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"Yomikawa-san, what's wrong?" Kuroko asked worriedly.
Aiho took a quick look at the kids and then motioned the other two Anti-Skill members toward her. She whispered something to them and nodded in acknowledgement. Then they moved toward the entrance and stood watch. Aiho turned to Kuroko and said, "Nothing, just a little surprised an old code like that was used. I thought it was discontinued, but it turns out it was reinstated recently." She looked directly as Jason. "How do you have that code?"
Jason shrugged, "I was just given it and told it could be used in these kinds of eventful situations."
Aiho sighed. "You really want to make this complicated don't you? Kamijou was hard enough, but now you too?"
"Hey," Touma said. "I don't try to get in these situations."
"I don't know what you mean," Jason said. "I didn't realize Touma was even here."
"What?" Touma, Mikoto, and Shirai all said together looking at Jason like he was mad. Aiho was faster on the uptake.
"Hmm," she said. "Maybe you are right. Kamijou was never involved in this situation; I was just reminded of the problems he caused in the past."
"Exactly," Jason said cheerfully. "We were lucky Judgment showed up when they did. Shirai-san was able to evacuate everyone while some vigilante helped prevent the collapse of the building. Uiharu-san was able to keep everything orderly even in the face of the terrorist."
"You're the vigilan….," Kuroko started to say, but Mikoto shushed her, she was beginning to get an idea of what was going on. Touma still had no idea.
"What are you two talking about?" he asked but Jason continued as if he wasn't interrupted.
"We were lucky the Railgun was also nearby and was able to stop the intruders in the basement. A level 5 was easily able to stop them, without help of course. I mean, why would she need it?"
Aiho nods, "Excellent point. Though, I am not sure how the two people who were not here are going to get out unseen."
Kuroko gasped. How could this guy convince a member of Anti-Skill to falsify a report? That would be breaking the law. "You can't just make…" she tried to say again but this time Aiho shushed her.
"I'll explain everything later," she whispered. "This is protocol for this situation."
Kuroko nods briefly but still glares at Touma and Jason. She was confused; nothing in her Judgment training prepared her for this situation. Touma finally began to understand what was happening and he caught Mikoto's eye. She gives a slight nod and a wink. They both know whatever code Jason gave to Aiho, it was going to let Touma and Jason escape.
"That's easy," Jason said smiling. "The vigilante was able to escape through the roof of the building. All that rubble left plenty of openings."
"Not much we can do about that," Aiho agreed smiling. "Well one thing for sure, if two of my students were caught here and were making me go through all this extra trouble and paperwork, they would certainly be running laps the next day until the coughed blood."
Touma noticed that remark wiped the smile off Jason's face and Touma knew he probably looked the same way. They both paled and were not looking forward to tomorrow now. Mikoto was trying to hold in a laugh while Kuroko looked like she wanted to yell at the boys. Touma watched at Jason's shadow started to form into large black wings. Another part of the shadow wrapped around Touma's midriff.
"Don't touch the shadow with your hand," Jason whispered. He then jumped into the air and through a hole in the ceiling with Touma getting dragged behind him by the shadow. They landed on the roof and Jason jumped to the nearest building.
Touma looked down and saw several people pointing upwards in shock. It probably was an unusual sight, seeing something dark flying from building to building. The shadow blocked any view of their faces so Touma was pretty sure they would not be recognized. But he was getting a little nauseous as they jumped from building to building. He realized the wings actually didn't allow Jason to fly; they just gave him extra propulsion and slowed down the fall to give him greater distance. Eventually they were far enough away that Jason could land in an ally and let Touma go.
Touma leaned against a wall slightly sick. "Could you have made that ride smoother?"
Jason laughed as the shadow left him and he looked normal once again. "Nah, building hopping was the fastest way to get out of there."
'So are you going to explain what that code was about," Touma asked. "And who those people were? You seemed to know they were after something." It occurred to him how little he knew about Jason.
Jason nodded. "I will," he said hesitantly. "But not here, back at the apartment. We don't want anyone to overhear. Besides, there's an eavesdropper nearby and she probably wants to hear this too." He points and Touma looks up.
"Mikoto?" he asked in shock.
Mikoto jumps down from the roof. "I snuck out of there and followed you two. I want to know what is going on."
Jason sighed, "Fine, besides, I don't have all the answers but I can tell you what I know."
Back at Jason's apartment, Touma, Jason, Mikoto, and Index were sitting in the middle of the room. Touma had brand new bite marks all over his body when Index found out he had dashed off and dealt with strange magicians by himself.
"What do you want to know?" Jason asks them.
"What was that code about?" Mikoto asked, "And what did it have to do with those intruders?"
"Oh," Jason asked. "Do you know about magic?"
"Magic isn't real," Mikoto says.
"Magic does exist," Index says angrily.
"Well to speed things up to answer your questions," Jason replied. "Magic is a lot like the abilities developed in academy city except there are two main differences. One, it follows a different set of rules, but there are rules nonetheless, this is important to know. Two, it's a lot more versatile in many aspects. If you are interested in knowing more, Index here is a lot more knowledgeable then I am. Not long ago, Touma rescued me from some rogue scientists, who captured me for some kind of weird experiment. Afterwards, I went and met with the Superintendent of Academy City." He face darkens a little. "That person never seems to miss anything important going on in the city. Well, he helped me getting back into school in exchange for two things. One was helping out in the research and development division and two, to join a special division of Anti-Skill."
"Wait," Touma said. "Why would they ask a high school student to help with the research department?"
"Because," Jason sighed. "Academics wise, I am way past college level. I just wanted to go to high school like a normal student. So I made the excuse that going through a normal curriculum would help me understand the current status of level development."
"What?" Mikoto asks in response to this announcement. "You mean you don't even need school."
"Well not for educational purposes," Jason said shrugging. "I never got to attend school so I made sure that was in the agreement. I finally got the city to agree. That's why you don't see me a lot outside of school Touma."
"I wondered about that," Touma said remembering what he thought of Jason the day after they escaped. "That explained were you went off to right after we got out of that area."
Mikoto looks back and forth between the two but decided she didn't need the specifics this time. Index had already heard this before. "So this division of Anti-Skill," Mikoto said. "What's special about it to have gotten you two out of that situation?"
"Well," Jason said hesitating slightly. "You could say it's the Anti-Magic division. It was set up to deal with rogue magicians who entered the city. Because of the tensions between magic and science, you can't have ability users directly fighting magicians alone. I, somehow, was able to survive experiments to use both an ability and magic. So they decided I would be the optimal person to restart that division. There are a few privileges such as being able to get involved in certain cases, like the one at the museum."
"Survived?" Mikoto asked.
"Remember those rules of magic I talked about," Jason said and his voice turned dark. "It turns out they conflict with the rules of ability development. The last few people to try to learn both died. Originally they didn't know what would happen."
Mikoto's eyes widened but decided not to continue that discussion.
"Why would you leading the division be any less problematic then if anyone else led it?" Touma asked.
'That's easy," Indexed piped up after being unusually quiet. "He was somehow able to break the boundaries between magic and science. So if he led a group against mages or ability users, each side could not say that the other side specifically wanted to start a war. Each side could simply say they used a neutral third party who could use magic against magic or science against science." Jason nodded in agreement.
"What were they after anyways?" Jason asked Touma and Mikoto.
Touma scratched his head. "I actually don't know what it was. It was a red sphere with gold designs on it. It was at the museum though, so it had to be a Greek artifact. The female magician touched it against my hand and there was a flash of blue light"
"It sounds like a Virlerud," Index says. "Many people originally thought they were prophecies but they are actually archives by individuals. They come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. By infusing it with your mana, you can learn the information stored within them. The blue light was probably a barrier to protect it and was negated by your hand Touma."
"So they were after information then," Touma said thinking.
Index nodded, "I can't tell you what kind of information though unless you know more details on the designs."
"They also mentioned they wanted you too, Touma," Mikoto said. "They just didn't realize you were going to be there."
"Arg," Touma said hitting his face with his hand. "Just another thing on my list of misfortunes"
Mikoto glanced at a clock on the wall. "Shit, I have to go, it's almost curfew and she will kill me if I'm late." With a bolt she takes off through the door.
"Sigh," Touma said. "What now?"
"Well," Jason said. "I was always curious about experimenting with your Imagine Breaker. Would you be interested? I could guarantee you would get reimbursed for your time."
Touma glared at him while Jason just smiled innocently.
The next day Touma was too busy thinking about last night's conversation to realize something was wrong. He entered his class and after a few seconds he realized the class was unnaturally silent. Touma looked around and saw that everyone was staring at him in shock. His warning alarms began buzzing but he could not think of a reason for this. He made his way to his desk and sat down, now aware of everyone eyes following him. He noticed that Pierce and Motoharu were staring too with their mouths open. Finally, against his better judgment, he asked them, "What?"
Suddenly, the class exploded as one. "KAMIJOU FINNALLY GOT A GIRLFRIEND!"
The force of the entire class's yell caused Touma to cover his ears. "What are you guys talking about?" he yelled at everyone.
He found himself in a headlock by Pierce. 'Kamijou, you b $$&%!^, how dare you get a girlfriend before me, especially such a cute younger one."
"Kami-yan," Motoharu said while shaking his head. "Do you think we wouldn't find out about this? All your denial about not having a girlfriend and were looking for one."
"Huh?" Kamijou spluttered while still trapped in a headlock by Pierce.
Motoharu pulled out his cell phone and showed a picture of him being dragged by Ruiko into the museum. The angle of the picture told him it could only be one person. JASON, I am going to kill you.
"He's not denying it," Motoharu called out to the class who all gaped and started yelling excitedly. The noise caused Komoe to rush into the class.
"What's going on with Kamijou-chan?" she called out. No one was surprised she knew who the center of the commotion was.
"Kami-yan got himself a real girlfriend," Motoharu called out to her. Komoe's mouth dropped open in shock and tears began to well up in her eyes.
"Dang it, Kamijou," Pierce said tightening the headlock. "You always said you were into Onee-san types, yet you always seem to be around younger girls. You even made Komoe-sensei cry."
Kamijou struggled and finally loosen Pierce's grip. 'Why is everyone surprised that I can go on a date?"
"BECAUSE IT"S YOU KAMIJOU." The class yelled in unison.
Touma was glad when the school day finally ended. He was tired, both mentally and physically. He was questioned constantly by his classmates and Motoharu and Pierce interrogated him every chance they got. To top it off, Yomikawa-sensei kept her promise and had made him run laps all class period while everyone else just had to do sprints. He almost threw up before the end of gym class. He was packing all of his school supplies and was one of the last ones to leave when someone called out to him.
"Hey Hero," Accelerator said. "I need to talk to you."
Touma turned and saw that Accelerator was glaring at him. What did I do now? "Yes?"
Accelerator looked at the door. "This is about Last Order," he says. "She recently found out about birthdays from Yomikawa. They decided this Saturday would be her birthday party since she didn't really have a birth date. The problem is," he grimaced and it looked like he wanted to vomit. "She wants you at her party."
"Huh," Touma asked not sure he heard right.
"She wants YOU, the F#&*!&^ Hero, at her party."
"AH," Touma said realizing he heard correctly. "That shouldn't be a problem."
Accelerator nods, "One other thing." This time he looked like he really wanted to punch someone, Touma hoped it wasn't going to be him. "I have no idea what to get that brat."
Touma stared at him with wide eyes, and then he involuntary let out a laugh before he could stop himself. He found Accelerator's hand gripping Touma's collar and nothing but anger and murder in his eyes.
"Did you want to die?"
"No," Touma says. "I was just surprised you would ask me for something like that."
"Tsk," Accelerator spat out. "I hear the brat has similar interests to the third rate, and you know her. So you are the best choice. You also don't have a big mouth and spread this crap to everyone."
Ah, he means Mikoto. "Yea I can help," he says. "Did you want to go today?" If I refused, he probably would try to kill me. But he does appear to really care about Last Order.
He nodded but looked like he wanted to do anything else besides this. "I'll meet you at the underground mall. I have to ditch the kid first."
Touma nods and thought to himself. Well, this is going to be different.
"This makes me so mad," Kuroko complains hitting her head on a wall.
"Shirai-san," Kazari said. "There must have been a reason why Yomikawa-san let them go."
"Take his side because you like him," Kuroko snapped while Kazari blushed. Mikoto hit Kuroko on her head.
"Stop taking your frustration on Uiharu-san," Mikoto says.
Kuroko looks at Mikoto with big sad eyes. "Onee-sama, please say that the ape isn't going to steal you away from me." She teleports into Mikoto and gives her a hug, which causes her to get hit again.
"He's not going to steal me away from anything," Mikoto says turning slightly red.
"Besides Shirai-san," Ruiko says happily. "He's with me. He was so cool, saving us, and then dashing off to stop those intruders all by himself." Mikoto felt a slight sick feeling in her stomach at Ruiko's words.
"Doesn't matter how cool or brave people think it was," Kuroko sniffed. "Civilians can't just deliberately run into dangerous situations by themselves."
She would flip out if she knew how many times Touma has done that, Mikoto thinks to herself smiling slightly.
"Shirai-san," Kazari says nervously. "Is this the place you were talking about?"
Kuroko looks and smiles. "Yep, it just opened."
Everyone else just stared at the store. Kuroko had told them a new clothing store opened up at the mall and convinced everyone to come with her. None of them were told it wasn't a normal clothing store. It was a very…exotic…. underwear store. Mikoto, Ruiko, and Kazari just stared at the store as Kuroko walked in.
"She can't be serious," Mikoto said hitting her face with her hand.
"Shirai-san has a very…interesting…choice in clothing," Kazari said choosing her words carefully.
"Hmm," Ruiko says thinking. "It couldn't hurt to take a look around. There might be something I like." She grabs Kazari and drags her in. "You need to come too; you might find something to impress a certain guy."
"Saten-san," Kazari cried turning beet red as she was dragged in.
There is no way I am going in there, Mikoto thought to herself and went the opposite way. She never understood Kuroko's taste in underwear. Kuroko always wanted extremely erotic ones. Mikoto liked cute ones, like ones with Gekota, a popular frog character. She new Kuroko was going to take awhile in that store but was surprised Ruiko wanted to go in there too. She sighed, might as well kill some time. To let out some steam she went to the arcade and proceeded to set the daily record in the punch machine.
Feeling better, she went to check out her favorite store, they usually had a lot of Gekota merchandise and she wanted to see if they had any new ones she didn't have. When she got close to the store she saw someone she never thought to see here, leaning up against a pillar on his cell phone outside that store. She decided to sneak up on him. When she got close she finally called to him.
"Hey Touma," she said cheerfully. "What are you doing here?"
"Ah hey Mikoto," Touma said looking up. "Just here with a friend."
"Oh, buying someone Gekota merchandise?" she asked slyly nudging him in the arm. "I don't think Ruiko is interested in that stuff."
"Ah my friend is getting it for someone's birthday," Touma said nervously. "I'm just hanging out with him."
"Jason?"
"Nah, he's off doing who knows what."
"He is probably off making Judgment and Anti-Skill's life more difficult."
Touma laughs, "I wouldn't doubt that."
"Onee-sama," Kuroko's voice called, "I'm glad we finally found you… What are you doing with that ape?"
"Oh no," Mikoto sighed as Kuroko teleported between them with Kazari and Ruiko following.
"Hi," Ruiko said to Touma when she saw who Mikoto was talking to.
"Hi Saten-san," Touma said smiling at her.
"You can call me Ruiko," she said grabbing his arm. "I also never got a chance to thank you for your help yesterday."
Touma smiled and turned slightly red. "You're welcome; though I just did what anyone would have done. You can call me Touma too." Ruiko smiles back at him.
"Is Jason here?" Kazari asked.
"No, he's off working I think."
"He better not be running around as a vigilante again," Kuroko said angrily. "He caused enough problems. Do you know how much paperwork had to be done because of your stunt?"
"Well, umm," Touma sputtered. "I didn't know much about what happened."
Mikoto was trying not to laugh as Kuroko put Touma on the spot. Kazari was trying, unsuccessfully, to keep Kuroko calm.
"Hey Hero," a voice said. "I've finally got this trash. Stupid people kept holding up the line." Everyone turned to see the white haired skinny kid approach Touma. He looked around at all the newcomers. "Pssh, I see everyone at school was right about you."
"What are you doing here?" Mikoto said in surprise but also with a hint of anger. She still had a grudge against him for what he did in the level 6 experiment.
"If it isn't the third rate," Accelerator says sarcastically while sneering. "I wonder what I could possibly be doing in a mall." Mikoto saw he was carrying a large bag.
"How dare you refer to Onee-Sama that way," Kuroko raged. "She is the number three level five, the Ace of Tokiwadai, and known as the Rail Gun. Who are you to talk that way to her?" She grew redder when Accelerator burst out laughing. "How dare you…"
"Kuroko stop," Mikoto says putting her hand on Kuroko's shoulder. "Don't mess with him."
"But Onee-sama," Kuroko said. "I can't let him talk that way about you. Who does he think he is?"
Mikoto sighs, "You know the number one level five in the city?" Kuroko nods. "That's Accelerator."
Kuroko's eyes widen while Accelerator just laughs. "So girl, do you want to go at it," he says smiling, though smiling just makes him look slightly insane.
Kuroko's face goes white. Everyone present has heard how powerful Accelerator is. She realized how big of a mistake she made. "Even so," Kuroko says trying to sound tough but her voice dropped a notch. "He shouldn't talk that way about you."
Touma stepped in between them. "Accelerator, there's no need to fight." Accelerator doesn't know how to hold back. Someone could get seriously hurt if they fight.
Accelerator glares at him, "Pssh, you and your hero act." He turns to walk away when Ruiko calls out.
"Wow, you are the number one? I've never seen you in person before." She reaches out and shakes his hand before he realized what happened. He just stares at her like she's something he has never seen before. "So how do you know Touma?"
Touma and Mikoto both gulped, neither of them knew what Accelerator was going to say. They noticed he gave them a quick glance before shrugging. "We met unexpectedly and sort of got stuck together." Touma let out a sigh on the inside. While it was true, he at least left out a lot of details that would have been problematic for others to hear.
"So Touma," Ruiko said turning back to him. "I never got a chance to ask, what level are you? You were able to fight off the terrorists and you know several high level ability users. You must be a pretty high level right?" This question caused everyone to stare at Touma. Mikoto was the only one who knew he could negate her ability but she didn't know his full power or level.
"Actually," Touma said, aware of all the eyes on him. "I am only a level 0."
"Huh," Ruiko, Kazari, and Kuroko said. Mikoto hit her face with her hand. That idiot always says that but it can't be true. Accelerator however punched the pillar. "Bullshit, there's no way you are a level 0." Everyone looks at him in surprise. "If you are going to lie about that shit, maybe I'll force it out of you." He reaches for the collar on his neck.
"Now Accelerator," Touma said backing away. "There's no need for that, such misfortune." He turns and runs down the corridor with Accelerator in close pursuit. While the rest of the group watches with confusion and a hint of amusement.
"That was interesting," Kazari said. "I didn't know he was friends with Accelerator."
Ruiko was laughing, "Yea, they certainly seem like a fun pair."
Kuroko just stared off watching those two run off. "Should we be worried a level five is after a level zero?"
"I'm sure he will be fine," Mikoto says. "I doubt he is a level zero."
"That does seem unusual that he would be considered a level zero," Kazari said. "From what I saw, he definitely did have an ability."
"Well, why don't we look up his power?" Ruiko suggested.
"Hmm," Kuroko said. "I am slightly interested in his power but there's no way that barbarian could be a high level ability user."
"I actually want to know his ability too," Mikoto said.
"It's settled then," Ruiko says cheerfully. "Mission to discover Touma's hidden power." The four girls head off and find a table in the corner of the food court and watch Kazari pull up the information on Touma.
"Well?" Mikoto says.
"According to the database, Touma Kamijou is labeled as a level zero," Kazari says while examining her laptop. "Hmm, results show he does not have aptitude in any area of ability development. That's unusual but not unheard of."
"Unless he somehow can hide his ability or hacked the city's database to change his information," Kuroko said. "I guess he is a level zero."
"Dang," Ruiko said. "I thought he would have some amazing ability. Well, that makes what he did even more impressive."
Mikoto sighs. Maybe he is really telling the truth. Then how does he keep negating my power? "Would it be possible that his power couldn't be detected?"
"With the latest technology," Kuroko responds, "that should be impossible."
"Umm," Kazari says suddenly. "I think I might have found something. I dug into the database a little bit more and may have done something I shouldn't have done, but I found this." The other three girls crowd around the computer.
"Category: Unranked?" Mikoto asks. "What's that?"
Kazari clicked on the Category link and read off, "The following three individuals unique abilities have been classified as Unranked. The reason for this hidden classification is that their abilities have not been fully or are incapable of being measured."
"Whoa," Ruiko said her eyes widening. "I bet you hacked this didn't you. Keep going."
Kazari turned pink but just kept reading. "The following three individuals are as followed, Suzuki Hibatani, Touma Kamijou, and Jason Kagere."
"Kagere-san in on there too," Kuroko said. "Click on his link first, I want to know his ability." Kazari nods and clicks.
"Let's see, Name: Jason Kagere, Age: 15, school, birth date, and here we are, ability. He is currently labeled a level 4. His ability's name is Shadow World. Weird, they gave him the nickname, thought that was saved for level 5's, Nightmare."
"Sounds ominous," Ruiko interrupts.
"His ability, Shadow World, has not been fully studied," Kazari read as if she had not been interrupted. "While first glance indicates it is level 4 ability, there have been indications in the research that his ability is much higher. For some reason, he is either hiding his ability or has some problem where he can't or won't access his power. The ability, as of now, allows him to manipulate his shadow into a physical form. This allows him to use his ability both to attack and defend along with providing many types of utility, such as basic flight and tools."
"Well," Kuroko says. "That would explain what he did yesterday. Creating vines and wings in order to fly and stop the falling debris."
"Look at Touma's next," Ruiko says.
"Hold on," Kazari says. "How is this possible?"
"What is it?" Mikoto asks.
"According to this, Kagere-san has been appointed as the head of the Research and Development for Ability User's Curriculum and is a member of an organization called LOCK-DOWN."
"What," Mikoto asked. "He is in charge of setting up the curriculum for ability development?" He mentioned that last night but didn't specify which area he worked in.
"Looks like it," Kazari said. "But I don't understand how this would be possible. No student should be appointed to a head research position. I've also never heard of LOCK-DOWN before, have you?" Everyone else shook their head.
"Could this be a fake page?" Kuroko asked.
"If it is," Kazari said, "this would be one of the best forgeries I have ever seen. It appears to be legit."
"Look up Touma's," Ruiko said again.
"Let's see, Touma Kamijou age 16," Kazari said. "Ability's name is Imagine Breaker and, wow, his nickname is God of Misfortune."
"Cool," Ruiko said. "So he does have an ability and what's with that nickname?"
"With his luck, that kind of fits," Mikoto said smirking.
"Imagine Breaker is an unknown ability. Field tests have shown that it has the ability to directly interfere and cancel another individual's reality. How this occurs, further testing is required. It is hypothesized that long term exposure to his ability could cause permanent destruction of others reality."
"What?" all four of them gasped.
"His ability can cancel out other abilities?" Kuroko asked shocked.
"Ha, I knew that rumor was true," Ruiko said fist punching the air. "The individual who could cancel abilities was Touma."
"So that's his ability," Mikoto mumbled. She had expected this but now she had actual evidence to support her theory.
"What's scary is his ability may be able to permanently negate others ability," Kazari said. "There's more. Imagine Breaker has shown it can cancel any level of ability. Touma Kamijou has faced and defeated two level 5 abilities. Current technology has not been able to measure this phenomenon so he is temporarily classified as level 0. It is hypothesized that should this ability be controlled, it may pass that of a level 5."
Everyone turned to Mikoto. "Onee-Sama, is the rumors about you and Accelerator being defeated by a level 0 true. Was this ape the one who beat you?"
Mikoto looked at them and sighed she didn't really want to admit it, but now would be as good of time as ever. "Yes, I have challenged him many times but could never beat him. In fact, my attacks could never touch him unless he deliberately let them. He never fought back either, even when he had a chance to. I also saw him defeat Accelerator with my own eyes. But for whatever reason he doesn't spread that around." Ruiko and Kazari's eyes widen while Kuroko looks dumbstruck.
Before any of them can question Kazari further, her phone rings. She looks down and smiles. "Ah it's Kagere-san." Before she picks it up Kuroko grabs it from her hand.
"Kagere-san," Kuroko says into the phone. "You got a lot of explaining to do about yesterday." Silence. "I don't care about that, you will tell me." Her face turns white then red with anger. "Like hell that will happen." Silence. "Arg, I'm going to get you back." She tosses the phone to Kazari and grabs her head. "I can't deal with him."
"What did he say?" Mikoto asked thinking he probably did something sarcastic.
"He says he will tell me about yesterday but says I have to do something impossible first."
"I expect he said that so you would stop questioning him," Ruiko says smiling.
"I won't let him win," Kuroko says with fire in her eyes. "I'll do the impossible even if it kills me."
Everyone looked at her like she was crazy.
I figured now would be as good as time as any to introduce Jason's ability along with my take on Touma's Imagine Breaker. Accelerator is definitely going to have a much bigger part in the future. I plan for him and Touma to have some fun escapades. Not always willingly though.
As for the impossible task for Kuroko, you will have to wait till next chapter, I'm sure everyone will enjoy it.
After writing this, I realized a pairing may occur that I did not originally plan for. I try to make sure everything that happens occurs as naturally as possible, just another joy of writing.