Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Toaru Love Letter SS (section)

===Part 5===

Nearby, there was a middle school girl who pricked her ears.

Misaka Mikoto.

“...”

“Onee-sama, what's wrong?”

Misaka Mikoto's kouhai, Shirai Kuroko, asked. Both of them were dismissed from school, but Mikoto didn't have any answer to the reaction in her heart.

“Nothing, that's...”

Mikoto turned to look at the tall PE teacher and the child.

(...What's going on? Did that kid just say that idiot's name...? I have a bad feeling about it. Why do I feel that the envelope in that kid's hand mustn't be handed over to that idiot...?)

Just as Mikoto was thinking about this, the girl (?) who was holding onto the letter collided with a student.

“Ah? Komoe-sensei, where's that letter?”

“KYAH—! IT GOT BLOWN AWAY BY THE WIND—!!”

And thus, both of them frantically chased after the letter. They were on a pedestrian walkway, that was surrounded by lots of overhead bridges, so the letter vanished over to the other side and directly below Mikoto.

In other words, this was her chance!

At least that should be the case.

“Misaka won't allow onee-sama to do that, says Misaka.” “—!?”

Hearing the sudden voice from behind, Mikoto quickly poked Shirai in the eyes with 2 fingers to rob her of her sight, and then used an arm to judo slam her from above the shoulder to knock her out.

“WAH!? O-onee-sama, is, is this another way of expressing love...?”

Shirai seemed to be daydreaming as she muttered. No matter what, how could such an important encounter happen in such a side story? Not thinking of the timing, Mikoto decided to let Shirai back away.

Mikoto turned around.

As she expected, standing over there was one of the clones, Serial Number 10032.

“Judging from the current situation, the recipient's of that important letter is 'that person', so this letter can't end up in onee-sama's hands, Misaka says as she shows her intent to battle.”

“...You, you do understand what you just said, right?”

“Misaka is confident enough to say that she understands.”

10032 snorted.

“Misaka will create a fact that 'the letter was taken away by onee-sama' and personally hand that letter over to the recipient, saying to him 'I worked so hard to get it back, praise me more—', Misaka boldly proclaims.”

“Your black-heartedness really shocks me!”

Though Mikoto glared at her, the result was obvious if they fought it out. ''I won't have much pride if I lose to a clone.''

“That's what you think.”

“Whose heart are you reading anyway? That wasn't my thought.”

“Misaka refers to onee-sama's retort. Also, it's unclear who will win, as Misaka uses the power of the entire network to simulate all your tactics, Misaka can swear on it.”

''Hoho, if there's a love letter or anything interesting, Misaka will not leave until Misaka reads what's inside, says Misaka as Misaka explains while showing her enthusiasm for fun things.''

“Even if you say that, please note that you can't say it out through Misaka's brain,”

''Really? But the entire Misaka Network is controlled by a huge thought process, so strictly speaking, #10032 and this Misaka are a part of that large personality, says Misaka as Misaka tilts her head. So will all the Misakas support Kamijou Touma or Accelerator? Wonders Misaka as Misaka starts to carry out a simulation mode to think about it.''

“Che, I could have killed two birds with one stone if you didn't say anything, Misaka grumbled. Wa—simulation mode...”

“Oi, what are you doing? Ignoring me and carrying out your own internal conversation!?”

“Misaka as Misaka explains that Misaka can.”

Trapped in self-doubt and causing a network failure, #10032 appeared powerless in front of the #3 esper.