Mikoto's Sugar Daddy

[If a Magic God really showed up, just drag them off to link the fire.]

[Let me correct that: there was never any fire-linking. It was actually spontaneous combustion caused by changes in the world itself.]

[As long as it starts burning, it all counts as linking the fire. 233]

After that massive attack, the surrounding space returned to normal...

A sewer beneath the ruins.

Shirley was lying on the ground.

After that, the "ruins" that had originally been destroyed began to change.

The dust gradually reformed.

Everything around them gradually returned to calm.

All the shattered rubble and twisted steel bars were changing at that very moment.

It was not time reversal, yet everything was being restored.

It was not only inorganic matter that was recovering. People were as well.

Shirley Cromwell, who had seemed to have been reduced to an idiot moments ago, appeared to have recovered too.

"Did I... die? That attack... I should have been reduced to ashes."

Shirley stared blankly upward.

It had clearly become a field of ruins, yet the sky above seemed to have been restored to how it originally was.

The unbelievable sight made Shirley question reality itself.

"No. The Hyper-ranker never attacked you."

Mikoto's voice came from nearby.

"Your mind was destroyed before its attack could reach you. But for a Hyper-ranker, reconstructing a mind it destroyed is very simple."

Once the surrounding space had recovered, the giant vanished as well.

"You... no... Who exactly are you? What I saw just now, was it an illusion or reality?"

Shirley Cromwell struggled to get up, only to realize that she could barely move.

Witnessing that miracle had completely drained her strength.

"Misaka... Mikoto," Mikoto answered. "Then who are you?"

"Twenty years ago... some people in both the Anglican Church and Academy City