They were inside a company that primarily rented meeting rooms.
A sign hung outside one room.
Reserved by the Blizzard Group, 10:30–12:30.
Since it was intended for meetings, the room itself was simple.
A whiteboard.
Several long tables.
Several chairs.
Apparently, if renters had additional requirements, they could specify them beforehand and the company would prepare an appropriate room.
This wasn’t any kind of luxury venue.
Rent was fairly cheap.
It mainly catered to small companies that had dreams but lacked money and resources.
Sure, a phoenix occasionally flew from a chicken coop.
But such miracles hadn’t reached this place.
The Blizzard Group members certainly dressed professionally enough.
But they didn’t even have a permanent headquarters?
Professional hero work paid this badly?
That shouldn’t be the case.
Catching a few wanted criminals should cover the cost of an office.
Unless…
They’re all useless grunts?
Fubuki had gathered people around herself who provided little actual value to her.
Probably an inferiority complex.
Her sister Tatsumaki had always been overwhelmingly powerful, and that had distorted Fubuki’s psychology.
But doing this was meaningless…
Whatever.
No need to say too much.
The real issue wasn’t the Blizzard Group.
It was Fubuki herself.
This happened shortly after Lu Yao killed the Keyboard Warrior Monster.
He had originally planned to leave, but Fubuki grabbed him and stubbornly refused to let go.
Left with no choice, Lu Yao followed her here.
At least one thing had now been confirmed—
He definitely had some relationship with Fubuki.
Probably siblings?
So I suddenly have a sister…
No, wait.
Two sisters?
The system implanted memories in a very gentle way.
Compared to other fictional systems, it could probably be considered a more advanced model.
Any implanted memory entered Lu Yao’s mind without causing any abrupt sense of foreignness.
If nothing stimulated the memory, it remained dormant.
In other words—
Unless Lu Yao specifically tried to recall it, he wouldn’t even realize it existed.
But once stimulated by a keyword, person, or related object, the memory could suddenly surface.
Naturally, perhaps to avoid confusing him, such memories also carried an additional marker identifying them as externally implanted.
Without that marker, Lu Yao might have genuinely believed he personally experienced those things.
Even so, when faced with someone who had suddenly entered his life, Lu Yao didn’t want to skip the entire process of becoming acquainted and instantly treat them as an irreplaceably important person.
Although—
Her figure was amazing.
And she clearly seemed very close to him.
Putting those things aside…
There was something else Lu Yao wanted to ask.
“Why did we come here?”
Normally, shouldn’t you take someone to a restaurant if you want to talk?
Fubuki blinked.
She answered as though it were obvious.
“If you’re going to have a discussion, shouldn’t you rent a meeting room?”
Huh.
That somehow sounds reasonable.
Lu Yao found himself convinced by her strange logic.
No. Actually, it didn’t really matter.
He turned toward the girl standing beside Fubuki.
“Um… what’s your name?”
“Huh? M-Me?”
The girl with highlighted hair froze.
“You can call me Lily. You’re Lady Fubuki’s younger brother, right? Nice to meet you.”
Lily.
As in the flower?
Simple enough.
She wore a lily ornament in her hair.
Lu Yao had assumed it was purely decorative.
Apparently it was practically a name tag.
“Nice to meet you, Lily. I’m Lu Yao. Call me whatever you like. You saved me earlier, didn’t you? Thank you.”
“N-No, no!”
Lily waved frantically.
“With your strength, Yao-kun, avoiding that attack would’ve been easy! If anything, I was just interfering.”
“That and your intention are separate things. You came forward because you wanted to save me. That alone deserves my gratitude.”
N-No good!
As expected of Lady Fubuki’s younger brother!
Lily’s face turned red.
This level of charm is impossible for me to resist!
Wait.
If I got together with Yao-kun…
Wouldn’t I become part of Lady Fubuki’s family?!
Oh no.
My heart is pounding!
And Yao-kun is incredibly handsome too!
Fubuki looked at Lu Yao.
Then at Lily.
For some reason, irritation rose inside her.
After thinking for a moment, she asked, “Yao. Where have you been for the past month? And what exactly was that ability?”
“I’m living in the deserted residential zone on the outskirts of City Z.”
Technically, calling it deserted was strange when both Lu Yao and Saitama lived there.
But population density was so low that the name was still understandable.
“That place?!”
Eyelashes reacted dramatically.
“What’s wrong?”
Fubuki looked confused.
“Lady Fubuki, the outskirts of City Z are where that urban legend about incredibly powerful monsters lives!” New chapters come out on g.com first.
Eyelashes leaned in and explained in a low voice.
“Monsters appear there far more frequently than anywhere else. Residents fled in droves. It’s basically a forbidden zone for humanity!”
His gaze toward Lu Yao became alarmed.
“L-Lady Fubuki… could your younger brother possibly be an extremely powerful hero?”
Everyone in the Blizzard Group knew that Blizzard of Hell supposedly had a younger sister who was an S-Class hero.
Since that younger sister had surpassed her, they assumed Fubuki had been humiliated and created the Blizzard Group partly because of it.
What they didn’t expect—
Fubuki apparently had not only one monstrously powerful younger sister, but also a formidable younger brother.
Of course, Fubuki disliked talking about Tatsumaki.
So the Blizzard Group actually didn’t know that Tatsumaki was Fubuki’s older sister rather than younger.
“Yao isn’t a hero!”
Fubuki rejected the idea immediately.
“More importantly, he doesn’t possess the power to become a hero and has no interest in being one!”
“But your brother didn’t look anything like an ordinary person…”
That display earlier—
A wave of his hand created a translucent blue defensive membrane.
Then four floating laser weapons and a larger cannon appeared.
He casually eliminated a monster that the entire Blizzard Group had failed against.
That had definitely been Demon-level.
At minimum, his combat ability should be comparable to an A-Class hero.
They didn’t dare imagine S-Class.
In their minds, S-Class heroes were monsters beyond humanity.
Eyelashes’ comment made Fubuki fall silent.
Because she wanted to know the answer too.
I heard everything, you know.
Lu Yao sighed.
Leaving aside the physical enhancement caused by Dark Matter fusing with his cells, transmigration itself had done more than merely make him younger.
His physical functions had reached healthy, even powerful levels.
His former severe myopia had vanished to the point that his eyesight could qualify him as a pilot.
His hearing had improved similarly.
So Eyelashes’ whispering to Fubuki?
Lu Yao heard every word.
It wasn’t like he deliberately eavesdropped.
They were indoors, standing close together, with little background noise.
Even if Lu Yao didn’t want to listen, the sound reached him naturally.
Besides, it wasn’t something he needed to hide.
“My ability only appeared during this past month.”
Lu Yao explained.
“Simply put, it’s a supernatural ability that lets me create various objects from nothing.”
“That’s amazing!”
Fubuki immediately grabbed Lu Yao’s hands.
“So that’s what happened! I never expected you to awaken supernatural powers too. From now on, we can openly call ourselves an esper sibling pair!”
What practical purpose does announcing that serve?
It really seems Lady Fubuki adores her little brother.
As Fubuki’s number-one bootlicker, Eyelashes observed the affectionate sibling scene and silently added Lu Yao to his list of people who deserved shameless flattery.
“So strong! Lord Lu Yao, you’re incredible!”
He immediately began.
The intensity startled even Lu Yao.