Esper X Family – Chapter 59 – End of the Trap!

The next morning.

Ye Yao had never experienced such a refreshing wake-up.

Her mood was light and cheerful.

“Sister, you didn’t oversleep today. Did something good happen last night?”

Luo Jianhua was helping Ye Yao comb her hair, her face filled with curiosity.

“Mhm, I suppose you could say something good happened. I thoroughly punished those bad guys.”

Ye Yao swayed slightly, her good mood evident to anyone who saw her.

“Sister, you’re so kind-hearted to feel so happy about punishing bad guys. Those people at headquarters are definitely wrong about you.”

Luo Jianhua’s mood was also lifted by Ye Yao’s cheerfulness, her face adorning a cute smile.

“How could such a kind-hearted sister possibly destroy the world?”

“Exactly, exactly.”

Ye Yao shamelessly accepted Luo Jianhua’s praise.

She was indeed happy because the bad guys were punished.

But it wasn’t exactly out of a sense of justice.

It was mainly because she had gained a large number of attribute points in one go.

If she wasn’t in a good mood after such a bountiful harvest.

Ye Yao would have suspected that she had developed some kind of corn-related illness ¹ 抑郁症yìyùzhèng means depression, and it’s often joked as 玉玉症yùyùzhèng, which literally means ‘jade jade syndrome’. As for the corn, corn is 玉米yùmǐ, which uses the word 玉yù. .

She had already planned it out.

She would allocate 5 attribute points to her mental power every day.

Currently, Ye Yao’s mental power had reached 43.

The idea was to slowly increase her strength, like boiling a frog in warm water.

She would add points gradually to avoid alerting anyone.

After all, she wasn’t truly invincible yet.

She needed to keep up the act for a while longer.

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Even if her mental power reached 100, she would still have to play the obedient daughter at home.

Even if her Fission ability allowed her to temporarily match the Dayun Truck’s power, the overall energy consumption was extremely high, with no endurance or durability to speak of.

When facing someone with the same level of power, she would be completely trapped.

If she dared to provoke such a person, she might even be kited to death.

Once the Fission duration ended, she would revert to a weak, pitiful, and helpless loli.

What awaited her would probably be her stern father’s leather belt.

If only she could undergo a second Fission, things would be much simpler.

Thinking of this, Ye Yao casually asked Luo Jianhua without turning her head.

“Little Luo, do you think an ability’s power might undergo a transformation as mental power increases?”

“Hmm, there is such a theory.”

“Then, would mental power increasing from D-rank to C-rank cause such a change?” Ye Yao asked eagerly.

Luo Jianhua thought for a moment.

“I haven’t seen such a case. Reaching C-rank is only the beginning for an Esper. To trigger an ability’s transformation, the mental power will have to be higher.”

“How high?”

“In the cases I’ve seen, you need to reach B-rank before the ability undergoes its first enhancement.”

The strength of an Esper’s ability isn’t fixed from the start.

A low-quality ability could potentially rival that of a high-quality ability after enhancement.

This is why many Espers often say “the future is promising” upon awakening their abilities.

Of course, naturally powerful abilities are a different story.

Such abilities are destined to stand at the finish line from the moment they awaken.

Even without enhancement, they can outperform some people’s entire lives.

Luo Jianhua’s【Eyes Obscured by a Single Leaf】was such a case.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have been a former Sequence Esper.

Her mental power was just shy of B-rank. Once her ability underwent a transformation, becoming an S-rank Esper would be a certainty for her.

“B-rank?”

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Ye Yao nodded thoughtfully.

Just 500.

That’s manageable.

After all, she didn’t really need a second Fission.

With a value over 100, she could easily dominate everyone for a short time.

In fact, she might even have a surplus.

Sigh.

It’s just that both my survival and endurance are lacking.

This ability has so many flaws!

Ye Yao felt an urgent need for enhancement.

“Sister, why are you asking such a question? Is your mental power about to reach C-rank?”

“Not even close~”

Ye Yao let out a lazy voice.

She sounded completely devoid of ambition.

At her current pace, even without putting in much effort, she could push her mental power to 100 within a month.

The only thing slowing her down was that it wasn’t easy to sneak out with the Dayun Truck guarding the door.

After causing such a commotion and revealing so much information last night…

Lou Wei would surely be guarding the door even more intensely tonight.

It seemed that she wouldn’t be able to sneak out for a while.

In that case, taking a few days off from visiting Xia Lian and Wu Mi might be a fortunate coincidence.

“I believe that with Sister’s ability, reaching C-rank isn’t far off. Just be mindful of the bottleneck.”

Luo Jianhua offered a gentle reminder, her hands stopping as she finished combing Ye Yao’s hair.

The smooth, silky cascade of white hair looked much more striking now.

With a few more accessories, it would undoubtedly look even cuter.

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Ye Yao leaned back slightly after the hair-combing session, still reluctant to leave the chair.

From this angle, Luo Jianhua looked quite adorable too.

“There’s a bottleneck?”

“Every stage has one. The higher the rank, the harder it is to break through.”

Luo Jianhua explained while opening a drawer to look for hair accessories for Ye Yao.

However, none of the accessories in the drawer suited Ye Yao.

Then, Luo Jianhua suddenly remembered that the “Pure White Angel” magical girl outfit Mo Qiuli had brought over had a suitable accessory.

She quickly found it and placed it in Ye Yao’s hair.

It was shaped like a feathered wing.

Even so, it didn’t look overly flashy.

Meanwhile, Ye Yao was pondering the bottleneck issue Luo Jianhua had mentioned.

“How difficult is it to break through from A-rank to S-rank?”

“It’s said to be extremely difficult. My teacher told me that ten years ago, there were over a thousand A-rank Espers in the National Countermeasures Bureau, with nearly a hundred nearing a breakthrough. Yet, to this day, the number of S-rank Espers could be counted on two hands.”

“So few?”

Ye Yao mused that they wouldn’t be enough for her to fight.

Not that she had the intention of fighting everyone under heaven.

“What about foreign countries?”

“I don’t know about foreign countries. My teacher didn’t tell me about them.”

Luo Jianhua had spent her days training, paying no attention to the situation in other countries.

Ye Yao’s thoughts returned to the bottleneck issue.

She probably didn’t have such a thing as a bottleneck.

She could just break through the level cap by adding points.

With Fission, she could even ignore the final bottleneck that stumped countless experts.

The path of adding points was indeed much easier.

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Afterwards, Ye Yao and Luo Jianhua headed to the living room.

Lou Wei was still cosplaying as the mysterious newspaper-reading man, as if nothing had happened yesterday.

Now, Ye Yao felt a surge of confidence when she looked at him.

Perhaps it was because she had experienced the feeling of being invincible.

The numerical value of a mere Dayun Truck was no longer her concern.

Unless the Dayun Truck could further evolve into a Cybertronian ² Optimus Prime. , he would eventually face the fate of becoming obsolete.

“Good morning!”

Ye Yao greeted him cheerfully.

Lou Wei glanced up at the slightly more lively white-haired girl today.

Apart from her steadily increasing mental power, he noticed nothing unusual.

“Morning.”

Lou Wei responded.

Then, he continued to ponder the dire news of “Sequence 0” that had been reported from another city.

Leaving aside the audacity of that name.

The fact that this newly emerged organization had an S-rank Esper was enough to make Lou Wei take it seriously.

This mysterious S-rank Esper wasn’t recorded in the Countermeasures Bureau’s files.

Where on earth had they come from?

Author Note

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