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Title: Chapter 128: Penitence
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
	Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
Text: The Mikoto vs. Kimi battle ends!!

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Shundan Kimi
*Registered in the Bank as a Level 0. Her type of power is unknown because the System Scan could not detect it.
*Is actually a theorized Holistic Esper that causes micro-level supernatural phenomena as a side effect of universal-scale macro-level distortions. She possesses the extraordinary power to create a black hole somewhere in the universe.
*Possessed by the Angel Wing Dragon separated from Kamijou Touma's right hand. The dragon has supernatural abilities including brainwashing and turning the enemy into a pillar of salt.
*Originally had a crude way of speaking, but her speech grew more old-fashioned as the dragon's power grew.
*One of the Dark May Project specimens. To avoid interest from similar groups after escaping the lab, she used the name Shirakinu Honoka to enter the 2nd Juvenile Hall where Aohoshi from the same orphanage worked. She secretly took control of the 2nd Juvenile Hall.
*Enjoys decadent music and art.

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Mikoto: Are you awake now?

Mikoto: We won this fight...
Mikoto: so you're doing what I tell you.

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Mikoto: Don't even think about going after Uiharu-san again.
Mikoto: And accept your past instead of running from it.

Kimi: Kill me.

SFX: Tug

Mikoto: I wasn't asking.

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Mikoto: I'm telling you to be strong.

Mikoto: You lost a target for your raised fist...
Mikoto: so you sulked...
Mikoto: and fell into despair.

Mikoto: All you were doing was running away.

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Kimi: You sound like you're talking to yourself there.

Mikoto: I just so happened...
Mikoto: to be slightly more fortunate than you.

Mikoto: There was a moment when I learned...

Mikoto: that being the protected heroine...
Mikoto: is 100 times harder than being the hero.

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Mikoto: So you have to be strong.

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Honoka: Ah ha ha ha ha.

Honoka: You sure took a beating.

Kimi: Honoka...

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Honoka: You grew up to be a pretty nice woman.
Kimi: Shut up. No one ever saw either of us as a girl.

Kimi: In the end, I just didn't want to accept responsibility for what I caused.

Honoka: It wasn't your responsibility.
Honoka: Even if you did cause it.
Kimi: Ha ha.

Honoka: Losing my power was a shock...
Honoka: but having a power gets you used by weirdos, so it's kind of a catch-22.
Kimi: For real.
Kimi(small): Academy City is shit.

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Honoka: Suzu-nee, Raifu, and Saryou all went along with your selfishness.
Honoka: You need to thank them later.

Honoka: You were always following me around back at the orphanage...

Honoka: but you're not a kid anymore.

Kimi: Honoka, I...

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SFX: Whump

Kimi: Thanks for saving me.

Kimi: How many years did it take me to say something so simple?

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Saryou: Oumi-sama...

Saryou: When are you coming to kill me?
SFX: Roll

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Saryou: Honoka...

Saryou: She's still breathing.

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Saryou: She just died.

Saryou: Why did I have to learn to read lips?

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Saryou: If only I didn't know what she said.

Saryou: No, even if I did, I should have ignored it for my Kouga mission.

Saryou: I probably did it because they messed with my brain.

Saryou: So...

Saryou: I'll offer you my head someday...
Saryou: so please forgive me, Oumi-sama.

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Saryou: Or so I thought.

Saryou: But she still hasn't shown up.

Oumi: Tsurigane? She's a second-rate ninja at best.
Oumi: Not even worth killing.

Oumi: In fact, I'd look ridiculous bothering to kill someone like her!

Voice: Hey, break time's over!

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Raifu: Why do I attack heroes?
Raifu(small): Hmm.
Raifu: Because a real hero wouldn't lose to someone like me.

Raifu: So I attack whoever's trying to protect me to reveal who they really are.
Boy: In other words, were you hoping to find your ideal hero?

Raifu: Is that what I was doing?

Raifu: And what good is asking me all this anyway?
Boy: My own power has given me an interest in criminal psychology and the origins of criminal motives.

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Raifu: You're weird.

Raifu: My ideal hero, huh?
Raifu: I do think I liked tokusatsu shows when I was little.
Raifu: I don't remember much about them though.

Boy: When I was little...

Boy: I would go around attacking people who I had decided were "evil" based on incomplete information.
Raifu: He's started talking about himself.

Boy: I probably wanted to think I was a force of good by doing that.

Boy: But my flimsy convictions...

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Boy: couldn't even be categorized as good or evil...
Boy: before they were broken by a pushy desire to simply protect the weak.

Boy: That attack was an eye-opener.

Boy: I doubt everyone would call someone like that a hero...
Boy: but I still...

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SFX: Drip drip

Raifu: Hwuh!?
Raifu: What is happening?
SFX: Beep beeeeep
SFX: Clatter
Boy: Time's up.
Boy: I will be leaving for today.

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Boy: I hope you will let me ask more later.
Raifu: I don't have anything better to do.

Raifu: Did you hurt your leg?
Boy: Thanks to a certain someone.
Text: Time has slowly started to move once more for those three.

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