Railgun 148

Chapter 148

01

Text: The coldhearted special forces open fire!

Mikoto: What...

Mikoto: are you doing!!?
SFX: Zap

SF: Kh...
SFX: Slump

Nagisa: I-I've lost my leg...

02

Nagisa: Huh?
Nagisa(small): It's fine.

Both: Ruri-senpai's Shield!!

Ruri: Flash grenade.
SFX: Grab
Nagisa: Eh?

SFX: Flash

03

Margin: Mysterious Ruri-senpai's power is finally revealed!

Title: Chapter 148: Toying With
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
		Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
		Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Box:
Hasekura Reiri (Esper Name: Hydrogen Station)
*Leads one of Tokiwadai Middle School's 3 largest cliques
*Clever, attractive, magnanimous, and deadly. A perfect super girl whose overall specs rival those of a Level 5
*Level 4 ability to create hydrogen and place it within whatever matter she wants
*Her power has many applications: Bonding it with the oxygen in the air to create water, creating explosive fire with only a slight source of fire, freezing, power generation, converting objects into hydroxides, etc.
*She has never tried it, but she could theoretically create a thermonuclear reaction in deuterium by placing hydrogen within hydrogen
*Her family are tea ceremony masters in Kyoto
*Has high self-esteem, but it gets her down when people treat her as a thing of the past: saying she USED TO lead the largest clique or calling her Tokiwadai's FORMER strongest

04

SFX: Step step

Ruri: We got separated from those two.

Ruri: But I gave them my Shield and they have Mikoto-chan.

Ruri: But those people were well trained and had better weapons than Anti-Skill.
Ruri: Is this what Reiri-chan was talking about?

05

Ruri: Why did Takebayashi Yayoi use enough power to kill someone?

Ruri: As a Majesty-level 3rd year, she must have had excellent control of her power.

Hasekura: I can only speculate...

Hasekura: but she may have seen something so horrific she lost control.

Ruri: You mean she had grown attached to...
Ruri: the clique members she used to reach the Majesty title?

06

Hasekura: When we raided Montgolfier...

Hasekura: I could relax because you had given everyone your Shield.
Hasekura: But even then...
Hasekura: I was afraid something might happen to them.

Hasekura: And that raid...
Hasekura: increased Tokiwadai's reputation, albeit mostly on the dark side.

Hasekura: Another company might use harsher methods like Tanrei Chemicals.

Hasekura: We need to be careful.
Hasekura: Especially with those Level 5s.

07

Ruri: I'm sure there are tons of companies dying to get their hands on Mikoto-chan's DNA map.
Ruri: But would they really challenge her to a fight?

Ruri: Their best bet would be to hide who they are and find a way to get it legally.

Ruri: They're luring us to a dead end.
Nagisa: Eek!
SFX: Bang bang bang

Ruri: I need to at least get her away.
Ruri(small): I am Judgment, after all.
SFX: Grab
Nagisa: Wah!

SFX: Crack crack crack

08

Nagisa: Yikes yikes
Ruri: Hey.

Ruri: I hate to interrupt your freak out, but imagine you're jumping up onto that roof.
Nagisa: Huh???

Nagisa: But that's crazy!
Ruri: There's no time to explain!
Ruri: Just picture it and then jump!

SFX: Step step
Ruri: They'll catch you otherwise?
Nagisa: Eek!
Nagisa: Ah!

Nagisa: Uhhhh

SFX: Thoom

09

Nagisa: Eh?

Nagisa: What in the world?
SFX: Whoosh
SF: Kh!

Nagisa: Ahhhhhh
Ruri: It'll wear off in 3 minutes, so get away before that.

10

SF: What did you do to her?

SFX: Bend

SF: What the-!!?

11

SF: An Electromaster.
SF: Should we attack with insulated gear?
Leader: Yes, but focus on buying time.

Leader: Electromasters are clever.
Leader: Switch electronic gear to manual so she doesn't hack it.

Leader: I will prepare a trap in the meantime.
SF: Roger.

12

Mikoto: Are you hurt?
Kessai: No.
Kessai: Where did Ruri-senpai go?

SFX: Wham wham
Mikoto: We have her Shield.

Mikoto: That means she's fine. Or at least conscious.
Kessai: That should block knives and handguns, but...

Box: Ruri-senpai's power...
Box: let's her support people by boosting their physical abilities and placing a defensive layer around them! However...

Both: She can't use it on herself.

13

SF: What!?
SF: My gun's as soft as rubber.

SF: My knife too!

SFX: Snap
SF: Relax.

SF: She didn't do anything to our weapons.
SF: She buffed our muscles.

14

SF: You saw those bare legs deflect bullets and jump to a building rooftop, right?
SF: She must have telekinesis capable of performing RPG buffs in real life.
SFX: Shatter

Ruri: He's used to this analysis.
Ruri: Are they esper nerds?

SF: The question is whether it works on herself or not.

SF: If she could buff herself, she would've jumped out of here by now.
SF: And if she could block bullets, she wouldn't trick us into destroying our weapons.
SF: That tells me she can't self-buff.

SF: But some crafty espers pretend to have limits to give themselves a trump card.

15

SF: Nothing is absolute when fighting espers. Be careful.
Ruri(outside): I really can't do it
Ruri: These esper nerds are a pain.
Ruri(small): In more ways than one

SF: Even if she can self-buff, it's still 50/50.
SF: I can handle it.
SFX: Crack

SF: Letting your buffed friend leave was a mistake, don't you think?

Ruri: My Shield isn't perfect.

Ruri: And...
SFX: Bwoosh

16

SF: Whoa!
SFX: Spin spin spin
SF: Whoaaaaaa!!?

SFX: Crash

Ruri: It's hard to control more power than you're used to.
Ruri: She could've hurt me.

SFX: Clatter...

17

SF: It's weird surviving a crash powerful enough to break concrete without a scratch on me.
SFX: Crack
SF: While I have it...

SFX: I might as well make the most of it!!
SFX: Whoosh whoosh

SFX: Pow

SFX: Slice slice

18

SFX: Crash

SF: I'll get used to this power soon-
SFX: Tug

SF: Hm!?

SF: Why can't I pull back out!?
SF: Is it over? But it hasn't been 3 minutes.

19

Ruri: I set her buffs to a timer.
Ruri: But I can switch it on and off at will.

SF: Dammit!
Ruri: You should thank me for not turning it off right before impact.

SF: Gahhhhh!
Ruri: Neener neener neener
SF: Our buffs are gone too.

SF: Charlie, cirlce in and attack from the right.

SF: She can't self-buff.

SF: She didn't defend herself from those shards.

SF: Girls are sensitive about their faces. She would've used it if she could.

SF: Roger.
SFX: Step

20

SFX: Step step

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Whoosh whoosh whoosh

SF: Stop feinting and dodging, you brat.
SFX: Hop hop

SF: But she's an amateur. She can't dodge me forever.
SFX: Tense

SFX: Crunch

21

SF: She buffed me right when I took my step!?
SF: She can be that precise!?

SFX: Smash

22

SF: Gwah

Ruri: Hmph
SFX: Wham

SFX: Thud

23

SF: I'm shocked.
SF: A precise power and excellent martial arts.

SF: But I still have the upper hand.

Ruri: That last instruction...
Ruri: was to push me back here where it's narrower.

SF: On my squad's honor, I swear I will defeat you.
Text: Ruri-senpai vs. the esper nerd squad captain. Who will win?

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