Chapter 35 - Himegami Aisha

So why doesn't Touma come with the four of us for shopping?" Asked Index who walked into the fast food restaurant together with Kotori, Shizuka and Chitose. "Isn't it a man's duty to accompany a woman in shopping?"

"Touma-san can't come because he has other things he can't avoid," Shizuka replied, knowing that Touma was currently sparring with Mikoto. "Besides, even if we invite Touma-san, he will definitely not want to and politely refuse, because Touma-san doesn't like doing troublesome things like accompanying women shopping."

"Onii-chan, is always like that. he's lazy by nature after all," Kotori said with a sigh. "And he only starts being diligent when he has to or does what he likes."

"Well, even though he is lazy, but strangely his grades at school are never bad so the teachers at his school have never protested even though he fell asleep during class time," Chitose said with a smile. "Perhaps Touma-san is secretly paying attention to the lessons his teacher gives in class, or he is studying in his room secretly. I have absolutely no idea how he got such good grades."

"Hmmph, I don't like slackers like him," Index said while puffing out her cheeks. "A lazy person like him I will punish by biting his head hard!"

"But you always fail to do that to Touma-san, Index-chan," Shizuka said with an amused laugh. "Because Touma-san's movements are too fast for you to follow."

Kotori and Chitose laughed at Shizuka's words. Index's attempts to bite Touma when Touma teased Index always failed because Touma's body movements were too fast for Index's untrained body to follow.

Shizuka's words made Index snicker, and Index couldn't say anything in response to Shizuka's words. Because Shizuka's words were right on target.

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In the fast food restaurant where Kotori and the others were, there wasn't a single empty table. Except for the table occupied by a girl with long black hair wearing Miko clothes. The girl's face was completely invisible because it was covered by her long hair. There was also a lot of parchment paper used to wrap hamburgers on the table, which was proof that the girl had eaten too many hamburgers by herself.

Kotori, Shizuka and Chitose felt a bit reluctant, if they sat near a strange girl who seemed to have fainted from eating too many hamburgers. And the three of them chose to leave the fast food restaurant and find another place to eat.

But because Index casually sat down next to the strange girl with sparkling eyes. Kotori, Shizuka and Chitose had no other choice but to sit down as well. Even though the three of them had the option of forcibly taking Index away. They didn't think about it at all because they were both distracted by Index's reckless actions.

'The existence of that Miko-clad girl, will only bring trouble', was what was currently in the heads of Kotori, Chitose and Shizuka.

Chitose, who was annoyed with Index's actions, sat down next to the Miko-clad girl. Tucking Index's ears as punishment for being careless, of course Chitose while covering Index's mouth with her palms so she wouldn't scream.

Index was about to be angry with Chitose, for pinching her ears and covering her mouth.

But she didn't dare to do that once Index saw Chitose's very intimidating eyes.

Next to Index, the Miko-clad girl started to wake up and from her mouth she said;

"I spent all the money I had on dozens of hamburgers and as a result I'm so stuffed right now that I can't move." xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Misaka Mikoto, was currently out of breath. All the lightning strikes that she aimed at Touma were completely useless because Touma could easily stop all of Mikoto's attacks with just his right hand.

Close combat against Touma was also useless, because Touma's close combat ability was far above Mikoto's. When Mikoto tried to kick Touma's stomach, the kick from Mikoto couldn't hit Touma's body at all. In fact, Touma can counterattack by pushing Mikoto's body a few meters back with just one touch of Touma's palm.

Mikoto didn't feel any pain from Touma's attack, but she felt that her body was being pushed by something invisible.

And after a few minutes Mikoto tried all types of attacks she had. There was nothing useful against Touma that could neutralize all of his lightning strikes.

Mikoto was not hurt at all because Touma had no intention of hurting Mikoto.

But there were some parts of Mikoto's clothes that were charred due to Touma's attack using Flame Alchemy. Satetsu or iron sand also doesn't work, because every time Mikoto tries to shape and control the iron sand Touma makes all the iron sand scatter using a magnetic force greater than Mikoto's.

The power he imitated from 'someone' when he was twelve years old.

'Great physical strength and endurance,' Mikoto said while looking at Touma who didn't look exhausted or tired at all. 'Plus the ability to manipulate fire, eliminate Esper abilities and also the magnetic power far beyond my own, as I thought Kamijou Touma is really strong! He had the strength equivalent to a Level Five Esper! But I haven't unleashed my ultimate move yet! I wonder if he can withstand my ultimate move or not!'

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Nao Tomori oversees the fight between Touma and Mikoto. And she was amazed by the level of combat shown by Mikoto and Touma, because the level of the fight was very high.

Previously, she had secretly followed Mikoto so that she had the right opportunity to recruit Mikoto into Hoshinoumi Gakuen. But unexpectedly Nao actually enjoyed the fight between Touma and Mikoto, to the point that she forgot her own mission to recruit Mikoto to Hoshinoumi Gakuen.

Nao Tomori, a girl with the nickname 'The brain damaged girl', a delusional girl, and a super sick patient who escaped from a mental hospital, finally finds something interesting other than her obsession with Charlotte's comet and recruits a high-level Esper to Hoshinoumi Gakuen.

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Himeragi Yukina was confused by the girl with long gray hair watching over the fight between Touma and Mikoto. Because she had never seen the girl before, even though Yukina recognized the uniform that the girl was wearing. Since Hoshinoumi Gakuen was a fairly elite school in Academy City, it wasn't unusual for Himeragi Yukina to know about the uniform from that school.

'What is the girl from Hoshinoumi Gakuen doing in this place?' Yukina said who was suspicious of Nao's existence. 'Most of the students from Hoshinoumi Gakuen are known as Esper recruiters with somewhat damaged brains, is she also one of the recruiters who wanted to recruit Misaka Mikoto or Kamijou Touma to Hoshinoumi Gakuen?'

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When Kurogane Ikki was crossing the iron bridge to return to his apartment, he accidentally saw the person who had defeated him in a sword duel fighting Misaka Mikoto, who was a third-order Level Five Esper without experiencing any difficulties. Annoyance and envy began to haunt Kurogane Ikki. All this time Ikki thought that by relying on hard work, determination, tricks in battle and sword techniques that he had he could surpass anyone. But the existence of someone like Touma completely changed the way he saw the world...

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