Hey guys thanks for the support and reading a certain Scientific Counter. Also, Volume 22 of a New Testament is Finally out Hooray! But it's not translated yet… Well as soon as the translation hits I'm gonna read it but until then please enjoy. Also, I love reading your comments some of them really crack me up but others help me think of ways to better improve upon the story so thank you.
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July 19
After yesterday's fiasco of the day, Touma was ready to spend his last day until summer break to its fullest. Even if the following day he would be forced to go to supplementary classes. Touma started his day by breaking open the pack of black coffee that Misaki had given him as a gift. Touma didn't know exactly where she got it, but he was glad that she did. Now that Touma had access to his morning coffee he was ready to take on the day. No matter what it threw at him. So Touma packed a few Black coffees to go in his bag and headed off to school.
As Touma made the journey to his high school he decided to pay the convenience store a visit. When he arrived there he was terrified at the site. It seemed as though someone had crashed a car through the building itself because it had a giant gaping hole in the wall and Touma could only begin to imagine the amount of damage that had occurred inside of the convenience store.
(What the hell happened here!) Touma then ran towards the manager who was currently talking to an Anti Skill officer.
"Excuse me sir do you know what happened." The manager and Anti Skill officer then turned to see Touma who was in complete and utter shock of what had happened.
"Huh? No, I have no idea what happened when I left the shop yesterday everything was fine. Then I come back today and there's a giant hole in the wall!" The manager was frantic, to say the least as this was his first time dealing with something like.
"Sir, did anything strange happen yesterday?" The Anti Skill officer was trying to get as much information as he could.
"No nothing…. Although one of my cashiers did mention one of the customers did get very…...vocal."
"About what?" Touma asked.
"Well apparently the customer told the cashier to hold a pack of black coffee for him, but the cashier says he has no memory of this and sold the Pack of coffee instead to a blonde girl."
(Blonde….uh man.)
"Did the cashier remember what the customer looked like anything would be of help." The Anti skill officer asked while writing down the man's statement.
"Well he said that the boy had moppy white hair and a very foul mouth"
"So we're looking for a senior citizen gone rouge huh?" Touma added.
"No, the customer was a boy around your age."
"My age, what kind of kid gets white hair this early on in life! What did he just skip puberty all together and head straight for the retirement home! No wonder this guy drinks so much Black coffee!"
"How did you know it was Black coffee?"
"Huh?"
"All I said was that it was a pack of Coffee I never specified which type. So how did you know?" The man then started to look suspiciously at Touma.
"Wait no you got it all wrong. It's just that I uh." Touma knew he was in a tight spot but at least the evidence pointed in his favor, I mean it's not like he has white hair or anything.
"About how tall would you say that he was." The Anti Skill officer was still writing down everything and looking at Touma suspiciously.
"I don't know about his height I guess" The man then pointed directly at Touma.
At the same time, however, a large group of students walked down by the scene and saw the old man point at Touma with an Anti Skill officer right next to him. They all stopped in order to see what was going on.
"His height you say. Hmm." The Anti Skill agent then began walking towards Touma.
"Young man, do you happen to know anything that happened here last night?" The Anti Skill officer then stood directly in front of Touma
"What. No, I didn't have anything to do with this I swear." Touma then raised his hands in the air only to reveal a slight indent in his bag that was made by the coffee that he had brought with him.
"What this" The Anti Skill officer then pulled out a black coffee from Touma's bag.
"Hey, you can't do that."
"Sir is this the brand of coffee in question that you were talking about earlier?" The Anti skill officer then presented the black coffee to the manager for confirmation.
"YES, THAT'S IT" The manager then grabbed the coffee to inspect it.
"Do you have anything to say for yourself young man." The Anti Skill officer now looming over Touma.
"No you don't get it, that was a gift. I would never do something like this honest. Besides this isn't the only store that sells this brand of black coffee anyway so." Touma then started to back up from the officer.
"LIAR! While it's true that we are not the only store that carries this brand of coffee we were the only store to get a shipment of this coffee yesterday due to the Wind Turbine breaking down. As you can see the label is colored (differently) than normal. That's because the manufacturers were trying to use brighter colors in order to boost sales on this brand of coffee. But the labels were only just recently produced and were being shipped out yesterday.
"So that means." The man then began to look menacingly at Touma.
"Wait a minute he said it himself the guy had moppy white hair." Touma then pulled on his hair showing that it was black. "See not a single white hair in sight and perfectly spiky."
While Touma was trying to prove his innocence a young girl then stepped forward from the crowd of students she had long hair and wore a dark-colored ribbon on her head, making her look like a rabbit. She was wearing a raggedy-looking sleeveless shirt along with a studded belt. Touma couldn't deny that he thought she was cute.
"That doesn't prove anything. See" The young girl then pulled out a spray can of some sort.
"What's that" The Anti Skill officer then turned towards the girl.
"It's a can of hair coloring spray. It's able to temporarily change the amount of melanin in one's hair effectively chaining one's hair color."
"Huh, you can't be serious" Touma then started to panic as more and more evidence started to pile on to him.
"There's one way to test it out" The young girl pointed out while rummaging through her school bag yet again. She eventually pulled out another can of spray.
"This is a can of cleanser, it's able to get rid of any cosmetics that might have been in someone's hair it's used primarily when one wants to get rid of the effects of the hair coloring spray. However, it's harmless if you spray it on somebody who's never used the same brand" The young girl then handed the Anti Skill officer the spray can.
"I see. Do you object if we use the spray on you?"
"Well, I."
"However if you do object I will have no other option than to hold you for questioning until we can get the cashier in question back here."
(Well it's either take a little spray in the head or spend some quality time with the thugs in Anti Skill's holding cell. What's the worst that could happen) Touma would immediately regret ever even thinking that.
"Fine if it will get you off my back"
The Anti Skill agent then started to spray the can of cleanser on Touma's head. However unknown to Touma and the rest of the people present, the same brand of cleanser that young girl handed to the Anti Skill officer happens to be the same brand that Touma uses to make his hair spiky.
Touma's hair immediately started to fall down from its spiky form, making it look as though he had moppy hair.
"Well, I guess we got our guy" The young girl proclaimed as she looked at the Anti-skill officer.
"FREEZE! You're under arrest or the destruction of private property!" The Anti Skill officer grabbed Touma and started to cuff him and lead him to the Anti Skill holding van.
"NO, YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG I SWEAR THIS IS ALL JUST A BIG MISUNDERSTANDING!"
"I guess what they say is true, The culprit will always return to the scene of the crime" The young girl proclaimed.
"OH, YOU ARE SO NOT HELPING YOU, RABBIT GIRL!" The young girl then turned towards Touma to yell back only to see Touma with his moppy black hair and couldn't help but think that he looked cuter without it spiky and blushed.
The shop owner then gasped." It's the foul mouth the cashier was talking about earlier. It's definitely him!"
"NO PLEASE YOU GOT IT ALL WRONG! SUCH MISFORTUNE!" The Anti Skill officer then through Touma in the back of the Anti Skill holding Van and slammed the door in his face.
"Thank you for your help ma'am we could have never done it without your help can I please have your name."
The young girl then snapped out of her fantasies with Touma. "Huh, oh right my name is Tobio Yumi. There's no need to thank me I'm just doing my job". Yumi then pulled out a judgment arm bag from her bag and placed it on her arm. "See, I'm part of Judgment's 105th Branch Office."
"Well thank you. If it wasn't for you that hoodlum would've still been free on the streets to do god knows what to someone else." The manager said while shaking Yumi's hand.
"Uh okay. Your welcome" Soon the entire crowd began cheering for Yumi for catching the culprit.
(Ugh why do bad boy have to be so damn cute) Yumi lamented.
Anti Skill holding cell.
2 hours later
Touma had spent the last 2 hours in an Anti Skill holding cell (lucky enough for him it was empty).
(Why me. This was supposed to be a good day. Instead, I'm arrested for destruction of property public endangerment, lying to an Anti Skill officer and inflicting severe emotional trauma (The last one was for the cashier who was still inside the building when the incident took place). When I see that white hair kid I swear I'm gonna kick his ass for what he's done.)
At first, Touma proceeds to continue to pace up and down the cell in order to keep sane. The worst part about being arrested was that Anti Skill took his phone and refused to let him have a phone call in order to get help. Touma then decided to lay down on the cell bench in order to sleep so that time would go by faster only to be woken up by an Anti Skill officer yelling at him.
"Get up hoodlum you have a visitor!" Touma then jumped up from the bench and turned towards the officer.
"Huh, who is it?" Touma then began walking to the door to the holding cell.
"Shut up! If you try anything funny we won't hesitate to take you down!"
"Okay jeez" Touma then raised his hands and was escorted towards the visiting area only to find his teacher there.
"Komoe-sensei what are you doing here" Touma then began to walk faster toward his teacher only to be stopped by more yelling.
"FREEZE!" The Anti Skill officer then pointed a taser gun at Touma's back.
"AHH AHH"
"AAA HHH PLEASE DON'T SHOOT MY STUDENT!" Komoe screamed.
The reason that all the Anti Skill agents were so on edge was that they all thought Touma was a high-level esper capable of destroying the building with ease.
"PLEASE I DIDN'T MEAN IT!" Touma pleaded with the Anti Skill officer. Until he heard the voice of another one of his teachers.
"LOWER YOUR WEAPONS THIS INSTANT!" Yomikawa Aiho yelled.
"Yomikawa-sensei why are you here," Touma asked as the Anti-skill officer lowered his Taser gun.
After things settled down Touma sat at the visitor's table with his teachers.
"Well, Kamijou looks like you got yourself arrested," Yomikawa said as she chuckled.
"It's not Funny. Besides, how did you guys even find out?"
"Well, whenever a student is arrested, its procedure to contact their school in order to notify them of what had occurred.' Yomikawa explained, "So when miss Komoe over here was notified in the middle of class she immediately ran to get me."
"Wait you were notified in the middle of class. Does that mean?"
"I'm afraid so. Everyone in the class knows about your arrest, but I was sure to tell them that it wasn't your fault" Komoe-sensei said frantically.
"Yeah, your class is giving you all sorts of nicknames like the caffeine criminal or the unlucky brew," Yomikawa said as she continued to laugh.
"Not Funny! Besides, why did they think that I did it? I'm a level 0 they should have known that it would've been impossible for someone like me to do that" Touma cried.
"Oh, that's something else we were meaning to tell you Kamijou-san it appears that you are no longer registered as a level 0."
"WHAAT!"
"SHH calm down you don't want them drawing their stun guns on you again, do you," Yomikawa said.
"Sorry, but what do you mean that I'm not a level 0 anymore."
"Well apparently Academy City has decided to name you as a Gemstone"
"A Gemstone?"
"People who are born with powers. That's why the officers were so on edge with you around the only other Gemstone that they know of is the seventh-ranked level 5" Yomikawa clarified.
"Great so now I'm guilty by association" Touma then placed his head down on the table as his whole world started to fall apart.
"Hey, it's not so bad. Shape up at least I can get you outta here without having it affects your records." Yomikawa said in an attempt to cheer up Touma.
"Just leave me to the wolves. My life is over anyway." Touma lamented.
"Oh come on Kamijou-san now's not the time to give up, it's the time to push forward," Komoe said in an attempt to cheer up Touma.
Touma looked up and then sighed.
…
"Nope sorry. I don't buy it" Touma then put his head back down on the table and started to emit an aura of depression.
"Well look on the bright side at least we can make it back to school in time for the last few periods," Komoe said
….
After a few more minutes at unsuccessfully trying to cheer Touma up, Yomikawa eventually gave up and went to the arresting Anti Skill officer and explained the entire situation to him. They eventually dropped the charges however the officer wasn't very apologetic to Touma since he knew that Touma knew something.
After getting all of Touma's belonging from lockup they decided to make their way back up to a certain high school. However, before they arrived Touma asked them to stop at a local chain store, so he could buy something. So he grabbed an Anti Skill hat from Yomikawa car and headed inside.
When Touma returned from the chain store his hair was spiky once more. He had gone in there, so he could style his hair back to be spiky.
"Back to spiky, I see. Gotta say you looked better without it" Yomikawa commented.
"Nah it looks cooler this way."
"Oh I completely forgot that I never saw you without your hair being spiky I knew something was different" Komoe said in awe of the revelation she had just seen.
A Certain High School.
Once Touma had arrived at his school he dreaded the walk up to his class he could hear it now all the jokes at his misfortune. Once Touma had arrived at his class he was immediately swarmed by most of the girls in the class who asked if he was okay and what had happened much to the dismay of all the boys in the classroom.
"Well if it isn't our little jailbird how was the slammer?" Tsuchimikado said while laughing at Touma.
"I always knew that Kami would end up in prison but I for sure guessed that it would be for quarantine in order to stop the Kami disease from spreading, who would have guessed it would have been for coffee." Aogami teased.
"So Kami was it worth it," Tsuchimikado asked while looking Touma dead in the eyes.
"Oh shut up! I didn't even do anything they just arrested me because I just so happened to buy the same brand of coffee as the guy who did do it!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Every boy in the entire class began to laugh at Touma's misfortune.
(I swear I'm gonna get that white-haired guy back for what he's done)
After the class settled down they resumed their normal class schedule. After a while, his class even stopped making jokes about Touma's coffee arrest or at least some of them did anyway.
"What do you want," Touma said as he stared down at Tsuchimikado as he started to approach him.
"Woah there I didn't wanna wake angry Kami" Tsuchimikado then placed a black coffee on his desk. "Here you go, can I have nice Kami back please." Tsuchimikado then grinned widely.
"Screw you Siscon" Touma wasn't about to be baited in now.
"Ah, there he is, good old Kami. It's just, I just got some information that I thought you might want to hear."
"What is it, and I swear to god if it's another one of you."
"Trust me Kami, Would I ever steer you wrong"
Touma simply answered his question with a sharp glare.
"Point taken, but I think you'll want to hear this, apparently there's this rumor going around about a Level upper"
"Level upper? What the hell is that?"
"Well apparently it's this thing that if you use it can boost your level"
"Bull#$ %"
"Nah honest. And it just so happens that."
"No way did you actually get your hands on it!" Touma shouldn't have raised his voice because a certain girl heard them.
"SHH. Kami do you want the entire class to hear you" Tsuchimikado whispered.
"Look I don't actually have it but what I do have is some information that you'd like to see." Tsuchimikado then reached inside his jacket and pulled out a picture.
"Before I show this to you, you gotta promise me that you won't freak out okay."
"What the hell are you talking about just show me." Touma then grabbed the pictures from his hands and examined it. It was a picture of him and Misaka walking together while she was leading him to the Judgement office.
"WHAT THE F-." Tsuchimikado then put his hand over Touma's mouth to stop him from screaming.
"Look Kami calm down I know what you think this is and I promise you that it's not" Touma then smacked Tsuchimikado's hand off his mouth.
"What'd you mean?"
"Look word on the street is the Misaka Mikoto is a huge fan of Gekota merchandise here take this to bribe her to leave you alone." Tsuchimikado then handed him a Gekota makeup pouch.
"What the hell is this"
"Well, Kami I believe it's what you're gonna use to bribe this chick to leave you alone."
"Why are you giving this to me though?"
Tsuchimikado then leaned in a started to whisper is softer.
"Well I don't know if you know this but apparently Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki have a little feud going on right now and you might be the ignition that starts something"
"Like what?"
"Civil war Kami. I don't think you understand your position all that well, if Shokuhou ever finds out about Misaka then it's game over man. Think about it imagine two level 5s duking it out across all academy city, the masses would find themselves up in arms with Shokuhou leading them while Misaka would probably launch an electrical strike that would send Academy city back into the dark ages." Touma did imagine it and it was not pretty.
"Okay, so what I just go up to her and be like 'hey can you stop harassing me here have this makeup pouch'" Touma's eyes were darting around the room trying to see if anyone was watching them.
"Well yeah, I would do it myself but I'm not electrically insulated like some people" Tsuchimikado then looked over at Touma's right hand.
"AGH fine. I knew something like this was bound to happen eventually but bribery doesn't that seem a bit dirty".
"Look Kami it's this or you to tell Shokuhou yourself"
"Fine" Touma grabbed the Gekota pouch and quickly stuffed it into his bag before anyone could notice however someone did.
Touma and Tsuchimikado then suddenly felt aura malice and rage different from anything that they had seen before.
"I knew you both were moronic but this takes it to a whole different level." Fukiyose Seiri said in a menacing voice. She was under the assumption that Tsuchimikado was giving Touma the Level Upper.
"No Fukiyose you got it all GAWAH!" Before Tsuchimikado could continue to make his case he was decked out by Fukiyose and was sent flying across the room until he landed unconsciously on the floor.
"No, wait!" Touma then quickly tried to scramble away from the very pissed off health nut and frantically searched through his bag in order to show her the Gekota pouch. But right when Touma was able to get his hands on it, it was already too late. Fukiyose had closed the distance that Touma put between them and launched her fist full force at the suspected druggie.
"GWAH!" Touma was sent flying crashing into the desks that filled the classroom while still holding onto the Gekota pouch in his hand for all to see.
Touma was able to stay conscious for long enough to hear the laughter of his classmates.
"Such misfortune" Touma weakly said as he drifted into unconsciousness.
A certain Nurses Office.
After Touma and Tsuchimikado were decked out by Fukiyose without mercy or hesitation they were transported to the school infirmary to recover after that brutal one-sided massacre. They were unconscious for the rest of the school-day only being woken up by the final bell.
"What. Where am I" Touma then sat up from the bed he was laying on and turned over to see Tsuchimikado who was still unconscious.
"Oh yeah this is all your fault"
Touma then looked over at the counter next to him to see his belongings laid out there including the Gekota pouch. Touma got up from the bed and headed over to collect his belongings. He then checked his phone only to see he had several missed messages from 'Golden Girl' along with missed calls.
This immediately sent Touma into a panic it was normal if Touma missed a few messages here and there but if he were to miss several phone calls as well. That told Misaki that something was wrong. Touma then quickly grabbed his phone and called Misaki.
"My Prince are you alright!"
"Yeah, everything's okay Misaki. Sorry about missing your calls. It's just that I was a little preoccupied you see."
"Preoccupied"
"Yeah"
"Are you sure you weren't lying unconscious on the ground"
Touma immediately froze at this
"How did you"
The door to the nurse's office then opened to see Misaki who was not very pleased, to say the least.
"So this is how you were preoccupied"
"Uhhh" Touma then turned around to see that Tsuchimikado had already left and taken his stuff with him.
(Coward.)
If Touma knew one thing about Misaki it's that she hated it when he would omit the truth from her just to protect her.
"So what really happened" Misaki then sat in the bed that Touma was originally lying on looking Touma directly in the eyes.
Touma then let out a sigh as he had to explain to Misaki everything that had happened to him today.
"Do you want the long version or the short version" Touma tried to lighten the mood with a joke but like always it was met with poor reception as Misaki simply stared at him.
"Okay well first you know the coffee that you bought yesterday as a gift"
"Yes, what about it?"
"You wouldn't have happened to use your powers to get it would you?"
Misaki instantly turned red as she knew that she did. This reaction told Touma everything that he needed to know.
"So you did"
"Well, I had to. The cashier refused to sell me the coffee!"
"Why do you think he refused to sell you the coffee in the first place it was because somebody else reserved it"
"You can't reserve a pack of coffee, it's first come first served the other boy would just have to live without his coffee for the next few days."
"Well it seems like the other guy didn't take the news of his coffee being taken very lightly"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, apparently the guy kinda freaked out and made a giant hole where the convenience store used to be."
"What!? Are you okay is that why you're here!?"
"No, I'm here because I listened to that damned Siscon. But I did run into some trouble on my way here".
"What kind of trouble?"
"Well, I kinda got arrested for what…."Touma was immediately cut off by Misaki jumping off the bed onto her feet.
"You got arrested!"
"Yeah, but I didn't do anything I just got blamed for the whole incident because I just so happen to drink the same brand of coffee as the other guy."
Misaki then sighed.
"So in a way, this is all my fault." Misaki then looked at the floor distraught at what she had just learned because she misused her powers her Prince was arrested.
'Hey don't look so down. My teacher managed to get the charges dropped at least. Oh, that reminds me I have something that I need to tell you."
"What is it" Misaki raised her head to make eye contact with Touma.
"Well I don't know how it happened but apparently I got registered as a Gemstone."
"How did you find out!?"
"Huh, you don't seem that surprised. Did you already know about this?"
"Yes, that's why I wanted to talk to you yesterday."
"Do you know how this happened. I mean yesterday I was a level 0 and now I'm a Gemstone, I mean what the heck are they thinking."
"Well I don't exactly know why they decided to change your status either" Misaki was partially lying because while she didn't know exactly why Touma's ranked change she knew it had something to do with him fighting a strong esper.
"But I do have this" Misaki then handed Touma a folder.
"What this?"
"It's everything you need to know about your status change to a Gemstone."
Touma then walked over to his bag and pulled out a similar folder from his bag except it was much thicker.
"Uh, Touma what's that?"
"Oh it's just Komoe-sensei already gave me one of these but thanks anyway I appreciate it. She also gave me the basic rundown on how it will majorly affect my everyday life."
"But how did she."
"Oh, Komoe-sensei said she got an email from the Gemstone Research facility with this as an attachment. I guess they give this to everybody whose named a Gemstone huh….Misaki are you okay" Touma then saw Misaki look very angry for some reason.
(You old hag. I swear I'm gonna get you back for this) Misaki thought to herself.
"No, but seriously Touma, are you, okay I mean this is a big change in your life you know?"
"I know and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't freaking out but part of me knows that I'll be alright"
"If you ever need anything I'm always right here"
"I know" Touma then hugged Misaki, he could smell the scent of honey that she emanated and it was refreshing.
Touma then thought that this was the perfect time to come clean to Misaki about his run-ins with Zapper.
"Hey Misaki"
"Yes, my prince" Misaki then looked up at Touma who she was currently embracing.
"Do you know anybody called the Railgun?"
Misaki instantly let him go and looked at him with a serious expression on her face.
"Why do you want to know"
(Yeah I probably should've figured that was a bad idea)
"Oh it's just Tsuchimikado mentioned that she went to your school and that your friends"
"It's true that Misaka and I go to Tokiwadai but I would hardly call us friends."
"Why aren't you guys friends anyway?"
Misaki simply gave Touma a look that told him everything that he needed to know.
"Got it"
Misaki then helped Touma gather up his stuff, and they both headed outside.
"So what do you wanna do now?"
"Well originally I planned on surprising you at your school to take you to eat, so we could talk about you being a Gemstone but now"
"Nah it's fine, where do you wanna go to eat
Misaki then gave a warm smile "Well I've been hearing some good things about a restaurant nearby. Do you want to check it out?"
"Sure."
A Certain Diner.
Once Touma and Misaki made it to the dinner they took a booth near the entrance. Touma ordered a hellish Goya and escargot lasagna while Misaki ordered a parfait along with seven veggie salad. Misaki had already eaten before this, so she decided to skip the main course. So while the two of them waited for their order to arrive Touma decided to kill some time by talking.
"So how did your day go yesterday?" Touma asked.
"Huh. Oh, well as you know I spent most of my day trying to find as much information as possible about being a Gemstone for you."
"Thank you again for that."
"It was no trouble at all really. Oh, but I also ran into someone who could help you better transition into becoming a Gemstone."
"Really who?"
Misaki let out a small sigh as she remembered how Sogiita mannerisms.
"Tell me, have you ever heard of a person by the name of Sogiita Gunha?"
"Oh, you mean the guy from YouTube?"
"Wait you don't actually watch his videos do you?" Misaki had a visible look of concern on her face.
"No, but one of my classmates Fukiyose used to be into his videos I remember the one video, it showed you how you could better your life with guts. She's a health nut and I guess she thought he was like a diet expert or something like. After a while, she just lost interest and moved on."
"Oh yeah, I remember her." Misaki was well aware that Fukiyose would often inflict harm on Touma, but she let it slide mostly due to the fact that she would only do it when he congregated towards the rest of the Delta Force.
"So Touma how did your day go yesterday."
(Oh you know I got a bomb strapped to my hand then I got chased around by an electric fiend and then to top it all off I got captured by a judgment agent turned rogue.)
"Well I helped a little girl find her way to the mall"
"Which one"
"The Seventh Mist Mall"
"Did you and the little girl make it out okay. I heard that a bomb went off in there."
"Yeah I'm fine and so is the little girl we were lucky that Zapper caught the guy"
…
"I'm sorry did you just say Zapper?"
….
(F&*$)
"Yeah, why?" Touma was now getting more and more nervous.
"Whose Zapper?"
"Oh well, you see…" At that moment Touma used all of his processing ability to try to find a way out of this Gordian Knot of a problem that he had just caused. "Mikoto Misaka"
Misaki was visibly shocked at what Touma had just told her.
"How do you know her name?" Misaki said while trying her best to keep her composure.
"Well you see yesterday after the bombing I wondered who actually caught the bomber, so I asked Tsuchimikado, and he said it was Misaka Mikoto the Railgun, and he said that the two of you went to the same school together."
"Oh, that makes sense"
"By the way do you think you could tell her thank you for me." Touma knew that this was a bad idea, but he had to make it as believable as possible.
"That won't be necessary yesterday when I met Misaka she said that she wasn't the one who actually stopped the bomber."
"Oh really" (Oh no!)
"No, but rest assured I'll find out who really stopped the bombing so you can thank them yourself" Misaki then let out a warm smile.
"Thanks" (Oh god what did I just do)
After a few more minutes of talking Misaki's phone started to ring it was Junko calling.
"If you'll please excuse me for just one moment" Misaki then got up from the booth to take the call.
Misaki then returned to the booth.
"I'm so sorry but I have to go"
"What is everything okay?"
"Everything's fine there's no need to worry my Prince it's just that I need to give my clique a meeting on this new thing called Level upper apparently it's been going around and Junko is worried that if nothing is done then it's going to hit Tokiwadai too."
"Oh I heard about that so what are you gonna do?"
"What I do best, manipulate the masses into doing what's best." Misaki then gave a small smile "Without using my powers I promise".
"Okay then do you want to walk you home?"
"That's sweet but I'd feel bad since you didn't have anything to eat today did you?"
Touma then realized that Misaki was right the people from Anti Skill never gave him anything to eat and when he finally got to class it was already past lunch and Fukiyose knocked him out before he could have a snack.
"That's fine I wasn't that hungry anyway" Touma's stomach then betrayed him as it growled loudly unhappy that he was trying to skip out on another meal.
Misaki then gave Touma another smile "Really it fine. Enjoy the meal I'll be sure to pay for us before I leave" Misaki then leaned in to give Touma a kiss on the lips and then headed off.
Touma then waved her off and as she left the restaurant and then sat back down.
(Man how did I ever end up so….) Before Touma could finish that thought his order finally arrived and the waitress put his meal in front of him.
(Well Look at the bright side Kamijou at least you can finally rest easy and finally enjoy a well-deserved meal) Just as Touma was about to start eating the universe thought it would be funny to say Nah.
Another waitress carrying drinks to another table next to him tripped and spilled all the drinks on him. The waitress apologized profusely but Touma didn't really seem to mind since he was used to this sorta thing happening to him, he was just glad that Misaki wasn't here because she was the type of person who did not take kindly to this sort of thing. The waitress then leads Touma to the back to hand him a Towel to clean himself off while she went over to clean the table.
After he finished wiping himself off he heard someone's head bang on a table when Touma turned around he saw Shirai. Red Flags immediately started to go off in his head telling him to run for his dear life, but then he heard the sound of a girl beginning to cry. Touma then saw Zapper in front of a group of thugs, and she was crying he knew it was her probably faking but even so he couldn't just stand by and let this go on.
Touma then walked up to the group of three thugs. "Hey now boys don't tell me it takes all three of you just to rob a girl"
The thug who Misaka was talking to then turned his attention to Touma. "Who the hell do you even think you are?"
"Do you even know where you are, it's called a restaurant where people are eating. If you're that desperate for a girlfriend go run home and play your stupid gal games!" Touma knew he had no right to use gal games in any argument since he only stopped playing after Misaki asked him not to, but he wasn't going to admit it to this guy.
"WHAT'D YOU SAY!"
"Besides she's not that kinda girl anyway. Trust me" Touma was trying to show these thugs reason but instead he thought he meant something else.
"So that's what this is, I guess we're gonna have to kick you a## now" Just then all three thugs got up from their seat.
"Pft bring it on"
(Pfft three on one piece of cake)
Just then however the door to the boys' bathroom opened and six more thugs came out.
"No way I thought only girls went to the bathroom together!"
"Still think you can take us all on, empty your wallet, and we'll consider-" The thug then looked up and saw that Touma had already left the building and was currently sprinting down the road.
All the thugs then gave chase to the now flee Touma in hopes of beating him up for disrespecting them. However due to all of his experiences of being chased he easily got away from their line of sight. However, he could hear the sound off lightning in the distance and ran towards the park in hopes of losing her there.
A Certain Park.
Touma was running at full speed and while he couldn't see her due to it still being dark out, Touma knew better than to just hope that she gave up. The way Touma ran, however, was frantic, to say the least, due to the fact that the only light being provided was from the moon, so he put both of his hands in front of him in case he ran into a wall or something, so he could have some warning in advance before impact. However, due to this he accidentally ran into another boy pushing him down to the ground. The sound of Glass breaking could be heard when he made an impact on the boy.
(The Moon? What the hell am I doing looking at the moon? Is it because I'm flat on my back. Wait how? Is it because of him? That shouldn't be possible. WHY! WHY!) The white-haired boy then looked at Touma with a slight daze.
"OH my god are you okay," Touma asked while sticking his right hand to help the boy off the ground.
The boy responded by smacking Touma's right-hand away. Although he looked very surprised when he did it almost like he was expecting something to happen.
"What the F*&* did you do"
"I'm so sorry it's just it was so dark and I-" Touma then saw what the boy was carrying a pack of black coffee, and then he finally got a good look at the boy he had moppy white hair and had a foul mouth. "It's you." Touma then raised his finger at the boy who was currently picking himself up.
(TCH another one.) The boy was used to getting into fights, although this one seemed off as it was the first time he was actually pushed to the ground. "Fine then bring it-"
"You're the A$$##%$ who keeps stealing all my coffee!" Touma then pointed at the pack of coffee that was still on the floor.
"HUH!" The white-haired boy was shocked, to say the least at the sudden turn of events one minute he thinks he's getting into a fight the next he's being accused of stealing coffee.
"What the hell are you talking about I bought this at…. Wait a minute are you the dumb# & who keeps breaking the f%#$#% packs".
"YEAH! And you know what I'd do it again do you have any idea at the amount of S# # you caused me."
'What F%$# are you saying!"
"Because of you I failed my class and I got chewed out by Misaki and to top it all off I got arrested for something that I didn't even do!"
"What the F$ are you even talking about!"
Touma then took a minute to catch his breath and to gather his thoughts the white-haired boy decided to do the same.
"So were you the guy who made a giant hole in the wall at that convince store?"
"Yeah, so what?"
"So what-. You don't just destroy a convenience store just because they run out of Black coffee."
"Screw off. It was their own fault for selling my pack of coffee, and then that F$#% $#& cashier has the nerve to tell me he doesn't remember".
(Ugh Misaki why.)
"Look I get it. It was a pretty scummy move on their part but that doesn't give you the right to go ahead and destroy their shop".
"TCH"
"Well, in any case, I'm sorry for lashing out at you early," Touma said earnestly.
"Huh?"
"Yeah, it just that It's been a …. Stressful day to say the least."
"..." The white-haired boy just stood there in shock (Why the hell is this kid apologizing)
"Hey! Why the hell were you running like lunatic earlier?" The white-haired boy asked.
"Huh?" Touma then remembered why he was running in the first place and turned pale. "You gotta run man!"
"What?"
"Trust me if she catches you it not gonna be pretty!" Touma then started to run.
"What the hell are you talking about!?"
Touma turned around and gave the best explanation he could. "I'm being bullied by a middle school girl I don't how better to explain it than that!" Touma then ran full sprint away from the boy.
"WHAT THE F$#% DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!" This leads the white-haired boy to have even more questions about what just happened. But before he could give chase he got a message on his phone telling him that it was time for another experiment.
(TCH. This isn't over kid)
A Certain Bridge
Touma ran as fast as humanly possible to outrun Misaka and decided to catch his breath of the bridge. However, this was a mistake as he could hear the sound of electricity.
BOOOOOOOM!
Touma turned around to see a beam of orange and white light. It was almost like an instinct that his left hand reacted and blocked the impact. It was like he had done this before. The sound of something reverbing could be heard as another beam of orange and white light shot out of his left hand pointed at the sky in order to not destroy any property this time.
"So it was you" Misaka was walking towards Touma with a sharp glare.
"What are you talking about?"
"August 30th, I shot my Railgun at a makeshift bomb shelter only to have my shot ricochet off the bunker shooting it back at me."
"Huh?" Touma had no idea what Misaka was talking about anymore.
"You know ever since that day something never sat right with me you know, I knew there was no way that the bomb shelter could've actually reflected my Railgun, but now I know."
"Look I have no idea what you're talking about"
"Pft. Quit lying already is that why you only negated my attacks up until now because you thought that I would remember."
Touma had no idea if what she was saying was true or not, he honestly couldn't remember.
"Look I'm sorry if your attack got reflected and it scared you or something"
"I wasn't scared!"
"Okay. But I'm a level 0" Touma completely forgot that he was just named a Gemstone.
"LIAR! Uiharu looked up your file earlier today and I saw that you were actually a Gemstone! Because of you, Uiharu got in trouble for looking up your file!"
Touma was shocked he didn't want anybody to get in trouble because of him. "I'm so sorry, but you gotta, believe me, I was only just recently named a Gemstone. Is your friend okay?"
"Uiharu's fine she just got yelled at"
"That's good." Touma then started to walk away only to be stopped by an electrical spear being shot at him, lucky for him his sixth sense kicked in, and he negated it before it could hit him.
"Ha" Touma then started to laugh
"What so funny?"
"Nothing it's just that I always thought that I had no luck but you. You have some serious bad luck."
"What are you talking about."
"No matter how much you attack me it won't work. Carrying on like this would be a waste of time.' Touma remembered that he still had the Gekota makeup pouch on him and was planning to use it to bribe Misaka to let him go. However, Misaka interpreted this in a different way.
"You know what your right."
"Really?"
"All this time I was holding back afraid that I might hurt somebody" Suddenly a thunder cloud began to form above their heads.
"A thundercloud" Touma began sweating bullets at the sight of this.
"No, if you do that then every piece of electronic around here will get" Suddenly a monstrous sized thunderbolt shot out from the Thunder cloud headed straight for Touma. The sound of glass breaking was heard along with all the lights in the area being turned off.
Tokiwadai Dorms.
Misaki had just finished giving a speech to her clique members about not using Level upper. And her clique responded by giving her a standing ovation.
"That was so moving my Queen," Junko said as she was clapping.
"It was nothing, I just." Suddenly all the light turned off.
"Somehow I know this is Misaka's fault," Misaki said under her breath.
July 20
Touma managed to shake Misaka after running from her for another hour straight. Although he had a hard time finding his way home since all the street light went out. When he finally arrived home however he was sad, to say the least as all his electronics were destroyed even his fridge. So Touma decided to eat all the leftovers he had since it was going to go bad anyway and went to sleep. When Touma woke up however he was covered in sweat and so was his futon, the blackout also caused his AC to go out and it was as hot as a sauna in his dorm.
"Ugh, this is all your fault zapper" Touma then decided to check his apartment to see the full extent of the damages. It was a good thing Touma decided to eat as much as he could because his refrigerator was now leaking water from all the ice and frozen food he kept stored in there.
Touma cleaned up as best he could before he had to go to his supplementary classes. Once he cleaned the apartment he remembered that his futon was still wet from his sweat, so he had to put it outside to air dry on the balcony. So he went over to his balcony to open the sliding door only to see something already on the railing of his balcony.
(Huh did I already put it out to dry?)
Touma then went to investigate further and noticed that it wasn't a futon.
(No that…. A GIRL and is she a Nun) Touma saw that she was wearing a white and gold habit.
Suddenly the girl lifted her head to reveal her face she had silvery white hair, and he could see her bright green eyes he could also tell that she was a foreigner.
"No way is this real"
Suddenly the girl spoke.
"... I'm so Hungry".
Author's Notes
When Accelerator attacked the convenience store it was during the night shift so the cashier was the only one in the shop, but Accelerator made sure that he saw everything but, he wasn't physically injured.
Fun Facts
Uiharu had to write a 20-page apology letter to the staff at the Gemstone Research facility as punishment for looking up information about Touma without permission.
Kihara Nayuta is a judgment officer but also works part-time at the Gemstone research facility.
The brand hair gel Touma uses also produces other cosmetics such as color changing contacts as well as eyeliners.
When Komoe-sensei heard the news that Touma got arrested she fainted and that is why it took her 2 hours to go and pick him up.
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