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"Ha... ha... ha..."
Misaka Mikoto ran down the street with a steady, rhythmic breathing pattern.
Misaka Mikoto.
Mention her name, and perhaps not everyone in Academy City would recognize it. But mention another name, and not a single person in Academy City would be unfamiliar with it:
"Railgun."
She was one of Academy City's seven Level 5 espers and was ranked third among them. She was famed as the strongest Electromaster, able to freely manipulate billion-volt lightning currents, radio waves, and electromagnetism.
That was the second-year student at Tokiwadai Middle School before us: Misaka Mikoto.
Shirai Kuroko, a first-year student at Tokiwadai, was Misaka Mikoto's kouhai and roommate. Misaka Mikoto and Shirai Kuroko were certainly not strangers.
But it was precisely because of that that Misaka Mikoto was angry.
"Kuroko, that idiot! After finally finding a chance to catch that guy, she helps him escape? Aren't you supposed to catch our enemy?"
Carrying that hot, furious complaint, Misaka Mikoto ran, her skirt's hem fluttering in the wind.
The Tokiwadai skirt wasn't long to begin with.
Running at full speed, her athletic build made the skirt very askew. Her long thighs swung constantly, and from certain angles, you could see what was underneath.
Many men on the sidewalk took advantage of the moment to glance at her body, their eyes drifting downward at about sixty degrees.
However, what they saw was nothing worth ogling.
Under her skirt, Misaka Mikoto was wearing safety shorts.
This single fact caused all the would-be onlookers to be instantly disappointed. Unaware of any of this, Misaka Mikoto ran along the street, persistently searching for her target.
Unfortunately, no matter where she looked, she couldn't find him.
"Did he get away again?" Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but feel reluctant asshe thought of this. "How many times has this happened?"
As she thought this, she heard an uproar came from ahead.
"Hm?"
Her attention was immediately drawn in that direction.
Many people had gathered up ahead, forming a human wall and pointing and murmuring at something in front of them.
"What happened?" Misaka Mikoto asked herself. She stepped forward and squeezed into the crowd.
The next second, the scene that unfolded before her made her gasp.
"Ugh...! Uu...!"
Right in front of her, at the center of the crowd, a young girl with twin ponytails was tied to a streetlamp like a caterpillar and was wriggling constantly. A handkerchief had been stuffed in her mouth, so she could only make muffled whimpering sounds as she struggled.
Seeing this young girl struck Misaka Mikoto with astonishment.
"Kuroko!"
It was none other than Shirai Kuroko.
"Uu...! Uu-uu...!"
As if she had heard Misaka Mikoto's voice, Shirai Kuroko struggled even harder.
Seeing that, Misaka Mikoto finally snapped into action, hurrying forward to rescue her.
"That bastard! He actually did this!"
Once Misaka Mikoto removed the handkerchief from her mouth, Shirai Kuroko began shouting like a madwoman even before the ropes around her body were fully untied.
"I will! I will! I will stuff every bone from his trash can into his stomach! I'll shove those rotten rats from the sewer into his nostrils! Don't think I'll let you off so easily!"
Shirai Kuroko's furious shouting frightened the crowd, and people scattered in a panic while hearing the disturbing threats coming from a young girl's mouth.
Misaka Mikoto understood immediately.
"Was it that guy causing trouble again?"
Besides that person, Misaka Mikoto couldn't think of anyone else who would dare tie up Shirai Kuroko, wearing her Judgment armband, dressed in her Tokiwadai Middle School uniform, cute as can be, and hang her from a streetlamp in public.
For even a villain, carrying out something this cruel would require careful planning.
But Fang Li would do it without hesitating for a second.
After all, Misaka Mikoto already knew very well that when it came to the talent for provoking people, that guy was an absolutely top‑tier guy in the entire Academy City.
Not to mention, Mikoto had never mentioned Fang Li without getting angry.
As for Shirai Kuroko, who had interacted with Fang Li even more, she had long lost count of the number of times she had been infuriated by him.
"Onee-sama..."
Finally finding someone to lean on, Shirai Kuroko turned to Misaka Mikoto, her bottled-up grievances spilling out as she called out to her. Her eyes filled with tears as she threw herself into Misaka Mikoto's arms and began to sob uncontrollably.
"That guy... that guy..."
She was completely inconsolable.
"Kuroko..."
Misaka Mikoto opened her mouth but said nothing. She silently embraced Kuroko, speaking softly in a voice far removed from the anger she had felt moments before.
"It's okay now, Kuroko."
While comforting Shirai Kuroko, Misaka Mikoto also felt a surge of anger in her heart.
(How dare he do something like this to a girl! That guy has gone way too far!)
Tying up a girl and hanging her from a streetlamp in public was completely excessive by any standard.
Mikoto could feel Kuroko's body trembling slightly.
She must have been too embarrassed and humiliated to face anyone.
(Even if it's Kuroko, she's still just an ordinary girl…)
With that thought in mind, Misaka Mikoto continued to comfort her junior and roommate.
However, she quickly sensed that something was wrong.
"Hehe... hehehe..."
Shirai Kuroko started rubbing against her chest with a chilling, eerie laugh, but Misaka Mikoto didn't notice when it began.
"This... this... Onee-sama, your modest heart is as amazing as ever... It's really wonderful..."
When that voice reached Misaka Mikoto's ears...
"Clang!"
Shirai Kuroko screamed in pain with a sound like metal being struck, clutching her head as she crouched to the ground.
"And I was still trying to comfort you!"
Misaka Mikoto clenched her fists tightly and shut her eyes, clearly furious.
"You're just like that guy. You're absolutely undeserving of sympathy!"
Misaka Mikoto even wondered if Shirai Kuroko had orchestrated the whole thing just to create an opportunity like this.
After all, Shirai Kuroko was a Space Ability user. Logically speaking, she should have been able to teleport out of her restraints.
"Onee-sama, you misunderstand me," Shirai Kuroko said with a pitiful expression on her face while holding her head and sobbing while trying to explain. "That guy's method of tying people up is extremely clever. It constrains the skin just enough to cause a faint stinging sensation, which disrupts my focus. If I can't concentrate fully, my ability might misfire and cause a positional error when I try to move."
"Really..."
Misaka Mikoto could only cross her arms and sigh quietly.
(End of This Chapter)