Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM Chapter6 (section)

===Part 8===

Their eyes met.

She was coming this way.

Fear of the dorm manager eliminated all other concerns from Mikoto’s mind.

What little courage she could scrounge up wouldn’t be enough.

(That lazybones would be a lot easier to attack than me, so why wouldn’t you go for her first! Then I could use that opening to blast you in the side with an arcade coin!!)

Mikoto may have taken too detached a view. She should have considered the possibility of death coming for her right away.

“Ahhhhhhh!!”

Driven by terror, Mikoto launched a Railgun right away. Against a normal human, she might have widened her eyes at her own excessive self-defense, but she received no complaints here.

If anything, it wasn’t enough.

An attack like that could never harm the dorm manager from hell.

Mikoto sensed that odd form of trust within her.

And that trust was warranted.

The sparkling wine dust cloud burst open to reveal the dorm manager already rushing sharply toward Mikoto.

''The accuracy of Mikoto’s EM reflection radar dropped when a dense cloud of particles was floating in the air.

Mikoto seriously thought she was about to die.

“Rahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

Someone roared.

Dancer Shokuhou aimed her TV remote this way.

And at Mikoto, not the dorm manager.

''Zap!!

“Ow!!”

Mikoto’s head jerked to the side as if deflected by an invisible barrier.

Mental Out did not work on Mikoto.

A wind roared past.

Her ear was nearly taken off.

Without the jerk of her head, the dorm manager’s punch would have slammed into the center of her face.

“Tch!!”

Staying within reach of the dorm manager’s arms and legs would only get her beaten to death.

Mikoto used magnetism to draw herself to the side of a nearby decorative pillar. There was no rebar in this fantasy world, so she was annoyingly limited to artwork made of metal.

Against an expert at deadly close-quarters combat, it was best to put a height difference between them.

That was also the key to a group battle, but…

“Um!?”

She tore it away.

This wasn’t something as simple as grabbing a floor tile and throwing it or grabbing another pillar and wielding it as a weapon.

The dorm manager broke the sparkling wine pillar down with a single low kick. The exact same pillar Mikoto was attached to. Which was thicker than her torso!!

This created a gap.

The dorm manager grabbed the thick pillar in her hands and swung it right as Mikoto cut her magnetic connection so she dropped straight down.

With a roar like a meteor strike, the entire stadium-sized cathedral shook.

After gathering centrifugal force, the dorm manager had thrown the thick pillar so it pierced the wall.

If Mikoto had been a single second slower with her decision, she would have been right there with it.

“Is she seriously not using Academy City esper powers or this world’s magic!?”