Railgun 147

Chapter 147

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Margin: Mikagami-senpai kept her promise and disbanded her clique...

Title: Chapter 147: Adoptee
Credit: Author: Kamachi Kazuma
		Art: Fuyukawa Motoi
		Character Designs: Haimura Kiyotaka

SFX: Sparkle

Girls: Wow

Girl: The FORMER Mikagami Clique girls...
Girl: really shine like models.

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Girl: I wish I was at least average there.

Girl: Just kidd-
Girl: Oh.

Hasekura: Even if you cheat yourself the ideal body, it's up to you to keep that figure.
Hasekura: Those girls are working hard behind the scenes.

Hasekura: Put in that much effort improving yourself and you'll be transformed in only six months.
Girls: O-of course!

Hasekura: What a pain.

Hasekura: I won't say it's wrong to want to be reborn into the ideal body...
Hasekura: but does it make me an old lady if I think you should be proud of and love the body you were born with?

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Hasekura: Ruri?

Hasekura: Any new developments?
Ruri: Unfortunately, no.

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Ruri: The Antikythera CEO is still missing.

Hasekura: Damn, we really should have caught him back then.

Ruri: Now...I don't know if it's directly related...
Ruri: but I did uncover something curious.

Ruri: For about a year now...
Ruri: esper development corporations with sketchy rumors about them...
Ruri: have been going under one after another.

Hasekura: Esper development...

Hasekura: Anyone taking that risk will be neck deep in the dark side.
Hasekura: Aren't we better off without them?
Ruri: For sure.

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Ruri: The problem is that the first one to go was Tanrei Chemicals.

Hasekura: Tanrei?
Hasekura: I've heard that name before. Wasn't that...

SFX: Gasp
Hasekura: Oh.

Ruri: Yup

Ruri: 3 years ago, the head of the biggest clique and top candidate for Majesty...
Ruri: was Takebayashi Yayoi.

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Ruri: That company was the victim...
Ruri: in the major scandal she caused.

Ruri: It could be a coincidence...
Ruri: but I'm out of clues.

Ruri: I don't know much from before we got here...
Ruri: but you WERE aiming for the Majesty title, so I thought you might have looked into it.
Hasekura: Were?

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Hasekura: To be clear, this was all erased from Tokiwadai's records.
Hasekura: I can only speculate. And you know...
Hasekura: WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PEOPLE INVOLVED.
Ruri: Right.

Hasekura: Takebayashi Yayoi was ONE OF the Takebayashi family's adoptees.
Ruri: One of?

Hasekura: They adopted several daughters and sent them all to Academy City.

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Hasekura: Their goal was to have a Majesty in the family.

Hasekura: Business deals with Academy City are notoriously difficult...
Hasekura: so they wanted to use the Majesty title to get a daughter on the Board.

Hasekura: It isn't all that unusual an idea.
Hasekura: A lot of girls here are meant to establish a connection with the city. The Dialine Empire in Eastern Europe even sent their own empress as a student.

Hasekura: The Takebayashi family tried to up their odds with greater numbers...
Hasekura: but Tokiwadai is harder to get into than they thought and only Takebayashi Yayoi got in.
Hasekura: Still, she must have been charismatic because her clique remained the largest for a full year.

Hasekura: But that's when the scandal comes in.

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Mikoto: Ruri-senpai!
Mikoto: They say the game casino has this incredible AI dealer!

Ruri: Sorry, I have some boring Judgment work to do.
Both: Eh?

Ruri: I'll make it up to you later!

Mikoto: Ruri-senpai is doing Judgment work?

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Mikoto: This I gotta see!
Kessai: Wait, we can't follow her!

Mikoto: I'll only watch from a distance!
Mikoto: I won't get in her way.
Kessai: Hmm.

Mikoto: You're coming too, Kiyoshi?
Kessai: I'm curious too...

Hasekura: Takebayashi Yayoi's attack on Tanrei Chemicals caused a lot of damage.
Hasekura: In the end, two people were dead.

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Hasekura: It started with members of her clique being abducted by people in black.

Hasekura: Her investigation told her the girls were being held in the Tanrei Chemicals building...
Hasekura: so she raided the place.

Hasekura: After a fierce battle, she was arrested and it was reported the three missing girls were found and rescued from somewhere else entirely.

Hasekura: Based on her testimony at her trial, either Tanrei covered up the evidence using an esper...
Hasekura: or they paid off Anti-Skill.

Hasekura: Tokiwadai's board chairman erased all record of her presence at the school and her identity was never reported by the media since she was a minor.

Hasekura: She of course lost her right to the Majesty title.

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Hasekura: The Takebayashi family had invested heavily in her success, so they went bankrupt.

Hasekura: And Girl A – Takebayashi Yayoi – took her own life in prison.

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Hasekura: The rest of the Takebayashi adoptees were taken in by branch families.

Text: Konoe Nagisa
      Ninoude High
	  The above is

Hasekura: I assume they've been given some kind of role to play.

Ruri: Are you Konoe Nagisa...no, Takebayashi Nagisa?

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SFX: Turn
Nagisa: Y-you have the wrong person.

Ruri: That your disguise power? You can change your face by psychically tugging on your facial muscles, right?

SFX: Bwoosh
Ruri: Oh, dear.

SFX: Stomp

SFX: Float
Nagisa: Eh?

SFX: Slaaaam
Nagisa: Bwah!

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Ruri: No need to run. I won't hurt you.

Nagisa: I hit my face really hard but it doesn't hurt?
Nagisa: It didn't leave a mark, either.

Ruri: Can we chat for a bit?

Mikoto: Interviewing a suspect?
Mikoto: I can't tell what they're saying.

Man: She's contacted the target.
Man: That was 2 hours faster than expected.

Voice: Not a problem.

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Voice: We will arrive in 5 minutes.

Nagisa: Tanrei Chemicals?

Nagisa: Did you think I avenged Yayoi or something?

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Nagisa: I didn't mind her...
Nagisa: but we adoptees were rivals.
Nagisa: I had no obligation to her.

Nagisa: Neither did any of the others.

Nagisa: Then again, the younger ones really seemed to like her.

Mikoto(outside): Hmm
Mikoto: We need to get closer to hear them.

SFX: Gachunk

SFX: Thud
SFX: Jump

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Mikoto: Ah ha...ah ha ha ha.

Ruri: What're you doing here?
Mikoto: When else can I see you doing Judgment work?

Ruri: Sorry.
Ruri: I'll get my underclassmen to leave.

Men: Freeze!!

SFX: Stomp stomp stomp

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Kessai: What in the-?

Ruri: Anti-Skill?
Ruri: No, the weapons are wrong.

Ruri: Those guns...

Ruri: are real.
SFX: Impatient...

SFX: Dash
Ruri: Ah.

Men: Aim for the legs.
Men: Roger.

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SFX: Bang bang bang

Nagisa: Hot!
SFX: Bam bam bam
Text: Heartless gunfire. What is this armed group after?

Kessai: They shot her?

Box: To be continued next issue. The October Issue goes on sale Friday, August 25!!