Looking at the small screen of the mobile phone, it was Mikoto Misaka, Shirai hurriedly turned his head to look at the men on the ground, they didn't seem to have woken up yet, but if they were accidentally overheard in conversation, they might leave unnecessary trouble, and the problem was that they couldn't leave the scene casually for personal reasons. After some struggle, Shirai decided to put his hand in his mouth as if he were whispering, and pressed the call button.

"Ah, Kuroko......? The reception doesn't seem very good, where are you now? ”

"Huh? Belch...... A place where it is not very convenient to confide in others. ”

"Huh? Oh, you're still working? I'm sorry to interrupt your work. ”

"It's okay, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, since you're still working, forget it, I heard from the senior sister, the housekeeper is likely to launch a raid today, I originally wanted you to help me hide my personal belongings in the room."

"Huh? Sister, you're not in the dormitory right now? ”

"Well, yes, then I'll ask someone else, I'll ask her to take your personal belongings by the way, okay?"

"Ah...... Miscellaneous...... What the? Sister...... Sister! Do you want to ask someone else ......? Please wait a minute, sister! Please don't take away my right to accept the hug reward! I'll be back to the dorm as soon as possible! ”

“…… Who told you there was such a thing as a hug reward? Besides, aren't you still working? But it seems to be raining tonight, so if you don't want to get wet, come back from your duties, bye-bye. ”

The other party ruthlessly cut off the call.

Shirai looked at his phone in a daze, feeling as if he had been abandoned, and his heart was devastated.

"Dah."

At this moment, a very light footstep came into my ears.

[Ah...... By the way, I was so busy fighting just now that I forgot to pull up the blockade that forbade entry. Shirai sat on his suitcase and thought nonchalantly.

In the next moment, the touch that supported the weight suddenly disappeared, as if he had accidentally slipped off the chair, and he couldn't feel the weight of his body for a moment, Shirai's gaze quickly flipped, and his back fell towards the filthy ground, and just as the pain of gently hitting the ground came from his back, he saw the quadrangular night sky cut by the building and the building in front of him.

What ......? 】

Shirai's first reaction was to struggle to get up, but he immediately noticed that something was wrong, Shirai reached out to the side and touched it, but he couldn't touch anything, and the suitcase that he used as a chair to sit on had disappeared without a trace.

It's like disappearing out of thin air, like space moving.

【Spatial ...... Mobile ......】

This sudden state of affairs made Shirai's mind blank, knowing that something was happening, but his thoughts were still blurry.

Just when she faintly felt the danger......

"Boom!"

On the right shoulder of Kuroko Shirai, who was lying upside down in the sky, something appeared.

"Quack ......!"

There was a feeling of pain in the shoulders, a feeling of severing tissues inside the body, and a heavy sound that echoed throughout the body instead of through the ears.

Looking down, a sharp piece of metal pierced through the short-sleeved shirt and nailed into the flesh, looking like an extremely thick iron wire, but the front end was swirling like a spring, and the tail had a white ceramic grip.

【Wine ...... Bottle opener? 】

Shirai Kuroko tried her best to keep her head in confusion in pain calm, and she used spatial movement, moving only a few centimeters, but her body that fell to the ground rotated ninety degrees. In this way, it is equivalent to standing up in an instant.

The thick liquid fell to the ground with a ticking sound.

A sight is happily witnessing all this.

Kuroko Shirai turned her head to look at the people in the laneway.

There was a young girl standing there.

Slightly taller than Shirai, his hair is tied in two bunches behind his head, he is wearing a suit-style student uniform, but it is a winter uniform, the suit-style uniform jacket is not worn, but draped over the shoulders, and the buttons are not buttoned, there is no clothes inside the uniform jacket, the upper body is bare, only there is a pale pink strip of cloth like underwear near the chest, wrapped like a bandage, and a belt hangs from the waist, but it does not have the effect of fixing the skirt, it is just an ornament, and the material of the belt is not leather, but composed of many metal pieces, There is a clumsy ring on it, and a black metal cylinder with a length of more than 40 centimeters and a diameter of about 3 centimeters is inserted, which is a military flashlight that doubles as a batons.

It should be a high school student, Shirai boldly guessed, although it is unreliable to judge age by appearance, but for junior high school students, there is an invisible wall between junior high school students and high school students, and the difference is very obvious.

There was a white suitcase beside the girl, the one that had just sat in Shirai.

"Sure enough, it's space moving? But ......"

[She didn't touch the suitcase, did she move behind my back first, and then move back to its original position with the suitcase?] No, but ......]

Shirai's head sent a warning signal, telling himself that it wasn't just the ability to move in space.

The girl's laughter brought Shirai, who was almost in deep thought, to his senses.

"Oh, you've noticed? It's worthy of being a person of the same type of ability, and I can see through it at once, but I'm a little different from you. ”

When Shirai heard this, he frowned.

Same type, but a little different.

"My ability is [Coordinate Movement], unlike your third-rate ability, my [Movement] doesn't need to touch objects with my hands, how is it, it's amazing, isn't it?" The girl said lightly.

She rolled her eyes at the man in the suit who fell behind Bai Jing, and then said: "Then again, these guys are really useless, in fact, I have long known that they are useless, so I only asked them to do chores such as recycling boxes, but I didn't expect them to be able to do this well." ”

It's useless, guys, recycling, chores, confessions.

From these words, it can be inferred that there is some kind of relationship between the girl and the man in the suit.

Shirai warned her, "Since you did such a thing, you should know my identity, right?" ”

The armband, which marked his identity, had been stained black by the blood that had flowed from the wound.

"Of course it's clear, so I can start with peace of mind, Miss Kuroko Shirai, a member of the Discipline Commission, if it's not clear, how can I easily show my hole cards?"

Shirai didn't understand what was in the suitcase, and he didn't understand what the intentions of the person in front of him were, but Shirai knew very well in his heart that the girl in front of him who was smiling at her injuries would definitely not let herself leave easily.

She is the enemy.

That's right, the person in front of me is not an ordinary girl, but an enemy.

"Tsk!"

Shirai opened her legs hard, and due to the reaction force, her skirt flipped up, revealing her thighs, and she had a belt tied around her thighs, and dozens of metal arrows stuck in her head, just like the bullet belt on the sharpshooter in the western, this is her ultimate move, using space to move, a special move that can move metal arrows to the target in an instant.

However, the girl's movements are one step faster than Shirai's.

Slender wrists reach out from the blazer-style jacket draped over the shoulders, quickly pulling out the military flashlight clumsy on the metal belt around the waist.

After flipping the flashlight in her hand like a baton, she pointed at Shirai, and then she raised the tip of the flashlight slightly, making a gesture as if beckoning.

Change has happened.

The men who had been knocked down by Shirai and tied their hands disappeared in an instant and appeared in front of the girl's eyes, and ten unconscious men huddled together like shields in the air.

However......

"How naïve!!" Without hesitation, Shirai fired the metal arrow from his thigh.

Countless arrows crossed the space without a sound, appearing directly on the spot where the girl was standing, and since it was not advancing in a straight line, the men who stood in the way could not stop it, and Shirai's attack targeted the girl's shoulders and feet, and kindly avoided the joints.

Spatial movement is not a straight line.,And point-to-point movement.,So it doesn't matter if there's a hostage in the middle.,Arrows that appear out of thin air will pierce the soft muscles directly from the inside of the girl's body.,This attack is not affected by the material of the object.,The basic principle of spatial movement is that the "moving object" will squeeze out the "object at the target position".

So, there's no reason why Shirai's attack won't penetrate the girl's body.

But......

"Ah......h

Shirai couldn't help but let out a stunned sound.

When the men who appeared in the air fell to the ground due to gravity, the girl was no longer in her original position.

She had taken about three or four steps back and was sitting on the white suitcase, stilting gracefully on her legs, as if she had just sat on the suitcase, kicking her foot to the ground and letting the rollers glide backwards for some distance.

The arrows released by Shirai floated in the void and fell to the ground one after another, just like the unconscious men.

Spatial movement is point-to-point movement, so as long as the target leaves its original position slightly, the attack will not be able to hit, and it turns out that those men are not armor or shields, but just tools used to cover Shirai's vision.

The girl stilted her legs on the suitcase, shook the military flashlight in her hand, pointed the arrow at the ground with the front end, and swung it upwards like a fishing rod.

One of the arrows that fell weakly to the ground after being released by Shirai appeared in the girl's other palm.

[Here we are—!!] 】

Shirai was engrossed in watching, but the girl threw the metal arrow in a sideways throwing position, and did not use the space to move (or rather "coordinate movement" as she called it).

The arrows flew accurately towards the center of Shirai's body in a three-dimensional forward path, and there was no way to escape from the narrow alleyway.

Although it is possible to escape into the other side of the wall, which is the building, by means of spatial movement, Shirai does not know the situation inside the building, and if he casually moves in and overlaps with the people in the building, it will cause a terrible disaster.

But in the face of straight arrows, there is no point in fleeing backwards.

Therefore, Shirai chose to launch a spatial movement forward, past the arrow, and appeared in front of the girl's eyes, Shirai clenched his fists, and in addition to trying to avoid the attack, he also planned to hit the enemy in front of him with a counterattack.

"Boom!"

A metal arrow was inserted into Shirai's flank from behind.

“…… Yes......!? ”

Shirai felt a tremor swell on the inside of his body, and his whole body seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, his strength was lost instantly, his legs went weak, and he fell to the ground.

The place where he fell was right at the feet of the girl sitting on the suitcase.

"Didn't I say that?"

The girl sat still, but changed her stilted feet and smiled:

"My coordinates move differently than yours and don't need to touch objects."

Listening to the mocking voice, Shirai Kuroko couldn't even raise his head.

The girl's approach is actually very simple.

First, she throws a metal arrow with her hand, and at the moment when Shirai dodges, she also moves the coordinates of the arrow in the air, causing the arrow to appear on the inside of Shirai's body.

The castration of the metal arrow did not decrease in the slightest, but the direction was cleverly rotated one hundred and eighty degrees, and it continued to drill deep into the abdomen in Shirai Kuroko's body for a while before finally stopping, and the terrible friction sound echoed from the inside of the body.

"Boom!" The sound of tearing through the air rang out continuously.

When I looked at it, all the metal arrows that had fallen to the ground were now in the girl's empty palm.

"It's a shame, you're a student at Tokiwadai Junior High School, right? I originally thought that Mikoto Misaka was not enough person to involve her subordinates or juniors in private affairs if she was forced to do so, but then again, when she stopped [that experiment], it didn't seem that she did it on her own, it seems that she has already let it go, right? ”

When Shirai Kuroko heard this, his whole body shook violently.

The body, which was shaking in pain and gradually losing sensation, began to tremble for a completely different reason.

"You say...... What the? Shirai gathered her spirit, lifted her head, gritted her teeth, and did her best, just like looking up at the sky from the abyss underground.

"Why...... Will the sister's name be mentioned? "Shirai's question, the girl did not ignore it.

For her, the badly injured Shirai no longer seemed to be a threat, and in order to appreciate Shirai's remorseful expression, she preferred to abandon the most appropriate course of action and respond to Shirai's questions unnecessarily.

"Huh?" The girl stomped on her feet, exaggeratedly pounded her mouth with her hand, and said, "Don't you know? Exploited without knowing anything...... Probably not, right? Tokiwadai Junior High School's super electromagnetic cannon shouldn't be that kind of person. ”

But the girl didn't answer Shirai's question after all.

Shirai squeezed out the last of his strength to ask the question, but only in exchange for the girl's self-satisfied answer.

"Don't you think that's too much of a coincidence? After these wastes snatched the suitcase, they happened to encounter a big traffic jam, as if it had been calculated a long time ago, and the power distribution of the traffic lights was negligent...... You haven't thought about why? Don't you know what kind of superpowers that Tokiwadai Middle School ace has? ”

Kuroko Shirai stared at the top of her head, which was close in front of her but seemed to be far away.

Mysterious suitcases, and the enemies that sit on them.

"...... the hell you have"

There was a sound like vomiting blood at any moment, coming from the gap between the lips that were almost standing together.

Mai Trin's lip balm is now full of anvil thickness.

“…… What are you talking about......"

"You don't understand what Remnant is. Maybe Silicorundum will confuse you. ”

The girl happily shook the metal arrow in her hand with a clanging sound.

"I think about it, the wreckage of [Treemap's Designer], you should understand that, right? Even if it is damaged to the point of being broken, it is still a supercomputer computing hub with infinite possibilities. ”

Kuroko Shirai was taken aback.

"No...... No way, isn't that thing floating in satellite orbit......? ”

This incomparably absurd truth made Shirai unbelievable. Because the "treemap designer" is the world's strongest analog machine that the school city is proud of.,It should be placed in an artificial satellite in the universe.。 Humans living on the surface of the earth are unlikely to do anything to it even if they do everything they can, and if it does malfunction (or even be destroyed), the news will definitely be in the news.

But......

The suitcase that the girl was sitting in was indeed made to respond to the environment outside the spaceship.

And the date written on the delivery slip,It's the day the space shuttle in the school city returns to Earth.。

Also, organizations around the world are now rushing to the universe.

Shirai's head is in disarray, and the girl takes a photo out of her skirt pocket and pops it with her fingers. The photo spun like a frisbee and landed in front of Shirai's eyes.

"This is the attached photo in the report of the fall inside the school city.,Ordinary people can't see it.。

In the photo, you can see the pitch-black space and the huge Earth. In front of the blue planet, which has a gentle arc, levitates the wreckage of an artificial satellite that has cracked into pieces. Shirai has seen this shape of an artificial satellite in news reports and brochures.

"Impossible......"

Just as Shirai was stunned and speechless, the photo suddenly disappeared and appeared between the girl's index and middle fingers. It must have been recovered by her with "coordinate movement".

"[The treemap designer] has long been reduced to fragments, which is why so many people want to fight for the [wreckage] floating in the orbit of the satellite." The girl seemed to see something in Shirai's expression, and said, "Mikoto Misaka is really pitiful, her nightmare ended by someone destroying the [Tree Designer], and now everyone wants to fix it again, once this thing is repaired, [Experiment] is likely to start again." Well, it's not like I can't relate to her anxiety. ”

The girl said the name again, causing Shirai's abdominal muscles to tense.

Mikoto Misaka.

Shirai didn't understand what Mikoto had to do with this matter, no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out, although he was in a fog, Shirai's eyes staring at the girl became sharper, and just Mikoto Misaka's name coming out of the mouth of this dangerous person was already a big trouble.

"Oh, oops, you don't seem to know anything, so you don't know about the [experiment], but you should have seen some clues. For example...... Think about it,Half a month ago,Didn't a storm blow in the school city without warning.,It caused a lot of commotion at that time.。 ”

The girl said happily, but Shirai couldn't answer a word.

Shirai was so anxious that he felt like he had a fire burning in his head, but he couldn't figure out what the girl was talking about.

"You still don't understand? I've said so much, you still don't understand? On August 21, this special day, did anything unusual happen around your life? ”

Suddenly hearing such a date, Shirai couldn't remember anything at all, the 21st of last month, it wasn't even a special holiday.

[What the hell is she...... What are you talking about? Is it just some nonsense ...... meaningless? 】

Shirai felt quite suspicious in his heart. But there is a certain regularity in the girl's words, which is really not like casual nonsense.

"Well, if you can find out the truth, I can make you a friend."

The girl said with a smile, but Shirai was in no mood to answer with her at all.

Chapped lips and the smell of oozing blood.

Shirai only knows two things.

First, the girl in front of you must not be allowed to leave safely.

Second, the contents of a suitcase should never be given to anyone.

Kuroko Shirai reached into her skirt and pulled out the only remaining arrow from her thigh belt. There are two in total. To stimulate her willpower, she clutched the arrow tightly and let out a senseless roar towards the sky.

In contrast, the girl sat on the suitcase from beginning to end, she stilted gracefully, shook the large number of arrows in her hand to jingle, and then turned on the power of the military flashlight that also served as a baton, flicked her wrist like a musician holding a baton, drew a circle of halos, and looked down on the weak man crouching at her feet gently and proudly.

All of a sudden, everything was silent.

On the road outside the exit of the roadway, the sound of the car's engine was overpowered.

As if agreed, the two girls attacked at the same time.

It took less than a second to decide the winner.

Metal arrows flew all over the sky, the girl's clear blood splattered everywhere, and screams echoed in the air.

Shirai Kuroko fell to the ground with a thud, making a sound reminiscent of a dirty cloth bag falling to the ground.

When the wind rose, the girl strolled away, leaving the Commissariat of Discipline alone in the alleyway, where no one could pursue her.

There is no use of coordinates to move, as if to enjoy the sound of your footsteps.

With a white suitcase.

【Sister ......】

Shirai gritted his teeth in remorse, and kept apologizing in his heart, such a result is really indescribable.

She knew exactly what to do.

But the young Shirai Kuroko failed to do even a single thing.