Now that the Misaki Golden Day's arc has come to a close Welcome to the "Start of Summer Arc" or SOS I hope you enjoy. I would also like to thank everyone who left sa review it really helps me learn as a writer.
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Guest: Only time will tell.
Guest 0: Yeah when she was first introduced in a magical index I thought she was a crazy tsundere but after I watched Railgun S she didn't seem so bad.
Same Misfortune
July 17
It has been a full month since Touma had met Zapper (the girl with short brown hair) and ever since that day his life had been a nightmare. Because of her, he overslept for the test which snowballed into the giant mess he faces today. He failed this year so badly that he would have to take supplementary classes just to pass the year which to put it lightly did not sit right with Misaki. In fact, ever since that day, he's been ducking Misaki as to not get her involved with Zapper. He knew her well enough to know if the two of them ever met things will not end well for anybody, plus he did not want either of them to get hurt he could tell Zapper wasn't a bad person. A little 'eccentric' yes, but he could say the same thing about Misaki.
After yesterday, however, things got very, very complicated to say the least. On one of the last days of his semester a miracle happened, his teacher Komoe (one of the seven wonders of a certain High School) told him that he didn't have to take supplementary lessons after all. At first, he jumped for joy at this revelation like anybody would, but then he looked at the other members of the Delta Force who had not passed, and they both gave him a look like this was nothing to be surprised about. Touma then noticed that his teachers eyes had stars in them. He didn't know that much about Misaki's ability but, some things he did know was that whenever she controlled someone they would have stars in their eyes. This did not sit well with him as he had always told Misaki to respect people's free will and not control them except in emergencies. This is why he asked Misaki to meet him at his dorm in the first place.
However, Misaki seemed to interpret Touma's message a little differently than he had intended which lead to some…. Confusion to say the least.
"My Prince!" Misaki announces as she opens the door to Touma's apartment.
"Hey, Shokuhou I wanted to talk to you about something."
The brightness from Shokuhou face immediately dimmed as she already knew that this was not what she was hoping for from that single word 'Shokuhou'. It wasn't like it was a bad word or anything it was just something he called her when he was upset.
"... Yes my Prince what can I do for you?"
"Yeah that's what I wanted to talk to you about, what you've done for me"
"Whatever do you mean?"
"Cut it out Shokuhou, I already know that you used your powers on my Teacher to let me pass."
"Oh is that what all the fuss is about you don't need to thank…"
"Change it back."
"Excuse me?"
"I said change it back Shokuhou, you know it's wrong."
Shokuhou was taken aback by this why would her Prince want to go to supplementary school.
"What. No! What's wrong is that you had to take supplementary classes in the first place it wasn't your-"
"Yes it was Shokuhou it was my fault that I failed and I have to face the consequences."
"Your wrong! You didn't do anything wrong it was those low lives from Deadlock who took away your memory and ruined everything!"
"Look Shokuhou I get it. It's easy to blame other people for my problems but at the end of the day it was still my responsibility, and…."
"Then what about me huh. This was supposed to be our summer break" Misaki said with tears forming in her eyes.
'That's what this is about' Touma thought to himself.
Touma then held onto Misaki's shoulders "Look Misaki it's not that I don't want to spend time with you, it's just that using your powers like that isn't right. Sometimes the best thing to do is to just face the consequences even if it seems unfair, besides it won't be like I won't spend any time with you at all." Touma said as he hugged Misaki.
A small smile formed on Misaki's face. "Alright fine, only if you promise we will still have our summer adventure."
"No problem, anything for my golden girl"
Misaki immediately started to blush it was only just recently that he started using that as her pet name but still it felt amazing every time she heard it.
"By the way Touma what's that," Misaki said while pointing to a large piece of cardboard on the other side of the room it looked like it had a lot of writing on it.
"That oh that...it's just something" he then averted his eyes from her gaze.
Misaki then looked at Touma and puffed her cheeks "It's not another one of your Delta Forces plans is it?"
"No, I swear! I stopped going on those when we started to…. You know" Touma said while slightly blushing.
"Oh," Misaki said while also blushing.
"Then what is it?'
"It's my master plan on how to stop this jerk who keeps on messing with me"
"Someone's bullying you. Tell me who it is now." Misaki said while looking Touma sternly in the face.
'And this is why Misaki should never learn about Zapper. Ever.'
"No ones bullying me, besides even if they were I could handle them on my own. No this is about the jerk who keeps on taking on my Coffee".
"Coffee?"
"Yeah, whenever I go out to buy my favorite brand of coffee someone always buys the entire container."
"What?"
"Okay let me explain" He then ran to the other side of his dorm to present his plan to Misaki.
"Okay, first my favorite brand of Coffee is black with no sugar which is rare enough since more people prefer lattes or espresso nowadays so the store rarely gets any shipments of my favorite brand, to begin with, in fact, they only get one crate which is only 12 bottles for every week. This wasn't a problem for me since I would be the only person to buy it right."
"Right"
"So a couple of weeks ago I went to go buy my coffee, but the guy at the register said they were out. I didn't mind since I knew that they would get another shipment in the next day, so I left and didn't think twice about it. Come the next day and I head over there again but, the guy said they were out. I asked him if the shipment was late, and he said that someone had already bought them all."
Misaki didn't know what to say, so she simply waited for Touma to continue to explain.
"So after this, I decided to wait a week, so I could buy my coffee again only this time I would show up early to buy some and it all went smoothly except I realized that I was the only one buying them, the other person stopped or so I thought. After the pack was done (which took about a week) I asked the guy at the counter why they didn't they put out another one, and he said that the same guy already bought them. He said he didn't want anything that was already opened, so he just waited until the new pack arrived and just bought it like that."
"So how does this all tie back to your beautiful mind style board there?" Misaki said while still pointing at the piece of cardboard.
"I'm getting to that, so after all was said and done I realized that this guy was messing with me trying to keep this poor Kamijou from getting his coffee, so I decided to make a plan on how to beat this guy. First I would have to stop drinking my coffee for two weeks (which was a challenge in and of itself), Next, I would begin to buy packs at a time just like the other person. After that, the other person is going to get so discouraged he would give up and decide to go buy coffee at another store".
"Wait a minute, you're saying you could've bought this at another store this whole entire time"
"Yeah"
"Then why are you wasting your time on something like this instead of going to another store and buying your coffee from there?"
"Principle"
"Principle?"
"Yeah, why should I have to go out of my way and go to another store just because this person suddenly decided they wanted to try my favorite brand of coffee. Huh. Besides, that's the only store where the coffee's always on sale which allows me to be able to afford it in the first place!"
Misaki simply picked up the piece of cardboard and saw all the documents attached to it. It had a hand-drawn calculation report on how much each pack of coffee would cost which included taxes along with an expense report sheet of how much capital Touma had to fund his plan, on the other document it had a scientific report on consumer interests and it highlighted how if they feel discouraged after a certain amount of attempts then they would simply take their business elsewhere all.
After looking over at all the work Touma had put into this a Dark Aura began to surround Misaki.
"Tell me Touma, what did you spend more time on"
"Huh?"
"Making this ridiculous plan for your morning coffee or actually studying?"
Touma immediately sensed the danger and began to back up.
"Well…. You see…. Um".
"That's what I thought. Why don't we have a nice long chat about priorities TOUMA"
"Such misfortune"
1 Lecture Later
After Touma finished getting his verbal beat down from Misaki he started to make his way down to an ATM to get the capital that he would need in order to enact his plan against his coffee thief. But when he finally made to the ATM and put his bank card inside it read that he had put in the incorrect pin which Touma couldn't believe. Then he looked down at the number pad and realized that the numbers were invented, so he kept on pressing the wrong buttons over and over again. This eventually led to the ATM refusing to spit his card back out.
"Such Misfortune!" Unknown to Touma this little outburst of him had caught the attention of an unsavory guest.
"Hey there."
Touma slowly turned around to realize that his worst fears have actually come to pass it was zapper. With an amused look on her face.
"Uh man!"
The girls face turned quickly to that annoyed.
"Everyday you try to dodge the issue, but not Today, Today we settle this" As she starts lightly sparkling.
"Oh come on, first I get chewed out and lose my bank card and now this is the universe just trying to mess with me!" Touma rants as he starts holding his right hand to his head.
"PAY ATTENTION TO ME WILL YOU!?" Zapper shouts as she punches the ATM with an electrically charged punch.
Touma then looks down at the ATM and realizes his prayers have been heard as it spits out his bank card.
"THANK YOU! Seriously knowing you was a nightmare but it was all worth it" Touma said while shaking Zappers hand.
"My name is Mikoto Misaka!"
"Yeah whatever you say Zapper." Just then Touma heard the sound of the ATM alarm system going off.
"You know I probably should've seen this coming" Touma said while dragging zapper by the wrist trying to make his escape. However, after running with her for about a block he realized that he should probably let go of her and run away from her too. This didn't last too long, however, since he immediately got cornered at the riverbank.
"Oh come on"
"Stop your whining and let's fight already!"
"Why!? You lose every time we do, at this point I'm getting the feeling you're a glutton for punishment"
"Shut up! You never actually hit me before so that makes it a tie!"
"What kind of messed up logic is that! When will this end!"
"Well obviously…. When I win of course." Misaka said while fixing her hair.
Touma took a minute to collect his thoughts and then decided on the best course of action.
"Okay, what about this instead," Touma says while presenting his left hand.
"What?"
"If I can fire whatever lighting you shoot at me back at you stronger than I win, and we put all of this behind us. Okay."
"What are you talking about?"
"Is it a deal?" Please god make her take the deal
"Fine then let's see how strong you really are!" Misaka said while emanating electricity from her entire body than focusing all of it into her hand firing a giant electrical spear at Touma's left hand.
*REVERB*
The familiar sound of something reverbing could be heard when the giant electrical spear shot back at Zapper bigger than it was originally. Lucky for her Touma already calculated the trajectory of the counter and aimed it so that it wouldn't touch her.
*BOOOM!*
Touma's face had just become as pale as a ghost when he realized that he didn't actually know where he aimed at, only knowing that it wouldn't hit zapper instead he was horrified when he realized he had just stuck a giant wind turbine overloading it causing it to break.
"..."
"..."
"AHH! SUCH MISFORTUNE!"
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!"
The two then found themselves running away from the scene of the crime as neither of them wanted to explain to Anti Skill that because of their fighting one of the Wind Turbines had been destroyed. After a marathon of running later, the two found themselves free of the scene of the crime and looked at each other. At first, Zapper looked at Touma like a deer would look at a car in the headlights. So Touma decided to take this chance and slowly back away from the very volatile girl, only for her to snap out of it at the last minute.
*Boom*
"Where do you think you're going!" Misaka snaps as she throws a lighting spear at the ground halting Touma's escape.
"Well, home I guess," Touma said while feigning ignorance in hopes of getting out of this situation unharmed.
"I mean what the hell did you just do back there!?"
"Oh that… Nothing" he then averted his gaze from zapper.
At this moment Misaka decided to unleash another blast of electricity at Touma only to have him block it with his right hand.
*Shatter*
The sound of glass breaking could be heard along with the lightning being erased.
"What the hell was that for!" Touma shouted.
"That's for taking it easy on me!"
"Taking it easy, what did you want me to wail on you or something!"
"I wanted to be taken seriously!"
"Well sorry, I'm not some cold-hearted person who can beat on some middle schooler just because they said it was okay!"
Misaka then started to emanate electricity again as some iron sand began to form in clouds around her. The cloud eventually became more and more condensed until it took the form of a sword with her pointing it directly at Touma.
"Wait, no weapons!" Touma screamed as he raised his hands in the air.
Just then Misaka lunged forward at Touma holding the iron sand sword to his face.
"Still think I'm just some middle schooler," Misaka said while looking Touma dead in the eyes.
At first, Touma didn't know how to respond but then an idea came to Touma's mind.
Maybe, Imagine breaker could work on this. It's worth a shot.
Touma then motioned his right hand towards the iron sand sword
*Shatter*
immediately all the iron sand started to fall apart.
'It broke apart at his touch. Guess I failed again however, I expected that' Misaka thought to herself as she grabbed Touma's right hand ready to send electricity directly into him. However, nothing happened.
'What the hell the current isn't even moving...crap it's his move now'
Touma then looked down and saw Zapper was holding onto his hand. "So..."
Misaka instantly flinched, she knew that he was bigger than her, and he could easily hurt her.
"AGH…. I am defeated" Touma proclaimed as he gave the performance of a lifetime while falling to the floor.
At first, there was silence. Touma actually thought that he had pulled it off, However, Touma was never that fortunate as this illusion was quickly shattered as a torrent of swears mixed with electrical Volts were launched at him.
"What! You won isn't this what you wanted!"
"NOOO! This was not what I wanted!"
"Ah come on first you go back on your promise and now this"
"I'm gonna…. Wait what promise?"
Touma quickly found a way out of this situation that didn't involve him fighting and quickly pounced on it.
"Yeah you promised me that if I shot your electricity back stronger than you would leave me alone"
"Well, I-"
"Are you saying that I didn't shoot your electricity back stronger. I mean the bolt you threw at me was strong and everything but it didn't seem anywhere strong enough to bring down a wind turbine, don't you think" Touma said mockingly towards Zapper.
At this sudden turn of events, Misaka started to turn red out of embarrassment.
"Fine!"
"Really!?" Touma said beaming with joy.
"Yeah but next time you won't be so lucky," Misaka said while turning to walk back to her dorms.
"Wait next time I thought this nightmare was finally over with!"
"No, if I remember correctly I said that I would put everything behind us, and I am for today you never specified that it would be forever, remember?" Misaka said while looking back at Touma with a smug look of a cat on her face. "Although the next time we meet I'm gonna go all out and use my railgun on you."
"Railgun?"
"Yep have fun with that thought. Bye" She then walked away not looking back, not even once.
"Why do I feel like I just got signed up for a death parade"
"Such Misfortune!"
At a certain Dinner.
After Misaki was finished giving Touma a lesson on his priorities she felt famished, so she decided to go into a diner on the way back to her dorms in order to get a bite to eat what did one of the most prestigious people in all academy city eat you may ask.
"Sorry about the wait. There is your cheeseburger, French fries, seven veggie salad, and orange juice. Is onion dressing okay?"
"Yes, and Thank you"
"We will prepare a mini custard pudding pie for your dessert."
"Please do."
She smiled and looked down at the tray on the counter. And begun to wrap her cheeseburger in a large napkin to begin the process of eating it only to be stopped when she noticed something very strange. There was no one else here.
Normally Misaki would use her Mental Our ability to clear out any restaurant (much to the dismay of her prince) to eat in peace, however, she did not have to this time the restaurant was already empty. As she scanned the room she could not find another person in sight until she felt a small tap on her shoulder.
"Long time no see brat," Kumokawa said while leaning in close to Misaki's ear.
"Oh. I should have known it was you, old hag" Misaki said with disdain in her voice.
"What, no how's it been?"
"Truly I hoped that you would've succumbed to old age and would have left me and my prince alone but, alas some miracles are just not meant to be."
"Well while you were off playing house with my kohai I was actually doing something of worth."
"Really now and what pray tell might that be?"
"Dealing with Deadlock," Kumokawa said in a straight face.
This immediately shook Misaki to her very core, she hated Deadlock with every fiber of her being, she had to force herself not to go after the remnants of them less she goes too far.
"What do you mean?"
"Shundou Toshizou is dead"
Misaki's blood instantly froze at this revelation. She had already figured out that he was responsible for funding Deadlock, but she didn't know that he was dead.
"How?"
"He flew to fast and close to the sun and ended up crashing and burning," Kumokawa said.
"So it's over," Misaki said. While Misaki hated Shundou Toshizou for what he put her and her Prince though she did not feel alright learning that he was killed.
"Don't look too sad, it was his fault for targeting Kamijou"
"What did you say!?"
"Oh yeah, you didn't know did you. That's fine that's part of the reason I showed back up".
"What are you talking about wasn't Deadlock after me!" Misaki shouted as she stood up from her seat.
"Yes and No. Deadlock the organization was targeting you which is why they weren't killed, however, the reason Shundou Toshizou was killed was that he was targeting Kamijou."
"But why?"
"I can't tell you everything now can I. However I will tell you enough to keep Kamijou safe until I take him back.
"Take him back! He's my Boyfriend!"
"For now." Kumokawa calmly stated.
"Anyway back on topic apparently our Kamijou has a plethora of secrets surrounding him some of which I wasn't even able to find out if they existed or not" Kumokawa stated.
"Like what?"
"Well, first and foremost his left hand for example. Like did you know that he could reproduce an AIM field perfectly when he comes in contact with one?"
This immediately caught Misaki off guard while she knew that Touma's left hand could in a layman's terms counter any esper ability thrown at it she did not know that it could actually copy an AIM field.
"That's impossible AIM fields are unique for every individual"
"That's what I thought at first too but then when I got the data it told a very different story. Apparently, he's been getting into a lot of fights with a certain high-level esper and when we finally caught him using his left hand's power on one of those attacks our suspicions were proved to be correct. He could perfectly replicate another espers AIM field perfectly down to the last detail, it was like the system was reading double. This news is what leads me here to you today."
"Which is?"
"It was today that we got the confirmation that Kamijou Touma is now no longer a level 0 but rather a Gemstone."
"What! That doesn't make any sense, Touma went through the power curriculum program he can't be a Gemstone"
"Not anymore. All records of him ever going through the power curriculum have been mysteriously misplaced. That's why I'm here to warn you that now more than ever Touma is at risk. He used to be able to get away from all of his problems by stating he was a level 0 but, now he been labeled a Gemstone people from all over the Darkside of Academy city want a piece of him. Gemstones are a rare enough commodity as it is you know".
"But why now why would they choose now of all the times to change his ranking," Misaki said with her face becoming paler.
"I wouldn't worry about it too much most of the major threats have already been or are being neutralized as we speak. Besides the whole Gemstone thing is just on paper and is reflected as such. In actuality, he is still considered a level 0 since he's unable to generate an AIM field by himself so his school life will hardly change at all."
"Then why did they-"
"To quell people's questions on how he is able to do what he does. Ignorance leads to fear, brat so to quell their ignorance the General Superintendent spun this story".
"The General Superintendent," Misaki said having her eyes shoot wide open.
"Yep and with that, I'm off any questions or concerns?"
"Yeah I got a few"
"I have time for two"
"Okay, first what is the name for Touma's 'Gemstone' Ability?"
"Oh that's a work in progress, for now, it's just listed as unknown just like Sogiita Gunha but I'm sure that they'll take any name thrown at them, so just ask Kamijou what he'd like to name it."
"Okay then, how about why did it take academy city so long to track down Shundou Toshizou surely he couldn't have been that hard to find"
"You're getting smarter brat, in actuality, we found Shundou Toshizou the moment both you and Kamijou made it to the hospital, it only took us so long because the higher-ups were more interested in what he could've been working on which would've got him interested in Kamijou. However, since his latest research showed some signs of mental instability he was deemed a risk and subsequently taken care of"
"What was he researching?"
"That's actually another question but, since you have been dutifully taking care of my dear kohai I'll tell you. Killer whales."
"Killer whales?"
"Yeah like I said he had a few screws loose"
As Kumokawa was beginning to walk out of the restaurant she turned around and looked at Misaki who was still standing.
"By the way, I should mention, that since the whole with Shundou Toshizou ordeal is over and done with I will be taking a much bigger role of Kamijou's life. After all, I'm now in charge of overseeing all the Gemstones in academy city after all. Bye now' Kumokawa said as she closed the door behind her.
'That Wesley old hag how dare she!'
"Your mini custard pudding pie is ready!"
"NOT NOW!" Misaki screamed as she pointed and clicked her remote at the innocent chef.
It took a moment for Misaki to process what she had just done. And she could already hear her prince chastise her for this. So Misaki calmly ate all of her food and gave the chef a 75% tip.
"Thank you so much."
"No really it's nothing," Misaki said while not looking the chef in the eyes.
As she began to exit the restaurant she began reflecting on what had just transpired. Her prince had become a Gemstone and now more than ever in the limelight which he had always hated. She began to look up at the sky and remember that promise she made to herself that summer ago that she would protect his light no matter what.
'So far I don't really feel like I protected him as much as he protects everyone else including me and now he's being targeted by the dark side of academy city, hell even that old hag has done more for him than I ever have... No I refuse to let his one miracle turn out like this I won't let anyone have him, I'll protect him no matter.'
July 18
7:30 AM
Once Touma woke up from his deep peaceful slumber from yesterday's fiasco of a day he realizes that today is the day that he has to enact his plan to get his coffee back from whoever this jerk might be, so he quickly does his morning of eating breakfast and taking a shower and getting changed and runs out the door in a full sprint to make it to the store. When he arrives however he is met with the unfortunate news that due to a delay caused by a wind turbine breaking down that the shipment of black coffee won't be arriving until later that day, but he couldn't be sure exactly about the time. Such misfortune. Depressed that his plans did not work out the way he thought it would due to his actions from yesterday he holds his head down in a mix between ashamed and depressed and walks out of the store. However unknown to him he holds the door open for a certain white-haired boy who was also looking for the black coffee. As Touma walks out of the store he could hear screaming along with some swears coming from someone inside.
"I guess he's not a morning person," Touma said in a mumble to himself as he makes the walk of shame to school.
When Touma finally arrives at school he reveals to the Delta Force that he will be attending Supplementary lessons over the summer break much to the amusement of the other members.
"Really, Kami what did you do to get her so pissed at you?" Tsuchimikado teased.
"Nothing, I did it out of principle"
Both members of the Delta Force looked at each other and then turned to Touma and uttered the same word.
"Idiot!"
"What the hell do either of you guys know! You both failed just as hard as I did!"
"True, but we would never be dumb enough to choose to go to supplementary classes than spend time with our girlfriend." Tsuchimikado pointed out.
"Or maybe Kami has other reasons for deciding to take supplementary classes," Aogami says while turning to their homeroom teacher Komoe.
"What the hell are you guys talking about!"
"You know Aogami brings up a good point, I mean you two started dating before she evolved into the babe she is now maybe Kami here has a thing for lolis" Tsuchimikado stated.
"She's not a Pokemon!" Touma shouted, but then he remembered that the two of them only started dating after she started to develop, but if what they were saying was true then maybe….
"Hell no! It's the principle!" Touma Shouted again.
"What the hell does that even mean?" Aogami asked.
"It means that if I conceded on this than I would have to concede on everything else she does, I'd rather go to supplementary classes than have this loom over my head," Touma explained.
"Oh, so you're saying that you're just trying to make a power play on her. I get it" Tsuchimikado said with a sly grin on his face.
"No that's not what I'm-"
"Well, as long as they're still an item the Kami Disease has stopped spreading or at least slowed down that's all that matters" Aogami commented.
"What are you talking about?"
Unknown to Touma when Misaki paid a visit to his class earlier that school year to announce that she was his girlfriend and tell everybody who she was, he only interpreted that she was excited that they were finally in a relationship, however its true intentions were anything but that, it was more or less like an implicit threat to everyone else in the class especially towards the girls in the class of what would happen if they tried anything. Misaki had far too much class to overtly threaten anyone.
"Nothing you poor blind Bastard" Aogami replied.
"Huh?" suddenly a small chill ran down the spine of every student in the classroom's spine, from them remembering what happened that day.
"On another note, Kami have you heard about the recent graviton bombing?" Tsuchimikado said.
"Huh. No what's that?"
"Apparently some guys have been going around bombing places using his esper ability"
"That's terrible. You kids be careful now." Komoe sensei said as she chimed in.
"Yeah I know and apparently Judgment doesn't have any leads either," Aogami said.
"Well that's not entirely true, apparently word on the grapevine is that the guy has been hiding his bombs in stuffed animals," Tsuchimikado said while fixing his sunglasses.
"Stuffed animals?" Touma said while imagining a stuffed bear holding a stick of dynamite.
"Yep"
"Well that just goes to show you, just because something looks cute and adorable on the outside doesn't mean it's not dangerous on the inside" Aogami commented.
The whole class than in unsine had the same thought.
'You can say that again'
Later during the school-day Touma couldn't get Zappers threat out of his head.
'Next time we meet I'm gonna go all out and use my railgun on you'
'What's a Railgun?' Touma thought to himself.
Touma then decided that now would be a good a chance of any to ask his teacher what a railgun was. So he raised his hand to the surprise of everyone especially Miss Komoe since Touma had almost never raised his hand during class unless it was to get to the bathroom.
"Yes Kamijou-chan"
"Yeah, I have a question. What's a Railgun?"
The whole class then turned to Touma in confusion as they had no idea why he would ask that.
"Um okay but, you do realize that we're currently studying calculus right now, correct?" Komoe said with a confused look on her face.
"Yeah of course" In actuality, Touma had spaced off and didn't even realize this until she mentioned it to him.
Komoe then began the long-drawn-out explanation about the science behind a railgun.
"Oh, by the way, Kamijou-san did you know that there is an esper in academy city who can create a railgun using only her esper ability."
"Really I wonder who that could be" Touma then had an image of Zapper pop into his mind with a smug look on her face.
"Yes, the third-ranked level 5 Mikoto Misaka, originally she was a level 1 but through hard work, she was able to become who she is today, you should all take that as some inspiration, anybody can become a higher level no matter your circumstances," Komoe said cheerfully to the class.
"Yeah but I'm guessing that doesn't apply to me. Hey sensei do you happen to know how fast her railguns goes and what would happen if I don't know, someone were to touch it mid-flight"
Komoe then turned over to Touma with concern in her eyes but, still answered.
"Well from what I know her railgun can move upwards of Mach 3 and up, and if someone was unfortunate enough to touch her railgun mid-flight then whatever they touched it with would no longer be a part of them, even something as small as an arcade token would have enough force to destroy an entire building. Why do you ask?"
"No reason" Touma's entire face became pale as he put his head down on his desk and accepted his fate.
Once class was over Touma began to make his way back to the store which had previously said that they had not received the shipment of coffee in order to beat however was messing with him however he had very little hope that the coffee was still there. On his way there, however, he ran across a little girl who couldn't be more than 12 years old who had blonde hair tied in two pigtails being harassed by some unsavory individuals. So as perusal Touma decided to step in and help the little girl much to the surprise of everyone.
"Who the hell are you?"
"Look can you pervs just knock it off already I swear people like you are the reason I'm in this mess, to begin with!" Touma shouted.
"What the hell are you even talking about!"
"Nothing just projecting" Touma lamented.
Touma then simply grabbed the wrist of the little girl with his left hand and began to walk away from the people who were harassing her, to begin with. Once they were far enough away Touma let go of the little girl's hand.
"Hey, are you okay?" Touma said while kneeling down to her eye level.
At first, the girl seemed perplexed as though she was seeing something that she did not believe to be real. Upon closer inspection, Touma noticed that her eyes were two different colors, this was one of the first time that Touma ever saw something like this, so he was completely drawn in.
"Wow, I've never seen someone with two different colored eyes before what did they call that again?"
"It's called Heterochromia iridium but that's not what this is, I guess you saved me again huh?"
"Uhh, what are you talking about?"
"Huh what do you mean you saved me during last year's summer break, don't you remember?"
"Yeah of course I do" Touma tried to play it off, but he could not for the life of him remember if he had actually met this girl before. During the previous summer he lost a lot of his memories, he had tried to keep it quiet as he didn't want to bring Misaki or any of his friends any pain.
"So how's it been?" Touma asked casually.
The girl simply stared at him with beady eyes and he could sense the anger inside of her.
"How's it been. WHAT DO YOU MEAN HOW'S IT BEEN!?"
'UH OH'
"I do you a favor and this how you repay me!?"
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to sound ungrateful or anything honest it's just a lot of stuff been going on in my life and it most of just slipped my mind. Please forgive this poor Kamijou." Touma said as he bowed his head.
The little girl simply looked at him slightly annoyed of what had just transpired.
"Fine. By the way, since you so rudely ended our last meeting before I could analyze the data fully it took me a lot longer than usual to figure out the answer you were looking for".
'Answer? Did I ask for this little kid's help for something'
"Uh yeah so what did you find out"
"Well look at you being all casual about it. Let me tell you it wasn't easy trying to figure out what was going on with your left hand but after getting some help from a colleague I Kihara Nayuta was finally able to deduce it".
'So her name is Nayuta. Wait, my left hand? I asked this kid to help me figure out what was going on with it. Jeez was I just trying to mess with her or something?'
"Okay, so what did you find out?"
"Well at first I didn't know what to make of your esper ability I mean it made no sense whatsoever, I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't see it with my own ability, but it turns out that you can copy a person's AIM field perfectly no matter how complicated it is."
"Huh, but aren't AIM fields supposed to be unique for everyone just like their personal realities?"
"Exactly that's why I found it so odd. But upon closer inspection whenever you left-hand makes contact with another person's AIM it is able to copy it perfectly. Like right now.
"What are you talking about?"
"Well you can't see it with the naked eye of course but right now your body is emitting my AIM field perfectly, save for your right hand of course although the AIM fields around your entire right arm are weaker than usual."
"Wait you can see AIM fields?"
"Of course that's why I took an interest in this challenge, to begin with."
"Okay, so what else did you manage to figure out"
"Well apart from that very little you didn't exactly give me a lot to work with you know, the only other things I managed to figure out is that whenever you ball your left hand into a fist your entire AIM field disappears like it was never there, to begin with, and over time the AIM field you copied will dissipate like steam"
'I didn't know that?'
"Thanks for helping me out I really appreciate it," Touma said while patting her on the head.
The little girl simply blushed for a moment then swatted down Touma's hand.
"Enough of that! It was debt that's all besides, I can't very well surpass all the other level 5s if I can't even solve a simple problem like this."
"Wait you're planning on surpassing all level 5s"
"Yep that's my one and only dream and once I set my mind to something nothing is going to stop me" Nayuta proclaimed while balling her hand into a fist.
"Well good luck with that, but you shouldn't just make that your only life's goal you know."
"What are you talking about?"
"If all you ever do is just drive for that singular dream then what happens once you finally achieve it"
Nayuta stopped in her tracks at that comment, what would she do once she climbed that summit?
"Once you find yourself there on the top in the spotlight you're gonna find yourself all alone with nobody around. You shouldn't just make that your only dream."
'Dream?'
"What are you talking about?" Nayuta asked.
"I'm saying if you shouldn't just limit yourself to one dream, that's just an illusion you put on yourself because you're scared that if you dream too much that you'll never be able to accomplish any of them. But you should never stop dreaming just because you're scared, you have so much potential more than I'll ever have that's for sure."
Nayuta simply stood there contemplating what Touma had just said to her. Was she really scared to dream? She always considered herself fearless in her unwavering nature on not giving up on her one dream but the way that he had just said made it seem like she was afraid to try anything else in truth it wasn't her dream, to begin with, it was her family's dream.
"Thanks, I'll take that under advisement Kamijou' Nayuta said while waving Touma off.
"Okay thanks for the help Nayuta see you around"
'What an odd character' Touma thought to himself
Touma then realized that he still had to go and check the store to see if they still had his coffee in stock (he held out little hope) but was quickly stopped as he saw that there was yet another small child this time looking as though she was lost wandering the streets.
'What was there mass breakout at the elementary school I never heard about!?'
Touma then quickly shrugged off this notion and quickly rushed over to the small child.
"Hey, kid are you lost?" Touma said in a very calm voice.
"Yes I wanted to go to the mall but I got lost, can you help me?" the little girl said while holding onto Touma's leg and looking at him with eyes that could break any persons will.
"Okay, sure which mall did you want to go to anyway?" Touma said.
"The seventh mist mall I saw on TV that's where all the cool people shop, I wanna be cool too!"
"Okay sure"
'What's the worst that could happen?'