(Thank you very much to 'Tianming. Canyue,' 'Kaede no Chōrei,' 'Twilight Nine-Winged Angel,' 'Kanata Roujin-kun,' 'Yuezuki Tatsuha,' 'Yan Yu Jiangnan,' and 'Yume no Shouyou' for their tips!)
The next day...
When the first ray of sunlight shone down from the sky, passing through the Boundary of Illusion and Reality without the slightest obstruction and entering the City of Different Eras, its streets were utterly silent, as though they had lost all vitality.
But that did not mean the residents of the City of Different Eras were slacking off inside their homes, hiding in warm beds and refusing to get up. On the contrary, they were more diligent than usual.
Because in an open area before the Heart of the Eras, a full twenty thousand residents of the City of Different Eras, all identical in appearance, height, hair color, and physique, stood arranged in neat military formation, waiting for their commanders to arrive.
At that moment, all twenty thousand Misaka Sisters wore extremely revealing skintight suits. Various technological accessories were fitted across their bodies, thrusters were mounted on their backs, and heavy cannons were attached to one arm.
These were personal tactical equipment that applied Manifestation Devices entirely to combat: Tactical Manifestation Units, or CR-UNITs for short!
The Manifestation Devices used for battle were stored within wearable connection devices called Circuit Suits—the skintight suits that carried the Manifestation Devices—and could be equipped instantly during combat.
As basic equipment, Circuit Suits came with fundamental Manifestation Devices capable of generating an invisible field around the user, one that ordinary people could not see and that could perform different functions according to the user's will—Territory!
Of course, this was a function shared by all CR-UNITs, but the quality of those functions depended entirely on the overall performance of the CR-UNIT. The better its performance,