Speaking of the “Fourth Calamity,” Clara immediately recalled the large-scale attack during the Sigma Heroes fan meeting at Monument Park.
To engage the Sigma Heroes in a team battle, the Fourth Calamity deployed over a dozen freaks and hundreds of combatants, even sending a cadre member…………
At that time, the combatants who attacked alongside Psycho were all dressed as suit-wearing thugs, just like the Black men in suits Clara had encountered when entering the building……………
Only back then, they were all wearing masks.
Nightmare and the Fourth Calamity have always had a hostile relationship due to the close business proximity between their companies, so it was no surprise that Chessia showed no mercy when she fought…………
Though it was only in a dream, dying in such a vivid lucid dream certainly didn’t feel good.
“I never imagined the Fourth Calamity would stoop to such despicable acts………..”
No wonder the Boss’s identity was kept highly confidential.
But this really is a typical tactic of evil organizations.
Many heroes choose to retire because their true identities are exposed, leading to their families being targeted by enemy groups……..
It was just unexpected that even in these black-on-black situations, they would abandon all sense of honor.
From this perspective, as an orphaned robot hero, Mechanical Angel Alice truly has an unparalleled advantage.
No wonder she could become a top-tier hero and climb to a management position within the Hero Association without any hero company backing her…………..
“So, what exactly is the relationship between President Chessia and the Grand Commander?”
With such a resemblance in appearance, Clara guessed maybe mother and daughter………… No, according to Fran, Chessia was actually not that young.
Could they be sisters?
When Clara asked this, Chessia smacked her forehead and scolded her.
“Don’t ask about such things! Livestock, have some self-awareness!”
Clara got scolded.
Whether it was Chessia or the Grand Commander, their identities were top secret for Nightmare. Even minister-level freaks didn’t know the Boss’s true identity, and as an undercover department head with only a title and no real personnel, Clara definitely shouldn’t be prying into such matters…………
“Sorry, I overstepped.”
Understanding this, Clara silently closed her mouth.
“Exactly, as long as you understand~ It’s not that I don’t want to tell you, but knowing this kind of thing would be dangerous for you. After all, the ability to read others’ memories isn’t limited to me…………..”
Chessia nodded and then proposed:
“Don’t you think we should cause some trouble for the Fourth Calamity?”
Clara asked in confusion, “Aren’t you already doing that?”
“This is just a counterattack for this incident. This place is at best a subsidiary. Even if I tear down this building, it wouldn’t be a big deal to the Fourth Calamity…………….”
Whether Chessia’s dream-manipulation powers could actually bring down a building was another matter.
“So you mean…………”
“I originally planned to handle this bunch of suited pigs alone……….. But since you’re here, we can escalate things a bit!”
“After all, I’m the president of Sweet Dream Witch’s Human Resources Dispatch Company! A subsidiary of the Fourth Calamity kidnapped the president of a hero company. As a hero, can you just stand by and watch?”
Chessia’s meaning was clear: Clara, under the guise of Magical Girl Clara, was to take down everyone in this subsidiary and “rescue” Chessia……….
Provoking such a huge corporation might not faze Chessia, but Clara was a bit uneasy— or rather………… afraid?
“But don’t they suspect you’re related to the Grand Commander? If they expose that to the media, Sweet Dream Witch’s position would become very complicated………..”
“You’re really chicken, huh? They have no evidence at all! Besides, who do you think public opinion favors—the hero companies or evil organizations?”
The public obviously trusted the heroes more.
As long as Sweet Dream Witch firmly denied it and the Fourth Calamity couldn’t produce conclusive proof, no one would believe their claims.
Is there any blood test or photo proving Chessia is related to the Grand Commander?
None at all. That’s slander!
Seeing Clara seemed to understand, Chessia continued, “Besides, you’re currently a popular hero and a hot topic…….. Do you really underestimate your own influence? You’re not still seeing yourself as small fry, are you?”
That’s right, Clara was a hero now…………….
Trying to think from a different perspective, not from herself but by putting herself in the shoes of the magical girl Clara from the manga…….. As a hero, what would she do?
Borrowing courage from her fictional character, Clara took a deep breath and looked at Chessia.
“President, please let me go to the bathroom first.”
The Black man in a suit got up from the ground and rubbed his chest.
“Am I…….. still alive?”
His last memory was of the long-haired ghostly woman pulling out his heart with her bare hands, but his shirt over his chest was perfectly intact now…. He checked the gun strapped to him; the magazine was fully loaded…….
He vaguely remembered running out of bullets, but now the magazine was full.
He couldn’t understand.
It was like a vivid nightmare, his shirt soaked with cold sweat beneath the suit.
Everything around him seemed normal; there was no power outage. It seemed everyone had fallen into the same nightmare and were brutally slaughtered in the dream, but were now slowly getting back up…………..
Could this be related to that little girl?
They had captured a little girl recently and locked her in the company’s cell. The strange phenomena started from that moment on…………
The Black man didn’t know the girl’s identity; the task from above was simply to capture her and wait for the parent company to take over………
There were no signs of biological modifications or cybernetic implants on the girl; she appeared to be an ordinary person. But on the way back, she remained remarkably calm, as if fearless about everything………….
Could she be a born esper capable of creating such large-scale anomalies?
With a trembling heart, he went to check the cell. The red-haired little girl was still lying face down on the bed, seemingly asleep.
Perhaps due to panic, the Black man didn’t look closely. He failed to notice the cell door’s lock had been broken, nor that the handcuffs had been snapped off and tossed on the floor.
With a slightly eased heart, he closed the door and walked back to his office.
Was the nightmare just a coincidence?
Just as everyone in the company was discussing the recent terrifying experience, the alarm inside the building suddenly blared.
“Hey, wait, what’s going on now?”
The Black man grabbed a colleague rushing past. The colleague said, “All combatants, assemble on the rooftop……….. Damn it, heroes are causing trouble!”
“Heroes?”
The Black combatant, still reeling from the nightmare, was instantly confused.
This kidnapping matter………
Has it already been exposed?
But soon after, a series of explosions erupted upstairs. The whole building shook………………….
Then several people came tumbling down the stairs.
“Don’t go up! The ro-rooftop has been blown off!”