It was late afternoon in Academy City, and the weather was very warm. Touma was sitting on a bench in the park. After running around trying to escape Fukiyose Seiri for the past hour he was exhausted. Touma was currently sitting next to a Certain Vending Machine. It was a warm day, and he had worked up a thirst running away from Seiri but…'I know what'll most likely happen when I try to stick any money in that damned vending machine,' thought Touma to himself. 'And furthermore, I know who is likely to show up should I stick around here.' Touma thought while also thinking about Misaka Mikoto.
He really wasn't in the mood to deal with her, and knew the machine would just eat his money anyways, so he decided to forego the drink and leave the area. He got up and walk a few steps away when he heard someone cry out "Hey you!" Touma stopped dead. He began to sweat heavy, and his body suddenly became heavy. He slowly turned around to face the person who had called out to him.
It was late afternoon in Academy City, and the weather was very warm. Shirai Kuroko was walking through the park looking for someone. "ONEE SAMA!" she yelled out every few feet. Shirai Kuroko was a level 4 teleporter, a member of Judgement and a student at the prestigious all-girls school Tokiwadai Middle School. She had tawny hair tied into two curly pigtails; the rest of her hair left to hang as two rows of fringes divided in the middle. Her pigtails were tied in place by a red bow each. She was currently out looking for the one she called Onee Sama, her sempai Misaka Mikoto.
She knew that Mokoto, for some unknown reason frequented these parts, so she decided to look for her here. "ONEE SAMA!" she yelled out again. Deciding that this was getting her nowhere fast, she used her ability and teleported herself to the top of a street light to get a better view of the area. That when she spotted someone familiar.
It was a high school boy with spiky black hair sitting on a bench. 'What is he doing here? I wonder if he's seen Onee Sama.' she thought to herself. Just then a horrible thought entered her mind 'Could he be the reason Onee Sama visits this park so often? Could she and that…that ape be having romantic rendezvous here?' the thought made her face pale.
She saw the boy get up and prepare to leave, so she teleported down to confront him about his relationship with her Onee Sama. "Hey you!" she called out to the boy. She saw the boy stop dead in his tracks. He looked nervous, and seemed to be sweating. The boy then turned slowly around to face her.
Touma turned around a saw that it wasn't who he thought it was. It was Shirai Kuroko. Touma breathed a sigh of relief, even though knowing how Sharai felt about him, he didn't know if it was exactly a good thing that she found him. "Thank god it's not Biri Biri." he spoke out. Seeing a look of confusion on Kuroko's face he elaborated. "That's what I call Misaka Mikoto." A look of anger suddenly appeared of Kuroko's face. "That's what I wanted to talk to you about. What is your relationship with my Onee Sama?" asked Kuroko.
Touma thought for a moment about all the run-ins he's had with Mikoto over the months and all the things they've been thought together. "Well at first it seemed like everywhere I went there she was. It was really annoying at first, but now after everything we'd done together I don't mind having her close to me." he said. "Even if she still tries to start fights occasionally" he added under his breath.
Kuroko was visibly shocked. All sorts of thought ran through her head. Thoughts of this boy and her Onee Sama doing things. Lewd things. Sick, sick things that only she should be able to do to her Onee Sama. Kuroko started laughing. It was a sadistic laugh, matched by the sadistic smile on her face. She reach down towards her thighs and then held her arms up crossed in front of her in a X shape, while holding long needles between each finger.
Touma, feeling the air get heavy, thought that now would be a good time to leave before he truly died. Touma bowed to the sadistic looking girl and darted the other way. Suddenly Kuroko appeared in front of him with that same sadistic smile on her face. He then turned around and started running the other way, but again she appeared. Touma knew that she was a teleporter, and that there was practically no way to run away from one.
Touma tried one more time to run away. This time the girl didn't appear in front of him. He kept running, thinking that maybe the girl was letting him go. Suddenly Touma felt imminent death approach him. Not knowing what it was that he felt, Touma instinctively rolled to the left. As soon as he did, he saw a needle appear right where he was moments ago and drop to the ground.
Kuroko was a teleporter, so she didn't have to really chase after her victims…err suspects. She would protect her Onee Sama from being farther defiled by this ape, it was after all her job to defile Mikoto. Knowing she could pretty easily catch him if she so choose to, she just let the boy run, while smiling that same sadistic smile. It would be easy enough to stop him. She would just teleport a needle into his shin, stopping him cold. Watching the boy run, Kuroko focused one of the needles in her hand and teleported it. Confident that it would reach its mark like it always did, the girl just stood there and waited for the boy to fall.
Kuroko saw the boy roll to his left, and then saw the needle she sent appear right where the boy had been moments ago. The needle dropped to the ground, having stuck nothing. Kuroko was shell shocked. She stood there with her mouth agaped. 'I-impossible! How did that boy avoid my attack? It's teleportation, so he can't see it coming…can he?' she pondered to herself. 'No, no, it must have been a fluke. It's impossible that he actively avoided that attack' she thought.
Touma got up to his feet after his roll. "That needle could have done some serious damage to me if I hadn't avoided it" he said to himself. He began to run away again, when he again felt the coming of death upon him. This time Touma stopped dead in his tracks and ducked. Just then another needle appeared out of thin air and fell where Touma's left shoulder would have been.
'I-impossible! That is impossible!' thought Kuroko to herself. "There is no way that you could have saw those attacks coming and avoided them. That extremely difficult even for another teleporter to do!" Kuroko yelled at the boy. "What level are you!?" she demanded of the boy.
"I'm just a level 0." He replied.
"You liar!" yelled the girl. "There is no way a level 0 could dodge my attacks!" Kuroko screamed.
Deciding to give up on using the needles, she went for the direct approach.
Touma saw the girl disappear. Just then, Touma's instincts told him to dodge, so he bent his upper body back. Just then the girl appeared out of nowhere with her foot outstretched in a flying kick maneuver. Touma could almost feel the heat from the friction across his fore head. The girl landed gracefully, but had an extremely angry look on her face. Then she disappeared again. This time Touma ducked, bending his upper body forward. The girl appeared above his head, missing again. The girl tried again and again to attack Touma. After each failed attack the girl looked angrier and angrier.
Kuroko was now exhausted. Every one of her attacks had missed the spiky hair ape. How was it possible she asked herself. She was running low on energy. She never had to use this much of her stamina too often so she wasn't use to it. She also wasn't use to missing her target. Kuroko then decided to launch one finally attack. Before she could teleport she noticed the boy running towards her with his right hand out stretched. His hand was open, as if to try and grab her before she could teleport.
'Stupid. That'll never work. Even if he were to grab me, I could still teleport out of his grasp easy.' she thought to herself.
The boy was close enough to touch her now, but that didn't really matter. She would just teleport out of the way. Kuroko then teleported, but before she could completely dematerialize and be completely submerged in the 11th dimension, she felt something touch her leg. It felt kind of like a finger.
Touma was growing tired of dodging and notice the girl was tired also.
'I have to grab her and stop her from teleporting. Then maybe I can talk some sense into her.' he thought.
So Touma ran towards the girl with his right hand stretched out, in the hopes of grabbing the girl. When Touma got close enough to grab her, she teleported. But Touma felt one of his finger touch something, and heard something like the sound of glass shattering.
"W-whats going on" Kuroko said to herself.
Kuroko felt herself leaving the 11th dimension, but not voluntarily. Since she had not voluntarily left the 11th dimension she had no control over how she would come out. Kuroko felt herself spinning and growing more and more disoriented. She couldn't understand what was going on. The calculations in her head were as perfect as ever but she couldn't maintain herself in the 11th dimension. She came out tumbling and spinning through the air with full momentum and crashed face first into a large tree in the park, and slid to the ground.
Touma saw the girl reappear, tumbling through the air. He saw her hit face first into a large tree that was standing close to where they were. The girl hit the tree and fell to the ground, seemly out cold. He walked over to the girl and looked down on her. She was definitely unconscious and twitching. Touma wondered for a moment what to do with her. He knew that there was a hospital close by, with a great doctor, the same doctor that often treated him when he was hurt. Not knowing what to do but knowing that he couldn't just leave her there, Touma scooped her up into a princess carry and carried her to the hospital.
Shirai Kuroko slowly awoke, her vision coming into focus. She found herself looking up at a white ceiling. She could feel that she was lying down in a bed, and could hear machines beeping next to her. She looked down and saw that there were tubes leading from the machines and taped to her right arm.
'What happened? How did I get here' Kuroko asked to herself.
Her head really hurt also so; she reached up with her left hand and touched her head. She felt that cloth was wrapped around her head - a bandage maybe? Touching her head cause everything that had happened earlier to suddenly snap back into focus in her mind.
She remembered confronting that boy and getting into a fight with him.
"Th-that ape! He beat me! I don't know how he did it but he beat me!" Kuroko nearly yelled.
Apparently hearing that yell alerted someone, as right then a nurse walked into the room.
"Oh you're awake. How are you feeling?" asked the nurse.
"I'm fine, but my head still hurts." replied Kuroko.
"Well that's to be expected. If you're feeling up to it, there is a visitor who wishes to see you." responded the nurse.
The nurse walked out the room and shut the door behind her. Kuroko thinking the hospital would have of course recognized her uniform and called the dorm thought that only one of two people could be waiting to see her outside the room; Either her dreaded Dorm Manager or her beloved Onee Sama.
Kuroko imagined what the reunion with her Onee Sama would be like. Mokoto rushing to be by her side after hearing she was in the hospital. Walking in and seeing her, and showering her in affection due to Kuroko's pathetic state. Her Onee Sama leaning in close and whispering
"Kuroko, I didn't realize how much I truly felt for you until I heard that you were hurt and in the hospital. Please take all of my love." as Mikoto leaned down and their lips touched.
Hearing the door knob turning snapped Kuroko out of her daydream. She wiped the drool from her lips and she readied herself. She sat up, through her arms opened and closed her eyes, ready to receive all of her Onee Sama's love.
"Hi." said a voice that was not her Onee Sama's.
She opened her eyes and saw that that who stood before her was a high school boy with black spikey hair. Her world crumbled and a look of extreme annoyance appeared on her face.
"Oh, it's you" Kuroko almost spat out.
"Hey! Is that any way to greet the person who carried you all the way to the hospital in his arms?" Touma responded.
"Y-you carried me here?" asked Kuroko.
"Yea, it was no big deal. You only weight like 50 kilograms" replied Touma.
"You didn't do anything to me while I was unconscious did you?" Kuroko asked suspiciously.
"W-what!? No! What kind of guy do you think I am!?" Touma asked with indignation.
"Anyways, I have a gift for you." said Touma while holding up a bag in his hand. He walked over to the side of Kuroko's bed and sat next to her. He reached in the bag and pulled out an apple and a small knife.
Touma peeled the apple with the knife and cut a piece out of the apple. With the piece of apple still on the knife, Touma brought the knife up to Kuroko's mouth.
'W-what does her think he's doing!? Does he actually intend to feed me like a lover would!? I mean if it were Onee Sama it would be alright, but this, this ape!' Kuroko thought to herself.
When the apple piece was right at her mouth Kuroko hesitated. She looked up at the boy's face. He had deep eyes of worry - worry for her, and a soft smile.
'Could this ape really be that worried about me? Why would he be? I did pick a fight with him. Just what kind of person is he?' Kuroko thought to herself.
Kuroko blushed slightly, and then took the apple into her mouth. As she chewed Kuroko notice that the apple was very juicily and sweet.
"Umm good." she let slip out of her mouth.
Blushing deeper this time, she looked at the boy's face again. This time he had a look of joy on his face. "I'm glad you like it. Here let me cut you another piece." offered Touma.
The boy cut another piece of the apple and was slowly bring it up to Kuroko's mouth. Right before it reached, Kuroko thought to herself; 'So this is the guy that Onee Sama li…'
"Y-YOU!" came a voice from the door.
Both Touma and Kuroko froze. They both turned their heads slowly towards the door and there they saw the 3rd most powerful esper in Academy City, the Railgun Misaka Mikoto. Seeing sparks and electricity flow around the girl, Touma drops the apple out of fear.
"I GET A CALL FROM THAT IDIOT SAYING THAT YOU'VE BEEN HURT AND TO COME TO THIS HOSPITAL. AND WHEN I GET HERE WHAT DO I FIND!? H-he was fee-fee-feeding you like you were his gir-gir…" yelled out Mikoto.
"It's not like tha-!" Touma stood up trying to explain, but just then his foot stepped on something and slipped from under him. He fell to the ground, hitting the back of his head hard on the tile floor, taking the blanket that was on Kuroko with him.
Touma rolled around on the floor in pain for a few seconds before trying to get back up. He reached up, grabbing the edge of the bed to help himself back up. But then he noticed something. What he was holding onto felt fleshy. He gave a gentle squeeze and heard a soft moan. Instantly he began to sweat. A cold chill ran down his back. He got to his knee and looked at where his hand was. It was holding on to Kuroko's inner thigh, very close to a area that was forbidden. Touma looked up at Kuroko's face and noticed the sick sadist smile on it. Fearing for his life due to having a level 4 and a level 5 in close proximity to himself, Touma quickly got up and backed away toward the door.
With his hands out in front of him, with the palms facing Kuroko, he began waving his hands back and forth.
"Shirai san, I didn't mean-it was an accident." stuttered Touma.
Touma, slowly backed his way towards the door, hoping to escape. He suddenly backed into something, or better yet someone. It was Misaka Mikoto. Touma had nearly forgotten about her due to the situation with Kuroko. He looked over his shoulder and saw that Mikoto was generating large amounts of electricity around her body now.
Giving Misaka the same surrendering gesture he gave Kuroko, he began to back away to the only spot in the room he could go. Toward the wall where there was a window. He was trapped and he knew it. Looking between Kuroko's sadistic smile and Mikoto's electricity generating, tranquil fury, he didn't know what to do.
"Ladies, now this is all a misund-"he tried to speak, but then Kuroko moved her free hand and touched something on the table next to her.
The item disappeared and the next moment it had struck Touma in the face. The item fell to the ground—which appeared to be the alarm clock for the room. Dazed from the blow, Touma couldn't defend himself from what came next. Electricity shot from Mikoto's bangs and struck Touma, electrocuting him. The blast was so powerful that it pushed him out the window; the second story window. Touma hit the ground still twitching from the shock.
With that taken care of, both Mikoto and Kuroko wined down from their initial anger. Kuroko then thought of the boy's face. That face filled with worry - worry for her no less, even after she had picked a fight with him.
Kuroko then thought to herself; 'That boy. He was fairly strong, managing to defeat me, even though I still don't know how he did it. And he was kind enough to carry me to a hospital despite everything that I tried to do to him. So that the guy that Onee Sama… I can kinda see why. And although I wish it had been Onee Sama, he even peeled and feed me a apple like a lover would…' Kuroko blushed, deeper than any other time.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Mikoto as she sat by Kuroko's bedside.
"Nothing, I just missed you, that all Onee Sama!" exclaimed Kuroko bring Mikoto into a tight embrace, burying her face in Mikoto's very moderate chest. Because of Kuroko's condition, Mikoto didn't have the heart to shock her off.
Afterwards, Kuroko explained what happened and how she had ended up in the hospital.
"And I don't know how it happened but somehow I was forced back from the 11th dimension. That boy did something." Kuroko explained to Mikoto.
Mikoto placed her hand on her chin, deep in thought. 'I knew that idiot had some sort of strange ability that allowed him to block my attacks, but I didn't think it would be powerful enough to interfere with teleportation.'
Just then a nurse walked into the room.
"It's getting late and the patient needs to rest. She'll be released tomorrow morning." said the nurse.
"Well Kuroko I'll be going now. I'll let the Dorm Manager know about your condition and when you'll be released." stated Mikoto.
"Onee Sama? That boy… I can…I can kinda see why you like him" said Kuroko.
Mikoto's face exploded in crimson. "I-I don't like th-that idiot!" Mikoto declared as she turned her face away from Kuroko. She then began to think of that boy's face and the time he had helped her and her sisters and had defeated Accelerator. Lucky for her, her face couldn't get any redder.
Mikoto then noticed something on the floor. It was a small, rectangular object. She bent down to pick it up. It was a cell phone.
"Hmm, this must belong to that idiot." stated Mikoto.
"Well, are you going to take it to him?" asked Kuroko.
The thought had crossed Mikoto's mind. It would give her an excuse to see the boy. Maybe he'll invite her in? Or maybe he'll be so grateful that he'll offer to buy her dinner. Kind of like a da-date. The thought filled Mikoto with a certain warmth.
Mikoto and Kuroko said their goodbyes and promised to meet up tomorrow once Kuroko was released. Mikoto walked out of the room and out of the hospital. She looked at the boy's cell phone in her hand. 'That boy. I will make him mi-' Mikoto cut herself off mid-thought and once again exploded in crimson. With a look of determination she began walking in the direction of the boy's dorm room.
It was early evening in Academy City. The sun was beginning to set and the air was growing cool. A girl was leaving a convenience store with a plastic bag full of various ingredients. This girl had a tall, slender figure, and long tea colored hair. She was wearing a very stylish short sleeve pink dress with a yellow belt around her waist, thigh high yellow stocking, and pink flats on her feet. The girl was very attractive and had he looks and grace of an ojou-sama¹. The girls name was Mugino Shizuri, the Meltdowner and she was the 4th most powerful level 5 in Academy City.
"I really do hate cooking, but it does help me with my fine motor skill using this mechanical arm." said Mugino to herself.
Mugino began to make the walk back to where she would be cooking with the ingredients she bought. The sun was setting lower and lowers in the sky and it was getting dark out. This was normally the time when delinquents would come out to harass girls and cause other trouble. Being a level 5 Mugino had no fear of that. Most people in the city knew who she was and what she could do. For those that didn't and tried anything they would be in for a very rude awaking.
On her way back to the base Mugino passed a hospital. Passing by the hospital she stopped. The hospital itself was nothing special. It was just like every other hospital in Academy City, but the hospital itself was not what caused her to stop in front of it. It was something else. She noticed that there was a body lying on the ground in front of the hospital.
Now the old Mugino would have not even batted an eye at seeing the body in front of the hospital, but the new Mugino, the softer Mugino felt a tiny bit compelled to at least take a look and see what was going on with the body lying there. So she walked over to the body. As she got closer she realized that the body was that of a boy's. The boy looked to be in high school and about her age. He had spiky black hair, was wearing a white dress shirt with an orange shirt underneath, black pants and black shoes.
Standing over the body she noticed that the boy was still breathing, so at least he wasn't dead. She took her foot and nudged the boy in the side with her foot.
"Hey! Wake up already you idiot!" Mugino called out to the unconscious boy.
At that moment the boy began to stir, his eyes opening.
Touma began to slowly drift into consciousness. He thought he could just barely hear someone speaking around him but he was unsure. His eye began to open up and his blurry vision slowly came into focus. As he regained more and more sight, he could see that someone was standing over him. With his vision coming more and more into focus, Touma notice something about whoever was standing over him.
"Stripped green panties?" Touma blurted out without thinking. Just then Touma quickly rolled to the side, just as a fist came down where his head once was, creating a small crater on impact. Touma quickly stood up and saw just who he was dealing with. It was a very attractive girl, wearing a very stylish outfit. "What kind of monstrous strength is that!?" cried out Touma.
Mugino stood up, fist still clenched, with a look of pure annoyance on her face.
"Look whoever you are, I'm in a good mood today, and I'm trying to reframe from killing, so I'm going to let you go today. But if I see you again, I'll kill you." Mugino said to Touma.
Touma not feeling fully recovered from his earlier fall and, not looking a gift horse in the mouth, was glad to take the girl up on her offer.
"Thank you ojou-sama." Touma said while bowing to the girl.
"Well I'm going this way." said the girl as she pointed in the direction behind Touma. As the girl walked toward him, intending to walk pass him and continue on her way, Touma began to suddenly feel weak. He was getting dizzy and unsteady on his feet. As the girl got nearer Touma's knees buckled, he blackout and fell.
Touma awoke mere moments later in a dark place. His face was against something squishy but he didn't know what it was.
"Heah, whhot goeng un haer" Touma said in a mumble.
That's when he heard a loud moan and a girl saying "Don't talk, it feels…!"
'Feels?!' Touma thought to himself. Touma then pulled his face away from whatever it was in and that's when he saw it.
Touma became very tense. He was hoping that he wasn't seeing what he thought he was seeing. He hoped that he was having a hallucination from having blacked out. But this was reality.
"G-green stripped panties!?" Touma said in a panic.
Touma quickly pulled his head out from where it was and notice that someway he had fallen in between the legs of the ojou-sama. Looking at the girls face, she had a look that was a mix of disgust and rage. Jumping to his feet Touma tried to apologize to the girl.
"I'm sorry ojou-sama. I-it was an accident. I just blacked out for a moment.
"You dirty, disgusting, son of a bitch!" The girl growled in a low tone, still with a look of rage on her face.
Touma, feeling that his life was in danger and knowing that the girl would not listen did the only thing he could. He bowed to the girl and ran in the opposite direction. The girl shocked by the gesture just sat there blinking a few times. The girl was amazed that in those few blinked the boy had already run so far away. Getting up to her feet, the girl proceeded to chased after the boy.
Touma came to a stop and rested against a tree. He had been running for the past twenty minutes and assumed that he had lost the girl.
"Such misfortune!" said Touma to himself.
Suddenly the top half of the tree Touma leaning against was blown to piece, just centimeters above where his head was. Touma just stood there wide eyed as strands of black hair floated down passed his face. He never saw the attack coming, just a blue-ish streak of light that was too fast and unexpected for him to dodge.
"I've found you, you bastard." said a voice.
A voice that belonged to the girl Touma was trying to get away from. The girl was slowly walking up toward Touma with a sadistic grin on her face. Once she was about ten meters away she stopped.
"And this time I won't miss on purpose." said the girl to Touma.
The girl raised her hand and pointed it at Touma. And she fired.
Touma was still in a state of shock, but knew he was in danger, so he did the only thing he could. He raised his right hand. The beam of light struck his right hand and disappeared. The look on the girl's face was one of disbelief. So she again raised her hand and fired. Touma just repeated his actions, and the beam of light was once again negated.
"What the hell is going on here!? How are you doing that!?" yelled the girl at Touma. "What level are you" she asked him.
"I'm a level zero." replied Touma.
The girl began to laugh hysterically.
"Hahaha…hahaha….hahahAAHAHAH! A level zero? A level zero?! No level zero could have withstood that! I'll teach you to mess with meeeEEEEE!? yelled the girl.
And just like that the battle had begun.
Mikoto was walking through Academy City. She had only one destination in mind, that idiot's dorm room. Mokoto had just left the hospital after visiting her friends and roommate Shirai Kuruko. Shirai had ended up in the hospital after picking a fight with that idiot and she told Mikoto that that idiot was somehow able to interfere with her teleportation and make her forcibly exit the 11th dimension. While visiting Mikoto had found a certain idiot's phone that he, apparently, dropped while there checking on Shirai.
Mikoto was determined to return the cell phone to him.
"I-it's not like I like that idiot or anything. It's just the right thing to do." Mikoto said to herself, full of denial.
Mikoto then pictured in her head what the reaction and thank you she would get from the boy would be like.
"Why thank you Mikoto san. I really appreciate this so much." the boy would say to her.
Maybe all she would get was the thank you. Maybe he would invite her in for tea or something. Maybe he would offer to buy her dinner, or maybe she would get a hug or even a ki-.
Mikoto stopped her train of thought right there. Why was she thinking of such things. Like she said, it wasn't like she liked or had feeling for that idiot. He was her rival and she was just doing the right thing by returning his cell phone to him.
"And besides it's not like that idiot has any feeling for me anyways" Mikoto said out loud to herself. "Or does he? I mean it's not like I've ever asked or anything. I mean he did save me and my sisters from Accelerator. He saved me. Does that mean he really cares for me? But from what I see he saves people – especially girl - all the time. He even saved Kuroko that one time, and I know how she feels about him. There is no way that he has those kinds of feeling for her. Does that mean he'll save anyone and that him saving me was nothing special? Am I just one in a long line of dozens of girls he's saved?"
Mikoto continued to wander through the city having this debate with herself. When Mikoto finally started paying attention again she had a realization. She didn't remeber where the boy lived. She had only ever actually been to the idiot's dorm once before and even then she was just follow a group of girls. Mikoto frowned at the thought of that group of large breasted girls following that drunken idiot back to his dorm.
She didn't know how she was going to find the dorm that boy lived in. That's when an idea stuck her like lightning (Hehehe. Sorry). "I'll just go back to that vending machine. He's always passing by there in the afternoon after school, so that means it must on his home. I'll just walk in the direction he always runs away from me in and eventually I'll find my way.
Mikoto now had a plan on how she was going to find that idiot. So Mikoto backtracked to where she normally ran across the boy, and continued walking in the direction he usually took. After a while of walking in that direction Mikoto started noticing some weird things. There where scorch mark on the ground and the surrounding area. A few trees were blow in half or completely to pieces. It looked like a battle had gone on in the area. Mikoto went on her guard, just in case the combatants were still around and she had to defend herself. No one attack while she walked and she saw no one in the area either.
"Something major has gone on here, a battle of some sort. I would look into this myself but I'm sure that Anti Skill or Judgement can handle it. Right now I have something more important to do." Mikoto muttered to herself.
She was determined to get to the boy's dorm, return his phone and get her rewar-wait scratch that. She was just determined to do the right thing.
'Wait a minute. I have his phone. Couldn't I just open it, call one of his contacts and ask them where he lives? Wouldn't that be faster than me wandering around and hoping to run across his dorm? Most people's whole lives are in there cell phones nowadays. I could go through it a find out pretty much anything I wanted to about him.' Mikoto thought to herself.
She knew the boy got himself into dangerous situation all the time without telling her. She also knew that he did it to keep her protected, but she hated that he did that. After all she was a level 5 and he was – or so he claimed – a level 0. She could take care of herself. She didn't need him protecting her. If fact, it should be her protecting him.
Mikoto looked at the phone resting in her hand. True she wanted to find out where the boy lived and wanted to find out more about the boy, but this would be a serious breach of privacy. She could use it to maybe find out more about some of the situations he found himself in. He had saved her and she just wanted to return the favor and perhaps save or at least help him when he needed. But-
"I know he saves girls from danger all the time, so who knows how many of them are in his phone. If I were to go through his phone and find a bunch of different girls' numbers in it, would that mean I was no different in that boy's eye then they are? Would that mean he saw me as nothing special?" Mikoto pondered out loud to herself.
Looking down at the phone in her hand Mikoto was sorely tempted to open it. To find out more about the boy. To maybe find out more about his life outside of her. To find out more about the dangerous life the boy lived. Yet, Mikoto rejected the idea. While she did want to know more and wanted to stay by that boy's side, she wanted him to be the one to tell her that. She wanted him to ask her, not her force herself into his life. Asking her himself would mean that he saw her as someone reliable and dependable, someone that he could count on. A good woman stayed by her man's side and was reliable, and that what she wanted to be for him. Reliable.
She was Misaka Mikoto, a level 5, the Railgun, the third ranked esper in Academy City, the Electric Princess, the Ace of Tokiwadai, and as far as she knew the third most powerful being on the planet. And almost everyone treated her as such; everyone but that boy. He treated her like a normal person. He didn't see her as all of those Epithets. He just saw her as Misaka Mikoto, he saw her as a real person, and that was one of the things that she liked about him. Regardless of rank and level he treated everyone kindly and like they were just regular people.
Lost in thought Mikoto didn't notice something lying in front of her. She tripped over it and fell forward face first.
"Ouch! What the hell was that? What did I trip on?" She wondered.
Mikoto got up and turned to look at what was on the ground that made her fall. Mikoto's mouth fell open and her face was a mix or pure shock and pure horror.
On the ground was a body. The body was lying face down and it belonged to a boy. The boy had a white dress shirt on and black pants. His clothes were dirty from what looked to be dust and dirt. He had spikey black hair that had what appeared to be small pieces of rocks and rubble in it. Mikoto instantly recognized the body and the boy that the body belonged to.
"K-kamijou Touma? Mikoto gasped out.
At an apartment somewhere in Academy City sat two girls. The apartment wasn't really anything special but it was a bit more luxurious then other normal apartment in the city. This was just one apartment of many owned by the girls to use as hideouts from their work.
"She's late. What could be taking so long?" asked one of the girls to the other.
"I don't know." replied the other girl.
One of them was a young girl of 12 with short brown hair in a bob cut. She liked to wear a fluffy knit dress, and she wears no legwear other than stripped socks, exposing her thighs and legs. The other girl is a high school girl who often looked tired. Her black hair was cut evenly at shoulder length and she is usually seen wearing a pink track suit that functioned as casual wear and sleepwear for her and which hide her large breast.
The girls were name Kinuhata Saiai and Takitsubo Rikou and they were members of the dark side of Academy City. Along with Mugino Shizuri and one other they made up the group ITEM.
"I'm getting hungry and Mugino said that she would cook today! What could she be doing that's taking so long!?" whined Kinuhata.
Takitsubo just looked at her and shrugged her shoulders.
"Oh! I have an idea. Takitsubo, you have Mugino's AIM memorized right?" asks Kinuhata.
The other girl nods her head yes.
"Well then just search for Mugino and see where she is, then one of us to could get her and see what's taking so long." exclaimed Kinuhata.
"Well it is an idea, and I am too getting very hungry" said Takitsubo lazily.
Having come to a agreement, Takitsubo began using her ability. Her ability was called AIM Stalker. This ability allowed her to track and gauge the distant of any AIM field she has memorized. This ability even allowed her to interfere with other AIM fields, giving her the potential of becoming the 8th level 5. Having, of course memorized the AIM fields of her fellow teammates in ITEM she was easily able to track where Mugino was.
"She appears to be 5km north of here." stated Takitsubo.
"Well why the hell is she way over there when the store she went to was on 2km away?" asked Kinuhata.
"Gauging from the increase in her AIM field, she appears to be fighting someone." replied Takitsubo.
"Fighting!? Who would be stupid enough to try to fight her? She's a level 5! It's akin to suicide."
"Well I don't know who she's fighting, but whoever he is, is delaying our dinner. Besides he will be dead soon enough anyways." said Kinuhata matter-of-factly.
Somewhere in the city was a boy. The boy was about mid-size in height and looks like an ordinary teenager with unruly blonde hair. His name was Hamazura Shiage and he too was a member of ITEM. Although, maybe member was be too strong a word. He was more of a middle man, even though that too may have been too strong of a word to describe his position. He was much more like a lackey to the three girls in the group.
Hamazura Shiage was a true level 0 with absolutely no powers or abilities. Due to having no powers he was kind of forced to be in ITEM and forced to be the girls lackey or slave. Currently he wasn't at the hideout with the others because they had sent him on a mission. Really, mission was too strong of a word to use for what he was doing. More like a errand. The girls had sent him to pick up some toiletries for them.
"Why am I, always the one stuck doing this crap!? They are always making me do things like this! I hate even going down this aisle with all these…these…these private girly things! WHY ME!?" Hamazura yelled while holding his head in frustration.
Hamazura caused everyone around him to stare at him like he had a mental issue. Seeing the aisle he was in they all thought that he girlfriend must have send him to pick up a few things for her. All the men in the area sympathized with him, having been forced to endure the same thing.
Hamazura collected what he needed and walk to the cash register. The girl at the cash register gave him a strange look seeing the items that he was carrying in his arms, but didn't say anything. Hamazura turned slightly red at the look the girl was giving him and just quietly paid for his items and left the store.
After walking out of the store with his items in a bag, Hamazura's cell phone began to ring. Taking the phone out of his pocket and looking at the screen he saw that Kinuhata was the one calling. Quickly he answered the phone.
"Hello?" he answered.
"Hamazura where are you right now?" asked Kinuhata.
"I'm just leaving the store after picking up you guys…personal stuff." replied Hamazura slightly embarrassed.
"Well Mugino still hasn't come home yet and according to Takitsubo she appears to be fighting someone close to where you are. We want you to go over there and see what's taking her so long to kill this person and get home to make dinner." Kinuhata said to the boy.
Hamazura faced paled. He knew how Mugino could get while fighting and he wanted none of that. He wanted to stay as far away from whatever she had going on as possible.
"What, are you crazy!? You know how Mugino can get when she fights. Are you trying to get me killed? Do you all hate me that much?" blurted out Hamazura.
Hamazura thought back to his own fights with Mugino and how intense they had gotten and how he just barely survived them.
Hamazura argued his points for a bit but was finally defeated when Kinuhata threaten to tell Mugino that Hamazura had bet against her in this fight. She threaten to tell Mugino that Hamazura was saying that she already lost to a level 0 like him, so anyone could now beat her.
Hearing that, Hamazura face paled even deeper. He knew Mugino's temper and didn't want to face her in what he knew would be an enraged state if she even for a moment thought that he doubted her or was thinking that way.
"Dammit all! Fine I'll go. But the poor fool is dead either way." Hamazura almost yelled into the phone. 'But I'm staying as far away from that fight as possible' thought Hamazura to himself.
Hamazura hung up his phone and walked over to the car that he was given to use to carry out his task and errands. Hamazura then received a text. Opening his phone he found that Takitsubo had sent him directions, to what he guessed was where Mugino was currently located. Getting in, he started the car and sped off.
A green laser like beam of light flew through the air, destroying a large rock used to decorate the area, just missing a boy. Another beam came directly at the boy. This time the boy threw his right hand in front of him. The beam of light connected with it and vanished.
"WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT LEVEL ARE YOU REALLLLLLY!?" yelled Mugino after yet another of her attacks was dispelled by the boy.
"I told you already. I'm nobody and I truly am a level 0." replied Touma to his attacker.
Mugino was starting to get extremely frustrated. The amount of people who could stand up to was very limited and the amount of people who could survive one of her attacks she could count on one hand.
'How is he doing this? Every time I attack he either dodges or does…something and causes the attack to vanish. I can't figure it out.' thought Mugino to herself.
"I'm a level 5 and there is no way that a level 0 could last this long against me. So stop LYING AND HUMILIATING ME AND JUST DIE!" yelled Mugino at the boy.
Mugino fired off another attack, but just like before the boy raised his right hand and the attack disappeared.
"Hmm…you remind me both of Accelerator and the biri biri Misaka. You have personality aspects of both of them." Touma deadpanned after negating the girls attack. This statement seemed to have peaked the girl's attention.
"Hmm…you know the number 1 and the number 3? Could it be that they are acquaintances of yours?" asked Mugino.
"Yeah I know them. We've all been through a lot together. They've really helped me out when needed" stated Touma.
I smile crept on Mugino's face. There was a very fierce rivalry between all of the level 5s. Mugino hated the number 1 and hated the number 3 even more.
'Attacking a friend of Accelerator isn't the brightest of ideas, but if this guy is friends with both of them then this is my chance to kill two birds with one stone. Killing him would hurt both the number 1 and number 3.' Mugino thought to herself.
Touma watched as the girl gained a sadistic smile on her face. Suddenly the girl pulled out what looked to be a card.
"Disappear." said the girl as she threw the card into the air and fired her attack at it.
Sensing danger Touma started to run to the side. Suddenly the attack that was fired at the card split into 5 and shot out to where Touma had previously been standing.
The beams hitting the ground kicked up a large amount of dust and surrounded the area. Touma could no longer see the girl due to all the dust in the area, but he knew where she was generally located, if she hadn't moved since firing her attack. Taking advantage of the situation, Touma went to the side and quickly, but quietly, walked to the area where he had last seen the girl.
Touma soon saw a silhouette of the girl; stand in the same place as before. Touma then decided to rush up to the girl and attack while neither of them could see. Touma was a mere 3 steps away from the girl when she fired another attack.
The force of the blast cleared the area, causing the dust to dissipate. Realizing that his cover was gone and in a panic Touma stopped his forward movement. The girl, seemingly realizing that her target had moved to the side of her stumbled backwards in shock and brought her hand up to attack.
Touma thinking that he was going to be attacked by the girls overwhelming power at point blank range, and, without time to dodge, braced himself. But the girl didn't attack. Touma deciding to take advantage, moved from in front of the girl while she regained her footing.
Mugino's attacks had once again missed the boy, but this time a large amount of dust was kicked up. The dust was so thick that Mugino couldn't see where the boy was.
"Where is that little fu%#er?" Mugino mumbled to herself.
Deciding that the best way to get back into the fight and kill that little, lying son of a bitch was to clear the surrounding area of dust, Mugino then pointed hand straight up and fired off an attack.
The force of the blast cleared the dust near instantly. That's when Mugino saw the boy standing to her side not more than 2 or 3 meters away. Surprised by his sudden appearance Mugino stumbled backwards while turning to face the boy with her hand up and pointing at him. Mugino wanted to fire at him but knew that she couldn't get the shot off.
Hamazura arrived near the area where the direction indicated. He couldn't drive directly into the area so he had to park his car and walk.
"There's no way that I am getting to close to this fight. Besides, it'll be over soon enough. There are not too many people who could stand up to Mugino except another level 5 and I serious doubt that she is fighting one of them…But just in case she is…I'll keep my distance."
Walking closer and closer to the area, Hamazura could hear the sounds of battle. He could hear footsteps and running as well as large explosions. He could also see green flashes of light coming from the area.
"Well that'll be Mugino's fool. Probably doesn't even know what he's gotten himself into or why he's going to die." said Hamazura to himself.
Hamazura felt greatly sorry for whoever it was who had invoked Mugino's wrath. But there was nothing to be done. Hamazura himself had been of the receiving end of that wrath and did not want to be placed there again.
Seeing two figures, one a girl (Mugino he assumed) and one a boy, Hamazura decided that he was close to enough to witness what was going and stay a reasonable and safe distance away. Lying under some bushes he decided to watch the conclusion of the fight from there.
'Why didn't she fire? She had me dead to right and could have easily killed me right there, so why didn't she? Was it that she didn't want to attack or that she couldn't attack at that moment? And if she couldn't attack right then, why?' thought Touma to himself.
Touma continued to run around while also dodging and negating attacks when he could. Sometimes that attacks came as a single beam and sometimes the girl would pull out one of those strange cards and they would split into 5 beams. Dodging and negating the single beams was easy, it was the multiple beams that were giving him problems.
That was one of the disadvantages of Imagine Breaker. It only worked on one attack at a time and only in one direction at a time. So multiple or multi sided attacks were a big problem for him.
Mugino was growing more and more frustrated and erratic.
'How can he survive my attack like this? He either dodges my attacks, which really should be too fast for him to avoid, or he somehow makes them vanish. HOW IS HE DOING IT!?' yelled in her own thoughts.
"That guy looks familiar. It looks like I've seen that spiky black hair before" mumbled Hamazura to himself.
Deciding to get a better looks Hamazura moved forward, while staying low to the ground. The closer he got the more the combatants came into focus. Hiding under some bushes a mere 15 meters away from the fight Hamazura could clearly see who the two people fighting were.
He recognized Mugino with her long tea colored hair and he also recognized the boy she was fighting too.
"Boss?!" Hamazura said while standing up out of the bushes.
The battle was going on longer then Touma had wanted it. He couldn't get in close to deliver a attack to the girl. Not with her firing beam after beam at him. He did notice though that when the girl pointed her hand at him and was prepared to fire, if he moved quickly enough out of the way, the attack never came. He also noticed that it took her a few moments to readjust and fire after that.
'So it seems that she has to aim her attack and can't fire continuously.' Touma thought to himself.
That when he had heard someone call out "Boss!?"
Surprised by the interruption Mugino stopped attacking and Touma stopped moving. Both of them turned to where the interruption had come from. There standing in the bushes on the outskirts of the area that they were fighting in was a boy. The boy looked like an ordinary teenager with unruly blonde hair. Touma had last seen him a few days ago after he came back to Academy City and they stopped Radiosonde Castle from falling.
"What are you doing here?" both Touma and Mugino called to Hamazura.
Taken aback Hamazura replied "I was sent to see what is taking you so long to come back home with dinner. Kinuhata told me that you were out here fighting someone. I didn't know that it would be the Boss."
"Boss? Why are you calling this f*&#er boss? Do you know him or something? And if you do what level is he?" inquired Mugino.
"Yea. I meet him while I was still leader of Skill Out. He beat me in a fight while I was doing some work for the city. He also helped me save Fremea from the Freshmen. He is a level 0 just like me" replied Hamazura.
At this Mugino began to laugh. It was a dark and twisted laugh. "Hehehe. So he's a true level 0 is he? And he's managed to last this long against me? Hehehe. Hamazura you must think I'm a fool. HahahaHAHAHAHAH. Are you trying to humiliate me too Hamazura? WELL ARE YOU!?" Mugino yelled at her lackey.
Mugino then raised a hand and pointed it at Hamazura. Hamazura eyes widen in shock. He was going to die and he knew it. There was nothing that he could do. Mugino fired. Everything seemed to move in slow motion for Hamazura as he didn't even try to get away from the attack. Fear kept him rooted in place.
The attack was getting closer and closer and Hamazura knew the end was near. Right before the attack struck something happened. A hand suddenly appeared in front of Hamazura face. The attack hit the hand and disappeared.
"What are you doing!? You two seem to be on friendly terms with each other so why are you attacking him?" Touma asked the girl.
Mugino laughed. "Hahahahaha! Him? A friend? He's just a lackey. Someone I give orders to. He's disposable. It doesn't matter if he's killed. Besides no one would care if he died right now. He's just a pathetic level 0 anyways. HahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" replied Mugino.
Touma just stared at the girl while she laughed. Something red hot surged inside the boy. A rage was building. How could she so coldly say that about someone? How could she so absolutely deny the value of someone's life? Like it meant nothing?
"You're wrong. If he died no one would care? I'd care. You think his life is disposable? You think level 0s are pathetic? Well I'll show you how wrong you are." Touma said while walking toward the girl with his fist point at her.
"I'll beat you here and now and I'LL SHATTER THAT ILLUSION OF YOURS!" Touma yelled to the level 5 girl.
Touma was currently facing an unknown level 5. He didn't know who she was but it seemed that Hamazura Shiage, a boy he met during another incident did.
Without turning toward the boy Touma asked: "Hey, Hamazura! You seem to know this girl. Who is she?"
Hamazura still in a mild shock after being saved from Mugino's meltdowner was slow to answer: "S-she's Mugino Shizuri, also known as the Meltdowner. She is the #4 level five in the city."
"#4 hmm…right below Mitoko. That means she must be powerful." Touma mused out loud.
"Hahahaha my meltdowner is way more powerful than that pathetic railgun of the #3!" Mugino exclaimed to Touma.
'Her abilities are as powerful as she says. If I'm hit with any of her attacks it'd be the end of me. Zero percent chance of survival. I have to find a way to catch her off guard and get in close to her' Touma thought to himself.
Deciding to make a move before the girl could, Touma ran straight at her, with his fist raised and behind his head in a punching position. The girl aimed at him but Touma was prepared to either negate the attack with Imagine Breaker or dodge. What happened next completely caught Touma off guard.
Instead of aiming at him, like he thought she would she aimed at the ground right in front of him, and fired. The attack hit, causing dirt and dust to fly everywhere. More importantly it caused rock buried underneath to fly out, pelting the boy.
The rocks struck the boy everywhere; his face, legs, arms and chest were all pummeled by the rocks. This attack stopped the boy dead in his track as he could not avoid or dodge it.
"Dammit, I didn't see that coming." said Touma to himself.
Along with the rocks striking him, the area was now once again filled with dust, severely limiting his vision. Touma was now looking around trying vainly to see if he could find the girl in all of the dust. Suddenly Touma felt a presence behind him and rolled to the left just as a beam shot from where his head had been moments earlier.
"F#ck! Thought I had him that time" said Mugino out loud.
Mugino had seen the boy running directly at her with his fist raised. Knowing that the boy had some way of blocking her attack, she knew attacking him directly wouldn't work. So she opted for an indirect attack.
So she decided to fire her meltdowner at the ground beneath the boy's feet. She knew this would unearth dirt, dust and rocks. She knew being that close the rocks would pummel the boy and that the dirt and dust would obscure his vision. And in that moment she would attack.
"I don't know what kind of ability you have but it doesn't seem to be long range, meaning that you have to get in close to attack. As long as I keep my distance and attack you while blind, you'll die soon enough." said Mugino to the boy.
'Dammit she's right. I need to get in close to do any damage and I can't do that, not as long as she uses that meltdowner power of hers.' thought Touma to himself.
He had to find a way to get in close, but how? Touma began to think back on the battle as a whole. Were there any weaknesses that he overlooked? And gaps in her defense? But before Touma could think of anything a green beam shot into the air, instantly clearing the dust from the area. Exposed, Touma went of the defensive, having his hand at the ready to defend from her attacks.
Seeing the boy move into a defense stance Mugino smirked to herself. She pulled out another of her cards and tossed it into the air. She then fired her meltdowner at through the card, causing the attack to split into 6 beams and blanket the area.
Touma seeing the attack knew he couldn't defend against all of them with Imagine Breaker. They were coming at him in a way that made dodging or defending nearly impossible. They were coming at him in a six point pattern. One was aiming at his head, two aiming at one arm each, two aiming at one leg each and one aiming at center mast.
The head shot was a sure kill and so was the attack at center mast, and even if he defended again one of those attacks with Imagine Breaker, both of his arms and legs would be blown off along with either his head or his heart.
Touma had to think quickly.
Hamazura Shiage was still standing in the bushes, a good, relative safe distance away from the battle. He was still slightly shocked that Mugino had tried to kill him and even more shocked that the boss was still currently alive.
The people who had faced Mugino and lived was a very short list indeed. And beside himself, which really he felt was more luck then anything, he couldn't think of anyone else off the top of his head.
Any normal person who faced Mugino would die…any normal person that is. But Hamazura knew that the boss was not exactly a normal person. He somehow had the ability to cancel out others abilities. He had faced dangers in a world few on the science side even knew existed, and survived; and recently had saved all of Academy City from being destroyed.
He knew that besides this mysterious power that the boss was a true level zero, but if there was any level zero that could defeat Mugino, Hamazura knew it was this guy.
Hamazura continued to watch the battle. Mugino was using her silicon burn and he knew that the boss was in trouble. The attacks were coming at him too fast to dodge and he saw the paniced look on the boss's face.
The attacks struck and there was a large explosion and a huge cloud of dust.
"Well that has to be it. No way he survived that." said Hamazura very sadly to himself.
After a few moments the dust cloud cleared and miraculously the boss was still standing there.
"How?" Hamazura said out loud to himself.
Touma seeing the attacks coming but knowing that they were coming too fast to dodge thought quickly. He noticed that the attack at center mast was approaching him a bit faster the other six attacks were. Seeing this Touma decided to take a chance.
Once the attack was close enough to touch, Touma took his right hand and placed four finger against his thumb in the shape of a bird's beak. He then thrust his right hand at the attack. As soon as he touched the attack and before it could be completely negated, Touma opened his hand wide. This caused the attack to separate and fly in five different directions just as the other attacks had caught up with it.
The broken attack flew into the other five attacks causing them to explode prematurely. This created a shockwave thatkicked up a lot of dirt and dust obscuring Touma's vision while also throwing him off of his feet.
'Well that worked, but she seems smart and I don't think that'll work again. I have to find a way in closer' thought Touma after getting up from the ground.
Touma once again began looking back on the battle while he had this breather in the dust cloud. He began thinking of her attack pattern. Of how he had snuck up on her in the cloud of dust before she cleared it. He began to think of how after she cleared the dust cloud and saw how close he was to her, she took a step back and stumbled.
'Come to think of it, she didn't attack right away when she stumbled a bit and I caught her by surprise. Could this mean that she can't handle surprise attacks well?' Touma thought.
Touma decided to test his theory, knowing he would probably only get one shot at it.
Seeing the explosion Mugino began to laugh.
"Hahahahahaha! Take that you piece of sh!t! I'm a level five! Don't ever think a low class like you could defeat someone like me! Regret your decision in hell you f%cker!" Mugino exclaimed as she turned to leave.
"Where do you think you're going?" and voice asked from the cloud of dust.
Mugino froze. Sweat began to drip down her face. No, the boy couldn't be alive. No one but the #1 and maybe the #2 could have survived that. It just could not be.
The voice continued:
"You think you can just attempt to kill an innocent person and walk away? You think being a level five gives you that right? The right to look down on other who are not as strong as you? You should be using that strength to protect those weaker then you, not terrorize them. "
Mugino slowly turned around to face the direction the voice was coming from. As she did the dust cloud dissipated. And there stand in the middle of it was the boy. The boy that claimed he was a level zero. The boy that should have been dead by now. A new feeling began to creep inside of Mugino; Fear.
The boy was standing there with a look like he had already won this battle. He was battered, injured and breathing heavily but there was no doubt on his face. One step the boy took. And then a second step. The boy was more than 15 meters away but Mugino still took a half step back away from him.
Raising her arm Mugino fired meltdowner at him, half in fear of the boy. The boy simply dodged to the left. She fired another and he again dodged, this time to the right. That's when the boy began to run at her.
Mugino calmed down at the boy's new action and smiled.
'He must be a fool coming directly at me like that. All I have to do is wait till he gets in close and attack when it's too late for him to dodge or defend.' thought Mugino to herself.
The boy was getting closer and closer. He was 3 meters away now and Mugino was preparing to raise her arms and fire meltdowner. That's when the boy did something strange. He did a forward roll. The boy rolled forward on the ground and picked something up. In one fluid motion without losing any momentum, he got into a crouched position and then the boy threw the object at her
Slightly taken aback by the object - which seemed to be a fairly sized rock - thrown at her, Mugino took a step back and moved slightly to the left.
That dodge was the moment the boy was waiting for. From his crouched position, Touma used all the momentum he had gathered and all of his leg strength to launch himself like an coiled spring. Being only a few meter away, the boy shot at her like a bullet.
The girl surprised and not having time to aim could do nothing against the boy coming at her at that speed. The boy's fist plowed into the girls face sending her flying back 4 meters. The girl landed with a dull thud. Touma landed and rolled along the ground before coming to a stop.
Hamazura had watched the entire thing but still couldn't believe what happened. Mugino apparently had lost. The boss had flown at Mugino, punching her in the face, and sending her flying. All Hamazura could do was stand there with his mouth open.
Seeing that both participants were down and not getting up anytime soon Hamazura ran out to check on the two. Touma being the closest was checked on first. Hamazura could see that he was still breathing, but was pretty banged up and bruised. It seems like the attacks had taken its toll on him. He was unconscious but he would awake soon and he would live though.
Hamazura next ran over to Mugino. When he got there he noticed that Mugino's face where she was punched was badly bruised but otherwise she was ok. In fact she had already regained consciousness.
Hamazura moved to help her up but;
"Get off me. I don't need your help." Mugino said to the boy.
Getting up on her own Mugino tried to walk toward Touma's unconscious body, but before she could make it three steps she stumbled. Luckily Hamazura was there to catch her.
"Come on; let's get back to the others. I'm sure their worried." said Hamazura to Mugino.
There was a strange look on Mugino's face. A look like she didn't know whether to thank him and kill him.
"Prff…whatever. Let's get out of here. And thanks" Mugino mumbled the last part
Helping Mugino walk back to the car Hamazura thought he heard her thanking him but knew that she would never do that.
Walking away, Mugino then looked back over her shoulder at the boy who lay on the ground unconscious.
'Just who is that boy? He was willing to challenge a level five like it was nothing. Hamazura seemed to know him. I'll have to get the whole story from him later." Mugino thought to herself.
A small smile then appeared on Mugino's face.
"What are you smiling about?" asked Hamazura seeing her.
The smile quickly disappeared and turned into a frown.
"Nothing you idiot. Now get me home." demanded Mugino.
If Hamazura didn't know any better he would have sworn he saw a blush on Mugino's face. Deciding that bring this up wasn't good for his overall health he ignored it.
"Yes ma'am!" Hamazura replied and helped Mugino to his car before speeding off.
AFTERWORD
Well that's it for this chapter redux. I hope everyone enjoyed. I didn't really make any huge changes to the story but I am happier with the result.
Next chapter should be the end of the rewrites and then we can get into some original content.
I hope everyone is looking forward to it.
As always please rate and review.
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