Along the direction of the windmill's rotation.
Attracted by electromagnetic waves, it rushes towards the bridge that is shrouded like a steel behemoth under the moonlight.
Fortunately..
The girl is on the bridge.
At this moment, the distance between the two was just a few steps.
The distance between hearts is extremely far.
【Psychic Power User】Misaka Mikoto.
Under the moonlight, I feel sad and confused alone.
But when Touma approached, she calmed down and greeted him with her usual energetic self.
Obviously...forcing himself.
"Is this really okay?"
Touma, who was off-screen, felt a little uncomfortable about this.
It's not sympathy or pity, but the indignation and guilt that this person, who is still a child, has to bear such pain alone.
Although the timeline of the plot is being played at the moment...I just got out of trouble from the Oreos incident and I don't know Misaka Mikoto at all.
But this level of pain inflicted on Misaka Mikoto, who is at this age and still wants to bear it alone, makes Touma feel particularly heavy.
He is a research project that does not understand people with super powers.
There is no way to think about what kind of horrible creatures these superiors want to bring into this world.
There are only two things that I remember about Touma.
[Someone is dead]
[For such a selfish thing, 20,000 lives must be sacrificed]
Yes, perhaps to those in power who are high up in the clouds overlooking the common people, this is just an ordinary laboratory mouse with a unit price of 18 yen, a protein created to serve the experimental subjects.
But in the eyes of Touma, Misaka Mikoto, ordinary people in this Academy City, and even the audience of the entire universe.
This is naked massacre.
The life of an artificial person is also a life!!
No one has the right to arbitrarily decide the life of others, right? ?
With this thought.
Touma particularly agreed with what he said in the video to Misaka Mikoto, who was still trying to pretend to be a lively girl.
..
The third encounter in recent time.
The atmosphere was very different from the previous two times.
Although Misaka Mikoto still wants to maintain her carefree and energetic personality.
But--
It was because her acting was so perfect that Kamijou Touma could see through her heart.
This look is really unbearable to watch.
"I've said enough. I know everything about Misaka's sister, the sisters' SISTERS, the 'experiment', and Accelerator. So, we don't need to beat around the bush anymore."
I took a photo of the paper report that I brought out of the dormitory, which consisted of about twenty sheets of printed paper.
In that moment.
Touma noticed.
The expression is changing.
There was an expression that was hard to describe on Misaka Mikoto's face.
Trying to control the movements of his facial muscles, he ended up twitching and his expression became twisted.
My chest suddenly ached.
The hedgehog-headed boy, who didn't want to hurt anyone, made an exception and hurt the girl's self-esteem, and destroyed his own beliefs and principles with his own hands.
But he has no regrets.
If you want to open up the situation, you should be open about these things.
Therefore, he had to face Misaka Mikoto's stern questioning.
This is the news that Misaka Mikoto hid in the doll.
"Really... I am very touched by your reckless spirit of getting to the bottom of things, but if you do something like this normally, I would sentence you to death!"
Starry night talk.
Misaka Mikoto said this while leaning against the outside of the bridge.
Looking at the sky full of stars shrouded in haze, she proposed silently.
There is only one problem -
Against this backdrop that foreshadows the dark nature of Academy City.
Misaka Mikoto is different from the previous two heroines.
Quite different questions were raised.
Different from the questioning that Index mistakenly thought was abandoned by Touma.
This is different from the confusion that Himegami Aisa felt when Touma vowed to save her.
Misaka Mikoto, who was also innocently implicated, asked a strange question.
'...'
"After watching that, are you worried about me, or are you unable to forgive me?"
This is a question that can be called a gal option.
It's a clear question, but it seems like it needs to be clarified.
That's right..
At least Misaka Mikoto herself.
For a moment, I couldn't forgive myself for donating my DNA which led to this tragedy.
At this moment, Misaka Mikoto, who was behind the video, was still feeling nervous and depressed.
She was no longer cheerful with her tomboyish personality, and she didn't recover much even after receiving text messages from her friends.
Apparently..
"You can't forgive me."
The answer came out of my mouth.
Stare at the screen.
The LV5 electric shock makes one identify himself in this way.
She believed that the source of all evil was herself who donated the cell DNA.
That's right... this mistake was made by a psychic named Misaka Mikoto when she was young...
However...
"...Of course I'm worried about you."
In the video, these words stood out among the many words the girl thought of that would be condemned.
Not condemning myself.. but worrying about myself? ?
Just based on the chance encounter?
Misaka Mikoto stared at the screen in a daze.
The haze between the pupils seemed to be dispelled.
Her eyes widened in disbelief.
Look at myself in the video, my reaction is exactly the same as my expression at this moment.
But change your mind.
She smiled.
He determined that Touma was lying.
This is common sense.
It is a judgment based on one's own established impressions and concepts.
"Obviously, she has already labeled herself a criminal... and therefore believes that anyone who sees the report will share her views." At Kuroyoru, Aizen Sosuke made an analysis after seeing this.
"That's right... a full twenty thousand lives. To be honest, even I, Roswaal, who is determined to revive the teacher even if I have to give my all, am shocked. I feel that the persistence of this mastermind behind this cannot be underestimated." In the Border Lord's mansion, Roswaal's exaggerated and humorous tone did not seem annoying this time. Instead, it was quite consistent with this analysis and speculation.
"Tsk...how should I put it?"
In a corner of Academy City.
Stiyl saw this familiar nice guy suddenly fall ill, and the cigarette in his mouth was extinguished. He smiled helplessly and shook his head: "How should I put it, this superpower from Academy City... Since we have known each other for so long, it is natural that he should understand this honest and a little pedantic peer next to him, right?"
Even Stiyl, who had only met him twice, noticed it.
Kamijou Touma's underlying obsession and his unique way of distinguishing between good and evil.
Ironically, his intuition and evaluation of good and evil are particularly suited to the statement of views from a God's perspective.
Because even I, who am on the magic side, felt a little cold after knowing this mission.
“Could it be that person?” Stiyl’s mind flashed back to the man who invited him to negotiate during the Misawa Academy farce. “Yes, that’s the man who asked me to contact Kamijou Touma to defeat Oreos.”
The faces that came to his mind.
It is the highest position in this Academy City.
His name was Aleister, and judging by how he had climbed to the top of this Academy City, he was clearly a high-ranking political figure on the scientific side.
However...this kind of persuasive method and behavior made Steele feel vaguely weird and puzzled.
[I’ll think about these things later.]
Then he shook his head.
Stiyl's gaze returned to the video.
I stared at the face that made me feel annoyed, but I had to be grateful.
His memory seemed to go back to those two nights, with an impatient grumble on his lips:
"How should I save a girl who has lost her fighting spirit and thinks she has been deprived of her future? I guess a loser like me who is not even the protagonist has no right to lecture you..."
Once upon a time, he gave up on saving the girl who fell into darkness.
At this moment, watching Touma saving these people who he thought were hopeless one after another, he felt a little complicated in his heart.
“In that case, then carry out your idea to the end, you freak called Kamijou Touma…”
With a sigh, Stiyl watched Touma say the answer he had already guessed.
...
"I did not lie!"
When Misaka Mikoto denied his concern for her, Touma refuted it on the spot.
"I said I didn't lie, don't you understand?"
The roar drowned out the silence of the night sky.
The girl leaning against the side of the bridge paused, her shoulders deeply shaken.
Is it a touching moment or a sudden awakening?
Who cares about these things!
