Mental Out 36-B

Chapter 36-B

01

Misaki: I can crush her anytime I want to.
Misaki: So I would keep an eye on Gaouin-san if I were you.
Text: A threat against the Gaouin Clique!!

Mikoto: Y'know...
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
Title: Chapter 36 (Part 2)

02

Mikoto: You can just come out and say you're worried about Gaouin-san.

Mikoto: There are still dangerous people out there. You don't have to tell me to protect her.
Mikoto: I don't know what they're plotting, but I won't let them mess with the election.

SFX: Run run

Misaki: Now I can blame Misaka-san if anything goes wrong.

03

Misaki: Is my acting ability slipping?
Misaki: I can't believe a meathead like Misaka-san saw through me like that.

Misaki: I need to find a solution there.

Misaki: And about all this excitement.
Kobayashi: Heh heh heh...
Girls: You heard that exchange, didn't you!? Only the best of friends can read between the lines like that!!
Girls: No! That was an ultimatum concerning their inevitable final showdown!!

Misaki: Hey! Wipe that grin off your face!!
Kobayashi: Peh heh heh. My apologies.

04

Box: Next Day

Sign: Tokiwadai Middle School
      Student Council President Election Site

Girl: Mornin', Misaka-chi. Thanks 'bout yesterday.
Girl: You made things real excitin'. Thanks a ton.

Girl: I'm still pissed Kamino, Kokuchou, and Inufushi didn't show.
Girl: If only they were more like you.
Girl(small): The nerve of 'em!
Mikoto: She's different.

05

Mikoto: Today is only the first vote, right?
Girl: Right, right. I know it's confusin'.
Girl: Today's for decidin' the three who'll move one to the final vote.

Girl: Four clique leaders have a chance of movin' on.

Girl: Shokuhou Misaki!
Girl: Her clique's the biggest!
Girl: More people usually makes it harder to get 'em all to agree...
Girl: but everyone in that clique loves Shokuhou-chi, so she'll get the most votes for sure.
Mikoto: She's only ever nasty to me, so I don't get why everyone seems to adore her.

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Girl: Gaouin Tsukasa-sama!!
Girl: She's fought back against the Shokuhou Clique to gather solid support for the 2nd largest clique!
Girl: The secret to Gao-sama's popularity is her periodic advice sessions.
Mikoto: I didn't realize those were so popular.
Text: *See Chapter 1

Girl: Kamino Subaru!
Girl: Super strict and pragmatic leader of the third largest clique!
Girl: Kamino-chi also leads the tea ceremony club, but she's so strict they say a demon lives in the Butterfly House.
Girl: But she's popular cause sheltered girls find that strictness to be thrillin'.
Mikoto: Yeah, I don't get it.

07

Girl: Kokuchou Mayui!
Girl: A patissier whose afterschool girl's clique is made up of the regulars at her shop.
Girl: ...Until members of the newspaper club became central members of her clique.
Girl: She's begun rapidly expandin' to become the biggest clique.
Girl: Rumor is she uses the newspaper club's intel network to get compromisin' info on girls to get 'em to join her clique.
Mikoto: Her...

Mikoto: Getting people to join by force doesn't guarantee they'll vote for you.

Girl: True.
Girl: But my research shows...

Girl: The Kokuchou Clique might be the most united of the four.

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Girl: I think we've only seen one side of Kokuchou-chi.
Girl: For example...

SFX: Bubble bubble

Girl1: How awful...
Girl2: Did a cat do this?
Girl2: Poor thing.

Girl1: W-we need to get it to a vet!
Girl2: No, moving it would be dangerous.
SFX: Crouch

09

SFX: Grip

Girl2: Stop!

SFX: Flap flap

SFX: Stop

Kokuchou: There were bubbles in the blood.
Kokuchou: Birds rarely breathe through their mouth.
Kokuchou: It has a hole in its lung. There was no saving it.

Girl2: But!
SFX: Step
Girl3: It's the same as euthanizing a racehorse with a broken leg.

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Girl3: Putting it out of its misery...
Girl3: is how you save it.

Girl3: That was painful for Kokuchou-sama too.
Girl3: Let's at least give it a proper burial.
Girl1: Right

Girl2: Would you do the same thing if that bird...
Girl2: was your pet?

Kokuchou: I would. Of course I would.

Kokuchou: But if it were mine...
Kokuchou: I would catch the cat that hurt it...

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Kokuchou: and have it attack another 100 birds.

Kokuchou: It would only be able to eat what it caught. Ha ha. That sounds rough.
Kokuchou: But anything else...
Kokuchou: wouldn't be fair...

Kokuchou: to the bird or me, would it?

12

Kokuchou: Not that I have a bird.
Kokuchou(small): I don't like them
Girl: I get she has an eccentric charm...

Girl: but what kinda backbone do you hafta have to give that answer?
Girl: Whaddya think, Misaka-chi?

SFX: Sneak

Kuroko: Hmm

Komaki: What are you sneaking around for?
Kuroko: Shh!

Kuroko: I'm avoiding contact with Onee-sama right now.
Komaki: Oh, because you joined the Shokuhou Clique?
Kuroko: Shhhhhh!!
Kuroko(small): Only tentatively!

13

Yuiitsu: Your possessions will be inspected before you vote.
Yuiitsu: Using your powers while voting is prohibited.

Yuiitsu: Please head to the voting booth outside after your inspection.
Yuiitsu: This self-driving secret ballot system...

Yuiitsu: uses the latest jammers used in the second juvenile prison to eliminate all esper interference.
Yuiitsu: Today, I'm the system's official technician!
Yuiitsu: Fill out the ballot with the provided pencil.

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Yuiitsu: Your brainwaves, heart rate, and AIM will be monitored in real time as you vote...
Yuiitsu: to ensure you aren't under an esper's influence.

Yuiitsu: This is overkill? Not at all!
Yuiitsu: It is a necessary measure.

Yuiitsu: Because we have Mental Out to worry about!!
Text: Special Mental Out Countermeasures

Yuiitsu: If we find the smallest suggestion of interference...
Yuiitsu: you will be disqualified, Mental Out.

Yuiitsu: This is my revenge for brainwashing me and making me...
Yuiitsu: wear that humiliating school uniform costume!

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Girls: The voting is complete. Excellent work.
Girls; I'm glad no one tried to cheat.
SFX: Slap
Yuiitsu: Dammiiiiiit!!!

Yuiitsu: I guess the biggest clique doesn't need to cheat.
Yuiitsu: Really... Is there no way to get back at her?

Yuiitsu: They don't cheat and they don't slack off.
SFX: Creak
Yuiitsu: These rich girls take everything so seriously.
Yuiitsu: For better and for worse.

16

Yuiitsu: What a waste of their youth.

Announcement: We have the results!
Announcement: 1st - Shokuhou Misaki

Announcement: 2nd - Gaouin Tsukasa
Announcement: And in 3rd...

17

Tatsuki: Are you that sad you lost?

Iori: What about you?

Tatsuki: I never had a chance of winning in the first place.
Iori: That's loser talk.
Tatsuki: Says the loser.
Iori: Hey!!

Kumamori: Can you losers stop bickering?
Kumamori: Sigh, what a pain
Tatsuki: You lost too!
Iori: You lost too!

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SFX: Slide
Kamino: Sorry about the wait.

Iori: Oh, there you are.
SFX: Step step
Iori: Wait...

Kamino: Do I have something on my face?
Iori: No, not really.
Kumamori: Seems fine to me.

Kumamori: You look happy.

19

Tatsuki: Turning over a new leaf?
Kamino: Yes.

Girls: 3rd - Kokuchou Mayui.

Girl: We didn't make it.

Kamino: I fell just short.

20

Kamino: But the election was only one point on the way ahead.
Kamino: This is an unfortunate result...
Kamino: but it isn't as if I will die for losing here.

Kamino: It wasn't something I wanted that badly.

Kamino: So don't let it get you down.

Kamino: ...Yes, I'm fine.
Kamino: I am fine.
SFX: Step
Kamino: That is all for today...

21

Girl: You're not a good liar.

Girl: We all know how seriously you took this.
Girl: So there's no need to spare our feelings.

Girl: Right,
Girl: everyone?

22

Girls: I can't...stand it...
Girls: We wanted to help you win!
Girl: But we weren't good enough...sob...

Girl: They say an organization reflects its leader.

Girl: We were just as serious and this loss pains us just as much.
Girl: Strange, isn't it?

Girl: Even the girls who rebelled just add to the charm.
SFX: Badump

Girl: So, Kamino-sama.

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Girl: If we can see right through the lie...
Girl: why not just be honest?

Kamino: I have a question for you all.

Kamino: Who do you LEAST WANT TO BE PRESIDENT?
Kamino: As electors.

24

All: Kokuchou.

Kamino: KOKUCHOU-SAN MUST KNOW THAT.

Kamino: So she will try something.
Kamino: How about we join forces to stop her?

Tatsuki: Ha ha.
Tatsuki: So you could call it the Loser's Alliance?

Kamino: Excellent.

Kamino: We will choose our ideal president.
Kamino: No one will get in our way.

25

Kamino: On our pride as electors.
Kamino: Now, Loser's Alliance.

Text: A refreshed Kamino begins her counterattack!!
Kamino: It's time for a new fight.