Chapter 2

* Title card
* Cover page

## Chapter Chronology

**Uncrossed Paths! Two Choujin** (交わらず！ふたりの超人, *Majiwarazu! Futari no chōjin*?) is the second chapter of the manga *Choujin X*.

## Summary

Ely Otsuta was a tomayto farmer in a poor farming village. From a different prefecture, she took a flight to Yamato to attend a produce fare in her injured grandfather’s place. The locally popular crop her household grew seen in the dream in parallel to this retrospective grows a face and burns in agony in Ely’s hand. She snaps awake in a construction site and asks someone nearby about directions to a plane. In the midst of their conversation, he is set alight by the same suited Choujin who had crashed the plane before.

Ely immediately dashes away on the rooftops with her attempted murderer hot on her tail. Taking to the skies, he is revealed to be the Smoke Choujin Chandra Hume, aged 42. The farmer decides to abruptly drop down from the rooftops after noticing she's losing ground and finds herself with a stolen scooter-like machine, taken from a boy in the confusion. Promising to pay him back, Ely races down the road only to abandon it once her pursuer takes to the same vehicle. Landing on a trashed mattress, Ely finds an abandoned tractor and drives it away. Chandra cannot brake with how quickly he’s moving and ends up crashing into the same area as a band of masked bikers. He attempts a bribe before forcing them to work towards capturing the escaping vehicle with brute force, now driving a car himself.

Incredulous at this and everything that’s happened recently in general, Ely begins to angrily drive in a wild fashion across the most dangerous roads to shake them off. Chandra’s car gets hit by a truck. Distracted by this, Ely and the gang drive off the side of a cliff. She manages to save herself with some quick action and well-placed bushes, but the rest weren’t going to be so lucky. Ely realizes that she somehow has the same ability to emit smoke that Chandra has, that her lacking output wouldn’t be enough to save them, and that wounding her hand with a piece of sharp debris nearby would do the trick in the seconds she has before softening their landing in a burst of smoke.

Gradually materializing from fumes, Chandra praises the aptitude she’s showcased in the chase. He shows her that her smoke is what kept the plane crash's casualties to a minimum with his phone, and deciding she’s passed his test with her talent asserts he will teach her before his good mood is spoiled by Ely’s disgust with him and his power. Flying into a rage, the cruelty he plans to deliver is interrupted by sudden levitation. A shocked Chandra is sent straight through an abandoned building. Now slightly bloodied, he screams out the name Hoshi in realization. A hovering well-built man wearing tactical gear and a superhero mask answers the anger with a telekinetic barrage of the vehicles ruined by the incident.

Chandra barely counters them with his smoke, but realizes he cannot keep it up when even larger clumps of rubble are gathered. Thus, he targets Ely in order to distract the interloper and make an escape. Kept busy repelling the exhaust from the girl, the costumed man concludes the villain has gotten away. He takes off his mask to introduce himself and instantly Ely’s heart is set aflutter by his resemblance to her type. The blond with the emphasized jaw who saved her is Sandek Hoshi, Yamato Prefecture’s Choujin protector. Asking her name in return, Tokio’s own is screamed out across the city by his annoyed sister since he’s hogging the bath. The two new Choujin sit down and contemplate their state with a sense of disbelief.

## Characters

* Ely Otta
* Chandra Hume
* Hoshi Sandek
* Tokio Kurohara
* Kinako Kurohara

## Navigation

 **Volume 6**
 **Volume 8**

 Tower of Mourning Arc