George's psychic abilities had been feeling watched since he woke up from the clone yesterday.
It wasn't until he became invisible that the feeling of being watched disappeared, so he never removed his invisibility until he completed his base and entered it, at which point he finally deactivated it.
He also remained invisible while stalking Okonomiyaki today and did not experience that feeling of being observed.
However, the moment he ended his invisibility and appeared, the sensation of being watched immediately returned.
But he was certain that before he appeared, he had already destroyed all the surveillance cameras in the vicinity that could potentially capture him.
Closing his eyes, he maximized his psychic abilities and let them expand outward in all directions.
He quickly realized something was off, as the surveillance seemed to be coming from an endless number of very fine, constantly moving dots around the vicinity, which were only noticeable if you paid close attention.
"I told you to monitor!"
George activated his magnetism and forcefully crushed all the perceptible surveillance dots within his magnetic range, and the feeling of being watched vanished immediately.
Regardless of how advanced the surveillance equipment used in those laboratories may be, even if George can't see them with his eyes, they will certainly involve metal in their construction.
Anything made of metal falls within his capabilities.
As he had said before, his superpower is essentially the same as Mikasa's, but there are still differences in application.
Mikasa's main attack is magnetic induction, even controlling metal using her own current to manipulate it. Her hypersonic electromagnetic cannon is not directly controlling the game currency, but rather inducing electromagnetic waves to affect the currency.
George uses magnetism to simply and directly control metal, just like Magneto. Anything technological with metal in it is helpless against him.
Before, due to the low level of his superpower, it was not evident. Now that he has been reinforced by Oyasumi clones, both the weight and range he can control have been significantly increased.
He can't do what Magneto does, lifting a submarine of 4,000 to 5,000 tons from the ground yet. But lifting something weighing a dozen or more tons is as easy as pie for him.
Moreover, if his superpower can continue to be developed and reach the level of the world's fifth grade, it will further enhance.
The metal surveillance devices that are not visible to the naked eye, since he has discovered them, cannot continue to monitor him.
"Surprisingly, it has been discovered!"
Aresla suddenly opened his eyes, and his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
He used the Aerial Line of Sight to monitor every corner of Academia City, but this was the first time it had been discovered, and what was discovered was not the fifth-level real Mikasa, but rather her fourth-level clone.
This only made him feel more and more that something was off about clone 9981.
"Seems we must capture Oyasumi clone 9981 soon."
Aresla ordered through the communicator for the head of the Hospitality Research Institute of Houshin Sect, to dispatch the "Equipment" team, possessing a fifth-grade ability, immediately to capture the fourth-grade clone 9981.
Since the clone 9981 can block his surveillance, he cannot oversee everything anymore, so he must resolve this issue as soon as possible to prevent any unexpected mishaps in his plan.
"He's here!"
At this moment, George and Mikasa both saw a blond teenager with white hair walk into the alleyway, who was precisely the fifth-grade superpower-user Koutarou Kurumazumi.
"It's 8:58. The 9982nd experiment will begin in two minutes."
In the alleyway, clone 9982 spoke in a voice without any inflection.
Koutarou Kurumazumi stood with his hands in his pockets, looking at clone 9982, unlike usual, he didn't ridicule her as usual, but instead opened up in a mad manner and asked:
"What was that copy from yesterday about, and why did it escape?"
"You shouldn't have any human emotions, should you? You should not be afraid!"
Before, he always regarded those replicas as emotionless machines without fear or mercy, like NPCs in a game that can help him level up when killed.
That's why he never paid attention to them.
However, yesterday, one of the replicas actually showed fear and ran away. This suggests that these replicas are not just replicas.
This started to shake his inner world, making him anxious and helpless.
Because deep down, he most detests harming the innocent.
From birth to age nine, he was always in the research institute being studied, and after turning ten when his ability awoke, he was enrolled into a special class with only him. Then he was transferred to various research institutes.
Until he became the fifth-grade superpower-user ranked number one in Academia City.
But because of his powerful strength, many organizations coveted him, sending various people to contact and control him, which drove him crazy. Even after he broke the arms and legs of those people, it did not stop.
So the reason he was convinced to join the Absolute Beginner's Program was actually to become the strongest absolute, so that he would no longer be bothered and would not harm others.
"Oyasumi clone 9981 is an aberration. Don't worry about it. Just continue to complete the next experiment, and you can evolve into a sixth-grade absolute power user after killing 10020 Oyasumi clones."
With the Gachapu emblem, Oyasumi clone 9982 put down the military night vision device on her head and raised a submachine gun to attack Koutarou Kurumazumi.
"Time: 9 o'clock. The 9982nd experiment begins."
"Fine, if you want to die, go ahead and die then!"
Koutarou Kurumazumi furrowed his brow, and the bullets were all reflected back before they reached him, controlled by his vector manipulation.
With 9981 times of combat experience against Koutarou Kurumazumi, Oyasumi clone 9982 skillfully evaded the attack, activated her electrical shock ability to extinguish the lights in the alleyway, and hid in the dark to launch a surprise attack.
However, the gap in power was too great, and soon she was disarmed of her night vision device and submachine gun, starting to retreat according to the battle script.
Koutarou Kurumazumi followed her leisurely, planning to see if she would beg for mercy before death when he defeated the replica according to the experiment requirements.
If so, he would end this experiment. If not, he had just been too optimistic.
George and Mikasa saw that Oyasumi clone 9982 and Koutarou Kurumazumi had moved the battlefield, and they followed them as well.
Eventually, the battlefield was set on a deserted pier by the river, according to the experiment script, Oyasumi clone 9982 would be terminated by Koutarou Kurumazumi here, and then today's experiment would come to an end.
"Let's get started."
As Oyasumi clone 9982 was about to be caught up with, George disappeared into invisibility, and Mikasa rushed forward to block Koutarou Kurumazumi's path.
"Stop!"
"Another one has appeared. Today no experiment was scheduled twice, but it's not a big deal anyway."
Koutarou Kurumazumi waved his hand, controlling an updraft to whirlwind and toss shipping containers at the two Oyasumi clones.
"Iron Sand Sword!"
Mikasa gathered the iron sand within a two hundred meter radius underground with electromagnetic force, forming an electric chainsaw over sixty meters long. She casually swung her arm, splitting the shipping container in half.
