Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item2 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 12===

They had to remember.

Ainame Carolien and Tachiuo Mary.

They had to calmly review what those two had done.

“Sample acquired…”

In the VIP booth, Frenda rubbed her cheek with the hand not holding the rocket launcher.

That was where she had been cut with the razor blade disguised as a phone’s bunny ears.



“We were taken out of the fight by the truck explosion back then, so why did Honey Queen let us go instead of killing us while they had the chance?”

Takitsubo Rikou spoke to herself in the stands filled with fake spectators.

She slowly tilted her head.

“Because they didn’t need to? Did they already have what they wanted from the moment they injured Mugino? Does that make sense?”



Also, Honey Queen had started off as secret data thieves.

Item had completely forgotten about that fact.

“''What about that burglar who died with his neck caught in our balcony’s metal shutter?'' Could he have super been a Honey Queen member?” Kinuhata Saiai muttered under her breath.

But what had that middle-aged man hoped to steal after scaling the skyscraper’s wall?

Since his companions hadn’t hesitated to blow up the apartment after his failure, it couldn’t be any of the furnishings or cash inside the apartment. They had to assume that battle had been meant to make up for his failure.

“Could he have been after Mugino’s hair on the floor? Was Honey Queen plotting to steal Meltdowner’s DNA map? And that super didn’t work, so they attacked to injure Mugino and steal some of her cells – even if it was less than a millimeter of her skin!?”

Ainame Caroline had said from the beginning that she had been the head researcher behind the development of Meltdowner.

She had also called Mugino Shizuri a failure and called Tachiuo Mary a success.

In other words…

“Honey Queen’s super real goal is to use Mugino’s rare DNA map to turn the half-completed Tachiuo Mary into the ultimate Level 5!?”

“If so, I sympathize. ''As the psychological esper who failed to become Shokuhou Misaki,'' I know just how tragic that can be. This city is a cruel place where only one esper with a certain type of power is allowed to reach the top.”



The real threat was even worse than Honey Queen acquiring Shokuhou Misaki.

They wanted to upgrade one of their own to surpass Mugino Shizuri.

But instead of creating a brand-new 8th Level 5, they would create a superior version of the same type of esper to ''forcibly replace'' Mugino Shizuri with Tachiuo Mary, whether Mugino liked it or not.

If they let this continue, Item truly would have no way of winning.

It would only be a matter of time before they were killed.