"Phew!"
"Ah... Another pleasant weekend day is almost over!"
As she walked out of the restaurant, Mikoto Misaka stretched, then took a deep breath and sighed.
"Mm..."
"The air outside is so nice! It's already dark, though... I wonder how Uiharu and Saten are doing. They should be on their way back by now, I guess?"
It was already pitch-black. From where Mikoto stood, all she could make out in the distance were the hazy lights of the streetlamps, the rows of neon signs on the high-rises, and the colorful LED displays. They were too indistinct to see clearly.
By now, the beautiful nightscape of Academy City must have begun to emerge...
But Mikoto had no desire to go out for a walk. She'd already spent most of the day wandering around with her two new friends, and then the four of them had spent another good while fooling around that afternoon. Right now, she was exhausted. Besides, she'd grown up here and knew Academy City inside and out, so she truly had not the slightest urge to go shopping.
After sighing, Mikoto turned away from the student cafeteria and headed toward the dormitory.
"Mm..."
"That's right. Those two annoying eyesores are finally gone..."
Following right behind her dear onee-sama as they left the cafeteria, Kuroko Shirai strolled along after her toward their dorm room, still looking a little listless... But compared to how she'd been in the dorm that afternoon and during dinner just now, she was clearly in much better spirits. From this moment on, her onee-sama belonged to her Kuroko alone again. There'd be no more annoying people around to ruin their time together!
And who knew? Maybe tonight, Kuroko might even get a chance to make her move?
The thing she'd ordered from the online store