The audience will argue my case for me.

[This really was incredible.]

[It was just that Touma had it pretty rough.]

Just as the viewers had analyzed, another identical blazing sun rose from underground, seemingly turning the tables and suppressing Mikoto instead.

"Hmm... I see."

Mikoto understood as well.

This was actually quite similar to what she had just done.

Unfortunately, she still could not pull off something like the Dirac Sea or a similar move.

This was still the "early stage of the story," so this level was about right.

"Then, it's time to enlarge it."

The attack blasting from the ground toward the sky was stopped.

By a gigantic hand of lightning.

A giant composed entirely of lightning appeared in the sky.

"Giants... require a specific attack. Adjusting the formula. Issun-boshi..."

[What the hell is Issun-boshi?]

[It's a myth from next door, the story of Issun-boshi, who's only one inch tall.]

[Damn, it really is a move specifically meant to counter giants.]

[And what is this Lightning Giant?]

[An enlarged version of the earlier one?]

[Impossible. An enlarged giant isn't even as good as a Neutron Star.]

The viewers were utterly confused, but Kamisato Kashiwazaki looked incredulous, as though she thought she had seen wrong.

"This—could it be—no way—"

There were ten cores within the Lightning Giant.

The positions of those cores were highly unusual. With a certain degree of adjustment, they formed a pattern.

—the Kabbalah Tree of Life.

"But that's impossible—how can an Esper use magic—"

What came before could be overlooked, since Mikoto herself had avoided the backlash.

But the Lightning Giant before her was clearly wrong.

"I can't use magic," Mikoto said. "Then all I need is for the one using magic not to be me."

"Huh?"

"Human thought patterns are electrical currents pulsing through the neurons of