water wings

Mikoto looked around.
More accurately, she looked at the air around her.
(Water vapor...? I see. Because such a large amount of seawater was evaporated all at
once, the water molecules are floating in the air having been turned to particles!!)
And a faint force existed bridging the space between the tiny particles.
It was static electricity.
(The bonds between the tiny particles are being realized using electricity... The laws are
a little different, but if I use my equations for gathering iron sand into a sword using
magnetism...)
It would not have worked with mere water molecules.
Mikoto could not control water or mist.

However, the “proportions” of the water molecules drifting through the air may have
been optimal or the sea wind mixing with the water vapor may have altered the
electrical conductivity. Mikoto did not know the details herself, but she could probably
manipulate the huge amounts of water molecules floating in the air around her.
(Once the water vapor cools, the water molecules will join together returning them to
mere drops of water. And who knows how long the conductivity will remain at this
perfect level. This is my only chance. But if I can acquire the output of a rocket even for a
short period of time...!!)
It was an odd feeling like thinly, thinly stretching out.
Mikoto did not fight it.
“...!!”
She greatly switched out the direction her power was headed effectively “grabbing” the
huge amount of water molecules drifting through the air. By taking her equations for
creating the iron sand sword as a base and switching out some of the values and symbols,
she newly built up equations to use static electricity to control the water molecules in the
air. The water vapor in the ten-kilometer area the downpour of light had hit all
compressed toward Misaka Mikoto.
That alone was not her fuel.
That aggregation of the water molecules in the air was nothing more than a catalyst
connecting the electricity and seawater together.
After putting a large cushion between them, she sent her true order to the seawater
spread out around her via the huge amount of water molecules. It was like creating a
chain reaction from a single phenomenon.
She had everything she needed.
Mikoto looked up into the sky.
She then focused her power on her forehead and sent out the final instruction.
A tremendous roar rang out.
Bluish-white wings of burner-like light appeared from Mikoto’s back.
Technically, that was inaccurate.
What rose up from near Mikoto’s back were wings that looked like blades made of water.
Also, bluish-white eruptions that looked like laser blades were being emitted from the
side of the wings.

At the same time as the water wings gave Mikoto lift, they also took on the heat
transferred from the burner. They would normally evaporate in a few seconds due to
that, but seawater was spread out over the entire area. If she constantly replenished
from there, it was no problem.
Carried by the two wings, Mikoto slowly left the ground while holding Shirai in both
arms.
The Xiuhcoatl wreckage sank into the ocean as if it had been waiting for that moment.
She could no longer go back and land.
“...Whoops.”
Mikoto was managing to float in the sky, but her balance must have been off because she
started floating to the right. She immediately modified the equations she was using,
added on four smaller wings, regulated her balance in the air and the output of the
burners, and managed to come to a complete stop in midair.
“Okay, that’s enough for the warm up exercises...”
Mikoto intensely stared forward and the burners erupted all at once.
A bluish-white beam of light shot out behind her.
“Wait for me! I’ll show you that this hasn’t truly started yet!!”
She seemed to be dragging along a tail of light as she headed straight for Liberal Arts
City. Now that she had started to control the seawater via the water molecules floating in
the air, there was nothing to be afraid of.
In order to replenish the fuel for the water wings and the burners, something like a giant
human arm shot up from the distant ocean surface. With that “arm” still connected to
her back, Academy City’s #3 Level 5 soared through the sky.
Misaka Mikoto flew through the sky at a speed fast enough that it was difficult to
breathe in any air.

- Toaru Kagaku no Railgun SS1, Chapter 7