Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item4 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 9===

She felt the tremor while taking a hot shower.

Mugino Shizuri left the bathroom which was so large it was actually kind of annoying to use and wrapped herself in a white bed sheet without drying her hair. Then she moved in front of the window made by covering an entire wall with thick glass.

“They’re making a scene again…”

She muttered irritably to herself while looking down from the suite of a luxury hotel with connections to an illicit organization and viewed the commotion in the world below.

That wasn’t Frenda.

…The blonde girl hadn’t seen the launch point and imagined it was an old-style submarine, but that wasn’t accurate. That was an ALCM. In other words, it had been released by a 50m strategic bomber and launched toward a point on the ground. With deadly precision.

It had a range of 2500km. More than flying across Chiba to arrive from the Pacific Ocean, this tactical weapon could hit its target when launched from Hokkaido or Okinawa.

Only the Mugino Family could pull off that kind of absurdity.

Takitsubo silently approached from behind Mugino and tilted her head while drying her hair with a hairdryer.

“That wasn’t Frenda, right? Can the Mugino Family really get away with that?”

“They’re threatening every last one of the major communications and security companies, so there won’t be digital records from security cameras or anything else. Even if a million people saw it, it’ll be written off as ‘the vague accounts of panicked witnesses’. A good lawyer can use the term ‘mass hysteria’ to discredit it all. Without any material evidence like video footage, it’s easy to weasel out of these things. Just get rid of all the security camera footage that could make decent evidence and all that’s left are grainy phone videos that could easily have been faked.”

But the Mugino Family’s reaction here did bother Mugino.

They could get away with this in Yokohama. But only so many times. How many trump cards built up over many long years had they used up here?

A reaction of this level made it look like ''they knew in advance just how much of a threat Frenda Seivelun was.''

(Is this just a case of Frenda attacking them, or has the Mugino Family done something bad enough to warrant this kind of overreaction?)

“So does this mean Frenda really did come to Yokohama for the Mugino Family?” asked Takitsubo.

“That’s what we’re going to find out.”