Electric Princess [Railgun]

A partially involuntary vacation on a tropical island, that is relatively cut off from the rest of the world, played by a certain athletic slim brunette in main role, could resemble a story about a pirate's treasure hunt. Namely, Mikoto together with Misaki, so to speak, chased a certain red-haired priest who was hiding many secrets from them. Conveniently, like some pirate captain who stepped ashore from his sailboat parked on top of a hill and headed suspiciously into the jungle. However, before they could catch up with him, they lost a track of him, as if he suddenly disappeared. On a grassy meadow like rest or gathering area with a stone fireplace and benches on the sides, from which there was a narrow view of a short stretch of sandy beach, they encountered only one particular silver white-haired girl, with bottomless stomach appetite.

This girl make a nearly sarcastic comment. "Interesting, no one told me, that when I go on my usual walk after an eating food, on the jungle path, I'll meet a nervous beast on the hunt looking for potential prey. It's even dragging along a (juicy?) bait, that seem to be an attention sink. Short hair, I guess I'd should have asked what kind of game you're playing here, but I'm not that interested anyway." Index frown on brunette when the older girls stopped in front of her, for which the nonathletic breathless busty blonde was suddenly grateful, as she need to catch a breath.

Mikoto, on the other hand, was offended by that metaphor. "Fine, tell me directly where the idiot is!"

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Now the white nun put her hands on her hips. "What did Touma do this time? Or maybe you're chasing him this time for something else? Or maybe you just can't wait for the big reveal?" She frown. "O~or, there is other reason for witch you cant keep him alone. I already don't like that idea."

Mikoto automatically blushed. "It's not like that! It-- It's just--" She shook her head stomping on the ground, returning a strict gaze. "So you know where he is or not? We were supposed to meet today, but he still has something else to do."

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"Are you trying to hint to me that for all this time, you're still looking for him, do you?"

"…" Brunette only slight twitch of her body.

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Since Mikoto's response was silence, Index got slightly angry. "How is it even possible to miss him on something that isn't really that big of an island? You can think of it as a multi stored mall and you still miss. That would have to be something extra to make it work like that. Or are you really playing some mysterious game that you left me out of?"

Shokuhou who restore her posture, and was standing silently, listening, had an expression that she want to say something, but she stay quiet. Like: (Dear Misaka: You whole approach toward him is a categorical flaw!)

Railgun shake her head toward the librarian girl. "Never mind! I just had too many pit stops here and there. So do you know where it is or not?!"

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"I don't need to know where he is." Index shocked them with her answer. "I simply following events, incidents, Chi [Circulation of life energy.], and disruptions in the flow in Ley Lines [Concentrations/ veins trough witch planetary energy flow.]; is enough for me. Its guaranteed that something will happened around him and that will point me to him. How many times do you think we've met just based on this?"

"So flying into trouble is a daily occurrence for you two?" Mikoto sighed, looking around for a possible path to take next.

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"Short hair, the way you said it making me angry. If you need to hear it, Touma is clearly not here. How about you go look for him, to somewhere else?"

"Okay, okay! I'm going now." Mikoto intended to start walking in a relatively random direction.

But Shokuhou stopped her schoolmate with a tap on her shoulder. She spoke to her companion with a businesslike smile on her face. "Misaka swan, maybe you have a problem with that vegetable that siting on your neck? Oh yes, it's actually a boiled meatball." She asked and at the same time gave herself an answer. "Just muscle and no neurons."

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The remark about the food made Index rise a focus on spot giving the topic more attention/notice, but this time she kept her remarks to herself and just silently watched the two.

Mikoto glared at her fellow from same power level. "What's your problem?!"

Instead of answering verbally, Shokuhou point gestured at Index as a blatant answer. The platinum white head gave her a frown for that. However, it took the brunette a while to notice. Only after that blonde continued. "If a certain trifle/detail deserved to escape your attention, this young lady herself indicated that she knows quite a lot about what she's doing here! Yet she manage, to talk you out from even asking."

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The white-haired, on the other hand, has come to the conclusion that it's best to back out of whatever the two of them are up to now. "I've just decided to let you fumble around in ignorance. Like everyone else, you're in for a big surprise, you'll just have to wait. I'm beginning to understand why Knights [horses chess figure] aren't told that we going somewhere in advance; Like on journey. Out of their own impatience, they gallop off into nowhere and notoriously wont stop unless they won't be there, while ignoring that they don't know where they're going in first place. Try to make a coordination to they moves, when they just dashing around, jumping across the entire board. Furthermore, Bishops [Archer/shooters chess figure] shouldn't make big moves unless they're called on to do so, otherwise they pull/move in all directions. When they chase two rabbits at same time, they lose both. Suddenly they can be found on a wrong place when you need them to be on other side of board. Can you imagine how many times Touma scream (Why?!) when I just walk into scene before him? That's my own experience."

Brunette tilted her head relatively calmly. "What's with this paraphrasing I'm hearing from people today?"

Blonde on the other hand, was visibly angry despite her business smile. With a gesture of her open palm, she asked Mikoto to put that TV remote onto her palm. Railgun hesitated, but the Mental-out scolded her. "Come on sis, stop be undecided, when it actually matter! You heard her: Either you choose to wait, or you choose my help. The choice is yours! I can convince her to confide us in, but only if you let me. Come on,-- what could go possibly wrong?"

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Yet librarian was on guard. "Ah,-- so this is the proverbial (rising the flag) calling for an event. [trigger for (game) event/ script] I can tell you from my own experience, that you have no idea how badly this can go wrong! Touma could talk about it for nicely long. Whatever you plan to do, I must warn you: If you continue with your strange game,--" Her tone got serious. "...prepare for unexpected consequences."

Athletic girl gave the short girl a silent look.

However, busty blonde changed her tactics to something that did not require esper skills. "We can still bribe you with money. You like delicious food, don't you?"

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Index dismissively waved her hand. "No thanks, I don't like those green papers/bills. They tasting bad, and are always not enough."

Misaki's reaction was almost immediate. "Are you teasing me?!"

"Give it up! She's a nun. Living in poverty is like a second calling for her." Mikoto interjected, stopping the blonde from tying into Index and handing her the controller. "No funny business! Do you understand?" She threatened #5, but the honey-blonde gave her an offended expression of distrust and suspicion.

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Shokuhou, without hesitation, pointed the controller at the white-haired girl and pressed a key in half voice uttering some command in mantra like voice.

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A second or two passed before Mental Out realized that something was wrong. "What?!" With an expression of complete surprise, she found that her nose was bleeding. For another second, two, with her head bowed, she watched in confusion as drop after drop flowed into her open palm. "Too high density for me to issue an order? Stupidity!" She didn't react much to Mikoto, who was finding out what was wrong with her, not only verbally, but also with the help of her abilities to check her bio electricity field and so. She continued to watch her blood gathering in her palm. "What's she had there? A guard dog that bit me?" She was snapped out of her thoughts by a mechanical, emotionless voice coming from the white haired girl.

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"Error! Detecting a breaching the inner wall of the library. Per article one, I'm imposing restrictions on resource availability. Next, I'm enforcing an automatic check."

Both girls cautiously looked at Index, who had a blank look on her face as if she had no soul.

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"Alert! Reception bypass detected. Unauthorized command. Authority structure challenged by atypical attacker. Access denied. I'm activating article three."

Shokuhou asked for both of them. "Are you making fun of us?"

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"Warning! The integrity of the library and its contents are at primary risk of vandalism or theft. This is in violation of the first paragraph of the contract between the library and its staff on the mediation, expansion and spread of stored knowledge. I proceed to article two: neutralization of a direct threat to the primary purpose of the library. "

The blonde was horrified. "Wait!, what kind of exaggerated deja vu is this?" She wanted to retreat, but her head spun, as if she was seized with weakness. So she reach for the other girl for a support.

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"Alert! Secretary 'Johns Pen' and his collection of verses are missing. Primary defenses cannot be activated. I am proceeding to activate backup secretary 'Charles Pen' with limited powers within the library."

Shokuhou eyes were shaking. "W- wait, you're scaring me! Look, I'm sorry for my rashness. There's no need to get into a fight. Okay? So please finally wake up from that!"

"Hey, that would be enough, you two!! What are you doing here, what kind of weird show?!" Mikoto yelled at them, displeased with the fact that, through real (damage?) at #5 body, she can't box this nonsense as an inappropriate joke from Mental Out at her.

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The white haired girl rose a meter high, as if she didn't weight anything and levitate like a ghost. Something like a meter wide glowing magic circle appeared in front of her emotionless robotic face. Her eyes seem to have dulled/lost the luster of life and (red magical mathematical shapes in a magical circle) appeared in them, as a fitting addition to the drawing in front of her. Forms that could be described as red angel wings of knowledge grew from her back. "Error! Limitations on available resources still in effect. Unable to create an ideal weapon to neutralize the atypical attacker. I approach the defense of knowledge by searching for an already suitable alternative in the archive, from a list of already created alternatives based on available resources. Found! I choose a golden apple from the king's left hand." Retaliation preparations were complete and 'Index - Charles Pen' began reciting the spell. "(You who look upon me, who dwells on high; you, without humility and with indomitable determination:-- Fall on your knees and lower your eyes in weariness at my majesty!)"

It was like a drop of water falling into a mirror-smooth pond surface, breaking this illusion with its impact, thus creating a perfect ripple on the mentioned water surface. In a similar way an imaginary shock wave went up from the levitating magician.

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The spell hit both girls and push into them a feeling unsteady/drowsy. They went dizzy, it sway/shake with they senses, forcing them to fall unconscious.

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Shokuhou went to the ground like an undercut tree and was in danger of sprawling/spread on the ground. However, Mikoto reflexively went into a slump and reflexively managed to catch blonde before she could hit her head. Because of this saving move, princes look down onto queen. Their eyes met closely. Their eyes opened wildly when they realized how their faces were dangerously close. There was even a hint of blush on both of them. Ironically, with this romantic move they escaped the effects of the spell.

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'Index - Charles Pen' spoke again. "Error! The selected weapon is ineffective against an atypical attacker. Neutralization failed. I proceed to elimination of the threat."

"Will you chill out!?" Mikoto exclaimed, throwing a 'lighting spear', (powerful eclectic current/ bolt), at the levitating girl-thing to zap her enough so she will faint out.

That electric current twisted like a snake. But before it could hit body of mage, one of the red wings blocked its path, slapping the attack away from the owner. With a significant crackling, the discharge broke up into smaller ones. By spreading the wing back to where it was, even these static discharges were dispersed by throwing them away to the side.

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"Alert! A new atypical attacker, detected. Lack of resources to fully analyze the attack process, as the color of the attacker's aura is cloudy. I search the archive for a suitable alternative. Found! I choose 'David's sorrow, verse 2.' and proceed to liquidations." Mikoto didn't even have time to finish her objection when 'Index - Charles Pen' began reciting the spell. "(My lord, why have you damned me?)" A dangerously hostile red gloving spot materialize in front of her face.

The brunette didn't have time to wonder when a bright blood-red beam of light shot out at her. While she was holding the blonde in one hand, she almost immediately materialized a blue ball of lightning in her other palm and aimed it at the laser. Her electric discharge was large/powerful enough to defend her from the incoming laser attack. The two phenomena met and flashes of white light began to spread throughout the meadow. From distance, it's almost look like there's a show going on.

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"Error! The atypical attacker has capabilities beyond the initial calculations. Moving on to add the next attack from the archive."

"You think I'm going to leave you?!!" Mikoto exclaimed as she flexed her muscles and turned the voltage up to extreme heights. She was about to fire her ball of lightning at the white girl through that laser as well.

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Predictably, their fight didn't go unnoticed as another person run towards the center of action. Kamijou Touma burst into their fight shouting: "Of course they won't rest!! They finally found a way to cause a fight between us!! But not under my watch!! They shall already forget about turning this place to the ruins!!,- all of them!!" He thrust his right hand into the white glow and both attacks, laser and lightning, exploded into harmless particles, with a loud sound of violent cancellation/glass breaking, supernatural phenomenon/power. Leaving behind only flickering particles that gradually faded away, like falling ash or snow. He stand up clenching his fist. "I don't know what the problem is with the two of you two, but I will make you behave even if I have to beat you up!" He show them his tightly clenched fist.

He glared at Mikoto and she in confusion immediately dropped her intention to fight.

But 'Index - Charles Pen' had a different opinion. "Error! The arrival of the 'Joker Class' has made the previous calculations irrelevant. I will reorganize the priorities."

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He turn to her. "Index, today is a seriously long day and we still have a long night ahead of us, so unless you wake up immediately from that; I will wake you up myself!! No matter what the collar thinks!!" He threatened her with a clenched fist.

"Alert! Unexpected interaction from the librarian has locked the archive. Additionally, not enough resources can be gathered to make an effective strategy against the namely: Image Breaker. I am approaching an alternative delay tactic."

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The white-haired girl's body simply rose to an even higher height, where the black-haired youth simply could not reach her. He, realizing the irony, put on a too stupid expression over the stalemate.

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A weakened Shokuhou in the brunette's arms tried to speak. "Index chan, that's enough, I'm giving up. There's no need to fight anymore. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn't want to hurt you, I just wanted to know."

"Proposal rejected! The analysis evaluated this claim as false. Despite the librarian's protest, the automatic defense will continue to operate until the atypical attacker is neutralized." Kamijou gave the blonde in Mikoto's arms a skeptical look and couldn't help but comment that she looked defeated enough in his opinion. Of course that white person didn't like it. "Insufficient! The atypical attack still persists. The automatic defense will continue to operate until the attacker is neutralized."

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Only now did something come to Misaki's mind. "Wait! Don't tell me, we accidentally connected and now there's a connection between the two of us?" She wanted to use the TV remote on herself, pointing and pressing it on her temple, but pressing down the key had no effect. "What? My ability,-- is blocked,-- because that guard dog is still biting into me? So I can't even cancel it, until it let me go? What a nonsense?!"

Touma put the shards of information together and called out to the white-haired girl in the sky. "Index, how about you leave this problem of yours to me? I'll see what I can do to solve it. It'll be better than anything that stupid collar comes up with!"

"Stalemate! The librarian has evaluated using 'namely: Image Breaker' on an atypical attacker as a viable solution. I'm going into standby mode."

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Touma knelt down toward Mikoto and Misaki, to get a better look. "Fine, that shall be done. Misaka, so what happened here?"

"I think she can explain it to you better!" The brunette reluctantly redirected his attention to the tired blonde, in her arms.

She hesitated only for a second, as if to think what she will say. "Eh, to put it simply, my moisture manipulation ability allows me to control not only the brain by manually flipping switches, but also the logical mind of others, and even instant read or manipulate their memories if absolutely needed. I wanted to convince this lady, to share some information through with us. No, I tried to manipulate her free will, commanded her, so she will do that willingly, or think so in that way. But something went wrong and not only she dint share any information with us, something with the name 'John Pen' moved from her into me and it's blocking my abilities. So I can't even undo the hypothetical connection she says was made between us. That connection is why something with the name 'Charles Pen', that's controlling her, don't like me, and now in the form of that lady with the red wings, she's trying to punish me for trying to walk whit my mind into hers. Not that I managed to do anything other that wake up a guard dog, by steeping on its tail."

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Touma sighed. "You have a wish to die? They, don't bet on any possibility of her betrayal toward them. Index and her perfect memory is one thing. Just that ridiculous amount is nuts to hold. But why try to read the entire Grimoire library at once? When even a single Grimoire/book in her repertoire can tear you to shreds on the first page if don't you pay attention while reading it? You are lucky that you haven't succeeded on that."

Weakened Misaki tried to lighten the mood with a silly smile. "Ehehe, my mistake. Reading memories are not so great anyway, so I keep it as last resort. I thought she was just a librarian who goes to the library. I had no idea that she carries the library with her. But what did you mean by all that, tearing myself up at the first page?" A drop of sweat slipped from her forehead, down her cheek and dripped from her chin.

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He shake his head in denial gesture. "Don't worry about it at this moment! You say the problem is your esper ability that can't be turned off? In that case, mine ability is the best solution. So what about this, for example?" Touma thought and placed his right hand on the blonde's forehead. "Hmm, no reaction, so no." Misaki was so taken aback by the unexpected physical contact that she timidly blushed. But when he moved to his hand to her cheek, holding her face in his palm, so to speak...

Blushed brunette yelled at him. "Wha- what do you think you're doing?!!"

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He was so focused, that he dint even flinch, or avert gaze. "Whatever the supernatural phenomenon is, I can only cancel it if I touch it directly. Since it's apparently something invisible like radio waves, I just have to find the transmitter. Don't worry, as soon as I find the place, I'll know. Most of time is something small and obvious, but easily overlook." And he ran his palm over the blonde's neck and shoulder.

Although the blonde did not protest, she gave the impression that she was expecting further developments in that skin-ship direction.

On the other side of the coin, the brunette internally was freaking out in her mind as she realized what could happen if his eyes fell on that tempting bust. (("Hey! Hey! Hey!! Stop raising your chest at him, you fat fart!!")) But that's when it clicked on her... "Stars!! Stars in their eyes! Those she's brainwash have stars in their eyes!!" She was pushing his attention in that direction.

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He gave Misaka a deep skeptical look, then looked at Shokuhou's frowning face and looked into her eyes thoughtfully.

"Uh-- wait, maybe you don't plans to do…?" The blonde protested, but he took/support her body with his left hand, around her waist, in his arms and pulled her to him. Of course, blushed brunette could only manage to watch with fully open mouth as her jaw/maw sled fallen down. Mental Out pulled her eyes out in a surprise as their faces came closer. "W- wait, i- if you do that now, then I..." She didn't have time to finish because he reached his right hand towards her face and the index and middle fingers touched the aforementioned stars.

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There was the sound of a violent cancellation/disintegration of a supernatural phenomenon/phenomenon, as if something glassy shattered to shards.

Honey blonde in the boy's arms, literally bent backward, tilting her head back forcefully as if she was trying to do a yoga exercise. She groaned as if something had hit her hard and knocked her breath away. Subsequently, she roll her yellow eyes upwards, her body went limp, until she finally passed out.

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Of course, the brunette couldn't stand the idiot staring at the helpless blonde. Especially when her undefended breast appendage was arbitrarily inviting the attention of certain eyes. Taking the initiative, she took the easy prey from him and directed his attention to the white haired one, that was still ominously hovering over the meadow area.

"Correction! Atypical attack has stopped. Confirmed return of control over library defense rampart. 'Charles Pen' confirms that the threat to auto defenses is gone."

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The antics of 'Index - Charles Pen' attracted the attention of some visitors to the island who watched the action from a safe distance.

One of them was Mugino, who was angry about the (Go to sleep, face slap.), which she also received despite the fact that she had not been near them, but dared to look from distance, when the white mage put down the submission spell. As she figured out (the good night slap) came from that levitating fag who, to her great displeasure, perfectly resembled an angel: (majestic, but as cold as standing/stature) The moment she concluded that #3, #5 and that idiot had solved their situation, she decided to solve her own anger as she arrived closer. "Hey you!! This is for before!!" She exclaimed, vigorously flicking some inflatable beach ball at her target.

That White person only managed to turn her head at the voice, a moment before she was hit in the face.

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Despite the fact that it was supposed to be an object with zero offensive value and she should not have even moved her head from the hit, the ball was still classified as part of the environment that the 'secretary' must respect. (Because its a part of back-ground scenery used in magic ceremony.) The damage was zero, but it still spun her body in the air. She make a roll, by more than by one full circle.

"Error! The defenses of 'Charles Pen' appear to be insufficient!"

Both Touma and Mikoto widened their eyes in disbelief at the new problem that just show up and their jaw/maw sled fell down. On the other hand, #4 wondered if the levitating white-haired girl is not related to someone in particular who has red eyes and white hair.

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"Note! I'm recording an observation about a critical hole in the auto defense system, against zero-threat objects that trigger emergency leveling." Her spin ended up with her face facing up to the sky. A few seconds passed as she looked up and it seemed that she was observing something up there.

This pause create an unwanted tension on the people down on the surface.

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"Warning, critical error in observation!! Reaching the forced start condition for 'Index Librorum Prohibitorum'. I am forcing terminations for all concurrently running automatic defense calculation tasks. I am ending the resource release restrictions for prioritizing the primary library functions. I am adjusting the formulas for calculations needed for analysis purposes associated with the ongoing campaign."

Touma blurted out a comment that this divination means nothing but troubles.

Yet Mikoto throw a (What?!) bark, but seeing how he is focused on Index, even she turn her gaze to her.

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"Analysis complete! Strategy correction is required to deal with the magic construct."

Touma had a dark expression and after the words "I suspected it. Tricksters...", he sighed deeply.

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"Correction! The found technique of 'mirror mirage' is overlapping with the 'canvas of repainting in one color', located on the castle walls, that is, on the lowest part of the structure. In this direction, the masking with the canvas is only a secondary intention. The main intention lies on the mirror, whose role is to provide an erroneous indication of the procedure for activating the structure. At the moment, both the canvas and the mirror are already ready to be discarded."

Somebody might think that something broke in her, but that boy who shall know her most has not doing anything.

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"Warning! The time for the final activation of the magical construction is not this midnight, as it was shown in the previous analysis, but the final stage of preparation is already underway. The launch of facility can be expected within minutes. It is recommended to engage immediately in terms of the specified campaign!"

Mikoto, who still didn't know what this was about, spoke up. "Hey, wait a minute! What's going on? What campaign? Hey! I don't know about anything, so someone please explain it to me!"

Touma gave her a short look that seemed to ask: (Are you serious?) Then he make this expression of someone who are not too haste to volunteer to do that. No he was quite hesitant, reluctant to speak up.

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But 'Index - Charles Pen', she continued, "Verdict! In the current situation, the deployment of 'Spell Interceptor' or 'namely: Image Breaker' as 'World reset point'; will have no effect on the prepared attack method. The upper part of the magic structure is a pottery and its operation cannot be disturbed by regular means, as long as it is protected by a castle fortification rampart wall. The material for the cauldron is transported by random impulses directly from the earth's crust. It is then transformed by alchemy, both on shape and statistics. That will remove its summoned status causing it to be immune to dispel. Subsequently, in reference to electrolysis, they add a layer of enchantment to increase defensive properties. Finally, they break their connection between the pottery and the resulting product by tipping it out of the cauldron and letting it free fall on the target. The style used refers directly to the remains of the fifth planet of the system, Eden. [Paradise] The methodology used refers to the fall of the stars.

Attention! Current readings indicate that if an attack were to hit this temple [Academy City], it would have a devastating effect and likely cause high damage to infrastructure and widespread loss of life."

This time it was Mikoto who had a dark expression from what she heard. But she wait as the Oracle girl up in air keep speaking.

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"Alert! The presence of an artifact with the property of instant retaliation has been detected. This artifact is anchored to a defensive wall and will cast a curse on anyone who manages to damage the castle rampart wall, regardless of the method used. Caution is required. The castle wall itself is a reference to the guard dragon's scales. The door are a reference to the indestructible gate post, in heavenly rampart walls, leading to the heavenly palace from story; 'the road to the west'. Therefore, the destruction of the entire defensive rampart wall with a single attack is not likely.

Conclusion! Magic construction is a combination of many magical styles, philosophical directions, and scientific branches. Therefore, it is currently not possible to determine the origin, affiliation or background. However, the resulting magical effect is marked as illegal in the codex of the six basic elements. The crew and the object can be described as renegades and vandals. I give the campaign a classification and call it a pirates incident. To solve it, an alternative approach is needed than the individual action of magic and science. Cooperation is suggested.

Warning! The library is in primary danger of destruction. Based on Amendment Nine, I redistribute all available resources. I am putting together the most appropriate strategy to deal with the incident.

Agreement reached! First: analytics skills are unnecessary for now. Second: A countermeasure will be applied to reduce the artifact's curse, the feedback will be depleted of the possibility of death. Third: The mirage mirror and canvas are no longer attached to the artifact and I will proceed to destroy them. Fourth: It is recommended to leave the navigation beacon on. Fifth: For the next procedure, it is most appropriate to use collective improvisation. Sixth: For the next move, in order to use holly trinity method, I removing collar limitations.

'Dedicatus545 ', proceeds to countermeasures." The floating white haired girl began reciting a spell and her voice was heard by everyone on this island no matter where they were clearly and distinctly: "(We who have met here, with unyielding hearts caress the banner/flag that fluttering above our heads. This symbol is filled with the flame of our hearts that will not be extinguished. This is our land, our nation, and our life!)" The whole island shook slightly. From a certain place, hiding spot or just warehouse on the island, a number of five-meter poles flew up, and finally they buried themselves vertically in various places. But mostly in the places where the visitors gathered. Suddenly, however, these sticks unrolled pieces of cloth from their tops, revealing that they were makeshift flags made from pieces of clothing belonging to the visitors themselves. A few of these flags even fluttered around the perimeter of the gathering plaza area.

Of course Kamijou dropped a comment about finally realizing for what they needed their clothes. Mikoto, on the other hand, quickly looked around to see if she could see a specific underwear among the materials used to make hers. Of course, that would be a problem with mixed feelings when she remembered what she was forced to wear and its usage on this prank would make it unusable in future.

She breathed a sigh of relief when she dint find it. But the sight of such a fluttering flag gave her a strange sense of security.

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"'Dedicatus545 ' proceeds to attack an unnecessary part of the castle rampart wall." White-haired in her self-defense mode began reciting in many voices, as if she were an entire choir hiding in one body. Again, everyone heard her clearly like a priest preaching. "David's sorrow, verse two: 'My lord, why hast thou damned me?'"

This time it was not one blood-red beam, but three that shot out from the nun. In a triangle formation, they flew a respectable distance straight up high into the sky until they stopped a few kilometers away at an invisible obstacle. As before the laser attack don't seems to have a limited duration as that girl keeps it on.

The white mage mentioned the mirror and the mirage. So what apparently happened up there, was that the invisible sheet of mirror glass became red hot from the continuous laser keeping shining at it. Since glass is a very cold liquid, the molecules of which hardly move to the point that they act like a solid substance. The (fake) sky, like a sheet of glass, became more elastic, it stretched towards the point of impact of the rays, it lost the cohesion it had a moment ago. Because gravity apply on that heated glass, like a sticky dough, it began to detach from the imaginary ceiling canvas on which it was held. It was trailing down like a giant drop of molten glass, except that what was visible from the ground was as if the sky had gone crazy.

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Mikoto could hardly believe her eyes. At this moment, she recalled one final report she read, that the 'Tree Diagram', the world's most powerful super computer, had been shot out on orbit by a beam of unknown origin, fired from within this city. (("W- w- w- wait!! What are you trying to imply here? That she is the one who shot down the satellite? -with a laser? -and from the ground? Do you realize how fast the satellite moves in orbit? To calculate the trajectory for the hit, you would need the same 'Tree diagram' to do it, so that you don't have any deviation for a hundred kilometers. It's like doing a brain surgery, while sitting on a bull, during really heated up rodeo. What is that ability of her? It's more unhinged than that the crazy personal reality adaptation of #7. Clairvoyance?, perfect memory?, telekinesis?, and now an optical laser? Is she a genius or some kind a next- next-generation super weapon in form of organic loli android? Is she servant of god? Or at last a human? If not, that would explain it.

Come to think of it, she wears a robe like some super important cleric. Could her ability be something like fate or divine intervention? That's just as absurd as that idiot's ability, where did he get that long hair in the first place? Wait! Now that I think about it, could he have known about my sisters so long before I did?! T- then that night when he came to my aid because those hooligans were standing around me... Could he have simply mistaken me for one of my sisters? Was he already trying to save them then and I got in his way? No! No!! No!!! That idiot's approach changed after our first meeting. It's not possible that he lost his memories back then. Was he playing it? Or did someone set it up that way? Or is it a coincidence? That would mean that our meeting wasn't necessarily a coincidence, but rather..."))

Her train of thought was interrupted by the sound of clinking of glass, who, despite the distance he had to overcome from up there, reached them as if he came from some high-rise building of a department store and warned those down on the street about what was falling on them.

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At a certain moment, the melting hot sky glass drop broke off. The supposedly mirror glass canvas that was on place of sky, lost its cohesion and subsequently began to break under its weight. No it was a shock reaction that doomed the canvas. Floating mage stop emitting the Laser's rays, as the false sky disintegrated from the center. Shard by shard that canvas fragments/shards were falling down gradually disintegrating in the mist. The inhabitants of the city thus got a glimpse of the real sky, on which there was now a shining magical image/fresco. An overly complicated system, composed of magic circles of various sizes and drawing, it was so dense that it was in several layers. One would almost say that someone spread an extravagant tablecloth over the entire Academic City sky, which was so huge that it could be seen from a distance surface, or even out of the city. What ever you look at this this umbrella was not meant to shield the city bellow from external harm.

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"Alert! The magical construct has completed its activation period and is now fully operational. Secretary overloaded, running out of resources for further use. 'Charles Pen' disables trinity modulation and puts the librarian into rest mode." After these words, the white-haired girl fainted, closing her eyes. At the same time, her red wings on back and the magic circle on face disappeared.

She automatically began to descent. No, she was falling to the ground. But luckily not so fast that Touma wouldn't catch her in his arms. "That's good Index. Get some rest. You've done more than enough. It's up to us now." Then he look up.

Directly above them, in a distance on a sky, was one large complex magic circle with a large hole in the center. It crackle like if a drive gear snaps into a complex machine full of such gears. The whole glowing formation in the sky began to move, change, spin in a circle, twisting into a spiral, a vortex. Soon, one massive ring formed, combining all the other circular formations, like some imaginary giant ring. The large unnatural void in the center, which seemed to absorb the light, could in some sense be called a door or gate in this downright machine-looking magical construction.

Something went wrong somewhere and some circles (there and here) burst into sparkles. Something invisible flew from the sky like some heavenly punishment or curse. It aimed at the limp white haired girl, down on the island.But it was stopped short on the invisible barrier that those flags represented. Automatically, one of them burst into flames so quickly that one would have thought it had been doused in gasoline.

Of course that particular flag was made mostly of Kamijou's clothing and he began to complain about why his and not Index's clothing. Red haired Stiyl very bluntly explained to him that the robe 'Walking Church' belonged to their Archbishop. So it's not hers. Since Index only has it on loan, of course they didn't use it. On contrast, the symbolic value is to high to not make a nation wide response if it get destroyed.

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The phenomenon in the sky captured the attention of perhaps the entire population of the island.

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[Notes]

-Ley Lines, Simplified electromagnetic paths under the surface of the earth, either thought of as the energy vessels of the planet, or as significant spiritual paths that connect important places and energy flows through them; like veins or rivers not seen by naked eye. The intersections of these lines were already recognized as significant by ancient societies, which decided to erect monuments on them.

-References to Johns Pen and Charles Pen are probably a reference to important writers from English history such as John Donne (No Man Is an Island) and Charles Dickens (Oliver Twist).

-Reference to Index collar, because her knowledge from reading 100k+ real magical book with hint of semi mind (Grimoriars), she is to high value, to not be "locked away". To ensure for her at last basic human laws, they put a collar on her. Yet, there is an unseen leach, in possession of archbishop.

Once again Index Magic Name (Dedicatus545 - The dedicated lamb protects the knowledge of the strong) Her Classification is Magician. Occupation: Nun in Training. Ability Spell Intercept. And poses talent of perfect memory.

In current scientific norm a 90km to 100km above the ground is a border for open space. A 200 km up is marked a stable orbit. Yet, some satellites are put on 400 km, because there shall be some scientific point, to be still inside the upper ionosphere.

-Fresco (imagine painting on the ceiling of a cathedral) is a wall painting technique done on wet plaster. Painting frescoes is technically demanding work. Mineral pigments ground in water or lime water are applied directly to the fresh plaster on the wall so that the colors soak into the substrate.