Railgun 150-A

Chapter 150 Part 1

01

Margin: The quarreling continues!

Title: Chapter 150 (Part 1): Conjecture

Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
		Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
		Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

Kessai: Clean up that big pile of manga magazines!
Kessai: Didn't you used to read them in the store!?
Mikoto: I bought them because I thought you would like them!
Ruri: They're fighting again.

Kessai: Why would I like shounen manga? That's for boys.
Kessai: And I didn't ask for any manga.

Mikoto: I-I thought it would give us something to talk about.

Ruri: And yet they're always together.

02

Kessai: Don't you have manners class next, Mikoto-chan!?
Kessai: You're going to be late!
Mikoto: I know that! Thanks!
Ruri: Is she her mom?

Mikoto: See you at the cafe after lunch!
Kessai: Save me a seat!
All: That means they'll be doing this during the lunch break.

Kessai: See you later!
Mikoto: Make sure to call first!

Girl: You seem awfully riled up.

03

Girl: Why not join us so we can teach that impertinent lone wolf a lesson?

Girl: As her roommate, you can tell us all about her weaknesses.
Kessai: Eh? I'm not doing that.

Girl: Wha-!? But you two were just arguing!
Girls: Were they, though?

Girl: Don't you have a bone to pick with Misaka Mikoto!?
Kessai: I do! Wait till you hear this!!

Kessai: She leaves her pajamas on the floor in the mornings!
Kessai: She falls asleep in the shower!
Kessai: And she groggily takes my bag by mistake!

Kessai: Her frog mascot collection would be fine...
Kessai: if she didn't leave them on the floor and then cry when I step on them!
Kessai: Especially when they hurt my foot so bad I want to cry!!

Kessai: She'll talk to me in the middle of the night...
Kessai: but then she falls asleep by the time I'm fully awake!
Kessai: And I still have things I want to ask her!

04

Girls: Th-that's enough...
Girl: We were wrong.
Girls: I wish you the best.
Kessai: Eh?

Ruri: Morning.
Kessai: Oh.

Kessai: You won't believe it! Mikoto-chan won't stop-
Ruri: Yeah, I'm not interested.

Kessai: Huh?

05

Ruri: The Sha Clique.

Ruri: She defeated both Hasekura and Mikagami...
Ruri: and now she tentatively has the Majesty emblem.

SFX: Heartbeat
Ruri: What do you think of her?

06

Kessai: Eh!?
Kessai: Wh-why ask me!?
Kessai: Sha-senpai and I have nothing in common!!
Ruri: You're part of her rival clique.
Ruri: I thought maybe you were upset she had swooped in and stolen the emblem.

Kessai: Oh...
Kessai: Right! G-good point!

Kessai: Hmm, I do think she's an impressive person.

Kessai: But, well, she ended up with the biggest clique on accident because her volunteer work just so happened to be popular.
Kessai: It makes her hard to view as a real rival, you know?

07

Ruri: On accident, huh?

Ruri: I sense some trickery in her, based on her own sort of philosophy.

Ruri: As well as an uncompromising drive and an unstoppable ambition.

Kessai: Unstoppable...that's true.

08

Kessai: Even if it only leads to her own ruin.

SFX: Gasp
Kessai: Excuse me, but I need to get to class!
Ruri: Sure.

Ruri: Hm

09

Mikagami: You say Sha Danshan was behind the clique conflict?

Ruri: I even question her System Scan results at this point.

Ruri: If she set up a countermeasure for psychological espers...
Ruri: then she could have fooled the system for the same reason.

Ruri: She may have been holding back on her power this far.

Ruri: That would mean she can do more than just restore something to its original form from a remnant of it.
Ruri: For example...

10

Mikagami: She could produce someone's power from their residual thoughts?

Mikagami: But Tanrei Chemicals, the source of the Takebayashi Yayoi incident, has already gone out of business.

Mikagami: Even if she hates esper weapon companies...
Mikagami: destroying Antikythera seems like a stretch since they weren't directly involved.
Ruri: I think that was a scapegoat used to divert suspicion from her.
Ruri: It probably would have been destroyed eventually regardless.

Hasekura: If Sha wants revenge for her sister...
Hasekura: and she thinks her sister was abandoned...

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Hasekura: would her target be Tokiwadai as a whole?

Hasekura: I thought she had no reason to harm Tokiwadai's reputation...
Hasekura: but if that is in fact her goal...
Hasekura: it would make sense that she was pulling the strings of the clique conflict.

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Hasekura: But if she really wants to destroy Tokiwadai, she wouldn't need the Majesty title.

Hasekura: I get the feeling she created the largest clique for some other reason.

Hasekura: That girl.
Hasekura: I bet she knows we suspect her.
Hasekura(small): And she's provoking us.
Ruri: I bet she's confident we can't find any damning evidence.

Ruri: Judgment won't act if there's insufficient evidence.

Hasekura: And if I accuse her, she'll just say I'm bitter over not getting the Majesty title.
Both: Yeah...
Text: Out of options!?

Box: To be continued next issue. The February Issue goes on sale Tuesday, December 26!!