At some point, the night sky above Academy City suddenly became thick with dark clouds.
"Rumble..."
Thunder rumbled within them, as though it could strike at any moment.
"Biri Biri—!"
Beneath the dark clouds, a surge of lightning flared, countless currents darting through it with extraordinary intensity.
"Bang—!"
With a dull impact, a streak of lightning that came hurtling over was viciously slapped away by a hand.
"Bang bang bang bang bang—!"
As one dull impact after another rang out, bolts of electricity were slapped aside in succession, shooting into the sky and vanishing into the dark clouds, making the thunder rumbling within even more dazzling.
Fang Li knocked away every incoming bolt of electricity like that. Feeling his arms go slightly numb, he could not help speaking up.
"Don't you think that was a little too powerful!?"
Misaka Mikoto, whose entire body crackled with electricity, was unconcerned by Fang Li's accusation.
"Isn't it ineffective against you anyway?"
With a competitive smile, Misaka Mikoto gave that reply.
"Let me go all out!"
As she spoke, the currents surging over Misaka Mikoto's body began to dance, circling back and forth across the ground around her.
"Bzz—!"
The air began to hum.
That was the sound caused by a black tide surging up from underground and swirling around Misaka Mikoto.
"That's..."
Fang Li looked on in surprise.
"Iron sand...?"
Misaka Mikoto was an electrical Esper, but she could do more than simply discharge electricity. She could manipulate electrons and electromagnetism as well.
Thus, through her control of electromagnetic force, Misaka Mikoto could not only run across buildings of steel and concrete, but also gather all the iron sand from the soil within a two-hundred-meter radius, using magnetism to make it move according to her will.
"If electricity doesn't work on you, then