Mugino stiffened, pupils contracting like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.
That was her biggest sore spot.
Meltdowner was powerfulat the price of extreme irritability and instability.
A rampaging stallion; lose your grip and it tramples everything, maybe even its rider.
Forcing a shutdown to avoid killing the targetthe backlash and the sense of a bridle tightened to choking made her mood foul.
Now Musujime's sharp words hit the bullseye.
"None of your business."
Mugino shot back coldly and turned away.
Musujime only stroked her chin, staring at the hand that had gathered green light.
"Poor controlyes, definitely a problem.
"But"
She suddenly smiled meaningfully.
"If it's Master, they can fix that for youlet you wield the power perfectly."
"Master?"
Mugino, Kinuhata, Frenda, even the exhausted Takitsubo all blinked, puzzled.
The word on Musujime's lips carried an odd, almost devout nuance.
Just who could be the 'Master' of a Level5 with formidable spatial powers?
Musujime merely smiled mysteriously and said no more.
"You'll find out eventually. Anyway, mission accomplishedtime to report."
She snapped her fingers.
Space warped again, enveloping Mugino's squad and the tightly bound Kouzaku.
In the group chat
MikotoMisaka: "@Rei Ao, what are you doing?"
Rei Ao: "Obviously spending time with my lovely girlfriendswhat else?"
Hugging the softness in his arms, Rei Ao smirked.
Rei Ao: "Bigger really is better."
MikotoMisaka: "?????"
Question marks filled Misaka's face.
She glanced down
Rage surged.
MikotoMisaka: "You jerk! How can you be so shameless?!"
Frieren: "Haha, 'bigger is better'true. Feels good for both sides."
Sui: "?????"
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Chapter 808: Longing for Rei Ao? Mikoto Mikasa's Tsundere strike again!
Shizue Izawa: "Why do I feel that whatFrieren just said was really strange?"
Shinoa Hiiragi: "You don't just feel itit is strange. Frieren's gotten way too dirty lately."
Frieren: "Haha, we're all friends here, right? No harm in being a little more uninhibited."
Yomogawa Ayame: "Uh, I don't really mind but Mio and the others have only just joined us."
Mio Akiyama: ""
Already beetred, she couldn't bring herself to speak.
"Bbig"
She suddenly thought of Rei Ao back then
"Uuugh!!!"
Pulling the blanket over her head, Mio still had no idea how to face the others.
MikotoMisaka: "Darn you, Rei Aoevery time I look for you, you just bully me!"
Rei Ao: "Oh? Why do you sound so jealous, Mikoto? Don't tell me you're itching all over?"
Akame: "Maybe the itch isn't in her heart but somewhere else."
MikotoMisaka: "Waaaahhh!!!"
MikotoMisaka: "Quit joking around!"
Pressing a hand to her lips, thighs clamped tight, Mikotoface scarletglared at the chat window and hurriedly changed the subject.
MikotoMisaka: "I'm saying, you're the Board Chairman of Academy Cityare you just going to loaf around and ignore the city's development?"
Rei Ao: "Heh. I trust you girls. Besides, I really don't care about Academy City; the only things I care about are you."
Frieren: "Wow, straightup romantic."
HijiriKasuga: "So heartfluttering~"
MikotoMisaka: "Uugh, II get it!"
MikotoMisaka: "Bbut if you care, why don't you"
MikoYotsuya: "Hm? Why'd you suddenly stop?"
BibiDong: "Hehe, she wants Rei Ao to pay attention to her."
Inori: "That's longing."
MikotoMisaka: "Nno it's not!"
Rei Ao: "Got it. I'll come over later, give my starving Mikoto just a tiny bit of passionate love."
MikotoMisaka: "Yyou're spouting nonsense! Llove and all thatI don't need it!"
Rei Ao: "Really? Then I won't come."
MikotoMisaka: "Huh?"
Stella: "Hmph. Totally wrapped around his finger."
Marcille: "Sscary."
"Oneesama, you"
KurokoShirai looked at her elder sister with an odd expression; Mikoto's cheeks were turning so red they were almost bleeding.
She'd read every line in the chat.
She never imagined Oneesama could be that thirsty.
Although
Kuroko shifted her legs awkwardlyshe was pretty much the same.
Ever since she'd been "broken in," there was no going back!
A ripple in space appeared.
AwakiMusujime returned with MuginoShizuri's squad and the captured, subdued Kouzaku Mitori.
AwakiMusujime: "We're back~ Mission accomplished, target taken alive."
She reported in a relaxed tone.
Every eye in the office instantly focused on them.
MikotoMisaka, MisakiShokuhou, KurokoShirai, KazariUiharu, and RuikoSaten all looked over.
Mikoto's gaze settled first on Kouzaku Mitoritattered and filthy, yet still glaring like a wounded lone wolf.
This was the culprit.
She stepped forward.
Mikoto frowned slightly, her tone probing. "Are you the one behind the bombing?"
"Name? And why destroy the research center? It was supposed to be abandoned."
Mitori, forced to kneel by Mugino's rough grip, hair in disarray and halfcovering her face, stayed silent
as if a soulless statue, ignoring Mikoto completely.
Her hollow gaze swept the spacious, luxurious office that symbolized Academy City's highest authority,
carrying deepseated hatred and icy despair.
This is the enemy's lair
Yet
when her eyes finally lifted to Mikoto Misaka's face, looking down at her
!!!
Her pupils dilated.
Time seemed to stop.
Kouzaku Mitori trembled violently, as if struck by lightning.
Her violet eyes widened to the limitfilled with disbelief, ecstasy, and a hope on the verge of collapse.
That face
The face that had appeared in her dreams countless times, smiling warmly
"Do Dolly?!!"
A hoarse, cracking cry brimming with endless longing and pain exploded like thunder in the silent office.
In everyone's stunned gazeeven Mugino's
Mitori suddenly burst forth with astonishing strength, wrenching free of the lessthantight restraint!
Like a madwoman, she flung herself at Mikoto!
KurokoShirai instantly activated her teleport.
Kuroko: "Oneesama, look out!"
She moved to intercept.
RuikoSaten shouted, "Danger!"
KazariUiharu: "Senpai!"
Hearing the cry, MisakiShokuhou's lazy expression froze; her starry eyes contracted, and the remote control slipped from her hand onto the sofa.
Electricity crackled around Mikoto the moment Mitori lunged.
She could feel the speed and force, and the overwhelming wave of sorrowand joy?
There's no hostility!
In a split second, Mikoto decided: she neither counterattacked nor dodged; she merely braced herself.
The next instant, Mitori reached her.
No attack came
instead, a trembling, desperate hug!
Mitori clung to Mikoto with all her strength, squeezing hard enough to choke her.
Face buried in Mikoto's shoulder, scalding tears soaked her collar.
Her body shook violently, whimpering like a wounded animal.
"Dolly Dolly!!!"
Again and again she cried, voice hoarse and brokenecstatic at regaining what was lost, yet full of longpentup grief.
"You're alive! You're really alive! Thank goodness truly thank goodness sob"
Dead silence filled the office.
Bewilderment appeared on many faces.
Do they know each other?
Yet Mitori was shouting Dolly, not MikotoMisaka.
For the moment, no one disturbed the fragile girl.
Only her heartrending sobs echoed through the room.
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Chapter 809: Kouzaku Mitori Story Time...
ShiraiKuroko materialized at MisakaMikoto's side.
The steel needle in her hand froze in midair; shock and confusion were written all over her face.
MuginoShizuri, still halftwisted from having her arm shaken off, frowned deeply, her eyes full of puzzlement.
KinuhataSaiai and FrendaSeivelun stared at each other, completely at a loss.
TakitsuboRik raised her head lazily to watch, a thoughtful look in her eyes.
MusujimeAwaki's playful smile disappeared.
Something is clearly out of the ordinary.
MisakaMikoto stood rigid.
The sudden hug and the shower of tears had caught her completely off guard.
She could feel this unfamiliar girl trembling violently in her arms, feel the scorching tears soaking into her clothes.
The sheer joy erupting from utter despair felt so real that, for a moment, she even forgot to push the girl away.
Does she know Dolly?!
At the same time ShokuhMisaki had lost all her usual queenlike composure.
She shot up from the sofa.
Golden hair swayed; the color drained from her exquisite face.
Her starbright eyes narrowed at KanzariMitori, who was clinging to MisakaMikoto.
KanzariMitori clutched Mikoto as if a drowning person had seized the last piece of driftwood.
Her sobs were gutwrenchingan explosive mix of regained ecstasy and longsuppressed grief.
Scalding tears quickly drenched Mikoto's shoulder.
"Dolly you're alive. That's wonderful wonderful"
She repeated the words incoherently.
Her arms squeezed Mikoto so tightly that Mikoto could barely breathe.
Her whole body shook with the force of her emotions.
Mikoto remained stiff, hands hovering in midair, not knowing what to do.
"Enough!"
ShokuhMisaki's voice cut through the room, colder than anyone had ever heard it, instantly drowning out Mitori's cries.
Gold blazed in her starry eyes; an invisible psychic ripple spread outward, locking precisely onto Mitori.
Mitori's body went rigid, as though someone had pressed a pause button.
The raging tide of emotions that threatened to tear her apart was forcibly smoothed and sorted by a powerful yet gentle mental force.
Her arms slackened; her body sagged.
Yet Shokuh's mindpower, like invisible hands, held her upright.
Her ragged breathing steadied.
The joy and despair in her eyes drained away, leaving only emptiness and bewilderment.
Dirty cheeks were streaked with drying tears.
"Everyoneout."
Shokuh's voice returned to its usual syrupy sweetness, but the iron command beneath it made the air itself tighten.
Her gaze swept across the room,
finally resting on MisakaMikoto with an unreadable complexity.
ShiraiKuroko looked to Mikoto at once. "Oneesama"
Mikoto drew a deep breath and nodded to her and the others.
"Kuroko, take everyone outside first."
"Uiharu, Satenplease."
"Mugino, the rest of you, get some rest. Thanks for the help."
Her tone was gently reassuring.
Mugino curled her lip but said nothing, turning first toward the door.
Kinuhata and Frenda followed at once, Frenda glancing back curiously.
Takitsubo drifted along at the rear.
MusujimeAwaki cast a thoughtful look at Shokuh and Mikoto, then vanished into a spatial ripple.
Though clearly unwilling, Shirai obeyed Mikoto's order and left with a worried Uiharu and Saten.
The heavy doors closed without a sound, sealing off the outside clamor.
The vast office now held only Mikoto, Shokuh, and KanzariMitorisitting vacanteyed on the sofa, her emotions temporarily calmed by Shokuh's ability.
Shokuh withdrew most of her mental pressure.
Mitori swayed slightly.
The hollowness in her eyes began to focus, yet the bonedeep sorrow and exhaustion clung to her.
She looked up blankly.
The first thing she saw was MisakaMikoto standing in front of her.
Mikoto looked at Mitori's shattered state, feelings churning inside her.
She smoothed her rumpled clothes and tried to keep her voice calm and gentle.
"Are you all right?"
Mitori did not answer.
Her gaze traced Mikoto's face inch by inch, as though confirming something.
Chestnutbrown short hair, delicate features, resolute brows
So alike!
Almost identical to the girl who once smiled at her in the sunlight, deep in memory.
But
This person's eyes were firmer, her bearing more mature, an air of steadiness earned through storms.
Her Dolly
Had always been so innocent, full of curiosity about the world and a hint of dependence.
"You're not her"
Mitori's voice was harshlike sandpaperthick with despair and selfmockery.
"Dolly would never have eyes like that would never wear a uniform like that"
She lowered her head to her own dirty, tattered coat,
then glanced at Mikoto's crisp, authoritative uniform; the last spark in her eyes went out,
leaving only dead, ashen gray.
"Yeah what was I thinking"
"Dolly's dead long dead"
Her voice trailed off, softer and softer,
finally dissolving into silent sobs.
She curled up, as if trying to vanish into the dust.
Something tugged hard at Mikoto's heart.
She knelt down,
looked Mitori in the eye, and gently took her cold, trembling hands.
"You knew Dolly? Could you tell me? About herand about you?"
Her voice was earnest, concerned.
Mitori's head snapped up.
Bloodshot violet eyes bored into Mikoto, burning with resentment and anger.
"Tell you?"
"What else do you want me to tell you?!"
"Tell you how Dolly was treated as a test specimenthrown away like garbage by you highandmighty people?!"
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Chapter 810: Kouzaku Mitori Story Time (2)
ShokuhMisaki's brows knitted; a flash of pain flickered across her starbright eyes.
Yet she said nothingonly sent out another gentle pulse of mental energy, helping KozakuMitori pull her emotions back from the brink.
Under Shokuh's soothing influence, Mitori's heaving chest gradually stilled.
The frenzy and hatred in her eyes ebbed, replaced by deep sorrow.
She lowered her head and looked at the hand MisakaMikoto was holdingthe same way those hands had once held Dolly's cold,pale hand.
"My name is KozakuMitori."
Her voice was low and hoarse, thick with exhaustion.
"Dolly was my only friend in the Talent Workshop research facility."
"Talent Workshop!"
MisakaMikoto's eyes flew widethat was!
She glanced at Shokuh, who merely shook her head.
"Mmhmm"
Mitori's gaze drifted off into memory.
"It was cold thereeverything white, the smell of disinfectant everywhere.
The researchers looked at us like specimens under a microscope.
Only Dolly was different. She always smiled at me, so warmlike a little sun even though she was almost never free.
Her body was weak terribly weak.
They called her a precious original sample, but I knew she was just a clone for some project."
Bitterness laced her words.
