The dim little room was silent, save for the faint, steady sound of breathing. The luxurious décor, unmistakably in the High Elf style, made it easy to tell that this was none other than Annie's palace on the floating island.
At that moment, a small figure lay motionless on the single bed in the room. It was hard to tell how she was doing.
"Mm..."
Suddenly!
The person on the bed murmured as if in a dream.
"Ah!!"
Then she abruptly opened her eyes and cried out as she sat up. The soft blanket that had been covering her slipped slowly from her neck, revealing her slender, fair, smooth body.
"??"
After her cry, the twin-tailed girl with brown hair and a ribbon, who had been dozing with her head on the edge of the bed, finally lifted it groggily.
Looking closely, the person leaning against the bed was none other than Kuroko.
And sitting on the bed, looking bewildered as she nervously clutched the blanket and glanced around, was Mikoto Misaka, who had passed out during the battle earlier that day.
"!!"
"Big Sister?"
"Thank goodness!"
"You're finally awake!"
"Wah..."
"Thank goodness! Really, thank goodness!!"
When Kuroko saw that her beloved Big Sister had finally woken up, she cheered loudly and sprang to her feet. Then she pounced on Mikoto, who was sitting there with her eyes open, looking lost and seemingly unable to grasp what had happened. She buried her face against Mikoto's chest and began sobbing loudly.
"?!"
"Kuroko?"
"Wait!"
"What am I..."
Only after she saw that the person who had pounced into her arms was Kuroko did Mikoto begin to relax. She looked at her hands, then at her perfectly smooth, unharmed body, and furrowed her brow in thought, as if trying to figure out