“In any case, you hurry up and clean up the mess you made!”
With that, the person abruptly hung up the phone.
Sakurako Aya was left alone, standing by the pit in disarray.
“Eh? Boss! Boss!”
Seeing her boss hang up so quickly, Aya couldn’t help but sigh in exasperation.
“Did I really get the wrong person? But her surname is Bai Shen!” she muttered under her breath, still feeling unjustly treated.
However, she had to obey her boss’s command.
Esper abilities were something only a few people knew about, and the existence of Esper abilities couldn’t be revealed to the general public, otherwise, it would cause serious panic.
Fortunately, the two people who fell into the trap were quiet now. They were probably knocked unconscious.
If she pulled them out now, she could pretend that nothing had happened.
Aya thought this, and then used her power, intending to pull the two people out of the pit.
However, after a full five seconds of using her power, the two people didn’t float up as she expected. This made her suspicious.
“Huh?”
She leaned over and looked down into the pit. Huangquan Ai was still lying motionless in the trap.
She tried using her power on Huangquan Ai again, but Huangquan Ai’s body didn’t move an inch.
“What is wrong with this girl? Why is my power not working on her?”
Just as Aya was fretting over this, she suddenly realized there was something much more important to think about.
“Wait a minute, where’s the little girl named Bai Shen-something? Didn’t she fall in too?”
Aya rubbed her eyes, confirming that she hadn’t misseen. There was absolutely no other person in the trap besides Huangquan Ai.
‘This little girl not only escaped but is also unaffected by my power! This is insane!’
Aya was utterly bewildered.
She immediately jumped into the pit and meticulously searched every corner, flipping Huangquan Ai over just in case the little girl was crushed into a pancake by Huangquan Ai’s body.
But she found nothing.
The little girl was as if she had suddenly vanished, completely disappearing from the entire trap.
“Eh? Eh? Eh?”
Aya’s face was a complete mask of astonishment.
She was completely confused.
‘I just casually used Gravity Manipulation. How did I make an entire living person disappear?’
“This is no time for jokes!”
Aya quickly scanned the surroundings again, trying to find a clue as to why the little girl had suddenly vanished.
Then, a crisp “crunch, crunch” sound came from above her head.
Aya subconsciously looked up and saw the silver-haired little girl she had been searching for.
She was sitting with her legs crossed at the edge of the pit, munching on a bag of potato chips and staring at Aya like she was a clown performing in a circus.
“Eh?” Seeing this, Aya’s brain instantly overloaded.
‘When did that little girl appear there? Didn’t I put ten times the gravity on her? Why is she so composed?’
Since Aya was staring blankly at her, Charlotte looked around in confusion and then pointed to herself.
“Hmm? Were you looking for me just now?”
Aya frowned. She felt Charlotte was treating her like an idiot.
“You bastard, when did you get up there?”
“Probably right after you hung up the phone and sighed,” Charlotte thought for a moment and gave Aya a simple, clear answer.
“Are you kidding me? I used ten times the gravity on you! How can you escape so easily? Even if you managed that, how did you vanish right under my nose? I’ve never heard of an Esper who can use two different powers simultaneously!”
“Hmm? Esper power?” Hearing that term, Charlotte, who had been immersed in the magical world for years, paused.
Esper power, by definition, meant a special ability, something capable of achieving things ordinary people could not.
Magic could also be considered a kind of Esper power, but because the system of magic was so vast, it had become a distinct school of thought.
Charlotte couldn’t believe that Esper power, which should only exist in manga, was something she was witnessing in the real world.
She had previously thought that the so-called “ten times gravity” was some kind of high-tech device. She had been dealing with urban superpowers, not futuristic technology!
At this thought, the corner of Charlotte’s mouth curled up.
The story was finally getting interesting.
She was the strongest Star Witch in the other world. If she wasn’t here to show off, what was she here for? Was she back to fool around with her sister?
“What’s so strange about that? I’m simply stronger than you!”
“Stronger than me?”
“Don’t you agree that the situation has reversed now? I’m the one looking down on you from above!”
Although Aya was surprised by how Charlotte suddenly appeared above her, hearing Charlotte say that the situation had reversed made Aya laugh out loud.
“It seems I’ve been underestimated! Fine, I’ll let you witness my true strength!”
Every Esper could only possess one ability. That was an established fact in this world.
Charlotte’s ability to appear at the edge of the pit meant she didn’t have a power that combined strength and invisibility.
She must have a power like Spatial Movement.
In that case, the solution was very simple!
“Now, I’ll let you witness my true strength!”
After saying this, Sakurako Aya snapped her fingers at Charlotte.
Instantly, the surrounding scene rotated 180 degrees. The sky and the ground were immediately inverted.
This was another application of Aya’s Gravity Manipulation—Gravity Reversal.
Aya could control not only the multiplier of gravity but also the direction of gravity.
Furthermore, she could control the gravity of all targets within a certain range, not just her own.
If she expanded the range of her gravity manipulation wide enough, Charlotte wouldn’t be able to escape her grasp, even if she had instant teleportation.
In other words, if she used this ability correctly, she could become a mini Accelerator, making her invincible in the city of Espers.
The only downside was that her ability had a minor flaw: it often activated automatically without warning.
What was it like to wake up and find herself floating in outer space?
Now, Aya, calmly standing on the ceiling, was full of smug pride.
With the direction of gravity suddenly reversed, that girl must be completely disoriented now.
However, Aya looked up and saw that her prediction had failed.
The little white-haired girl was floating right in front of her like a balloon, looking down at her, and munching on a handful of potato chips she had somehow pulled out, crunch, crunch, crunch.