Why didn't she get inside of the house with them? Well she was bored and wanted to explore a bit more of the city she was visiting. Or maybe she knew they were being tailed and wanted to ask some questions, using her particular and effective way of questioning. She walked inside a shop, trying to get some advantage by using the crowd, and she did indeed. The pig tailed girl walked right into the trap without knowing Yuuka was waiting for her. She was required to follow and inform Anti Skill of the intruder's doings, and she didn't want to see her robbing an establishment.
It was a stationary store, around two blocks away from Touma's apartment. Yuuka got a pencil from the shelves and held it close to her arm to hide it, then started to walk rapidly trying to set her plan in motion. It was easy, Shirai Kuroko was well trained since she was a Judgement member but she slacked in most of it since she was a lvl4 ESPer. Yuuka easily managed to get her by the neck, slam her against a shelf filled with paper packages. She pointed the pencil's tip half a millimeter to the eye of the person who was spying on her. –Why are you following me? –She was calmed and sweet, her hand did not flinch holding the pencil so near her eye, she wasn't even nervous. Why did she get the worst ones? –Why are you following me? –Kuroko was shocked, unable to move nor answer because of fear.
The expression on this girl showed no mercy, no regret on threatening her in such ways. She managed to calm her nerves and teleport away from the grip. Yuuka walked right outside of the shop, she knew where Kuroko was going. She asked again –Why are you following me? –Kuroko preferred to give another answer –You need to hold it right there! Don't you know what I can do to you? –a bluff, maybe that would get the green haired away –Hold what? It's annoying to have people following you –she couldn't take the insult. She teleported right next to Yuuka and kicked her, she was blocked with ease and hit back only with enough strength to make her lose her equilibrium.
Yuuka knew the girl before was scared, she wanted to feel safe by attacking. Now the Judgement member tried to stick many steel tips inside of her body. However she stared at the place she wanted to attack a second before she did it, it was easy to avoid such attacks. She only stepped aside, it was a slow motion, then stepped to the other side, then backwards when she wanted to predict Yuuka's moves. It was so easy for her that her foe started to feel frustrated, it was so pleasurable to taunt an enemy. To make it angry so they would give her an excuse to obliterate them, to hurt them.
Now Yuuka knew an ability close to teleportation. Not to move in the dimensions but between them, the same dimensions strings danced on. It could not be seen, and only those who knew that way of moving could predict its moves. Not quite teleportation since you were limited by space, however those 11 extra dimensions give you a certain shortcut. It was amusing to her to win a battle by using skills alike, to make them suffer by making them see how they slacked at it.
Kuroko tried to hit her again this time moving several times in several directions. It was something alike fighting many people at the same time… many people who didn't know how to fight properly. So we can imagine who was the one taking damage. In the end, when Yuuka found her enemy boring she warped straight next to Kuroko and gripped her neck. She lifted the girl and tightened the grip, Kuroko was so nervous she could not concentrate and move away. The air was missing, slowly, her life was being drained, her strength leaving.
She enjoyed to see how easy this was, how they wasted their powers, how their pride was turned away when they realized their abilities were awful. Funnily enough she had done this in Gensokyo so often among with others that even the weak ones started to develop a certain sense of tactical fighting, it was way funnier to fight there than what she was doing in Academy City. She was hoping that the science world were as fun as how they proven to be last time she fought their kind, but ESPers were only spoiled kids who wasted their power. Maybe teaching them a lesson through fear would make them open their eyes. Maybe if she just snapped this girl's neck, maybe if she showed them how easy this was for someone. She didn't even use more power than the girl she had, any lvl3 with good training could have pulled it off.
It was a sweet thought. But she had to let go of her neck and fly upwards to avoid an attack. Yuuka, even lost in her thoughts could sense the attack before it got close to her. It was a hot projectile thrown with such force it acted like a beam. Kuroko got far up in a building as soon as she was released, she had lost all hopes, but her friend had given them back to her. Mikoto Misaka had entered the scene. Everyone at the stationary store had watched the whole fight, they wondered who was this girl, what kind of ability did this ESPer had?
–Kazami Yuuka –she bowed, a worthy duel needed proper introductions –Mikoto Misaka… They call me railgun –she had accepted, this girl was more of a chevalier than the English man Yuuka had faced before –Four Season Master… good luck –Yuuka assumed a defensive position with her umbrella closed and pointed down in front of her, ready for attack, ready to shield herself from another attack. Misaka was not used to this kind of etiquette, the girl she was facing took this with such lightness it was scary.
Misaka threw another coin sped up and heated by an induced electromagnetic field created by her own body –This is why they call me railgun Miss Kazami –the green haired opened her umbrella and shielded herself from the attack. It wasn't nullified like when Imagine Breaker touched it but rather, opened, like a water wave. –What do you mean? Is this the railgun? –Yes –Misaka threw another one –a trademark attack. Something you should be careful about –Yuuka smiled –I'm sorry to pop your bubble little cute Mikoto –she was shorter than Misaka –but if you are going to name yourself after an attack… Do it after one that is worth naming yourself –actually the railgun was a very robust attack, but Yuuka only wanted to give a prelude to her own special weapon. Misaka stopped her volley of coins to listen to the small explanation. Offended by it of course, as it was planned to be.
–Mikoto Misaka, I present to you… The Master Spark –the red clad bowed, Misaka prepared herself to throw another shot, this time without holding back. If this girl was able to shield herself from the last ones she could certainly survive a full one. –At lowest power… –she whispered –Master Spark –from the tip of the umbrella came out a blue laser of about 10m of diameter, the railgun was easily absorbed by it. It only worked to shield herself from the hit of it, she was thrown back like hit by a car, it was hot enough to burn part of her clothes but not her skin. She hit the wall of the other side of the street, she stood up again feeling the pain of the blast in every muscle of her body. Even in those she didn't know had nerves in them.
–Another one please –she didn't even know why she was taunting the red clad girl, maybe the lowest power statement was a bluff, maybe she only had one shot. Yuuka whispered again, just for fun, to tip the girl off, of course she didn't need to yell the attack to make it work. Misaka was thrown against the wall again, the heat started to hurt, she felt like having the worst sunburn of her life. She was unable to walk now, the girl with the umbrella still pointed it at her. Yuuka was used to humans watching her fights, later on speaking of them with fear. This time they were taking video with their cellphones, she would have held back a bit more if she knew that.
Underground four people were discussing about the fight –So you said 5 moves Yukari? –Marisa the witch had gone with 2 –I'm not betting on this… Why am I even here? –Reimu was still disgusted by the game. –Oh Hakurei shrine maiden, don't worry. The ESPer girl won't die… Look the person we were actually waiting for is coming into the fight –in the monitor they could see a spike haired boy blocking the laser with his right hand. Marisa gulped, even if it was at low capacity, stopping a Master Spark was something very few beings could do.
Now she was truly impressed. This ESPer boy had not just stopped but destroyed her Master Spark. –So I assume the duel with Mikoto is over? –Kamijou Touma, the Imagine Breaker was standing between a nearly dead Misaka and an amused green haired girl. –You think this is a game? Human life is a game to you? –Yuuka giggled and answered in her ever sweet tone –You will all die anyway. Why wouldn't it be a game if they die in an amusing way? –now he was sure she wasn't a normal person, he had heard things alike from magicians –Alright alright… I just wanted to kill the pig tailed, walking spacial uncertainty. To this one I just wanted to have some fun and leave it alone when she fainted. –You can't chose between life and death like that! Life isn't something so light! –Now are you a walking talking storage of one liners?! –Yuuka didn't like to be lectured.
–You chose between life and death the whole time! Flowers, trees, animals die everyday under your hand! In much less honorable conditions than this ones! Are you a vegetarian? Plants still die because of you! You wear cotton clothes boy, plants had died to get you dressed. You are wearing a corpse. Now you tell me I can't chose between life and death the same way you do? At least I admit it. –Touma felt a knot on his stomach, this girl was right. Fear also came into his body, she didn't speak like a magician. She spoke like a god. –Still… It isn't fair, if we kill that is something we will need to fix later. But revenge isn't the answer. –Yuuka placed her face on her palm, this boy was a pig headed hero.
–Who said something about revenge? I'm not even justifying my actions. The statement is about you doing the same thing. Am I evil because I admit my sins? You deny your own and try to fix them by saving people. Let me guess, this isn't the first time you save her, this isn't the first time you save others. Believe me doing that will not make you better than me, but that won't stop you from trying to attack me. I know your kind, they are fun to toy with, even befriend… Want some tea afterwards? –at least this one admitted what was going to happen next. She most likely has done this way too many times.
Touma charged at her guarding himself with his left hand, his enemy still didn't know only his right hand could block her attacks. Though this time Yuuka would not use danmaku nor lasers. It would be a waste of energy since he had proven he could block it with ease. For Touma's misfortune, Yuuka knew how to fight properly. She placed her umbrella on the ground and guarded herself, the hands in palms, one in front of the other both aligned in a single plane. This looked oddly familiar to Touma, who fought with that kind of guard? He tried to punch her just to get blocked with ease then hit on the nose with the back of her hand. She was toying with him. Next time he tried to attack he got punched on the throat, her arm was close to it already, but the hit threw him back with enough force to make him fall on his back.
–You stopped my Master Spark hero boy. I'm sure you have a trick under your sleeve. –Touma didn't have anything, he always relied on ESPers and magicians to be defenseless without their magic. He had seen this kind of punch in an old TV movie, but where? –I don't. My right hand can negate it, no matter if its an ESPer power or a spell, it gets blocked. –Yuuka was impressed –I like you. So I will give you a piece of advice. Never say what abilities you have in the middle of a fight. You just told me you can do nothing if I decided to beat you to a pulp –the girl giggled, was she planning on doing so?
He knew he was defenseless against this girl, yet he charged again. This time she kicked his knee throwing him to the ground directly. Now he remembered where he had seen such moves –Why do you fight like Bruce Lee?! –Yuuka opened her eyes wide –I don't… This is my personal fighting style. You should ask why Mr. Tree fights the same way I do. –Yuuka helped Touma up, the fight was over. It was odd to fight her, she knew when to stop, this meant she didn't stop with Misaka because she wanted to get some kick out of hurting her. He looked back –Her friend had taken her away already. She was out anyway there was no point in keeping her here. –Who are you?! You are such a weird fellow. –Yuuka laughed, the same way Reimu and Yukari did back in Aleister's quarters –It isn't the first time I get that comment. Nice meeting you, I'm Kazami Yuuka –K-kamijou Touma… Thanks for stopping before I got really hurt –I did because the fight was over, it would be disrespectful to break the rules of a fight –this was weird, she spoke like a god but liked to follow rules.