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"Starry Sky, could you please bring me a pillow?"
[Storm Girl Hina Amano quickly walked to Wolverine's side, observed his condition, and then spoke to Cyclops Yuzaki Hoshizora.]
"This...this was an accident."
[The mischievous Tsurumi Rumi looked at Storm Girl Amano Hina and said something, then walked straight through the crowd of onlookers towards her dormitory.]
Once again, I've hurt the people I care about because of my mutant abilities.
[As the mischievous Tsurumi walked with her head down, she remembered why she had run away from home. Her hands unconsciously clenched, her nails digging into her palms.]
[The image of her mother, severely injured and hospitalized due to her mutant abilities, flashed through Rumi Tsurumi's mind.]
[When the mischievous Tsurumi Rumi recalled seeing her mother lying in the hospital bed on a ventilator, looking haggard, and her father with a worried expression, her heart ached as if it were being torn apart.]
[Little Rumble Tsurumi dislikes her mutant ability very much. If it weren't for Wolverine's Ryujiro being a mutant with enhanced physique and an incredible healing factor, she probably would have already faced death.]
Meanwhile, at the Brotherhood's secret base, Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, after waiting for a while, also led his men to see the imprisoned senator.
"After all this time, you've either successfully become a mutant, or you're still an ordinary person. If you're still an ordinary person, then you're of no value."
"Squeak."
[With a wave of his hand, Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, caused the iron bars of the sewer cage to bend, creating an entrance for Magneto and his companions to pass through.]
"Are you alright? I hope you've successfully evolved?"
[Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, who was inside the sewer cage, spoke, but received no reply from the Senator. He then looked around but couldn't find the Senator.]
Only a pair of leather shoes remained, standing before the fence overlooking the cliff.
"It seems he successfully evolved into a mutant, but he's just restless and ran away."
[Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, pointed his little finger, and the iron fence, along with the wall, was ripped away and sent flying to the side.]
Then Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, looked down and saw the senator lying less than a meter away from the fence.
171: Is effort truly so powerless in the face of mutant abilities?
[Clearly, the senator was ultimately afraid and did not jump.]
In the instant the senator jumped, many things flashed through his mind, but the most prominent among them wasn't family or kinship.
[It's not that he's giving up the position of senator that brings him power, wealth, and status; he's reluctant to relinquish it.]
He put in a great deal of effort and paid a high price to climb to the position of senator.
He doesn't want to die yet; he still has another ten or twenty years to live.
Thinking of this, the senator, just as he was about to jump, used his mutant body, modified by Magneto's Yuu Otosaka, to cling to the cliff face.
[Then, out of fear, the senator couldn't go up or jump down, so he could only stay there in one position, exposed to the cold wind.]
"The fighting spirit to live and die that has been hard-won in the hearts of those who are bound by power is also corrupted by power."
"What a pathetic, yet real guy."
Looking at the senator's disheveled appearance on the screen, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji thought to himself that he understood why the senator had done what he did.
After all, his father wanted to climb to a high position, which is why he groomed him and created the White Room for the sake of so-called power.
[Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, lay on the edge, the midnight breeze quite powerful, making his long, black hair flutter.]
"How are you feeling? Is the evening breeze pleasant?"
Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, looked at the Senator with the same expression he would give Joker and spoke.
"What have you done to me?"
The senator, clinging to the cliff face, looked at Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, and said, "I don't know what methods Magneto Otosaka used to turn me into the dangerous mutant he always talked about."
The senator tried to make an expression, but the cold evening wind had stiffened his face, making it impossible for him to make any significant facial expressions.
"Nothing much. But you, Senator, stop struggling. Where can you go? There's nowhere else you can go."
"Do you think those guys will still accept you now? You've become just like us."
"He's become the dangerous, unstable mutant you've always described."
[Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, looked at the senator clinging to the cliff face and said...]
The senator's face paled instantly upon hearing Magneto's words; he hadn't considered that possibility.
Now, after Magneto Yuu Otosaka said that, he had also thought of this point; indeed, it was as Magneto Yuu Otosaka said.
His current political standing largely stems from his hostility towards mutants, the so-called "zzzz" mentality; if he were to become a mutant, he would instantly lose all support.
"Bring it up."
Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, stood up and spoke to Nobuori Tokita, the Saber-toothed Tiger.
[Sword-toothed Tiger Tokita Nobuori nodded, then walked to the side and reached out to grab the senator clinging to the cliff face.]
However, when they grabbed the senator, Saber-toothed Tiger Tokita Nobuori noticed something was wrong.
[The senator's hand felt slippery, and when Saber-toothed Tiger Tokita Nobuori looked down, she discovered that the senator's hand was stretched out like putty.]
Then, Nobuori Tokita, the saber-toothed tiger, lost her grip and slipped, falling directly from her hand.
"Aa ...
The senator plummeted towards the abyss below, letting out a series of mournful screams that echoed through the valley. The already eerie atmosphere of midnight was made even more sinister by the senator's cries.
[Swordtooth Tiger Tokita Nobuori looked at the senator's clothing fragment clutched in her hand, then at the bottomless abyss below Kamiya, unsure of what to do.]
"Um... I don't know how to say it."
"Could this be considered helping the senator achieve his initial idea of jumping in and taking a gamble?"
"So, shouldn't the senator thank Nobuori Tokita, the saber-toothed tiger? (laughs)"
"That's right, he should thank us (laughs)."
Looking at the online discussions, Kohei Imamura turned to Nobuori Tokita beside him and said something.
"It's alright, Tokita Nobuori-senpai. It's not your fault, is it? After all, that senator's mutant ability is... well... like an eel. It's normal that you can't hold onto it."
"Yeah, there's no need to take it too seriously. Besides, what's shown on the screen is the future, not the present."
Kitahara Iori, who was standing to the side, also spoke up. Kitahara Iori and Imamura Kohei were trying to persuade him because they were thinking about the psychological pressure they felt after seeing what they had done on the screen.
"I'm not that mentally weak; I was thinking about other things."
Tokita Shinori waved his hand and said that what he was thinking was actually similar to what Kotobuki Ryujiro was thinking: why did they lose their memories, and how come their mutant abilities were so similar?
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"Pfft, cough cough cough."
At this moment, the senator, who wasn't a senator yet, couldn't help but spit out his tea as he watched himself die so hastily on the screen.
He was initially very happy to have climbed to the position of senator, and had already begun to fantasize about his wonderful life.
Then he saw himself discriminating against and being hostile to mutants, and then being kidnapped by mutants on a helicopter. At that moment, he already sensed something was wrong, and sure enough, not long after, he saw himself die.
All things considered, he hadn't even been on stage for five minutes, and thinking about this made him feel miserable again.
[Sabertooth Tokita Nobuori stood up and showed Magneto Otosaka Yuu the fragment of the Senator's clothing he was holding.]
[Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, looked at the shards of clothing in Nobuori Tokita's hand. Although Nobuori didn't say anything, Yuu sensed that Nobuori had said something.]
Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, didn't say much, simply turning and leaving. Saber-toothed Tiger, Ryujiro, tried to follow, only to find the fence had already been twisted back by Magneto, Yuu Otosaka.
"You're punished by having to stay here for the night."
[Magneto Yuu Otosaka's figure disappeared into the darkness, followed by his voice echoing from within.]
Meanwhile, Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, had roughly guessed that the Senator's mutant ability was probably similar to that of the loach. Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, didn't believe the Senator would have the guts to commit suicide.
[Furthermore, Magneto Yuu Otosaka believed that with Saber-toothed Tiger Juryujiro's strength, the Senator would be unable to break free after being captured.]
Meanwhile, in the sewer cell, Saber-toothed Tiger Juryujiro knew he hadn't done a good job and obediently stayed put, after all, he had failed two missions in a row.
[First, there was the capture of the mutant rogue Rumi Tsurumi; second, just now, the senator was rescued.]
The senator who fell off the cliff wasn't killed by the protruding rocks; instead, he luckily landed in the water, whereupon his mutant ability activated—he became a mudskipper.
This mutant ability allows the senator to swim all night and even dive underwater without being detected by Magneto, Yuu Otosaka, and others.
[However, this senator is overthinking it. Searching for someone on the vast ocean is futile; Magneto's side doesn't have mutants like Professor X, Hayato Otosaka.]
The senator, who had swum all night, successfully reached the beach. As he stepped onto the sand, the mutated parts of his body quickly flared up, but fortunately, no one noticed his unusual behavior.
Haruka Nanase, a member of the boys' swimming club, watched the senator's mutant ability on the light screen, though she still appeared aloof and indifferent on the surface.
But deep down, I was still a little envious, after all, the senator's mutant ability was simply the best help for the swimmer.
Nanase Haruka felt that even someone with zero experience who had just acquired this mutant ability could easily defeat professional swimmers.
"That's really cheating, it feels like it."
"It feels like all our efforts are in vain in the face of mutant abilities."
Unlike Nanase Haruka, who remained silent, Hazuki Nagisa directly expressed his thoughts.
It has to be said that, looking at the senator's performance, it's impossible for someone who has lived a life of ease to be completely overwhelmed by a group of professional swimmers after gaining mutant abilities.