For Kuroko, the experience that followed completely reshaped her view of the world. Each passing moment felt like it would shatter her soul but also brought overwhelming sensations. Her old twisted affection for Mikoto seemed childish next to this man's overwhelming power.
"Onee-sama"
Tears welled in Kuroko's eyes as she kept thinking about her Onee-sama. Yet her Onee-sama was right there, watching with an awkward, embarrassed expression.
"Kuroko, you"
Mikoto, seeing Kuroko staring at her in that position, hesitated before awkwardly making a small fist and murmuring, "Keep it up?"
"?????"
In the living room, Index was sitting on a white leather sofa, still in a daze. Under the lights, her snowy nun's habit was faintly transparent, hinting at her slender figure. She was twining her fingers anxiously around its hem, occasionally casting glances toward the corridor they'd come from.
"Kanzaki, w-what exactly are they doing back there?"
Index asked in a barely audible voice, her cheeks oddly flushed.
Next to her, Kanzaki Kaori sat stiffly as well. The tall Saint, clad in black jeans hugging her long legs, seemed uncharacteristically tense. Her dark eyes shone with conflicted emotionequal parts embarrassment and an unnamable restlessness.
"They"
Kanzaki cleared her throat, voice dropping several octaves but having no idea how to explain. Index buried her face even lower. Her mind involuntarily replayed the shocking image she'd glimpsed earlier.
"What are they doing, anyway?"
She asked in a tiny voice, her eyes watering.
"Mikoto looked like she was in pain, but at the same timekind of happy?"
She truly didn't understand. She just found it very strange.
Kanzaki's face froze. As a member of the Necessarius, she knew hundreds of magic spells. But explaining adult intimacy to a pure-minded nun? She was utterly clueless.
"T-they're just playing a game right, a game!"
"Ha?"
Shokuhou Misaki, unable to stifle a laugh, interjected. Her generous chest quivered as she chuckled.
"Heh, a game?"
"Kanzaki-san, that's a pretty cute way to describe it."
Kanzaki glared at her furiously, but Shokuhou's cheeks were also notably flushed, and her legs twitched with restless anxiety. Evidently, she wasn't entirely calm either.
Just when the awkwardness soared to its peak, a special alert rang in their earsthe chat group's distinctive chime.
[Ding! Group Owner Rei Ao has started a live broadcast!]
"What's he up to now?"
Shokuhou raised an eyebrow and opened the broadcast. Kanzaki and Index followed suit without thinking. In the next second, their expressions all froze.
It showed the same room from earlier, but now there were two extra participants: Shirai Kuroko and Awaki Musujime. Twined, entwined, all entangled in every sense of the word.
"Eek!"
Index yelped, toppling off the sofa in shock. Her pupils dilated, her mouth open in astonishment, stiff as if hit by lightning.
Kanzaki wasn't in any better shape. She shot up to her feet.
"Bang!"
Her chair scraped deafeningly against the floor, her face incredulous.
"Th-they this that"
She was so flustered, she couldn't form a sentence, her fair cheeks burning bright red.
Shokuhou, eyes slightly widened, dropped her remote onto the sofa. Even she was shaken by this sudden, chaotic broadcast.
"My, what bold tastes"
She forced herself to maintain her queenly Tokiwadai composure, though her voice trembled slightly.
In the broadcast feed, Rei Ao suddenly turned to the camera, his iridescent eyes seemingly piercing their screens. A wicked smirk played on his lips, his voice low and raspy:
"Care to join us? There's room for more."
"Boom!"
Kanzaki slammed her fist on the coffee table, splitting its solid wood surface with cracks.
"Ugh how shameless!"
She spat the words through gritted teeth, yet couldn't tear her gaze from the screen.
Index had curled herself into the couch corner, clutching a pillow over her face, but peeking through her fingers out of sheer curiosity.
Shokuhou took a deep breath and forced herself to close the broadcast. The living room lapsed into an oppressive silence. None of them spoke. Only the sound of uneasy breathing filled the space.
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Chapter 694: Level 6 Shift Project has been Terminated! Time to deal with Misaka Sisters!
A certain dark alley in District 7.
A white-haired boy stared at his phone, crimson eyes narrowing at the message displayed:
[NOTICE: The Level 6 Shift Project has been terminated. All experiments must stop immediately. Thank you for your cooperation.]
"You've got to be kidding"
His grip on the phone was so tight his knuckles went white.
"What does that make me to those bastards?"
He threw his phone at the wall with a loud crash, glass shattering. Fury roared through his chest. His hands were already soaked in bloodand now, they'd casually ended the project?
This boy was Accelerator, Academy City's #1 Level 5 Esper, a participant in the now-terminated Level 6 Shift Project.
"Damn damn it all!"
Accelerator tugged frantically at his white hair, unable to find anyone on whom to vent his rage. He could sense that behind these changes, there was a hidden, powerful hand at work.
Meanwhile
Back in that room, Kuroko uttered sounds that Mikoto found impossible to bear.
"Hah"
Rei Ao exhaled deeply. The outcome of "correcting" Shirai Kuroko had satisfied him.
"S-sorry Onee-sama M-my body no longer belongs to me"
Kuroko gazed at Mikoto, tears streaming, conscious of a rift that she couldn't mend.
"Hehe," Awaki Musujime chuckled from the side.
"Don't be so dramatic, Kuroko. You were the one clinging to my dear Rei Ao-sama just now."
"I!"
Kuroko tried to protest, but guilt choked off her words. Awaki merely gave a scornful glance at Kuroko's duplicity, then walked back over to Rei Ao.
"Rei Ao-sama," she said reverently, "Your power is truly unimaginable."
Rei Ao patted Awaki's head with a grin.
"That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nowwho's next?"
"I"
Mikoto was about to speak, but Awaki cut in with a mischievous smirk:
"Hehe, obviously me!"
She shot a mocking look at Mikoto, who had been barely keeping it together. Mikoto clenched her teeth. Outside, the lights of Academy City remained bright, but certain things had already changed forever.
When the faint glow of dawn finally rose, the door to Rei Ao's room opened at last. He sauntered into the living room, languid, dressed in casual clothes now. His slightly damp black hair showed he'd just showered.
"Oh, you're all here," he greeted casually. The rainbow-colored glint in his eyes slid over three women who hadn't slept a wink.
"Been waiting long?"
"Wah!!"
Index let out a little yelp and hid behind Kanzaki Kaori. She peered out from her pure-white nun's habit, awkwardly. Kanzaki's face was stiff; she hardly knew where to look. Even though Rei Ao was fully clothed, she couldn't help picturing everything, thanks to that live broadcast.
Shokuhou Misaki was trying to appear calm as she fixed her hair, but the faint tremor in her hands gave her away.
"What's with those faces?"
Rei Ao cocked an eyebrow, then realized with a chuckle, "Oh, the broadcast, yeah."
He shrugged, heading to the fridge for a can of beer.
"Don't overthink it. That's just one form of relaxation. In the chat group, it's pretty normal."
"N-normal?"
Kanzaki Kaori finally found her voicean octave higher than usual.
"All at once, doing that kind of is normal?"
Rei Ao took a swig of beer, his Adam's apple bobbing.
"When you reach my level of power, worldly morals aren't that meaningful anymore."
Turning his gaze to the cowering Index behind Kanzaki, he smirked.
"Little nun, want me to give you a firsthand lesson in the mysteries of human 'interaction'?"
"Uwah!"
Index let out a startled squeak, hiding her entire face in Kanzaki's back. Shokuhou Misaki, forcing composure, lightly tapped her chin with her remote.
"Rei Ao-san, while I'm not objecting to your private life, broadcasting that sort of content in front of us was a bit"
"Ah, sorry."
He offered an entirely insincere apology. Then he abruptly switched to a serious tone:
"But there's a more important matter now."
"Shokuhou Misakitake me to see those Misaka Sisters."
The abrupt change of topic caught the trio off-guard. Shokuhou's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Right now? But Mikotoshe"
"She won't be waking up anytime soon,"
Rei Ao interrupted.
""
Silence returned to the room. All three women could guess what he meant. Even Kurokothe perverted admirerhad been driven to the point of babbling Rei Ao's name. One could imagine how far Rei Ao had gone.
Shokuhou took a deep breath, wanting to erase those obscene memories from her mind. But for now
"What do you plan to do with them?" she asked solemnly.
Rei Ao offered a mysterious smile.
"Deal with Mikoto's troubles. Lead the way, Your Highness."
Shokuhou hesitated, then finally nodded. She headed for the door, Rei Ao following. Kanzaki Kaori and Index glanced at each other and decided to come along too, curious about what he was up to.
They took an elevator to the underground parking, then an even more hidden one. The atmosphere inside was tense. Index clung to Kanzaki, casting furtive looks at Rei Ao from time to time.
"So, um"
Index mustered her courage.
"Are Rei Ao-san and those girls in a relationship?"
Rei Ao's gaze fell on the little nun's curious eyes, and he smiled faintly.
"Mikoto is my girlfriend. The other two not yet."
"Awaki Musujime is for my own pleasure, and Shirai Kuroko is still undergoing training."
"P-pleasure? Training?"
Index's face reddened all over.
"Purely physical. Don't overthink it,"
Rei Ao said nonchalantly.
"Once you have power like mine, lifespans become extremely long. Holding onto mundane moral concerns gets boring fast."
Kanzaki Kaori couldn't hold back.
"But aren't you hurting them like that?"
"Ah, the Saint is so innocent," Rei Ao teased, shrugging.
"They're consenting."
""
He left her with no retort. Silence returned. Shokuhou Misaki's star-like eyes gleamed with deep contemplation.
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(Bonus Chapter) Chapter 695: Crossing the boundary of Life and Death!
Before long, the four arrived at a heavy metal door. After passing pupil-recognition and fingerprint scans, the door slowly opened.
"This is a secret facility under the Talent Workshop," Shokuhou explained. "Mikoto and I put the Misaka Sisters we managed to rescue here."
They passed several security gates and stepped into a massive circular hall. The lights came on, revealing the scene before them: in the center were hundreds of transparent life-support pods arranged in rows. Blue-green nutrient fluid circulated inside them, illuminating countless identical faces.
They looked almost exactly like Mikoto Misaka"Misaka Sisters," as they were known.
Inside those transparent chambers, the Sisters lay quietly in deep sleep.
"Thisthis"
Index clapped a hand over her mouth, pupils dilating.
"Guh! So many Mikoto Misakas!"
She gasped, pressing a cold hand over her lips.
Kanzaki Kaori frowned.
"What's going on with them?"
She found it hard to believe so many people could share the same face.
"They're basically clones created by the science side using Mikoto's DNA," Rei Ao explained succinctly. Kanzaki felt a surge of revulsion, akin to her disgust at necromancy-type magicians.
"So far, we've managed to rescue 157 of them," Shokuhou said, her voice calm but terrifyingly so. She stood at the main console, her starry eyes scanning the sleeping faces one by one. "They were forcibly grown through drugs, so their skeletal structure is incomplete, their internal organs failing, and their average lifespan doesn't exceed three years.
"They also have varying degrees of brain and body defects, so they can only remain in stasis."
Kanzaki's Seven Heavens Seven Swords gave a faint hum in its sheath, and the Saint looked pale.
"This is even crueler than I'd imagined."
For the first time, she realized how merciless the science side could be.
Index clutched at her habit.
"I I don't understand why people would do this to their own"
Rei Ao ran a fingertip along the console, and simultaneously all the locks on the capsules unlatched.
"Because some believed that sacrificing a few lives would achieve what they called an 'Absolute Esper,'" he said, turning to face the three women. His iridescent eyes gleamed with indescribable light.
"Today, that mistake ends."
Shokuhou seized Rei Ao's arm.
"Wait! If you wake them so suddenly, their physical defects"
"Just watch."
A faint smile played on Rei Ao's lips, brimming with otherworldly confidence. He raised his right hand, five fingers splayed. In that instant, the entire lab was flooded with rainbow-colored light. It seemed alive, flowing into each capsule to envelop every Misaka Sister.
Shokuhou's starry eyes widened to their limits as she witnessed the impossible. Those lights were reshaping bone, repairing organs, re-aligning nerve connections
"No way"
Kanzaki mumbled. As a Saint, she could sense the rules of space twisting and reconfiguring. "Is that magic?"
"Creation and regeneration magic," Rei Ao's voice echoed amid the glow.
"Something only a Magic God can wield."
No sooner had he spoken than the first Misaka Sister opened her eyes then a second, a third... In mere seconds, 157 girls were awake simultaneously. They all rose smoothly from their chambers, moving as if they hadn't been in stasis at all.
"Vital signs normal, Misaka #10032 reports."
"No anomalies detected, Misaka #10039 adds."
"Physical functions exceed standard values, Misaka #10086 exclaims"
They each displayed varying degrees of astonishment or curiosity, a clear sign that their emotional systems had been restored. The sight made Shokuhou's knees buckleshe nearly collapsed, had Kanzaki not caught her in time. The Saint's own hands were trembling as she realized she was witnessing a true "miracle."
"Are their defects really gone?"
Shokuhou asked, voice shaking like never before.
