Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM Chapter6 (section)

===Part 10===

The palely glowing glasses turned Mikoto’s way.

She distinctly felt the paralysis of fear.

“…”

No esper powers were necessary.

Neither was the strongest magic of some other world.

In the end, the most terrifying thing was an ordinary, grounded human!?

“Cough. Don’t just stand there, Misaka-saaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!”

“!?

That broke the spell.

Mikoto immediately jumped to the side, dodging the dorm manager’s fist.

She could do this.

While Shokuhou had taken a direct hit, Mikoto could still move nimbly. She didn’t have time to launch an attack of her own, but she could still just barely keep up with the dorm manager’s speed!!

“Kh.”

“Gh.”

Nowhere in this vast space was safe.

But for a brief moment, she felt warmth on her back.

Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki.

They hadn’t agreed on a strategy, but they still pressed their backs together, let the other watch their back, and shouted hatefully at each other.

“Don’t you die yet!”

“I’m more worried about you!”

The glasses dorm manager slowly approached from up ahead.

But someone stood in her way.

It was the small elf named Patissiet.

“I won’t let you…”

She had tears in her eyes.

She had thrown away her longbow and simply spread her arms wide.

“I don’t want Lady Misaka to leave and I want to stay with Lady Shokuhou forever. But I have to smile and say goodbye… I decided I would do whatever I could to make that happen!! Maybe you’re the gatekeeper and maybe you’re something else, but don’t get in the way after I worked so hard to prepare myself for this moment!!!”

She wasn’t alone.

The harpies, sirens, succubi, dark elves, scyllas, sylphs, muspells, tengu, empusas, and the elves had their psychological bonds broken by that one voice and they all rushed in.

“It’s time I demonstrated what Silver Defender Sigynette can do.”

“Indeed. How about I show you the cutting edge of Silver Striker Antoinaisse!!”

“Ho ho. Are you ready for the famous fiery cocktail of the Mjolnir Hegemony’s Queen of Explosions!?”

These people gained nothing by opening the gate back to Earth.

But they still charged onto the battlefield, possibly throwing their lives away, to grant the wish of those two girls.

“Lady Lavender, this is not a battle we can win.”

“I-I know that, Brain! No, no, no. But it’s still a battle I want to win!!”

It wasn’t an issue of debts or gratitude.

There was no reason.

This was a gathering of the kind of people who could go this far just to save a friend.

Even the dorm manager from hell seemed to flinch slightly.

Come to think of it, hadn’t she briefly hesitated to attack when she was engulfed by a crowd of rioters in that fake Academy City?

That was how time had caught up with her.

Either way, it all came down to this instant. Shokuhou had already taken a solid hit, so this fearsome battle could not last long.

If they didn’t end it here, they likely had no chance of winning even if they tried for another 100 years.

They had to avoid being gradually worn down and ultimately killed.

They had to create a different path here!!

Clean water flowed down the rectangular spiral staircases.

But the dust from the smashed sparkling wine stone had changed certain aspects of that water. For example, its acidity and its conductivity.

Yes.

If the Railgun used to electrically launch an arcade coin at three times the speed of sound were used to guide that water, it would have greater destructive force than the water jets used to slice sheets of metal in factories.

“Shokuhouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!”

Bikini armor Mikoto called out and received a response.

Shokuhou consciously pressed her back hard against Mikoto’s.

''Against the #3’s back while electricity crackled from her electrified body.

“Gahhhhh!!?”

The shock to her heart made the #5 gasp.

But that intentionally shifted her control over Mental Out.

That power had provided such a wide variety of applications that she needed to use different remotes to partition the different uses. A shock powerful enough to knock her unconscious could sometimes push the #5 Level 5’s power beyond her control.

Water surged out like a serpent.

This wasn’t just Mikoto’s power.

Shokuhou Misaki’s Mental Out ''controlled the minute moisture in people’s brains and on objects’ surfaces to read or manipulate mental information.

The #3 and #5 were linked together.

They achieved a single attack.

They produced hundreds of thousands of atmospheres of pressure.

The edge of the cut was white.

No matter how powerful she was, the dorm manager was still human. She was not protected by a special power or a next-gen weapon. So they only had to prevent her from dodging or deflecting their attack.

Which meant launching a powerful attack that covered a wide enough range that she couldn’t dodge it even if she predicted it.

Not even the dorm manager from hell could avoid something like that!!

Silence fell.

For a few seconds, it seemed like the world had come to an end.

Eventually, Mikoto opened her mouth.

“I call it the Long-Range Electric High-Power Compressed Liquid Sword. Thoughts?”

“Well done, worthy students of Tokiwadai.”

“Would the real her actually sound so subdued if we defeated her?”

Still in her follow-through pose, Mikoto decided she wanted to hear that back on Earth.

Really wanted to.

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