[+2,000 AP]

  It cost 700 AP to create a skill for Ai Hoshino, and it earned him more than double that.

  'With the skill "I Reading," I hope she have a better life.'

  Zaydas, who had seen Ai, practically reized her as soon as he met her.

  Of course, the fact that she herself said her name was Ai Hoshino firmed that he was right in his guess.

  For now, he wouldn't interfere with Ai's subsequent choices. Everything he wao do, he had already dohe rest to her.

  In a restaurant in downtown Tokyo, Zaydas was eating ramen while watg the street through the window.

  After flying for a few mihrough the city and gaining access to the i on this p, he noticed a few things.

  One of them was the existence of heroes.

  Yes, this dimension had DC heroes.

  'Great Sage, wasn't this supposed to be a Mid-Rank dimension?'

  [Responding. Yes, exactly, this is a High Mid-Rank dimension. And, although there are DC heroes, this is an AU universe.]

  'Even so, it's still dangerous...' Zaydas thought about what he had seen oer, in a news report about Supergirl defeating a vilin and saving Tokyo.

  Yes, that's right. Supergirl was living in Japan. And the area she mainly protected was Tokyo.

  Not just her: Batgirl was also in Japan, specifically in Kyoto. There were eves that Wonder Woman lived in Osaka.

  'Why is it like this?' Zaydas was fused by such a development.

  If they were still in Gotham City, for example, it would make sense, but for several of them to be in Japan?

  He didn't know what level of threat they represented either, but they shouldn't be weaker than a Mid-Css Devil, right? At the very least, they should be on par with a High-Css Devil...

  But something bothered him. If it was DC, why was Ai Hoshino there? And if she was there, was this some sort of crossover between Dd anime worlds, or even anime in general?

  [Alert! e 100% Established!]

  [Alert! Time difference 1/100]

  His thoughts were interrupted by seeing this alert.

  'I'll iigate a bit more about this world, uand it better before-'

  "BOOM!"

  "Run! A vilin is attag!!"

  "WEEEEE-OOOOOO, WEEEEE-OOOOOO!"

  At the same time, a loud arm echoed.

  It was a disaster warning arm. Soon, the doors of all the nearby shops began closing, transf into fortresses with damage-resistaal ptes.

  However, the ramen shop where Zaydas was didn't have the same luck. Before the arm went off, something had crashed into the gss wall.

  "Ahhh, my eye, my eye!!"

  A shard of gss flew and hit the eye of a boy about 15 years old.

  "Ho ho ho! The Adorable Santa Cus is here to have some fun~!!"

  Flying with a red sa his back, a man with a rge belly and a white beard, dressed as Santa Cus in red clothes with white trim, had a twisted and fierce expression.

  Emerging from the shattered gss, a woman dressed in a superhero e walked through, stepping on the shards and produg the sound of g gss.

  "Don't get too happy, Fake Santa." Pg her hands on her hips, she said fidently: "Because I, Supergirl, am going to defeat you!"

  "It's Supergirl! We're saved!"

  "Please, Supergirl, take down this Fake Santa!"

  "Damn, I think I don't like Christmas anymore..."

  "My hand, my hand..."

  "Mommy, I'm scared!"

  'It really is her...'

  Wearing a light blue tex shirt with a diamond-shaped emblem taining a red "S" in the ter, she paired the outfit with a red skirt and a long cape of the same color. Her eyes had an o-blue hue, while her hair showcased a dazzling ptinum blonde.

  The curves of her body stood out, giviriking and sensual beauty. Even uhe shirt, the outline of her well-defined abs and the fullness of her chest, approximately "C-Cup" size, were noticeable.

  Zaydas hadn't been hit... Or rather, a barrier had protected him. As he stood up, he walked over to the girl whose eye had been pierced by the gss and who was g in pain.

  He stood before her and said, "Hello."

  The girl, her hand h he gss but too afraid to worsen the pain, looked at him with her other eye, seeming surprised as tears streamed down.

  "H-Hello," she stammered in a tearful voice.

  "I heal you," Zaydas said directly. "If you allow me, of course."

  "P-Please...!" she pleaded with her eye, extending her hand toward him.

  "Hey, what do you think you're doing to that girl?" Supergirl seemed to notice him at that moment.

  Without turning, Zaydas calmly replied, "Healing her."

  "Healing her, you say?" She sounded skeptical.

  "Don't interfere with me," Zaydas said, gng at her from the er of his eye. "Go deal with the guy outside if you're so free."

  "You..." Supergirl was furious at his words but soon sighed and poi him. "Fine, but if you do anything strao her, you'll regret it!"

  "Sure, whatever," Zaydas replied, not taking her seriously.

  Turning his attention back to the girl, he said gently, "It might hurt a little. You o e, okay?"

  "Mm." She nodded.

  Pointing his hand toward her, he began removing the gss using telekinesis while simultaneously preventing the blood from flowing out with the same ability.

  "Urghhhh!"

  "Well done, you held o." Zaydas gave a reassuring smile. "The hard part is over. Now, I'll heal you."

  Pg his open palm over her eye, a red light with green strands surrounded his hand, peing the wound, regeing the cells and delicate tissue. The process seemed slow but sted only a few seds before he removed his hand.

  "You're all set. You were very brave." Zaydas gently touched her head, smiling softly.

  "My... my eye..." Her rea came deyed. Feeling the tou her head and seeing Zaydas with both eyes, she blinked.

  'An angel?' she thought.

  Shaking her head while closing her eyes, she opehem again and thanked him deeply, her voice trembling: "T-Thank you!!"

  "Haha, I'm heading out now."

  Walking to the ter, he left a bill aed, while the shards of gss seemed to move aside to make way for him.

  From another person's perspective, it looked as if he repelled everything in his path; nothing dared to obstruct him.

  "Who is he?"

  "A new hero?"

  "An Ikemen superhero?"

  "How he be so handsome?"

  ***

  ***

  "BOOM!"

  "BOOM!"

  "Damn, you're strong...!"

  Supergirl didn't want to admit it, but after exging several blows with this Fake Santa Cus, she couldn't gain the upper hand. She was even starting to feel that she might lose if things went on like this.

  "Ho, ho, ho!" The Fake Santa ughed loudly, saying, "Before I became like this, I ersonal trainer and wore the realistita e to surprise her and my daughter. But imagine my surprise..."

  "I, a good father and husband, was murdered by her supposed boyfriend. you believe it?"

  He began rambling about his life:

  "And before I died, she even had the audacity to tell me that my daughter wasn't mi his. Ho, ho, ho! But you should've seen her face when I started to heal... and became the True Santa Cus!"

  "Ah, Supergirl, you should've seen her expression, especially when I 'pyed' with her little boyfriend in front of her and her bastard daughter before brutally killing all three!"

  His eyes no longer seemed human, and as he spoke with growing euphoria, his appearance became increasingly inhuman. Then, suddenly, his head drooped forward, as if he had fainted.

  "KILL!!!!"

  When he raised his head again, his eyes were abze, but strangely, the fire didn't burn.

  Then, crag sounds echoed, and the Fake Santa's body began swelling like a balloon, but grotesquely, with bubbles f all over his body.

  "He's entering the sed phase!!"

  "Supergirl, finish him quickly, or we're all dead!!"

  "You have to kill him; capturing him alive is no longer an option!!"

  "He's not human anymore, Supergirl!!"

  "Supergirl!!"

  Zaydas, who had no idea what was happening, could feel the people's fear in their screams.

  It was well-known that Supergirl didn't kill, but something like this wasn't easy to capture. And even before the sed phase, she was already struggling to gain an advantage.

  Meanwhile, Supergirl was having an internal battle. She knew she should kill him, but something was stopping her from doing so. She didn't want to, but she had to...

  'What do I do, what do I do...'

  "Just kill him."

  "What?" Turning meically, she was a little surprised to see who it was.

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