Trying to consider others' feelings and using gentler thods to end the fight would inevitably increase the difficulty on Natsu-san's side.
Even for soone like Natsu-san, having so many restraints made her take things more seriously.
After all, a Level 5's dominance often lies in their high destructive power and unstoppable nature.
Fortunately, Natsu-san had a decent advantage.
She knew the types and activation thods of her fellow first-year girls' abilities, which allowed her to restrict or hinder their power usage through relatively simple ans.
However, when it ca to the older students, the senpais she barely knew due to lower intel gathering, even gentle thods were bound to lead to so accidents.
A Level 4 whose capabilities she didn't fully understand could very well break through her restraints, so she had to consider more extre asures.
If these senpais used abilities that could threaten her or others, Natsu-san would inevitably change her attitude, suppressing them imdiately to prevent their powers from running wild or them hurting soone in an emotional outburst.
In other words, Natsu-san's gentleness was a flexible kind of gentleness, not absolute soft-heartedness.
She reserved the possibility of a heavy-handed response for senpais with high threat levels, while adopting a lenient attitude towards classmates who posed no threat to her.
The 'nacing' Level 5, Natsu-san, had roughly formulated her combat tactics.
As for that self-proclaid Hunter, the archery team captain wielding a dangerous 'Hunt Bow', Natsu-san considered her a target that needed rapid containnt and handling.
"When facing prey with a significant size difference, a single hunter becos powerless. The simplest thod then is to set traps and call for companions."
"Even with so many fellow ability users backing her up, that suffocating, imnse pressure was inescapable. I knew it—if I couldn't handle a Level 5 instantly, even the slightest bit of remaining resistance could crush all my preparations."
"But none of that matters now. Oh, sacred, unattainable existence of this city, are you prepared to be hunted?"
Snapping her head up, Yumiya Iruka's arm holding the 'Hunt Bow' still trembled slightly, her tone laced with excitent. The blood within her seed to begin boiling.
She and her sister were ultimately the sa kind of people—this had nothing to do with power levels.
Even facing a vast gap, she had no thought of retreat or escape, instead choosing to confront this situation gradually spiraling out of control head-on.
This wasn't the obsession influenced by the Indian Poker; it was the hunting instinct deeply buried in her blood, finally erupting under imnse pressure.
"I told you, villains should be sparing with their words, Senpai. Have you really never read manga?"
"You know, this is the perfect mont for the heroes of justice to land a one-hit kill. And Senpai, I'm still angry right now, so please stop spouting baffling infuriating nonsense."
A certain bun-haired girl, eager to get to the infirmary, shot back quickly. She didn't want to waste any more precious treatnt ti here.
Her eyes were hurting more and more, tears constantly streaming, and Natsu-san worried that delaying any longer might affect her eyesight.
This sowhat conflicted with her tactical plan of being as gentle as possible with her classmates, but a perfect solution that satisfied both requirents hadn't appeared yet.
As soon as the words fell, battle seed imminent.
Natsu-san had already registered the movents of the Tokiwadai girls around her and knew sothing was about to happen in the next second.
In an instant, multiple abilities, coordinated chaotically but activated nearly simultaneously, manifested, and the surroundings imdiately descended into chaos.
A telekineticist, whose power had already reached practical utility, violently wrenched a desk in front of Natsu-san, sending the stuff a certain bun-head had stashed inside into disarray.
At the sa ti, a muscle-bound girl from a body enhancent lineage, her skirt fluttering, skin flushed with power, charged forward directly at the stationary bun-head, only to block the telekineticist's line of control.
This chaotic use of abilities left Natsu-san montarily speechless. It looked completely like a disorganized mob with no coordination.
It seed she'd given an incorrect assessnt based on Yumiya Iruka-senpai's excellent performance; the ti needed to end this fight might actually be less than she'd thought.
The Hunter and her companions were really just a bunch of greenhouse-raised ojousama, their coordination skills utterly terrible. Her mind sowhat muddled, Natsu-san still spared a thought to critique her fellow ojousama classmates.
They couldn't even manage to sequence their ability usage properly.
What was the use of this kind of all-out assault? This wasn't missile saturation bombing.
She wasn't so large, hulking type; there were only a few suitable points of attack per volley at most.
And they didn't even know to spread out and maneuver during a fight. Didn't they know their opponent was an extrely powerful Level 5?
Looking at it this way, being small and skinny seed to have so combat advantages, at least passively reducing the target area. But Natsu-san couldn't feel happy about it; she'd rather not have this kind of 'advantage'.
Her previous 'coordination' with Accelerator had been better than this, though in Natsu-san's understanding, coordination just ant each doing their own thing and successfully achieving the objective.
Well, she could afford to worry less now. Picking them off one by one was the most effective thod.
A materialized fist instantly struck Natsu-san's body, accompanied by a laser beam fired from the archery senpai not far away. But upon impact, only an illusory, shattering play of light remained, through which Natsu-san's cute face could faintly be seen.
In truth, Natsu-san hadn't moved; she'd just created a fake image of herself using light, trying to set a trap to capture the ability users.
Yumiya Iruka-senpai said she wanted to hunt her, but Natsu-san felt it should be the other way around. If she hadn't been blindsided and visually impaired, leaving her in poor condition, Natsu-san felt she wouldn't need to go to all this trouble.
And just this one move of large-scale light refraction was enough to handle most ability users.
However, it surprised Natsu-san that she had thought this archery senpai might be able to see through the light trick, as she suspected the senpai's ability might involve controlling light.
But it seed the other party hadn't developed the ability to refract or reflect light, or perhaps she couldn't control light in natural space and needed a specific dium.
anwhile, the ability user who had struck Natsu-san's 'body' imdiately ran into trouble.
At the point of impact, a rapidly swirling mass of air appeared, firmly stopping her entire arm. In monts, she was lifted into the air, dangling from this air current.
As long as a body enhancent system ability user couldn't touch the ground, they had nowhere to leverage their strength.
Many factors decide victory, but possessing overwhelming power is undoubtedly a crucial one.
Maintaining a near-crushing montum, Natsu-san, hidden within the light, began systematically dealing with the Tokiwadai girls caught in abnormal states.
After deciding on her tactics, Natsu-san's actions beca exceptionally decisive. Her strong execution ability flared up, even allowing her to handle multiple points of conflict simultaneously.
Taking a slight step forward, the agile Natsu-san evaded the telekinetically hurled desk right in front of her.
For a telekineticist who couldn't even locate her position, it was basically a aningless decoration. Or perhaps, to put it bluntly, none of the girls present possessed an ability that could truly oppose Natsu-san.
Even so, Natsu-san maintained a certain distance from everyone, just in case sothing unexpected happened.
Having just suffered a severe shock, regarding her personal safety, Natsu-san had beco more cautious and unsparing in her efforts.
A pale arm subconsciously rose, pointing directly at several girls in front of Natsu-san.
Imdiately, the moisture in the air began rapidly changing form, and a noticeable drop in temperature spread throughout the area.
In the blink of an eye, a thin layer of solid ice ford beneath the feet of several girls. A piercing cold relentlessly climbed up their calves, swiftly sealing off most of the floor in the classroom and even the hallway.
"I'm stuck to the ice!"
A Tokiwadai girl noticed the change underfoot and imdiately tried to pull her feet free.
But her actions were clearly a step too slow. The solid ice firmly gripping her shoes was difficult to break free from instantly; it had even encased her ankles, a wave of icy cold instantly shooting through her body.
"Get back, quick!"
Reacting imdiately, another girl with twin tails grabbed her teammate, who hadn't been affected yet, and both hurriedly retreated further away.
However, as she retreated, she suddenly found her footing gone. The two of them tumbled down the stairwell one after the other, only to be enveloped by a cushion of soft air. Their bodies imdiately beca immobilized.
Gradually managing the situation, Natsu-san finally gained rough control over the chaotic scene. She was using the gentlest ans possible to handle this student brawl and friction.
And she wouldn't choose to tank the ability users' attacks head-on—that was Accelerator's specialty. By leveraging her own unique advantages, she could quickly achieve her goal of quelling the incident.
With her vast area of ability influence, it seed like Natsu-san was surrounded, but in reality, she was the one surrounding everyone.
"Senpai."
"I'm very curious, what exactly are you trying to do? If you just wanted to attack , you already succeeded when you set that trap earlier."
Having successfully dragged Yumiya Iruka-senpai into a low-oxygen environnt, a certain bun-head's voice sounded again, watching the senpai who was gradually gasping for air.
"But Senpai, you're probably being controlled, forced to act against your will, right?"
"I can relate to that quite a bit myself."
Shaking her head, the bun-head who answered her own question muttered softly. She still trusted her own judgnt.
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