Chapter 1898 - The New Fourth Primogenitor
Kojou was enjoying his life as a human now, letting the sunlight hit his body, somehow made him both comfortable and sleepy, but it quickly ended when he heard a familiar voice.
"Oh, Kojou? You've got a good complexion there!"
Kojou turned his head lazily and looked at his best friend. "Yaze..."
Yaze Motoki, that was the name of this young man. He was a tall, high-school student. He had teal eyes and swept-back brown hair. He also had a pair of headphones around his neck most of the time.
Both Kojou and Yaze had known each other since middle school, and somehow they kept staying together from then on.
"You're comfortable with the sun now?" Yaze asked with a smile.
Hearing Yaze's question, Kojou didn't overthink and nodded. "Yeah, it has been a while since I have felt comfortable."
"I see..." Yaze nodded, but his expression was quite heavy. He had observed Kojou for the past month, and even though he had never asked directly, he knew what had happened to Kojou, especially after he had heard his response before. 'You've returned back to being human, huh?' Even though he was glad that his best friend could gain his normal life, he knew that it wasn't a good thing for the world. Unlike Kojou, who was a bit stupid and very lazy, he didn't know anything about the one who had stolen the fourth primogenitor. Personality, power, identity, and a lot more, there was a lot of mystery, but even so, he might have an idea who the new fourth primogenitor was.
Yaze sat down on his seat, then looked at the dark cloud that started to gather near the Island North, and his expression couldn't help but become heavy. Then he looked in the direction of the huge building that was owned by the person who was suspected as the new fourth primogenitor. When he thought about the identity of that person, then looked at Kojou, he couldn't help but let out a long sigh since there was no comparison between the two.
Yaze might be a high school student and also Kojou's best friend, but in truth, he was the member of the Lion King Organization and Kojou's observer after Kojou had become the fourth primogenitor, but he knew that he didn't need to do that task anymore, considering Kojou wasn't the fourth primogenitor anymore.
Some might notice that Yaze was a member of the Lion King Organization, but what was the Lion King Organization was?
The Lion King Organization or the Lion King Agency is a special agency established by the National Public Safety Commission. They engage in intelligence gathering and sabotage to impede large-scale magical disasters and sorcerous terrorism.
The agency's roots go back to the Takiguchi Musha, the guards who protected the Inner Palace from evil spirits and apparitions during the Heian period. Thus, it is an organization older than the present government of Japan.
The disappearing power of the fourth primogenitor on Kojou's body caused a huge issue among all the people in this world, especially the one who was very knowledgeable about the supernatural matter since, after all, there was someone who could steal the power of the fourth primogenitor, which meant this person could also steal someone else's power too, right?
In the past months, when they realized that the power of Kojou Akatsuki had disappeared, every organization worked overtime in the past month, and they didn't find any clue until...
'Well, the organization might send someone from now on, especially...' Yaze looked at Kojou with complicated, when he thought there was a chance the relationship between Kojou's mother and...
Yaze quickly shook his head and decided to shut his mouth since he knew if his best friend knew that his mother was... *Cough!* *Cough!*, he decided not to say anything.
"That damn thunder!"
Suddenly Yaze and Kojou heard a familiar voice. They turned and looked at their female friend.
"Yo, Asagi," Kojou greeted his female friend lazily, but Asagi didn't seem to care much about his greeting and looked at the direction of the thunder with a sigh.
Asagi Aiba is a high-school student studying in Saikai Academy and a classmate of Kojou Akatsuki and Motoki Yaze. She is a beautiful fair-skinned high-school girl with waist-length dyed strawberry blonde hair that is curled at the ends and passes through her shoulder with a fringe and bangs at either side of her face with a long ponytail tied by a pink ribbon, pinkish-red eyes, and an average build and height.
Similar to her two friends, while Kojou might be an ex-fourth primogenitor, and Yaze was a member of the Lion King Organization and was the real observer of Kojou.
Asagi had a secret identity, and she was an expert programmer and worked for the Manmade Island Management Corporation. Because of her powerful skill, she was even called by the nickname Cyber Empress.
When Asagi ignored him, Kojou didn't think too much and asked, "What's wrong with the thunder?"
Asagi frowned and asked, "Kojou, you don't know about the thunder?'
"Huh? Is it something serious? We're at the Itogami Island, you know? One or two thunders is quite normal, right?" Kojou said with some confusion.
"......" Yaze and Asagi.
Yaze let out a long sigh and said, "Kojou, don't tell me that you don't know about the thunder accident that has caused a serious loss to the MAR?"
"Ha? Serious loss? MAR? What does thunder have to do with MAR?" Kojou was very confused at that moment, wondering what the relationship between the thunder and the giant conglomerate was?
Asagi let out a long sigh and said, "Kojou... if the thunder is normal, then I won't say much, but this thunder happened on the headquarters of a giant conglomerate several times and the building of the Manmade Island Management Corporation, and do you know once this thunder happened, it would paralyze and destroy electronic equipment? Not only that, once the thunder happened, it would also cause the power outage for several days, and when it was cleared, the thunder would strike down again."
"Huh? Such a thing happened?!" Kojou was dumbfounded.
Asagi ignored Kojou's reaction since she knew how stupid this guy was, and at the same time, she was wondering why she fell for him? She shook her head and said, "It was as if this was an EMP weapon."
"EMP weapon?" Kojou was confused.
"You mean like those Graphite bombs?" Yaze asked with a frown.
The graphite bomb is intended to be a non-lethal weapon used to disable an electrical grid. The bomb works by spreading a dense cloud of extremely fine, chemically treated carbon filaments over air-insulated high voltage installations like transformers and power lines, causing short-circuits and subsequent disruption of the electricity supply in an area, a region, or even an entire small country.
The graphite bomb was first used against Iraq in the Gulf War (1990–1991), knocking out 85% of the electrical supply.
"Yes, it is something like that." Asagi nodded and said, "But it is several times more powerful than the graphite bomb, but well, I'm not really sure, let's just hope that the Island Guard and the Management of the Island can do something about this problem since I'm afraid that those thunders might strike down the other islands in the Itogami Island." She was really afraid of those thunders, and when she thought that she might not be able to connect to the electricity or the internet, she felt that she might be very scared.
"I see..." Yaze nodded and thought about the seriousness of this problem.
As for Kojou, he was confused and decided to sleep.
Then they talked for a while until it was time for the class to start, but...
"What? Natsuki-chan isn't at school again?" Kojou asked with some confusion.
The middle-aged teacher didn't care much about the complaints of the students and continued to teach everyone, but Yaze knew where Natsuki was and what she was doing at that moment.. 'Well, I hope nothing is going to happen.'