Chapter 40 - Clone

"I'm home," Touma said with a rather heavy sigh, because he came home carrying a fairly heavy burden on his back. And the burden that he carries on his back is Himegami Aisa who looks very slim and thin but in fact her body is very heavy.

While Misaka 10032 who walked right behind Touma. It looks a bit difficult to walk because they have to carry Aisa's suitcase which is very heavy.

'Ah, welcome home Touma-san," Shizuka said who looked a bit surprised when she saw Touma coming carrying Aisa and carrying someone who looked like Misaka. "Looks like you got into some trouble like you sometimes do."

"Well, that's about it," Touma said as he lowered Aisa's body onto the sofa in the lobby. Then put two large bags containing cup ramen on the table in the lobby. "And it's not just one problem I have to deal with but two."

"Yup, I can see it," Shizuka said who helped Misaka 10032 lift Aisa's heavy suitcase and put it near the sofa where Aisa was lying. While Misaka 10032 fainted on the wooden floor in the lobby because she was tired of carrying heavy suitcases for quite a long time. "You run into two problems at the same time, that's really rare."

"I have to bring the clone of Biri-Biri and a girl dressed in miko who even though she looks thin but her body is actually very heavy to Yuragi Sou," Touma said who was sitting on another sofa in the lobby to unwind. "I don't know what kind of trouble they will bring me later."

"I know that miko-clad girl," Shizuka said as she picked up Misaka 10032 and laid her down on one of the three long sofas in the Yuragi Sou lobby. "Her name is Himegami Aisa, she's a strange girl who has the same stomach capacity as Index-chan.

I, Index-chan, Kotori-chan and Chitose-san met at a fast food restaurant just when she was full when she had just eaten over a hundred hamburgers."

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"Full from eating over a hundred hamburgers

I didn't expect that in this world there would be other people with an appetite equal to Index's," Touma said as he poured tea into the glass from the teapot on the table in front of the sofa. "I brought her to Yuragi Sou because she fainted at the entrance of the park that I passed, I wonder what problem she was having that she could faint in front of the park."

'I already know Aisa's problem, but it's better not to say anything. Because I'll only be adding more trouble to myself later!'

"Well, I don't know either, because when we chatted at a fast food restaurant she didn't tell me much about herself," Shizuka said who was sitting right next to Touma. "We can only know what kind of problem she is in, if Himegami-san is awake. And ask what kind of problem she has."

"Well that's probably the best decision we can make with that miko-clad girl," Touma said who was drinking the tea he had just poured. "But right now I have another matter to take care of, a problem that biri-biri brought for me."

"You mean, the clone of Misaka-san that you brought to Yuragi Sou with you?" Asked Shizuka. "Actually how did you get her to take you to this inn?"

"Just now when I came home from buying cup ramen, I saw biri-biri in the park with her clones," Touma replied. "And suddenly she left Misaka 10032 for me, because she didn't want to be late gping home to Tokiwadai Dormitory before I could speak."

"Misaka 10032!?" Shizuka said who looked very surprised at Touma's answer. "Does that mean the Misaka you brought was really part of the ten thousand Misaka clone project that Hiko-san said was destroyed a few years ago."

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"It seems so, even though Grandpa destroyed the project. But it seems that one of the Kiharas revived the project," Touma said with a facial expression filled with disgust because he had to recall Kihara's rottenness and savagery. "With the same goal of making the Number one of Level Five Accelerator into a Level six Esper who is said to have godlike powers."

"Sacrificing ten thousand clones of a Level Five Esper so that number one can become a Level Six Esper," Shizuka said with a face like Touma's. "That won't be possible, because above Accelerator there is still you Touma-san who is number zero of a Level Five Esper, if in this world there is an Esper who can reach Level six maybe you're the only one."

"I have no intention of becoming Level Six Esper Shizuka-san'," Touma said. "Being the number zero of a Level Five Esper is already a burden that I don't need, especially if I had to become a Level Six Esper it would be very troublesome."

"Hehehe, you're just as humble as usual Touma-san," Shizuka said when she saw Touma's reaction. "Whereas if you wanted you could become a Level Six Esper with the help of Academy City, but you refused their help and chose to keep a low profile."

"I don't want to become a Level Six Esper with the help of Academy City or become a Level Six Esper on my own," Touma said with the lazy face he often showed when he was troubled. "Things that bring me into the limelight, will only bring me unnecessary trouble."

"Touma-san I know that you don't like being the center of attention," Shizuka said. "But with all the problems from the science side and the magic side lately that always appear in front of you, one day you will inevitably become the center of attention whether you like it or not. Because Hiko-san said it was the fate of the owner of Imagine Breaker."

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"Sigh, I understand well about that Shizuka-san, I know what fate I have to face as the owner of Imagine Breaker in this era, but for now I want to keep a low profile as long as possible to avoid unnecessary trouble," Touma said while sighing deeply.

"Rather than talking about me, Shizuka-san, why is Yuragi Sou feeling so lonely right now, where have the other residents gone?"

Touma who couldn't feel the aura of the occupants of the other Yuragi Sou except himself and Shizuka and Mitsuari Ayu who had fallen asleep. Confused where the other residents of Yuragi Sou went.

"Index-chan is meeting the two members from Necessarius who have just arrived at Academy Town once again to deal with a matter," Shizuka said. "Kirika-san, Chitose-san went to accompany Index just in case the two Necessarius members tried to do something bad to Index, Tsuchimikado was escorting Maika-san to the Tokiwadai dormitory. Because there was an additional task that Maika-chan had to do as a Maid of Tokiwadai. Ayu-san has been asleep in her room for a while while Kotori-chan once again has to return to the judgment branch office because she has an unfinished paperwork to do."

"Hmm, so currently the original residents of Yuragi Sou who are still in Yuragi Sou, are just me, you and Ayu," Touma said. "What a rare circumstance..."