Mental Out 22

Chapter 22

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Text: What does heroic Shirai Kuroko think about these gruesome remains?
Title: Chapter 22
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

SFX: Click

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Kamino: I'll analyze this when we get back.
Kamino: The True Body's history must be hidden in here.
Misaki: Okay☆

Misaki: That board director.
Misaki: With Misaka-san, who cares, but how dare she use ME to prop up that previous generation.
Misaki: She'll pay for this.

Cube: I have one question.

Cube: Would she really still be interested in...
Cube: something as frail as a physical body?

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Kamino: Frail, you say?
Misaki: Hasn't the True Body been tuned for Synthesize Grid?
Cube: It is still no more than a carbon-based unit.
Cube: Her current body must be more functional.

Misaki: That's quite the argument.
Kuroko: Ugh, really!?

Kuroko: What is with you!?
Kuroko: Don't you find it wrong...
Kuroko: to talk about someone's body like an object!?

Kuroko: Follow that line of reasoning...
Kuroko: and you'd be denying your own humanity!

Cube: My humanity is what gives me reason and logic.
Kuroko: Not what I meant!

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Kuroko: If that's your best argument, there's something wrong with how you think.
Kuroko: It isn't healthy!

Kamino: Calm down, Shirai-san.
Kamino(outside): I'll carry her.
Misaki: That's right.
Misaki: What's on the inside matters more than your appearance.

Misaki: Even if there were a bunch of girls who look just like Misaka-san...
Misaki: you would find they all had their unique charm if you looked on the inside.
Kuroko: What kind of hypothetical is that!?
Kuroko: Don't assume I'll give in just because you mention Onee-sama.

Kuroko: It's weirdly shallow of you.

Kuroko: I'm a bit...
Kuroko: disappointed in you.

SFX: Shock

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Cube: You have been blessed with good friends.
Misaki: Is that how you see this?

Cube: Would she say that if you didn't matter to her?

Kamino: I appreciate the warning.
Kamino: Our established way of thinking...
Kamino: may have narrowed our view.

Kamino: We need to fix that before it comes back to bite us.

Kamino: Contact with an honest soul can be an enlightening experience.

Misaki: Honest, huh?

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Kuroko: Can you two...
Kuroko: give me a hand?

Kuroko: We need to bury these remains.

Misaki: Ehh!?

Misaki: We can't! That has to be too heavy to carry.
Kuroko: We could cut it up and carry it out in pieces.
Misaki: How gruesome.

Kamino: We can let Anti-Skill take care of it.
Kamino: They'll be searching this place before long.
Misaki: Good point.
Cube: I have no attachment to my old body.

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Cube: There is no need...
Cube: for you to bother with it.

Kuroko: You need to care more about yourself!

SFX: Whoosh
Kuroko: Maybe no one – not even you – cares!
Kuroko: But I still want to take a moment to mourn!!

Kuroko: Maybe it only makes me feel better, but if it lets me give these lonely remains some company...
Kuroko: I wouldn’t want anything else.

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Flashback Touma: I wouldn't want anything else.

Kamino: What should we do?
Cube: Hmm.

Kamino: By the way, do you really have no attachment to your body?

Cube: Yes.
Cube: No one gets after me about needing to eat or cut my hair.
Cube: It's easier.

Kamino: What would she gain...
Kamino: from the True Body?

Kamino: It might be something so obvious we aren't even considering it.

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Mikoto: Kokuchouuuu!!!
Mikoto: Where did she go!?

Mikoto: No! It won't budge!
Junko: Is this the power used to trap the Queen in that building?
Junko: If so, wouldn't physically destroying it be a challenge?

Mikoto: What if I shot a Railgun?
Mikoto(outside): I've got this!
SFX: Jangle
Junko: You would be torn to shreds if it only ricocheted!

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Mikoto: Then do you know anything that could help!?
Mikoto: Maybe some personal information!?

Junko: Umm.
Junko: Kokuchou Mayui-san is...
Junko: an expert patissier!

Junko: She's known as...
Junko: the Cake Magician!

Junko: She uses her power to create tiny air pockets in the dough...
Junko: making the cakes fluffier than would normally be possible.
Junko: Her cakes are so good she has fans around the globe!
Mikoto: And just when I wanted some sugar from all this thinking!

SFX: Rise...

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Mikoto: That's...iron sand!
Mikoto: So my magnetism can reach the ground!?
Mikoto: If so...

Mikoto: It's kind of hard to tell, but...
Mikoto: the ground might be a weak point!
Junko: Understood!!

Mikoto: Eh?

Junko: Hahhhhhh

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Junko: Hahhh!!!
SFX: Kaboom

Mikoto: Hey!!?

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Gaouin: Dwahh!!?

Mikoto: Gaouin-san!?

SFX: Crack crack crack

SFX: Shatter

Mikoto: The barrier broke!?

SFX: Mag

Mikoto: Are you alright!?
SFX: Mag mag mag
Junko: Sorry, Gaouin-san!
SFX: Run run

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Gaouin: It's fine!
Gaouin: I just thought maybe I could dig you out from below.
SFX: Heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat
Gaouin: I'm glad you're out regardless!

Gaouin: Anyway, look at this!
SFX: Sit up

Gaouin: It's not looking good!!

SFX: Bam crash wham

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SFX: Whoosh
Text: The strongest vs. the most dangerous – a battle between titans has begun!?