While the ever-reckless student of Academy City—the first-year transfer student at Tokiwadai Middle School, one of the city's only eight Level 5 esper, a fire-wielding esper, and the newly minted ninth wonder of Academy City—was busy stuffing her face at a restaurant with a certain cute cosplayer she'd picked up off the street, the rumor about her had barely begun to spread: "She kills without blinking, eats people without salting them, and likes to burn them to ashes in one blast of fire." That fiery Great Demon King was Annie Annie Hastur. Meanwhile, in the dining hall of the student dormitory outside Tokiwadai's School Garden, Kuroko Shirai was having dinner with her sister, Mikoto Misaka, and Mikoto's two new friends, Kazari Uiharu and Ruiko Saten, chatting and laughing with them while wearing a deeply aggrieved expression.
Of course, while Ruiko Saten and Kazari Uiharu happily chatted and ate with Mikoto Misaka, enjoying a delicious "special" student meal that supposedly only School Garden students could have, Kuroko Shirai gloomily buried her head in her own "special" student meal...
"Haha..."
"You're so funny, Senior Mikoto..."
"Huh? That happened?"
"So that's how it was..."
Kazari Uiharu and Ruiko Saten were delighted today. Not only had they gotten the chance to visit the luxurious, residence-like dormitory where only the young ladies of Tokiwadai Middle School were allowed to live, they'd also been treated to a student dinner supposedly custom-made for the School Garden by the maid apprentices of the Ryouran Maid School. Their long-held wish had finally come true. They felt that no day in their lives could ever be happier than today!
So, in their excitement, they chatted away with Senior Mikoto around the dinner table, occasionally letting out a cheerful laugh.
But...
The gloomy-looking girl didn't join in their conversation. She hadn't