?!"

"You talk like you got the better deal last night, you curly-haired bastard!"

"Alright, Zhenping, getting angry will cause wrinkles!"

"Zero, the ramen is getting cold, eat it quickly."

Kenji Hagiwara and Kagemitsu Morofushi spoke at the same time to stop the two from fighting.

Seemingly to ease the tension, Morofushi Kagemitsu picked up where he left off, speaking in a gentle tone: "Speaking of which, the first time I saw Kitagawa-kun, I thought you would be a well-behaved and excellent student."

This time, it was Rei Furuya and Ryusei Kitagawa's turn to widen their eyes and exclaim in unison in shock: "Huh?"

Rei Furuya recalled his encounter with Ruki Kitagawa during his nighttime stroll the previous night, and asked in a complicated tone, "Hiro, how did you figure that out?"

Based solely on looks?

Instead of being annoyed by his question, Kitagawa Ryusei nodded in agreement: "Although many people have said this, I don't think I'm obedient at all."

The word "obedient" is an absolute insult to him as a Mafia junior officer! Absolutely!

Kitagawa Ryusei believed that he only put on a little bit of a facade in front of the police.

If you are misunderstood, it must be because your disguise is too perfect!

Kitagawa Ryusei thought to himself with satisfaction, then changed the subject: "Are Furuya-kun and Morofushi-kun childhood friends?"

His reply was from Morofushi Kagemitsu: "That's right, Zero and I have known each other since we were very young."

"That's the same as me and Jinpei!" Kenji Hagiwara affectionately put his arm around the neck of the person next to him, ruffling his hair despite the other's dark expression. "Where's Ryusei? Your friends in Yokohama must miss you a lot since you came to Tokyo for school!"

The purple-eyed youth changed his form of address quite naturally, without being offensive, forcing Kitagawa Ryusei to acknowledge the other's talent in social situations.

Kitagawa Ryusei said, "I didn't have time to..."

Kitagawa Ryusei suddenly stopped mid-sentence, feeling that something was amiss.

The day before he came into this world, he was dealing with the enemy at the docks with his action team... What was his partner doing?

Why would the other party send him on a mission alone? Or did he have something else more important to do at the time?

A whisper seemed to flash through my mind:

"How you use your abilities is your prerogative, but Ryusei-chan..."

"Ryuu?"

Kitagawa Ryusei was brought back to his senses by that voice.

It turned out that Kenji Hagiwara hadn't received any further information and was curiously watching him along with the others.

"Oh, I just suddenly remembered that I didn't have time to say goodbye to my friends when I left," Kitagawa Ryusei lowered his head to hide the strangeness in his expression, and when he looked up again, he had a calm smile on his face: "I'll probably get a beating when I get back."

“Hey, such an adorable baby face,” Kenji Hagiwara asked, half-jokingly and half-shockingly, “Who would have the heart to beat up Ryusei?”

Compared to the word "well-behaved" from before, the adjective "cute" made Kitagawa Ryusei feel even more awkward. His face flushed red instantly, and the redness gradually spread to the tips of his ears.

Kitagawa Ryusei's gaze swept around and landed on Furuya Rei, who was engrossed in eating ramen. He quickly pulled him into the water: "Furuya-kun has a baby face too, but Matsuda-kun can still beat him, can't he?"

"Cough, cough!"

Furuya Rei was caught in the crossfire for no reason and almost ate the ramen noodles. He coughed twice in discomfort and took the tissue from Morofushi Kagemitsu before he could even refute her.

Matsuda Jinpei preemptively said, "His face only arouses my desire to throw a punch, it has nothing to do with 'cute'."

Date Wataru seemed to have discovered something important, and asked with a surprised expression, "So, Kitagawa-kun thinks Furuya is cute?"

Before he could finish speaking, Furuya Rei coughed even more unnaturally, as if he had been suffocated by the steam from the ramen in front of him.

With several people between them, he turned his gaze to Kitagawa Ryusei and found that the other person was also propping up his face, looking him up and down without flinching.

Realizing this, Rei Furuya subconsciously straightened his back, making his posture appear somewhat stiff for a moment.

Although... how could a tall, muscular 22-year-old man be considered "cute"?

Rei Furuya felt inexplicably nervous, but that didn't stop him from internally grumbling.

Just as Kitagawa Ryusei was about to respond, she suddenly wrinkled her nose slightly, turned her head, and asked with a furrowed brow, "Did you... smell something strange?"

It smelled like the aftermath of a mission when the Mafia was cleaning up the scene.

There were also some strange noises downstairs, but Kitagawa Ryusei was not entirely sure.

After all, this isn't Yokohama. You probably won't encounter explosions or gunfights on the streets of Tokyo, right?

Rei Furuya, who was sitting by the window, also noticed something and opened the second-floor window to look down.

The panicked cries, blocked by the window, instantly came through—

"Fire!"

"Run away!!"

At the other end of the street not far away, a black private car was parked diagonally on the side of the road, with obvious collision marks on the front.

The other white sedan, which was hit by the wall, had its door dented, and thick smoke billowed out from the gaps in the hood, while flames shot out from inside the car to the front wheels!

The driver was unconscious, with blood trickling down his forehead to his lips and then dripping from his chin. Several passersby managed to pull him out of the driver's seat.

Within seconds, the flames had escaped the control of passersby who were trying to put out the fire and spread to the entire vehicle.

The back door was still tightly closed, deeply recessed, and faint sobbing could be heard coming from inside.

At this point, the driver's side entrance was completely blocked. The intact rear door was also blocked by the wall and could not be opened!

Someone lunged forward to try and open the deformed rear door, but the sweltering heat forced their hand back.

"The door won't open! There's a child inside!!"

After rushing downstairs, the six police academy students quickly ascertained the current situation.

People in the vicinity had already contacted the fire department, but they estimated it would be difficult for them to arrive in a short time. The fire extinguishers borrowed from street shops were also ineffective against the raging fire.

"How long has it been since the fire started?!" Kenji Hagiwara, whose family had owned a car factory, was more familiar with the current situation, and he immediately asked the people around him.

"It's been almost five minutes!"

"Damn it, Kojinpei, you and the squad leader go evacuate the crowd to prevent them from being affected by the explosion!" Affected by the heat wave, Kenji Hagiwara's forehead was slightly sweaty as he scanned the surroundings for tools that could be used to save people.

About seven minutes after a car catches fire, the entire chassis will be engulfed in flames. At this point, both the fuel tank and tires are prone to explosion. ①

As soon as Furuya Rei took off his coat and wrapped it around his arm, he took the bottled water from Morofushi Kagemitsu, soaked his clothes, and rushed over.

But Kitagawa Ryusei suddenly looked in the direction of the vehicle, as if he had an inexplicable sense of danger:

"It's about to explode."

They were about fifty meters away from the burning vehicle.

If Rei Furuya went to save people right now...

"Hey! No!"

Just as Furuya Rei was about to run to save people, he was grabbed by the collar and dragged back to his original spot. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure rush out even faster than him!

"Kitagawa Ryusei?!"

The young man's figure in the field of vision was as agile as a cheetah on a hunt, reaching the flames that were baring their fangs and claws in a matter of seconds.

The surrounding crowd had been mostly evacuated, and the shops closest to the accident vehicle were now completely empty.

"careful!"

Kitagawa Ryusei seemed oblivious to the heat of the flames, ignoring the raging fire around him, and crawled into the car through the front door, which had been burned down to just a steel frame!

Flames burned his clothes and hair, and some of them were scorching the young man's skin.

But he didn't care at all.

The little child in the back seat was curled up in the seat with her small arms covering her head. Her feet were firmly stuck, and burns covered her calves and her hands that were protecting her head.

The child no longer had the strength to cry; his low sobs sounded like a dying animal cub.

Without a second thought, Kitagawa Ryusei used her simply wrapped hands to tear off the shackles that an adult could easily break free from.

He took off his coat, wrapped the little girl in it, picked her up with the coat, and climbed out of the driver's seat again!

The whole process took less than ten seconds!

"--Bang!"

The car, barely clinging to life, finally succumbed to the intense heat of the flames and exploded with a sharp bang just before Kitagawa Ryusei stepped out!

"Kitagawa Ryusei!!"

Five police academy students screamed and ran for their lives!

The explosion ripped through the sky, the air twisted and deformed under the intense heat, and shattered metal fragments, still scorching hot, flew in all directions.

The thick smoke and the pungent stench of rubber and gasoline filled Kitagawa Ryusei's lungs, and the flames danced wildly before his eyes like demons.

This scene was like a wedge driven hard into Kitagawa Ryusei's retina, deeply embedded in his mind.

...It's as if the fire devoured something very important to me.

Immediately afterwards, countless images were awakened by the explosions and fires before his eyes, instantly giving him a splitting headache.

In that brief moment of confusion, the glass shards from the explosion flew straight toward Kitagawa Ryusei!

Holding a child in her arms, she couldn't dodge. In the blind spot obscured by the flames, the sharp glass reflected the blinding light of the fire, piercing straight towards Kitagawa Ryusei's neck.

His skin was ripped open, and scalding blood splattered, landing on the young man's face like specks of red plum blossoms.

...The familiar smell of death.

Kitagawa Ryusei closed his eyes, almost completely absorbed in the moment.

[Special Ability - Trayastrimsa Heaven!]

After a brief, fleeting visit to the supernatural space, Kitagawa Ryusei opened his eyes again, the firelight reflected in them seeming ready to leap out.

His arm, the cut veins, and the burns on the little girl in his arms all vanished in that instant!

"Bang--!"

A second explosion rang in his ears, and the heat and shock pushed Kitagawa Ryusei to the ground!

"Kitagawa-kun!"

He fell heavily, leaving a long trail as he skidded along the ground due to inertia.

Several police academy students immediately rushed forward and took the child, who was being held tightly in his arms.

"Are you hurt anywhere?!"

He could hear the anxiety and concern in these people's voices.

He did not respond.

For some reason, Kitagawa Ryusei looked up, staring blankly at the police academy students who were worried about his injuries and dared not move him. He opened his mouth but could not make a sound.

Until he clearly saw Furuya Rei among the five.

The other person looked at him with concern in their eyes.

His eyes, stung by the sunlight and the future policeman's blond hair, gleamed with an unusual light.

—He seemed to understand why he had come here…