Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume9 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 7===

Misaka Mikoto had walked out in the hospital courtyard to try and cool her head.

“Misaka-san, you can take an awfully harsh and icy viewpoint sometimes, you know that?”

“What are you doing here?”

The #5 girl was not one to answer every one of Mikoto’s suspicious questions.

Shokuhou Misaki had a habit of appearing seemingly out of nowhere thanks to her ability to manipulate people’s memories and facial recognition.

Mikoto was immune to the effects of Mental Out, but the Queen of Tokiwadai still managed to sneak up on her a lot.

“Regretting your own words?”

“…Oh, shut up.”

Mikoto’s voice dropped in tone.

She couldn’t forget that boy’s shocked face.

Anna Sprengel. Mikoto could tell that, when the two of them thought of that name, she and that high school boy were calling on different information and experiences. And in the worst case, that idiot would probably save someone suffering before his eyes even if every reason to save that person was stripped away from him. It might be correct to say he had no reason to save a wicked woman like Anna, but it felt wrong to imagine him stopping what he was doing just because someone made a good enough argument.

She hadn’t wanted to see that look on his face.

But she had known someone had to present that problem to him.

Anna Sprengel was, without a doubt, a villain.

And with that premise established…

“What are you going to do now?”

“My role is to help him out no matter what else might happen. If he decides to take the path of evil, then I will dedicate all of my support ability toward that.”

“I’ve been wondering – why are you so fixated on that idiot?”

“You have your reason and I have mine. That’s all I have to say on the matter☆”

Although they appeared to have reached very different conclusions regarding what to do about it.

If Mikoto saw someone take the path of evil, she would return them to the straight and narrow even if she had to punch them. Indulging them and encouraging them wasn’t her idea of what a friend should do.

“It seems to me you’re not really interested in anything as trivial as what I want to do.”

Shokuhou Misaki laughed before she completing her thought.

“Aren’t you more interested in what ''you’re'' going to do?”