Kuroko felt her worldview begin to shift when she saw two ice lions suddenly appear—abilities that the Joker had never displayed before.
"You... You... You're a magician!"
Despite Yuki having already told her, it was still the first time Kuroko had witnessed the existence of magic. After all, it was too ridiculous to be true, but it was also the only plausible explanation for why this clown possessed so many abilities and was so versatile.
"You took your time to figure it out, but I congratulate you for doing so..."
Yuki didn't deny it; he accepted it and nodded. At the same time, the projectiles ceased. It seemed the ice lions had dealt with those annoying dogs.
"You!"
Seeing him assist so indifferently, Kuroko gritted her teeth and began to struggle wildly in Yuki's arms.
"Let go of me, scum!"
"Whatever you say~..."
Without hesitation, Yuki let her go, causing the yuri girl to fall to the ground abruptly.
"Ugh! Bastard!"
"I only did what you asked for..."
Kuroko really wanted to bite this bastard, but she didn't have the patience to start another fight and focused on her main problem: the enemy in the darkness who had frightened her to death by shooting so suddenly.
"Circus clown, what's going on?"
"Nothing, just a hikikomori magician who wants to deal with me..."
"What?!"
"Don't let your guard down; here they come again..."
Through their connection, Yuki could feel that his ice lions had been destroyed, which made Yuki frowned.
Before Kuroko could start another barrage of questions, several people in power suits began to appear and started shooting.
"Circus clown, what did you do?!"
Kuroko opened her mouth, not even knowing where all these suspicious individuals had come from, but she knew one thing: this circus clown was to blame.
And of course, Yuki denied everything.
"Nothing special, this humble clown makes a living by singing; I have nothing to do with these people..."
"Liar!"
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"So, the surprise attack failed, huh?"
Looking at a screen showing a satellite image of the unscathed target, a man with blond hair and a tattoo on the left side of his face, wearing a lab coat and a black and white shirt, spoke.
His name was Amata Kihara, a member of the Kihara family, commander of Hound Dog, and a researcher. Most notably, he was the former mentor of the strongest Esper in Academy City, Accelerator.
At this moment, Amata was studying his opponent who was dodging the enhanced projectiles from the Anti-tank rifle. Though he was looking at the screen, he furrowed his brow.
A day ago, Aleister had ordered him to eliminate the greatest variable and possibly the most terrible threat in Academy City... The Joker.
Amata, as someone who had spent a long time on the dark side of Academy City, knew about the existence of magic. Despite specializing in dealing with Espers, he had very little experience dealing with magicians. However, this was not an impediment for Amata; after all, magicians were still human, so they could bleed just like him. Of course, Amata did not underestimate him and measured him outside the norm, using this heavy military rifle. He also needed to know exactly what his prey was capable of, since Under_Line was destroyed, Amata had no choice but to use the satellite image.
However, the Joker was still very elusive; modern machinery couldn't track him, including the olfactory device. Something was interfering with his location, preventing signals from being sent. Fortunately, the Joker was playing with a Judgment girl, which gave the perfect opportunity to find him and make a surprise attack.
However, the first contact failed. This clown was able to dodge the projectiles with precision, even after the Hound Dogs kept attacking. He continued to evade the attacks while carrying someone in his arms, which was quite surprising and also beyond human limits, but this was what magicians in this world could do; at least a handful of them were capable of such a feat.
"So, that's magic, huh?"
Suddenly, two ice lions emerged from the shadow of the clown. Amata put a hand to his chin and squinted; magic was certainly versatile, summoning such monsters in the blink of an eye. They ran towards the location of the Hound Dogs, and the hunter ended up being hunted...
Fortunately, Amata had a backup plan in case the surprise attack failed.
"It's time to act... Eliminate the target..."
"Understood."
Speaking through the radio, several Hound Dogs began to appear on the rooftop, and before the ice lions could attack, they were destroyed by heavy weaponry. Unlike the other Hound Dogs, these did not wear protective gear; instead, they wore humanoid power suits with tentacles...
These were super soldiers, specially created by Aleister to deal with the greatest anomaly in Academy City, the Joker.
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"I'm sorry, but this is too much for someone like you, Kuroko..."
"Don't call me so intimately, scum!"
Kuroko was furious and a little anxious. There were about a dozen of these individuals in power suits, shooting rapidly, and Kuroko teleported in an instant. Unfortunately, as soon as she appeared, several projectiles were about to hit her...
*Bam
Fortunately, a golden barrier appeared around her, protecting her. Kuroko had no idea she was about to be killed until the barrier suffered the impact, which scared her to death and paled her face.
"They're too fast; they exceed your teleportation time."
Kuroko's ability had a time limit between each activation, which was approximately one second. Although she was quick to evade, it would be impossible to dodge twice; she was not like Minato, whose teleportation was in hundredths of a second. If it weren't for Yuki, this girl would already be dead; also, the teleportation distance was not too wide, allowing the Hound Dogs to catch her...
*Gulp...
Kuroko swallowed hard. For the first time, she felt relieved that this clown, after all, was dealing with the joint attack of these Hound Dogs by himself at the moment...
"What... What do we do?"
Kuroko began to panic. During her time in Judgment, she had never encountered an attack on this scale. Well, that was to be expected since she spent her time catching small-time gangsters and some arrogant students. There was no way to compare these super soldiers, specially created to destroy the Joker...
"Don't worry, I'm not a magician you can hit and get away with it..."
*Clap
Clapping both hands, Yuki's spiritual power increased, and the barrier began to tremble. At the same time, several golden snakes were created...
"Incredible..."
Similar to a kind of colorful lights, Kuroko opened her mouth in surprise as the snakes pounced on the super soldiers...
Unfortunately, the scenario Yuki expected did not happen. These guys didn't panic; they changed their positions and dodged with great agility. Also, several weapons began to form on their backs and shoot photon rays, which caused great damage to the spiritual snakes, fighting evenly without losing...
Aleister had foreseen all this, so these super soldiers were by no means weak; they were perfect killing machines. Each soldier's power level had exceeded the epic range and entered the Tectonic Range. Yuki even suspected that if one of these super soldiers were to face the current Mikoto, Mikoto might suffer a loss...
"ALF Field Activation"
Suddenly, the super soldiers changed position and created a perimeter. At the same time, a magical pattern began to appear on the ground, and a pillar of light fell from the sky...
*Shiiiiiiiiiii
And that was not all, as it was accompanied by a chaotic sound that made Kuroko's ears bleed...
"Gah!"
Bending down with both hands on her head, Kuroko felt like her head was exploding. Everything was so fast that the area around her was so confusing that she was unable to activate her ability.
Yuki also closed his eyes; the light was too intense and blinding that even her Sharingan had trouble. Fortunately, with her spiritual power, she could scan the area without looking, and by doing so, Yuki immediately understood...
"They're Machines"
That's right, there were no humans inside these suits; they were robots, super combat robots...
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TN : Erm sorry for being late... I was just helping a old woman cross road from konoha to orario