"You..."
Misaka Mikoto found it becoming strangely difficult to speak.
"What did you just say?"
She was not asking because she had failed to hear him clearly, but because she needed to confirm it once more.
Yet Fang Li looked puzzled, as though he had not realized he had said anything important. "What did I say? I said I thought what I was doing was a good thing, didn't I?"
But that was not what Misaka Mikoto wanted to hear.
Still, she no longer needed to confirm it again.
Because Misaka Mikoto was certain that she had not heard wrong.
(If... if that's really the case...)
Then perhaps, just as Fang Li had said, those experiments that could not see the light of day in Academy City would no longer be able to continue.
For one thing, the Project Ability User Evolution that had plagued Misaka Mikoto for so long would be unable to proceed.
After all, that plan required a great many locations for combat and experiments—twenty thousand of them, no less.
Even if half of them could be carried out in various research facilities, the remaining half—more than ten thousand locations—would definitely have to be outside.
If so many sites became impossible to prepare because of Scorpius, then wouldn't the Project Ability User Evolution be stillborn?
At that thought, a sliver of hope rose within Misaka Mikoto.
But immediately afterward, Misaka Mikoto came to her senses and hurriedly shook her head, throwing the thought aside.
"You... you can't do this." Misaka Mikoto hurriedly said to Fang Li, "There are satellites monitoring Academy City from above. If you really make such a huge move, the people up there will definitely find out. The Security Guards and Disciplinary Committee Members will also be dispatched at once."
This was no joke.