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Chapter 04
A few moments later, still at Mikoto's room…
"What!?" Said Mikoto with an earsplitting scream after being told about what happened to her in the past few hours.
"You know, now that I think about, you were much better that way, Zapper." Touma said while trying to massage his eardrum with his right pinky.
He then followed with a light chuckle, which proved to be a big mistake as it was good only to fan the flames of Mikoto's rage.
Unable to hold it any longer, she shot him with a huge lightning spear while shouting from the top of her lungs, "Damn you, stop screwing with me!"
Naturally, Touma blocked the discharge with his right hand, but it still didn't saved them from being scolded by Heaven Canceller.
"Might I remind both of you that we are still at a hospital; shouting and sudden electric discharges are absolutely prohibited here."
"Sorry, doc."
"Yeah, sorry."
After the dejected couple apologized, Heaven Canceller sighed and then, letting a carefree smile return to his face, said. "I'm glad that this problem has been dealt with, however we still have to isolate and deal with the source of this phenomenon."
"I guess you're right, I'd love to fry the face of whoever did that to me." Said Mikoto after jumping from the bed.
"Somehow, I don't think that's the point here." Touma said, carefully trying to not arouse Mikoto's anger again.
"Well anyway, do you have any leads, doctor?"
"I don't know if that's exactly a lead, but there's one common factor that all of the afflicted by this strange illness seem to share." The doctor said while picking up a stack of papers that was over a nearby table.
"And what would it be?"
"All of the patients seem to have consumed fresh milk from a specific brand just a few minutes before going berserk."
"You mean the milk, Musashino Milk, is the cause of all of this?"
"I would not be so sure about it. Anyhow, I tried to contact both Anti-Skill and Judgment to have them remove the fresher milk from the stores, but owing to the chaos around the city I was unsuccessful."
"Don't worry, doctor, I know the very best person to deal with it." Said Mikoto while picking up her phone and looking for Kuroko's number.
"We will help too. Says Misaka after asking for the cooperation of all of the other Misakas through the network."
Just as the two sisters were about to leave the room and start to take care of the milk matter, Touma said, "I'm counting with you Zapper and little sister. If you have any problem dealing with it just call me ok?"
"But I don't even have your num-" Mikoto began saying but was cut short by her sister.
"Alright. Says Misaka while smiling tenderly; happy to be useful to the boy."
"I guess that now all I have to do is put my right hand to good use." Touma leaving the room just after the girls.
However, Heaven Canceller stopped him and said, "Actually, I still have something to discuss with you, my boy."
Moments later, at Heaven Canceller's office…
"So, what's it, doctor?" Touma said with a stern look in his face.
He knew that any time Heaven Canceller called someone to his office it was to talk about something he couldn't in public, especially bad news.
"Actually, I took the liberty of taking a sample of the milk and subjecting it to a biochemical analysis. The results were quite intriguing, in fact." Heaven Canceller said while handing some papers to Touma.
"I'm sorry, doctor, but I can't understand any of this medical gibberish." Touma said as he handed the papers back to Heaven Canceller.
"I'll sum it to you, then. Here says that the milk in those cartons is mostly normal cow milk, and a very good one at that, but there's a distinct trace of human milk mixed with it too."
"I'm sorry, what did you just said, doctor?" Touma said unable to process any more information, just like if his brain had been frozen.
"What I said, my boy, is that this milk somehow got mixed with human milk."
"What the f***!" Was the only thing Touma was able to think but he was so shocked that he couldn't even make these words come out of his throat.
"Moreover, when I told the same thing to your friend, the busty one, I mean, she didn't found it strange at all. In fact, the only thing that she did was ask about Alexandra, the nun she brought here along with you."
"If Kanzaki knows something about that crap then all I have to do is go and ask her." Touma said while leaving the doctor's office.
"I'm sorry, but it won't be possible, my boy. She left just a few minutes before you woke up."
"Well, then all that's left is to ask this Alexandra girl directly, because I can bet an arm that this crap has something to do with magic." Said Touma leaving to the girl's room.