Esper X Family – Chapter 427 – Why Me Again?

Fu Qi felt as if the sky had fallen.

He had always assumed that the world-destroying ability was special, operating under a different set of rules from ordinary abilities.

After all, if your ability could end the world, surely you shouldn’t still qualify for welfare benefits, right?

It would be like having a lavishly renovated house and several luxury cars in the driveway, yet still being eligible for a poverty assistance quota.

That would be more than a little unbalanced.

Although imbalance among Espers was nothing new, with some needing strengthening, while others didn’t.

But the B-rank ability strengthening was a hard rule they had summarized: as long as your mental power reached the required threshold, transformation was always possible.

This strengthening didn’t require any so-called quota, and everyone was eligible. It just depended on the degree of strengthening and the strength of your foundation.

Fu Qi hadn’t really cared about this before, since his ability had already undergone secondary strengthening.

There wouldn’t be any more opportunities for strengthening for him.

But what did it mean that even a world-destroying ability could also undergo strengthening?

Ye Tong was already so powerful. Could she really be strengthened further?

Come on, that’s unnecessary, right!?

Fu Qi felt his heartbeat accelerate.

This was undoubtedly an unknown and unstable factor.

Any change in the world-destroying ability could potentially endanger the world’s safety.

No one knew whether the originally stable Ye Yao and Ye Tong might lose control after the strengthening.

Add to that Tu Sheng’s new prophecy, and Fu Qi felt like the pressure on him was about to explode.

Although the two of them were still inside the conference room, they had long since replaced verbal communication with mental power.

They could still handle the pressure, but that didn’t mean others had the same capacity.

For now, the others only needed to focus on the threat from space.

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As for the matter of the world-destroying ability, the fewer people who knew, the better.

Let them talk after their mental power reached ten thousand. For now, they weren’t even qualified to sit at the table.

Lou Wei ignored Fu Qi’s emotional turmoil.

This Sword Tomb ¹ Apparently it means people who have lost their moral character due to the evil nature of humans. had been piling pressure on everyone else all along. It was nice to see the tables turned for once.

“Ye Tong with five hundred mental power…”

Lou Wei ran the numbers through his own inference.

Five hundred squared was two hundred and fifty thousand.

With such an inhumane level of mental power, even Lou Wei couldn’t match it without activating his Solar Corona Form.

Moreover, excessively high mental power could bring negative consequences.

Lou Wei’s expression visibly darkened.

Thinking back to the space duel a while ago.

Setting aside the effects of the Ruler Form, it seemed that something else had been influencing his will.

Too much mental power could cause one to lose their humanity.

That explained why “Tong Yao” had felt so distinctly inhuman back then.

Her mental power had been so unimaginably high that her humanity had been completely suppressed by it, giving her genuine thoughts of destroying the world.

Later, she seemed to have paid a great price to retrieve her humanity, narrowly saving the world that had been on the brink of destruction.

The square of five hundred was definitely not as high as the value displayed by that Tong Yao form.

But the question was: would there be another strengthening once her mental power hit five hundred?

Would it really only be two hundred and fifty thousand then?

Lou Wei fell silent.

By this time, Fu Qi had finally managed to calm himself down.

“Lou Wei, should we advise Ye Tong to suppress her strength?

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For instance, ask her not to raise Ye Yao’s mental power to five hundred too quickly.

She cares about the world’s safety too, so she won’t ignore the risks. She might even take our advice.”

“Sure. You go talk to her.”

“Why me again?”

Fu Qi trembled with rage.

Damn beast Lou Wei. He used to take responsibility for everything himself. How come he’s shoving it all onto others now?

Is he even human?

Lou Wei’s response to that was one sentence.

“She doesn’t want to see me.”

Fu Qi: “…”

The urge to use a Zero-Frame Spatial Slash was growing stronger.

He really wanted to have a go at Lou Wei.

But that was the truth. Ye Tong really didn’t want to see Lou Wei. No wonder she was still angry.

Even if he could make Lou Wei change his mind, did that mean he could also make Ye Tong change hers?

“Fine, I’ll try my best to help you.”

Fu Qi’s voice sounded like he was gritting his teeth.

If Lou Wei didn’t return to his post soon, Fu Qi was really going to become the current era’s number one pressure-resistant king.

As the meeting disbanded.

The Countermeasures Bureau began mobilizing with full force.

Recently, the Bureau had naturally been making arrangements to bring the world’s power under its control.

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Using Sequence Zero as one approach and leveraging Dragon Country’s influence as another.

The goal was to openly combine all forces to try and resolve the world-ending crisis.

But who knew that before solving the crisis, they would have to face a threat from space first?

Fine. Whatever.

They had already endured a world-ending crisis. Why worry about an extraterrestrial threat?

In this era where a single person could destroy a nation, what they lacked was a sufficiently large outlet to release pressure.

Compared to a true world-ending crisis, this extraterrestrial threat was nothing more than a loli.

So, the Countermeasures Bureau resumed full-scale operations.

Using technological means to monitor every fluctuation in space.

And assembling elite Espers from various nations to stand by.

During this precious golden age, other countries naturally reaped abundant benefits as well.

Some individuals from the old era successfully advanced to S-rank. After passing Sequence Zero’s assessment, they justifiably became figures akin to national guardian deities.

Although they still couldn’t compare to the top-tier Egyptian Gods ² As explained before, strongest characters below just one. like Lou Wei and Fu Qi, they were at least usable.

They were taught some form skills to prevent heavy casualties when the time came.

Amidst this serious atmosphere of battle preparation, the unsuspecting public also caught a faint whiff of gunpowder.

But before the crisis arrived, all they could do was guess wildly.

As the weekend approached.

Ye Yao followed her routine and went to her aunt’s house for a meal.

She had grown accustomed to Fu Qi often being away from home.

Although she could tell that her embarrassing uncle was somewhat avoiding her, Ye Yao graciously allowed it.

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After all, he really was busy with work. Letting him rest occasionally wasn’t a bad thing.

It didn’t matter if Fu Qi wasn’t home. She could still spend time with Aunt Chen Wan Ting and Cousin Tu Sheng.

It was just missing a little bit of fun.

But this time, when Ye Yao came to visit, she found that Fu Qi was actually at home!

Whoa!

Instead of avoiding her, he was actively coming closer ³ ?

Feeling brave, are you?

“Uncle, are you finally not busy? It’s rare to see you at home.”

“Haha, I’m still very busy. I just wanted to make some time to see you.”

Fu Qi had made up his mind.

Even though he still couldn’t tell Ye Yao and Ye Tong apart, as long as the little girl in front of him continued to interact with him as Ye Yao, he would treat her as Ye Yao.

That was also a stress-reduction strategy.

Fu Qi mentally prepared himself and began to put his idea into practice.

“Actually, the reason I came back this time is to tell you something. Your father has joined the Countermeasures Bureau. He’s now a member of the Bureau, so theoretically, he can come to headquarters to see you.”

The logic was: with the mass awakening of abilities, Lou Wei had gone from an ordinary person to an Esper. His immense potential led to him being recruited by the Countermeasures Bureau, and thus he ended up working at headquarters. A perfectly reasonable career shift.

Ye Yao blinked, inwardly gasping.

You can even do that!?

Author Note

Tomb sweeping is done, starting the return journey today. Will need to rest a bit after escaping containment. At the very least, I’ll need to wait until tomorrow to turn into a dragon.

Text: Good! Very good!