Hyoubu casually jumped out of the helicopter, guards behind him and in front of him and all the other prisoners.
In the middle of all the prisoners, however, stood a larger man wearing a military uniform with a grin on his face. Next to him stood the skinnier man with whom he had collected the little girl's blood.
"Welcome to the Esper Island prison of Deadlock, Hyoubu Kyousuke," the large man said. "I am Kan, the director here. The man next to me is..."
But before he could finish, Hyoubu raised his hand and interrupted him with a blank stare. "I have no interest in the names of trash."
The skinnier man's face soured visibly, while Kan still had that same forced smile plastered on his face.
"Heh heh, according to our data, you are a member of the criminal organization Pandra."
"That's right. And for a limited time we are waiving the entrance fee." Hyoubu said while fishing something out of his pocket.
"And to celebrate, you get one of these." As he said that, he took out a keychain that looked like a miniature version of himself.
"Needless to say, normals who can't even use psychic powers need not apply." Hyoubu mocked while laughing at the duo.
Finally, the smile on Kan's face faltered as he furrowed his brows and glared at Hyoubu.
"Don't get carried away!" The man next to him said, glaring at Hyoubu while slowly walking toward him.
Without warning, he clenched his fist and swung wildly at Hyoubu—his punch connecting a second later.
Hyoubu, however, took the fist straight to the face, his hands not even leaving his pockets as he stood there silently.
"You espers can't use your precious psychic powers here in deadlock!" The skinny man shouted.
"After all, we have super-powerful ECMs set up all over the island. And what are espers without their psychic powers? They're no better than domestic pigs!" He exclaimed confidently, looking around triumphantly.
Hyoubu raised an eyebrow at the man's declaration. While all the prisoners used to the man's outbursts stood silently, carefully observing the new addition to their prison.
"Oh? I can't use my psychic powers, you say?"
"Why don't I test it out..." he started, the jovial look long gone, and if looks could kill, the two guards would have died instantly.
"And see if I can crush your head?"
The man who had just punched Hyoubu took a couple steps back, clearly taken aback.
"What?"
Without waiting for an order, every soldier on base quickly raised their weapons and aimed them simultaneously at Hyoubu, who at some point had raised his hand and balled it into a fist.
But then, a prisoner with short brown hair and heterochromatic eyes—the one who had been standing near the front—stepped forward. Walking toward some of the guards that had raised their weapons.
And with a smile, he tried to push the weapons of a couple guards out of their hands.
"Okay, that's enough, that's enough!" he shouted.
"Don't be so immature dealing with a kid!" he declared, trying to diffuse the tension that had been building up.
But instead of diffusing the tension, the skinny man glared at him.
"What!? What did you say?" He growled, his composure completely slipping away as the guards now surrounded both Hyoubu and the prisoner who had tried to mediate.
"Eh!" the prisoner yelped.
"Why me too?!"
Hyoubu just stood there looking rather surprised at the now surrounded prisoner.
His expression shifted suddenly into a grin and walked toward the other surrounded prisoner.
"I like the look in your eyes. What's your name?" he asked.
"..."
"Hinomiya."
"Andy Hinomiya."
"You appear to be of Japanese descent, so why are you in a prison in this country?"
While Hyoubu and Andy were conversing casually, still surrounded by guards, all with their weapons raised, the skinny man looked at them furiously.
"Hey! Don't act without permission!!" he shouted. "Keep that up and you're both headed to solitary confinement!"
Hyoubu casually turned around. "What a pain..."
"You just avoided being killed. So don't rush to your death!"
After saying that, he raised his hand casually, and the helicopter with which he had been brought here was raised into the air.
"Wha?!" exclaimed Andy; his eyes couldn't believe what he was seeing. Someone was using psychic powers right in front of him?
But Hyoubu just ignored him and all the other prisoners who were looking at the helicopter in absolute shock.
"I thought I couldn't use my powers in here?" he said, a massive grin on his face as he looked straight at the skinny man, who was also shocked at Hyoubu's display of psychic powers.
"Such great power!!"
Then he snapped out of his daze and grabbed the walkie-talkie from his belt. And without hesitation he started barking orders into it.
"Increase the output of the EMCs!! Right this instant, h-hurry. Hurry!!"
On the other side of the line, the guard that heard the message turned his head sharply and looked at the people operating the EMCs.
"Set the anti-psychic system to maximum output!"
Andy had also snapped out of his daze, and he grabbed Hyoubu's shoulders, trying to make him stop.
"Hey, stop it, kid!!"
"Don't want to." Hyoubu casually said, an evil smile on his face.
Then the EMCs placed all around the island started emitting large waves to try and suppress Hyoubu's psychic powers.
But the young man just smirked. "Heh, it's no use. Your EMCs won't work on..."
Then, with a blank look on his face, he suddenly felt his psychic powers disappear.
"Oh?"
"Watch out!" A prisoner suddenly shouted as they all ran away from the now falling helicopter, trying to save their own skin.
Boom! A deafening explosion shook the yard as the helicopter crashed into the ground. Prisoners were flung around like pebbles. The lucky ones had been standing far away, while the unlucky ones were just running away, trying to dodge the falling helicopter.
Even Hyoubu and Andy felt the shockwaves as they braced themselves but remained upright.
Andy, however, kept his eyes glued to Hyoubu's back, his shocked expression evidence of the absurd things Hyoubu had just done.
"Interesting, so you can suppress even my power." Hyoubu muttered.
"You damn pig!" the skinny man said, his whole body trembling with pure rage.
"Solitary confinement! Take him to solitary confinement right this instant!" he screamed while pointing at Hyoubu, who seemed completely unbothered.
"Please treat me courteously."
Two guards then appeared right beside Andy and hooked their arms into his.
"You too." One of the guards said.
"Eh?" Andy yelped.
Without missing a beat, Hyoubu smirked at him. "Talk about collateral damage."
Andy just glared at the smirking Hyoubu.
"I don't want to hear that from you!" he hissed.
"Ow! Ow ow." The two suddenly heard it, and both turned their heads in the direction of the noise.
Two guards stood over a wounded prisoner whose arm was completely ruined because of the helicopter incident.
"This is too much for the infirmary to handle." One of the guards said to the other.
"I guess we need to send him to the hospital."
But when the prisoner heard that, his face that was grimacing from the pain suddenly lit up from joy.
While being escorted away, Hyoubu looked surprised at the prisoner's reaction.
"He sure looks happy about being injured." He muttered to no one in particular.