Esper X Family – Chapter 523 – Surprisingly Merciful

The moon was dark and the wind was high, the perfect time for showing off.

Who could resist the chance for a public display of prowess, descending like a mysterious master in the dead of night?

Just the thought of it was incredibly stylish.

However, figuring out how to find the parallel Mu Luo and his group was a problem.

The family location sharing wasn’t showing them at all.

After all, she hadn’t recognized them as family yet. So far, she had only recognized two family members.

Apart from those two young girls, the only person showing up on the family location sharing was that lost little buddy who had wandered into the parallel world.

So, was it possible that she was with parallel Mu Luo and the others?

If so, she could follow the trail.

“Super perception might work too.”

Ye Ge’s mental power stirred restlessly.

With her Precision fission ability, where she could allocate as much mental power as she wanted and exactly as she wanted, she could somewhat pretend to be a Tribulation Transcendence expert doing a divine sense scan.

It would ensure that no one could escape detection.

But she wasn’t sure how much mental power was appropriate. Overloading would have a negative impact.

She didn’t have enough family members yet, and the “Shared Hardship” function couldn’t shift the burden to family members in another dimension.

Plus, it might attract that annoying parallel Dayun Truck again.

She would have to rely on the lost little buddy to follow their trail.

Originally, Ye Ge had planned to look for traces of parallel Fang Tang at the local Countermeasures Bureau branch.

But the wandering group of other little buddies took priority.

As the saying goes, fools have their own fortune. There was probably no need to worry about that cubic sugar.

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She would find her after coming back!

Ye Ge glanced at the family location sharing and shot toward the position of the glowing dot.

Her presence was completely concealed the entire way. Even high-tech devices couldn’t track her trajectory.

Meanwhile.

At Countermeasures Bureau headquarters.

All the injured had been treated.

No matter how hard it was to believe, everyone had to accept the fact that after facing such a terrifying enemy, the death toll remained zero.

Even Fang Ze, who had been presumed to have died a heroic death, had crawled back out of the crater.

Everyone looked at his battered and disheveled state as if they had seen a ghost.

Parallel Fu Qi wasn’t all that surprised.

After all, if he had survived, it wasn’t strange that Fang Ze did too.

This only made Ye Ge’s motives even more puzzling.

No one could guess what she was trying to do.

Thus, every notable figure had gathered in the conference room.

Most of the higher-ups were present.

This was undoubtedly the greatest crisis the Countermeasures Bureau had ever faced.

Never since the Bureau’s founding had they been so thoroughly humiliated.

“The information on the injured is out. The five with severe injuries are all mentors or instructors responsible for training elite talents.

Of the four with minor injuries, three are S-rank Espers who tried to stop Ye Ge’s rampage. The last one is a young hothead trying to play hero.”

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As soon as this was said, the three S-rank Espers in the room who were less severely injured covered their eyes as if they couldn’t face their colleagues’ subtle glances.

Although their fearlessness in the face of death was commendable.

After the originally presumed catastrophic invasion was downgraded to a “minor scuffle”, their performance of being knocked out like common grunts felt a bit embarrassing.

Anyone would think they had obtained their S-rank Esper status through connections.

But heaven and earth knew that even top-ranked Fu Qi and Fang Ze had been effortlessly one-shotted. No one had the right to laugh at anyone else.

Given the scale of the attack, even a continuous battle of attrition wouldn’t have made a dent.

Then, the reporting officer revealed the most critical piece of information.

“The missing person is named Luo Jianhua…”

As Luo Jianhua’s full details were distributed to everyone in the room, they fell into deep thought.

“Why did Ye Ge take Luo Jianhua?”

“I don’t see any connection between them.”

“The five severely injured individuals had all taught Luo Jianhua about Esper techniques and knowledge. They were her key guides. Luo Jianhua’s remarkable progress owes much to them.”

“Why did Ye Ge target only them?”

Ever since Ye Ge had introduced herself, they stopped using the temporary designation.

A name was more recognizable than a string of numbers.

And of course, it carried enough weight.

Parallel Fu Qi took a deep breath.

Although the pressure on him had lessened after learning headquarters hadn’t suffered catastrophic damage, he still couldn’t relax.

“She said she would destroy the world, that all life would die. The only way to stop her was to kill her.”

“It’s clear she has the right to say that.”

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No one thought it was a joke.

The destruction of the Sentinel Organization had proven Ye Ge’s methods and temper.

The Countermeasures Bureau Director’s swift defeat had crushed their last vestiges of hope.

Now, only the strongest of the current era had yet to face her head-on.

At least they could still cling to some illusions.

After all, by the time Lou Wei rushed back, Ye Ge had already grabbed Luo Jianhua and fled.

What if?

What if the fully serious Lou Wei stood a chance?

“But this doesn’t match her actions. Ye Ge behaved too… mercifully at the Bureau.”

Someone said.

Indeed, merciful.

No better word could describe Ye Ge’s behavior at the time.

Even though she had severely wounded five Bureau personnel to the brink of death, it had to be viewed in comparison.

Look at the Sentinel Organization, which had just been wiped out less than a day ago.

Based on her performance then, those five targeted individuals should have been ground to dust, with the Countermeasures Bureau headquarters buried with them.

Instead, they got to keep their lives, and the headquarters suffered minimal damage.

The Sentinel Organization was probably screaming about unfairness.

Why did the Bureau survive after being targeted by that “female tyrant”?

What was the point of playing this game?

Even parallel Fu Qi had to admit this.

“It’s indeed… rather merciful.”

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What else could he say?

He had survived only because of Ye Ge’s “mercy”.

Otherwise, given his blacked out state, Ye Ge could have casually finished him off.

She wouldn’t even have needed to strike again. She could erase his existence with the first attack.

After saying such outrageous words, her actions were surprisingly light. The contrast couldn’t be more jarring.

Parallel Fang Ze looked utterly exhausted, both in body and mind.

“Saying something like that, then comparing it to what she actually did… it seems like she’s guiding us to eliminate her. That suggests she might be mentally unstable, and perhaps isn’t inherently evil.”

Fu Qi shook his head.

“She was very stubborn. I offered to help, but she refused. At that moment, I could feel she truly wanted to kill me.”

“In the end, we still don’t know why she took Luo Jianhua.”

There was too little information. Everyone was frustrated.

At the edge of the conference room sat a woman radiating maternal warmth, named Xiao Jing.

She was qualified to attend the meeting.

Her ability could be useful when catastrophe struck.

She could sacrifice herself to quickly create a high-level combatant for emergencies.

If Ye Ge had chosen to go on a killing spree, Xiao Jing might have had to offer herself up on the spot.

But at that moment, a guess suddenly emerged in Xiao Jing’s mind.

“Is it possible that… Ye Ge is actually a good girl?”

Author Note

Bought two cups of thick and creamy yogurt, delicious😋