Index Manga 146

Chapter 146

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Margin: He has found something he wants to protect.

Title: #146 "District 3 Automated Refinement Plant 2"
Credit: Story: Kamachi Kazuma
        Art: Kogino Chuuya
        Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

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02

Text: Mugino Shizuri strikes back!!

SFX: Wham

Mugino: It doesn't matter!!!
Mugino: It doesn't matterrrr!!!

03

Mugino: Just an ear!?
Mugino: You could tear off an arm and a leg or crush my insides and I'd still be stronger than you!!!

Mugino: I can kill Level 0 trash like you 100 times over without moving a finger!

Shiage: Ah...gah...
SFX: Squeeze squeeze

04

SFX: Pant
SFX: Pant
Shiage: I had a feeling this would happen.

Shiage: When you...
Shiage: play video games, you're only ever satisfied with a flawless victory.

Shiage: The slightest mistake makes you rage and you aren't happy even if you beat the game.
Shiage: So when you get hit, you try to convince yourself you were going for a high score and not a flawless victory.

Mugino: Huh?
Shiage: You never had to bother yourself with a pathetic Level 0 like me.

Shiage: You could have picked me off from a distance using that Level 5 power you're so proud of.

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Shiage: And...
Shiage: your insistence on proving your superiority has left you wide open!!

SFX: Shunk

Mugino: Wha-?

06

SFX: Bang bang bang

SFX: Click click

SFX: Splat

07

SFX: Thud

08

Shiage: Too easy,
Shiage: Level 5.

Shiage: Ugh.
SFX: Wobble

Shiage: The eardrum seems fine.

Shiage: Man,
Shiage: that really was a good deal.

Mugino: ma
Mugino: zuraa

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Mugino: Haaamazuuuraaaaaaaaaaa

Shiage: Oh, no.

Shiage: I'm out of ammo.

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SFX: Boom

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Shiage: This is Hamazura.

Shiage: I don't need Anti-Skill's help.
Shiage: That's right.

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Shiage: I ended it all.

16

Hanzou: Hey.

Shiage: Oh, Hanzou.

Hanzou: I heard, Hamazura.

Shiage: How much of it?
Hanzou: That you beat a Level 5 all on your own.

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Shiage: Word reached him fast.

Shiage: That thing came in handy.
Hanzou: What thing?
Shiage: The lady's handgun. Without that, I'd be dead right now.

Hanzou: Hah.
Hanzou: You beat a Level 5 with that thing!?

Hanzou: Well,
Hanzou: That'll make a nice gift.
Hanzou: No one'll try to stop you with that under your belt.
Hanzou: Although I doubt many of them had a problem with you in the first place.

Hanzou: Come on back, Hamazura.
Hanzou: Some of them are waiting for you.

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Shiage: Sorry.

Shiage: But I've found something...
Shiage: to do.

Hanzou: Tch.
Hanzou: You make me jealous.

Hanzou: But that's fine.
Hanzou: I'll look after Skill Out for the time being.
Shiage: Thanks, man.

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Hanzou: But don't forget.
Hanzou: You've always got a place here.
Hanzou: Come on back if you change your mind.

20

SFX: Slice slice

Kakine: Hm?

Kakine: Where have you been?
Kaibi: Out earning a bit of money.

21

Kaibi: Those scientists are the worst.
Kaibi: They calculate out the base price and refuse to pay any kind of tip.

Kakine: Hmm.

Kakine: Took a full hour, huh?
Kaibi: I'm not doing anything like that.

Kaibi: We just talk while flipping through a magazine in a hotel room.

Kakine: So nothing sexual?
Kaibi: No, nothing.

Kaibi: I don't have to.
Kaibi: Do you know why the rich go to clubs and give women money?
Kaibi: It isn't to satisfy their lust.
Kaibi: They want to build up a human relationship outside of work.

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Kakine: I don't get that at all.
Kaibi: Oh, right.

Kaibi: Item is apparently out of commission.

Kaibi: Due to infighting.
Kaibi: Once #4 Mugino Shizuri was taken out, the team fell apart.

Kakine(edge): Huh?
Kakine: Infighting? Does that mean they escaped my attack?
Kakine: Then who took out Mugino?

Kakine: Frenda left them in that deal with us.
Kakine: And the other two weren't strong enough for that.

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Kakine: Could it be?
Kaibi: Yes.
Kaibi: If none of the main members could do it, then one of their underlings must have done it.

Kakine: Whew♪
SFX: Stiff

Kaibi: How are things going?

Kaibi: Made any progress with the Tweezers' analysis?
Kakine: Yeah.

Kakine: We're on schedule.

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Kakine: I always wondered...
Kakine: how that bastard Aleister knew so much about our actions.

Kakine: Security cameras, security robots,
Kakine: and satellites aren't enough to explain it.
Kakine: I wanted to know how he was gathering all that intel.

Kakine: But it's nothing special.

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Kakine: He scattered 50 million microscopic machines around the city to spy on us.

Kakine: Underline.
Kakine: These are the sole data link back to the Windowless Building.

Kaibi: Is it enough to directly negotiate with Aleister?

Kakine: No.

Kakine: This isn't enough.
Kakine: I got out some top secret dark side data, but I want more.

Kaibi: Then you're really doing it?
Kakine: Yes.

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Kakine: I'll kill Academy City's #1.

Kakine: I can't be the Spare Plan if I want...
Kakine: to negotiate.
Kakine: I need to be the irreplaceable Main Plan.
Text: His target is Accelerator!!

Bottom: To be continued in the Shounen Gan Gan April Issue - Thursday, March 12