Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM2 Depth1 (section)

===Part 8===

Misaka Mikoto assisted Kongou with her work late into the night.

They somehow managed to get the Mounted Railgun S installed.

And once the work was complete, something occurred to her.

YF-22A was in here.

The stealth fighter was curled up in the center of the maintenance hangar after winning the turf war and driving the Su-57 into a corner. Mikoto approached her to ask a question.

“By the way.”

“Yawwwn… What do you want?”

“You were the first one to use the Ruler name, weren’t you? The humans who ruled the continent had completely forgotten about her, so I was wondering why you alone knew about that monster.”

“Heh. Maybe this is too much for your tiny barbarian brain to grasp, but I am the YF-22A. I can just tell these things. The voice of the military cells forming this strong and beautiful body were telling me the time of awakening was nigh.”

“…Now, then.”

“Wait, wait! I’ll tell you! Stop! Don’t aim that pressure washer nozzle my way!”

YF-22A confessed after Mikoto used a water gun (powerful enough to strip the surface off of a fluorine-coated frying pan) to spray the delicate stealth surface that was more expensive than pure gold by square centimeter.

All while the brown stealth girl Su-57 gave them annoyed looks from where she was curled up in the corner.

The ultra-sensitive girl succumbed to the shower head and spoke.

“N-next-gen fighters use a military datalink – really just high-speed wireless internet – to coordinate with each other. That’s why we go through cyber defense training programs.”

“Hm? Where are you going with this?”

“Well. I may have gotten carried away with my cyber counterattack and not only obliterated all the data on our military’s central strategic computer room, but also left the isolated military datalink to reach the ordinary internet where I’m embarrassed to admit I crashed the foreign exchange and stock markets, took control of all the nuclear power plants in the Empire, hijacked the railroad control system, searched through a whole bunch of university and corporate databases, and ended up copying a bunch of classified information onto the cloud.”

Her voice had dropped to barely audible levels and she was speaking fast.

Mikoto stared into the distance.

“Should we even classify you as an aerial weapon? That seems way scarier than the flying and missile launching.”

“It was the training instructor’s fault for not setting any boundaries on how far I was supposed to go in my cyber counterattack!! So it isn’t my fault. Oh, to think the day would come when being too capable is considered a sin. Am I perhaps the most advanced sinner there is!?”

The idiot got all teary-eyed in her own self-indulgence.

Was her point that information on the Ruler had been hidden in some university or corporate document archive? It had probably been archived in some automatic process without anyone actually reading it.

What a waste.

If the information hadn’t been forgotten and the threat had been properly understood and researched, finding her weaknesses or finding a countermeasure against her may have been a simple search away.

But Mikoto couldn’t expect that here.

She would have to do it herself.