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Misaka Mikoto was serious about searching through Academy City’s data.
She had seen that boy on the edge of a video from Russia on the news. He truly wasn’t in
Japan. And he was walking around nonchalantly in the most dangerous place in that
war. There was something there. Without Mikoto knowing, that boy may have been once
more fighting some great evil with his clenched right fist.
Focusing on the screen of the PDA, she gathered a few pieces of information.
She had a bad feeling.
She recalled the time when she had desperately attempted to gain any information she
could on the experiment involving the Sisters.
She read what it said on the screen.
“Concerning Imagine Breaker being spotted in Russia and in the Elizalina Alliance of
Independent Nations.”
Imagine Breaker referred to that spiky haired boy. She had a vague recollection of him
referring to his power that way.
Mikoto scrolled down.
There were a few maps with remarks written next to them. A couple of arrows were
drawn on the maps. They probably referred to the movements of the Academy City
forces or to the path taken by that boy.
“According to the directive from the chairman of the board of directors, Imagine
Breaker will be dealt with differently than the normal method.”
It seemed the “normal method” referred to the method of suppressing a force that was
attempting to leak information on Academy City’s esper development technology to an
external organization. It was a very strict method that could even give the approval to
have people shot.
However, it seemed that method did not apply to that boy.
Mikoto almost felt relieved.
But she realized she was being naïve.
In the Sisters incident, she had seen much more than she would have liked exactly how
dark the underside of Academy City could get.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 20, Between the Lines 3