I'm back with another chapter of my first original arc. Here it is, the finale of the Revelations Arc. A short one, I know, but you have to start somewhere. Maybe I'll be able to write a longer original arc later on.

Anyway, we'll be seeing just what exactly OC Ezekiel can do. I think my only regret is that Ezekiel as a character isn't fleshed out very well. Maybe I can bring him back later on to better flesh him out then.

For now, let's take a look at the reviews you all left, shall we?

Nemonobody001: Glad you liked the chapter so much!

fuji92: Glad you like the way I write. I actually write each chapter while playing the respective episode in the background for reference. Helps to give that authentic feel to the anime adaptation. I'm sure you'll like what's to come. Although, Touma completely recuperating Mikoto's feelings probably won't happen for at least a handful of arcs. It is coming, just not yet.

shiroryuu012: I wouldn't count on that just yet. The nature of the older sibling is to always see the younger sibling and young and helpless. Much like the parent, they don't realize just how quickly the young ones grow up, and its especially the case for Shizuri as she's been an absentee older sister.

0 Jordinio 0: It is the nature of the older sibling. Much like the parent, they never realize just how quickly the young ones grow up. In Shizuri's case, she's been absent from Touma's life for a decade and never saw him learn to handle himself. She knows he's in Judgement, yes, but that job is mostly associated with street cleaning and dealing with small crimes. She's never going to believe he's someone that can get away with punching archangels and La Persona Superiore a Dio in the face. You might also be high balling Touma a bit too, since while Touma is strong physically, he lacks formal training to use that strength in a CQC confrontation. He has some Judo training, but that's more focused on pinning an opponent as quickly and effectively as possible and not very useful in a lasting conflict. Think of is as Hulk vs Thanos: both are incredibly strong, but only the latter has the skill and technique to use that strength to the maximum potential. That's not to say Touma can't handle himself in a fight, he can definitely take care of himself, its mostly a matter of Shizuri lacking proper knowledge and failing to understand that her little brother isn't that defenseless little boy anymore.

janjakennen: Touma and Mikoto's date will be completely original content, being the intended plan for August 31st as opposed to a hastily put together plan by Mikoto to get away from Etzali. Outside of the date, however, the chapter will follow similar beats such as meeting Etzali outside of the dorm, Touma having a heart-to-heart with each of them, and the confrontation. How they are executed however will change given current circumstances. Index's role in the Three Stories Arc will remain relatively unchanged in the third story, but the source of the racket Accelerator hears and blocks will be something a bit different, as you will soon see. And yes, Touma did actually get his summer homework done. It was original forgotten because of his amnesia (as was his original set of remedial classes) and he never got around to doing it because of subsequent incidences. However, because of the Railgang's interference this time around, he was reminded about his summer school work as soon as he woke up from the hospital and got everything done on time. This includes attending all his remedial classes so he doesn't have to pay for a second set and doing all the summer homework before summer ended.

GunsAndMagic: It will be interesting, if not a bit familiar, I'll promise you that.

ArmoredCoreNineBall: Yeah, looks like my longer chapters are usually the adapted ones since they have preexisting content that I expand on with my own stuff. Glad to know I'm handing this original stuff well enough at least. Thanks for the tip. I made sure to make that correction in this chapter before posting it. Not sure why I messed up the name like that.

Anti-Mage 29: Like I've always said, this is a fundamentally different Shizuri. She has something she wishes to protect by nature, but that comes in conflict with how she lives by nurture. Thanks for pointing that error out for me. I made sure to fix it ASAP. I really need to study the map of Academy City more closely.

Anime-ted Life116: I wouldn't worry too much. Scientific progress can't be stopped, and with STUDY now on Doctor Bakuya's research team, a new build of ODD that needs field testing might be just around the corner. I think you'll find the resolution to this conflict quite interesting, particularly for how similar it is to a certain other incident that took place before this story. Relationships are a big part of this story, so of course a whole bunch of them will see some development.

OnePunchPlayer: I wouldn't be too worried about all of ITEM part of Touma's Harem. Three of them are reserved for Hamazura. That kind of is the joke, everyone underestimates Touma. Although, in this case it partly because Shizuri doesn't realize just how much Touma has grown up. I actually have plans to save Frenda, not saying how though. Big plans coming for the end of Index Season 1. You'll have to wait and see what those are.

Isokage (Guest): Glad you liked the chapter. I'm actually not entirely sure if I want to include the storyline of A Certain Scientific Accelerator. As it stands right now, what's been released is so limited that it's not too consequential. I actually have plans to showcase Index and Saten's daily life prior to the kidnapping in the Three Stories Arc. I'm getting around to thinking of a proper name for Misaka 10032. She and the other Sisters will be revealed, just not for a long time.

Stitches (Guest): I think you're going to find this chapter rather surprising. Touma and Shizuri are currently living in just a random, high quality apartment. I might recon it later that its the same apartment building.

II (Guest): No, the fake Unibara was not cut. The last chapter actually partially set that up with Touma and Mikoto's date. Touma and Accelerator will cross paths again, just not quite yet. Sooner than in canon, but not too far off from now either. Give them about three days in story. Shizuri will at least try to kill Frenda. The Sisters will be revealed in time.

ArcaRoz: I understand your concerns, but I encourage you not to worry about the characters. The changes are less recreations of the characters and more expansions of them. The core of what makes the characters special will still be there, but they will be enhanced with new nuances. Aritomi is an excellent example of this. Originally a flat, unlikable character whose only real traits was his intelligence and hatred for Espers, I expanded on him and made him a wide-eyed idealist who lost his way as his ideals and ideas were ridiculed, driving him down a misguided path. I don't aim to redefine these characters, just the readers' experience with them.

vampireharry the 2: Thank you!

ahsoei: I did say they were going to be the main ship in Touma's harem.

TeotakuFantasia: I think you'll like what you see.

LegallyRestricted: Not quite on the front of Saten and Frenda. This doesn't really change their first meeting. Frenda's not going to try and fight Touma. She can be dumb, but she's not that dumb to threaten the little brother Shizuri literally hired her to protect one day. I'm thinking Shizuri's opinion of Touma's friends will improve long before Lesser comes into play. But when she does, you can count that Shizuri's not going to like her.

mohamadstar94: Yeah, Ezekiel is in for a bad time.

EDIT: After many of you have pointed out a scientific flaw in the chapter, I have taken the liberty of revising it to be more accurate to actual science. Please enjoy this slightly modified version.

Disclaimer: All characters and plotlines of the "A Certain" franchise are credited to Kazuma Kamachi.

Chapter 53: More than Meets the Eye

When Touma and Mikoto returned to the table with everyone's drinks, the waitress had arrived and was already starting to take everybody's orders. However, just as they put the drinks down on the table, a loud crash was heard just outside the restaurant. Dropping everything they were doing, the Judgement Officers among the group quickly slipped on their armbands and rushed outside to investigate, as did many of the civilians within restaurant.

When they got outside, Touma, Kuroko, and Uiharu saw everyone outside crowding around the remains of what appeared to be one of the restaurant's outdoor tables. Wooden splinters were scattered everywhere and there appeared to be a massive hole in the middle of the destroyed tabletop, as if something or someone punched through it.

"Excuse us, we're with Judgement. Can you tell us what happened here?" Kuroko asked one of the nearby civilians.

"It all happened so fast, I'm not entirely sure myself," the man replied, "I think a little girl in a hoodie just smashed the table and started chasing the man who was sitting at it."

"Looks like we've got a rouge Esper on our hands," Touma mused.

"Can you tell us which way they went?" Uiharu inquired.

"I think I saw them run that way," the man answered, pointing down the street.

"They can't have gotten far! We can still catch them," Kuroko cried as she grabbed Uiharu's shoulder, "Think you can keep up, Kamijou?"

"With this thing?" Touma replied, pulling out his collapsed hoverboard, "Your days of leaving me in the dust are over."

"Then let's go!" Kuroko ordered as she teleported herself and Uiharu ahead several meters at a time.

Meanwhile, Touma expanded and activated his hoverboard, syncing it with his new ODD's systems. He then threw the board on to the ground where it hovered in place before jumping on top. Once onboard, Touma jetted forward after Kuroko and Uiharu, joining the chase for this mysterious rouge Esper. Just another day in the office for Judgement.

As he ran through the streets of Academy City, Ezekiel could hardly believe how quickly his luck had soured. On moment he was planning his ambush on Touma Kamijou, the next he's cover is blown and he's sent running for his life from a twelve-year-old girl. Did Imagine Breaker's range suddenly expand and negate the blessings God had been giving him up until then?

For the life of him, Ezekiel couldn't understand how his cover was blown. By all indications, his cloaking magic should still be active and in full effect. The story of Moses was one of the most pivotal in the Bible and demonstrated one of the most prominent cases of concealed identity. So well hidden was Moses's true heritage throughout his early life that Moses himself did not realize that he was the son of a Hebrew slave until the eyes of others revealed the truth to him. The only ways Ezekiel's cloaking magic could fail was if he lost his Levite cloth or if someone saw looked at him indirectly, like through a mirror.

Ezekiel couldn't worry about that right now. For now, he had to get away and regain his cover. Rushing through the crowded streets of the city of science, the Roman Orthodox sorcerer ran into a crowd before slowing his pace and blending into it. Since his magic was still in effect, a crowd of people was the safest place he could be right now. Once he was sure he was in the clear, Ezekiel would locate Touma Kamijou again and eliminate him the first chance he got.

Unfortunately, when he looked behind him, Ezekiel saw the girl in the hoodie from before still following him, her gaze firmly locked on to him. Seeing that the crowd approach was not doing him any favors even with his cloaking magic, Ezekiel quickly changed course and dove into an alley way to take cover and catch his breath.

Hidden by the shadows of the alley, the Roman Orthodox sorcerer leaned against one of the walls, furiously trying to think of how this little girl could track his so easily and why she would be attacking him in the first place. Sure, he was a spy who infiltrated Academy City, but he wouldn't be the first. Plus, he's never met her before in his life, so he couldn't have wronged her in any way to make her vindictive.

As these thoughts passed through his mind, Ezekiel noticed a small glimmer of light shine in his eye amongst the darkness of the alley. Looking up, the sorcerer saw exactly where the light was coming from. It was a reflection off the lens of a security camera, one of the hundreds of thousands installed throughout Academy City.

'That's how she's doing it!' Ezekiel growled to himself, 'She has someone monitoring the security cameras for her to bypass my spell and give away my location and appearance!'

"You're ultra terrible at this, you know that?" a familiar voice called behind Ezekiel.

Turning around, the sorcerer's fears were confirmed when he saw the young girl from before had once again found him. Seeing as his cloaking magic had been compromised, Ezekiel's only hope now was to run to a location in which there were no cameras. But before that, he needed to lose this girl, which was going to require force.

"HWFABLF! (Hail will fall and burn like fire!)" Ezekiel yelled as he pointed his staff towards the hooded girl.

The letters the sorcerers spoke sounded like mere gibberish to the untrained, but they were anything but. They were a method of deriving words known as Notarikon. By taking the first letter of each word in a translation of a sentence, a spell caster was able to derive meaning from the letters and perform an appropriate spell. In Ezekiel's case, by translating the original biblical texts regarding the Ten Plagues of Egypt to English and reciting the first letter of each word, he was able to perform recreations of those same plagues with more relative ease.

As soon as the letters left his mouth, a miniature storm of flaming hails erupted from the tip of his staff and rushed towards the hooded girl. Said girl crossed her arms in front of her face as if to brace herself for the impact, as if the blast would have no real effect on her. To the sorcerer's surprise, his flaming balls of hail bounced harmlessly off her, clattering to the ground like stones. She did however do a double take upon seeing the flaming balls of ice, a concept that was so contradictory it wasn't even funny.

The girl named Sasai Kinuhata was a Level 4 Esper with a powerful Esper Ability, Offensive Armor, which projected a dense shield of nitrogen around her body that defended her from nearly all manner of attacks and enhanced her own. The only real way to combat this defense of her's was to deplete the nitrogen in the immediate area, but Ezekiel had no way to do that, nor could he have known it was the only viable strategy.

'Didn't expect that,' Ezekiel thought to himself as he started running deeper into the alley.

Even though the unexpectedly strange attack threw her off, Kinuhata was determined to not let her target get away. Quickly shaking off her confusion, she ran after the fleeing Ezekiel, only for the sorcerer to chant out another string of letters.

"LGFALWSTL! (Lice, gnats, flies, and locusts with swarm the land!)"

From the tip of Ezekiel's staff erupted a swarm of insects, including lice, gnats, flies, and locusts. These insects surrounded Kinuhata, unrelentingly trying to pierce her Offense Armor to no avail. Despite they, there were still a major hindrance to her chase, blocking her line of sight and holding her in place. This gave Ezekiel the perfect opportunity to lose his pursuer.

"Takitsubo, I've ultra lost him!" Kinuhata reported over her commlink, "He's thrown a whole ton of bugs at me and they're ultra persistent on keeping me in place!"

From her laptop in one of ITEM's many armored vans. Takitsubo had full, unrestricted access to Academy City's security cameras. On one of the many feeds she had visible to her, there was the Roman Orthodox spy known as Ezekiel Mitchell, running out of a city alley and heading for the river.

"Don't worry. I still have him in my sights," Takitsubo replied, "Frenda, he's heading your way."

When Ezekiel reached the river, the thought he was in the clear. With no buildings in the immediate area, he was sure there would be no cameras to expose him now that he had lost the girl that was chasing him. All he had to do was say in areas with no cameras, like the riverbed, and wait for his chance to eliminate Touma Kamijou. Inflicting the boy with boils across his entire body to the point that he died seems like an appropriate enough demise. The one weakness of his scepter is that it could only recreate each of the ten plagues of Egypt once per day, similar to how each plague was only inflicted once before the Hebrews were set free, and he had just used four of them trying to flee his pursuer. Still, there were still more than half of his plagues left over, more than enough to eliminate his target with. Unfortunately, the Roman Orthodox sorcerer forgot to account for one little thing: there was more than one pursuer after him.

"All told, you're really making this job interesting, mister mystery man," Frenda taunted as she approached Ezekiel, pulling a set of six handheld missiles out from under her skirt, "But this is the end of the line for you."

'There's more of them!?' Ezekiel thought in a panic.

With little warning, Frenda pulled the triggers on all of her missiles and threw them into the air, sending them rocketing straight towards the unfortunate sorcerer. Thankfully, Ezekiel was by a river, and he had just the spell to help him defend himself.

Dipping his staff into the river he said a quick chant, drawing power from the stories of Moses.

"TNWTTB! (The Nile will turn to blood!)"

At his command, the water around where his staff touched the river became a deep red and put under his control. With a swing of his staff, the red water burst from the river and formed a wall between him and Frenda, catching the missiles and protecting him from the explosions.

"FWRFTNASTP! (Frogs will rise from the Nile and swarm the people!)"

As soon as the letters left Ezekiel's mouth, the curse that befell Egypt was reenacted in a much smaller scale. From the river came hundreds of frogs, more than what should reasonably live in the river considering its location in the middle of the city of science. Coming in droves, the frogs leaped at Frenda, catching her off guard and knocking her to the ground. With his latest pursuer now occupied with his legion of amphibians, Ezekiel saw it fit to leave while he still had four of his plagues for the day. Unfortunately, that number was about to drop very soon.

As he ran in the opposite direction, Ezekiel barely narrowly missed getting hit by a blast of uncertain electrons. His Levite cloth, however, was not so lucky, getting barely singed and catching fire, forcing the sorcerer to discard it. With his Levite cloth destroyed, Ezekiel was without his cloaking magic, leaving his true appearance in full view of one Shizuri Mugino Kamijou standing at the top of the riverbank.

"So that's what you really look like," the Meltdowner mused, "I was aiming to incapacitate you for questioning with a flesh wound, but it seems I disabled your cloaking device instead. At least it will make tracking your slippery ass all the easier."

"PWFOA! (Pestilence will fall on all!)" Ezekiel cried in resistance, firing a noxious cloud at the Level 5.

Molding her uncertain electrons into a small wall, Shizuri intercepted the noxious cloud long before it reached her, disintegrating it.

"Did you really fucking think a pathetic attack like that would work against a Level 5?" Shizuri taunted, "Especially one whose little brother you've threatened?"

'So, she's the rumored elder sister, and a Level 5 Esper as well,' Ezekiel thought to himself, 'If she's the firstborn of the Kamijous…'

"DTA-ah!" the sorcerer cried as chant was cut off by a blast to his left shoulder, making him drop his staff at his feet.

"Did you really think I'd let you counterattack?" Shizuri mocked.

A second blast to his right leg brought him to his knees, leaving Ezekiel at the mercy of the Meltdowner. The Level 5 was soon joined by Frenda and Kinohata, who besides looking a bit disheveled from dealing with frogs and bugs were more or less okay.

"So, are you going to kill me now?" the captured spy asked rhetorically.

"No, not yet anyway," Shizuri replied calmly, "First, you're going to answer some questions for us, and answer them truthfully."

"And if I refuse?"

Ezekiel's answer was a Meltdowner blast between his legs, just barely missing his manhood.

"… Fair enough," the spy shrugged, taking his situation in stride.

With his staff out of his hands and his eighth plague spell incomplete and wasted, Ezekiel was left with no option but to comply with his captor's demands. It wasn't like his last to plague spells, darkness and boils, were going to be of much help to him now. At least, not until he got the opportunity to make his next move.

Besides, even if the Meltdowner had threatened to kill him, he could tell she wasn't going to go through with it. He could see it in her eyes. They held the desire to kill, but lacked the conviction to do so, as if in conflict some other desire. Sure, the other girls looked plenty ready to kill him, especially after he assaulted them with pests and semiaquatic animals, but the Meltdowner was their leader and lacked the same drive. Like any team, they were like a chain rope, and a chain was only as strong as its weakest link.

"First question, who are you?" Kinuhata demanded.

"My name is Ezekiel Mitchell, and I am an agent of the Roman Orthodox Church."

"Okay then, Ezekiel," Frenda inquired, "What exactly is a man of faith like you doing in Academy City? All told, it's not exactly the Vatican City."

"I was sent on a mission to assess the threat that Touma Kamijou poses, and to eliminate him if the threat is too great."

"What threat could my brother possibly pose!?" Shizuri asked in outrage, "He's nothing more than a normal high school student with a special right hand! He's not a threat to anyone!"

"Hehehe. You really know nothing about your brother, do you?" Ezekiel chuckled, "Have you looked at the people surrounding him? A Level 5 as an older sister. The Railgun as a potential lover. The good graces of some Academy City's youngest and brightest minds. And that's just from this side of the world. There's another side in a global power struggle you're not even aware of that Touma Kamijou has even more supporters from."

"And what side would that be?" Shizuri demanded, narrowing her eyes.

"The same side that taught me how to use the powers I used against you all today," Ezekiel said cryptically as he slowly reached for his staff, "An alternative source of power to your Esper Abilities."

"Wait, all that ultra weird stuff you were doing, with the hail and the bugs and the frogs, those were a supernatural phenomenon outside of an Esper Ability?" Kinuhata inquired.

"That is correct," the spy replied, "You Espers are incredibly ignorant to believe that your Abilities are the only power that exists in this world."

"Then what other powers exist?" Shizuri pushed.

"I'm sure you'll learn soon enough," Ezekiel smirked before making his move.

Faster than anyone in ITEM could react, the Roman Orthodox sorcerer grabbed his staff from the ground and chanted his ninth plague spell. It was the simplest and quickest to cast of his spells, but also the most effective for making last ditch efforts to escape. He always made sure to save it until the last moment when no other options were available. As they say, never play an ace if a two will do.

"DWF! (Darkness will fall!)" Ezekiel chanted.

In an instant, all light within the immediate area around Ezekiel disappeared, leaving the members of ITEM in complete darkness. Caught off guard by the sudden lack of light, the members of ITEM tried everything they could to illuminate their situation, from Shizuri's Meltdowner to Frenda's various lighters. However, no light would be allowed to shine within the area the spell was cast when it was in effect.

The spell was a recreation of the three days of darkness that plagued Egypt in the story of Moses, naturally scaled down to an extensive degree. For one, the spell only covered a radius of ten meters as opposed to the entirety of a country the size of Egypt. In addition, the time limit was cut down from three days to three minutes, but that was more enough time for someone like Ezekiel to make an escape. The spell also had the added bonus of trapping everyone caught inside other than the caster until it wore off, insuring the caster's escape.

When the darkness was lifted, there was no trace of Ezekiel left behind whatsoever. A check in with Takitsubo revealed there was no traces of the Roman Orthodox spy on any of Academy City's security cameras. Once again, ITEM's target has slipped through their fingers. While Shizuri originally requested this job in a search for answers, she found herself with nothing but more questions.

"Is now a bad time to ask if we're still getting paid?" Frenda asked obliviously.

Following the trail left behind by eyewitnesses, Touma, Kuroko, and Uiharu soon arrived at the last reported sighting of the rouge Esper, an entrance to an alley in which she chased an unsuspecting civilian. The alley was in a rather surprising state, showing signs of a small struggle and littered with bug corpses and hail balls. Even stranger were the bug corpses and hail balls themselves.

"This is odd," Uiharu mused as she looked through an internet page on her ODD bracelet's holographic screen, "According to this, these bugs shouldn't even be native to anywhere near Japan, let alone Academy City."

"It's not just the bugs," Touma pointed out, "Check out these hail balls."

"Is that ice… on fire?" Kuroko inquired, kneeling next to Touma to get a closer look.

"And that's not all," Touma added, reaching down to touch a hail ball with his right hand.

As soon as he touched it, the sound of shattering glass rang out and the hail ball itself shattered before disappearing, leaving no trace of its existence.

"This could only mean one thing," Touma deduced.

"Magic," Kuroko agreed.

"Better keep this off the books," Uiharu noted, "Don't want this to get out."

"I'll talk to Index about it later," Touma added, "Maybe she can give us some clue on who this guy is."

Just outside Academy City, Ezekiel sat in a park bench, completely exhausted. His mission to infiltrated Academy City and eliminate Touma Kamijou had lasted all of two days before it went awry. However, that did not necessarily mean in mission was a complete failure.

While he was unable to eliminate the Imagine Breaker, he did find plenty of reason to attack him. The Kamijou Faction was indeed a growing threat, and one that should be feared. His near-death experience with Shizuri Mugino Kamijou was proof of that. However, that experience provided him with a great deal of insight regarding the Kamijou Faction: they were largely oblivious.

Despite being the elder sister of Touma Kamijou, the Meltdowner was completely oblivious to her younger brother's exploits and connections. She failed to realize just how much influence over the world Touma Kamijou really had, not even knowing that the Magic Side existed. If the sister of the leader of the Kamijou Faction, theoretically the closest person to said leader, knew nothing, how much more did the rest of the faction.

In short, the Kamijou Faction was completely unprepared for whatever was coming. It was important news for Ezekiel to report back to his superiors.

That night, while waiting for Touma to come home, Shizuri had opted to take a shower to help clear her head and collect her thoughts. The cold water falling on her face was just what she needed after the day she had. After her little outing with ITEM, Shizuri was left with so much information that she didn't know what to do with it all. She thought that tracking down that spy would get her answers, but it also gave many more questions.

First and foremost, there was the idea that Touma was considered a threat by some outside organization. For some reason, this unknown group thought Touma was a threat large enough to warrant sending a spy and assassin against him to observe and kill him if deemed necessary. Touma had a knack for finding trouble, or rather trouble had a knack for finding him, but overall, he was pretty harmless, at least as far as Shizuri was concerned. He was a high school Judgement Officer with a special right hand that could negate supernatural phenomenon. Nothing more, nothing less.

Then there was the idea that Touma was the head of some sort of organization out to change the world order as everyone knew it. That was one of the most absurd things Shizuri's ever heard of in a long time, and she knew of an experiment that was the equivalent of grinding low-level enemies in an RPG. Sure, Touma was a social butterfly, but he wasn't out to create some sort of revolution. He just has a way with people, especially girls from some reason.

And finally there was the idea that there was another source of power out there outside of Academy City's Esper Abilities. This was the hardest to disregard. Shizuri had seen for herself genuine proof that there was something else out there. That Ezekiel character she and ITEM tracked down had some seriously diverse powers. Some of those powers didn't even makes any sense, like flaming hail and summoning frogs that shouldn't even be living in Academy City's rivers. None of those powers looked scientific in the slightest, and that stick couldn't have been some high-tech device holding things like disease and bugs inside. And what was with the chanting he was doing each time he attacked? There was definitely some other power in play then, but what was it?

If only that spy didn't get away. She could have gotten more answers out of him. If only she hadn't been so merciful with him. Shizuri could see it in his eyes. He knew she wouldn't kill him. After all, she promised Touma she wouldn't kill unless it was absolutely necessary. Unfortunately, that also made her threats less dangerous since killing was reserved. At the very least, she could relax knowing that spy was no longer in Academy City.

All Shizuri could do now was keep a closer eye on Touma and those that surrounded him. He was definitely going to need some more protection in the near future. At the very least, she could probably trust the Railgun to keep him safe to some degree. Even if she didn't like the Tokiwodai girl very much, she knew Mikoto was fiercely devoted to Touma. If she was that devoted, she was sure to keep Touma out of trouble.

After some time, Shizuri decided it was about time to get out of the shower. Turning off the water, she stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel, immediately getting to work on drying off, starting with her hair, leaving the rest of her body exposed, not that anyone was going to see it. At least, that's what she though until the bathroom door suddenly opened.

Standing in the doorway was Touma, looking rather tired. He stood there dumbfound and paralyzed. He acted as if he had seen something forbidden, which technically for anyone else, he did.

"I-I'm sorry!" Touma stammered, trying to defend himself, "I-I didn't mean to walk in on you like that! I've been living by myself ever since I started middle school, so I'm not used to sharing a bathroom with someone, especially not a girl! B-besides, you haven't been home very often recently because of all those jobs you were getting, so I never adapted to sharing a bathroom with you!"

"Touma, relax, I'm not mad," Shizuri said calmly as she wrapped herself with her towel.

"Y-you're not?" Touma stuttered.

"Of course not," the elder Kamijou replied as she stepped past her brother out of the bathroom, "It's not like this is the first time you've seen me naked. We used to take baths together as kids all the time."

"I-I guess that makes sense," the younger brother agreed with some uncertainty.

"So, how was your day?" Shizuri asked as she picked up a newspaper from the living room, "You look tired."

"Oh! Uh… There was a case of a rouge Esper today, but we hit a dead end, so Anti-Skill is taking over," Touma answered, "Aside from that, my day went pretty well. Something amazing happened to me today."

"Oh yeah?" Shizuri inquired as she dug up a roll of tap from the kitchen drawer.

"Yeah, I actually have a date tomorrow… with Mikoto," Touma said wearily, "It's cool if I go out with her, right?"

"I don't see why not," Shizuri replied as she folded the newspaper in an accordion style, "You're a healthy high school boy. I don't see why I should keep you from going on dates at your age."

"R-really?" Touma asked in confusion, "I thought for should you would have been against it since it's Mikoto."

"I may not like her too much personally, but I can see she's a good person," Shizuri answered as she taped together one end of her folded newspaper, "If you really want to go on a date with her, then I won't stop you. I wouldn't be mad over that."

"T-then why are you threatening me with the paper fan you just made?" the misfortunate Level 0 asked as his sister approached him, slapping said paper fan in her hand.

"Because, your reaction after walking in on me in the shower tells me you have not learned to knock before opening a bathroom door in the ten years we've been separated and this isn't the first time something like this has happened to you," Shizuri explained in a faux sweetness, "So, I figured it was about time I taught you some discipline in a manner that was sure to get the point across."

"C-can't we talk about this?" Touma begged, visibly sweating.

His response was a relentless fury of slaps from Shizuri's paper fan to his face. The commotion was so loud, it could be heard from several blocks away by passing by pedestrians.

"Rotten luck!"

Special End Card Segment: Animan Temple

"Welcome back to the Animan Temple!" the master of the temple shouted, "I'm your host, Animan von Elysium X, with my assistant, Priestess Number 1 Aisa Himegami!"

"Pleasure to be here," Himegami said with a bow.

"Well, that little magical escapade ended as well as it could have, I suppose," Animan mused.

"As well as it could considering what happened to Kamijou at the end," Himegami deadpanned.

"You win some you lose some," the master shrugged, "But hey, at least Touma gets a date next time."

"Don't remind me," the temple's head priestess sulked.

"Well, we'll see how well this date goes next time in 'Love is War'," Animan said with a wave, "Until then, stay frosty everyone!"

"Good bye."