Mental Out 16

Chapter 16

01

Margin: A clash of Level 5s. Can Gaouin and the others survive?

Title: Chapter 16
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Nogi Yasuhito
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Profile:
Gaouin Tsukasa (Esper Name: Reflex Answer)
*Tokiwadai Middle School Year 2. Student Council Vice President. Leads the Gaouin Clique, 2nd largest at the school
*Has a student council maid as her aide
*Bothered by her short height. Dreams of being 168cm or taller
*Devastatingly bad sense of direction
*Reflex Answer is a psychological power that can receive and reflect thoughts. Can be used to reflexively reply to a question, but the answer is reliant on Gaouin's own knowledge, experience, and resourcefulness
*Has an extremely broad range of friends. Appears to even be friends with Hokaze
*Respects her grandfather and is quite the grandpa's girl

02

Box: Just before the collapse

Tatsuki: Hold on! I thought Mental Out was a psychological power!
Gaouin: She definitely manipulated those saline dumplings!
Gaouin: I can only assume her power went haywire and caused this.
Tatsuki: How much can Miss Star Eyes do!?

SFX: Boom crash
Tatsuki: Agh!? What now!?

Tatsuki: It's collapsing! Do something, freshman!!
SFX: Rumble rumble
SFX: Crumble crumble
Wakana: My stuff is all in the ice! You swim in and get it!!

03

Misaki: My power worked well with Gaouin-san's.
Misaki: I'm glad everyone's alright, but I can't seem to move.

Misaki: I may have shown off too much.

Misaki: I didn't want to get hurt.
Misaki: I shouldn't have gone so far just to look good.
Misaki(small): At least they interpreted it differently.

Misaki: But now I can't back down.
Misaki: Not when my girls and even Gaouin-san are risking their lives.

Misaki: Honestly...

04

Misaki: I really, truly have no plan now.
Misaki: I didn't consider what happens next.

Misaki: Because this is always...
Misaki: when the hero shows up.

Misaki: If only.
SFX: Squeeze

05

Misaki: Hee hee. You really are stupid.
SFX: Blush
Misaki: How cliche can you get?

Misaki: But the way you ignore all reason and logic...
Misaki: is what I like about you.

Misaki: Do this for me...and I really will fall for you?
SFX: Lean

06

Kamino: I hope I can live up to your expectations.
SFX: Gasp

Misaki: Kamino!?
Kamino: No talking. You'll bite your tongue.

SFX: Whoosh

SFX: Pop
SFX: Rumble rumble

Misaki: Teleportation!?

Kamino: Don't worry. Everyone in the building has been evacuated.
Kamino: That doesn't mean they are safe, though.
Kamino(edge): Hee hee hee

07

SFX: Pop pop pop

Wakana: Gyahhhhhhh!?
SFX: Fwoosh

SFX: Step step

Gaouin: Kirara!
SFX: Grab

SFX: Nod

SFX: Splash
SFX: Kathud

08

Tatsuki: Was that your power?
SFX: Rise
Kirara: I wasn't told to keep it a secret, so I won't.
Kirara: That was Kamino-sama.

Tatsuki: But isn't her power matter annihilation!?
Wakana: Cover up already, Senpai!

Tatsuki: God, all these creative power uses!

Misaki: I thought Shirai-san was Tokiwadai's only teleporter?
Kamino: She is.

Kamino: Officially, anyway.
SFX: Wobble

SFX: Slump

Misaki: Hey!? What's wrong!?

09

SFX: Pant pant
SFX: Dizzy dizzy

Misaki: A-are you okay?

Kamino: "I'll fall for you"!?
SFX: Pfff
Kamino: Who did you think I was there!?
Kamino: Ahh ha ha ha ha ha!!!

Kamino: Ahh ha ha ha ha
Misaki: I shouldn't have worried.
Misaki(small): And get off my chest

Kamino: I didn't know you could be so sweet.
Kamino: You almost had me swooning.
Kamino: Ahh ha ha ha ha ha!

Misaki: Stop laughing so much.
Misaki(small): It's creepy

10

Kamino: Sorry. I laugh easily.
Kamino(outside): I normally hide it better.

Misaki: I can't believe it.
Kamino: There's no hiding it now, so I'll explain.

Bottom left box SFX: Whoosh
Bottom right box SFX: Pop
Kamino: I am an "area" teleporter.
Kamino: I wear contacts with a sight drawn on them to measure out and designate a box-shaped teleportation field.
Left: Range Measuring

Kamino: But if I lose sight of the destination, the teleportation fails and the target is annihilated.
SFX: Scatter
Kamino: That error was recorded as my only power.

Misaki: So you tricked Tokiwadai and the System Scan?
Misaki(outside): Lying won't increase your Level.

11

Kamino: Quite the actress, aren't I?

Kamino: Hee hee. Oh, I just can't stop laughing today.
Kamino: It ruins my image, so don't tell anyone.
Misaki: Oh, I'm telling.

SFX: Tap

Misaki(recording): Do this for me...and I really will fall for you?

Kamino: Pff. I thought of everything. Keep quiet and this recording won't get out.
Kamino(outside): Pfff
Kamino: Or will you erase my memory? Oh, wait. You can't move.
Kamino(small): Pff hee hee
Misaki: Th-this girl.
Misaki(small): I'm getting back at her later

12

Kamino(outside): Sigh
Kamino: I was worried for a bit there, but I'm glad I held off.
Kamino: I got quite the show out of it.
Misaki: You're welcome

Misaki: Hm?
Misaki: Were you planning to save us all along?

Kamino: Maybe, maybe not.

Mikoto: There's Shokuhou!

13

Mikoto: You aren't plotting something again, are you!?
SFX: Run run

Mikoto: Wait, what happened!?
Mikoto(small): Are you alright?
Misaki: Misaka-san?
Misaki(small): Why?

Misaki SFX: Gasp
Light bulb SFX: Shine
Plug SFX: Kaclick

Misaki: I'm incapacitated because you couldn't restrain yourself.
Misaki: You need to take responsibility.
Misaki(small): It hurrrrts
Mikoto: Ugh!? But the collapse wasn't just my doing.
Mikoto: And these icicles started falling, so I had my hands full protecting the maids!
Kamino: She has some nerve saying that when she's more to blame than Misaka-san.
Kamino(outside): Heh heh

14

Mikoto: Also, isn't she with you?

Misaki: Mitori-san!? Why?
Misaki(small): What are you wearing?

Mikoto: Don't lie to me.
Mikoto: She said you sent her to Tokiwadai.

Misaki: Huh?

Mikoto: She helped me escape and get the maids to the infirmary.
Mikoto: Make sure you reward her for this. You always work people to the bone and never even thank them.
Mitori: She does, doesn't she?
Mitori(outside): Thanks for this♥
Misaki: She acted on her own after I told her not to, didn't she?

SFX: Whoosh
Kuroko: Ah!
Kuroko(outside): I knew it

Kuroko: What did you do to bring down a whole building!?
Mikoto: Kuroko.
Mitori(edge): Geh
Mitori: It's that Judgment girl.

Kuroko: Explain how...

15

Kuroko: Oh (realization). Two Level 5s fighting would more than explain it.
Kuroko: You're under arrest for property damage, so I hope you're ready.
SFX: Chk
Both: That's not what happened!
Note: *That's what happened

Kamino: Everyone.
SFX: Freeze

Kamino: The dorm manager has arrived.
SFX: Petrify

Kamino: I sure hope you two survive this.
Kamino(outside): Heh heh

Mitori: Eh? What now? Some monster woman's coming?
Misaki: This demon eats monsters for breakfast.
Misaki: You need to hide so she doesn't find...

16

Mitori: Misaki-chan!?
SFX: Slump
Mitori: Why are you injured!?
Mitori: We need to get you to the hospital.

Misaki: Yeah, I'm really at...
Misaki: my limit...

Kamino: Shokuhou-san.

Kamino: Rescuing you last was my idea of a compromise.
Kamino: I'm no hero, after all.

Kamino: But to be entirely honest...
Kamino: what I saw at the end...

Kamino: stole my heart.

Kamino: So as a reward, I will tell you...
Kamino: all about the previous generation and □□.

17

Kamino: Let me know when you're out the hospital.
Kamino(outside): Hee hee hee
Kamino: And do treat the cube with care.

Misaki: That cunning girl.

18

Margin: What will this highly unreserved mystery cube tell Shokuhou?

Kobayashi: You mean Bank requests were made over the phone line and they charged you every 10 seconds?
Cube: And it took over a minute for a page to display.
Iori: For real!? What a garbage connection!
Iori: You weren't searching the genome on an 8-bit machine, were you!?
Cube: We had no other choice then.
Iori: Ugh! How many days did it take to find who you wanted?

Cube: We would watch the images load in line by line on the CRT.
Both: What's a CRT?

Misaki: What is going on here?