Mental Out 28

Chapter 28

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Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
Text: What awaits Kokuchou after she was called out here?
Title: Chapter 28

Kokuchou: I'm here, Kamino-chan.
Kokuchou: Where are you?

Kokuchou: Oh, dear.
Kokuchou: It takes guts to summon someone and then show up late.
Kokuchou(small): How annoying.

SFX: Emerge

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SFX: Appear

Kokuchou: Hwuh?

Girl: Sorry, but I'm not Kamino.
Girl: I'm the one who called you here!

Kokuchou: Ehh? But this was from Kamino-chan's account.
Kokuchou: Are you a liar?
Kokuchou(small): How could you?
SFX: Poke poke

Girl: Our clique is in big trouble thanks to you.
Kokuchou: Sigh.

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Girl: We're working hard to regain people's trust...
Sashes: Kamino Clique
Girl: but it isn't working.

Girl: Personally, I hate Kamino...
Girl: but I like the clique itself a fair bit.

Girl: So I curled up in my blanket...
Girl: and thought all night about it.

Kamino: Yawn

Girl: And I realized something.

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SFX: Hold up

Girl: It's all your fault.

Girl: Kokuchou! I'm going to feel a lot better...
Girl: after blowing you away along with my worries!!

Kokuchou: Maybe don't be so honest?
Kokuchou: You could at least say you're exacting justice.

Girl: Oh, shut up!

05

SFX: Squeeze...
SFX: Gather

Kokuchou: Blaze Sheep, was it?
Kokuchou: Her power fills the fibers with oxygen to create a flying bomb.
Kokuchou: Hard to forget after the scene she caused.

Kokuchou: She probably has to touch it to use her power...
Kokuchou: so I just have to watch her hands.

Kokuchou: And if it takes so long to charge up, she should just do it in advance.
Kokuchou: God, this is taking forever.

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Girl: I have to touch things to use Blaze Sheep.
Girl: But that only means I have to be touching some kind of fiber.

Girl: Even if...
Girl: it's only some yarn dyed so it blends into the background!!

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Girl: You had fallen for my trap...
Girl: the moment you set foot in this park!

SFX: Boooo

08

SFX: Stop

SFX: Swirl
Kokuchou: Hm,
Kokuchou: hmm,
Kokuchou: hmm, hm♪

SFX: Hover

09

Girl: Huh!? She has a barrier power?

Kokuchou: Hm, hmm,
SFX: Bwoosh
Kokuchou: Hmm, hm, hmm♪

Kokuchou: Synthesize Grid.
Kokuchou: Drive.

SFX: Fwoosh

SFX: Crack

SFX: Boom
Girl: Kyah

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SFX: Thud
SFX: Slide
SFX: Bounce
SFX: Bounce

Girl: Ow...
Girl(thought): What was that?

SFX: Crack
Kokuchou: An explosion in a non-vacuum will travel through the air.
Kokuchou: By binding Synthesize Grid to the air's molecules...
Kokuchou: I gained control of most of the explosion's energy...
Kokuchou: which I compressed and then released.

SFX: Step step

SFX: Press
Girl: Uh...

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Kokuchou: Did you think you could win with a surprise attack?

Kokuchou: You didn't give the commissioner my name, did you?
Kokuchou: That's giving her a lot of trouble.
Kokuchou(small): That twintails girl.

Kokuchou: Why didn't you?

Girl: Get better taste in underwear!

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Girl: Gweh
SFX: Wham

Kokuchou: Did the Kamino Clique fake it or did the Kokuchou Clique set it up!?
Kokuchou: That would have made for a much better newspaper headline.
Kokuchou: But you didn't go that route.

Kokuchou: That weird pride makes you look stupid.

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SFX: Grab

Girl: Gh...
SFX: Tug
Kokuchou: But I can get some entertainment out of your foolhardiness.
Kokuchou: Synthesize Grid: Lesson 1.

Girl: Synthesize Grid?

Kokuchou: Here, you dropped these.
Kokuchou: "How could you abandon us, mommy?"
SFX: Float

Kokuchou: Sorry, but your mommy is violent and has no common sense.
Kokuchou: She walked out on you, leaving you with daddy.
Kokuchou: "Ehh!?"

Kokuchou: So let's get back at mommy, shall we?
Kokuchou: Boom♪
SFX: Bump

Girl: ...!

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Kokuchou: Huh?
Kokuchou: They aren't exploding
SFX: Rub rub

SFX: Grab

SFX: Gatherrrr
SFX: Squeeze
Girl: You idiot!
Girl: Those are pure cotton, so they won't explode!

Girl: Unless they're ignited like this!!

SFX: Click

SFX: Crackle

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SFX: Kaboom

SFX: Roll roll roll

Girl: Cough
Girl: Cough
Girl: Cough!!

Girl: Ouch!!
Girl: I had it eject to the front like reactive armor...
Girl: but the recoil is still pretty bad!

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Girl: After Blaze Sheep loads the oxygen, I use static electricity for the ignition...
Girl: but you don't get much static without a combination of fibers far apart in the triboelectric series.
Girl: That's why those two didn't explode.
Chart:
Left arrow: Tend toward a positive charge
Middle: Triboelectric Series
Right arrow: Tend toward a negative charge
Chart labels(left to right):
Acrylic
Polyester
Acetate
Hemp
Cotton
Human Skin
Silk
Rayon
Wool
Nylon
Parenthetical: (The farther apart the combination, the easier they produce static electricity)

Girl: That means a Blaze Sheep made with only one kind of fiber is safe.
Girl: I can even wear it like this.
Girl: It's made from the same high-quality cotton as my uniform.

Girl: But it has the same power as a shaped charge and a direct hit can even blow away a tank.

Girl: I didn't mean to hit her directly...
Girl: but this is what happens when you underestimate people, Kokuchou!!

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Kokuchou: Hm, hm, hmm♪

Kokuchou: So the decoy yarn balls were meant to distract me.
Kokuchou: I fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

Kokuchou: So you do have some brains after all.
Kokuchou: Sigh, and after I set my hair.

Girl: She's a monster...

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Kokuchou: Has a fly ever gotten so annoying...
Kokuchou: you got all worked up about it swatting it?
Kokuchou: And you got so mad you could only think about one thing?

Kokuchou: "Die."
SFX: Gather gather

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Kokuchou: Lesson 2
Kokuchou: The air's molecules aren't even necessary.
Kokuchou: Synthesize Grid's unparalleled bonding can reach the supersonic blast and devour it.

Kokuchou: And Lesson 3.
Kokuchou: Synthesize Grid has a limitless ability to produce.
SFX: Roarrr

Kokuchou: It would be a letdown if you died too quick now.
Kokuchou: So make sure to put up a fight for me.

Kokuchou: Cling to your filthy life like an actual fly.
Text: The absolute victor's wings will swat the fly!!