I hear you want to see the Railgun? / Come on, let's clean up the world!

[There are other experts?]

[This world has quite a lot of problems to deal with.]

[Who knows what issues might come up.]

[Hot take: Mikoto beside Shokuhou is actually a Misaka Sister too. The real Mikoto is an electronic ghost.]

[Why don't you just ascend to heaven while you're at it?]

[The Matrix, huh? I'm dying.]

At that moment, the scene shifted again.

Kamisato Kashiwazaki had returned to the hospital room.

"You saw Index?" Stiyl asked.

"Mm." Kamisato Kashiwazaki nodded, then said, "She has a... collar around her neck. It is probably a bomb that activates once a year has passed. There was never any memory problem at all. It was... a restriction imposed by the Church itself."

This was the truth about Index.

Touma Hears You Want to See a Certain Scientific Railgun?

Touma was not an idiot, so he did not remove Index's "collar" right away—his previous amnesia seemed to have been related to it.

Unfortunately, he was now a "Replicant," so there was no way for him to verify it.

In any case, there were still two months until it happened, so he might as well figure out what was going on first.

"Then... the preliminary daily-life introduction is more or less complete. Let everything begin."

Director Misaka began her script.

"Hehehehehehe."

A new episode began.

At the start of the story, the screen remained black, followed by a soft humming.

It was Arisa Meigo.

The girl hummed a tune as she stood on a street beneath the setting sun, seemingly deep in thought.

"Right, this melody... like this... and then this..."

The girl took out a notebook and began making adjustments on it.

Bits and pieces of completed music began to emerge.

"Oh, you're that singer who has been getting popular online recently, right?"

At that