Superman Termination Manual

"You got anything else?" Inside a bathroom decked out with Hawaiian coconut wallpaper and a crystal chandelier, making it look like an upscale club, Octopus Man asked the question, breaking the silence that hung between him and Blue Owl. "Uh... no, I think that's it, don't bother to walk me out." Blue Owl sighed, rubbing his Tianming Acupoint while lowering his head, exuding an expression of "This dangerously confidential talk you're giving me is putting me on the spot." However, in reality, with his eyes on the main quest panel right in front of him, Comrade Blue Owl was over the moon on the inside. Chit-chatting for a while and getting a main quest out of it, who wouldn't love that? It's much more elegant than running around in front of family with your "strange thing" costume on, risking losing a leg or a head at any moment. "Sending someone off in the bathroom is pretty humorous of you." "You're the funny one, I wouldn't see you off anywhere else, don't flatter yourself. "Goodbye." With those words, Octopus Man snorted coldly and didn't linger any longer, moving out of the restroom. Watching Octopus Man leave, Blue Owl shifted his gaze from his retreating figure to the panel floating in front of him. "So why has this main quest come so suddenly, is it because I've learned about Timekeeper and his underlings?" Blue Owl thought to himself, leaning against the bathroom wall. "Seems like I didn't choose the wrong person to talk to; approaching that Octopus Kid was the right move. To think that Timekeeper has actually roped in a bunch of superpowered criminals as allies… Didn't he always work solo before? Or is it that, seeing my old man training Grey Pigeon, he got ticked off and decided to play the breeding game like my dad?" After leaving the Superhero Association, he checked the "Clock Customer Alliance Main Quest" on the task panel while walking towards Old Jingmai District's train station. Before long, he got back to the train station in Old Jingmai District. He slowly took off his mask, bowed his head, and exhaled. After breathing some fresh air for a while, Ke Mingye opened his eyes, unhurriedly placed the helmet in the locker, and sat down on the public wooden bench still dressed in his battle gear. "Speaking of which, I haven't checked out that Contracted Beast I drew this morning." Muttering to himself, Ke Mingye lifted his finger to open his pack, then found the Contracted Beast lying in one of the compartments, and clicked the option to let it out. The next moment, a creature enveloped in the kind of cocoon light seen during Magic Girl transformations appeared in front of Ke Mingye. [The Contracted Beast can switch between the forms of an owl, a puppy, or a pig, and once it levels up, it can create up to 2 clones with each clone having to be of a different creature state.] [Currently at Lv.1, it can only create one clone. The level of the Contracted Beast can be increased once the contracted Magic Girl becomes stronger.] Reading this, Ke Mingye thought since each clone of the Contracted Beast needs to contract with a different Magic Girl, they should probably have unique names; calling them all Kobe wouldn't do. So he decided to name the other two forms of the Contracted Beasts "Kejie" and "Kexue." "Owl form." No sooner had Ke Mingye spoken those words than the cocoon light enveloping the Contracted Beast shattered, and a dark owl with green eyes emerged, looking right at him. "Is that you, Kobe?" Ke Mingye asked earnestly. The owl nodded. [The Contracted Beast can use E-rank skills from the player's skill bar, but cannot use any higher-ranked skills.] Ke Mingye glanced at the tooltip, then at the tender wings of the owl and started to worry for the Contracted Beast's safety. He thought it would be great if he had kept that "Superhero Landing" skill—that way, if Kobe accidentally fell from the sky or a helicopter, he could use the superhero landing to descend at high speed with no risk at all, and mom wouldn't worry about me crashing anymore. According to the inventory's description: The Contracted Beast has an innate ability to turn invisible, so there's no need to worry about it being seen by others. Moreover, the Contracted Beast has two opportunities per day to check the magic aptitude of Magic Girls, and since it hasn't been used today, not to do so would be a waste. He thus commanded the Contracted Beast, making the dark owl take flight, leaving the train station. Shortly after, the owl's inborn invisibility activated, its form fading to blend with the surrounding air. At that moment, just like the Deception Puppet, Ke Mingye's mind also synchronized the five senses of the Contracted Beast, with the subtle feel of air currents gliding over feathers. So, Ke Mingye leaned his head back against the wooden chair, closed his eyes to rest, while remotely steering the owl on a random flight across the city, fully engaging in a bird's eye view. Before long, on Luo Dehua Commercial Street, he saw a girl who was rather pretty, with an extraordinary demeanor playing a dance game at the entrance of a gaming arcade. Convinced that she definitely had the potential to be a Magic Girl, he directed the owl to use its aptitude evaluation function on her. [Remaining aptitude evaluations for today: 1 time] [This human's potential as a Magic Girl after transformation is F-rank (with SSS being the highest and F the lowest.)] The owl squinted, flapped its wings in a flurry, and quickly flew off. Before long, it arrived at Wine Reflecting Coast and perched atop a palm tree, spotting a girl running barefoot on the beach. She wore a gray tracksuit with a hood, and her dark circles were pronounced, exuding a vibe akin to All-Nighter Poppy from League of Legends - utterly listless as if she hadn't slept in ten days.