Index Manga 145

Chapter 145

01

Top: A Certain Magical Index Volumes 1-23 are on sale now from Gan Gan Comics!!

Margin: Mugino Shizuri pursues the traitor Hamazura!!

Credit: Story: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Kogino Chuuya
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
Title: #145 "District 3 Automated Refinement Plant"

02

SFX: Pant pant

Shiage: Dammit!!

Shiage: I can't shake her.

03

SFX: Bam

Shiage: Is this an automated refinement plant for plant-based ethanol fuel?

Mugino: What a nice place.

04

SFX: Zap

SFX: Boom boom
Shiage: Whoa!

Mugino: An unmanned facility was a nice choice,
Mugino: Hamazura.

Mugino: It's best to die alone.

05

Mugino: Huh?

Mugino: You don't think that machinery can shield you, do you?

Mugino: Do you think I'm a joke?
Shiage: I know that won't stop you.

Shiage: But not even a Level 5 is invincible.

Shiage: When School attacked with that crane...
Shiage: and when she destroyed that train...

06

Shiage: she didn't try to use her power to destroy the wrecking ball or the train itself.

Shiage: She avoided aiming for those moving targets because she might have missed.
Shiage: It's a guess...
Shiage: but I bet it takes her some time to aim her power, as strong as it is.

Shiage: So a surprise attack can work.
Shiage: I just have to attack her from behind cover.
Shiage: Maybe.

Shiage: And she can't just blow me away as long as I have the Body Crystal!

Mugino: Haaa

07

Mugino: maaa
Mugino: zuuu
Mugino: raaa!

SFX: Zap

08-09

SFX: Boom boom boom boom

Text: Those rapid lines of light are special electron beams.

10-11

Text: Electrons normally take on the traits of a particle or a wave depending on the situation...
Text: but Mugino Shizuri can force the electrons to stay in that undefined "in between" state and control them like that.

Text: Those forcibly undefined electrons will stay in place even when they hit something, creating an artificial wall...
Text: that slams into the target with fearsome force.

Text: That is Meltdowner,
Text: the particle-wave cannon.

Text: That is the power of Mugino Shizuri, Academy City's #4.
Mugino: Oh?

Mugino: You aren't dead yet?

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Mugino: This is like that thing used for goldfish scooping.
Mugino(small): Um
Mugino(outside): What was it called?
Mugino: Those goddamn scientists said my survival instincts keep me from using more power...
Mugino: but my full power could kill that Railgun instantly.
Mugino: It's just that the recoil would blow my own body to pieces.


Mugino: Hamazuraaaa.

Mugino: Quit getting in my way.
Mugino: Are you ready to hand over Body Crystal and Takitsubo now?
Shiage: No!

Shiage: I won't let you give her any more Body Crystal!
Shiage: She can't handle any more!!

13

Mugino: So what?
Mugino: If she breaks, we just need to find another esper.
Mugino: I'll admit only she can search out AIM diffusion fields, though.

SFX: Step
Mugino: But none of that matters as long as I can figure out where those scumbags from School are.

Shiage: You can never beat Kakine.

Mugino: What?
Shiage: I could tell when I faced him.

Shiage: I'll admit they're not exactly nice people...
Shiage: but they didn't finish Takitsubo off when she was weak.
Shiage: They have enough sense to overlook people who are below their level!

14

Shiage: Someone who attacks her own teammates just because she doesn't like something can never beat Kakine Teitoku!
Shiage: It's not about your power!
Shiage: He's better than you on a more fundamental level!!

Shiage: I'm not letting you keep Takitsubo for your own selfish reasons!!!

Mugino: Ha ha!!

Mugino: You sure are doing a lot for her,
Mugino: Hamazuraaa.
Mugino: Did her cute face get the better of you?

15

Mugino: Or is it cause she was nice to a Level 0 like you?

Mugino: You're so dumb.
Mugino(small): That was really it?

Mugino: Don't assume someone is a good person just because...
Mugino: they were nice to you.
Mugino: The world doesn't revolve around you.

Shiage: I know that.

Shiage: But she said she didn't want a selfish asshole like me to die.
Shiage: She can say stuff like that!!
Shiage: Someone like that deserves to be happy!!

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SFX: Boom

Shiage: Gh.
SFX: Grab

Mugino: Sounds...
Mugino: like you've got a screw loose.

SFX: Scrape
Mugino: Shall I tighten it for you?

17

SFX: Slide slide

SFX: Scrape

18

Mugino: Ohhhhhh

19

Shiage: Heh.

Shiage: A Level 0 ear for a Level 5 eye?
Shiage: Pretty good deal, right?

Mugino: Hamazuraaaaaa!!
Text: Mugino rages at this unexpected counterattack!!
Bottom: To be continued in the Shounen Gan Gan March Issue - Wednesday, February 12