CH 23

“Hey, hey, hey! That’s enough!”

One couldn’t help but say that the elasticity of those two bouncing things on his head was astonishing. As the woman ran, Yu Feng felt like he was floating in the clouds. Occasionally, his little face was squeezed between those two things, making Yu Feng, a child with an adult soul, blush involuntarily.

But he couldn’t stand it anymore. While they were soft, the stifling feeling was still uncomfortable.

Yu Feng rolled his eyes and decided to use his elemental transformation ability to free himself.

“Huh?”

The woman lightly exclaimed, looking at her empty arms and then at the black-haired Asian boy who was already standing on the ground. Seeing him rubbing his little head, she couldn’t help but look at him curiously.

“You… Are you the Flash?”

“Huh?”

Yu Feng didn’t expect this woman’s thinking to be so sharp that she could instantly guess his identity.

But he didn’t care.

He also didn’t feel like answering.

It was better to go back to school now. After all, using the Dark Phoenix Armament Haki took a toll on his physical and mental energy. He was starting to feel a bit tired.

Thinking this, Yu Feng turned around and prepared to leave.

“Hey, little brother, wait a moment!” the woman immediately called out. “You don’t need to be wary of me. In fact, we’re the same kind of people. Look!”

“Huh?”

Hearing her words, Yu Feng stopped in his tracks and turned his head.

The same kind of people?

Was this woman also a mutant?

When he turned his head to look at the woman again, Yu Feng immediately understood because the woman had transformed into a different appearance.

She had a completely blue body, with skin resembling scales and strange patterns traced across it. Her hair was fiery red.

This woman… was actually Mystique!

“Mystique?” Yu Feng couldn’t help but be surprised.

“Huh? Little brother, do you know me?” Mystique asked with a smile, approaching Yu Feng and blinking her eyes. “That’s great! This way, you don’t need to be wary of me, right?”

“Um…” Yu Feng opened his mouth, not knowing what to say. To be honest, he was definitely curious about Mystique, a famous mutant in the original work.

But Mystique usually had a very cold demeanor, right?

Why does she seem a bit different now?

Looking at Mystique’s face up close, her pair of amber-like translucent eyes, and the undisguised interest in her eyes, Yu Feng couldn’t help but feel a little embarrassed.

He felt like he was being targeted…

“Huh?”

However, at that moment, Mystique’s expression suddenly froze, and her body once again transformed back into her original socialite appearance.

She looked cautiously towards the entrance of the underground fighting arena. Without saying a word, she immediately picked up Yu Feng and started walking quickly.

“Little brother, let’s hurry!”

“Oh, come on, again?!”

Yu Feng was speechless, but fortunately, this time Mystique was holding him with both hands and the position… was quite suitable and comfortable.

Seeing this, Yu Feng cleared his throat in his heart and didn’t struggle.

But why was Mystique avoiding someone like this?

Turning his head to look at the entrance of the underground fighting arena, Yu Feng saw several figures under the neon lights of the shopping mall. The leader of the group was sitting in a wheelchair…

“So, Mystique is avoiding Professor X?” Yu Feng pondered.

He knew that Mystique and Professor X had grown up together and were very close, somewhat like siblings.

However, after the first battle and the conflict with the Hellfire Club, they went their separate ways due to their differing beliefs.

They reunited two years ago after the Washington incident.

But even after that incident, Mystique didn’t come back. Instead, she continued to be a lone ranger, helping to rescue mutants in distress in her own way.

“Wait! Professor X has indeed come to this underground mutant fighting arena!”

Yu Feng suddenly realized something. “Alex’s destructive appearance earlier seems like he got impulsive again, huh? Tsk tsk, Alex will probably receive a severe reprimand from Professor X…”

Yu Feng couldn’t help but find it amusing.

Alex usually appeared as a studious and calm person, but in reality, he was someone who couldn’t contain his emotions and was prone to impulsiveness.

Of course, Yu Feng’s focus wasn’t on that.

Since Professor X had come, he should now know about “Flash” in the arena. Once or twice is fine, but if Professor X learns too much about the scenes involving “Flash” in the battles, with Professor X’s intelligence, he would surely guess it was him.

After all, when Yu Feng trained in the base of the academy in the future, he would definitely have to use his abilities, which couldn’t be concealed.

And at the same time, he couldn’t just go out for this one-time external combat training.

It would be too half-hearted.

“In this stage, it’s better not to let the professor know about my combat training. After all, the professor cares a lot about the safety of mutant children, especially those who are seven or eight years old.”

Professor X cared too much about the safety of mutant children.

If Professor X were to know now that Flash was him, although it wouldn’t necessarily impose any restrictions on him, it would still cause some trouble.

A heartfelt lecture was definitely unavoidable.

Ah, Yu Feng couldn’t stand that the most.

“If it doesn’t work out, I won’t go to nearby fighting arenas anymore. I’ll go farther, even abroad, and find some powerful mutants to engage in real battles. After all, the mutants in the arena vary too much in quality, and the practical significance of battles there will become smaller and smaller. It’s better to find some strong individuals on my own, not necessarily in the arena.”

“Um… But I don’t really know the way, and I’m not sure where those strong individuals are…”

While he was thinking, Mystique finally stopped and put Yu Feng down.

But just as she put him down, there seemed to be a mischievous thought in her mind. She actually pinched his slightly flushed cheek.

“Little brother, what were you so lost in thought about?”

“…”

Although there was no pain from being lightly pinched on the cheek, he felt a strange feeling as if he was being teased by an elder sister… Wait, was I being teased?!

Yu Feng looked at Mystique speechlessly, wearing a dissatisfied expression.

“Hey, I’m a guy, so don’t touch my face.”

“Hehe!”

Mystique couldn’t help but burst into laughter upon hearing that. “You’re still a little boy…”

Looking at Yu Feng’s dissatisfied expression with his eyes rolling, Mystique finally restrained herself.

“Okay, okay! So, you’re a guy, right? Oh, by the way, little brother, would you be interested in following me in the future?”

Upon hearing this, Yu Feng widened his eyes and his little face froze.

Ever since Mystique started calling him “little brother” earlier, she seemed to have been very interested in him for some reason. Now she was saying such a thing…

Could it be that Mystique is into little brothers?