Hey, thank you guys for your support and advice in the reviews the feedback really helps me a lot. Only one more chapter until the end of the Misaki Golden Days Arc.
BlueJack22: Kamijou tried to get it copyrighted but somebody lost his paperwork and it never went through and Junpei from Nyan Koi! got it instead. "Such Misfortune". Nah it'll take more than that to traumatize the Railgun this is actually one of the reasons why she got so good at doing pinpoint aiming.
Fortitude501: The scores were actually 4-3 I'm just saving those stories for another day like an Omake.
Savior555: Here is more.
Whwsms: Touma did use his counter but the reason one saw Touma Counter it is because Misaka and the Researcher were a good distance away from the blast radius as to not get hit by any rubble that would have come from the explosion.
All good things must come to an end
August 31
It had been weeks after Misaki's first victory over Kumokawa and while she has seen her around and even tried to get in between her and her prince every now and again it was never at the same level it was when they went to her high school if Misaki didn't know any better she would have thought that Kumokawa was starting to lighten up around her and accept the idea of Misaki being with her prince. This illusion was shattered fairly quickly after what happened when her and her Prince went on their last study 'date' While the time the two of them were together was like a dream to her she was able to bring him to her dorms one time to be able to help him study which led to the whole debacle of him trying to escape the dorm grounds without getting caught by the Dorm Manager which eventually lead to Junko finding out about her Prince's existence and helping them get him out of there in one piece.
Eventually though when the matter was resolved, Junko said that she was glad that she finally had the chance to meet her Queen's boyfriend which Misaki denied but Junko was unconvinced a small part of her wanted to use her power on Junko to make her forget but the other part wanted what Junko said to be the truth, so she left it alone. After this though both her and Touma were on the complicated spectrum on the relationship scale as both enjoyed spending time together but neither of them wanted to put a label on what they had. But Misaki knew that she had to get serious with Touma sooner rather than later since once the summer break ends he would be going to high school with that old hag.
So Misaki decided that she was going to confess to Touma today. For once Touma had picked out their 'date' he was going to take her around district 7 and show her what his everyday routine was like. Misaki could not help but be a little curious at what her princes routine was ever since knew him he always attracts bad luck and while from the offset it might have looked harmless, but the stories that he would tell her as an explanation as to why he was always late always surprised her, once when they had a date at a new crepe restaurant she wanted to go to he was 30 minutes late and when he finally arrived he was completely covered in filth. When he explained what happened though made it made her even madder apparently a level 4 hoodlum had tried to harass a young girl and when her Prince so valiantly stepped in to help the poor girl he decided that the best course of action was to try to blast him with what Touma described as a laser of sorts, in reality, it was more like an energy beam type of esper ability not unlike another level 5 Misaki knew of Meltdowner, but this version only seemed to come from his hands.
In the end, her prince negated the Neanderthal's ability and was able to give him a right hook that sent him flying away. But still, if she ever found this person she would personally make them pay for what they did to her Prince.
As Misaki waited for Touma by his dorms she couldn't help but look up at where his dorm was and see the do not cross tape across the room next door to him. She had been invited there once by Touma and when she entered she couldn't help but think that his living arrangements were less than what she expected. By no means was she insulting the way Touma kept the upkeep of his apartment it was the fact that it was so small that really bothered her she thought that her Prince deserved better than what he had gotten and actually controlled his apartment manager to have his room expanded this meant that the person next door to him had to hit the road of course, but when she realized that the dorm to his left was already vacant she decided that it would be better to use that one instead. She was actually planning to reveal this to Touma once the day was finished, she had all the arrangements already set up and wanted to surprise Touma about it and couldn't wait to see his reaction. She knew that he would say something along the lines of 'you shouldn't use your powers like that it's wrong and I'm okay with my living arrangement" but she was going to hear nothing of the sorts the plan for the reconstruction were already on the way the second that he stepped out of his dorm the construction crew would begin their work on his expansion.
That when she finally saw him step out of his dorm he was wearing his usual clothes and it looked like he was fiddling with a paper in his hand. It sort of resembles a map but was in very poor condition as she was able to see how bad it was from all the way down on the ground.
"Hey, sorry to keep you waiting, Misaki"
"It's no problem really. What do you have there?"Misaki asked.
"This it's a secret map that I had to snatch away from the other Delta Force Members" Touma whispered to Misaki while looking side to side to make sure that nobody saw him.
"What do you mean by snatched? You didn't steal this map did you, that's not very noble you know" Misaki reprimanded.
"It's not stealing if you're the one who made the thing. Besides this is just a map that I and the rest of my friends made that highlighted our best spots" Touma replied.
"Best spots… WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" Misaki shouted.
"It's not like that, and keep your voice down I don't want to get found out, it's just a map that showed our favorite places to hang out see." Touma clarified as he presented the map to Misaki.
The map looked like any other map except for the part where numbers and letters were circled on certain buildings and a few buildings stood out to her in particular it was the Tokiwadai middle school and High School the Middle school had an A1 drawn next to it while the high school had an S1 drawn next to it.
"Explain" Misaki Demanded while pointing at the buildings in question.
"That's something I can't really do right now, not that I don't want to it's just that I'm unable to." said while holding his hands up defensively.
"What do you mean?"
"You see the letters and numbers mean to different things the numbers represent the spots me and my friends like to hang out and have a good time. You see whenever we have a hard time deciding what to do we'd just roll a die and whatever number popped up was the place that we'd hang out." Touma explained.
"Okay so that answers that question but what about the Letters?"
"Well here's the thing I don't exactly know what the letters mean the only one who knows what they mean is my friend Tsuchimikado, he's the one with the Book" Touma further explained
"The Book?"
"It's a book full of what the letters mean and represent, but the Book is in code and the one with the cipher for that code is my other friend Aogami"
"So you're telling me that you have absolutely no idea what any of these letters mean," Misaki said while staring into the depths of Touma's soul.
Touma simply looked away and began to open his mouth
"Before you even say anything look me in the eyes" Misaki stated.
Touma complied and looked at Misaki's eyes. She had this puppy dog face that could crumble any resistance that Touma had and it was no different this time.
"Alright I know" Touma declared while falling on his knees in defeat.
(Works like a charm) Misaki thought to herself.
"Well"
"Well, I wasn't lying when I said I had no idea what the letters mean since I really don't know but, I do kinda know what they should mean," Touma said
"So what do they mean"
"Well basically …. There future exploits of the Delta Force." Touma mumbled.
"FUTURE EXPLOITS!" Misaki screamed.
"It's not 100 percent of what you think it means I mean if you look at the letter F's you can see that" Touma began to explain but was abruptly cut off.
"Wait a minute are the Letters scoring systems on how difficult these exploits are"
Touma turned pale for a second as she caught on sooner than he did when he saw this map originally he thought these were just landmarks that his friends drew in but once they established each of their respective roles with Touma being the keeper of the Map and Aogami the keeper of the cipher and Tsuchimikado the keeper of the Book they began to use code words to say where they were going like A2 or B1 and when Touma would arrive things would always go great at first but it inevitably came back to bite him.
A moment passed as neither of them said a word to the other until Misaki finally spoke up.
"I want you to burn Map"
"WHAT! I can't do that it doesn't just belong to me" Touma plead
"Touma I'm telling you to BURN THE MAP!" Misaki yelled.
"But"
"Does our friendship really mean that little to you that you won't listen to my advice. Please Touma" Misaki said with tears beginning to form in her eyes
At that moment Touma knew that he had to do it. He couldn't bear to see someone he cared so much about to be this upset, so he agreed.
"Okay"
"Good," Misaki said as she pulled a remote from out of her bag and pointed it at one of the construction workers.
Immediately the construction worker came down a pulled out a small blow torch and handed it to Touma and went back upstairs.
"I didn't know my building had any construction going on"
"Forget about it"
Then Touma lit the blow torch and set The Map on fire.
Tsuchimikado and Aogami both popped their heads up from what they were doing even though they were both across the city they both sensed it. A disturbance in the FORCE.
"Okay can you stop crying now please," Touma asked
"I wasn't crying," Misaki said while secretly wiping her tears away
"Why were you upset about the map anyway?"
"Why. It's because I don't want to see you on the 12 o'clock news for getting caught on one of your little exploits!"
In truth Misaki was more upset that Touma was slowly drifting apart from her. The fact that he was trying to defend that list showed her that he didn't see her in a romantic way as she did for him he would rather just go off to one of those letters then be with her. This only cemented the fact in Misaki that she had to confess to Touma, so he would stop trying to be with other girls since she knew that girls were already interested in him.
Misaki then grabbed Touma's arm and began to drag him away from the entrance to his dorm.
At that same time however Tsuchimikado came down to see the horror that had just transpired he didn't see Touma actually burn the map nor did he see him leave with Misaki but what he did see was the Map on the floor slowly being consumed by fire.
"NOOOOO" Tsuchimikado screamed as he tried in vain to put out the fire.
Then Tsuchimikado picked up the ashes of the Map and cried out.
"KAMI!"
He then pulled out his phone and called the other member of the Delta Force.
"Aogami its Tsuchimikado Kami just turned traitor on us you know what we have to do"
"Copy" Aogami stated in a cold voice.
Touma then felt a chill run down his spine
'Rotten Luck'
The two then stopped at a tea shop that Misaki liked to cheer her up from what just happened. Misaki was drinking Black tea to try to relax while waiting for her sweets to arrive while Touma just ordered water.
"So do you feel any better?" Touma asked
"Yes I do feel better but, that still doesn't get you off the hook for what you did" Misaki replied
"What do you mean. I burned the Map like you wanted me to."
"I am well aware but, what I'm talking about is your relationship with your friends. It's not healthy"
"What? Tsuchimikado may be a siscon and Aogami an everything con but their still my friends."
"Touma I want you to take a good long look at what just transpired, you just showed me a map that your friends made in order to spy on women, can you honestly tell me that they are looking out for your best interests."
"Okay I'll admit they have their quirks but, their still good people and they care about me"
"Caring about someone and using someone is a very fine line Touma you even said so yourself, plus you didn't even know what any of those things on the map meant until they took you there"
"Well."
"Exactly what they were doing was making you their patsy, you were the only one among them that had any hard evidence to link you back up with their exploits"
After a second on reflecting on what Misaki said Touma started to wonder where she was going with this.
"Listen, Touma, I won't act like I understand your relationship with those neanderthals and if you want to continue to your friendship that's also fine, all I'm saying is that you don't go along with every single last one of their idiotic plans"
"I know you're right but, still when push comes to shove I know that'll have my back no matter what. And besides, why shouldn't I go on the missions it's not like I have a girlfriend or anything"
"That's something else I wanted to talk to you about Touma," Misaki said softly
"Why would you want to talk to me about me having a girlfriend… what are you trying to set me up with somebody?"
"In a way yes" Misaki softly replied.
"Really who is it? Wait let me guess." Touma said excitedly
"It's me" Misaki said while turning scarlet.
"Nice one but, no really?"
Misaki simply looked at Touma directly in the eyes and he immediately knew that she wasn't joking. Touma immediately stopped in his tracks not knowing what to do or say in this situation he was never expecting something like this to happen.
"Listen Touma I wanted to tell you this under different circumstances but this was a good of a chance as any, I want you to be happy I really do that's why I'm not suggesting that you cut your ties with your friends, but when I heard you talk about your friends and their exploits like that, part of me …, I couldn't just stand back and pretend that it didn't matter to me because it did."
"This...This is a lot to take in right now"
"I know that's why I don't want an answer immediately I just want you to know that I'm here for you when you do decide my Prince," Misaki said while holding Touma's hand
Touma simply sat there and remembered the summer that the two of them spent together it was fun it had its ups and downs and in the end from an outside perspective it was obvious that she liked Touma but to Touma he didn't realize that he'd been raising any flags with Misaki…..he was calling her by her first name…..Idiot.
"All that I ask is a chance to win you over," Misaki said.
"Are you sure I mean you've seen me right, my luck it can get really rough I mean how many times did I go to the hospital since I met you"
"You went 5 times, don't you remember I was there for most of them and I know the reason you went there in the first place. You were helping people who needed help like a Prince."
"You know that there are better guys out there"
"That's where your wrong to me you are my perfect Prince flaws and all" Misaki said while gazing into Touma's eyes.
"I mean ….. I don't know I can't lie and say I never thought about it but." Touma trailed off.
"So why not take it for a test run then" Misaki suggested.
"What do you mean?"
"For today I am your girlfriend and you are my boyfriend if by the end of this day I cannot convince you to become mine then I shall accept that and won't pressure you again until you ask me" Misaki declared.
Touma looked hesitant at first, he had no reason not to accept her offer but some part of him knew that he had to at least try and besides it was probably just a crush, not anything serious.
"Okay. So what do we do now?" Touma asked reluctantly.
"Well first let's finish our brunch then we can go walk around for a bit and…..Who the hell are they!" Misaki noticed a group of two boys one with blonde hair wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a gold chain accompanied by a boy with blue hair whose eyes seemed to be like they were closed wearing a waiters uniform rushing over to their table.
Minutes Earlier
"This is BLAU do you read me Siscon sergeant over" Aogami stated in a professional tone while speaking into his walkie.
"This is Siscon sergeant, I read you loud and clear have you located the Kami, Over"
"Positive he's at the Tea shop known as the Imperial, Over"
"Copy I'm getting into position as we speak, Over"
As Tsuchimikado walked through the halls of an abandoned building 3 blocks away from the tea shop he was holding a large metal briefcase. This wasn't the first time Tsuchimikado did something like this as he had experience in this type of field so he wasn't nervous but he also wasn't completely calm. While walking he could not get over the feeling that what they weren't completely justified. They didn't know for 100% fact that Kamijou turned traitor, but the rule was that if there was even a 1% chance of you becoming a traitor that meant all remaining Delta Force members had to stop the threat no matter who they could be.
As Tsuchimikado neared an open window on the fourth floor he was searching for the perfect vantage point in order to find the spot where his shot could be the most effective. He eventually settled at a spot in the farthest corner of the building where it had an open window that was already completely shattered as to not block his line of sight. This spot offered him the best line of sight to where Kamijou was he could even see him from here but he knew that Kamijou would not be able to see him from where he was sitting.
Tsuchimikado then put down his briefcase and started to assemble the weapon that would seal Kamijou's fate once and for all. Once he finished assembling the final piece he looked through the lens of one last time in order to make sure if Kamijou was truly a traitor and what he saw confirmed this. He saw Kamijou sitting down at a table with a honey blonde girl across from him and she was blushing. This was all Tsuchimikado needed to be able to fire.
"Kami you son a Bitch" Tsuchimikado yelled. As he pressed on the trigger.
After Tsuchimikado pressed the trigger for his camera he immediately saved the pictures to his cloud network and sent some out to a few trusted individuals he knew in case things went bad he then pulled out his portable printer and began to get to work on photoshopping the image he had just taken. He was finally ready to go and confront the traitor.
As Tsuchimikado exited the building he was greeted by Aogami who was in disguise as a waiter.
"Did you get it?" Aogami asked as he began to take off the wig he was wearing along with the fake glasses he had on.
"I got it" Tsuchimikado answered as he handed a copy of the photo over to Aogami who looked at it with a hint of anger over his face.
"I always knew that the Kami-yan disease was powerful but, never this powerful"
"Let's get going we have a traitor to deal with," Tsuchimikado said as the pair began to run towards the tea shop where Kamijou was.
Current time
"What the hell are you guys doing here!" Touma demand
"You know these people Touma?" Misaki questioned.
"Yeah, there the other members of the Delta Force the one with yellow hair is Tsuchimikado and the one with blue hair is Aogami" Touma explained.
"Why am I not surprised" Misaki lamented.
"So what are you guys doing here and don't just say you happened to be in the neighborhood," Touma asked again with a little more force.
"We just wanted to see it with our own eyes, how a member of the Delta Force could stray so far off the path" Aogami began to say.
"What are you talking about?" Touma questioned.
"We know about the Map Kami," Tsuchimikado said
"Is that what this is about, some stupid immature map that you peeping toms made and conned my Prince into holding onto" Misaki hissed back.
"So you even divulged the personal secrets of the Delta Force to a member of your harem" Aogami with a hint of anger in his voice while looking over at Kamijou.
"I'm not a member of his harem you insufferable imbecile I'm his girlfriend" Misaki clarified
The pair of delta force members then looked at Kamijou expecting him to deny it but was shocked to see that he didn't.
"No you can't be serious after everything we've been through you'd betray your closest comrades for her, I never took you for a lolicon Kami but, I can hardly say I'm surprised since I also never expected you to be a traitor" Aogami cried while pointing at Misaki.
This greatly annoyed Misaki to no end as he was calling her a child and pointing at her chest. Everybody present at the restaurant could feel the dark aura emanating from the young girl. This all came to a fever pitch when Aogami began to approach Touma in order to choke him out.
"If you even think about taking another step towards my Prince I'll use my powers to make you gain a dominatrix fetish" Misaki threatened
"HA, your powers have no effect on me foolish little Loli. You can't change what I already have" Aogami boasted
"WHAT!" Misaki said shocked as she didn't know what kind of sicko would be into that.
"That won't work on him Misaki, Aogami is an everything con you name it and he's into" Touma explained
"Alright then how about I change it so that you are asexual," Misaki said while pointing her remote at Aogami.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you miss Mental out," Tsuchimikado said
"And why not?" Misaki mused
"Two reasons one Kami here wouldn't like it if you went around drastically changing people's personalities just because you felt like it," Tsuchimikado said while pointing at Touma.
This stunned Misaki as he was right if she was going to win over her Prince today then she couldn't look like some sort of petty child who would hurt people. She knew that Touma hated those kinds of people.
"And the second is this" Tsuchimikado said while revealing the photo that he doctored.
In the photo, it showed the time Misaki held Touma's hands just a few minutes prior except they could tell it was doctored due to the fact that the background was of them in a hotel suite together. The photo looked as though someone saw them together in a hotel while looking through the window.
"How dare you! You took the time I spent with my Prince and twisted it to suit your own needs. This just gives me all the more reason to control your mind and force you to destroy all copies of this photo" Misaki said.
"Like I said I wouldn't do that if I were you I sent this photo to a few other of my trusted companions and told them to send out this image if anything out of the ordinary were to happen to me and one of the first places it would be sent out would be to the Chairman of Tokiwadai" Tsuchimikado proclaimed.
"You're blackmailing me you-."Misaki began to say before she was interrupted by a pair of hands slamming into the table she was surprised to see that it was actually Touma.
"What the hell do you assholes think you're doing!"Touma yelled much to everyone's surprise. This surprised Misaki the most however since she rarely ever saw Touma get mad and even fewer times seen him curse.
"Misaki was right all along you guys are crap! I went along with your crazy schemes because I thought you guys were my friends, even when I knew some stuff we would get into was wrong I would still do it because I trusted you guys. And even after all of that, you pull something like this! I don't care if you guys hate my guts or think I'm a traitor I can take it but, you crossed a line when you threatened Misaki! We're through! The Delta Force our friendship everything I don't want to see you guys ever again!"Touma screamed as he grabbed Misaki's wrist and lead them both out of the tea shop.
Misaki simply looked back at them with a smug look on her face. But stopped when she looked at everybody who was involved in the whole argument she saw the look of regret on each of their faces.
Once Misaki and Touma were far enough away from the tea shop, so they couldn't be followed he let go of her wrist, and they began to walk slowly through the streets. Misaki could see the despondency painted on Touma's face as he just lost 2 people that he thought were his friends.
"I'm sorry," Misaki said while motioning to stop Touma
"Sorry for what? It's me that should be apologizing, you were right all along." Touma replied while looking Misaki.
"No, it's my fault that you were fighting in the first place if it wasn't for me then you would still have your friends"Misaki replied.
"No your wrong you just tried to look out for me, it was them who went too far in trying to blackmail you, the fact that they'd take it that far is why I did what I did, I don't want to be friends with people like that"
"Still they were your best friends"
"I know and I'd be lying if I said I was alright in truth I'm…."Touma began to saw before being interrupted by a certain honey blondes girls hand.
"Thank you for defending me I know it was hard and it was the last thing that I'd ever want you to do, but thank you"
Touma simply nodded and grabbed Misaki's hand as they continued on there walk
"You know if you ever need any help finding friends I'm great at finding." Misaki began to say waving her remote in her hand but was cut off by Touma's left hand.
"Thanks but I'm going to have to decline, this is something I have to do on my own not to mention that it'll be kind of sad if I had to resort to using my girlfriend in order to find new friends"
This immediately made Misaki's entire body turn scarlet he had just called her his girlfriend.
"G-Girlfriend."
"Yeah remember you said until the day was up we were a couple or did the golden girl forget" Touma teased.
"I most certainly did not" Misaki protested, but in reality, she had completely forgotten about all of that after the commotion with Touma's friends occurred.
"So where are we off to next Golden girl"
"Weren't you the one who was supposed to decide or did you forget huh."
"Not at all but that was when we were friends now that we're a 'couple' it's the girl who decides where they go" Touma corrected.
"Fine then…. Let's go to…. Uhhh"
"You're as bad at improv as you are at athletics aren't you"
"Shut up… Let me think for a second okay… how about the park"
"It's closed for renovations after something fried the cameras over there" Touma explained
"The underground mall"
"We go there every other day at this point I started to memorize the layout"
"Alright fine then what do you want to do?" Misaki snapped back
"Wanna go to the arcade?"
"That doesn't seem all that romantic" Misaki pointed out.
"Alright how about we just walk around and see where we end up" Touma suggested.
"Is that what you do in your free time?"
"Yeah mostly but usually I'm out shopping for groceries"
"I feel as though I'm beginning to see the reason why bad luck follows you like a stray cat"
"Do you have any better ideas"
"Not really besides a walk with my prince is as romantic as it can get so let's do it"
The two began to walk through the streets with Misaki holding onto Touma's right-hand everything felt perfect until they heard the sound of someone yelling from behind them along with a strange sound.
"NOW DIE" the young man screamed.
4 Day Earlier
Kaito Fumihiro was your run of the mill snobbish level 4 he had an esper power called 'Electron Blaster" it was able to forcibly control electrons in the "ambiguous" state of an electron where it is both particles and wave just like another certain level 5 however unlike her however he was only able to control the electrons with the palms of his hands and as a result of this greatly decreases the potential output of any attack he could create as anything bigger than a small ball and he would run the risk of burning his hands off. As a result of this, he developed an inferiority complex as although he had a similar ability to another level 5 he would never be able to actually match up due to the nature in which his powers operated by. He enjoyed picking on people who he thought were weaker and actively harassed lower levels especially level 0s. That is until one day when he was yelling at some level 0 girl that dared to ignore him he was stopped by a certain boy.
"What the Fuck do you think you're doing" Kaito yelled
"She obviously doesn't want to talk to you why can't you just take a hint and leave her alone!"
The young boy then motioned at the girl to leave while she thanked him while slightly blushing.
This infuriated Kaito to no end with him firing an electron blaster at this brat.
"What the hell!" The spiky black haired kid said while scolding him. After he picked himself out of the mud.
"Who do think you are some kind of hero, why don't I show you what happens to heroes around here" Kaito yelled as he charged another Electron Blaster at the boys face this time.
But for some reason, the boy wasn't running away instead he was running towards him with his right arm extended outwards. He had to be suicidal if he thought he could survive a point-blank shot of his Electron Blaster with his hand so with no hesitation he fired and aimed directly at his hand. But then he heard the sound of glass breaking and saw that his Electron Blaster shot was gone and the boy was to close for him to fire another and then everything went black.
When Kaito woke up it the sun had already set and it was completely dark outside he picked himself off the ground and realized that his jaw was killing him it was like a car crashed into the side of his face. After he made it back to the main road he was still burning hot with anger so he decided to take it out on the next person he saw no matter who they might be. However unfortunately for him, the first person he happened to come across as a certain white-haired boy.
"Hey snow white, stop right there!" Kaito yelled at the white-haired boy.
"Huh?"
"You heard me half pint today's not your lucky day because I'm pissed off and I need some little punk #$ to take it out on and it just so happens that you got selected."
The white-haired boy didn't even give a response and simply rolled his eyes at him as if this was something he was used to already. This made Kaito furious so instead of firing his Electron Blaster at the boy he decided to beat him with his fists just like that other boy just did to him. So when Kaito ran towards the white-haired boy who had just turned away and launched his at the back of his head.
*CRACK*
It took a moment for Kaito to notice that the arm he used to throw his punch was completely broken.
"AHHHH" Kaito cried as he bellowed in pain he was on his back now again from the force that was just used to break his arm. He then looked over at the white-haired boy and he was simply just walking away as if nothing happened.
Kaito decided that this was not how it was going to end so he decided to raise the one good arm he had left an fired it at the white-haired boy there was no way that he could deflect the full power of his Electron Blaster. So through the tears of pain that he still had from his arm being broken he did.
*ZHNGG*
Kaito could barely feel what had just happened it all happened so fast his mind couldn't even process what happened, he had fired his ability and it landed on the kid but then he looked over at the boy and noticed that he was still walking away still as though nothing had ever happened. He was then terrified to look over at the damage that his left hand had just taken. His entire pinky was entirely incinerated he couldn't even feel the pain because it happened so quickly and the wound self cauterized itself. He then promptly passed out due to shock. It took the ambulance 20 minutes to arrive where Kaito was he didn't even know who called them since he was in the middle of an alleyway in the bad part of the district. In those 20 minute, Kaito regretted ever challenging that white-haired boy and dreaded ever having his powers redirected at him again. But in the middle of his self wallowing, he had an epiphany none of this was his fault it was that spiky black haired kids fault if he had not interfered before then he never would have picked a fight with that monster. Kaito then decided that he was going to personally hunt down that boy and teach him what happens when you mess with him.
Current Time
Touma instinctively pushed Misaki to the ground away from himself to protect her from whoever this might of been however he used to much force and knocked her on her back hitting her head.
When Touma turned around he saw the same kid he stopped days ago except this time his right arm was in a sling and his entire left hand had bandages all over it save for his palm which was still smoking.
"What the hell are you doing!" Touma screamed at the boy.
"Oh, I didn't know that you went deaf after our little fight the last time you have my pity," Said the boy in a mocking tone of voice.
"Because of you I got my arm nearly got amputated due to almost all the bones in it being fractured and to top it all off I got my finger disintegrated off," the boy said as he continued on with his rant.
"What the hell are you even talking about I didn't do any of that stuff to you, the most ever did was hook you out to get you to stop blasting me!" Touma yelled.
"No it's all your Fucking fault, my life was fine until I met you, your like some kind of walking magnet for misfortune and I'm here to get Fucking end you" the boy continued to rant except this time he charged up another one of his blasts and aimed it at Touma once again.
The boy then hears that familiar sound of glass breaking once again, and this time backs up to get some distance on Touma.
"I'm not falling for that trick anymore."
"Why the hell are you doing this, I don't want to have to fight you!" Touma protested.
"That's okay because I'm not here to fight you I'm here to kill you! The boy screamed until he heard another voice speak up.
"Touma," Misaka said weakly trying to pick herself off of the ground.
The boy saw this and saw as a chance to take this guy down once and for all. From what he observed he could only erase his Electron Blaster with his right hand so if he got him to use his right hand for something else he could use his right hand which was secretly already healed to kill this punk.
Touma saw time slow down as he saw this kid looking at Misaki with a dark look and he knew that he was going to do something so immediately he dashed to where Misaki was. Touma then noticed that light emanated from both the kid's hands. The boy then fired two blasts at Touma. Touma then used the hand closest to Misaki his right hand in an attempt to shield her from damage and his left one to shield himself. When suddenly everyone who was present heard the sound of glass breaking and the sound of something reverbing.
Kaito didn't know what just happened he had just shot the kid with two of his most powerful attacks and he wasn't dead. He then turned his head and saw in terror of what had just happened. The boy didn't just erase his attack he shot it right back at him. Part of the building that was behind had a giant hole in it with smoke coming from the scorch marks left by the attack he then saw the bay who he had just planned on killing slowly walk up to him.
"What the hell was that!?" Kaito yelled in a panic to the boy
The boy said nothing but the look on his face said everything that he needed to know. It said that this is the end for you.
Kaito then shot another Electron Blast at the guy only to hear the reverbing sound again and have this one shot back at him and nearly grazing his arm, he could feel the heat as it passed by his arm.
"GET AWAY FROM ME YOU FREAK!" Kaito began frantically panicking while backing up and even tripped over himself. He then began scurrying across the floor trying to get as much distance as he could away from this monster. This guy was exactly the same as the other monster he had encountered after he had his first run-in with this kid except, this time he didn't have the look of indifference on his face he had the look that made him sure that he was going to kill him.
Kaito then picked himself off the ground and started to run. He couldn't win this fight, he wouldn't win so all he could do now is try to survive. So Kaito started running and did not stop or look back until he was sure that he wasn't followed.
This annoyed Touma to no end as he Wanted to knock some sense into that kid for attacking him and then running off. Touma decided that the kid wasn't worth running after if he ran away now chances are he won't come back, instead he rushed over to where Misaki was and helped her up.
"Misaki are you okay," Touma said while looking at Misaki scanning her body for any injuries.
"Other than the one to my pride I'm good," Misaki said until Touma noticed her hands were slightly scraped and very lightly bleeding.
At the sight of this Touma quickly backed away from her.
"This is my fault, this is all my fault, that guy was right they both were, it's the same as it was as before" Touma muttered to himself as he remembered the reason why he came to academy city in the first place.
"I'm sorry Misaki but … I should go" Touma said regretfully.
"Go? What are you talking about, because of this?" Misaki said while holding her hand in the air to give Touma a better look.
Touma didn't give a response as he just stood there silently.
"My Prince you saved me this is a small price to pay to be in one piece," Misaki said while emphasizing her point by extending her hands towards Touma.
"That's the thing you shouldn't have had to pay a price in the first place," Touma said somberly as he started to walk away from Misaki.
"My Prince wait!" Misaki then rushed to stop Touma before he got too far away, and she couldn't keep up.
Eventually, she was able to stop him in at a nearby park and grabbed him by the arm.
"Slow down…. You know I can't keep up with you if you keep running like that" Misaki huffed out as she was trying to catch her breath.
"I wasn't running I was walking away, something you should be doing to," Touma said while not Looking Misaki in the eye.
"Why are you so upset over this, this sort of stuff always happens to you doesn't it so why-" Misaki started to say before being cut off by Touma.
"Exactly! This sort of stuff happens to 'me' every day and now because of that you nearly got killed for something I did, that guy was right all along" Touma explained.
"That lunatic, don't listen to what he says he was insane"
"He was right! My whole life has been surrounded by misfortune and because of my selfishness I dragged you into to, you would have been better off if you never met me." Touma said.
Just then Misaki slapped Touma across the face hard enough to leave a mark and hard enough to open the scrape marks on her palms.
"Your wrong! Do you even know why I was in that forest, to begin with!" Misaki shouted.
Touma was still reeling in the fact that this was the first time that Misaki ever hit him hard enough for it to hurt, and then started wondering what she could have meant.
"I was going to end it, wipe the entire slate clean"
"What are you talking about?"
"I was going to erase all of my memories, so I wouldn't have to live with it anymore
"What! Live with what!?".
"Everything, my entire life was full of darkness and because of my own selfishness, I ended up letting my best friend die in the name of science. After that, I dedicated myself to never let that happen again and once I made sure that it didn't I just felt empty. There wasn't anything left for me I had lost my innocence long ago and thought maybe I could get it back if I just wiped the slate clean."
Touma just stood there in shock of everything that Misaki had to go through to make her want to erase who she was in the hopes of regaining her innocence.
"But then I met you, at first I thought you were just like everyone else only wanting to get on my good side. But you weren't all you were trying to do was help me and for a brief second, I forgot all about that darkness. After that I never thought I would have met you again but there you were, it was like fate that we met again, and yet again you didn't care who I was or what I'd done, you just treated me like any other person and at that point. I truly felt happy, after that you showed me that my way of doing things was just hurting the people closest to me, you taught me how to make real friends. You showed me that the world wasn't just full of darkness and despair it also held light and joy".
"You're giving me way too much credit I didn't do any of that all." Touma was saying before he was cut off by Misaki.
"That's where you're wrong, This summer although it was full of its ups and downs, it was the happiest period of my life and I wouldn't trade it nor erase it for anything in the world, so what if I got a little scraped up, I knew the risks when deciding to hang out with you, I'm not blind you know, everyday I see you with more bruises than I care to count after the results of your bad luck, but I don't care, I just wanted the chance to be by your side to be close to you"
"Do you know why I came to Academy city in the first place"
Misaki did not know, so she simply looked at Touma and waited for an answer.
"Ever since I was a kid I always brought bad luck with me, at first I just got used to it you know and decided to live with it even with all the other kids nicknaming me The God of Pestilence and avoiding me like I was the plague. But one day when I was still a kid I decided to help out a guy who dropped the papers from his briefcase, he thanked me and went left after. What I didn't know was that guy was superstitious and that same day I helped him out he went bankrupt. He apparently knew someone who knew about my precarious luck and decided to blame me for all his troubles, so he found me and tried to stab me to death. I would have been dead if my dad didn't stop him. After that things just started spiraling out of control, the media showed my picture on TV making it so everyone knew who I was and about my bad luck. It even got to the point where a TV station wanted to make a reality TV show about my luck. That was the breaking point for my family, they decided to send me to academy city a place that didn't believe in the supernatural, they had to send their only child away just so he could live a regular life even if it meant they couldn't be by his side anymore. When I look back on it now I guess that was all my lucks fault too, the people who cared about me the most had to let me go in the end just so I could be happy. Me this unlucky Kamijou." Touma said while pointing to himself.
"That's why... That's why this would never work, you'll just be setting yourself up for more tragedy down the line. I'm glad that I was able to help you but I think that you'll do just fine on your own from here on out okay." Touma with a heavy heart meant every word from the bottom of his heart. Then Touma started to turn his back on Misaki.
"I refuse to accept that!" Misaki shouted which made Touma turn his head.
"Everyday you help complete strangers while asking for nothing in return, sometimes it seems like you don't even want their gratitude I always wondered why. But after hearing your story I know why, you believe that if you accepted their gratitude that you would only invite misfortune upon them so you distance yourself from them believing that you could never truly be happy, you were content just because others were safe. But that is just an illusion you placed on yourself to stop yourself from ever even trying to find happiness. So if that is your only reason why then I won't accept it. I won't accept some illusion you placed over your heart just because you're afraid you might hurt me."
Touma looked at Misaki with shock what she was saying was true, but even after all of that he still couldn't find a reason as to tell her no, no matter how hard he tried no matter which way he looked at it he couldn't find a single reason as to say no.
"Why?" Touma said in a despondent tone of voice while looking at Misaki.
"Why. Isn't it obvious it's because…" Misaki was turning more and more red after every word she spoke until it hit a fever pitch, and she said.
"Because I Love you"
Touma's eyes widen at her words, no one had ever said that they loved him before save for his family.
"I don't care how bad you think your luck may be, I don't care that you say your afraid your luck is going to end up hurting me, as long as I can be by your side I'll be happy, besides I know that you'll always be there to protect me if things ever do become more than I could handle besides have you already forgotten I'm a level 5 I can hold my own against anyone would dare come after us no matter who they might be," Misaki said while holding onto her Prince's hands and gazing into his eyes.
There was silence between the two for a moment as neither knew what to say. So Misaki made the first move she inched closer to Touma's face and before either of them knew it she had kissed Touma on the lips. Touma could feel her soft lips push up against his, he could smell the sweet smell of honey emanating from Misaki and for a moment Touma forgot about all of his problems and just lived in this single moment.
"Huh?"
"Consider that the first of many thank you's that I owe you for saving me," Misaki said while blushing.
Touma's mind began to go into overdrive as he had to process the fact that not only did Misaki confess to him, but she also kissed him.
"Are you sure you want to go out me even if it ends up hurting you in the end"
"Of course as long as I have a chance to stay by your side, I will"
Touma took a moment to gather up his thoughts about the next words he was going to say.
"Well then I…." Touma was about to say before being stopped by the sounds of sirens blaring from a blimp above them.
Both Misaki and Touma looked up in horror at the blimp as they finished reading the message that was being presented on it.
20 Minutes Ago
Kaito had finally stopped running after calming down at the second monster that he had faced down. Once he stopped to gather his thoughts he was full of anger, he had lost to that boy yet again and not only that he ran away like a scared child. It got to the point where he was slamming his foot against the dumpster in the alley he was in alerting the others who were already there.
"What are you doing?" The strange woman said
"Who the fuck are you supposed to be!" Kaito yelled as he began charging up his electron Blaster at the mysterious woman who he can now see clearly, is wearing a red helmet along with a red suit that had inline skate wheels all over the suit.
"We weren't after you per se, but seeing as your already here now is as good a chance as any to test out our Queen Diver suits," The woman said coldly.
"We?" Kaito said as he turned around and saw that he was surrounded by others wearing the same red suit and helmet.
Current Time.
Kaito Fumihiro found Murdered Please return to your homes immediately, the suspects are still on the loose.
Touma and Misaki then turned their heads as they could hear the sound of wheels burning off into the distance.
"We have to get out of here," Touma said as he grabbed Misaki's wrist and started to lead her into an alleyway.
