So far, none of Misaki's schemes have proven effective. In fact, it seemed as if Misaka hated her even more thanks to them and each day she wasted thinking up more of them was one in which the misunderstandings would continue. But how would one even combat a misunderstanding of that level? The way Misaka saw it, Misaki had been keeping her harem solely for the sake of her own pleasure. How ridiculous! It was mostly for convenience and sometimes out of necessity, that she used her powers. Pleasure was the last thing she considered.
Besides that, there was also the issue of the one spreading those ideas to her. Shirai Kuroko, Level 4 Teleport. Given her crush on Misaka, it was obvious why she fed her with the worst possible reading of Misaki's actions, and Misaki provided a lot of ammunition to do so in the time she had her as part of her clique. That teleport ability of hers was an extra annoyance on top. Even if Misaki was athletic enough to maybe at times catch up to Misaka, Kuroko would just teleport her away from her just so they couldn't meet. At least that's what she did whenever the two of them established eye contact.

Kuroko had been overly protective of Misaka for a long time, but recently it got so bad, that she was even neglecting her duties as Judgement just so she could keep her away from Shokuhou.
"Kuroko, this is getting ridiculous. I can avoid Shokuhou on my own."
"Not in the slightest, onee-sama!" Kuroko dreamed up several instances, in which Shokuhou invaded Misaka's privacy through some means or others for the purposes of indecent acts. "What if she invites you out for to a crêpe place, but then she comes there wrapped around in a blanket, claiming 'the crêpe is me'?" Yep, some of her fantasies were really out there. Was this possibly an allusion to how she used Junko to get her to meet her at a crêpe place?
"If she does anything like that, I'll zap her just like I'd zap you."
"Really?" Kuroko had doubts. She didn't seem to – or didn't want to – trust Misaka to protect herself, but Misaka was certain, that she was strong enough to beat Shokuhou in whatever situation. "Fine. I suppose, I do have some backlog to catch up on."
Somehow she managed to convince Kuroko, that everything was fine. She let out a relieved sigh. That meant she'd have the weekend for herself and could finally shop for Gekota stuff at Seventh Mist again!
"But make sure to zap her hard! If she does anything funny to you, I want her to be in hospital for at least a week!"
Yeah, Kuroko, you'd be a nuisance even if you were hospitalized for a week.

Misaki sighed. She was meeting up with Mitori and Dolly to take some time off of thinking about Misaka, not to remind herself of what had happened. Even if that plan was doomed from the start, because Dolly was her clone, she was in her mind different enough from the original to be regarded as her own being, unlike the Sisters. And yet, seeing them with Pyonko pair bracelets reminded her of the effort that went into designing those phone straps.
"Misaki-chan…" Dolly looked at her with cute puppy eyes. Ah, her face was just so cute. "I bought you this, so please cheer up!" With a happy smile, Dolly gave her a bracelet as well. So it wasn't a pair after all?
"W-why would I want to wear something as childish as this?" Misaki blushed heavily.
"Oh, come on. A little pink won't hurt your image." Mitori went up close to whisper something into Misaki's ear. "It would also fit your personality."
"What about my personality would it fit?" Misaki exclaimed angrily.
"The cute part."
Misaki could not really argue with that. Besides, it was a gift from a precious friend, and she valued gifts from precious friends. Colour-wise it also fit the pink on her handbag, so she could just wear it over her glove without it standing out too much.

"Now, it's time for Operation Misfortune."
"Operation Misfortune?" What in the world could those two have been planning without her?
"I looked into it while I had my liquid shadow you," Mitori explained. "Prior to your re-targeting, you and Railgun both liked the same guy."
"I've had weird dreams involving that person," Dolly continued. She didn't even know Touma and yet she dreamed about him? How very peculiar. "I think the reason both of you liked him boils down to this." Dolly held up an issue of a certain weekly manga magazine. It contained many entries with (usually male) protagonists faceplanting themselves into someone's chest, touching them, etc.
"I couldn't help but notice, that you and Misaka were also involved in some of them. Her grabbing your shirt or your boobs was likely key to your re-targeting."
"Wait a second, you make it sound like I'm a victim of common tropes here!" Misaki couldn't believe it. But if that was the case, then perhaps there was a way of turning things around…

"Stop right there!"
Misaka couldn't believe it. To think, that there was someone else, who abused their Teleport ability just like Kuroko would. As always, she was wearing shorts under her skirt, so one could not see it, but her panties were stolen. The thief was obviously nearby, but thanks to that ability, they managed to escape her attacks cleverly. Misaka couldn't do anything but chase after them.
"Take a step back. And another. Now turn 90 degrees to your left." Someone instructed Shokuhou to get in her way. Since when was she one to take orders from someone else? Oh no! Pondering this thought, Misaka forgot about evading her.

"See?"
"Nice."
Shokuhou's fat cushioned the impact, but the two of them were still thrown onto the ground. "Seriously, what was that for?" She looked towards her left and saw the girl, who took her mother and Uiharu hostage back during the Daihaseisai as well as… a version of herself with long hair? What was going on there? The former was Kouzaku Mitori if she remembered correctly and her ability Liquid Shadow, but the other one was a mystery to her. A Sister perhaps?
"This is exactly what I was talking about!" the long-haired Misaka said, not adding a dialogue tag. She couldn't be a Sister then. Were there even more clones of her?
"How does your right arm feel?" Misaka had no idea, what Mitori was talking about until she tried to move her fingers. Once again, she found herself bound to the weird fascination that is Shokuhou's chest. Why was her hand drawn there?
Misaka shook her head. This was not the time to heed Shokuhou or her weird friends. Her panties were on the line.
"Queen, I found this suspicious person, who…" Hokaze Junko to the rescue. She appeared to have caught the thief. "Misaka, could those Gekota panties be yours by any chance?" And now it was exposed in front of everyone. The reason why Misaka wore shorts…