Mutter.

Mai Trin swallowed her saliva and glared at the person in front of her.

As for the fact that she is prejudiced against this person, Mai Trin is willing to admit it. She even felt that the relationship between the two had never been good from the beginning.

Of course, part of this is her problem, and she will not deny this completely. But the bad side of this guy's personality has always been a point that she finds difficult to accept.

Especially being called out at lunchtime.

"Ah-la Misaka-san, your face is not very good-looking."

The woman in front of her who made her unhappy blushed and looked happy. She even licked her upper lip lightly, giving her a seductive look.

The rich aroma in the air is also one of the reasons why Mai Tamin is quite unhappy.

She was facing the woman across the table, on which lay a small basket and a small copper round stove burning solid fuel, and an iron plate on top of it.

The woman skillfully and quickly took the cheese out of the basket and laid it on the iron plate.

Suddenly, the cheese made a "sizzling" sound on the iron plate, and melted into a creamy texture in the diffuse aroma.

"Hmm~~~~" The girl on the other side took a long breath, as if she was savoring the charming fragrance. "I'll just say, the grilled cheese at this shop is superb."

For Mai Trin's look of wanting to eat people, she simply didn't see it, but just praised the plate of grilled cheese.

The rich aroma of cheese was too tempting, especially for Mai Tamin who had not eaten lunch yet.

Of course, she knew better that the woman in front of her would never invite her to eat.

"Waiter, come here."

Although she didn't plan to eat out, she would certainly not do such a thing if she was to watch the woman she hated the most eat on an empty stomach.

"It's coming, it's coming."

A waitress in a black skirt and white shirt approached, but suddenly she stopped halfway through.

“？”

Mai Trin looked at her in bewilderment, as if she had completely forgotten about it, and turned to do her previous work again. And more importantly, no one in the restaurant was surprised by this scene.

Mai Trin immediately understood what was going on.

"Eat, bee,, pray!"

She glared viciously at the person in front of her.

Another LV.5 at Tokiwa-ba shrugged his shoulders while holding the controller, and with his other hand he gently sprinkled a thin layer of fine salt on top of the cheese.

"Misaka-san, I'm not here to talk to you."

"Then did you call me out to see you have lunch?!"

"You don't have to look at it if you want."

"That's not the problem!"

Therefore, those who don't get along are those who don't get along. Mai Trin picked up her bag and prepared to leave.

"So, it doesn't matter if it's related to Kaihara-san?"

“……”

Mai Trin silently put down her bag.

"I don't have much to say about people who like you to use your ability to control others like this."

"Ability? Didn't you realize that now that you didn't walk away, you already had what I wanted? The bee-eater said disapprovingly, "You may be underestimating me too much." Although my abilities are not against you, there is more to control the behavior of others than just abilities. As Skinner has long revealed, human behavior is nothing more than the result of its own interaction with the outside world, and all behavior is influenced by what has happened in the past. As long as you know enough about human nature, you can make predictions about human behavior, and once you can predict them, then the change is very simple. If I want others to do what I want, I can be sure that even if I don't use my ability, even you. Lo and behold, these are just some applications of psychology, which are enough to control the vast majority of people. So I never abuse my abilities, it's just that most of the time I don't bother to use other means. ”

"Don't be too confident, you're so confident that you can grasp other people's behavior?" She said with some anger.

"If I say it's not much worse, will you believe it?" The bee-eater replied leisurely.

"Listen, I'd be interested to know what you're doing about it."

"Okay. Then I'll answer your question. In fact, there are definitely no more than five people that I really can't grasp at all, and it's a pity that you're not included. The reason I can't grasp it is because I can't even understand these people. If I can't understand it, then it's naturally out of my grasp. ”

"I don't know if you're confident or arrogant."

"On the contrary, it is humility. In fact, I admit that there are people we interact with that I can't grasp. It's a pity that it's not you, your mind is so simple, it's easy to grasp what you might do. ”

"Do you want to say it's Kaihara-san?"

The bee-eater raised the corners of his mouth with a strange look:

"Or rather, both of them. It seems to me that the big one is more difficult to understand, at least the small one is easy to deal with. ”

"Mitsuki Haihara? Hard to understand?? ”

In Mai Trin's opinion, this is really bizarre. In the eyes of Tokiwadai students, Mitsuki Umihara has always been a hearty and straightforward sunny teenager. In any case, it's not a difficult type to understand.

"It's strange that a guy who is good enough to be a girl's collector goes around his sister all day long."

The bee-eater shook the knife, apparently joking.

"I'm not here to hear you say these tasteless jokes."

"Okay, okay, let's get down to business." The beeeater puts down the knife and fork. "Misaka-san, there are some things I want you to tell me about Kaihara-san. Of course, I mean the big one. ”

"Why don't you tell him yourself? Besides, you're not unfamiliar with Umihara-san Umihara. ”

"Unfortunately, I couldn't contact him except for the fact that he took the initiative to contact me, and obviously he did a series of precautions against my ability. As for asking Kaihara-san to tell me about this, there is one of my agreements with him, that is, I can't let her know. At the moment, I don't have the idea of breaking that convention. ”

This passage made Mai Trin frown.

Obviously, judging from the content of this passage, Mitsuki Haihara obviously had something with the guy in front of her that she didn't know.

"Do you want me to guess what you're thinking?" As if to confirm what she said, she was able to master Mai Trin's behavior, Bee Eater said with an ambiguous smile. "The real reason is not that complicated. There is a person in the school that my sister attends who can control others at will.,When my brother is naturally not at ease.,That's all we have to do.。 Naturally, people with my ability will be completely insulated from the concept of trust. You should be able to imagine that. ”

The implicit meaning in these words is a little sad, although Mikoto Misaka has a bad relationship with the woman in front of her, but in this atmosphere, she will never deliberately say anything that is not there.

"What the hell is going on?"

"There are two main things. First, tell him that I can't do anything about his sister now, and not just at the mind-reading level, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. ”

Effect?

Mikoto Misaka remembered that she had said during the Void Blast incident that she had no way to read Umihara Dono's thoughts.

"There's one more thing, it's a bonus. Tell him that one of his senior sisters with whom he has a good relationship, I find that her name appears too often in the 'industry' circle these days. I don't know what that means, and I don't intend to understand what it means, but I don't think it's a coincidence. Ah, that'......."

The bee-eater seemed to suddenly remember something.

"You seem to have seen it, too."

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"The order is not to act rashly for the time being, and you better obey this order."

"Did we make so many preparations and leave it at that? Isn't the strength at hand enough to deal with all this? I really don't understand what we're hesitating about. ”

"Don't you even understand that any kind of power can boast about how strong it is before it fails? You shouldn't be unaware of what that light was last night, the 'Dragonlord's Sigh' is the embodiment of the fear of the pagans in the entire Cross system, and the number of Crusaders in the past thousand years has exceeded 100 million? Seeing that if anyone still thinks Index itself is defenseless, I suggest he better get out of here, we don't need mindless idealists. Secondly, we also discovered the Puritan saint yesterday, and the strongest force on our side is at odds with us, which is undeniably a bad thing for us. Finally, and most importantly, we have always had good relations with the British, do you want us to break with the British? Do you think we don't have enough enemies? I might as well tell you plainly, for my own sake and for your own sake, that I absolutely do not want to hear such stupid words again. ”

“……”

"I believe that after this incident, the British side will try to reach some agreement with the Academy City. If I were a Puritan, I would certainly do it. Admittedly, the Forbidden Book Catalogue has always been the target of public criticism, and it would be reassuring for guys like the Orthodox Church to keep the Forbidden Book Catalogue in a neutral zone where no one can interfere. Throughout history, this has been a very common form of compromise. Smart people don't give up a hard-won compromise, and the smarter the compromise, the more like a work of art. So, when their compromise is complete, it's our chance. I can assure you that even if we were discovered, the British would pretend not to see it. After all, our goal is not to seize the catalogue of banned books, but to verify something. So what we're going to do now is just wait, wait for the Puritan side to leave. Compared to these, what I'm really worried about is the school city side......"

Taking off the headphones, Yanbi closed her eyes slightly. She was thinking back to the information she had gotten.

What she heard from the bug, she was almost completely incomprehensible, but that didn't prevent her from making judgments.

This is indeed what the intelligence says, those outsiders.

All this information came from this morning.,Judging from the words that we've eavesdropped.,I'm afraid they've been prepared as soon as they changed the hotel school city this morning.。 This was quite surprising to Yanbi.,She didn't expect that the monitoring ability of the school city had reached such an outrageous level.。

She was some distance from the hotel where the eavesdropping target was, but she knew exactly how many people were in their room, and even what they were doing.

Three-dimensional imaging technology clearly presents the outline of everyone on a computer screen.

She already knew the structure of the hotel, and she could take action at any time if necessary.

However,As far as arguing with those people in the room,She doesn't want the school city to have too fierce a conflict with the outside world.。

I got up and went to the window and looked up at the sky. Judging by the position of the sun, it was noon.

It seems that there is still a long time to wait.

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Note: About dragons. In England, accounts of dragons once appeared in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. The monks of Lindisfan recorded the incident. The original text goes like this: "There was a terrible omen in Northumbria that frightened the people. They include violent winds and lightning, and dragons flying."

In fact, it was a horrific massacre that took place in 793, and the dragons in the record were actually fierce and cruel pagans, the Vikings.

Examples such as these are so common in Christianity that most historians today are convinced that the history of Christianity as a metaphor for the fear of the pagans, including the story of St. George slaying the dragon.