The cause of the problem lay in this.
Since Starlight was not subjected to cyberbullying, and the public relations department responded promptly, she wasn’t sidelined today, as she was in the original story when she was temporarily awaiting orders from above.
She was dispatched to a patrol area for her daily scheduled rounds.
To be precise, according to Vought International’s arrangements, she was supposed to fight criminals and showcase her superhero charm.
Along the way, she took photos with bystanders and posed in various stances; as soon as the public relations department promoted the project, Starlight’s work was considered complete.
For an ordinary person joining The Seven, including the former Deep, it was enough to simply follow Vought International’s orders.
There was simply no need to do anything extra.
But who was Starlight?
She was different from the other members of The Seven.
Starlight’s passion hadn’t faded yet; she wholeheartedly wanted to become a superhero who fought evil.
How could she obediently follow Vought International’s instructions?
Of course, being a newcomer, Starlight couldn’t openly defy Vought International; she even had to pretend to be a good girl and listen to Vought’s representatives.
But given this condition, would it be too much for Starlight to pay attention to any notable criminal activities in the area?
And as expected, Starlight discovered a case of illegal detention right here in Chinatown.
According to Starlight, during her observations, she found a store in Chinatown to be highly suspicious.
The grocery store clearly had only two employees, plus the owner, making three people in total.
However, when one of them bought noodles, it turned out to be enough for six people.
Initially, Starlight thought maybe the store owner’s acquaintances had come over, and she didn’t intend to interfere, until she overheard a conversation between two of them.
During the conversation, Starlight learned that they were holding a person captive there.
They said that things were tense recently, security had suddenly become very strict, and their superiors had ordered them to transfer the captive to another country that very night.
Starlight immediately took note of this, and after finishing her work, found Kevin so they could come here together and save the person.
“Why me?” Kevin looked at Starlight with dead eyes.
Starlight said casually, “You are my idol now, and we are friends.
I know you definitely won’t sit idly by on this matter.” “…Thank you!” “You are welcome!” ‘I am not actually thanking you!
You idiot!!’ Kevin really wanted to curse, but he couldn’t just turn around and go home, ignoring everything happening.
It would be a small matter if Starlight thought he was a scumbag; in fact, if Starlight truly believed that, Kevin would even thank her.
The problem was, if Kevin wasn’t mistaken, the illegal detention case Starlight stumbled upon had to be connected to The Female, Kimiko, from the original plot.
Kimiko Miyashiro was originally a member of the terrorist organization ‘Shining Light Liberation Army’, although she was forced into it…
Later, for some reason, she was smuggled into America, forced to take Compound V, and became a superhero.
In the original plot, Kimiko first appeared in the underground room of a grocery store in Chinatown.
Therefore, unless there were any surprises, the information Starlight discovered was definitely related to Kimiko.
Kimiko was injected with Compound V because Homelander wanted to create super-terrorists.
Homelander wanted to use this to instill a sense of danger in Congress, convincing them that only superheroes could protect them, thereby fulfilling Madelyn’s plan to integrate superheroes into the military.
Kimiko was one of his test subjects…
However, in the original story, before Homelander could unleash Kimiko, the protagonist Hughie and his group had already beaten him to it, and from then on, Kimiko became a member of the protagonist’s team.
Initially, saving Kimiko was supposed to be the protagonist Hughie’s task, but now this task had fallen onto the shoulders of Starlight and Kevin.
Kevin calmly considered the situation and analyzed it carefully, realizing that he might be to blame for this.
It was quite obvious that the human trafficking ring Kevin killed at sea earlier was the very same ‘professional team’ Homelander specifically used to traffic people for experiments.
As a result, because Kevin killed them, Vought International and the government cracked down on this human trafficking ring, forcing the gang to transfer Kimiko.
And because Kevin intervened in Starlight’s affairs and didn’t let her stay on the sidelines, Starlight ended up patrolling these areas, discovered the human trafficking ring, and thus tied everything together.
‘So…
did I set myself up?’ Having figured out the cause and effect, Kevin slapped his forehead.
It was precisely because this matter concerned Kevin that he decided to go with Starlight.
One reason was to prevent Homelander from being insulted by Starlight right now.
On the other hand, he also wanted to test if he could earn new skill points.
In the end, did he have to ‘regret his words’ after all…
“Look, someone just went in!” Kevin felt depressed, but Starlight was full of enthusiasm.
She patted Kevin on the shoulder, snapping him out of his thoughts, and pointed at the grocery store ahead.
Kevin looked over and saw an Asian man carrying a stack of noodle boxes entering the grocery store.
Judging by the amount of noodles in his hands, there were at least seven people inside the grocery store, including himself.
Excluding the captive Kimiko, the remaining six people were likely connected to Compound V.
This meant they were connected to Homelander and A-Train.
Kevin really didn’t want to clash with Homelander this early; it contradicted his long-standing policy of ‘laying low.’ But he thought that because of him, Kimiko might be moved to another location by this group of people, and he didn’t know where she would be taken.
Although this would disrupt the original plot, Kevin would earn a large number of skill points.
But since saving people would also yield a large amount of skill points, it was better to participate than to simply let things be.
After all…
The superhero next to him was very excited.
If he didn’t intervene, God only knew what would happen later due to Starlight’s reckless actions.
By participating, he would at least have some control over what happened next.
“Let’s go, we are going in!” Confirming that the man had already gone in, and that everyone was inside the grocery store, Starlight pulled Kevin along and prepared to follow.
Kevin still tried to put up a final resistance, “By the way, why don’t we call the police?” “We are superheroes!
Why would we call the police?” Thanks to Vought International’s involvement, superheroes possessed law enforcement authority and a certain degree of immunity from killing, so they didn’t need to call the police; they were the police.
“Then notify Vought International about this?” Kevin continued to ask.
But as soon as Vought International was mentioned, the excitement on Starlight’s face instantly vanished.
“Tell Vought?
They would only tell us not to interfere in such matters, and then they’d probably write similar scripts for us to film!
The Deep, we are superheroes, not actors!” ‘But we are actors right now…’ Kevin really wanted to reply.
But Starlight was starting to lose her patience, “Are you coming or not?
If not, I am going alone!” “…Forget it, I will go with you.” ‘I really wouldn’t want you to suffer an internal defeat and end up becoming the main character of a real-life erotic manga.’ Although Kevin didn’t actually think Starlight would lose to a few ordinary people.
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