Railgun 121

Chapter 121

01

Guard: Station 3 guards at each exit!
Guard: Everyone else comb the building starting from B3!

Uiharu: To the roof.

Title: Chapter 121: In Sync
Margin: Uiharu is in trouble!!
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Guard: She will likely be driven to the roof and use the chute to descend here.

02

Guard: Hide where you can jump out on my signal.
Guards: Yes, sir.
SFX: Rustle rustle

Guard: Newbie, you get behind me and-

Guard: Oh?

SFX: Pant pant

Saten: Uiharu will know about the chute.
Saten: But she'll be captured if she uses it.

Saten: I need to reach the roof before the guards do.

03

Saten: But they won't let me in the building.
Saten: And I can't climb that wall even with my suction gloves.

Saten: So...

Uiharu: Nh.
Uiharu: Nhhhh.

Uiharu: It won't open.

04

Uiharu: Where's the exit for a blackout?

SFX: Grab

Uiharu: I promised...
Uiharu: I wouldn't disappear.

05

Uiharu: Saten-san...
Uiharu: You really are hopeless.

SFX: Twist
Uiharu: You need me to help you out.
Uiharu: Whoa.

SFX: Tremble tremble
Uiharu: Geez, they should really design the emergency exit with injured people in mind.

Uiharu: Got it.

SFX: Slip

06

SFX: Wham
SFX: Crack

SFX: Thud
Uiharu: Ugh.

Uiharu: Ow?
Uiharu: I fell...

07

Uiharu: Yeah, I know.

08

Uiharu: She doesn't need me.

Uiharu: She can make friends with anyone.

Uiharu: She'll be fine.

Uiharu: No.

09

SFX: Velcro
Uiharu: I said I would be there for her...
Uiharu: but it's really for me.

Uiharu: I won't give up that spot.

10

Uiharu(thoughts): Maybe Saten-san only approached me because she felt sorry for the lonely kid and she hates how I keep sticking around.
Uiharu: No.

Uiharu(thoughts): Shirai-san must feel like she got the short end of the stick working with a Judgment member who can't even do push ups.
Uiharu: No!!

11

Uiharu: And even if that's true...

Uiharu: That's where I want to be.

12

SFX: Creak creak

Uiharu: Huh? It won't open.
Uiharu: Is it locked? It shouldn't be.

SFX: Struggle...
SFX: Tremble tremble
Uiharu: Nhhhhh

13

SFX: Thunk

Uiharu: I'm fall-

14-15

SFX: Grab
Saten: Made it.

16

Saten: Nghhhh.

Saten: Dah!
SFX: Thud

Saten: Phew.

Saten: I just barely made it in-
Uiharu: Why?

Uiharu: Why are you here?

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Saten: Well, I couldn't climb the wall myself...
Saten: so I had the security robots climb it while I clung to them with my gloves.

Uiharu: No, not how!!
Uiharu: Why did you come here!?

Uiharu: You're a...
Uiharu: Level 0...
Uiharu: and a troublemaker.

Uiharu: How stupid...
Uiharu: can you be?
Saten: Say what?

Uiharu: That was so reckless.

SFX: Pat

18

Saten: Sure I'm a Level 0...
Saten: and a troublemaker.
Saten: But I'm also your best friend.

Saten: And I couldn't sit idly by while my best friend was in trouble.

Saten: If you want to keep me out of trouble...
Saten: you'll have to stay by my side and stop me.
SFX: Pat pat

Uiharu: Geez, what kind of logic is that?

19

Uiharu: But...
Uiharu: I do need to watch over you to keep you out of trouble.

Saten: Heh heh.

Saten: Let's head home.
Uiharu: Yes.

20

SFX: Chatter chatter
Saten: Uh oh.

Guard: She's bound to come down here.

Box: The Opposite Wall

Guard: A guard has left her post and has someone with her!

21

Guard: They are headed for the back gate.

Saten: There it is!

Kimi: A guard betrayed us?
Kimi: No, were we infiltrated?

Kimi: A computer.

22

Kimi: That girl could hack open the back gate with ease.

Kimi: Cut power to the back gate.
Guard: But...

Guard: It doesn't use an isolated power source. That would mean shutting down jammers I, J, O, P, and T.
Kimi: That's fine as long as none of them cover the prisoner cells.

Guard: I will send guards that way.
Kimi: Don't bother.

Kimi: I'll go.

23

Kimi: Without the jammers, I can use THIS.

SFX: Gasp

Uiharu: Kyah!
SFX: Crash

Saten: Agh!
SFX: Splat

24

Kimi: Such a shame. You were almost there.

SFX: Spread

Uiharu: Ah.
SFX: Toss
Saten: Ui-

Kimi: Good job fooling those idiot guards.

25

SFX: Wham

Saten: Ugh.

Uiharu: Saten-san!!
Saten: Gwehhhhhh

Kimi: This is a real treat.

Kimi: Now I don't need to do anything as boring as attacking an orphanage.
Kimi: The perfect bargaining chip walked right into my hands.

26

Kimi: Hm?
SFX: Drop
SFX: Thud

Saten: Cough cough
Kimi: What? The thing's busted.
Kimi(small): And not just now.

Saten: Uiharu, the guards will be up here soon!
Uiharu: Ahh!?

27

Uiharu: When I fell.

Uiharu: Now we can't escape.

Saten: Wait.
Saten: It might still come in handy.
Saten(small): Hold onto it.

Kimi: Why carry around...
Kimi: this useless thing?

Kimi: Really, now.
Kimi: You could have avoided this pain by letting yourselves be captured.

SFX: Wheeze wheeze

Saten: This was...according to plan.

28

Saten: Hint that she'll hack it and you cut the power.
Saten: Cut the power and the AIM jammers go out.

Saten: Just like...we planned it.

Saten: Because without the jammers...

Saten: our friend is sure to come save us!!!

SFX: Crashhhh

29

SFX: Wham crash boom

SFX: Crackle crackle

30

Kimi: Misaka Mi-

SFX: Boooom

31

SFX: Roar

SFX: Bwoosh

SFX: Crawl crawl crawl
SFX: Crackle crackle

SFX: Crawl

32

Kimi: Easy on the trigger finger.
Kimi: You'll scare someone.

Mikoto: Don't act like either of us is the type to fight a fair duel.
Text: The dragon's shocking defenses can defend a point-blank Railgun!!

Box: To be continued next issue. The March Issue goes on sale Monday, January 27!!