"Okay, that's all for today."

After hearing Fang Zheng's words, Lei Zi put down the sword in her hand and stretched her body.

"Hoo... Then let's go prepare lunch... Index, what do you want to eat?"

"Mmm...Curry!"

"Then let's go buy some ingredients for the curry. Mr. Fang Zheng, please use the kitchen."

"no problem."

Hearing Lei Zi's request, Fang Zheng nodded and then glanced at Ram.

"Ram, you should go with them. Let's just eat curry today."

"Yes, Master Fang Zheng."

There is no full-time chef in Fang Zheng's research institute. Generally speaking, whoever is free will cook. Most of the time, Fang Zheng will do it himself. When Ram and Rem come, he will hand it over to Rem. Occasionally, Lei Zi will borrow the kitchen to cook some of her specialties. Therefore, the girls will meet at the research institute most of the time. After all, for them, this place feels like a second home.

After leaving the research institute, the three of them quickly headed to a nearby supermarket to start shopping. Since they had to prepare portions for Fang Zheng, Ram, Rem, Kiyama Haruki, Saten Ruiko and Index (mainly this), there were of course quite a few ingredients that needed to be purchased. However, Fang Zheng had already generously stated that the research institute would reimburse the money, so Ruiko of course didn't refuse.

"Index, do you want spicy or non-spicy food?"

"Hmm...I want something sweet!"

"Then let's eat something sweet... Let me see, that's all..."

Just when the three were choosing ingredients, a supermarket staff member suddenly came out, came to the counter not far from the three, put down the goods, and then picked up the loudspeaker.

"Today's 50% off sale has begun. Eggs are on sale at 50% off! Each person is limited to two boxes!"

These magical words almost instantly stimulated the nerves of all the customers in the supermarket. Men, women, old and young surrounded the supermarket almost instantly and stretched out their hands for the discounted eggs as if they were robbing them.

"I want!"

“I want these!”

“These are mine!!”

If you see this scene, I believe the rumors on the Internet that Japanese people will always queue up and observe order at any time and place will be self-defeating.

“Wow!!”

As for Saten Ruiko and the others, they were obviously caught in the crossfire and were immediately squeezed out by the surging crowd. Poor Index had never seen such a scene before, and was squeezed out in the blink of an eye. She could only wave her hands and shout desperately.

"Tear! Tears!!"

“Index!!”

Leizi was also holding her things while trying to squeeze out, but there were too many people and she couldn't squeeze out in a short time. In fact, their voices were completely drowned out by the noisy crowd and couldn't be heard clearly. At this time, Index was also knocked aside by an old lady and fell backwards with a scream.

Fortunately, at this moment, someone supported Index from behind, thus preventing her from falling to the ground.

"Little sister, are you okay?"

"Ah, thank you..."

Index turned around and saw a boy with a spiky hair and a white shirt standing behind her. He looked like a high school student. So she bowed her head and thanked him, while the spiky boy scratched his head with a smile.

"It's nothing, just a little help, then ..."

“Puff.”

However, before the boy finished speaking, he suddenly saw the nun's uniform on Index burst in front of him, and turned into pieces of cloth scattered on the ground. The girl's body was exposed to the cold air.

“…”

“…”

For a moment, the air froze.

And then...

“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!”

Following the scream, Index hurriedly hugged her body and squatted down, and at this moment, Tears finally came out, and she was also shocked to see the scene in front of her.

"Index, are you okay?"

While shouting, Ruiko rushed in front of Index, blocked her, and glared at the hedgehog-headed boy angrily.

"What did you do to this child?"

“No, I, I…”

Faced with Lei Zi's questioning, the hedgehog-headed boy was dumbfounded and didn't know how to explain. However, before he could say anything else, he saw Ram suddenly rushing over from the other side like a gust of wind, and then she grabbed the hedgehog-headed boy's collar, and then threw him hard, directly knocking him to the ground.

"Who are you? What do you want?"

“I…I…”

At this moment, the people behind also noticed something was wrong and gathered around. When they saw this scene, they immediately started to make a commotion.

"What on earth just happened!?"

"Contact the security guard immediately!"

Hearing the noisy noises around him, the hedgehog-haired boy held his head and shouted helplessly.

“What a misfortune!!!!”

“Tsk tsk tsk…”

Looking at Index, who was curled up in a ball wearing a baggy T-shirt, Fang Zheng couldn't help shaking his head.

"Then what?"

"Then the man was taken away by the security guards..."

Lei Zi sighed helplessly.

"If I had been more careful, maybe this wouldn't have happened."

Having said that, Lei Zi clenched her fists in anger.

"That person must be a very bad ability user. He actually used his ability to do such a thing to a girl. It's really bad!"

"Um……"

Facing Lei's complaint, Fang Zheng was silent for a moment. It was obvious that Lei took Index's clothes bursting as something that was done by Squirrel using her own abilities...

It seems that we can’t say that she is wrong?

After all, it was the ability of that hedgehog-head that caused Index's clothes to explode.

Fang Zheng didn't have any bad feelings towards Kamijou Touma, but he didn't like him that much either. The reason was that this guy always said that he was Lv0... Hehe, you dare to say that, and there are people who dare to believe it.

If Kamijou Touma himself didn't know he had this ability, then it would be fine for him to say that. But Kamijou Touma obviously knew he had this ability, but he still mentioned Lv0.

What is this?

This is like a top student who says every day, "Oh, I didn't get 100 points in the exam. I'm such a failure. I'm almost the same as the last place. I'm so ashamed." and then walks around the street with the test paper with 99 points.

Believe it or not, the last one will definitely stab you to death with a knife.

He deserves to be hunted by Misaka Mikoto every day.

It's one thing if you just pretend to be cool, but it's another if you pretend to be cool and treat others as idiots.

So every time when he saw Hedgehog-head confidently saying that he was a Level 0 in the animation, Fang Zheng wanted to laugh.

Can you please have a little shame?

You can insult your own IQ, but please don't insult other people's IQ, okay?

As for Index...

Looking at Index who was crying bitterly, Fang Zheng sighed and went over to touch her little head.

"Don't cry, just think of it as your fate."

After all, this is true.

Of course, after that, Fang Zheng also investigated the situation of the security guards and investigated Kamijou Touma's current situation. Although he was indeed arrested as a suspect at the time, after investigating the surveillance cameras and the library, it was confirmed that the other party was just an incompetent (laughs), so the security guards ended the investigation as an accident, and Kamijou Touma was released and returned home.

Of course, the discounted eggs he wanted to buy... he definitely had no hope of getting them.

But for him, this is a normal daily routine.

After that, everything was back to normal.

But unlike in the anime, Index didn't pin up the monastic uniform with a pin, but asked Lei Zi to sew it for her. Of course, after being touched by the hedgehog-headed man, the Mobile Church has lost its divine protection, but if it is simply worn as a monastic uniform, there is still no problem.

After the sun set, Ruiko and Index left the research institute together.

"Really? I didn't expect there would be such a person who would make a girl's clothes burst in broad daylight. What kind of person is this?"

Thinking of what happened during the day, Ruiko was still somewhat indignant, while Index frowned and said nothing.

"What's wrong? Index?"

Seeing Index like this, Ruiko asked uneasily, and Index shook her head.

"No, I was wondering... How on earth did that person turn my mobile church into that?"

"The mobile church... ah, you mean the monastic robes, maybe it's some kind of ability. Seriously, even if you have the ability, you can't abuse it like this."

When she said this, Ruizi had long forgotten that she would greet Hatsuharu with an "updraft" every morning when she saw her.

So people...always have double standards.

"But can ordinary super powers do something like this...?"

"Um……?"

As the two were talking, they had already reached the intersection, but... what surprised Leizi was that the intersection that was always busy was now empty, looking as weird as a horror movie. When Index saw this scene, her face changed drastically.

"Oh no! They are expelling idlers!"

"Why?"

"finally found you."

However, before Leizi could react, she saw a tall figure coming from the other side of the street. It was a long-haired woman wearing torn jeans and a white shirt, holding a long knife in her hand. When she saw this woman, Index hid behind Leizi out of fear.

Looking at Index who was trembling behind her, Ruizi gritted her teeth and looked at the woman in front of her.

"Who are you?"

"I am Kanzaki Kaori."

The long-haired woman stared at Index calmly and spoke.

"If possible, I don't want to give another name. Simply put, I hope to be able to take the child back and protect him."

"Protect……"

Saten looked at Index, who was silent for a moment and then walked out from behind Saten.

"I, I understand..."

"Wait, Index? Are you really okay?"

Although Index tried to appear calm, Ruizi could see that she was obviously afraid of the woman in front of her.

"I'm fine, Ruizi, thank you."

Hearing Saten's question, Index turned around and smiled at her.

"It's okay. I'll be fine. Don't worry."

"Don't worry...? But..."

However, at this moment, the woman spoke again.

"If you are willing to come with us, then I won't do anything to the girls around you."

“You, what are you talking about!?”

Hearing this, Ruiko could no longer hold back and hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed Index and pulled her behind her.

"Who are you?! Why are you trying to capture Index?!"

"This is none of your business."

The long-haired woman obviously had no intention of answering Lei Zi's question. Instead, she grasped the hilt of the knife with one hand and then swung it forward suddenly!

“——!!”

An almost invisible sword light flashed quickly and swept towards Lei Zi. At the same time, suddenly, dozens of flying blades condensed by wind shot out from the side and hit the sword light emitted by the long-haired woman. With a loud "boom", a violent explosion spread instantly, blasting a huge hole in the road in front of them.

"Who is it?"

The long-haired woman quickly turned around and stared at the direction where the wind blade came from. Soon, she saw a girl with short pink hair and wearing a maid costume walking out.

"Ms. Ram?"

Seeing Ram's figure, Ruizi was surprised, and Ram nodded.

"Mr. Fang Zheng asked me to follow you to avoid any accidents. You take the child back to the institute first, and leave this to me."

"OK!"

Hearing this, Ruiko nodded without hesitation and then grabbed Index.

"Index, let's go!!"

As she spoke, Ruiko grabbed Index and ran quickly back the way they came.

"Are you a magician too?"

The long-haired woman looked at Ram, her expression became extremely serious, she clenched the long sword and raised it high. At the same time, Ram raised her hands, and the power of the wind condensed between her hands.

"Seven Flashes!"

“Wind Blade!”