Railgun 149-B

Chapter 149 Part 2

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Title: Chapter 149 (Part 2): Crack Troops
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
		Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
		Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
Text: The tides have turned!!
SFX: Rumble
SF: What happened?
SF: A gas explosion maybe?

SF: I will send someone to check.
SFX: Beep beep
Leader: No, wait.
Leader: The other unit is calling.

Leader: Report.
Leader: We can be right there.

SFX: Roar...
Leader: What? You request we abort the mission?

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SF: Believe it or not, it appears real.

SFX: I checked with Judgment HQ and she is one of theirs.
Ruri: See, I told you.

Ruri: But who are you guys?
Ruri: You're not Anti-Skill.

SF: Heh
SF: We are Spark Signal.
SFX: Slap
SF: We are not officially known.

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SF: Our mission is to eliminate anyone plotting to leak Academy City's technological data.

SF: We are currently pursuing a certain organization...
SF: and we arrested their courier the other day.

SF: He was too low-level to know anything leading back to the main group...
SF: but he had a list of Academy City students they hoped to recruit.

SF: Konoe Nagisa's name was on the list.
SF: They must have thought her power would make for a good spy.

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SF: She showed interest and contacted low-level members a few times.

SF: She was set to meet a top-level member today...
SF: so we intervened.

SF: The plan was to get the top-level member to give us enough information to take down the entire organization...

Ruri: But when we met with her, you mistook us for that organization?

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SF: This was our mistake, but should we really give her any more classified information?

SF: Personally, I'm still not convinced she's with Judgment.

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SF: Why would a rule keeper break all the rules in how she dresses?

Ruri: If I was pretending to be Judgment, it would make even less sense to dress like this.
Ruri(outside): No one would buy it.
SF: She has a point.

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Leader: So the Electromaster was that Level 5?
Leader: No wonder we had so much trouble.

Leader: We failed to take down our real target...
Leader: but we will track them down eventually if we recruit a Telepath's help.

Leader: So I see this as excellent combat experience for us.

Leader: We must update our combat doctrine for high-level espers.
Leader: Prepare a simulation as soon as we get back.

SF: R-roger.
SFX: Click

SF: We are Spark Signal.
SF: We must be able to resist even a Level 5 using our technology.

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SF: But...how is a single unit supposed to stop...
SF: someone with warship-level firepower combined with a high level of adaptability?

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Mikoto: You could have been dismembered!!

Kessai: How was I supposed to know about the wires!?

Kessai: Wasn't that a treasure!?
Kessai: Is your love for Gekota that weak!?
Mikoto: Of course I treasured it! But...
Mikoto: Your life matters more to me than a hairpin...
SFX: Mutter mutter

Kessai: Huh? Speak up so I can hear you.
Mikoto: Why are you mad that I was worried for you!?

Both: Ruri-senpai, talk some sense into her!!
Ruri: Why me!?

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Ruri: Hmm

Ruri: From what I've heard, Kiyoshi-chan was careless.
Mikoto: Right, right
Kessai: Hmph.

Ruri: But she did it for you, Mikoto-chan...
Ruri: so you don't have to get after her.
Mikoto: Uh...

Mikoto: B-but!
Mikoto: I'm just mad that she would...
Mikoto: risk her life for someone like me.

Kessai: You say that!
Kessai: But you're the one that made an enemy of the cliques when I was attacked!

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SFX: Argue argue
Mikoto: Th-that has nothing to do with this!!
Kessai: It does to!!
Ruri: I shouldn't have bothered.
SFX: Hobble hobble

SFX: Clunk
Nagisa: Ah.
SFX: Clatter

Ruri: I'll get that.
Nagisa: Oh, thank you.

Nagisa: Such a kind girl.
Ruri: Oh.

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Ruri: Konoe Nagisa...
Ruri(small): It's scary how fast you change how you look.

Nagisa: Ha ha.

Nagisa: I am wanted, after all.
SFX: Tense...

Ruri: So why risk approaching me?
Ruri(outside): Watch your step, ma'am.
Nagisa: Yes, well...

Nagisa: I wanted to apologize for all the trouble.

Nagisa: I don't know what I was thinking trying to be an industrial spy.

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Nagisa: I can't get into Tokiwadai, much less become the Majesty.
Nagisa: I can't accomplish anything.
Nagisa: I was afraid even my branch family would abandon me.

Nagisa: So I tried to do something in the city's underworld.
Nagisa: It was a stupid dream.
Ruri: Well.
Ruri: You weren't cut out for it.

Ruri: Is that what you wanted to tell me?

Nagisa: No, I wanted to thank you for letting me go.

Ruri: Thank me?

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Nagisa: Yes, that's right.

Nagisa: Yayoi and my generation weren't the only Takebayashi adoptees.

Nagisa: The Takebayashi family wanted to keep the Majesty in the family.

Nagisa: The other girls were all taken into the branch families...
Nagisa: but the original plan is still in effect.

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Nagisa: The ones currently at Tokiwadai...

Nagisa: are the two taken by the Sha and Kessai families.

Nagisa: That's all I wanted you to know.

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Nagisa: Goodbye. I doubt we will ever see each other again.

Mikoto: Ruri-senpai!
SFX: Gasp

Mikoto: I forgot you were questioning people for Judgment.
Ruri: Oh! Um...
Ruri: I'm more or less done with that now.

Ruri: But a much bigger problem is currently underway.
Mikoto: Ehh!?

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SFX: Clap clap clap

Girl: What a wonderful inauguration!

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Girl: You even look like you belong at the top of Tokiwadai.
Sha: Thank you.

Girl: And that emblem!

Girl: You are the only person in Tokiwadai allowed to wear that symbol of glory!

Sha: Yes.
Sha: It is a sobering experience.

Sha: Because it contains the thoughts of all the past Majesties.
Sha: Right?
Text: An ambition achieved!!

Box: To be continued next issue. The January Issue goes on sale Monday, November 27!!