Hey, guys here's the conclusion for the Misaki Golden Days arc. Sorry in advance for the upcoming fight scene I'm still learning. Thanks for all of the feedback it helps me out.
Nguyen Thanh Long: Yep some things never change.
Whwsms: Yeah I thought that the wind turbines had screens on them.
Bluejack22: SHHHH don't reveal any secrets. Shattering illusions is Touma's job.
Fortitude501: Maybe, we'll just have to wait and see.
Savior555: Glad you enjoyed the chapter.
Guest: Yes I saw your comment thank you it helped flesh out the true mechanics of his other ability which will be revealed in upcoming chapters. Also, it probably wouldn't help Touma that much in fighting someone of Accelerators level but then again people thought that about imagine breaker and yet somehow he always shatters peoples illusions.
Mercenory: Thank you for the support and all will be revealed in due time.
Promises
August 31
"Pant Pant!"
Kamijou Touma panted like an exhausted stray dog as he ran. Being chased around like this wasn't anything new for Touma as most of his days ended up like this. However, this time was different. He wasn't alone. His hand held Shokuhou Misaki who wore a brand new summer uniform.
"Why did you take us into an empty alley, Touma!" Misaki said.
"Given their speed, a wide street is more dangerous! When they're moving that fast, they shouldn't be able to make tight turns!"
While Touma didn't actually see their pursuers, but he could hear them well enough to know that they were using some type of machine to get around faster as he could her wheel screech across the ground.
As Touma and Misaki were running away from the sound through the alley the sound eventually came closer and when Touma turned around he saw it. Their pursuer was a boy in a red riding suit and a full-face helmet. However, he had small inline skate wheels attached everywhere from the bottoms of the feet, knees, elbows, shoulders, wrists, waist, back, chest, etc.
On top of that, he had two tiny jet engines on his back. They were twenty centimeters wide and fifty-five centimeters long. It was like he was a figure skater and iron-man had teamed up to create something to kill them. From the way he seemed to be moving he had to be going at least two hundred kilometers per hour and that meant if he crashed into them that it would be as good as a death sentence.
When Misaki finally turned around to see her pursuer she grabbed her remote and pointed it at them. However, he was moving at such a high speed and leaping from every direction to the walls and the floor again it was hard to get in a shot. Eventually, she was able to predict his movements and fire accordingly however he didn't stop completely, he slowed down but was still going forward to attack them.
'Does that helmet detect the abnormal brain wave ability and switch control of the suit over to a program!? Wait if that is true then these suits were designed specifically to kill me. Mental Out is a powerful Mental ability that only works on people, not machinery or animals, something like that wouldn't just be programmed into the suit randomly they were targeting me' Misaki thought to herself.
Touma then grabbed the remote from Misaki's hand and threw it at their pursuers. As soon as the remote hit the full-face helmet, the riding suit lost its balance while clinging to the wall as he was chasing them and flipped into a pile of garbage cans while the jet engines on his back were still going off.
"You gotta be kidding me Just how dangerous are these things they're relying on!?" Touma said.
As the two finally left the alley leaving their pursuer behind Misaki stopped to catch her breath this was the fastest and longest that she had ever run before, and she looked as though she was about to keel over from exhaustion.
"Are you okay?" Touma asked.
"Yes…. I think I'm alright" Misaki said while heavily panting.
As soon as they finish that sentence they were immediately approached by more people with those same red suits on.
Touma then angrily shouted, "What the hell do you want!"
"Death to the Level 5." It sounded like the ritual of some strange cult. Their resentful voices would overpower anyone who heard them but showed just how misguided they were.
"Death to the Level 5 who has taken everything from us."
Touma immediately put together that they wanted to kill Misaki, he had heard of people hating espers before but this was one of the few times when he saw it to this extreme. Touma then grabbed Misaki's arm and started to run into an abandoned building his plan was simple he was going into the building and force the people to split up since they had no idea if he was going to the roof or just cutting across to the other side.
However, Touma knew very well that Misaki had a hard enough time just running here, to begin with, so he decided to carry her up the stair bridal style. When they finally arrived at the roof however they were only greeted by the same people in the red suits firing missiles at them, so Touma put Misaki down, and they both jumped to the next building closest to them and went down the fire escape there.
As they made their way down from the fire escape they both made a break for the water ravine. They jumped over the railing although Touma had to slow down to help Misaki over and crossed the small ravine even though the waters were 1 meter in height it still gave Misaki some trouble due to the current flow. Just then a member of the group chasing them started to speak.
"Are you sure you want to keep this up?" He was telling Kamijou he would be spared if he backed off now.
"Of course I'm sure!" Touma replied without even a second of hesitation.
"You must be a pretty powerful esper to say that. But don't take us lightly because we rely on tools. Even Level 4s aren't uncommon in our group."
"I'm nothing that amazing," Touma spat out. "I'm a Level 0. ... But there are still things I can't allow.
The man in the red suit head tilted ever so slightly.
"I see. So you're one of us."
Touma and Misaki were finally able to get out of the ravine and make it to the other side of the street only to find it deserted just then the rest of the people in red suits arrived as well.
The man who Touma was speaking to before had raised his arm to stop his comrades and began to speak to Touma
"Don't you find it odd?"
"Find what odd?"
"Everything. From the very fact that you've decided to fight for Shokuhou Misaki in this hopeless situation, doesn't it seem like she's already controlling you with her Mental Out?"
"What a joke," Touma said to the man.
"Hmm?"
"If that's why you think I'm doing this, then your even blinder than I originally pegged you all for. You paint Misaki as though she's the villain in your story, well take a good look at yourselves your the ones chasing a helpless girl in the hopes of killing her." Touma shouted back.
"You see I can agree with you there, but if you take a moment to look at the facts you can't deny that she's the reason to blame for why we're all here, to begin with. She's the reason why all of us stopped growing because she controlled all of us at one point or another with her power, because of her we can't move up any more in this city she's the reason why we call ourselves 'Deadlock', because without her death we can never continue to move forward."
"Is it fun blaming others for your own failures? The harder it is to prove something, the harder it is to argue against it. You all made up a reason why it was okay for you to fail. That way you could rest easy as you got lazy. ... You know very well Misaki isn't what caused your setbacks."
"Perhaps. Even I wonder if we're right about this. Every time I think about attacking the Level 5 named Shokuhou Misaki, I feel something like a conscience throbbing inside says this is all the work of a monster created by our own weak hearts and the external factor of Shokuhou Misaki has nothing to do with it. But that's all probably another one of her abilities that she used on us for her own benefit. Think about for what other reason do you have to stand against us what could have caused this distortion in your heart to protect her." The man refused to listen to any semblance of logic only trying to find something or someone to blame for his own problems.
As Touma and the man from Deadlock continued to have their discussion Misaki couldn't help but hear that man's words. Could it be true could she really be the reason as to why they are all like this, to begin with. Misaki had always been careful when taking over another person. If someone she controlled died or killed someone, she would have to be punished as the one in control. She had that much resolve and dignity. But what if that was meaningless?
What if she had already controlled countless people without realizing it and that had led them to lose fortunes, closed off their futures, or even taken their lives? However, her train of thought was cut short as Touma began to speak.
"That is why I won't call your anger wrong. However none of that matters. That crazy conspiracy theory has nothing to do with this. Listen, you thugs. It doesn't matter if these feelings came from my own heart or if they were placed there by a Level 5. It doesn't matter if I really think this or if I'm being deceived and manipulated by someone. If it leads me to stand here and protect a girl with tears in her eyes, I wouldn't want anything else." Touma said with no hesitation or doubt in his eyes.
"Ha! Hahaha ha ha ha ha hahaha. Then I hope you prepared to die you clown"!
"You bet. And I hope you guys are willing to put your life on the line and come at me with everything you've got."
Just then something unexpected occurred, something that neither side thought possible to have happened.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, Kami-yan!"
Everyone present then turned their heads to the appearance of two mysterious additions to the upcoming fight. It was a boy with blonde hair wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a gold chain accompanied by a boy with blue hair and whose eyes seemed to be closed.
"What are you guys doing here!" Touma shouted.
"Sorry Kami but you can't just throw away your membership to the Delta Force that easily." Aogami Declared.
"He's right you know that things for life no matter what happens" Tsuchimikado chimed in.
"So these idiots are with you two I see" The man from Deadlock spat out.
"Yeah, what it's to you, you BDSM maniacs!?" Aogami shouted back
The man from Deadlock was quickly taken aback by this that was the last thing he ever expected to come out of that kid's mouth.
"So I see a certain Level 5 also called you all here, can't say that I'm surprised." The man was saying before being abruptly cut off by Tsuchimikado.
"That's where you dumbfucks got it wrong were not here because of her" Tsuchimikado said while pointing to Misaki.
"We're here because he's here and since Kami decided that he's gonna put his life on the line to save his girl we decided we could kill two birds with one stone, to save our friend and to rid the world of the Kami-yan disease."
Everyone present except Touma had the same thought.
'Kami-yan Disease!?'
"Tsuchimikado now is not the Time!" Touma shouted.
"What's this Kami-yan Disease you all speak of" The man from Deadlock questioned while looking at Touma.
"Something you Fucks don't need to worry about!" Aogami shouted.
'Why, why did they come back for him. Even after he cut all ties with them only just a few hours ago.' Misaki thought to herself.
Misaki then picked herself from the mental slump that she was in as was determined to fight back against Deadlock she then grabbed her remote and devised a plan, she had them take each other out, it would not be easy. They were set to switch to program control once she took over, but once that happened any foreign movement made to them would cause them to crash into the ground which meant their suits would automatically reset allowing her to take them over.
With a great roar, the boys and girls of Deadlock rushed in from thirty different directions while wielding their explosive-driven pile bunkers. The fight between the two groups has finally begun.
As Touma was rolling out of the way of the incoming missiles being shot at him he couldn't help but worry about his friends and Misaki. While he knew this wasn't his fault he wouldn't be able to live with himself if one of them died there so at that moment Touma made a promise to himself.
'No matter what happens I'm going to save everyone. No Matter the cost!' Touma yelled to himself internally.
While this was going on Aogami quickly learned of how fast and deadly these members of Deadlock really were they were jumping from every which angle just to get closer to him to fire one of those missiles, however Aogami noticed that they only had one missile each so once that was gone there only means of attack would have to be head-on.
Aogami then began to formulate a plan, he ran over to the nearby Garbage area and grabbed several cans and other objects and started throwing them at passing Deadlock members. As expected the Deadlock members quickly zeroed in and Aogami and started firing a hail storm of missiles at him which Aogami casually dodged. He was going to make them waste all of their fire-power, so they would be forced into hand-to-hand combat.
Once the smoke cleared the Deadlock members quickly rolled over to see if Aogami had died but to their surprise, he came out of the smoke and quickly proceeded to hit them in the back with a steel pipe he had found and aimed directly at the tiny jet engines on their back. This caused the engines to go haywire and sent them flying into every which direction eventually crashing into other members of Deadlock in total Aogami took down 10 members of the Deadlock Gang. Before Aogami could celebrate his victory for the long the last member of Deadlock who had yet to waste their missile took aim at Aogami and fired however he wasn't aiming directly at Aogami instead he aimed for the pile of Garbage next to him in the hopes that the debris from there would strike him like a spread shot bullet.
And it did, while Aogami wasn't to badly hurt by this it did make it so that he couldn't move as fast as he did before and before he knew it the same member of deadlock who was talking to Touma came up to him and shouldered Aogami into the ground luckily for Aogami the man did not want to run the risk of himself dying before he could kill Misaki, so he was just knocked out cold with a few broken bones.
The rest of Touma's group continued to fight Misaki made sure that Aogami's efforts did not go in vain, and she quickly took control of all the Deadlock members that he had just taken down and used the ones who could still move to fight for their side. The members of deadlock did not expect that their comrades could be turned against them so easily, so they didn't notice before it was too late. Once she had taken control of them she would make the run into the other remaining members of Deadlock causing them to fall over, and she would take them over as well. Before they knew it Misaki had put a total of 17 members of Deadlock under her control and was making them fight for her. However, this did not go without a bit of a headache as the more people she controlled the more her mind would be spread out and the less complicated the orders she would be able to give.
While the whole ordeal with Aogami and Misaki was going on Touma and Tsuchimikado decided to team up and shield Misaki from any danger, they were simply brawling against the Deadlock at this point with them having to resort to hit-and-run tactics to even stop one of them since if one member of Deadlock decided to pick up too much speed it meant that the both of them would have to get out of the way as to not die. However, they both seemed to notice that the members of Deadlock were getting more and more desperate with them Flinging themselves at them with no regard to their safety as when one member would rush into crash into the duo another one would quickly come to take its place even if it meant crashing into the other member of Deadlock and catching fire.
This sight made Touma sick to his very stomach he could not stand to see people mindlessly throwing away their lives like this. Just as Touma turned around he could see that the man that he was talking to originally had started to organize his remaining troops into an inverted V formation something akin to what a general would due to destroy their enemy. In total, the number of members in Deadlocks V formation was about 13 all the remaining members of Deadlock 6 for each side and the leader in the center they were going to kill them even if it meant all of them had to die in the process.
"Kami block this with your left hand and aim it at those guys!"
Touma didn't know what Tsuchimikado meant but did so and braced his left arm for impact while aiming it at the incoming members of Deadlock.
"Hey, assholes! My magic name is, Fallere825 — The backstabbing blade, Onmyoudou Arts- Hey stupid fucking matches be useful and lite shit up (The color red is the symbol of fire. Open a path similar to that violence!) Tsuchimikado shouted as he pulled out a packet of matches from his pocket at threw it at Touma's left hand.
To Touma's surprise, he saw the packet of Matches become a giant fireball barreling straight for him. Instead of running as any sane person would do he instead put his faith in the friends that came back to save him and blocked it with his left hand.
*REVERB*
He then heard a loud reverbing sound emanating from his hand and immediately a ball of energy shot out of his left hand and was sent barreling towards the members of Deadlock who were shocked that two people who they assumed to be level 0s like themselves could wield so much power.
The ball of energy hit the ground in the middle of their formation a giant burst of light and energy exploded, every person who was present during the attack was sent flying in the opposite direction from which the explosion originated from.
"What the hell was that! Touma shouted as he turned over to see Tsuchimikado bleeding heavily from his abdomen and was struggling to stay up swaying from side to side.
"Well that turned out differently than I expected, but the result is still the same" he then collapsed onto the ground in a pile of his blood.
Before Touma or Misaki could celebrate however they heard the sound of an ambulance coming towards them they were saved. But when Touma turned around to the still burning smoke which he had caused from the explosion he saw the last remaining member of Deadlock standing up and begging to take a charging position at Misaki. Misaki not noticing this could not move away in time. With that in mind Touma ran full sprint Towards Misaki he knew that he couldn't stop that man from hitting her but what he could do was change the target.
As Touma got closer, Misaki finally noticed the Burning of wheels coming from the smoke, and she saw it the last member of Deadlock heading straight for her, she was frozen in fear as when she reached for her remote she had dropped it from her hands. Time had slowed down for the next moment as three things happened simultaneously to three different people, Misaki looking death straight in the face unable to move her body in time to dodge, The man putting everything in this last-ditch attack to kill Misaki the source of what he believes is all of his problems, and the boy who would break through all illusions to keep true to his promise.
Touma had pushed Misaki out of the way of the incoming attack and used his body to cushion the crash for the man who had planned on dying. Touma's body was sent skidding across the pavement like a rag doll when he was finally stopped by a building. Touma's entire body had looked like it had been through a shredder he was covered in blood and could not move a muscle in his entire body. The other man while not to the same extent of Touma was also badly injured as his leg had completely shattered, and he had lost consciousness the moment he made an impact, but he was still alive.
Touma…...TOUMA!" Misaki screamed as the ambulances and Anti-skill out had finally arrived on the scene.
With her uniform stained in his blood and tears streaming down her face, she cried out to him, "PLEASE! ANSWER ME...! I WON'T FORGIVE YOU IF YOU DIE SAVING ME..!"
As members of Anti Skill started to round up the members of Deadlock still under Misaki's control. Misaki saw her last chance to save her Prince's life. She quickly took out her remaining controller and used it to take control of the paramedics on the scene, she didn't care if anyone else saw her use her powers, she didn't care about protocol all she cared about was saving his life, like he had done for her time and time again. Once she had all of them under her control she immediately ordered them to take Touma to the ambulance to take him to a certain Hospital as she knew the doctor there would be the only one able to save his life.
"What's his condition?!" Misaki ordered.
"Not good. From the looks of this most of his ribs broke on impact and from the way he is breathing he's likely to puncture one of his lungs killing him."
"Can't you do something to calm his breathing down, don't you have any anesthesia on board this damn ambulance!?" Misaki shouted.
"Unfortunately we used up all our anesthesia on another patient we had before this, we were going to restock, but then we got a call to come here immediately.
"GODDAMMIT!" Misaki shouted
'Why. Why can't I ever do anything right? I was the reason why they did this, me! He protected me even knowing full well that he would die he even protected that worthless pathetic degenerate who tried t kill me, and I can't even save him...Wait' Misaki thought to herself.
"If I could control his breathing will he have a chance of survival!"
"Well yes theoretically if you could slow down his breathing it would increase his chance of survival, why?"
"My ability Mental Out allows me to control the human brain through moisture and bioelectricity"
"I would have to warn you of the risks, the patient has lost a significant amount of blood and any action you would take involving tampering with his brain might run the risks of permanently altering it."
"If I do nothing than what are the odds of him making it to the hospital alive"
"Almost none."
"Then you have my answer."
Misaki began to take off her already damaged gloves and placed both of her hands on her Prince's head. This would be the first time she had ever attempted something like this. Misaki would have to calculate and navigate through Touma's brain while avoiding the nerves connecting both of his hands for this to work. It would take all of Misaki's calculations abilities and more just to attempt something like this. At first, Touma started to convulse but it slowly stopped as she had finally made the correct calculation and had finally been able to work her way around the nerves connecting his hands to his brain.
However, Misaki was far from done she would have to keep this connection going less he started to convulse again. While Misaki was holding the connection she started to get a vision, no it was more like she had entered the mindscape of her beloved she was in a hallway of complete light and on the walls of these hallways were picture and upon closer inspection she saw that they were actually memories, memories of Misaki and him spending time together she then saw as the picture slowly fades out of existence and quickly saw that all the others were starting to disappear to Misaki then quickly ran through the hallway until she stopped at one picture, in particular, it was when they first met in that forest all those weeks ago.
Misaki then clenched her fist as she read what was written on the bottom of the picture.
'My First Meeting With Golden Girl'.
At this Misaki started to cry tears welling up in her eyes as she could not stop what was occurring she was erasing his memories of the summer they had spent together he was forgetting her.
Misaki then looked at herself in that photo, she looked as though she saw a complete stranger, though it was not that long, she had changed significantly these last few weeks. No longer did she have that dead look in her eyes, she now had a purpose.
She could stop the connection right now and preserve the memories, but she refused, this was her time to protect his light. Even if it meant he would forget everything about her, even if he would forget about all the promises that they had made to each other it was her turn to bear his burdens it was finally her chance.
She then looked on as the painting started to fade away from existence. She simply looked on and held her ground. She then saw an image of Touma in the hallway, and he simply said.
"Thank you." and smiled. And she smiled back watching as her last moments with her prince was coming to an end.
"Were here get the ICU prepped and call Heaven Canceler immediately!" The paramedics screamed snapping Misaki out of her trance-like state.
As Misaki watched as they carted her prince off she simply had one thought.
'This is what he feels like every day isn't it? throwing away your own wants to help others no matter what the cost is. I'm glad I finally got to stand there next to you in that light my Prince even if it was only for a second.'
September 1
Minutes had turned into hours as Misaki waited for Touma to come out of surgery. She knew all too well of this hospital and how her Prince had a reserved room just for him due to all of his repeat visits, but she still couldn't get the image of her erasing all of her Prince's memories, what if Deadlock was right and her powers did something irreparable to his brain. Before she could have any more of those thought she finally saw her Prince. Granted he was still unconscious and was being wheeled in a hospital stretcher to his room, but he was alive nonetheless she felt a huge wave of relief pass her over as now she knew that he was alive. However, once that passed another current of despair came and took its place in the form of his mental health.
Could I have done something to change him from the person who he was before? Will he be the same Prince that I knew even if he doesn't remember it.
"Hey, would you look at that Kami made it after all," Tsuchimikado said.
Misaki then turned to see Tsuchimikado standing on the other side of the hallway slowly making his way forward she could see the bandages wrapped around his stomach.
"Thank you for helping me save his life and saving mine," Misaki said.
"No problem Kami is an indispensable asset to the Delta Force we wouldn't be complete without him, besides you haven't heard the full news about his condition yet have you?"
"No, what happened?"
"Well I don't know all the details but the Doc did mention that Kami has partial total memory erasure, it was like a part of his brain had been completely deleted."
Misaki was silent and looked down at the ground with shame, she already knew that it was her fault for tampering with his mind.
"I see...," Misaki said softly.
"Well since that's the case I see a way you can pay back the favor Miss Shokuhou."
"And how is that?" Misaki looked at him with concern in her eyes.
"Nothing like that I swear, it's just when Kami wakes up don't tell him that I used my esper ability or even mention that I have one, can you do that?"
"Alright it's a deal I won't mention this to my Prince on one condition"
"That is?"
"Don't tell your perverted blue-haired friend that I owe him one too, lest he gets any funny ideas"
"Deal and I wouldn't worry about Aogami he'll probably use that favor of yours to get out of trouble"
"I know" Misaki replied with disdain in her voice
"Kay well if you don't mind me I'm gonna go see how Aogami's doing," Tsuchimikado said while waving to Misaki.
'My Prince I think I can understand why you hang out with them now, even if they are revolting' Misaki thought to herself.
Misaki then noticed a certain frog-faced doctor making his way to her Prince's room.
"Mr. Heaven canceler wait!" Misaki said while waving down the doctor.
"Oh if it isn't our repeat guest visitor Miss Shokuhou," Heaven Canceler said.
"Doctor what can you tell me about his condition."
"Well I can tell you one thing it was thanks to you that he's still alive, the way his body looked like when he arrived was something akin to a race car crashing into a pedestrian, multiple fractured ribs a hemorrhaging in the brain and massive internal bleeding, I not sure if the anesthesia they didn't have available in the ambulance would have been strong enough to calm him down enough to stop his convulsing"
"I already knew that I mean what about his current condition!" Misaki shouted.
Heaven Canceler then took a sobering look at Misaki as he had to break the news to her on his true condition.
"As you already suspected Mr. Kamijou has suffered from partial memory destruction, we have no idea where how far back it goes but, that's only the beginning."
"There's more?" Misaki said as she started to turn paler.
"Yes, as you know your ability Mental out uses moisture inside the brain to control its target however using such an ability on someone who has already lost a significant amount of blood could lead to some complications"
"Complications?"
"Yes, in a sense the way your powers interfered with his brain connection may have lead to a type of Anterograde amnesia where his brain is unable to make any new memories however due to the localized space that you accessed in his brain…. He might not be able to make any new memories of you and only you."
Misaki's face was completely void of any light as she already expected something like this might happen the one person she truly cared for would be taken away from her due to her own mistakes.
"However there might still be a chance, the brain isn't 100% you know, that's why I came down here myself to see how his memory is holding up," Heaven Canceler said.
"Please let me."
"Are you sure that you can handle this Miss Shokuhou? I mean-"
"Please. This has to be me".
"Alright then go right ahead," Heaven Canceler said while motioning to the door to Touma's room.
Misaki stood there in front of the door afraid to even move an inch closer. Right now she still had hope, but when she turns the knob it could all go away just like that. As though it was never there, to begin with.
*SMACK!* Misaki slapped herself on the cheek to gather the courage to take that step inside of that hospital room.
"Hey there."
"Umm, Hey, I think you have the wrong room."
"No I'm exactly where I need to be, can you tell me if you remember me?"
"I'm sorry but I don't who you are, did we know each other?"
"In a way yes we were best friends"
"Really?"
"Yes"
"Umm, Okay then why don't I remember you?"
"There was an accident that I caused and it made it so that you lost your memories."
"Are you serious!?"
"Yes, but right now that doesn't matter."
"What do you mean that doesn't matter, that seems like it should be a big deal to me."
"It might but, first I want to test something out if you don't mind?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Trust me, can you do that for me one last time?" Misaki pleaded
"Okay, I guess."
"Thank you," Misaki said as she exited the room and closed the door behind her.
'I am a woman of science, not faith, but ever since I met him nothing seemed to make any sense anymore. He doesn't follow the world's logic, his very essence in nature is illogical, to say the least, he would break through reality itself if it meant he was able to save another. So that's why I'm asking you, please give me this one chance, a chance to help him keep his promise. It's the least you owe him after everything he's done, everything he's sacrificed. Can you please give him this one miracle, and I swear I will make it right.'
Misaki then stepped back into the room.
"Hey… do you remember me?" Misaki hesitantly asked.
"...I'm sorry but who are you?"
Misaki's eyes started to water, but she would not cry because if she did she would only bring more pain onto her Prince. The one smile he could not protect or even remember.
As Misaki started to turn for the door she was stopped, it felt as though the whole world itself came to a halt just for this one moment in time.
"But you know, it's your own fault."
"Huh!?"
"You can't just come in here and spout out that were friends or something like some weird heroine then leave after asking some mysterious question like that. Besides, how am I supposed to know you when you don't even greet me properly. The name's Kamijou Touma golden girl." Touma did not actually know the girl's name but saw this as the best way to do so as girls hate being called nicknames and would usually respond with their actual names. Or normally they should.
Misaki's eyes started to flood with tears she couldn't hold them back anymore. She grasped her chest with her hand as her miracle did finally happen, she could finally protect that light she had thought lost.
Misaki then rushed to Touma's bed and hugged him as though she was never going to let him go.
This, however, did not sit right with Touma at all since he had never met this crazy person before, and he felt that his ribs were going to start to break apart once again.
"Doctor! Nurse anyone!" Touma yelled as he was gasping for air.
Outside Touma's Room.
"Say doc you already knew that Kami didn't have the anterograde amnesia thing didn't you?" Tsuchimikado asked.
"Yes, this was just me keeping a promise that I made to Mr. Kamijou a while back."
"You're kidding me, Kami-yan actually wanted you to do that?"
"In a way, he said he was worried about how miss Shokuhou would abuse her powers and if she ever accidentally hurt someone it would kill her from the inside out"
"So you were just trying to put the fear of in god in her."
"Different people need different treatment, and as a doctor, it's my job to see that they get that treatment"
"You know if she ever finds out about this your as good as dead right."
"Its quite alright son, I'm more than capable of handling something like this…. However, if you could not mention this to her that would also be much appreciated."
"Mention what?"
"Exactly"
In a certain High School
Kumokawa Seria had just learned what had happened to Touma and Misaki last night and was on a conference call with her boss from the board of directors. She was viewing the meeting through a screen that was blacked out since she did not have a clearance level A which would allow her to actually sit in with the meeting this was the best she was going to get. The meeting went as you would have expected it to the entire meeting discussed Deadlock and how they were able to gain access to equipment such as the Queen Diver suits.
Ultimately it was decided that a man by the name Shundou Toshizou was the man who orchestrated the entire ordeal this was not the first time he was willing to sacrifice Espers in order to gain more information he was previously warned by a high ranking official on his behaviors during a Project called 'Clone Dolly' about these tendencies and what would happen to him if he did not. Ultimately the decision was passed to have Shundou Toshizou taken care of.
The meeting ended however, Kumokawa's boss a member of the board of directors did not contact her until 10 minutes after the meeting had been adjourned. This was quite strange to her as she knew that her Boss was very prompt and would immediately contact her once a meeting had ended to review everything that was discussed.
She later got the call from that said Member of the Board of Directors.
"Hello Miss Kumokawa"
"Yes"
"We have a new assignment we are the one who will be responsible for finding Shundou Toshizou for attempting to kill Touma Kamijou"
"Excuse me?" Kumokawa said as she was confused as to what he had just said.
"I said we are now assigned to find Shundou Toshizou for his attempted killing of a Touma Kamijou"
"Yes I know that but, are you sure that you don't mean for the attempted killing of Shokuhou Misaki AKA Mental Out?"
"I'm telling you what the General Superintendent told me, why do you seem so distracted today?"
"No reason my apologies it must have been the connection, I'll begin my research on finding Shundou Toshizou right away."
'Kamijou what have you gotten yourself into, having someone like him start taking a personal interest in you is never a good thing, Nevertheless I will find Shundou Toshizou and make him pay for what he had done to you'.
In a certain Hospital
After getting Shokuhou to stop hugging him, which was hard to do when Touma was so heavily injured he finally asked her.
"So you never did answer my question. What's your name."
Misaki smiled and breathed a breath of relief as this was her chance to make a good first impression.
"I am the great Shokuhou Misaki"
"Okay then" This kid is weird
"Let me start off with saying that I go to Tokiwadai middle school"
"I can see that much" Touma said while pointing to Shokuhou's outfit.
"Ahh. Right" Misaki said as she blushed she had completely forgotten she was still wearing her uniform.
"Okay well like I said my name is Kamijou Touma and I'm about to be a high schooler in a few months, though since you said you knew me you probably knew that much already, huh?"
"Actually your already a High schooler," Misaki said as she pulled out her phone and showed Touma the date and time.
"Oh, your right…...AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"What the hell is this! When I went to sleep it was July, what the hell happened!" Touma screamed as he panicked about all the time he had just lost.
"Quite a lot actually."
"Yeah, no kidding. Wait if I'm in high school which one did I get into?"
This made a small vein pop inside Misaki's head " I believe you were accepted into a certain high school."
"Really that's amazing, that's the school where my senpai attends," Touma said as he beamed excitement.
"Wait a minute how did I pass the entrance exams?"
"Oh you told me that the only subject that you struggled in was with personal realities, so I helped tutor you."
"I accepted help from a kid, Jeez how far did this Kamijou fall."
"What's that supposed to mean!?" Misaki said a little offended.
"No offense, it's just I find it hard to believe that you were my first choice in asking for help."
This made Misaki speechless as it was true that she was his second choice, and she was the one who offered to do it in the first place.
"Never mind that now," Misaki said.
"What do mean never mind that now I'm kinda panicking, I barely passed every subject last year, and I was planning on studying over the summer to pass this year!"
"Wait, what do you mean you barely passed?"
"Well this just goes to show how good of friends we were, I didn't tell you that I almost failed every subject?"
"Of course not! If you did then I obviously wouldn't have spent just one day tutoring you!"
"By the way how did I meet you anyway, all you said is that we were friends so does that mean we met over summer break?"
"Yes actually you found me in the forest and saved my life and after that, we just started hanging out," Misaki said while omitting some truth as to not overwhelm Touma.
"Okay I guess that makes sense, but it's hard to call someone my friend if I barely know anything about you know"
"I completely understand, as I said before my name is Shokuhou Misaki, and I am the leader of the largest clique in Tokiwadai middle school my friends call me Queen"
"Queen?"
"Yes and before you say anything no it is nothing like a gang or the mob"
"I wasn't going to say that!" Can she read my mind or something?
"Yeah, of course, you wouldn't," Misaki said with an unconvinced look on her face.
"So wait, this clique, you make everyone who's in it call you Queen."
"Well, of course, it is one of the requirements to join my clique, it's like a form of respect you see."
"Yeah I think I'm starting to get a pretty good idea of what you're saying"
"You do?"
"Yeah and I've got to say I never pegged you as a cult leader Shokuhou," Touma said as he looked Shokuhou dead in the eyes.
"…."
"What did you say!?" Misaki cried out.
"Well I'm sorry to say this but, this Kamijou isn't drinking the Kool-Aid 'Queen'" Touma said while teasing Shokuhou.
Misaki then began laughing, which surprised Touma the most as he would've expected her to scream at him or furiously deny that accusation.
Could it be that he was actually right?
Touma then started to slowly move away from Shokuhou.
"I'm sorry it's just that I didn't think you could catch me off guard with that again," Misaki said while holding her sides.
"Again? Did we have this conversation already?"
"In a way, yes but instead of cult you called my clique a mob"
"Oh okay… ...it's not though right?"
"Rest assured my Prince it's nothing of the sorts"
"Prince?"
"Yes I would call you my Prince and you would call me your Queen" Misaki was lying, but she wanted to see how far this would go.
"Okay….WHAT THE HELL DID I DO THIS SUMMER!?" Touma said as he began freaking out completely. He never even remembered raising any flags with her before.
"Yes we did all sorts of things together you even made me a very important promise you know," Misaki said as she winked at him. She was now getting payback for all the times when Touma teased her in the past.
"OH GOD!" Touma was having a full-blown panic attack.
When Misaki saw him on the verge of mentally collapsing she decided she had enough fun.
"Just Kidding"
Touma then stopped and looked at her, for a while and could swear she looked like a demon.
"Just kidding? What do you mean just kidding!?"
"It means I was joking, why did you want something to have happened between us?" Misaki said while winking at Touma.
Touma simply sighed in relief.
"For a second there I thought you were serious, I thought I was gonna end up on a list no boy wants to find themselves on, but I guess I probably should have seen that coming"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that your not my type."
Misaki knew exactly where Touma was taking this, and she could already feel the vein pop in her head.
"Let's just say you should give up and try again later"
"Give me time, and I am sure I will have all the curves you could ask for, I am still a chrysalis after all" It's fun to be the one teasing him.
"What the hell is that suppose to mean!?"
"It means that I'll be here until I can keep the promise that I made to you."
"What promise?"
"It was the promise the two of us made the day when you lost your memories."
"Now that you mention it, how did I lose my memories?"
Misaki stopped for a second to take a deep breath.
"You saved my life again yesterday it was all my fault and because of that you almost died…... You lost so much blood. I... I used my power on you and because of that I…. I-".
Touma stopped her.
"It's alright I forgive you."
"But why? You said so yourself you don't even remember me, for all you know I could be lying to you. " Misaki said with tears beginning to form in her eyes
"Your right I don't remember you at all, nothing you said jogged up anything inside my head, but still I know you're a good person".
"How could you possibly know that?"
"I don't really know how to explain it, it's just a feeling I'm getting from in here," Touma said while pointing at his heart.
"You really are a fool you know that?" Misaki said while hugging Touma again.
"Hey, by the way, do you know if I still live in my dorm, knowing my luck it probably burned down and I'm stuck squatting at Tsuchimikado's place.
"Actually I have good news on that part your dorm got bigger."
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see~"
June 17
Months passed since Touma had lost the memories of that fateful summer break, but he Kamijou didn't let that slow him down he trekked through the rest of the year mostly uneventfully. Shokuhou would pop in once in a while or should I say almost every other day to hang out. At first, Touma would be glad to hang out with her but as time moved forward he started to notice changes in Shokuhou the type that would develop 30 cm below a person's sight. Sufficed it to say it started to get very awkward between them or for Touma at least. Touma was used to the old Shokuhou teasing but this new one well, it was on a completely different level than he was used to.
Eventually, though she managed to finally get Touma to go out with her, Touma felt undeserving of such affection from someone like her, I mean he doesn't even remember saving her and all she does is praise him to high heavens. It was a little overwhelming, to say the least. But as the semester was finally coming to an end he was finally gonna be free to do whatever he wanted, this however did not go undeserved as he had to study extra hard with both his new teacher Komoe (who looked like she was an actual child) and Shokuhou, though he had some hiccups along the way namely him having to help someone and then show up late to an exam only to get points taken off, this was among the most popular of his tendencies.
But none of that mattered since tomorrow he had another exam in which he knew for a fact that he could pass all he need was a good night rest, and he would be able to pass without any trouble. What could go wrong?
However unknown to Touma, his whole life was about to change At this moment.
As Touma was walking through the streets making his way back to his dorm for a good night's rest he saw a certain short brown haired girl being surrounded by a bunch of delinquents as people just passed by. Touma didn't think badly of the people who passed by though, they just didn't want to get involved. So Touma decided he was going to play the 'Pretend to know you and escape undetected strategy'. The play was simple really, just head inside of the crowd of delinquents and pretend you were looking for her and then leave. It usually worked great, the entire plan would happen so fast that the delinquents wouldn't know how to react plus no one would have to get hurt, or at least that was the plan anyway.
"There you are! You shouldn't wander off like that. Thanks for looking out for her. Coming through!" Touma said as he pulled the hand of the short brown haired through the crowd.
"Who are you and why are you touching me?" The short brown girl snapped at him.
These words stopped Touma in his tracks and caused him to become quite pale.
"Shhh, you're ruining my plan. Play along." Touma whispered to the girl only to have her snap back at him again.
"Why should I bother!"
At this point, all the delinquents had figured out Touma's plan and surrounded him.
"You gotta lot of nerve, you looking for trouble!?" One of the delinquents spat out.
At this point Touma had one last card to play it was 'Get everyone to chase me until they get tired and give up' (Touma was never good at naming his plans) it was simple he just had to insult the entire group of delinquents enough to get them to forget about the girl and focus on him and lead them all away from the girl.
"Yeah I am, all of you should be ashamed at yourself ganging up on her like this. Take a look at her, she's just a kid, sure she might look well-bred but she's hardly what anyone would call mature!" Touma declared.
As some delinquents started to close in on Touma for this, some other delinquents could swear that they heard the sound of sparks.
Touma then decided he had to take it even farther to get all of them all to chase him, so he said.
"I mean look at her she hasn't even got out of the wearing shorts phase yet!"
At this point, even Touma could hear the electricity sparking, and then he saw that very same short brown haired girl start to shoot out lighting.
"SCREW YOU!"
*BIRI BIRI!*
A giant hailstorm of electrical sparks flooded the streets they were on engulfing all the nearby delinquents but Touma out of instinct took cover behind his right hand to negate the upcoming onslaught.
*Shatter!*
When it finally ended, he saw all the delinquents on the floor twitching uncontrollably and thought that would've been him if he didn't block it on time.
"What the hell was that! Who the hell are you!" Touma shouted. Only to have the short brown haired girl look at him like he was supposed to be dead.
"I should be asking you the same question!" The girl said while pointing accusatory style at Touma.
"Why'd you attack me, I was only trying to help!"
"I never asked you to!" The girl said as she proceeded to fire another bolt of electricity at Touma
Touma quickly used his right hand to block and-
*Shatter*
The bolt then disappeared.
"Who are you? And what kind of power is that!" The girl said as she began to close in on Touma.
Touma not wanting to cause any trouble simply answered to what he viewed as honestly.
"I don't know if it even is a power. The SYSTEM scans show me as a level zero".
The girl was suddenly in shock at hearing those words, and he could hear her mumble.
"Level 0 that's not possible."
Touma not being a fool took this opportunity to book it out of there and not look back, there was no way he in hell he was going to stand there and explain his powers to that person. But as soon as Touma started running, so did that same short brown haired girl start chasing him.
"Get back here!"
"Such Misfortune!"
Touma did not get a good night's rest. Such misfortune.