Foreshadowing paid off. / Mikoto: So you're saying you're pretty tough, huh?

[They've already called out Michael's name.]

[It might not be Michael, but it's definitely a real angel.]

[Compared to that "Hyper-ranker," this thing really could be called crude.]

"So it's just cannon fodder."

Accelerator snarked.

After receiving Index's explanation, Accelerator also sped up her analysis of the spell.

She was gradually beginning to understand everything.

Though she still could not reflect it completely, she had already found a way to deal with that eye.

"Cannon fodder should get off the stage already. If you're coming, then send in the real deal!"

Shirley Cromwell's Stone Giant spell was, at its core, a technique that imitated angels.

But Index, who had already witnessed "high-end battles," now found this crude magic almost blasphemous.

—Even if it could not compare to that "Hyper-ranker," it should at least bring out something decent, shouldn't it?

However, the owner of that eyeball apparently did not think so.

"Hehehehe, all right, the queue is starting." That voice was still frivolous. "Cry your heart out inside a decaying grave covered in dirt and stone."

The eyeball suddenly vanished.

And the instant it disappeared, the entire underground mall lost power.

[This girl's got guts.]

[LMAO, the First One, the Second One, and the Third One are all here. This is Academy City's strongest fighting force.]

[Shirley Cromwell: This is the most glorious moment of my life.]

[To be fair, in the original story, this girl came to start a war. Maybe she really came prepared to die.]

[This doesn't even count as dying for a cause, 233.]

Snap—

The next moment, the lights that had gone out resumed operation, and the entire underground mall, whose power supply had been cut off, was restored.

Of course, it was not that the power supply had returned. Someone was generating electricity.

"Mikoto, are