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- Chapter 142
- 01
- Top right: A Certain Magical Index Volume 23 goes on sale November 12!!
- Right: The counterattack begins!!
- Down the center: When hit, hit back in the Item way.
- Credit: Story: Kamachi Kazuma Art: Kogino Chuuya
- Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka
- 02
- SFX: Drag
- Text: What is Hamazura carrying!?
- SFX: Thud
- 03
- Mugino: It's best not to think about what's inside the sleeping bag.
- Shiage: I wish I could keep myself from thinking about it.
- SFX: Gashunk
- SFX: Roarrr
- Shiage: Sigh.
- Shiage: This electric furnace is for disposing lab animals.
- Shiage: The heat of 3500 degrees sterilizes the corpse in no time.
- Shiage: Even the DNA is destroyed, transforming a human into mere ashes.
- 04
- Shiage: I wonder what kind of person they were.
- Shiage: Did that sleeping bag contain...
- Shiage: a Level 0 underling like me?
- Shiage: Or was it a bigshot esper from the team Item was fighting?
- Shiage: Were they even an enemy?
- Shiage: It could've been a normal student who got caught in the crossfire.
- Shiage: Hell, Mugino might even kill an ally who screwed something up.
- 05
- Shiage: Item? School?
- Shiage: I shouldn't worry myself over every little thing those dangerous secret teams do.
- Shiage: I'm only here because it's the only way for me to survive in this city!
- Rikou: Hamazura.
- Box: Takitsubo Rikou.
- Box: AKA, AIM Stalker.
- Box: A primary Item member with the great power of a Level 4.
- 06
- Shiage: I'm sure it was her power that led her astray...
- Shiage: but I'm still so damn jealous as a Level 0.
- Rikou: Hamazura.
- Rikou: What's wrong?
- Shiage: What even is a human life?
- Shiage: Goddammit.
- Shiage: When did our lives become so worthless?
- 07
- SFX: Roarrrrr
- SFX: Beep beep
- Shiage: Takitsubo.
- Shiage: Head back to the hideout without me.
- Shiage: The cleanup is going to take a while longer.
- 08
- Shiage: It's not the prettiest river...
- Shiage: but it's better than being dumped in the automated trash disposal.
- 09
- Shiage: I'm the worst.
- Shiage: It's not like I even feel bad for whoever was in that sleeping bag.
- Shiage: I'm just afraid that I could be next.
- Shiage: I was only creeped out that I could be disposed like that if I died.
- Thugs: Hey.
- SFX: Wham
- 10
- Shiage: Ow.
- Thugs: Oh, I was right.
- Thugs: I recognize you.
- Thugs: You're from District 7's Skill Out, aren't you?
- Thugs: I thought they were wiped out.
- Thugs: Not that it matters...
- Thugs: since we'll crush you here.
- Thugs: Did you know, Skill Out,
- Thugs: that we were having some trouble getting by not long ago?
- Thugs: Your boss...
- Thugs: Komaba, was it?
- Thugs: He was a real pain in the ass.
- Thugs: Barely let us get any "work" done.
- Shiage: Are these those burglars who target student dorms!?
- SFX: Wham
- Thugs: So we're gonna smash your face in until they can only call you Boy A.
- Thugs: Get the picture now?
- 11
- SFX: Thud
- Shiage: Son of a bitch!!
- SFX: Wham
- 12
- Shiage: Shit!?
- SFX: Thwam
- SFX: Grab
- Hanzou: This way, Hamazura!
- 13
- Shiage: You're...
- Shiage: Hanzou!?
- Hanzou: We gotta get out of here, dumbass!!
- SFX: Pant pant
- Hanzou: Did you forget the rules of the back alleys?
- Hanzou: Getting caught up in winning and losing only leads to death.
- Hanzou: If you want to escape with your life, then give up on winning!
- 14
- Shiage: Why did you save me?
- Hanzou: Because we used to hang out together.
- Shiage: But I ruined Skill Out.
- Shiage: And I ran away from my punishment!
- Hanzou: That's not for you to say.
- Hanzou: Also...
- Hanzou: surely you've noticed.
- Hanzou: We don't hold it against you.
- Hanzou: And we don't think it was your fault.
- Hanzou: At that point, Skill Out was done for no matter who was in charge.
- 15
- Hanzou: I haven't lived an honest enough life to get hung up on the past.
- Hanzou: But.
- Hanzou: I have to admit...
- Hanzou: it was fun back then.
- Hanzou: When I worked up a plan, you got us some wheels, and Komaba led the attack.
- Shiage: Yeah.
- Shiage: It's true.
- Shiage: It was a shitty life, but things were fun back then.
- 16
- Hanzou: What are your plans now?
- Shiage: I dunno.
- Shiage: I feel like it's all the same no matter what I do.
- Shiage: Nothing would be the same even if I went back to Skill Out.
- Shiage: There's nothing worthwhile there anymore.
- Hanzou: Wait.
- Hanzou: Take this.
- Hanzou: Based on that fight...
- Hanzou: I'm guessing you don't have any real weapons.
- SFX: Slap
- 17
- Shiage: This is a ladies gun.
- Hanzou: What's that matter?
- Hanzou: A good weapon is hard to use.
- Hanzou: If it feels too comfortable, you'll just spill more blood.
- 18
- Shiage: I always feel out of place here.
- Mugino: You're late, Hamazura.
- 19
- Shiage: Wait, where's Frenda?
- Mugino: Missing.
- Mugino: Maybe dead, maybe captured.
- Mugino: We don't have time to find someone new, so Item will have to be a three-girl team for now.
- Mugino: School's down to three too, so we can easily recover from this.
- Rikou: Hamazura, you're hurt.
- Shiage: It's nothing much.
- Mugino: We have Takitsubo, after all.
- Shiage: What are you going to do?
- Shiage: School stole the Tweezers, right?
- Mugino: They did.
- Mugino: So now it's time for us to strike back.
- Mugino: We can locate them at any time with Takitsubo's AIM Stalker.
- 20
- Mugino: Item exists to keep the higher ups and secret teams in line!
- Mugino: So let's do our job, shall we?
- Rikou: Should I search for Dark Matter?
- Mugino: Yes.
- Shiage: What's Dark Matter?
- Saiai: School's leader.
- Saiai: The #2.
- Saiai: This must be super hard for you, Takitsubo-san.
- Saiai: Since you need Body Crystal to use your power.
- Rikou: Not really.
- Rikou: This is normal for me.
- 21
- SFX: Gather gather
- Rikou: Beginning AIM Diffusion Field search.
- Rikou: Locating similar AIM Diffusion Fields.
- Rikou: Narrowing report to just the one applicable AIM Diffusion Field.
- Rikou: Search will be complete in 5 seconds.
- 22
- Rikou: Result:
- Rikou: Dark Matter is inside the building.
- SFX: Crash
- 23
- Kakine: Oh.
- Kakine: You're all here, just like I was told.
- Text: Kakine Teitoku is back!!
- Bottom: To be continued in the Shounen Gan Gan December Issue - Tuesday, November 12
- Mugino: Dark Matter.
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