Strongest Superhuman System

Chapter 333: Animan

"No, there isn't anything wrong with that. I was just curious about Mark. Actually, the real reason why I came to this school was because the government wanted to have someone keep an eye on Mark. His growth in the last few months has been unprecedented, and the government is reasonably curious about why."

"Are you asking me to give you information about my boyfriend? Do you think I'm the sort of person to do something like that?"

Luna could almost see Arit's anger growing as Arit glared up at her. Luna was surprised that Arit even had the confidence to stand up to her. Luna was a SOVEREIGN, and most people would never even dare to look her in the eye. Yet, Arit seemed unaffected by Luna's presence.

'Is it because she is used to staying around Mark? Mark's presence should be as dominating as my own, so she must've gotten used to it after being with him for so long.'

Luna realized that maybe she shouldn't have phrased her sentence in the way that she did, and she apologized.

"Sorry, maybe I didn't word my intentions properly. The government was curious about Mark, and they wanted to send someone to carry out this investigation. The original investigator would have been a lot more intrusive in Mark's personal life but I was able to get them to back off and took the responsibility on myself.

I'm not going to force you to tell me anything about Mark, but even though I am not doing the government's bidding, that does not mean I am not curious about what makes Mark so powerful. We've fought together before, and I can only say that he is the most interesting superhuman I have ever met."

Arit wasn't happy at all to hear that Mark fought beside Luna. Luna was a beautiful woman, even Arit could see that, so hearing that Mark was fighting beside someone like this made Arit feel slightly jealous. And Luna might not have meant anything by it, but there was something about the way Luna said that sentence that just pissed Arit off.

Call it a woman's intuition, but Arit could tell that there was some hidden meaning in there.

"You can ask Mark about anything you want to know. I don't know you and I don't trust you enough to tell you anything about my boyfriend. Sorry, but I have to get back to class now."

The first strings of jealousy began to sprout from Arit's heart, and Arit could hear the queen threatening death and destruction upon Luna for even mentioning Mark's name, but Arit managed to keep herself calm as she walked past Luna.

Luna frowned as she stole a glance at Arit's figure from behind as Arit passed her before looking down at herself and realizing that she had lost in that department too.

"Is that girl really just a high schooler?"

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The sound of a helicopter arriving over city A echoed through the air, and Mark looked up at it calmly while waiting for it to land. Mark was standing beside the corpse of the anima he killed, and there were many superhuman agents from the superhuman alliance moving around him and gathering the remains of the bear and octopus-headed anima from before.

After killing the anima that appeared out of nowhere, the superhuman alliance agents appeared and prepared to take the bodies away. Mark allowed them to take the octopus and bear-based anima, but told them not to touch the grotesque anima that he killed last.

Mark already told Pat to send someone who would be able to find out exactly what was wrong with the anima, and that person would be there soon. The agents were reluctant to agree at first, but they eventually had to consent because of Mark's position in the superhuman hierarchy.

You'd be surprised how many things you are allowed to do just because you are a SOVEREIGN.

The helicopter finally landed a few meters away from Mark, and Mark saw a red-headed woman alight from the helicopter. She was wearing a pair of jeans and a black shirt with a lab coat over it. She took off her sunglasses and smiled as she approached Mark.

"Mark, it's been a while."

Mark grinned.

"Hey, Jeanne. How you doing?"

Jeanne waved her glove-clad hand around to signify that things had been so-so. Jeanne had been traveling around the country helping out victims of anima attacks with her powers, but for her, this was just normal stuff. She still had a calm, detached look on her face, but she seemed a lot less hostile than she was when she and Mark first met.

After all the times that she and Mark had met whenever Arit was doing her sessions, they had formed a sort of friendship.

"So, is that it?"

Jeanne nodded her chin towards the monster, and Mark nodded while turning to the grotesque-looking thing. Jeanne frowned in irritation as she began walking towards the dead anima while slowly taking off one of her gloves.

Jeanne noticed that the anima was still mostly intact, but there was a deep compression on its stomach that was obviously the result of a massive punch. Was Mark the one that did that? How was he able to cause damage like that without completely destroying the anima?

Jeanne asked Mark this question, and Mark just told her that it was part of his blessing. Jeanne knew that there was a lot more to it than that, but she decided not to pry since Mark was not interested in telling her. Jeanne went to one knee beside the anima and touched it.

Mark waited patiently as he watched Jeanne working. When Pat told Mark that he was sending someone out to examine the body, Mark didn't expect it to be Pat's sister. But Mark should have expected it. Jeanne's power was perfect for something like this since she had the ability to analyze bodies by simply touching them.

It wasn't surprising that she would be able to tell what exactly was wrong with this anima with just a touch.

Jeanne stayed on her knees for a long time, and her expression seemed to be getting more and more tense as time went on. Finally, after a while, she pulled her hand back from the anima as if she had been burned and immediately got to her feet while stepping away from the anima.

She frowned as she turned to Mark with a look of shock on her face, and Mark stepped closer while asking her what was wrong.

Jeanne immediately told the superhuman agent at her side to give her a wipe, and she collected it and started cleaning her hand furiously. Anyone who saw her would think she just dipped her hand into the toilet!

Jeanne told Mark to come with her, and she led him away from the other agents so that no one would overhear her. She leaned in close, and Mark looked down at her curiously. What she said next shocked him to the bone.

"Mark, that is no anima. That thing is made up of three people who were mutated into one blob of mutilated flesh and bone. It's people." Discover hidden tales at M V L

Mark's brow furrowed in disgust.

"What?"

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Mission completed: Defeat the Anima Lord

Reward: +200 stat points +200 skill points

Extra Rewards for Anima Defeated: +200 stat points +200 skill points

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