Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item7 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 4===

After summing up what they needed to do, the four members of Item headed out into the streets.

It was night and past curfew for students.

Yet District 2’s downtown area was busier than usual.

This was the district of cars, explosives, and military technology, but even a special district like that had plenty of schools. A group of girls who were likely chemistry or industry students were laughing together. They were eating crepes like normal. This was Academy City, so there were classes in any subject. Frenda wasn’t the only girl with a broad knowledge of explosives.

Which also meant there were that many more ''bomber suspects''.

“The city is holding an astronomy event, right? Come to think of it, the streaming site’s home screen was full of movies that super feature aliens.”

Takitsubo was staring at the large device that spun around and released a ball for a shopping center lottery.

“First prize is a free trip into space.”

“Does that interest you? It’s not like you’d be landing on the moon or Mars or anything. That’s one of those things where you fly out into space for 120 seconds and then fall back to earth, right? That’s not a ‘trip’. It’s like you boarded the airplane, but there’s trouble midflight and it has to turn back to the airport you left from. If you have several duralumin cases of cash to pay for that, you’d be better off making a garden here on earth.”

“In the end, it’s like video game achievements. People just want to be able to say they ‘went to space’.”

Mugino had to wonder if that was really something worth bragging about. Was it really worth exposing your body’s cells to more powerful radiation than you would ever experience down here on earth?

And it was time to get down to business. They needed to identify and attack the bomber called Morning Call.

They discussed their plan while Frenda and Takitsubo fought over warm Kinuhata because their own cold weather clothing wasn’t enough.

“In the end, the current astronomy event has everyone aiming their phones and telescopes into the night sky. That prevents me from launching a bunch of water bottle rocket drones… Takitsubo, can we get your help?”

“Fine, but that means I get Kinuhata. And if we take this too far, Anti-Skill will notice we’re using their infrastructure. This ID will get frozen and the corrupt Anti-Skill officer will lose her job. Are you okay with losing access?”

“We can end this tonight, so that’s fine. But in the end, Kinuhata is mine.”

“I want to be warm.”

“You have a knit hat and ear warmers – what more do you need? Meanwhile, I’m still chilled from swimming in a bikini.”

“Oh, god, can you two super get off of me!?”

Unable to bear the pressure from either side, Kinuhata yelled and evacuated toward Mugino, but she did have a question on her small face.

But before she could say anything, the Academy City Bomber answered it.

“In the end, I’ll be borrowing the security cameras and all the cameras on the security robots and cleaning robots patrolling the streets. That covers all 23 districts, so there’s nowhere to hide.”

“We super don’t even know if Morning Call is a guy or a girl, so how are you going to search the security camera footage? District 2 seems flooded with explosives experts.”

“I don’t need to know what they look like. They’ll give themselves away for me.”

The little newbie blinked in confusion.

And Frenda Seivelun stuck out her tongue a little.



“In the end, I’m setting a trap for them☆”