FOREWORD
Well I'm back for another chapter in the saga of this civil war. I got such great reviews last chapter, please keep them coming.
Well on to the question and answer section:
Danmaku-OverLord: A harem ending? Hmmm…maybe?
Guest: That was a different girl.
Whwsms: Oh we'll get to what the male students do to Touma eventually.
MrQuestionMark: I'm glad you enjoyed it. I gave Othinus that attitude because you would think that after living for thousands of years and being in her position that she would have had at least some lovers and was fairly experienced.
toumakamijou298: I'm glad you enjoyed the fight.
Amvmaster: Funny, but that would be anti Touma.
Knight of the Iron Hammer Vita: Could be? Maybe…?
LL: He's just watching his city burn. Not even he has the power to stop this.
Guest: We'll find out what Sphynx thinks soon.
d3mystic: Touma is NEVER ready for the hell that is his life. And I'm glad you enjoyed the fight.
AngelBlue1852: Of course it will end well…maybe. Probably. Not at all.
"ARE THE RUMORS TRUE!?"
"ARE THE RUMORS TRUE!?"
Asked both Index and Mikoto as they bursted into the hospital room that Touma usually resides in when he's injured.
But instead of Touma, in the room stood an old man in a white lab coat, with the face of a frog.
"If you're looking for Kamijou san, he isn't here right now."
"Oh. Well we thought that since we can't seem to find him that he might be here." stated Index.
"Well, some of the nurses showed me a video that they had received this morning and thought that I should make sure that his normal room is prepared, just in case." replied the Frog Faced Doctor, knowing what could happen to Touma and why he could end up in that room later.
Dejected, the two (three) girls left the room and walked back to the elevator. Pressing the call button, the doors opened right away. They walked onto the elevator and pressed the button for the ground floor while standing in silence.
"I say we ditch this girl and go look elsewhere for that human." whispered Othinus in Index's ear, while hiding in her hair.
Index nodded her head ever so slightly in agreement with the tiny god.
Index and Mikoto didn't speak to each other. They didn't even look in each other's direction. They continued to focus their attention of the paneling in the elevator.
'I need to find that idiot before this girl or anyone else does. I need to first confirm if the rumor is true, and if it is then I need to confes—' Mikoto's thoughts stop in that moment. What was she going to do? After she found the idiot, and if the rumors were indeed true, then what? What would she do with that information if it turned out to be true?
'I don't know what I'll do or say to that idiot if the rumors are true, but…I'll just have to think of something!' thought Mikoto with intensity and determination.
The elevator finally reached the ground floor and Index and Mikoto both quickly stepped off of it. The two then turned and glared at each other. It was a battle of wills and both of them were determined not to break eye contact first. They both had a look of determination of their face and wanted to prove superiority by getting the other to break first and possible back down.
This could have gone on forever, but both of them had the same thought at once; 'The longer I spend here, the greater the possibility that someone else could find him first.'
This caused both of them to break eye contact at the same time, turning away from each other with a huff.
Mikoto turned to the right and began walking while Index and Othinus turned to the left and began walking, both girl taking different exits to continue on their search for Touma.
Aisa Himegami was now standing in front of her school after having walked out of her classroom unnoticed. Touma Kamijou wasn't in class today, which was fairly normal for him. What was abnormal was the amount of people, especially girls, coming to the class to look for him.
"I was able to walk out of class so easy. I really am just a unnoticed background character," said Himegami downtrodden. "And with so many pretty girls coming to look for Touma, it's no wonder that he doesn't pay much attention to me."
A look of determination then appeared on Himegami's face and a fire seemed to burn in her eyes.
"No! I will not be a silent, unnoticed character any longer! I will make sure that the author does not cut me from the story at the midway point! I will find Touma and tell him how I truly feel and maybe even show him sincerely how much I appreciate his help in the cram school incident." said Himegami, slightly blushing at how risqué her words and thought seemed, even to herself.
With a new determination, Himegami set of on her quest to find and thank Kamijou Touma.
The first place she thought to check was his dorm, but then she thought better of that.
'All those people who came looking for him, I sure that the first two places they would have checked were his school and his dorm. Even Index came looking for him at school, so he obviously wasn't at his dorm where they stayed together. "
Thinking that, she didn't even both with the boy's dorm. She then thought about another place that Touma frequented.
"I'll go by the hospital and see if he's checked in there." stated Himegami as she turned in the direction of the hospital and began walking.
As Himegami journeyed on her way to the hospital, she noticed that a lot of strange things were going on in Academy City that day.
She noticed that there were a lot more students out then should have been at that time of day. It wasn't even lunch time yet so there was no reason for so many students to be out of school.
She also noticed that most of the students she passed were female instead of male. She also noticed a lot of the girls seemed to be looking for someone or something. The girls also didn't seem to be interacting with one another and a dark aura seemed to appear around the girl when they got too close to one another or looked in each other's direction. Himegami wondered about this as she continued to the hospital.
Finally, she just decided to ask one of the girls what was going on with everyone.
"Uh…hello." said Himegami as she approached a girl, who didn't seem to see her.
Upon hearing her words, the girl quickly turned her head towards Himegami. There was malice in the girl's eyes and a dark aura surrounding her. The dark energy coming from the girl caused Himegami to take a step back with a slight look of fear on her face.
Seeing Himegami's reaction, the girl relaxed. Her face softened and the dark aura surrounding her disappeared.
The girl had dark hair, a round face, and a shapely body with large breast. She was also wearing a school uniform that Himegami did not recognize.
"Yes, can I help you?" asked the girl, beaming a bright smile to Himegami.
"Y-yes. It seems like there are a lot of students out of class today, why is that?" asked Himegami.
"Oh! Well it's weird, but the power went out at our school and they let us go for the day while they try and figure it out. And it seems like all the schools in the area lost power also. Didn't your school lose power too?" replied the girl.
"No. Our school was at full power when I left a little while ago."
"Well at first, I thought it was just my school, but then I learned that it was just about every school in the area. Except for yours it seems."
"Hmmm, that is weird. Well, why are all of these girl on the streets, and why does it seem that your all looking for something." asked Himegami.
At this question the girl put her hands to her face and began to blush. The look on her face showed that she was in a semi dream like state as she looked up slightly towards the sky.
Snapping out of her dream, the girl began to explain what she and everyone was doing.
"W-well…I met this guy the other day. I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and almost tripped, but he caught me. Afterwards he said; We wouldn't want you to fall and hurt that beautiful face, now would we?" stated the girl.
The girl's face instantly began to blush again and the dream like look reappeared on her face.
"I've had guys try to flirt and hit on me before, but I could tell that he wasn't trying to. I could feel that he was sincere."
Growing suspicious, Himegami asked the girl a question.
"Do you know what the guy's name is?"
"Well I didn't at first. All I knew was the he was high school aged and had spikey black hair. But this morning I got a video claiming that he was looking for a girl, and the person in the video said that his name was Kamijou Touma. "
That settled it. This girl was out looking for Kamijou. But the question was, was she the only one?
Not wanting to let the girl know that she was also looking for Kamijou, Himegami thanked the girl for the information and continued on her way.
After walking a few blocking away, Himegami began thinking to herself; 'How far has the news in that video spread? I thought it was just our school before I run into the girl a moment ago. Deciding to test her theory, Himegami decided to ask someone else.
After deciding that, Himegami came upon a woman that was a bit older then she was, maybe in her last year of high school or possibly college aged. The woman was very good looking and wore glasses, a white blouse, and a red skirt, had huge breast and a model-eque body.
"Um…excuse me." said Himegami while walking up to the woman.
"Yes, what can I do for you?"
"I just wanted to ask if you got a strange video this morning."
The woman blushed deeply as soon as the question was asked.
"W-why yes. I got a strange video this morning. It's funny, because was about a spikey haired boy I ran into the other day. I had climbed in the tree to grab a balloon that a child had stuck in it, but then I slipped off the branch I was on and fell. Luckily that spikey haired boy caught me before I hit the ground and was injured."
Just thinking about the boy and the way he had saved her and held her in his arms made the woman's heart beat increase.
"I then thanked him for catching me and he replied with; "No problem. I'd always leap to help a beautiful woman like you."
"Now I've had guys try to hit on me and beautiful before, but with him it was different. You could tell that he wasn't trying to hit on or flirt with me."
That clenched it for Himegami. She had thought that the video had only made it's way too their school and thus only the people who attended knew about it, but she was now finding out that it had spead much further then she thought.
'I knew that he saved a lot of girls and fairly popular in our school, but I didn't knew that he had this kind of fan base outside of our school!' the thought of it caused Himegami to suddenly feel downtrodden and depressed.
Himegami bowed to the older woman and gave her thanks and continued on her way.
"I have to find Kamijou first and confirm if these rumors are true. If not then I may end up stuck a side character forever. Or worst, a background or non-playable character!"
Filled with new determination, Himegami continued in her quest to find Kamijou Touma.
Konori Mii was at the 177th Judgment branch. She was receiving report of increased violence in the streets of Academy City. She wanted to get out in the streets and help, ut as she was the only one at the branch at the moment, she couldn't leave it unmanned.
There were also reports on the power going out at most of the school in the area and therefore the students were let out early. Konori thought that there may have been a connection between the power outage, the students being released from school early and the increase in violence.
While Konori took her job as a Judgment branch head seriously, she didn't have a ulterior motive for wanting to leave the office and get out on the streets.
This morning she had received a video stating that a certain black, spikey haired boy was looking for a girlfriend. Konori herself had arrested the boy more than once as he always seemed to be in the middle of things whenever there was trouble and was thus arrested for being suspicious. But it always came out, due to eye witness accounts that he was in fact trying to help or save the person that was truly in trouble.
Due to the multiple encounters that she had with the boy and the fact that he always was always willing to need those in need, Konori had developed a respect for the boy.
"And besides, the boy was brave, and strong, and athletic, and not bad looking." said Konori out loud to herself.
Those words caused the girl's face to instantly explode into crimson. She was just happy that there was no one there to see her in this state.
"Hello Konori sempai." called a voice behind her.
The sudden greeting startled Konori and caused her to jump two steps back. Lost in her own world, Konori didn't notice anyone walk into the branch office. She then regained herself and turned to look at who had spoken to her.
It was a a middle school aged girl with flowers in her hair and a laptop underneath her arm.
"Uihara! I'm glad you're here," stated Konori. "As you probably already know, the power to most of the schools in the area has gone out and all the students at those school have been let go early."
"Yes. The power at our school also went out and the teacher decided to go us go early too." replied Uihara.
"Yes, but it seems that violence has broken out all over the city. There is an increased number of battles between espers going on for some reason. The other weird thing is they all seem to be girls."
"What do you mean Konori sempai?"
"I mean there only seem to be female combatants. There is little to no males fighting that we have heard on."
Konori found this strange. While she has arrested girls for fighting before, this was on a level she had never seen. First there was that weird video this morning, then the power to the schools in the area goes out and now we have girls seemingly roaming the streets getting into fights. If it was the boys doing it, while concerned, it wouldn't have been as weird. She was routinely arresting boys for assault and fighting. But for it to be mostly girls fighting with little to no boys involved was strange.
Uihara. Since you're not a combat orientated member of Judgment, I want you to stay here and man the fort while I go out. Take reports from other Judgment members, and coordinated as much as you can."
"Yes Konori sempai. I'll get right on it." said Uihara as she went over to her desk and set up her laptop and connected it with the computer systems within the Judgment office.
Once everything was set up, Uihara's fingers began to blaze across her keyboard. After a few seconds, Uihara's fingers began to look like a blur and it was hard for Konori to keep track of what they were doing.
"Ok Uihara, I'm heading out. Please keep my up to date on any important developments." stated Konori as she walked out the door of the Judgment office.
Kongou Mitsuko was walking around in Academy City. She rarely left the School Gardens but decided that she needed to venture out more, and with being released early today thought that today would be a perfect time to do so.
"Even someone like me should venture out and mingle with the commoner sometimes." said Kongou to herself.
Kongou had a attractive and well-endowed figure, which she was very proud of. She also had a prominent forehead which was flanked by two fringes of her black hair which she kept rather long and neat looking.
As she was walking, she reached into her pocket and pulled out her cell phone. She then brought up her messages and choose one in particular. This one contained a video that she had received this morning.
Watching the video again and hearing that that boy is looking for a girlfriend, Kongou's cheeks turned red.
'If that boy truly is looking for a girlfriend then it's obvious who the best choice would be.' thought Kongou to herself.
As she continued to walk, she thought back on the day she had met that boy.
It was a day like any other and it was one of those rare days that Kongou decided to venture outside of the School Gardens. She wanted to do a bit of shopping and while she could get almost anything that she wanted from the shops in the School Gardens, she wanted to check out the 7th Mist Mall.
Unfortunately, she had gotten lost on the way. Sure she could have called a car to take her to the mall and return to the dorms but earlier that day a fellow school mate of hers, Sharai Kuroko had teased her, saying that she couldn't do anything on her own and that if she ever left School Gardens on her own, she'd never make it back.
Not willing to take this offense to her pride, she decided to prove her wrong. So after classes were over, Kongou decided to go shopping at the 7th Mist Mall.
"I'll show her. I can do things on my own." said Kongou to herself.
Unfortunately, it seems that Kuroko may have been right. The mall was in the same district, yet she couldn't seem to find it. She wanted to just call a car to come get her, but her pride wouldn't let her. She was going to prove that she didn't need help to do everything little thing.
Continuing to walk, Kongou turned down a alley thinking that it may be a short cut. The alley had many twist and turns in it. The alley started to get more narrow and Kongou was starting to feel a bit claustrophobia.
Making another turn, Kongou came to a fairly wide area that was a dead-end.
"Hey pretty girl. You seem lost. We can help you find your way. Hehehe." said a voice behind her.
Turning around to see who had spoken, Kongou saw that in the alleyway that she came in from, there was now a group of three boys blocking the way.
These boys were a fair bit taller and bigger then she was. They all had the look of delinquents.
Kongou unfolded the fan that she always carried, and hid half her face behind it.
"What do you delinquents want? Were you enamored by the beauty of this ojou sama?" asked Kongou in her haughtiest voice.
"Yeah, that's it," said the biggest of the boys, who seemed to be the leader. "We saw that you looked lost and wanted to help someone as beautiful as you." replied the boy with a grin on his face while his two companions snickered.
"So why don't you come with us and we'll show you a good time." said the leader while extending his hand out towards Kongou.
Kongou looked at the boy from behind her fan. A cruel smile formed on her lips that the boys could not see. She then replied to their offer; "A beautiful ojou sama like myself can't be seen with rough looking commoners like you. Be gone from sight. Oh ho ho ho!"
"Just who do you think you are you bitch!" yelled the boy while clenching his extended hand into a fist.
The other two boys smirk became bigger but there was now something een more dangerous about their smiles.
Kongou wasn't too worried though. She was a level four Aero Hand user, so she could handle herself. The only real danger would be if they were off a similar rank or even if just one of them was a level two or high. She could beat a level two in a one on one fight, but the problem was that there was three of them. If at least one of them was at least a level two, then she would be in trouble because she was out numbered.
While Aero Hand allowed her create ejection points and propel items, she had to touch them first. If she could just touch the boys she could take them out, but she would need to get close to do so.
Kongou's back was again the wall. Next to her was a trash can. Slowly she inched over to the trash can while the boy continued to talk.
"How dare you reject us! We were going to do this the easy way but now it seems like we are going to have to do things the hard way."
Kongou had finally inched over to the trash can. She then processed to pick up the lid and hold it as if she was carrying a shield. The boys just laughed at this.
"And what are you going to do with that? You think a trash can lid can stop us? Hahahaha!"
Kongou just smiled. She was holding the lid, meaning that she could create a ejection point for it and propel it. So she proceeded to do so, and before the boys knew what was happening, the lids had hit one of the two lackeys in the face, knocking him down.
The two boys turned and saw their friend laid out of the ground and then turned to look back at the girl, their faces full of rage.
"You little bit—" the leader started to comment, but the girl had already begun moving. She was running staright at the boy in an attempt to touch him and create a ejection point that she could use against him.
The leader seeing this pointed his hand at her, palm out and fired. Seeing the attack coming at her, Kongou had to dodge to avoid it.
She looked back and saw the wall behind her was cover in a fairly thick layer of ice.
Seeing that, she knew that if she was hit by the attack she would be frozen in place and probably unable to defend herself.
Kongou then had a idea. She touched the bottoms of her shoes and created a ejection point on them. She then activated them and began to propel up. She just wanted to get to the top of the building so she could escape.
Kongou was only a half dozen meters from the top of the bul=ilding when she was stopped dead in her tracks.
Suddenly it became really cold around her and a thick layer of ice formed above her, and completely covered the open gaps between the building. There was now a overhead above her and it was too thick to break through, and the ejection point was running out of air to keep her aloft.
Slowly coming back down, Kongou now had no choice but to fight her way out.
"I'm a level three and my ability is called Cryo Manipulation. I can't actually create ice, I can just flash freeze the moisture in the air, bring it to -25° turning it into ice." Spoke the boy smugly.
'I could create an ejection point on the wall of the building and fire it at him, but that would rip the wall out, and possible collapsing the building, hurting everyone inside and possibly killing us.' Kongou thought to herself.
She had to find a way out of this mess. If that attack hit her just one it would be all over. Even if it just hit her leg or arm, she would probably lose the appendage.
She had to find a way to escape. The only upside was the one of the boys was already knocked out, so she only had two more to deal with. But she was only able to knock that one out due to them not knowing what her ability was. Now that they've seen it, they won't fall for that trick again.
Just as she was thinking that, she heard a voice cry out in the distances; "SUCH MISFORTUNE!"
AFTERWORD
Well that the end of this chapter. I know it was a bit short but I was kind of short on time. The next chapter will be longer, I promise.
Well this chapter was all about focusing of those characters that don't get much focus and that will probably continue into next chapter.
I kinda wanted to write a chapter to see what other characters outside of Mikoto and Index and Lessar and Mugino etc… were doing at this time. I mean it can't always be about them, right?
So now Himegami is on the move! I don't think we get to see enough of her and we never really see Kongou outside of a Railgun story, so I thought it would be nice to include them and other rarely focused on characters.
Well as always please rate and review
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