Mikoto Misaka - Railgun Stats

Misaka describes her *Railgun's* mechanism and takes a shot.

> She stuck a hand in her skirt pocket and pulled out an arcade coin. “Have you ever heard the term Railgun?”

> “Ahn?”

> “The idea behind it is the same as a linear motor train. It is a ship-borne weapon that uses powerful electromagnets to fire a metal projectile.”

> The girl flicked the coin up into the air with her thumb. The coin rotated a few times before landing back onto her thumb.

> “It refers to something like this.”

> Just as she spoke, an orange spear of light suddenly and silently shot past Kamijou’s head. It was more like a laser than a spear. He could only tell it had originated from the girl’s thumb because the afterimage of light stretched back to it.

> Almost like thunder, the noise rumbled in with a slight delay. As a shockwave tore through the air around his ears, Kamijou’s sense of balance was partially destroyed. He staggered and glanced over his shoulder.

> The instant the orange light struck the road surface on the bridge, the asphalt was blown away like an airplane making an emergency landing on the ocean. Even after traveling a 30 meter path of utter destruction and stopping, the orange afterglow was still burning the air like an afterimage.

> “Even a coin like this can be quite powerful when it's fired at three times the speed of sound. Of course, the coin melts after 50 meters because of air friction.”

> That bridge made of steel and concrete swayed like an unreliable suspension bridge. Failing metal bolts could be heard occasionally.

-*A Certain Magical Index* Volume 1, Prologue, Page 5