Strongest Superhuman System

"I'm sure you're already aware of what I can do, Jeanne. Don't make this any harder than it needs to be."

Jeanne realized that Salazar was right about the elevator not working. It seemed the explosion had disabled the building's electricity. Jeanne wasted no time and smashed her fist into the wall beside the elevator, exposing the shaft that the elevator normally traveled through. She looked behind her to see that Salazar was turning the corner.

The moment Salazar saw her, he frowned and increased his pace.

Jeanne jumped into the shaft, grabbed a hold of the wall, and jumped on top of the elevator. Jeanne grabbed the cords holding up the elevator and used all her strength to snap all of them at the same time.

SNAP!

PHWOOM!

The elevator suddenly plummeted more than ten floors, and Salazar looked down at the empty shaft in irritation. He weighed his next actions, and when he heard the loud sound of police sirens and superhumans shouting outside the NSA building, he decided that chasing Jeanne was not worth the trouble. He had more important things to handle right now.

...

The front lobby of the NSA was a hive of activity as superhumans swarmed into the building. The information that Pat sent to the Superhuman Alliance contained everything they needed to find out about Salazar's activities.

Since Pat got the information from the drive directly onto his server, he transferred the map of the underground lab, its capacity, and Salazar's involvement directly to the Superhuman Alliance. It didn't take more than five minutes before the NSA was swarmed by Superhuman Alliance agents who came to arrest everyone there.

Everyone was being taken away and they would all be detained and interrogated to see who was a part of this and who was innocent.

"I don't know what's going on! I swear, I'm innocent!"

"What do you mean I'm under arrest? I work for the fucking government! You can't arrest me!"

"I was about to get a damn promotion! We're the NSA! Let me go!"

PHWOOM!

BOOM!

"Holy shit!"

"Is it another explosion!?"

A loud sound suddenly echoed from the elevator shaft and everyone turned towards it in surprise, waiting to see what was happening.

Creak!

The elevator door was slowly forced open to reveal Jeanne standing calmly in the ruined elevator. Jeanne sighed as she stood straight and put on her black gloves. She looked around the room at all the NSA agents being arrested and walked out from the elevator under the scrutinizing glances of the Superhuman Alliance agents.

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Jeanne walked up to one of the Superhuman Alliance agents there and put her hands out.

"Are we doing this or not?"

The agent wasted no time as he put the superhuman detaining cuffs on her and took her out with the other NSA agents. Since Jeanne was also one of those working for the NSA—at least on paper—she had to be detained as well.

Jeanne looked behind her to make sure that Salazar didn't follow after her before she spoke into the comms.

"Pat, what about Fiona and Tyler? Anything yet?"

[Shit, shit, shit. The agents found Tyler's body, he was burnt and depleted of mana, but they said he was still alive. But there was no sign of Fiona! The tracker in her comms is offline and they didn't find her body at all! I don't know what to do! I can't find her.]

"Pat, relax."

[No, Jeanne! You don't get it! She might be dead! I'm the one that brought her into this and she might be dead! Fuck, I shouldn't have told Mark to stay out of this! He would've found a way out of this!]

Jeanne cursed internally as she was forced into a transport vehicle by the Superhuman Alliance agent. Sometimes, Jeanne forgot that her brother was still just a kid who wasn't used to situations like this. Pat might be bloody brilliant academically and a master at high-level thinking, but he wasn't very good at handling stressful situations like this one.

Unlike when Mark was involved, Pat was basically the leader of this operation, so he felt very responsible for everything that happened.

"Pat, listen to me. Fiona is going to be fine. Just relax and keep looking. Panicking isn't going to help anyone."

[I already know that! I'm still looking. Fuck. I'll send information about your innocence to the Superhuman Alliance so they can release you soon and I'll keep an eye on Salazar as well. When you get out, come back home.]

"Pat… maybe you should call Mark."

[…]

"He won't be disappointed in you, Pat. No one could have predicted Gunter being there."

[I'll call him when things settle down. It's not like he can do much right now. I'll talk to you later.]

Pat went off the comms and Jeanne sighed at her brother's stubbornness. Jeanne also knew that calling Mark wouldn't solve anything now since the Superhuman Alliance was involved, but she also knew that Mark would be able to help Pat get his head on straight to find a solution. Jeanne decided that once she was free, she would call Mark herself.

...

[City F – The Port.]

"Ehhh~? The NSA is being raided? Already? That was quick."

A beautiful woman wearing a pair of very short shorts and a crop top was lying down on her back on top of a large cargo container. She had a lollipop in her mouth and moved it about playfully while looking up at the news on her phone. The woman had black hair and eyes, and there were large dark circles under her eyelids.

Her attire was pure black and she had a tattoo on one of her arms, which gave her a very gothic appearance.

Beside her, a man with bright blond hair and green eyes clicked his tongue and blew out a puff of smoke. He flicked his cigarette before throwing it down and crushing it on the container's surface to extinguish it. The man was the polar opposite of the woman. He had on blue jeans and a bright red top that would draw anyone's attention to him.

When he spoke, there was a playful undertone to it that betrayed the serious look in his eyes.

"It's probably stupid Salazar messing up too quickly. I told him not to put the stupid lab under the building. It's a classic villain move that always ends in failure. Well, if it's him, I'm sure he has a plan for that as well. He never tells us anything anyway. Forget all about that nonsense, Selina.

Come on, what do you say the two of us go on a date to the festival? I hear there's a black horse there that no one can tame. I'll tame it for you~!"

The man brought his face very close to the woman's face with his mouth puckered for a kiss and the woman just put her hand out and pushed the man's face away without bothering to look at him.

"We just had sex, so you should be okay for a while. Stay away from me, you deviant."

"Ah, but it wasn't enough, Selina-chan~! I love you so much~ I want to have sex with you for a hundred years~!"

A small blush crept up on the woman's face once the man said that before a tick mark rose on her forehead and she glared at the man.

"Stop shouting nonsense like that so nonchalantly! People will think we're together!"

The man sighed.

"You always play hard to get~ Even though you can't resist my manly charm~ Hehehe~ I'll make you say you love me one of these days."