Mikoto kept searching for Touma after not seeing him in front of the store until she sees something familiar in a merchandise booth.
"Huh? Is that Kamijou-san with one of the...Sisters!" Mikoto feels angers inside her and dashes to their place.
At the same time,
"It's it fine Imouto?" Touma asks
Misaka-imouto was frowning through and through afterward. Sometimes, her lips would move as she murmurs words like "Ring..." and "...Misaka's left ring finger..." Just what kind of trouble was she having?
"Say, Misaka-imouto, if you don't want that necklace, we can trade it for something else" Touma said.
"'This is enough,' Misaka says in satisfaction"
Before Touma can say something, a stream of lighting bolts came straight at him. He sense this and uses his right hand to nullifies the attack.
"Wha- Misaka?" He saw 'the real Misaka' coming straight at him.
"Wh... what were you doing, you two!" Mikoto said in anger.
"M-Misaka, I can explain!"
But Misaka-imouto answer Misaka question, "'Misaka has been robbed. To recover the goggles, Misaka went far and wide until Misaka finally came to the underground shopping complex,' says Misaka as she answers while averting her sight away from Original's frog mascots. 'Misaka has lists for serial number 20,001's expected flight route and firearms for ambush, but they don't matter as Misaka is already entranced by the frog,' says Misaka as she gives up on the spot."
Misaka-imouto remains expressionless as a sullen Mikoto puts away Geko-ta and Pyon-ko into the school bag, but in her pupils, a hint of sadness floated but she then looks at the necklace on her neck.
"Where do you get that necklace?" Mikoto asks Imouto.
"'Why don't you asks this guy?' as Misaka pointed towards Kamijou Touma."
She turns to Touma then said, "Kamijou-san surely, the word is that as the loser of the contest, you will listen to anything I say in a penalty game, right?"
"Ha? What?"
"And for that reason, you're sticking with me all day today as my personal machine, isn't it? Sweating it out and trying very hard in giving your best just for my sake, isn't it?"
"Eh! Why is Misaka's surroundings restlessly charging up!"
"So you should have done that as always this time! But then you're in the middle of other people's penalty games, so here and there, you're making damn calls. Are you the kind who likes the voices of younger sisters so much, you daaaaaaaaaamned blockhead!"
Touma blocked her thunderous attack three times then,
"Daa-this is annoying! What's with that endurance! At this time, you should be adequately blown off and even tumbling down someplace!"
"So why are you getting angry, damn you! If I accept that request later, I might die, you know!"
Misaka-imouto then intervenes, "'By the way, what is Original doing here,' says Misaka as she commences her information-gathering."
Mikoto's shoulders *biku* greatly shake.
Even though there's no particular reason to do something special, Mikoto is for some reason averting her eyes away from Misaka-imouto,
"W- Well, we had a little match over a penalty game during the Daihaseisai, and because I had succeeded as the victor, I get to drag this idiot around, that's all, nothing more. Well, I wonder if this means I better explain everything about the Daihaseisai from the beginning, huh?"
"'In other words, Original cannot be honest?' says Misaka as she commences her information analysis."
"*Bu-!* How did you get such a conclusion when you analyzed the information you had! I, I'm not especially hiding anything. It is not really related to the words 'cannot be honest', you know! What generally happens when I become honest to such an opponent? To such a blockhead!"
Misaka-imouto does not change her expression at Mikoto, who pointing at Kamijou's face,
"'Hm, Misaka cannot comprehend such a careless treatment,' says Misaka as she objects.'This person is Misaka's lifesaver; he's not like that,' says Misaka as she smoothly requests for a correction."
"Uuhhh... B, but then, that has nothing to do with this situation today. What's wrong with calling this blockhead as a blockhead!"
"I see, cannot be honest to the end is it, says Misaka as she gets her final confirmation."
Misaka-imouto only once peers straight into Mikoto's eye,
"'Then Misaka will be honest,' says Misaka as she walks on a road different from Original."
Just as she finishes saying it,
Misaka-imouto stands beside Kamijou and suddenly *gyuu* embraces his right arm.
Her soft chest slams into his elbow.
"Whoaa!"
Kamijou's heart *bako-n* skips.
In a moment of shock, he's a naive lad falling into labored breathing; due to panic, he cannot even look at Mikoto in front of him, her mouth flapping open and shut. The male students nearby were looking at them every now and then, but even such a sight was totally ignored.
"Wh, wh, wha..."
Before a horrified Mikoto's eyes, Misaka-imouto, clinging onto Kamijou's right arm, twists herself to draw closer to his body.
Before Misaka-Imouto waiting for response,
"'Misaka, too, will embrace from the other side,' says Misaka as Misaka gets herself to join in a seemingly interesting situation! Yaay!"
This time, a girl about 10 years old was hanging on Kamijou's left arm.
As a shocked Kamijou looks to his left, though her body was childish, her face was the splitting image of Mikoto. She has the same goggles as Misaka-imouto's on her body, but as the rubber straps were loose, it went past her head and is stuck onto her neck.
"Who is this! Imouto of Imouto!"
She's already way past light, though something like an unflagging firmness was being sent; even as Kamijou was disturbed by that sensation, he inquires her identity.
But before the reply comes back,
"'Serial number 20,001, you sure have the nerve to nonchalantly turn up in front of Misaka,' says Misaka as she switches to serious mode."
"'Fufufu, Misaka is already getting tired of that game,' says Misaka as Misaka sets out for the discovery of her next entertainment."
"'Don't think you're getting away!' says Misaka as she takes out her submachine gun from her bag!"
Mikoto goes "Bu-!" at the *jyago!* dull metallic sound, and the excessively tiny girl vanishes into a crowd at high speed during that time.
"'I have to go now,' says Misaka tries to chase the Superior for my goggle back"
From the barrier, a voice can be heard.
"'That degree of seriousness is ridiculous, you know-!' says Misaka as Misaka looks on with contempt."
"'It's not over yet; the real battle starts right after this,' says Misaka as she finally unleashes Misaka Full Burst!"
*sound of automatic gunfire* From the head of the crowd, a bizarre metallic sound- like something being constructed- is continuously occurring. I'd like to see it, but it's scary, after all, so I'm not even approaching it, Kamijou vows wholeheartedly.
Then he looked at the dumbfounded Mikoto and seeing her eyes near to produce tears.
"Kamijou-san! You IDIOT!" She produces another lighting strike at him and ran away from him.
But Touma then grabbed her hand while thinking, "Oh no, I hurt her feelings! If Ruko sees this, both of us will be dead"
"Misaka wait!" He said while grabbing her hand.
"Release me! You Idiot!" She tries hard to escape from him.
"Hey hey, look at me!" Touma said while turning her direction at him.
Both of them stare, eye to eye. Then he suddenly hugs her again.
"Look, I'm sorry for everything okay, It's unintentional, I just getting Misaka-imouto something to recognize her because she lost her goggles, nothing more nothing else. Please trust me." He said to her.
He still continues, "Please, trust me, I do nothing wrong"
"R-Really Kamijou-san?" Mikoto asks him.
"Yes and by the way, you haven't give me back my cellphone anyway" Touma said while smiling at Mikoto.
"O-Oh! Sorry you Idiot!" Mikoto said while pouting and angry at the same time while giving back his phone.
He took his phone back and sees the Gekota strap on his phone.
"So she put this frog on my phone eh~ never mind" He said in his mind.
He looks at Mikoto and said, "So is the punishment game continues?"
"That's okay Kamijou-san, is over now. You can go home" Then Mikoto walks away from him with her face blushing.
"O-Oi Misaka-san!" He tried to call Misaka back.
But Misaka quickly walks away from him until she disappears in to the crowd.
"(Sigh)...Fukou da.." He said his favourite word but then he sees something at the merchandise shop he's been during that time.
"Huh? Isn't this the ring at the commercial? Hmm..."
Then, He is beginning to bargain the ring's price with the shopkeeper.
Let's go back to Accelerator,
Why the heck does it turn out like this? Accelerator is drooping his shoulders.
He was in a certain location just after entering the underground shopping complex. Some tables were being arranged outside a fast-food store, serving as its open space. But despite being in a underground shopping complex, the distinctions between the inside and the outside of the store were dubious without end.
In one of those tables, a silver-haired emerald-eyed girl clad in a pure white nun's habit is *gubecha* prostrating before it, buried beside huge quantities of hamburgers, french fries, and salads. Just to say it once in advance, Accelerator bought them all as a gift.
The excuse for such a happening in the first place is that as soon as Accelerator, in search for Last Order, propped himself up at his modernistic custom-designed cane and entered the underground shopping complex, this mysterious girl suddenly came crashing into him from one side.
She then, in a really staggered gait and expression, faced Accelerator and,
"Ehh, it's not Touma, it's not Touma! I thought it was Touma; why is this person not Touma? Touma can go anywhere he wants to, but I'm getting hungry and cannot move about! That sizzling smell of salt, pepper, and meat is drifting away; I wanna eat that, I wanna eat that, what should we do, what should we do when eating that?"
"..."
He was about to continue his mumbling when he remembered something about her being similar to that brat, but even if he dies, he's reluctant to admit he'd be worried about that.
Consequently, after kicking the hungry sister into the nearby fast food store, throwing out his wallet, and spitting out something absurd like "This and that, try eating them all!", they ended up in this current situation.
Previously, Accelerator was being lent to various projects. Money unspent was tossed as much as he liked into an account, so he has no money problems... but where could the maximum permissible tolerance for this nun greedily consuming a ridiculous number of hamburgers be?
"Just how big this brat stomach is?"
By the way, this nun is carrying in her hands a small tortoise-shelled cat, but it itself didn't indicate whether it's getting hungry or has interest in hamburgers (in any case, he's sure it won't because of the finely chopped onions being used). It's with the stray cats who were lost in the underground shopping complex and meowing among themselves. Perhaps they are deep in talk with something like "For this year's autumn, there would probably be soft, sinewy meat coming!" and "You're kidding-! I have been sharpening my nails all the while-!" Are these cats not conscious about territory demarcation?
Accelerator gazes at the scene of food-eating orgy spread out before him,
"This is madness... I don't get worn-out to this point when I'm with that shitty brat."
"Moga?"
"Quit stopping all the time and finish your food at once! And don't you have something to say to me?"
"Gokyu. Yeah, thanks."
"Hey, is that it?"
This was an encounter with a very problematic person. Accelerator slackly loosened his neck. He prays for the eternal rest of the souls of this girl's acquaintances who were made to do this with her on a regular basis.
The nun tastes a large bottle of juice that was lined up and drinks it up (each sip slightly smaller than a small-sized PET bottle) in intervals of five seconds,
"Well, did I say 'Index' is my name?"
"Didn't you taste that?"
"I'm searching for Touma, but I got hungry on the way. Or rather, it's because I got hungry in the first place that I thought of searching for Touma."
Index tosses the small bits of ice from inside the juice bottle into her mouth, and her shoulders quiver for a bit. Whether it's simple-mindedness or her voracious appetite, it appears that she didn't notice the sauce sticking around her mouth. She's similar to Last Order when it comes only to demerits like this.
"...Tch."
Accelerator tuts, takes out a pocket tissue, and silently tosses it at Index's face. Upon seeing her fight an uphill battle even with taking a tissue from the vinyl packing, he sighs again. What's this, cluelessness on modern knowledge?
Even so, her intention's to look for someone, isn't it...?
Accelerator remembers the face of a suspicious character who until just recently had been aimlessly wandering somewhere with a single blanket. Switching on his mobile phone, a data of Last Order's portrait is being displayed on the small screen (If he tells that it has a camera function, it might be stolen and used for some other purposes. Without it even being focused, only the face fills the screen), and as he shows it to Index,
"Hey you, have you seen a brat like this?"
"Nope!"
A single immediate reply.
But it appears she is not disinterestedly and halfheartedly saying it; it's strangely overflowing with self-confidence.
"I don't forget the face of a person I've seen once- I think I'm certain of it."
"Ah?"
Accelerator frowns, but Index was thoroughly satisfied thanks to the large quantity of hamburgers she ate; it appears that she is not very willing to explain. With a happy face, she *becha-* falls prostrate onto the table.
"Nah-, but thank goodness. I've said it before, but I truly thank you. From here, I go search for Touma without worrying my stomach. I have a feeling that with my stomach full, the reason for looking for Touma is weak, but if I can't find him even when I'm here, I won't be satisfied for some reason."
"Ah, is that so, I'm no help to you!"
"I've come here and passed by for a bit, but until now, I've never understood this street's aspects. However, if it were my intellect, there's no such thing as getting lost. Perhaps just merely memorizing is no good. Either way, I thus met the people of Academy City."
"If that's so, then so be it."
"...You, you doing something? You busy?"
"Sorry, but I'm very busy."
Accelerator applies power into his cane and stands up from his chair.
Unfortunately, even in an unexpected meeting, he has a person to look for.
Mikoto left him after declaring that the Punishment game is over, Touma wanders around the underground while thinking what happened today.
"(Sigh)...what the heck is going on today? First that teleporter girl, Misaka-imouto and that small girl."
Then he look at the ring he bought today, there are two of them exactly. He got another one from that shopkeeper (because of the so called couple's quarrels in front of the merchandise shop).
"So, I got two in the end huh?" He then put the two rings into his pocket and sigh at himself.
"'What's with your shoulders drooping in an immensely tired feeling,' says Misaka as Misaka clings onto your back as a therapeutic mascot."
By the time he thought there's a strange answer to his spontaneous monologue grumbling, a weight has been *noshii* added onto his back. At the round sensation being sent onto his back, Kamijou *zozowaa* gets the goosebumps and,
"W-what! Who are you, Konaki Jijii?" Touma asks.
"'Misaka's gender is female, and talking about the occult in Academy City is probably nonsense,' says Misaka as Misaka snuggles your body to secure a sense of stability. 'Misaka wants this to be Misaka's fixed position,' says Misaka as Misaka incidentally demands."
*noshii-*, and the lump with a lukewarm body temperature increases in mass for a bit.
Kamijou, with the *zowazowa* feeling of his back reaching its climax,
"Uoowaahh! What is this-!"
As he shouts, both of his arms go around from the front toward his back, grabbing tightly the mass attached to it, and pulling it back towards the front in a dunk shot-like motion. And so, hanging upside down was a mysterious young girl- a tiny version of Misaka-imouto.
He then said to her, "Who are you?"
"'Misaka serial number 20001 or you can call me Last Order!,' says Misaka as Misaka introduced herself"
"Last Order?" Touma clearly confused of what is going on.
Then Last Order explained everything.
"In other words, you're the host computer controlling all of the Misaka-imoutos?" Touma asks with his eyes wide open.
"''Console' rather than 'Host' would be closer,' says Misaka as Misaka corrects. 'Misaka's center is nowhere; there's not much significance in existing as a special individual 'core' inside the network,' says Misaka as Misaka proudly puffs her chest up as she lectures."
She is somewhat one amazing person based on those words alone- honestly, it didn't seem all that real to Kamijou- but why is she loitering around in this place again? Kamijou is harboring reservations.
"'You see-, I came here to give thanks for your help during the time of the [Experiment],' says Misaka as Misaka exhibits a 'The Grateful Crane'-like development."
"What's your real intention with your so-called polite face?"
"'You didn't believe me even for an instant!' says Misaka as Misaka stamps her feet! 'But you might say that coming here to say thanks to you is technically because of chance,' says Misaka as Misaka divulges her true feelings!"
"So my suspicions were correct!"
"'That 'want of delicacy' is making me mad-!' says Misaka as Misaka waves both her hands about and tries to beat her head!"
"Oh no, she is angry" as Touma said to himself.
He then saw popcorn stand and look back at Last Order, "I'm sorry, there is a popcorn stand over there, if you want some, I can buy it for you."
"'You think you can control a girl's sensitive mentality with the likes of food!' says Misaka as Misaka tries to be terrified!"
Ah? Kamijou thinks.
Somehow, the approach when it comes to Index must have been ingrained so much into his brain. This won't do, thinks Kamijou as he meekly reconsiders,
"My bad. So how 'bout we abstain?"
"'But Misaka's eating! Popcorn is very much welcome!' says Misaka as Misaka shows a new technique in not letting go of anger though popcorn is taken!"
After buying the popcorn, the gigantic one, both of them sat down.
"What the hell? Is her stomach is the same as that nun?" he tought himself.
After finishing her popcorn and her drinks which Touma bought when Last Order choke by the popcorn before, he saw the goggles that Misaka-imouto searching for.
"Isn't the goggles Misaka-imouto she is searching for?"
Last Order only nodded and tugging hard at the tough goggles hanging from her neck. It's a bulky electronic piece of equipment in the shape of a set of NVG.
"'Too bad it's not built for Misaka, so Misaka cannot wear it properly,' says Misaka as Misaka is downhearted for a bit."
"Huh? How about adjusting the length of the band affixed to the goggles?"
Last Order surprised at Touma's suggestion.
As Kamijou says that, Last Order stood in front of him, slightly raising her chin and standing on tiptoe. This is only meant for easy removal of the goggles hanging by her neck; this action is in no way to experience a profound meaning of some sort.
Feeling with his finger, he notices that the band is made of rubber- easy to find out when the item reminds one of underwater goggles. Around the goggle's base, metal fittings were attached to control its length.
"Sorry for this bit-"
As he says this, he grasps the goggle's main part. There, pulling the metal fittings toward himself would be easy. Pulling the thick band of rubber, it extends towards Kamijou with a *sproing*.
Last Order is noisily struggling,
"'Ouch, owowowow,' says Misaka as Misa-"
"Wah!"
The stretched rubber band returns to its original size, and,
A terrific *snap!* sound is heard from Last Order's face.
"..."
For some reason, Kamijou found it hard to talk to Last Order, who is rolling over nearby. Even so, facing him as he flustered over what to do next, a somewhat teary-eyed little girl stands on tiptoe once again in order to show her head with the goggles hanging from it.
"Weeell, I won't fail the next time"
Only at times when he's thinking about not failing does it become something that occurs continuously.
*Snap*! The details were left out, but a sound just like it echoes.
Here, Kamijou is kicked down and stepped on relentlessly by Last Order; when the tentative mood clears up, she gives Kamijou the goggles in the end.
But before he can have the attempt for Last Order to use the goggles, "Yo Kami-yan! What are you doing? Nya~"
He turned and see two people that he hoped not to meet.
It's Aogami Pierce and Tsuchimikado Motoharu.
The pair looked at Kamijou's face once, then at Last Order's face, and then again at Kamijou's face.
"Kami-yan with a loli!" said Aogami with a smile
"This kid-!" said Tsuchimikado
"What's with that incomprehensible reaction!" Kamijou shouts back. Right beside him, Last Order, who had already started to be vigilant, is hiding behind Kamijou's back.
Tsuchimikado and Aogami Pierce were unmindful of that.
"Nya-! Well, I can understand if it were the likes of Komoe-sensei since you're still underage and stuff, but what's with this, nya- Can you explain this, nya- !"
"Y, you bastard! Even without honor, this is too much! How far Kami-yan will go to set up a stance with no blind spots in all directions! You already sound like a sweet granny at the porch with a cat curled up on her knees!"
"However!" says Aogami Pierce and Tsuchimikado while glaring at Kamijou's face.
They show their very best smile,
"As your friends, we wish you success!"
In order to eliminate a pair of obviously obnoxious speakers, Kamijou clenches his fist an start to beaten his "dangerous" friends
*sounds of someone getting beaten*
Last Order timidly talks to Kamijou and friends, who were having a big-time free-for-all.
"'T, those are your friends?' says Misaka as Misaka tries to get a confirmation."
"Kids must stay away from them! The influence from these guys' lifestyles and idiotic talk is still too strong!"
Kamijou swings his fists, intending to stamp a "Restricted" rating on the idiots' foreheads.
"Ah~ Kamijou Touma" said a green-haired kid as tall as Last Order
"Eh? Lilian?"
"Finally, I've found you~"
"What is it?"
"Master already found the parts and now going to see you. So please wait"
"'This one also your friend?' says Misaka as Misaka see the girl infront of her."
"Well, kinda~. So while waiting Why don't we continued putting that goggle"
"'Yeah~ Misaka agree' says Misaka as Misaka waiting this chance"
"Ok~"
"Umm...Kami-yan, can we leave now?" Aogami said.
"No you don't" Touma said while give them a deadly glare.
Both Aogami and Tsuchimikado said in unison, "Argh No!" Then Touma punched them many times.
Several minutes later,
"Yo Touma~" said Sieghart as he brought 2 black things in his hand. Touma currently with Lilian and Last Order, and also with a fainted Aogami and Tsuchimikado beside them
"So this is that "thing"?" asked Touma
"Yeah~ but Ruko seems putting a protection field to this thing"
"Then, Let me break it with my right hand"
"Imagine Breaker"
"You know?" asked Touma
"Of course! You already have it a long time ago when I first met you, but I know the name of your ability from my grandpa"
Then a sound of glasses broken can be heard
"Good!" said Sieghart
"MASTER!" this time a blue little girl came with a very fast pace
"Kururu?" said Sieghart as he watches the girl is very tired now
"Master it's ..."
"Calm down a bit! Now talk!"
Then Kururu said the things happened and Ruko
"THAT NO GOOD BITCH!" said Touma
"I'll handle her! By the way you better take the admin of "MISAKA Network" to her guardians now"
"'How you know?' asks Misaka as Misaka surprised with the fact"
"I already stole and read the document about you guys before so I know" said Sieghart "I also know another things after read those"
"I see then I will leave now" said Touma
"'What about these guys?' asks Misaka as Misaka looking at those two that already beaten"
Sieghart also see the fainted duo and sighed "Just what happened before I came here?"
"Just leave them alone, they'll be fine" as Touma starting to get away from there with Last Order
"I'll handle Ruko right now, I bet now she looking for Mikoto." said Sieghart to Touma "Kururu! Lilian!"
"Yes!" said both of the girls in unison
"You two can go back now, meet me at my grandpa's place!"
Then Lilian and Kururu gone
"Time to stop you Ruko!" then Sieghart starting to running to a certain direction
But before He left, Touma calls him, "Hey Sieghart!"
"What is it, Touma?"
Touma pauses to think awhile, "If I give the ring to Misaka now, it will be troublesome. Well I give it to her when I had the chance, with the "other ring" too."
"Good luck Sieghart! And say Misaka, I'm sorry okay!" Touma said
"I get it Touma! See you soon!" Sieghart said leaving Touma and Last Order alone.
But on the way, Sieghart starting to think "What ring that Touma mean? Ah~ Forget it~"
Way to Tokiwadai dorm,
"Hmm~" for some reason Mikoto very happy today
"I have finally found you, Misaka-san!" said Ruko
"! Ruko!" as she saw the girl in front of her
"You totally enjoy the punishment game and completely forgot about me eh~ Misaka-san." said Ruko with a happy tone but somewhat annoying for Mikoto
"What do you want! I have done what you said!"
Ruko just give her a grin.
"There is still one thing~"
"W-What? You still haven't enough of this Ruko!"
"Well~ I still want to see you kiss with 'him' "
"W-W-What!" said Mikoto as she blush very hard
"Ehehehe" as Ruko laughed
"I-I won't do it"
"So you want your reputation to be destroyed then" as Ruko show her "secret weapon"
"Don't worry about it!" as sound can be heard
"W-What?" as Ruko surprised with that voice
"Misaka! Destroy it now!" then Misaka generate very strong electricity that makes Ruko's cellphone broken
"Uh-Oh! Is That you!" said Ruko to the talker. Then Sieghart appeared
"Hi~ there~ Ruko~" said Sieghart
"Sieghart? What are you doing here and why you order me to destroy Ruko's cellphone ?" asked Mikoto
"Yes! She is right, Sieghart! Don't forget that i still have... What!" as Ruko suprised see the black things in Sieghart's hand
"You mean this! Mine and Touma-Misaka! By the way Misaka destroy them now" as Sieghart throw the things to the sky
"My pleasure!" then Misaka shot her railgun and destroy them
"You can't blackmail us anymore Ruko~" said Sieghart with a very happy voice, then he start whispering something to Mikoto and see her suprised.
"I see! Kuroko eh~ Time to pay your sin Ruko~" said Mikoto
Then she starts chasing the running away Ruko "COME BACK HERE!" Mikoto start chasing her.
But Sieghart then called her, "Hey Misaka!"
"What is it Sieghart?"
"Touma want to say sorry to you about earlier Misaka!"
Misaka blushed for a moment but she smiles at him and said, "Thanks Sieghart! Say to him I'm sorry too if you meet him!" Then Mikoto continue to run after Ruko.
"Time to go~" then Sieghart return to his grandpa place
"So Touma would always, always, always leave me behind and go off someplace. That person might already be a vagrant of some sort. I've realized that he's one person out on a trip!" said Index
Somehow Accelerator feels something similar from "this guy" like "the last guy" that he fought, the one who stop him. "Ah! It can't be~" Accelerator said to himself
"Ah, it's Touma..."
Index, who was nearby, suddenly stops her movements.
She looks down the passageway.
"Is he the one you're looking for?"
"Yeah."
Accelerator turns his looming eyes towards where she's looking, but thanks to the crowd, he wasn't able to see a shadow like it. To begin with, in this situation, he can't even find out who she is indicating and saying as the "person she's looking for".
Index looks up at Accelerator's face.
He says, "Go!"
"But what about your acquaintance?"
"Don't mind it," Accelerator spits out those words. "I've found her now."
The direction where he throws those words towards was even the same as that of Index's previously. He sees a small girl running towards them, pushing her way through a crowd of mainly middle- and high-school students.
Accelerator knows her name.
He doesn't know whether it's a real name, and he doesn't know how much the worth of the name fabricated for convenience just for researchers to draft up the documents is, but that is the same even for Accelerator. Nobody anywhere might know his true name.
No matter what kind of person she is, if she has only one given name, of course that would be the name to denote her.
And so Accelerator voices out. "Last Order!"
On noticing she's been called, the tiny girl gains the strength to move her legs further. A pleasant-looking expression was foolishly affixed to her face.
Tiny *clak* footsteps are heard by Accelerator's side.
"Then I'm off. Thank you."
Index only says that and then, "Touma!"
Power filled those light footsteps. The girl, who had just gone with Accelerator and only has dozens of questions, parts from him and runs towards the crowd.
She didn't turn around. Just like Last Order who didn't turn around.
The two girls cross at a single point in the underground shopping complex, pass by each other without mutually noticing each other as is, and they separate the distance.
They run to their respective place where they should go.
It didn't take 10 seconds before Last Order jumps into Accelerator's front.
"'I'm back-,' says Misaka as Misaka gives a standard greeting... OUCH! 'Why are you chopping silently and continuously!' says Misaka as Misaka guards the head and is shedding crocodile tears!"
Accelerator, as he relentlessly continues beating the girl's head, lets out all of his displeasure.
"Yeah, what were you doing up to now?"
"'Had a good time,' says Misaka as Misaka honestly answers."
*Sigh* Accelerator exhales.
What happened to that hell-raiser of a Sister? Accelerator just one more time scans the crowd on the other side.
However, there was no one there to be picked up.
Only the intangible [crowd] was there.
As always.
"Who is the one that help you Index?" asked Touma
"He don't tell me his name but he very kind you know. Even though his words and personality not show it" said Index
"By the way who's that girl that you help~" asked Index
"Just a missing child, like you" said Touma
"I'm not a child" as Index pouted
Somehow Touma remembers several things that Last Order says about "her guardian"
"Probably he just like that" said Touma to himself
"Let's go back Itsuwa must be waiting and prepared the dinner for us" said Touma
"Yay~ Dinner" said Index with happy voice
Index walk ahead of him while Touma is behind her.
He took out one of the ring from his pocket and look at it for one last time before putting it back.
"I hope she likes it." Touma thought to himself.
Heaven Canceler's residence,
After Sieghart successfully foils Ruko's plan, he head back to his grandfather's home and see that his grandfather has just got back from the hospital.
"Oh Satoshi, how's your day? and why Ruko isn't with you?" Heaven Canceler asks.
"Oh her? She have some business to attend to so she'll be back" Sieghart said casually.
Just as he finished his words, Ruko came home and both of them look at her, nearly charred like someone want's to burn her.
"Ruko? What's happened to you?" Heaven Canceler said with a worrying face.
"Yeah Ruko, is there someone that you make them piss off lately?" Sieghart said cynically.
"SHUT UP SIEGHART! YOU HAVE RUINED MY PLAN!" Ruko said angrily to him.
"What's going on around here?" Heaven Canceler asks with a confused face.
"Oh grandpa, it's nothing personal, just a quarrel." Sieghart said to him.
"It's that so, well then, I bought some Pasta for us to eat together so get cleaned and help me at the kitchen okay" Heaven Canceler said.
Ruko expression changed from anger to joy when she heard her favourite food, Pasta.
"Pasta! Thank you grandpa!" Ruko said and hug his grandfather.
Sieghart look at her then only think to himself, "Hahah...Ruko, if it's Pasta, you'll forget about everything" then he chuckled to himself.
At Tokiwadai Girls Dorm,
After settled her "problems" with Ruko, Mikoto heads back to her dorm with a satisfied face. Just as soon as she entered the dorm, Emilya and Ellia quickly approached her.
"Misaka-san! Misaka-san!" Both of them call her.
"Ah Ellia and Emilya-san, what is it?" Mikoto asks.
"It's Kuroko!" Emilya said.
"Hmm? What's with her?"
"She seemed pretty devastated and full of wounds after I meet her near the underground mall, she just only said "I fail Onee-sama's love..." and "I let her lose to that barbarian...". That all she can say, you know what's happen Misaka-san?"
"Hmm, that's okay; I'll meet her and explained everything." Mikoto said as the trio goes to her room.
After arriving at her room, the trio sees Kuroko covered in her blanket and murmured "I fail you Onee-sama..." and other words.
"Kuroko?" Misaka sit beside her.
"Oh Onee-sama! Tell me! Tell me the truth Onee-sama!"
"Well, if you hear something about me and Kamijou-san, is not true, It's just an misunderstanding and everything that you see is not true too, it's just a certain people that wanted to trick you so don't be sad Kuroko" Mikoto said to Kuroko as she remembers Ruko fault
"R-Really Onee-sama?" Kuroko asks.
"Yeah Kuroko, it is"
Then Kuroko gets out her blanket and ready to pounce her, "ONEE-SAMA!"
Mikoto then struck her with a jolt of electricity as usual and Ellia and Emilya look at each other and said, "Well, it seems Kuroko is back to herself now Ellia"
"Yes Emilya, She is."
Then all of them laugh together in the room.
Yomikawa's residence,
"Ah Accelerator! Finally you found her!" said Yomikawa
"This shitty brat took lots of time for search" said Accelerator
"'Yeah~ I feel something good' says Misaka as Misaka smells something good" then Last Order suddenly go to the kitchen
"Ahaha you can tell huh~" said Yomikawa
"Where is Yoshikawa?" asked Accelerator
"She is out for a moment" said Yomikawa as someone knock her door
"Ah~ Komoe, you come at the right time" said Yomikawa to Komoe "Have a sit"
"Thanks~"
"What is she -the understandable / mystery creature- doing here ?" as Accelerator think this
"Last Order! Accelerator! Come here!" then both of them sitting at the living room
"Here it is Yomikawa." said Komoe as she gives uniforms and documents to Yomikawa
"What with that document?" asked Accelerator
Yomikawa frowned. "We need to talk, It's not healthy for a boy at your age to mope around the house like this," she explained. 'Normal though,' she kept that thought to herself. "That's why I've enrolled you in the high school I teach at."
"What! Why should I, Accelerator, Academy City's strongest, have to go to some third rate school filled with Level 2's , Level 1's and 0's!" he raged, finally getting off from the couch and standing up on unsteady feet in an attempt to look her in the eye.
"Too late," she said simply. "What's done is done and it as already been arranged."
"What about that shitty little brat! You can't expect her to stay on her own, do you?" he asked in defense. He meant it to come out as a simple reason not to go, but it sounded like he was actually worried about her, something he would never admit out loud. Last Order, as the administrator of the Misaka Network, a network of just under 10,000 clones of the Railgun - Misaka Mikoto, the third strongest Level 5, though the clones only generally achieved level 2 or 3, was in constant danger and needed to be protected at all times.
"She'll be coming with us and staying nearby you at all times. I already discuss it with other teachers and decided that it should be fine. Frankly, this will be good for the both of you. You'll be able to interact normally with people your own age, and she'll finally have an outlet for all her energy." said Komoe as she saw the energetic Last Order
"I refuse." said Accelerator
"Sorry, it has decided. You're going to the school even if I have to drag you there myself." said Yomikawa
"What about Yoshikawa?"
"She already agree with it"
"What about you, shitty brat" asked Accelerator to Last Order
"'Misaka want to go to there too' says Misaka as Misaka getting excited"
"Tch, fine" Accelerator reluctantly agreed. Besides, if it's that school with this person, spending time around them might allow him to figure it. It hadn't been particularly bugging him, but Accelerator had leaving mysteries unsolved as he saw Komoe in front of him
"Plus don't worry!" said Komoe "You are not the only Level 5's, there are also several Level 5's at our school"
"Must be trash Level 5's" said Accelerator
"A student from Komoe class also going to be assigned to show you around tomorrow." said Yomikawa
'A shitty guy who lives in the light no doubt', he thought, the idea bringing a bad taste to his mouth.
Some of his thoughts must have unconsciously shown on his face though, as Yomikawa then said, "You'll be glad to know this guy is a bit of a delinquent."
"I bet you have met this boy" continued Komoe
"Like hell that will make me feel any better. Shit heads all of them," he scowled.
"We'll see." She replied to his coarse statement easily.
"Tch, you wish" as Accelerator gave a glare that both of the teachers ignores.
After Touma and Index gone back to his dorm, Itsuwa greets them and preparing dinner for them.
During dinner, "Hey Touma, what are you doing all day long?" Index asks.
"Huh? Today? Nothing much Index." Touma said to her.
Itsuwa then notices the Gekota strap on his phone on the table and asks him, "Umm...Kamijou-san, where you got that weird frog looking strap?"
"Oh this strap, I just buy it out of curiosity (the truth is Misaka attach this but I cannot tell you the punishment game though, never and ever in front of these two especially that nun)" as he look at Index.
"Hmm? What is it Touma?" Index said with her mouth filled with food.
"Hey Index, don't talk with your mouth full" Touma said in annoying toune.
Then Index suddenly bites his head, "You don't have to tell me that TOUMA!"
"ARGH! FUKOU DA!"
While Itsuwa trying to help him from Index's bite
After dinner, Touma decided to take a bath, "Well, it's time to take a bath"
He headed to the bathroom and the bath door is unlocked, "Hmm...There isn't anyone here huh, that's okay then." Touma thought
"W-Wait a second Kamijou-san" Itsuwa warned him "Index is still inside"
"W-WHAT?" as Touma shocked and accidently saw the bathroom
Index is still inside the bathroom, standing naked in front of him.
Index look at him with a look of a murderer, "Touma...do you have anything to say?"
"Umm...hi, Index?" then Index bite him again this time with no mercy.
"UARGH! NOT AGAIN! FUKOU DA!"
After taking a bath and treated his wound thanks to the Nun, he sit in front of the TV while Itsuwa and Index sound a sleep on his bed.
"(sigh)...I think I have got used to sleep on the floor right now" Touma sigh to himself.
He look at the clock to see it's now 11 O'clock
"Well, time to pull out the futon" he then headed to his storeroom and pulled out a futon and spread it on the floor.
He then though something, he took his trousers that he wears this morning and take out two rings.
"I need to hide this ring so that Nun and Itsuwa won't find it"
He look at his surrounding and found a box that her mother gave him during the Daihaseisai.
"This box will do for now." He put the ring into the box and locked it and he put another ring inside his school bag to give to Misaka tomorrow.
"I hope she like this" Touma said while smiling.
Meanwhile at Tokiwadai Dormitory,
Misaka Mikoto is now asleep after a tiring day with Touma, during her sleep she dreamed about something.
She dreamed that she is at the usual place where she always gets her drink from the vending and someone calling her.
"Hey Misaka-san!" She looks at someone she knows.
"W-Wha? Kamijou-san? What do you want?"
"Ah it's nothing, I just want you to have this." he pulled out a small box.
He opened it and Mikoto is surprised that there's a diamond ring inside.
"Wha! A ring?" Mikoto only said that.
Then Touma kneels down before her and suddenly propose, Misaka, when the first time I met you, I'm in love, so I want your answer, will you be my girlfriend?"
"Wha!" Mikoto suddenly woke up on her bed.
Kuroko also surprised and waked up, "What's the matter Onee-sama?"
"A-Ah Kuroko! It's nothing, I just having a bad dream, yeah a bad dream." Mikoto replies
"Hmm..? or you having a dream with that Barbarian?" Kuroko asks cynically.
Hearing Kuroko's question, she suddenly blushes and release an electrical shock on Kuroko.
"S-SHUT UP! KUROKO!"
The whole room is bright form Mikoto's electrical attack on Kuroko that night.