Chapter 956: What is Kamijou Touma doing?
“Senior Wuming,” Shirai Kuroko suddenly asked after Item had walked away, “Do you dislike Hamazura Shiage?”
“Why would I like him?” Lin Wuming asked in surprise, but then he reacted and shook his head, “It’s not that I dislike him either.”
“But Senior Wuming, you didn’t choose to help him just now,” Misaka Mikoto added, “I remember, you have a pretty good relationship with Komaba Ritoku, right?”
Because they had cooperated during the Underground Arena incident, and later asked for their help when acquiring the dellinger pistol, Lin Wuming had always maintained contact with SKILL OUT, and their relationship was quite good.
Completely unfamiliar strangers aside, given Lin Wuming’s personality, people he knew and even had a certain friendship with were definitely key objects of his attention and protection.
However, this time, upon hearing that Komaba Ritoku and his group were in danger, Lin Wuming remained quite calm, never showing any intention to actively help from beginning to end.
“I just trust their strength,” Lin Wuming explained, “They aren’t weaklings either.”
Of course, while he said that, Lin Wuming primarily trusted Hamazura Shiage’s strength.
As one of the three main protagonists in the original story, Hamazura Shiage, compared to the other two, was the only ordinary delinquent without an esper ability or any other special power, yet he was able to carve out a place for himself in a world overrun by demons and monsters, even becoming one of the “three protagonists.”
Regardless of whether it was due to good luck, it was undeniable that his strength should not be underestimated—after all, luck is also a form of strength.
Just as Lin Wuming trusted Kamijou Touma and Accelerator, he also believed Hamazura Shiage could handle his own incidents.
To alleviate the pressure on himself, Lin Wuming had been trying to lighten his burden.
Accelerator was currently active, and Lin Wuming had no intention of supporting him; even now, Lin Wuming was not 100% confident he could defeat Accelerator.
The same applied to Kamijou Touma; when that guy got serious, or was forced to get serious and entered his second transformation state, he was also a terrifying existence that could block gods and slay Buddhas…
He believed Hamazura Shiage could also demonstrate similar qualities.
“But speaking of which, Kamijou Touma’s side seems very quiet today,” Lin Wuming muttered thoughtfully.
Kamijou Touma was currently in class, which was normal, as given his luck and academic level, being kept for remedial classes after school was a daily occurrence.
However, the other two members of the “idiot trio” who usually had remedial classes with him were both absent today.
Blue-haired Earring had performed exceptionally well in the initial test at the beginning of the semester, achieving good results above the average, so he didn’t need remedial classes; as for Tsuchimikado Motoharu, he had taken the day off and hadn’t come to school at all.
Under the circumstances, Kamijou Touma had no choice but to stay for remedial classes alone.
Fortunately, Index had recently gotten used to school life and could naturally appear at school, even directly entering Kamijou Touma’s classroom.
Komoe Sensei also didn’t chase her away, but instead enthusiastically helped look after her, seemingly wanting to educate this little nun along with the class. After all, by Academy City’s normal standards, Index indeed had many things she needed to relearn.
Because of this, Kamijou Touma, who was already mentally exhausted, completely gave up, letting Index come to school to attend classes and freeload food and drinks—for some reason, Index seemed very popular with classmates and teachers, and everyone was generous in offering snacks and sweets to feed her.
—He had to admit, while he was struggling with remedial classes, listening to Komoe Sensei lecture at the blackboard, and hearing Index crunching biscuits, there was a strange sense of peace…
Kamijou Touma thought, his mind wandering.
He didn’t know if it was his imagination, but he always felt that it was very lively outside the school, as if something was happening in a place he didn’t know about…
It was just a pity that Tsuchimikado Motoharu wasn’t there, which cut off more than half of Kamijou Touma’s information channels.
“If I ask Wuming, I’ll surely get an answer, right?” Kamijou Touma mumbled, but in the end, he still didn’t do so, “Well, such a peaceful life is pretty good.”
Looking at the carefree Index beside him, Kamijou Touma sighed softly, then gave up thinking.
But the next second, he was warned by Komoe Sensei and had to pull himself together to face the remedial class.
“Just hold on a little longer, Touma,” Komoe Sensei said, “There’s only half an hour left until school is over.”
“If that’s the case, why don’t you just let me go home?” Kamijou Touma couldn’t help but retort, “Anyway, this kind of class is completely meaningless to me!”
It wasn’t that Kamijou Touma hated studying, it was just that… “esper ability development” classes really weren’t very useful.
“You can’t give up like that!” Komoe Sensei said, patting the blackboard, “As long as you try, Sensei believes Touma, you will definitely be able to gain your own esper ability!”
—But I already have my own ability…
Kamijou Touma looked at his right hand—it was just that the “Imagine Breaker” was not recognized by the esper ability evaluation system.
And such a reason seemed very difficult to explain clearly to Komoe Sensei, so in the end, Kamijou Touma could only sigh, then propped his chin with one hand, continuing to listen to the lecture with a bored expression.
“Such a good time, yet I have to stay for remedial classes… and it’s an esper ability development class…” Kamijou Touma sighed silently in his heart, “This is… truly unfortunate!”
…
“This is so boring! Remedial classes are one thing, but it’s an esper ability development theory class…”
On the rooftop of the gymnasium across from the teaching building, two girls were observing the scene in the classroom from a distance.
Sakura and Ryoko had found A Certain High School girls’ uniforms from somewhere and brazenly blended in.
“Ryoko, do you think there’s a more boring and meaningless class in this world than esper ability development?” asked the girl holding binoculars and observing the classroom opposite.
“No, Sakura, there isn’t,” her companion responded, shaking her head, “Isn’t esper ability something that’s destined from the beginning?”
“Ah, that’s confidential, you shouldn’t just blurt it out,” Sakura said.
“You asked first, didn’t you?” Ryoko responded, “And don’t worry, there’s no one else here.”
“Yes, besides us, it’s empty,” Sakura put down her binoculars and turned to look around.
The place they were currently in was a maintenance platform high up in the gymnasium, and normally no one would come to such a place.
