Aura's Mask

Stiyl, Ruiko Saten, Kazari Uiharu, Laura Stuart, Misaka Mikoto, Kanzaki Kaori, Shirai Kuroko (pronounced "biantai"), and even Misaka Misaka and that loli-loving Accelerator we'd picked up along the way... The fact that I'd managed to gather together this bunch of people from the same A Certain Magical Index world who otherwise had absolutely nothing to do with one another made me feel ridiculously accomplished when they lined up before me.

I should get them to sign an autograph for me first.

It looked like Sandora's guess had been completely right. She'd told me long ago that although the invited guests from each world weren't required to arrive in Shadow City until a week later, aside from the few worlds that truly couldn't come early, none of the representatives from our vassal races would be willing to lag behind. They would definitely arrive one after another ahead of schedule. And sure enough, the cheerful leaders from Azeroth had ditched work one by one and flocked to my house on the second day to play WoW all day, while the A Certain Magical Index world had come as a group too. I'd even heard that a transmission signal from the direction of Vidis had just been received. Those faction leaders really were people of action. Their enthusiasm for an event as grand as the Multi-world Carnival was incredible.

Misaka Mikoto and the other middle school girls from Academy City naturally didn't count as faction leaders, but they were now special representatives of the Science Side in the A Certain Magical Index world. Everyone knew that Academy City's former ruler had changed his name to Aiwass the Bonewalker, an undead creature who had become a complete slave. With the approval and support of the Empire's Command Headquarters, the Hanging Man had carried out