Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM Chapter6 - Revision history

Js06 at 01:38, 8 April 2024

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Js06 at 02:37, 3 April 2024

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

			===Part 9===

			It was like a bad joke.

			She was Academy City’s #5 Level 5, Mental Out. She could brainwash any human by sticking her hand in her bag, aiming her TV remote, and pressing the button, but that assumption had collapsed all at once.

			She couldn’t hit her.

			Her TV remote wasn’t fast enough.

			All she had to do was point the end at the woman and press a single button, but not even her eyes could keep up with the dorm manager who kept rapidly vanishing to the left or right.

			“Rahhh!!” shouted dancer Shokuhou.

			It was meaningless.

			But even if it was effectively useless, the dorm manager could briefly pause if she were caught off guard. If something she failed to understand froze her in place for even half a second, Shokuhou’s remote could catch up.

			That was long enough for her thumb to press a button. And that would settle it.

			(This time it’ll work!!)

			''Bam!!

			As soon as the dorm manager stomped her foot against the floor, the solid sparkling wine stone cracked and split. A thick cloud of dust rushed into the air and the makeshift smokescreen obscured Shokuhou’s view.

			She saw the glint of glasses.

			Driven by fear, the #5 aimed her remote that way, but it was no use.

			It didn’t work.

			She knew she must have pressed the button countless times. It had to have been pointed the dorm manager’s way at least once. But it didn’t do any good. Did the aim not even matter? Was that dorm manager from hell immune to mental powers!?

			(I-I-I-I can’t see her very well in the thicker parts of that smokescreen. Wait, does it not count as targeting my power if I can only see a vague silhouette!?)

			“E-eeeeek!?”

			Tears welled in her eyes and she tried to back away, but she stepped on the frills of her dancer’s outfit and tripped. She ended up shamefully backing away on her rear. But she still tried to deter her enemy from approaching.

			With a light “slap!”, the hand holding the remote pointed in the wrong direction.

			Her body had moved against her will.

			Or so she thought at first.

			In truth, the dorm manager’s fist had tapped Shokuhou’s wrist, diverting her aim to the side.

			It was a simple parry.

			The dorm manager didn’t need Academy City esper powers or this world’s magic. She had neutralized the #5’s Mental Out that easily!?

			The sound of something tearing through the air was horrifyingly heavy.

			The dorm manager’s right leg seemed to disappear before the kick caught Shokuhou square in the gut, launching her several meters backwards.

			She had tearfully grabbed her handbag in her other hand to cushion the blow at the last second, but how much had that actually helped?

			The dorm manager from hell did not hesitate to land this solid blow even though it put distance between her and her opponent.

			As if to say she was willing to give the girl that much of a handicap.

Js06 at 03:02, 2 April 2024

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	The threat had arrived.		The threat had arrived.

			===Part 7===

			In that moment, fear covered Mikoto’s face and Tokiwadai’s Queen fell flat on her ass. Shokuhou tearfully lifted the corners of her lips into an uncertain half-smile, but Mikoto couldn’t yell at her. This was asking too much. Their titles as Tokiwadai’s Ace and Queen meant nothing here. In fact, those titles were a large part of the problem with this enemy.

			The ultimate adversary was a woman.

			The ultimate adversary had black hair.

			The ultimate adversary wore a tight skirt suit.

			The ultimate adversary wore glasses.

			It was the dorm manager.

			They could not return to Earth unless they defeated her!!!

			“I-is that the legendary gatekeeper – the Deadly Headwind, aka the Strange World Keeper!?”

			“No, that would be our school’s dorm manager.” “No, that would be our school’s dorm manager.”

			Then again, she was the most powerful monster when it came to guarding the exit and preventing unauthorized outings.

			They had fled from her once already.

			When they ran into her in the false Academy City, they had decided fighting her would mean death.

			But now they had to settle things.

			The dorm manager really was the perfect fit for the final gatekeeper standing in Misaka Mikoto and Shokuhou Misaki’s way!!

			===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!?”

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	“At the very top. The only floating land at Layer 11 is the Strange Underpass Cathedral. I have never been there of course, but I would expect every single person in Celesaqphere has heard of it.”		“At the very top. The only floating land at Layer 11 is the Strange Underpass Cathedral. I have never been there of course, but I would expect every single person in Celesaqphere has heard of it.”

			===Part 2===

			They had already achieved world domination.

			From Layer 1 to Layer 10, Mikoto and Shokuhou could use all equipment from from all facilities from all kingdoms from all floating lands.

			Now that they had the three treasures and could perform a search with everything this world had to offer, nothing prevented them from preparing for the three treasures ceremony at the Strange Underpass Cathedral.

			It helped a lot that they had freed the elves, succubi, sirens, and other races.

			That meant they could gather the knowledge and materials scattered beyond human-controlled territories.

			Yes, with the appropriate knowledge and techniques, it was possible nonhuman races could also steal or buy books and treasures.

			(I’m so glad they aren’t all arguing with each other.)

			Mikoto had boosted Patissiet and the others to the level cap of 9999, so the humans could no longer capture the elves and other monsters and then treat them poorly. And while all the attention was on the long-lived Level 9999 group, the younger generations of monster girls could level up without anyone exploiting them, allowing the nonhumans to maintain their superior position indefinitely.

			Once Mikoto and Shokuhou left, what happened during the next era would be up to the Celesaqphere natives. But while Patissiet and the others had a concerning lack of condemnation of the slavery system itself, it didn’t look like the elves would actively retaliate against the humans. They were a peaceful race as long as they were left alone.

			The elves had had accepted the harpies, tengu, and many other races without issue, so it seemed likely they could get along with humans too.

			Their integrated army itself was proof that racial differences were no reason to eliminate each other.

			“By the way, Shokuhou, is it true?”

			“Is what true?”

			“That the elves speak with their long ears as much as their mouths.”

			Even now, Elder Bakerian and little Patissiet were conversing a short distance away. Were they working out the details of the three treasures ceremony?

			Shokuhou pointed at them.

			“It is. But it isn’t anything too complex. It’s more like Morse code ability. The number of times their ears move up and down signifies a letter and a twirl of their ears signifies the end of a letter.”

			“I see, I see.”

			“So right now Patissiet is smiling and saying, ‘Who does that violent electric girl think she is talking down to us when she’s so flat?’”

			“Huh!!!?”

			“See, Bakerian just looked our way. ‘Get too close and she will absorb your boobs. To be safe, don’t even look her in the eye.’”

			“It’s not a curse, so I can’t just take your size away from you! As much as I’d want to if I could!!”

			“Pff. These elves are mean when they know we can’t hear them. But I do see where they’re coming from given your you-know-whats are so you-know-what. Oh, look now. That ear movements means, ‘I do feel sorry for her. They’re just so small.’ Ah ha ha! Misaka-san, your measurements ability is so bad even a little girl like Patissiet pities you!”

			“…”

			“ ‘Don’t worry. Unlike her, yours will grow with time.’ ‘I hope you’re right. I don’t want to end up like her.’ ‘An adult woman with a chest that flat is actually quite a rare thing, so just ignore her as an extreme outlier.’ ‘If you say so.’ Are these elves brutal, or what!? ...What’s wrong, Misaka-san? Wh-why do you look so angry? At me, I mean?”

			“Did you really expect me to buy that? I’ll ask them and if I find out you were lying, I’m grabbing those boobs and tearing them right off of you.”

			Shokuhou Misaki wildly crossed her hands to try and gesture for the elves to back up her story (while Mikoto dragged her over by the collar), but the elves only tilted their heads cluelessly. Her attempt at communication had failed miserably.

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==Chapter 6: Who Stands in the Way?==

===Part 1===

World domination complete!!

“Sigh, this is basically perfect. Why don’t we just stay in this world forever?” said Mikoto.

“Have you forgotten we’re both having an out of body experience while close to death? It’s been a month since that propane tank explosion, so who knows what’s happening to our bodies back on Earth,” said Shokuhou.

Yes, they couldn’t just lie around in bed inside the superpower’s enormous castle.

Mikoto shook off the temptation to go back to sleep and got out of the truly king-sized bed. The castle’s butlers and maids would pamper her more if she let them, so she had to reboot herself.

Which meant…

“We’ve defeated the three Demon Lords and gathered the three treasures, so now we need to research the big ceremony necessary to send us home.”

Demon Lords. Ceremony.

The words left her mouth so easily but hearing herself say them felt so strange. She had to tell herself that was just the kind of world this was. She managed to accept the reality before her eyes by telling herself this world had some kind of technology called magic and that it might be based on familiar science if she pursued it far enough. She had a feeling it would end badly if she didn’t leave that barrier in place.

This world’s largest superpower had existed on the Tir na nOg Continent.

The castle’s library was also the largest in the world. If they were doing research, this would be the best place.

Since Patissiet would climb on top of the bookcases (in her short skirt) if left to her own devices, Mikoto grabbed the elf by the scruff of the neck to keep her on the floor.

“Three treasures ceremony. Does anything here talk about the three treasures ceremony?”

They appreciated all the knowledge gathered in the library, but too much knowledge could be a problem of its own. Without anything like a search engine to quickly find what they wanted, it could end up taking a full day to find a relevant passage.

They found some familiar faces there: the young slaver who Patissiet had originally served, as well as the guild receptionist and mayor who had been planning to kill the elves in that village.

Mikoto gave them a “what are you doing here?” look and received an answer from the flashy young woman who used wind magic.

“With the abolitionist movement picking up speed, the elves are learning to enjoy the finer things in life. Which means an increased demand for goods. This might just be a great business opportunity.”

“True, and no one will stop you from making money if you do it in a way that establishes a beneficial cycle. I hope this has been a good lesson ability for you☆”

“By the way, you brainwashing goddess, you had better not be lying about restoring my talent for business if I help you search through all these books!”

That Dancer Mikoto stuck out her tongue with her back turned suggested that probably wasn’t happening.

In the end, it came down to people wanting to side with the winners. Mikoto and Shokuhou’s defeat of the Tir na nOg superpower had greatly changed things.

Shokuhou could run some form of a search by reading the residual thoughts in the books and bookcases, but it would still take her some time.

And Patissiet was the best at this kind of slow-going work.

Mikoto could only get a general idea of what the text said like she was decoding Morse code or braille, but the elf could fluently read this world’s language, which made her a lot faster.

Patissiet did not actually read each of the thick books cover to cover. She would get a general idea of what the author was trying to say from the title, the table of contents, the opening pages, and the final pages. It was a lot like figuring out the topic and contents by filling in the blanks, but it was honestly impressive. Mikoto wanted to learn this skill for the book reports she was forced to write for school during summer break.

“Oh, this could be it.”

The elf’s face lit up.

She found it so quickly it sort of frustrated Shokuhou who could essentially cheat by reading the residual thoughts with the remote she pulled from her handbag.

“The three treasures ceremony is done at the Strange Underpass Cathedral. Each of the treasures is very important, so I don’t know where else you would hold a magic ceremony using all three of them.”

“Strange Underpass?”

“?”

With a name like that, it might refer to a secret passage between worlds. If so, this was another example of very on-the-nose naming.

But there was no point in complaining about this world’s names at this point.

“Where is that cathedral?” asked Shokuhou.

“At the very top. The only floating land at Layer 11 is the Strange Underpass Cathedral. I have never been there of course, but I would expect every single person in Celesaqphere has heard of it.”