"ah!!"

Riko had never expected that the bank behind her would suddenly explode, and she screamed in shock. However, Fang Zheng was naturally not as slow to react as Riko, and almost at the same time as the explosion, he pulled Riko behind him, and then a series of magical lights appeared instantly, blocking the explosion fragments and flames.

"Get lost!"

But at this moment, three guys with bags and masks who looked like gangsters rushed out of the bank. Seeing Fang Zheng and Li Zi standing in front of them, the leading gangster roared, then raised his right hand, and a fireball instantly shot out from his hand and shot towards Fang Zheng.

Wow, you can play with fire in front of me.

Seeing that the man in front of him dared to fire a fireball at him, Fang Zheng snorted coldly, then he clenched his fist and swung it forward. The next moment, Fang Zheng's right fist directly pierced through the flying fireball, and then punched the gangster who fired the fireball in the face. With a scream, the man flew back into the bank as if he was hit by a speeding truck.

Then Fang Zheng took half a step forward, and before his accomplice could react, he kicked the second gangster out.

It was not until this time that the last gangster reacted. He turned around and tried to run, but Fang Zheng had already grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

“Wa ...

As the gangster's arm was broken, he let out a horrific scream, but at the same time, a voice suddenly rang out.

"stop!"

Before he finished speaking, Fang Zheng saw a petite figure appear beside him almost instantly and kick him.

If it were an ordinary person, they might have thought that this sudden attack would cause them to panic, but in Fang Zheng's eyes, this speed was as slow as a turtle. He just snorted, then threw the gangster out like a sack, and then suddenly stretched out his left hand and grabbed the other's right foot.

At the same time, Fang Zheng raised his head and looked forward.

The attacker obviously didn't expect that his surprise attack would fail. The next moment, Fang Zheng felt his hand loosen, and then the attacker broke free from Fang Zheng's restraints and appeared in front of him again. Then he saw the attacker stretched out his hand and swung it in front of him -

"ah--!"

However, the next moment, accompanied by a scream, the unfortunate attacker fell directly to the ground.

Only then did the smoke clear.

At this moment, a petite girl with brown hair and twin ponytails was lying in front of Fang Zheng, her skirt and sleeves were nailed to the ground by needles. The girl with twin ponytails was staring at Fang Zheng in disbelief with her eyes wide open in surprise.

What is going on?

Of course she knew what had just happened. She wanted to use her ability to move through space to nail the man to the ground with those needles. However, just as she used her ability, the next moment those needles appeared next to her, nailing her to the ground instead! How is this possible? How did she do this? !

"Heizi!"

However, at this moment, there was another sound, followed by a bolt of lightning that suddenly flashed through the air and shot directly towards Fang Zheng.

Facing the lightning strike in front of him, Fang Zheng just glanced at it lightly.

The next moment, before the lightning could hit Fang Zheng's body, it disappeared into thin air.

“How could this be…!?”

Seeing this, the girl with twin ponytails was stunned. The other brown-haired girl in the distance also opened her eyes wide in surprise and was completely speechless for a moment.

At this moment...

"stop!!"

Suddenly, a girl in a sailor suit and a wreath on her head ran out. She tremblingly came to the girl with twin ponytails nailed to the ground and stretched out her hand. Although she looked like she was about to cry, she still mustered up the courage and spoke.

"I, I'm the Discipline Committee! The guards are coming soon! Please put down your weapons immediately...!"

"Be careful, Hatsuharu!"

However, at this moment, the man who was knocked away by Fang Zheng suddenly rushed over from the side, holding a butterfly knife in his hand, and rushed towards Chuchun. At the same time, another girl wearing a sailor suit like the wreath girl rushed out and pushed Chuchun away, but she was exposed in front of the man.

“Go to hell!!”

"Saten-kun!!"

Seeing this scene, the girl with the garland couldn't help but scream. However, just when the man was about to rush in front of the black-haired girl, Fang Zheng suddenly flashed and stood in front of the girl. Then he grabbed the man's right hand that was stabbing with the butterfly knife and swung it away.

“Aaaaaaaah!!”

Accompanied by screams, the man suddenly flew high into the sky and then fell heavily to the ground.

"……Why?"

Seeing this, everyone was stunned.

After a while, the people who had gathered together finally learned the whole story and couldn't help but look embarrassed.

"Since you are the victim, why did you attack Heizi?!"

"She came towards me first."

Fang Zheng pointed at the girl with twin ponytails next to him who had a livid face, and the other person snorted.

"Because, because I heard those criminals screaming so loudly, I thought you were..."

At this point, the girl with twin ponytails also bowed her head and sighed helplessly. She had just teleported in, and before she could figure out what was going on, she heard the scream of the third gangster. At that time, Heizi instinctively thought that Fang Zheng was the criminal who robbed the bank, and the one who screamed might be a victim such as a hostage, so she rushed to take action.

Unexpectedly, he was knocked down by Fang Zheng in just a few moves.

By the way, the three criminals were also arrested by the security guards who rushed over after hearing the news, but they were not sent to prison, but directly to the hospital. After all, the three prisoners were seriously injured by Fang Zheng, and all three of them had different degrees of comminuted fractures. The leader even had a concussion and multiple bleeding. If he was not rescued, he would die on the road.

As for Fang Zheng, he was summoned to the branch of the Discipline Committee to take a statement. Then after watching the video, it was confirmed that he was indeed an innocent passerby who was affected. In addition, Fang Zheng's attitude was also very good, so he was finally determined to be acting in self-defense.

"I'm so sorry."

After leaving the branch, the girl with twin ponytails - Shirai Kuroko also bowed solemnly to Fang Zheng.

"It's nothing. You just need to do your job and you just recognized the wrong person. Don't take it too seriously."

Fang Zheng didn't care, but Shirai Kuroko blushed. In fact, she knew that the other party had indeed shown mercy to her. After all, the injuries of the three gangsters had been identified. If Fang Zheng wanted to fight back at that time, she would probably be living in the hospital now.

Not to mention that all of this was originally caused by my own misjudgment...

However, as the saying goes, there is no acquaintance without fighting. After such a fight, Fang Zheng got to know these girls. The discipline committee member with twin ponytails was Shirai Kuroko, the one who fired lightning to stop her was Misaka Mikoto, and the one who came out to protect Kuroko and wore a flower on her head was her friend Uiharu Shiri, and Uiharu's friend Saten Ruiko...

Of course, Fang Zheng had seen them in animations before, but this was just the first time they met Fang Zheng.

After the statement was taken, it was already dinner time, and as an apology, Fang Zheng invited the girls to have dinner together, to which they quickly agreed. By the way, they also got to know Feng Lizi who was with Fang Zheng, and the little kitten in Fang Zheng's arms...

"So Mr. Fang Zheng, you are the director of the institute?"

After three rounds of wine... and tea, Fang Zheng introduced himself to the girls. After hearing his introduction, Lei Zi, who had long, smooth black hair, immediately couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"Yes, I just came to Academy City recently as well."

Fang Zheng stroked the kitten in his arms and nodded.

"Hey... So what does your research institute do, Mr. Fang Zheng?"

"Currently? Currently, we are researching how to give the disabled people abilities."

"Really?"

Hearing this, Lei Zi stood up excitedly again.

"Is it really possible to do such a thing?"

"I can only say that it is possible, but it is hard to say whether it can be done. After all, there should be many similar research topics in Academy City."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng glanced at Heizi, and Heizi nodded.

"Yes, improving ability levels is a key research topic in Academy City... If there really is a way to give people abilities, it would have been researched long ago."

"Is that so..."

Lei Zi sat down somewhat disappointedly, looking somewhat depressed, while Fang Zheng just looked at her and smiled slightly without saying much. At this time, Chu Chun looked at Fang Zheng curiously and asked.

"But Mr. Fang Zheng, how did you defeat Kuroko and Misaka-san? Are you also a user of special abilities?"

Hearing Hatsuharu's question, Misaka Mikoto, who was originally focusing on the kitten, and Shirai Kuroko, who was absent-minded beside them, immediately perked up and looked at Fang Zheng. This was also their question. Kuroko couldn't understand why her ability would work against her, and Mikoto was also confused as to why her lightning completely disappeared before hitting the target.

You have to know that when she saw Heizi fall down, she was very nervous and anxious. Although she didn't use her full strength, she also used considerable strength!

How could it suddenly disappear?

However, in response to Chuchun's question, Fang Zheng just laughed.

"Who knows? Maybe it's a power, or maybe it's magic?"