Chapter 66

"I don't have time to play with you here."

After saying this, Levi prepared to turn and leave. He was almost at his wits' end and didn't want to trouble himself anymore.

"Damn, there are so many people."

His muttered complaint was heard by the girl behind him.

"Ah, front-row tickets, I wonder if anyone wants them."

"Hmm?"

The girl succeeded. Upon hearing her words, Levi immediately turned around and took two steps back to her.

"You have them?"

Weren't the tickets supposed to be officially sold at midnight? Although Levi was a bit excited, he didn't dare to easily trust this girl who seemed to have a strange hostility towards him.

"Of course! This concert was organized by Academy City to promote the Daiya Festival. Even if VIP tickets are a bit difficult to get, it's not strange for us insiders to get a couple of good regular tickets."

The twin-tailed girl turned her head, as if she didn't even want to look at Levi's suspicious face.

"The concert is organized by Academy City?"

"…Duh, otherwise how could you see me here?"

After talking for so long, the part that Blackie cared about wasn't the main point, which made her quite helpless. But she couldn't bring up the tickets again, as Levi was the one who needed them. If it seemed like she was selling them, it wouldn't achieve her goal.

"Is that so? I thought you snuck out."

"Please, I'm a good student and never violate school rules."

Levi's question touched on the system of Academy City. To put it nicely, it was a closed management system; to put it bluntly, Academy City should be called Prison City.

The tall walls completely isolated Academy City from the outside world. Not to mention tourists, even parents moving to the central district to live with their children was impossible to approve. Even visiting their own children required a complicated application process.

For students in Academy City to go out? Unless it was an extremely special situation, dropping out was the simplest and fastest method.

So, although Levi doubted Blackie's credibility, what she just said should be true. He didn't think this young lady from a noble school would risk being expelled just to take his picture.

But Levi still felt something was off. Academy City holding public events wasn't unprecedented. The Daiya Festival that Blackie mentioned was Academy City's annual public open day.

The Daiya Festival, with its unusual name, was indeed unique. It was a massive sports event organized by all the schools in Academy City, lasting a week with special TV broadcasts. On the surface, it was just a grand festival, but in reality, it had special rules that encouraged the use of superpowers.

This was something Levi had never understood. Academy City's strict management, comparable to a prison, was mainly for secrecy. To keep the results of superpower research and the superpower users themselves secret.

If so, why create an event like the Daiya Festival that contradicted the secrecy policy? He had thought about this question a long time ago but still had no answer. He had once asked the principal of Mahora during a chat, but the old man clearly knew something but refused to tell him.

But that was just curiosity. He wasn't a teacher in Academy City, just idle gossip, which he gradually forgot. However, Blackie's words brought the question back to his mind.

"Mr. Levi."

"Hmm?"

Suddenly hearing Blackie call his name, Levi refocused his attention on her.

"Daydreaming during a conversation with a lady is very impolite. Do you not want the tickets? If so, don't waste my time. I still have to maintain order. Goodbye."

"Wait!"

Seeing the girl looking angry and about to leave, Levi quickly held her back, even though he knew the possibility of her faking it was 99.9999%.

"Of course I want the tickets. I can't come here for nothing. Two, just two."

The scene in the square made Levi feel terrified. He wasn't as naive as before. Breaking through the crowd of crazy fans to grab the precious tickets, he didn't think he had the ability to do it while following the rules.

The girl, pulled back, just stared at him, neither agreeing nor refusing.

Levi knew what the girl meant. The tickets were expensive, and considering the difficulty of obtaining them, they were even more precious. He couldn't get them without paying a price.

But what price?

Money?

This option was immediately rejected by Levi.

Kuroko Shirai attended Tokiwadai Middle School, a famous noble girls' school in Academy City. In fact, she was indeed a young lady who wouldn't hesitate to spend a fortune on something she liked. Why would such a person come to be a scalper?

Actually, based on Levi's understanding of the girl, her price wasn't hard to guess. From what she was doing when she found Levi, he knew what she wanted.

"Sigh, speak up, what's your condition?"

"Hehehe~"

Imitating the proud young lady from TV, Blackie laughed triumphantly after successfully frustrating Levi.

"Since you're so obedient, I won't make too unreasonable demands. Just promise not to approach Miss Misaka actively."

As expected, Levi confirmed his guess with a bit of helplessness.

It wasn't that he was dissatisfied with the condition itself; he was just helpless about the girl's thoughts.

The first time Levi met Kuroko Shirai and Misaka Mikoto was when he accidentally came to Academy City on business.

Because he was in a place full of espers, he didn't deliberately hide his abilities for convenience. As a result, he was discovered by two girls with similar abilities, leading to this entanglement.

Kuroko Shirai and Misaka Mikoto, a Level 4 spatial ability user and a Level 5 electromagnetic ability user, were both outstanding in the elite noble school.

Reaching their level was no longer something that could be easily achieved through effort. Moreover, they were troubled by their inability to use their abilities well. After all, they were still students, and even as a member of the disciplinary committee, Kuroko didn't have many opportunities to fight.

In such a situation, witnessing Levi's absolutely professional combat skills by chance, how could they let him go easily?

Although he was a teacher, Levi was the worst at dealing with students' requests. As a result, he became Kuroko and Mikoto's sparring partner, occasionally as a pastime outside their daily lives, and it continued.

It was during this time that the slow-witted Levi discovered the strange relationship between the two girls.

To be precise, it was the one-sided strange behavior of the twin-tailed girl named Kuroko Shirai.

Her admiration for her senior was far beyond the usual admiration of a strong person. She followed her every step, and it was said that she even used 'legal means' to make Mikoto's roommate leave to achieve cohabitation.

No matter how you judged it, you would conclude that Kuroko's sexual orientation was different from that of a normal girl. Especially after witnessing her several attempts to 'molest' Mikoto, only to be electrocuted into a frizzy hairstyle, Levi was convinced that Kuroko's yuri level had reached the maximum.

Then, Levi and Mikoto became familiar through prolonged interaction. What was a normal development of interpersonal relationships became a huge threat to Kuroko, comparable to the end of the world. She couldn't allow her senior to fall into the hands of a man, even if it was just a normal teacher-student relationship. Any possibility had to be nipped in the bud.

As a result...

Levi was unilaterally labeled as Kuroko's rival, which led to the condition she proposed. She probably started planning this from the moment she first met Levi?

At first, she might have wanted to take pictures of Levi and the girl to smear him. Later, she thought that wasn't enough and decided to use the tickets as a lure, and it really worked!

Levi had a reason to get the tickets.