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The Trinity of Tokiwadai
Chapter One Hundred Seven: Visit to Fuyuki
As back in Academy City, Ruiko was planning to have a date with both Accelerator and Frenda-san and hopefully cementing that three-way relationship she was gunning for, or at least so Mikoto had heard from Naru, Mikoto found herself sitting in a private car as it drove them from the nearest Shinkansen (bullet train) station to Fuyuki, the hometown of the girl that she was accompanying. Namely Kashiwagi Mai, the high school aged Incarnation of Kagutsuchi. Said Magician had shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes that glowed with an inner red light. An emotionless older girl that was dressed in a red and white bodysuit that left little to the imagination.
"Must you wear something so conspicuous?" Mikoto asked as she shot her traveling companion the stink eye. Sure, the Incarnation's outfit wasn't exactly all that revealing, except showing off her rather attractive figure, but it was the point of the matter damnit! "Couldn't you have worn something more normal or, at least, less attention-grabbing?"
Kashiwagi-san shrugged as she replied. "This bodysuit is made out of the most heat resistant fabrics available to Academy City and, as tested, can withstand even some of the hottest flames that I can conjure. It thus allows me to use my magic with full impunity without fear for my modesty, not that I am particularly concerned about that."
Considering the Incarnation of Kagutsuchi had burned her way through her clothes the last time they fought, Mikoto could attest to Kashiwagi-san's complete lack of modesty. Nevertheless, she could not help but groan and question the older girl. "You really don't have any feminine sensibilities, do you?"
"That's not true." The Magician said as she played with her shoulder length hair. "I simply prioritize being able to use the full breadth of my power over looking beautiful."
"Okay, I can understand that." Mikoto confessed grudgingly. Whilst she could not empathize with Kashiwagi-san's reasoning, she was at least able to sympathize with it. "But if the City has fabrics that can withstand your flames, why not have a proper wardrobe made out of it?"
"I did. They are still working on it. Even with my paying the team working it extra-"
At the mention of money, Mikoto couldn't help but recall the obscene amount of money that the Board had paid Kashiwagi-san to defect during the Demon Tamer Invasion during World War Three. She herself was pretty well off but even to her, the more than $10 million US Dollars a month that Kashiwagi-san was being paid was still a ridiculous amount of money.
"-this bodysuit was all that was ready at this time." Kashiwagi-san continued, heedless to Mikoto's exasperation at how this girl not much older than her was drawing a small fortune as a salary.
"I see." Mikoto said with a nod of agreement. "I'm glad to hear that you have not completely lost yourself to your nature as an Incarnation, Kashiwagi-san."
Kashiwagi-san rolled her eyes at that.
She's showing emotion!? That means she is using magic. What is she doing?
"I can see the question in your eyes, Misaka-san. I'm just circulating my magic. It's not much but such low level usage at least grants me a semblance of normality." Kashiwagi-san said, satisfying Mikoto's curiosity. "As for your earlier issue about my appearance being attention-grabbing, I do not see the issue. We are traveling entirely by private transport. The only place where we might have caught unwanted attention was when we rode the Shinkansen earlier but even then it was in a private carriage before we switched to the private car that we were riding in now immediately afterwards. So there was no need to appear inconspicuous anyway."
"I suppose you're right." Mikoto reluctantly admitted.
The two fell into an uncomfortable silence after that. Well, uncomfortable for Mikoto at least. Considering how Kashiwagi-san could essentially shut down her ability to feel emotion just by ceasing to use her magic and appeared stoic most of the time, it was hard to tell if she felt the same if she felt anything at all.
At the very least, the Incarnation was weathering the tense silence between them a lot better than she was. Hence, it wasn't surprising that it was Mikoto who broke the silence first.
"Kashiwagi-san, are you comfortable with visiting your hometown on the anniversary of the town's destruction?"
Yes, Fuyuki, Kashiwagi-san's hometown, had been destroyed. It had been burned down in a massive inferno years ago. According to Ruiko, Kashiwagi-san had apparently been pushed to visit by the therapist she'd been forced to see as part of the reforms that Oyafune-sama had imposed on the Dark Side. However, since no one trusted the girl to not just disappear on them if left to her own devices, it was decided that she would need someone to accompany her and sadly Mikoto was assigned the task.
"Of course. I visit on the anniversary every year." The Incarnation replied in an unusually somber tone, though it was frankly hard to tell since she both didn't know her well. Add in the Incarnation's typical emotionlessness and Mikoto had no idea what the other girl was thinking at all.
That tone… And visiting the site of her hometown on the anniversary of its destruction every year… If I understand how Incarnations work, their emotion is dulled unless they use their magic. Emphasis on dulled. That means the depth and strength of the emotion she is feeling must be super intense to get past that dulling effect.
"So you're not going just because your therapist asked you to? I thought that was what you told your superiors when you filed for permission." Mikoto asked, cautiously probing.
"She did recommend it but I intended to go even if she didn't. Like I said, I visit every year." Kashiwagi-san said with what Mikoto was sure was genuine emotion.
Yup. Whatever she's feeling, she's feeling it strongly. Guess I should give her some space. Mikoto thought sympathetically as the two of them fell into silence, this time a much more amiable quiet than the last break in their conversation.
It took a little under an hour to reach Fuyuki. The town, if it could still be called that, was actually a massive cemetery and memorial that was built on the site where the city of Fuyuki had once stood. Leaving their car and its driver at the edge of the central cemetery, Mikoto and Kashiwagi-san walked towards a large pagoda at the heart of the graveyard that served as the primary memorial marker.
"By Science!" Mikoto gasped in shock as she surveyed the veritable sea of tombstones that they were walking between. It literally stretched as far as her eye could see. "Just how many graves are there here?"
"Over ten thousand." Kashiwagi-san replied, her tone heavy with an emotion that Mikoto could not discern. "They are spread out to cover the total land area that the city used to occupy. Each tomb is occupied by my victims."
Mikoto was unsurprised. It was not difficult to put two and two together and figure out that the unstable Incarnation of a fire god was the one that started the blaze that destroyed her hometown.
"How did it happen?"
"Why do you want to know? You gain nothing from knowing."
Because I am worried about you and I want to know more about you so I can maybe figure out some way to help you. Mikoto thought to herself. She didn't tell her that though, instead spinning it another way. "I'm just curious."
Kashiwagi-san shrugged robotically as she replied. "I suppose I shall oblige. It costs me nothing to explain. Especially when the details are available in the Bank anyways."
It is? I didn't know that. Maybe Naru and Ruiko have a point that I don't do enough research for my missions…
"My father was a magic user and Shinto priest that ran the Ryuudou Shrine, Fuyuki's oldest and largest religious institution bar none." The Incarnation of Kagutsuchi said as she began to explain. "Thanks to his expertise, he recognized my nature as an Incarnation from a very young age and decided to do everything in his power to spare me from the fate of being an automaton."
"Speaking of that, why are you like that? I mean I know the academic reason behind why you Incarnations are like that. I read about it in the Bank. But what about from your perspective?" Mikoto asked, honestly curious.
"I honestly do not know what I can say that is not conveyed by the information in the Bank but I suppose I can try." Kashiwagi-san said with a shrug. "Incarnations like me are born as vessels for gods or other supernatural entities. In my case, I was born as the vessel of Kagutsuchi. We Incarnations are inherently 'empty' emotionally at all times so that we may be ready to receive our patrons and their power."
Mikoto nodded. That matched with what she'd read. It didn't explain something though…
"But not not all Magicians who channel gods are like that."
"No, they are not." Kashiwagi-san agreed. "Non-Incarnations that also channel gods only enter the requisite state for short times at best, only doing so when invoking their gods' power. They are not Incarnations and thus not stuck in the state of 'emptiness' that we are."
Mikoto winced in sympathy. That sounded terrible.
The older girl ignored her and just continued her explanation unabated, "We are only able to be alive, to be 'full', when our god is within us."
"What about Saints though, aren't they-"
"Their god is a benevolent god of love and humanity." Kashiwagi-san said, before Mikoto could even finish her question. "They might be Incarnations as well but their god is far kinder than most, definitely more so than Kagustuchi."
Mikoto nodded, feeling uncomfortable. It was clear that her questioning of Kashiwagi-san's nature had hit a nerve and considering how the older girl's emotions were dulled that she was reacting as strongly to the topic as she was, clearly indicating just how strongly she felt on the matter. Nevertheless, the [Railgun] honestly felt she needed to know this. The Incarnation of Kagutsuchi was her partner for this mission and to carry out their assignment well, she needed to know her better. Hence, she returned the conversation to her earlier query.
"So, um, your dad sealed your powers when you were a kid?"
Kashiwagi-san nodded. "He did and that worked for a while but Kagustuchi would not be denied. When I turned ten, he lashed out and shattered the magic that Otou-sama was using to keep my power contained and unleashed his fury in the process."
Sweeping her arms to gesture at the sea of tombstones around them, she added. "And this was the result."
Mikoto sucked in a breath, shaken by the harrowing tale. It was literally something out of a horror story!
She was still processing Kashiwagi-san's tragic history when suddenly with a shimmer of some supernatural ability or another deactivating, a group of Magicians dressed in cloaks suddenly stepped out from the many tombstones that dominated the massive cemetery that was Fuyuki. The sight of which had Kashiwagi-san sighing in exasperation, "Misaka-san, it seems that we have been attacked by a pack of Demon Tamers."
"We are indeed from Atlus." The apparent leader of the dozen Demon Tamers said. "And we are here to get revenge on you for betraying us, Kashiwagi Mai! That we get to kill the [Railgun] in the process is an unsought-for but welcome bonus!"
Are these guys idiots!? Mikoto thought as she conjured some sparks and had them arc around her head threateningly as she addressed her would-be attackers. "Do you seriously think you can take on both a Level 5 and an Incarnation?"
"Oh! We most certainly do!" The leader of the enemy Magicians shouted defiantly.
As he finished that statement, as if on cue, half of the Demon Tamers promptly slit their own throats. A sight that had Mikoto gasping in shock even as Kashiwagi-san reacted by firing a volley of flaming bolts at them but the other Magicians were ready for her and her fiery attack slammed into shimmering magical barriers.
Even as all this transpired, the remaining Demon Tamers, led by their leader, chanted in unison. "We invoke thee, Vepar, Duke of Hell, commander of many legions. By this sacrifice of blood and life, we summon your presence to defeat our foe!"
In response to the Demon Tamers' sacrifice and incantation, in a burst of aqua colored light above the bodies of the Demon Tamers that had sacrificed themselves, there appeared a demon with the appearance of a strange mer creature with a humanoid body. It had scales in shades of blue and green that covered his long lanky arms and legs, a long sinuous tail that had a series of fins running down its length and ended in a large tail fluke. A demon who was floating in the air and wearing a crimson cape and a white mask with stylised facial features outlined in black and a horned gold crown.
"Mortals, who have I been summoned to kill?" The Demon demanded angrily as it crossed its arms and glanced down at the exhausted looking leader of the Demon Tamers.
Panting too heavily to reply, the man leaned against one of the numerous tombstones that surrounded them and just pointed towards Mikoto and Kashiwagi-san.
Turning his attention towards them and eyeing them assessingly, Vepar nodded. "Very well. I will deal with them but you will offer me another dozen sacrifices after I have done so."
"O-Of cou-course, Lo-Lord V-Vepar." The leader of the attacking Demon Tamers managed to gasp out as he collapsed against the tombstone he had been leaning against and slid down to sit at its base.
"You better, mortal, or you will feel my wrath." The Hell Duke said imperiously as he gathered his magic, as evidenced by a flaring of his aura, that allowed him to condense massive amounts of water vapor from the air that he further supplemented by conjuring even more liquid to combine together into a massive tidal wave that he sent surging towards Mikoto and Kashiwagi-san.
The Demon had conjured the tidal wave in mere seconds, far surpassing even the most powerful displays of hydrokinesis, whether by an Esper or Magician, she'd ever seen, shocking Mikoto and causing her to fail to react in time. Fortunately, Kashiwagi-san was not so easily impressed and just snorted and with a sweep of her hand and a rise in the intensity of the eerie red light that her eyes glowed with, she conjured her own wave though hers was made of white hot flames. The flamewave slammed into Vepar's tidal wave and with a roar and a massive cloud of steam, the two elementally diametrically opposed waves canceled each other out.
The burning hot steam forced Mikoto to create a barrier out of iron sand to protect herself and from behind this defense, shouted at the Incarnation of Kagutsuchi indignantly. "Kashiwagi-san! Watch it! Don't forget, you're not fighting alone here!"
"Those flames… Ah! I see. It seems I have the honor of fighting an Incarnation of Kagutsuchi."
"Yes, you do." Kashiwagi-san confirmed as she hurled flaming lances at the Demon that it proceeded to intercept with bolts of conjured water.
"Then as I said, it is an honor." Vepar said with a bow. "In that case, using my water magic is pointless. It would just be countered by Kagutsuchi's flames. I suppose I will try something else."
"Kashiwagi-san, any idea what he's talking about?" Mikoto asked as she shot a volley of electric bolts at the surviving Demon Tamers, who shielded themselves against it
"No idea. He has a few options, so I don't know which one he intends to use." The Incarnation said with a shrug as she tried to trap Vepar in a fire tornado only for it to be countered by a water spout that the Demon conjured in response. "We will just have to wait and see."
Raising his arms skywards, the Duke of Hell spoke in a commanding tone. "Come forth, my servants!"
At his invocation, in small bursts of aqua light, dozens of undead dressed in clothes and weapons straight out of the Golden Age of Piracy, including some fantastical literal hand cannons, manifested around them before immediately charging at Mikoto and Kashiwagi-san. Gunfire that sent a hail of lead at them.
Bullets were honestly a bit of a problem for Mikoto to deal with in general. They tended to be made out of lead, copper or plastic which were all non-magnetic which meant she couldn't manipulate them with her Electromastery. But the lead bullets the undead used weren't exactly made out of pure lead, perhaps in reflection of the lacking technology of the time period from whence they originated, and some of its alloys were ferromagnetic. This meant that Mikoto could use her Electromastery to deflect those. Unfortunately, there were a good number of the bullets which were made out of pure enough lead or some other non-ferromagnetic metal, the bullets were hardly made of the same material, and required her to create a thick barrier of mixed hardened electrons and iron sand to deflect them. Normally, the former would've been enough to deal with gunfire directed her way but the sheer volume of fire shot at her by the pirates necessitated her to include the latter too.
"Misaka-san, deal with the undead, would you? I will handle Vepar." Kashiwagi-san suggested as she began conjuring flames around herself.
"Sure." Mikoto agreed as using her Electromastery to aid her movements, she shot herself forward to get into the midst of the undead where they couldn't so easily level their guns at her for fear of friendly fire.
Once in the ranks of the undead, Mikoto began using electric bolts to reduce a bunch of the undead pirates to ash. And as she did, Kashiwagi-san surrounded herself in flames so that she looked like a woman completely made of fire before using some magic spell or other, she flew into the air to engage the airborne Vepar.
Having cleared the undead pirates around her, Mikoto prepared to move to engage with another group whilst shooting them with iron sand bullets to soften them up. As she did, she glanced up and noticed that Kashiwagi-san was throwing massive white hot fireballs at Vepar as the Duke of Hell retaliated by shooting bolts of water at her. Not that Mikoto had much time to observe their fight, not when she had to deal with the undead that she had previously defeated suddenly getting covered by aqua light before they staggered back to their feet.
"Seriously!? Now they can heal too!?" Mikoto fumed in frustration.
In between trying to shoot Vepar down with concentrated flames channeled into lasers only for the Demon to literally swim through the air as he gracefully evaded her attacks, Kashiwagi-san found herself with enough wherewithal to reply to Mikoto's complaint. "Healing magic is one of Vepar's forte. He can cast curses that cause injuries too, so be careful of that too."
Using a iron sand twister to blend the recently healed undead pirates, which would hopefully permanently take them out of the fight, before expanding it to consume more of Vepar's minions, Mikoto couldn't help but let out another complaint. "That's bullshit!"
Teleporting behind Kashiwagi-san and using his tail to smack her hard, he sent her crashing to the ground before replying to Mikoto. "No, it's magic."
As he said that, Mikoto suddenly found her right forearm glowing with an aqua light before a long slash spontaneously opened up along its length. A wound that was full of maggots! A turn of events that had Mikoto screaming in alarm, which in turn prompted Vepar to laugh at the misfortune that he had caused her.
His humor cost him however as it left him distracted and thus he found himself caught unawares as Kashiwagi-san teleported in behind the Duke of Hell via a fireball before she thrust her right arm toward the Demon's head even as she formed a lance of white hot flames around her limb. A lance that promptly pierced Vepar's head before the Demon could even react.
In response to the destruction of his head, the merman's body collapsed into particles of aqua light. And with his defeat, the Demon's undead minions likewise disappeared in the same aqua light. Most importantly, to Mikoto at least, the maggot filled wound on her arm disappeared too, leaving behind unblemished flesh.
Even as Mikoto breathed a sigh of relief, Kashiwagi-san, still looking like she was made of fire, turned to the surviving Demon Tamers and addressed them with a taunting smirk. "It seems Vepar is done. Do you happen to have any other trump cards?"
Clearly they did not because in response to the Incarnation's question, the Demon Tamers panicked. Hastily collecting their dead compatriots, they fled.
"How disappointing." Kashiwagi-san said with a sigh as she landed next to Mikoto and dismissed her flames. "Shall we proceed to finish what we came here to do?"
"Don't we need to stay to handle the clean-up?"
The Incarnation shook her head and pulled out a phone from a sealed pocket of her bodysuit and replied, "We can just call in the clean-up crew. I will call them now."
Mikoto frowned but nodded. "Sure. I wouldn't know what to do anyways."
The older girl nodded in agreement before quickly speaking through the phone, instructing a clean-up crew to head over to deal with the aftermath of their fight against Vepar and the Demon Tamers that had summoned him.
"There." Kashiwagi-san said as she finished her call and began walking towards the pagoda that was Fuyuki's primary memorial. "Let's go."
Despite knowing the reasons behind her behavior, Mikoto was still nevertheless flabbergasted by how easily the Incarnation seemed to brush off the earlier fight. Looking nonchalant no less.
Seriously… Mikoto thought with a shake of her head as she followed after the older girl.
A few minutes later, Mikoto entered the pagoda and found Kashiwagi-san busy melting a hole in the tower's ground floor.
"What are you doing?" Mikoto asked as she looked at the Incarnation in surprise.
"You will see." The Magician said before her digging reached the depth she wanted and she cut off her flames, before fearless of the heat of the still glowing stones that lined the pit, she jumped down into it.
Worried for her comrade's safety, Mikoto rushed to the edge of the hole to see what Kashiwagi-san was doing. Fortunately, she was just retrieving what was recognizably a sword from a box, which had somehow survived the Incarnation's flames, that had seemingly been buried and which she had just dug up.
"What's that?" The [Railgun] eyed the sword which was covered in a cloth bag that Kashiwagi-san was carrying as she leapt back out of the hole clearly with some help from magic.
"What we came here to retrieve."
"Weren't we here so you could pay your respects?"
"I will do that too and it was what my therapist suggested but the retrieval of the sword was why my superiors allowed the trip." Kashiwagi-san explained with a shrug.
I really should've suspected that the Board had some kind of ulterior motive for letting Kashiwagi-san visit her hometown to pay her respects. Mikoto thought with a tired sigh and dead eyes.
"I am going to lodge a complaint about this to Oyafune-sama and Kiyama-sensei."
"Feel free, Misaka-san." The older girl said as she freed the sword from its cloth bag to reveal a blade that strongly resembled artistic recreations of the Kusanagi no Tsurugi. A weapon that she proceeded to present to Mikoto
It was a relatively short sword with a blade that was somewhere between two to three feet in length; a blade that tapered to a point with indents halfway down its length, a thick fuller running down the blade's center; ribs that crossed the width of the blade near the hilt three times, a barely there guard that seamlessly transitioned into a wrapped hilt that ended in a hammerhead pommel.
"Why are you giving it to me?" Mikoto asked with a deep frown.
"Because the Board ordered this sword to be recovered to equip you." Kashiwagi-san explained. "It is the Worochi-no-Aramasa (蛇之麁正, Rough and True Blade of the Serpent), one aspect of the blade by which the god Susanoo killed the dragon Orochi. It was the Idol which Otou-sama used to invoke the storm god's power to seal my own as a child. Now it will be your weapon, Misaka-san."
"Whoa, whoa! I'm an Esper you know! I can't use magic!" Mikoto stammered as she held the sword at a distance away from her body, as if it was a mini nuke about to go off.
"I am aware. Strictly speaking, you cannot invoke magic without incurring injury from your clashing nature. However, you can make use of the power inherent to the sword." Kashiwagi-san countered. "That is to say, manipulating the electricity the sword produces naturally and perhaps whatever other special ability it has. After all, the sword would be invoking the magic involved. Not the user. It's a neat loophole."
"Uh-huh." Mikoto nodded with a doubtful look on her face as she side eyed the mythical weapon. "Going to have my magic experts look it over first. Just for safety."
"Prudent of you. You should test it once we return to the City. For now, we should leave. We have what we came here to acquire and I still have to pay my respects.."
"Yeah, I've had enough excitement for today." Mikoto agreed as they two began to walk out of the pagoda. "Think we might have any more?"
"I do not think so." Kashiwagi-san said with a shrug. "But I was not expecting the ambush by the Demon Tamers either, so who can say."
Mikoto just groaned in frustration.
A thankfully uneventful day later, Mikoto was back in the City and found herself in a testing chamber in the Trinity's base alongside her teammates where she was ready to start testing out her new magical sword under their watchful eyes. Honestly, she was doubtful that she could use the sword without harm but after checking in with Sequenzia-san and Meigo-san about the matter via Naru and receiving assurances that it would be alright, she'd been convinced to give it a try. Particularly since the Saint-Esper Hybrid's mysterious magic sensei said it would be alright too.
The fact that Naru's girlfriends had finally got a magic sensei was actually news to her, so Mikoto was unsurprised when upon hearing about it, the Number 3 turned to their blonde teammate with her own questioning look.
"So Sequenzia-san and Meigo-san finally found a teacher to train them in using their magic?"
"It's less that they found him and more that their sensei just showed up one day and declared that he wanted to make up for his past crimes by training, in his words, 'the unique Esper-Saint hybrid'."
Ruiko frowned at that reply. "Who exactly is this mysterious teacher? And how is it that I'm only learning about this now?"
"I want to know that too." Mikoto chimed in.
Naru shook her head. "Sorry, girls. I can't tell you who he is. He wants to keep his identity a secret and since he's the first magic teacher we could actually find, I'm not going to jinx it by betraying his trust. And as for how you didn't know about it, Rui-chan? Let's just say that the magic teacher is a sneaky guy."
"I see." Ruiko said with a frown. "Was he vetted at least?"
"The General Superintendent gave his okay." Naru assured them with a thumbs up. Showing her trust in the man that raised her.
Ruiko's frown deepened but ultimately nodded. "Well, if he is okay with this magic teacher then there's nothing else to say about it."
"Yeah, I don't like it but if he says it's okay then we just have to accept it." Mikoto reluctantly agreed.
"Yup. Yup." Naru said with a smirk. "I know you're worried. But everything is fine. Really."
"Got it." Mikoto said with a roll of her eyes at just how chipper Naru could be. "Since that's settled, could we get to testing my new sword now?"
Ruiko nodded. "Go ahead, Senpai."
"Sure, Senpai. What are you trying?"
"I dunno really. I haven't tried anything. I wanted you to be there before I tried anything."
Ruiko smiled at this and Naru blushed before replying, "Well, we're here so give it a go."
Mikoto nodded and drew Worochi-no-Aramasa. As soon as even a portion of the magical sword's blade was exposed, electricity began to arc from the weapon. Electricity whose intensity steadily grew as more and more of the blade was revealed, such that by the time that the sword was fully drawn, the entire test chamber where they were in was filled with a raging electrical storm.
Under the safety of a barrier that Ruiko had thrown up, Naru shouted at Mikoto. "Rein the electricity in, Senpai! It's out of control!"
"I'm trying! There is too much of it! Give me a minute!"
Just then, an electric bolt hit Ruko's barrier and the shield actually cracked, causing the Number 3 to frown. "Mikoto-senpai, sheath the sword!"
Seeing that the electricity from her sword was endangering her friends, Mikoto hastily heeded Ruiko's request and sheathed the blade. The moment that Worochi-no-Aramasa was safely back in its sheath, the electrical storm that it had released immediately calmed down.
"Oh! Sorry!" Mikoto apologized with pink cheeks.
"Nah, it's fine Senpai." Naru waved away the matter as if Mikoto hadn't almost accidentally electrocuted her.
"Yes, don't worry. Just keep practicing with it before you think of using it in the field. Please?" Ruiko asked with a forced smile.
"Right!" Mikoto agreed.
Done and done! Thanks to Nameless as always!
And so Mikoto goes on her own little side quest and gets a powerup in the process! I mean, not for nothing, but out of our Trinity, Mikoto has always been lagging behind even if she is a top tier Level 5. So instead of her other power boost she would get with a certain whale cannon, she got a mythical Japanese sword. I mean, she already uses a makeshift sword with iron sand. Why not give her a legendary storm sword to help her out some more? Win-Win for our [Railgun]!
Nameless: Yup. We don't want to follow canon too closely after all. Anyways, hope you guys like this Mikoto filler. Since we've given two of our heroines fillers, I think you know what to expect for the next chapter. It's Naru filler time! Are you looking forward to it? I know I am!
Time for some Level 5 craziness! Whoo!
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