"Come on! I told you not to worry. Didn't I just give her a can of soda? She's an accomplice now, so she won't rat us out," Chen Fan said to Kamijou Touma.
Misaka Mikoto said indignantly, "Do I really look that petty? I wouldn't snitch over something so trivial. Only you would judge a gentleman's heart by your own petty standards."
Hearing that Misaka Mikoto would not report them, Kamijou Touma felt much more at ease.
"I came to challenge you. I didn't beat you last night, and I didn't get to see that eye of yours. I'm still very unwilling to accept that—I couldn't sleep all night. I won't let you run away this time." Electricity surged from Misaka Mikoto's body with a crackle. Kamijou Touma jumped in fright when he saw it, but he could not simply stand by. Chen Fan was his classmate, after all, so he stepped in front of him. He knew the power of his right hand; whether he could block it or not, he could not let a newly made friend get hurt.
Chen Fan was rather surprised by this, but when he recalled Kamijou Touma's excessively good-natured personality, it no longer seemed strange. A faint smile appeared at the corner of Chen Fan's lips.
Seeing Kamijou Touma standing in front of that criminal, along with Chen Fan's smug smile, only made Misaka Mikoto angrier. "Oh? You've got some nerve. Some random person thinks he can stop me? I really am being underestimated."
Crackle!! The electric current intensified, and the electricity wandering through the air was terrifying.
Whoosh...! A bolt of electricity struck the vending machine. Boom! A small explosion rang out, and smoke rose from the vending machine.
Misaka Mikoto was also stunned when she heard the sound. An alarm quickly