Chapter 898

"Has today's newspaper arrived?"

"It has, Boss."

"Then hurry up and bring it over for me to see. Solving a Tiger Level Mysterious Being should be able to make our Blizzard Group's reputation rise another wave."

"Uh, this————"

B-Class Hero Rank 3, Mountain Ape, looked somewhat troubled.

"Hemming and hawing, what's the matter? Could it be that with such big news, the newspaper won't even give us a large spread?"

Hell's Blizzard frowned, her hand chopping past her subordinate's hand to snatch the newspaper; however, she flipped through the paper again and again, yet did not see a single piece of news about her own Blizzard Group, as if the fact that they had painstakingly hunted down that rampaging Lobster Mysterious Being some time ago

had never happened at all.

"Boss Fubuki, this time we're a bit unlucky; we ran into even bigger news. Over in J-City, a Deep Sea Monster invasion incident occurred.

Three A-Class Heroes and two S-Class Heroes were all defeated. Reports from all major cities headed that way; even A-Class Heroes could only occupy a small corner on the front page. Our teaming up to solve a Tiger Level Mysterious Being — this matter really caught us at a bad time."

"Bullshit bad timing. There are at least three full spreads in here writing about the Kelp Beauty Pageant. Damn it. The world has not a shred of crisis awareness. Genuine heroic deeds go unreported, yet they report these useless things."

Hell's Blizzard was somewhat angry. Other heroes' news was one thing, but what dog-shit entertainment news actually came to steal her Blizzard Group's limelight too.

What "Shocking: Popular Idol Unexpectedly Kneels Publicly to Become a Disciple"————

What the hell is this? A local city's popular idol apprentices herself to a master, and it gets half a spread.

Our own Blizzard Group painstakingly solved a Tiger Level Mysterious Being, yet couldn't even scrape a single line of reportage text.

"Uh, Boss Fubuki, this Kelp Beauty Pageant was actually funded and held by S-Class Hero Flashy Flash."

"S-Class Hero? Flashy Flash? Who's that?"

Hell's Blizzard looked at her own Blizzard Group's Staff Officer, B-Class Hero Rank 2, Eyelashes, with a face full of doubt.

"Lady Fubuki, wasn't there a meteor crisis in Z-City a while back? The other party was the one who resolved the meteor crisis,

saving all of Z-City — a C-Class Hero. And because of that matter, the other party was exceptionally promoted by the Association from C-Class Hero to S-Class."

Eyelashes hurriedly began to explain.

"How come I didn't know about this?"

"At the time, Lady Fubuki, you were busy cracking down on evil organization groups, and the other party didn't stay in B-Class but directly jumped ranks to S-Class.

I felt they weren't someone worth our Blizzard Group paying attention to, so I didn't report it to you in time. Sorry, Lady Fubuki. This was my mistake."

Eyelashes hurriedly apologized."

"

Fubuki opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but not knowing what to say. Her subordinate Eyelashes' words sounded nice — 'not someone worth our Blizzard Group paying attention to' — but in reality, the other party was an exceptionally promoted S-Class Hero. Just a B-Class group like our own Blizzard Group, rashly going to recruit them, would probably be treated as an overreaching broken home.

"Forget it. It's my problem for being too busy lately."

Hell's Blizzard waved her hand, but a stifled feeling still remained in her chest.

She thought for a moment, then pointed at the popular idol's apprenticeship in the newspaper and said to her subordinate: "Eyelashes, later have some members inside the group pretend to be ordinary citizens and call the newspaper to properly complain about there being too much entertainment news in the paper."

An S-Class Hero is not to be provoked, but a local popular idol — can our own Blizzard Group not provoke her? Moreover, she isn't going to make things difficult for an unknown popular idol, but to make those news agencies at the newspaper publish more hero-related news. This is also fighting for benefits for the entire Hero Industry.

"Boss Fubuki, the master this popular idol named Vivian apprentices to is also Flashy Flash."

"No way. How is it still related to that newly promoted S-Class Hero?"

"The J-City Beauty Pageant was organized by him. The popular idol is the champion of the J-City Beauty Pageant. After Flashy Flash resolved the Deep Sea Monsters attacking J-City, that Beauty Pageant champion also publicly knelt to become a disciple. And because this matter had very high topic potential, it gained such a large news spread."

"So it's that Flashy Flash guy who made it so our Blizzard Group, after solving a Tiger Level Mysterious Being, couldn't even get a text news mention?"

"Uh, Boss Fubuki, please calm down. This matter actually can't be blamed on him either. J-City being attacked by sea monsters was a coincidence. Him organizing a Beauty Pageant whose champion is a hero-worshipping, hero-aspiring popular idol was also a coincidence. And the popular idol publicly becoming a disciple at the end — even Flashy Flash himself probably didn't expect it."

"Hmph. Such coincidences. Maybe he wanted to prop up that popular idol as a Hero Center debut, so he deliberately staged the J-City sea monster attack himself!"

"Ah, Boss, that's impossible, right."

"Hmph. How is it impossible? You all listen to me. In private, investigate that Flashy Flash's matters thoroughly for me.

""

"Yes."

Seeing their own Boss looking like she was on a rampage, the other Blizzard Group members could only answer yes.

"Sigh~"

Leaving her subordinates' sight, Hell's Blizzard sighed. She also knew she was venting anger on the wrong person, maliciously speculating about others.

But there was no helping it. Some emotional impulses are just like that. Many things she did were to prove she had already surpassed her sister, but now she was completely overshadowed by some things done by a newly promoted S-Class Hero.

The newly promoted S-Class Hero's ranking is Rank 3, lower than her sister's Rank 2, while she herself is lower than that newly promoted S-Class Hero. Doesn't that just prove she's not even as good as someone who's not as good as her sister? This made her vent her anger in a burst.

【Forget it. First go to Z-City to catch a wanted criminal and change my mood. Later, I'll hint to Eyelashes and them not to take investigating the S-Class Hero's matters too seriously.】

As the Blizzard Group's Boss, Hell's Blizzard also cares about face. She can't do things like changing orders morning and evening, lest others think she's afraid of the S-Class Hero.

Of course, afraid she truly is. After all, her own sister is S-Class Rank 2. And those who can be S-Class Heroes alongside her sister — basically the vast majority are monsters.

Hell's Blizzard once secretly investigated, even acted to compare, but quickly discovered most S-Class Heroes,

except for Child Emperor this kind of child, the rest are all ones she can't beat.

Even the S-Class Gatekeeper, A-Class Rank 1 Sweet Mask — that person's strength, Hell's Blizzard also has no confidence she can win.

But afraid is afraid; she can't let people see she has no confidence either.

【Sigh. If that Flashy Flash had gone through the normal process for hero promotion, maybe I would've had a chance to bring him under my command————】

Riding the Special Express Train from B-City to Z-City, Hell's Blizzard flipped through information about Flashy Flash's previous deeds as a C-Class Hero Aesthetic Warrior on her seat, and couldn't help but sigh, feeling like a lord with the world in mind who missed out on a great talent.

Footsteps sounded. Someone sat down in the opposite seat. Hell's Blizzard subconsciously raised her head to look, and was somewhat startled.

Only because the person who sat down opposite was actually the S-Class Hero she had seen in the newspaper this morning, the one with a full spread of news coverage.

【S-Class Rank 16, Demon Cyborg, likewise exceptionally promoted into S-Class by the Association. Heard he and the newly promoted S-Class Hero Rank 3, Super Flash, are heroes who qualified in the same Exam Area.

【B-Class Rank 1 Hell's Blizzard, heard she's a guy who likes to suppress newly promoted B-Class Heroes, but there are also some evaluations saying she's a decent Hero senior.】

When Hell's Blizzard recognized Genos, Genos also recognized Hell's Blizzard.

【Although the Blizzard Group has always recruited promising newly promoted B-Class Heroes, they have never not attempted to recruit S-Class Heroes either, especially this kind of rookie hero.】

【The book in her hand is the Hero Manual sold by the Hero Association, which records information such as the rankings and capability intel of various major heroes.

Although making heroes' individual capabilities public is somewhat foolish, it is undoubtedly a way for ordinary people to understand heroes, and also expands certain heroes' influence in society.

And the page she was flipping through was————Super Flash,, could it be that B-Class Rank 1 Hell's Blizzard wants to suppress Mr. Broly?】

"You are S-Class Rank 16 Demon Cyborg, Genos, right?"

It was just at this time that Hell's Blizzard struck up a conversation.

"What business do you have, B-Class Rank 1 Hell's Blizzard?"

Genos's posture was somewhat cold.

", you actually recognize me?"

"Don't you recognize me too?"

"I always pay extra attention to promising rookie heroes."

"I know, because I've heard of you, and of course, I've also heard of your suppression of rookie heroes, but I don't know what your purpose ultimately was in looking at Mr. Broly's info page just now?"

"Mr. Broly?"

"You want to play dumb in front of me?"

Genos raised his hand and pointed at the page of the Hero Manual open in Hell's Blizzard's hand.

"Ah, you mean Flashy Flash?"

"Right, you're looking at his info page, could it be you want to suppress him? If so, then I can only say, this guy really somewhat overestimates his capabilities."

【What makes you conclude that I, a B-Class Hero, would dare to suppress an S-Class Hero?】

"Demon Cyborg, you may have misunderstood, I just saw Flashy Flash's news, so I'm just somewhat curious about him."

【Hmm, thinking about it that way, it makes sense, but just what is Hell's Blizzard curious about regarding Mr. Broly?】

"I heard Demon Cyborg you and this Flashy Flash are heroes who qualified from the same exam venue, yet I wonder if you could tell me what kind of person he is?"

【Although misunderstood, at least there's a topic now, so I'll just go along with this topic and chat with this Demon Cyborg, see if I can't build some rapport————】

"Mr. Broly is a very powerful person, his strength is unfathomable, and equally unfathomable is his teaching ability, I once had the good fortune to study under him for a period of time, and my own strength grew by leaps and bounds————"

Genos answered seriously, and this was what he said after thinking it over; since the person before him wasn't here to suppress Mr. Broly, she must have coveted Mr. Broly's sparring partner teaching ability.

In Genos's eyes, Broly is a teacher willing to take money to teach students true skills, and as a former fee-paying student taught by Broly, Genos believes he should drum up some upcoming teaching business for the person who taught him skills.

"Unfathomable teaching ability, you studied under him too?"

Hell's Blizzard was somewhat dazed, not expecting to hear this kind of inside story.

"Right, if Miss Hell's Blizzard you're also interested and want to ask Mr. Broly to train you, you'd best prepare enough training tuition."

【If I ask the other party to train me, wouldn't I also be able to connect with S-Class Rank 3 Flashy Flash?!】

Hell's Blizzard thought in her heart, on the surface she asked: "Don't know how much the other party's training tuition is?"

"Not much, acquaintance introduction price, one million an hour."

Hearing this, Hell's Blizzard's expression stiffened somewhat.

As B-Class Rank 1, Hell's Blizzard's money-making capability is naturally not bad.

But the hourly rate of one million still scared her.

"It is expensive, but I guarantee it's worth every penny."

Genos also saw the stiff expression on her face, and continued to recommend it. 」

，」

Just as Hell's Blizzard was hesitating over whether to spend money to connect with two S-Class Heroes, Genos's phone in his pocket rang.

"Hello, Hero Association, what is it, mm, I understand, I'm on the Special Express Train you mentioned, I'll handle it."

Ending the communication, Genos looked at Hell's Blizzard: "You're an esper, right, your power might be needed now."

"What happened?"

"There's an A-Class wanted criminal, a Serial Bomber, who installed a huge power bomb on this Special Express Train; when it arrives at Z-City's terminal station it will detonate the bomb and kill many people. We must let the passengers on the train safely break free before that, and stop this Special Express Train from entering Z-City station."

Genos explained the situation concisely; Hell's Blizzard didn't ask much either. There were still ten minutes until arrival at Z-City terminal station; time was tight, so they had to act quickly.

The Special Express Train car door was violently pried open, and passengers were put down from the train one by one by Hell's Blizzard using telekinesis.

Genos went to check the front car, and not long after returned, shaking his head at her: "No good, no way to stop this runaway train from the control console side."

"What do you plan to do?"

"Physically stop this train. Hell's Blizzard, you get off the train too; the rest is up to me."

Leaving those words, Genos directly jumped out of the train, mechanical arms spraying flames, flying toward the train's front.

"Miss Fubuki, I found the bomb location."

Just at this moment, a C-Class Hero girl also on the train helped find where the bomb was.

Following the girl to the toilet where the bomb was installed, the bomb occupied the entire toilet; Hell's Blizzard originally wanted to just throw the bomb out, but saw the mercury liquid detonation device on the bomb.

"This kind of bomb, as long as imbalance appears, will probably directly detonate————"

Hell's Blizzard's complexion changed; an esper's telekinesis isn't invincible defense either; if a bomb of this yield explodes, at close range she'd be dead meat too.

"Miss Fubuki, no time left, what do we do?"

The C-Class Hero girl was somewhat panicked, because the train was one minute away from arriving at Z-City's terminal station.

"Don't make noise; since you're a hero, don't act like a headless fly."

Hell's Blizzard spoke, and used telekinesis to put this C-Class Hero girl down off the train.

【A bomb's explosive power, put plainly, is just gas expansion; if I use telekinesis at the moment the bomb explodes to suppress the expanding gas, wouldn't that reduce the destruction? But can my telekinesis really achieve this?

No, I have to believe in myself, believe I can do it————】

Thoughts stopped; Hell's Blizzard discovered her body, uncontrollably flying toward the outside of the train.】

At the same time, Genos, who stood in front of the train and tried to resist its advance with his body, was thrown into the sky by a force.

"Get out of the way!"

The mastermind floating in the sky said this one sentence, and the entire speeding special express train was controlled by an invisible force and flew into the sky.

Because the train lost balance, the bomb exploded directly, but before the explosive power could spread, it was suppressed back by a tyrannical force.

Shrinking at extreme speed, eventually along with the train, it was directly compressed into a solid train box, lightly floating back to the ground.

【This is the power of S-Class Rank 2, Tornado of Terror, right————】

Genos, who returned to the ground first, looked at the petite female figure above his head, and the magic scene of turning the train into a Rubik's Cube also left him somewhat surprised in his heart.

Although the strength displayed by the other party should not be as strong as Teacher Saitama or Mr. Broly, this method was far too powerful compared to himself, who was also S-Class.

Suddenly, Genos thought of something, his complexion changed greatly: "Oh no, the crabs I bought from B-City, preparing to bring to Teacher Saitama!"

"Why didn't you escape at the first opportunity?"

Tornado, who rushed over from Z-City at extreme speed from the Hero Association Headquarters and handled the train bomb this way, drifted down from the sky, looked at her younger sister on the ground, crossed her arms over her chest, and asked somewhat dissatisfiedly.

"This has nothing to do with you."

Hell's Blizzard stood up, turned her head away, and her attitude toward Tornado was also cold.

To this, Tornado just gave a cold snort, said nothing, and directly flew away.

"You and S-Class Rank 2 Tornado are actually sisters?"

Genos, who had painfully lost the crabs, walked over, somewhat surprised.

"This should have nothing to do with you, right."

These words made Hell's Blizzard's attitude turn somewhat cold.

"Indeed unrelated, it's just that your relationship seems not very good, which makes me somewhat curious."

"That guy, relying on being stronger than me, always wants to control my life."

Hell's Blizzard sighed, perhaps wanting to recruit Genos, she actually told him some of her own matters.

"I see, is it because of strength? Not being an only child, there indeed are cases of strong children bullying weak children, so, you look at Mr. Broly's information page, actually wanting to obtain Mr. Broly's guidance to get stronger, right?"

Genos's face showed a look of sudden realization.

Hell's Blizzard: "————"

"We can be considered to have cooperated hand in hand this time; if you need a mediator to help introduce, I can help you."

Genos showed the enthusiasm of a salesman pushing courses.

"Thank you, but Flashy Flash's teaching fee, to be honest, is a bit expensive; let me consider it."

"Okay, let's add phone numbers; if you decide and need it, feel free to contact me."

Genos took out his phone.

At night, Broly, who had just finished training Vivian in Water God Style Swordsmanship, received a text message from Genos.

【Mr. Broly, I have a friend on this side who might pay for your guidance later; I don't know if you still have the energy to guide others on your side?】

To this, Broly, who had plenty of energy, only replied with one word: 【Yes.】