Superhumans of the Dome City
Chapter 88 - 88 8 I Heard You Can Sing

88: Chapter 8 I Heard You Can Sing 88: Chapter 8 I Heard You Can Sing “Let’s start with a summary of the situation,” Shiyu Lianyi opened his notebook.

“First off, does Gongsun Ce think he encountered a girl on the street that only he could see?”

Crouching on the ground, Gongsun Ce clutched the hem of his friend’s jacket, answering nervously and rapidly, “Yes!

That girl was dressed weirdly, sang beautifully, and clearly thought differently from ordinary people.

I could interact with her normally, but none of the passersby noticed her.”

Mr.

Shiyu looked at him with a tenderness that sent chills down one’s spine, like a doctor gazing at a terminally ill patient who is beyond cure.

The young man in the suit wrote a few words in his notebook and said to the daunting heiress a few steps away, “Could it be possible that Gongsun has been watching too many cartoons lately…

the trendy ones, where the pretty girl falls from the sky, or one finds a beautiful girl on the street…

You know, he was really tired recently.

During his recovery, he might have accidentally…”

“Do I look like an idiot who can’t distinguish fantasy from reality?!

And that kind of plot isn’t even popular anymore; it’s a cliché from over a decade ago!”

Shiyu Lianyi hesitated.

“Ah, well…

my apologies, I don’t usually engage with that genre.”

Come on now.

Why does the way you look at him feel so much warmer?

The refined and elegant gentleman asked again, “What did Qin Qianbai see?”

The voice of the heiress reminded him of the bitter cold at the end of the year, more than two months ago.

“Ah Ce and a scantily clad girl clung together, using superpowers to lift up people’s skirts.”

“…”

Mr.

Shiyu closed his eyes and silently shook his head.

“Don’t give up, Mr.

Shiyu!

Think about justice and righteousness!!

It’s weird that I haven’t done anything wrong, yet I’m being driven to this extent!!!”

“Gongsun, maybe you should start by apologizing.”

“Why should I?!

Am I supposed to apologize to someone who’s chasing after me?!!”

Tap, tap, tap.

The expressionless Miss Qin approached step by step, the Superpower User prepared to genuinely fight it out if necessary.

“Let’s calm down a bit, Qin Qianbai.

Just by hearing it, this matter is full of doubts, and more importantly than the event itself, it’s your actions that we should pay attention to,” Mr.

Shiyu tapped his notebook with the pen.

“Chasing Gongsun around everywhere over this, even from the standpoint of a friend, seems a bit excessive, doesn’t it?”

“…Here.”

Miss Qin’s movement stiffened to a halt.

The young man in the suit curled his lips, revealing a smile like a prankster who had succeeded in his trickery.

“How would others view this?

In my eyes, it’s like—”

Like what?

Zero Island’s resident deliberately drew out his tone, but before he could finish his sentence, the heiress turned her head away decisively, denying, “Absolutely not.”

What’s with turning your head away now?

The man with gray hair began to think seriously.

What Mr.

Shiyu wanted to say was…

like scolding a junior?

Could it be misunderstood by onlookers as an older woman showing concern, aiming at the female sensitivity about age…?

A direct attack at that weakness…!

In that case, she must stop and deny it; otherwise, it would be as though verifying other people’s speculation with her actions!

What a blatant and righteous scheme.

Impressive, Mr.

Shiyu.

Truly a tactician!

The young man in the suit chuckled and clapped his hands, “Well then, let’s all think about the cause and effects of this incident together, shall we?

Don’t worry, Gongsun is not the person Kardesia describes him as.

Unless it’s a special circumstance, he wouldn’t approach women on the street.”

“…You have a point,” the heiress replied, hand on her hip, “Come out, I’m not going to fight you.”

The Superpower User emerged with a gloomy expression.

“Why am I so miserable?

Seriously, why such a big reaction?

Even if I did approach a strange girl, I don’t deserve this treatment, do I?!”

“I can’t let Ah Ce become a womanizer.”

The young man covered his face with a long sigh.

“Your knowledge base needs another update.

Don’t get too close to Kardesia, don’t believe her nonsense, and please don’t watch weird stuff at her place, okay?

If this continues, next time your grandpa comes, I really will tell him, ‘Your granddaughter recently came into contact with a lot of bad knowledge, I can’t manage her anymore, it’s so exhausting.'”

“Then, I’ll just make a copy of Ah Ce’s computer data and browser history, and post it to the school forum.”

The middle schoolers from this morning were too naïve.

The title of Demon is too much for me to bear.

You’re the true devil.

At that moment, he saw Kardesia pulling a girl with pink hair towards them, holding the items Miss Qin had just bought.

“Ah.”

As if it had only now occurred to her that she had left her belongings behind, Qin Qianbai quickly walked over.

The young man with gray hair looked blankly at his friend, asking, “So why is she reacting so strongly?

Due to the intense moral responsibility she feels toward her friends, a result of her family’s traditional education?

Assuming I was engaging in a despicable act and delivering justice?”

Shiyu Lianyi chuckled and closed his notebook.

“Gongsun’s mind has always been sharp; why don’t you think about it yourself?”

“Generally, people ask questions because they can’t figure out the answers themselves.”

Like a magician after his performance, the suited young man turned and with the mysterious tone of an old storyteller, replied, “Sorry, I don’t know either.”

–

Since their club hadn’t been officially established, they had no fixed place to meet in the school; going to a fast-food restaurant again would be a bit awkward, and some girl whose name they still didn’t know didn’t seem a fit for coffee shops or the like…

Which is why, half an hour later, the group of four plus a new member walked into Gongsun Ce’s apartment.

Despite the spacious personal apartment, five people standing in the living room felt a bit crowded.

The Superpower User gave up the two sofas to the guests, floated the chair from the desk their way, and personally served four glasses of water with a stern face.

He spoke to the golden-haired woman who was beyond help, “There’s none for you.

If you dare touch Mr.

Shiyu’s cup, you can walk out the door.”

Kardesia pulled a face at him, and the Superpower User immediately felt refreshed.

Pink-haired twintails swayed back and forth on the sofa, “Who am I really?”

Good question, we’d like to know too.

Gongsun Ce adjusted his glasses, “Let me confirm again.

You’ve forgotten not only your Superpower but also can’t remember where you usually live?”

Nodding, nodding.

“I earnestly suggest you seek help from official institutions.”

“No!

I want to stay with you!!”

Qiluo leaped from the sofa only to be pulled back down by a single hand from the heiress.

“Why do you want to stay with Ah Ce?”

“Without Gongsun Ce, I would have been stuck in that place forever!” she answered seriously, “Invisible and intangible to anyone, even my singing would go unheard—it’s a really uncomfortable feeling…

I must interact with him more…

If I don’t, I can’t find myself!”

Shiyu Lianyi took over the conversation, “If we insist on handing you over to an official institution, what do you plan to do?”

The girl smiled slyly.

“Who are you planning to hand over?”

“I mean…”

He had barely started to speak when the young man in the suit stopped.

Gongsun Ce looked at his friend, who pondered for a moment with his head bowed, then suddenly asked, “Gongsun, what was I just talking about?”

What an odd question.

Are you checking if you used the right words?

“About handing her over to an official institution.”

Mr.

Shiyu’s delicate brows furrowed.

“Then I just now…” he spoke very slowly, as if recalling a fuzzy memory, “who was I talking to?”

Kardesia was utterly baffled, “Isn’t it with Gongsun Ce?”

The Superpower User pointed to the sofa beside him, and Qiluo obligingly grabbed her own hair.

“No, Mr.

Shiyu’s conversation partner wasn’t me, but this young lady.”

The upper half of the girl with pink twin-tails swayed back and forth.

Her shoulders occasionally bumped into the young lady next to her, but the miss showed no reaction this time.

Something’s amiss.

Based on her personality, she would have stopped the other person.

Kardesia crossed her arms and suspicion was written all over her face, “What nonsense are you talking about?”

“…Qin Qianbai.” Shiyu Lianyi turned to the silent girl, “I have a weird question.

Can you tell me the first thing that comes to your mind after you hear the question?”

“Mm-hmm.”

The man in the suit crossed his arms.

His question caught the Superpower User completely off guard.

“How many people are in this room in total?”

“Four.”

Miss Qin paused for a second after speaking, then added with confusion, “I remember there’s only the four of us, but, um…”

So that’s it.

The words of the expressionless girl finally pinpointed the source of the unease.

Qin Qianbai referred to the four as “us”, not likely to include a stranger she had just met that day.

Putting others’ reactions together, everyone except for him seemed to have overlooked Qiluo’s existence.

They were not just blind to the presence before them, but also erased her traces from their memories.

Just like the passersby who walk past the girl on the shopping street, ignoring her existence.

However, such a “forceful” alteration obviously was not without its traces.

They had begun to sense something was wrong but just couldn’t put their finger on the “error”…

The Superpower User formed an initial conjecture.

“Come out, Qiluo.” Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, “Otherwise, I will never talk to you again.”

The pink twin-tailed girl jumped into the center of the living room and made a scissors gesture beside her eye.

“Striking☆Entrance~!”

After a second of silence, the apartment was filled with the shrill scream of a certain blonde girl.

“What?!

Where did you come from, oh my God!

How could I have forgotten you?!”

“Hehe, I’ve discovered that I seem to be able to control this power myself—ah?!”

Without another word, Qin Qianbai pinned her down on the sofa.

Her hands swept quickly over the body of the girl with pink hair, being forcefully subjected to a security check, eliciting delightful screams.

“No…

don’t be so rough…

let me go…!”

“Little Qian, don’t you stop!

I want to see what kind of tricks she used!”

“I’m checking.”

The trio of women crowded by the sofa.

The two gentlemen automatically and conscientiously walked to a corner, their backs to the women as they began a serious discussion.

“Hallucination, memory alteration, or more direct cognitive influence?”

“The latter is most likely.

Hallucination wouldn’t cause our memories to jumble, and memory alteration would hardly make us ignore a human right in front of us.

Assuming it’s an influence on human cognition, that could explain most of the anomalies thus far.

Except for one thing, Gongsun, you said your power suddenly failed for no reason…”

Shiyu Lianyi circled the words “power failure” in his notebook.

He clearly considered this crucial, and the man with grey hair shared the same opinion.

He was a hundred percent sure it wasn’t an illusion; the influence of Telekinesis indeed failed at the first meeting.

But afterwards, he could manipulate the girl again as usual…

“Let’s treat it as an exception for now.

Could it be the Impermanence Skill?”

Mr.

Shiyu shook his head.

“We can’t conclude at this stage.

From personal experience, I don’t think it’s likely.”

Gongsun Ce narrowed his eyes, watching the noise from the girls grow louder.

“An invisible person wandering beside you.

You know what I’m thinking?”

“A ghost?”

The man with grey hair pointed, and the restraints of superpower stopped the three in their tracks.

“A singing ghost.

Now just add a touch of sci-fi, and our club activities would be complete.”

Shiyu Lianyi groaned.

“You’re joking, aren’t you?”

“Yes, I’m joking.

But someone apparently doesn’t think so.”

He released the superpower constraints, and Kardesia picked up the red guitar from the floor.

“Hey, Qiluo~~~” she said, grinning wickedly at the amnesiac girl, “I heard you can sing?”

The street idol answered enthusiastically, “I sing really well!”

Shiyu Lianyi sighed and lowered his head, while Gongsun Ce patted his friend’s shoulder.

“Looks like we’re going to be busy these next few days.”

“Spare me…”