Misaka Mikoto suddenly stopped.
(Nnn...)
She had completely forgotten once she met that idiot, but there was something she had wanted to talk with him about.
(...The Ichihanaransai.)
She had wanted to talk to him about the cultural festival-like event that took place across the entirety of Academy City. The opening day of this year's festival was still over a month away, but because of the terrible horrible result of the Daihaseisai (the actual result was a mix of good and bad, but this was how she had already begun to think about it) she felt she should hurry up and take measures to ensure the success of the Ichihanaransai.
(Come to think of it, over half of the seven day Daihaseisai was just a string of trouble related to that idiot. If that's what's going to happen, I should just rein him in from the beginning...)
Of course, the measures she was going to take were to get him to promise to go around the festival with her.
(Why does it have to end up like this? ...Well, I guess I can just ask him over the phone.)
Mikoto decided on that and pulled out her phone.
She had gotten a pair contract on her phone with him on September 30th, so she had his number recorded in her phone.
(It really was a pain getting that all set up, but I guess it's coming handy now.)
But after she moved the cursor to his number in the address book, her eyes stopped on the antenna mark.
No signal.
"...!!"
Mikoto looked around, but the street she was on wasn't all that small, so she ran out to a more major street. She watched the antenna mark on the edge of the screen and once she had a good signal, she moved the cursor back to his number and pressed the call button.
But she just got an emotionless message telling her the phone she was trying to call couldn't be reached.
This time it was his phone that wasn't getting a signal.
"Th-this thing's hard to use... What good is a cell phone if you can't use it to talk with people when you need to!?"
Mikoto put her phone away with an irritated expression on her face, looked around, and ran off to go find Kamijou herself.
It hadn't been that long since they'd parted.
He had to be walking around this area somewhere.