"The first step is complete!"
Finally...
After a full hour of bickering and horsing around, Sister Index, the novice mage, finally lowered the paintbrush she'd been gripping in her hand. She stood in the middle of the pristine hall in little Annie's mansion, holding a small bowl of scarlet liquid. Under everyone's expectant gaze, she'd at last finished drawing the large magic array for her "first" practical experiment...
"Honestly!!"
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"You awful people actually wanted to draw blood from a little eight-year-old girl like me... It was so painful, so cruel, so evil! Put your hands over your hearts—doesn't your conscience hurt at all?!"
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Annie truly despised those four people who'd bullied her, a little girl, and shamelessly insisted on drawing blood from Her Majesty Queen Annie!
So even though a full hour had passed and Index had finished drawing the other side's ridiculously boring magic array, Annie still stood with her hands on her hips, loudly and righteously scolding the three older girls standing off to the side with guilty looks on their faces for their cruel, evil behavior.
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(Tibbers doesn't feel like talking right now...)
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Misaka Mikoto and Uiharu Kazari exchanged a glance, then turned away in unison. Clearly, they didn't want to respond to the little girl's remarks at such a crucial moment and risk disturbing Index's work in the slightest.
Besides, they didn't think they'd actually done anything wrong just now. At least, not to the little girl who wouldn't let a point go once she'd made it?
"Hmph!"
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"It's too late for you to go quiet now! That's just your little bit of shame and guilt kicking in after you did something bad. It doesn't change the fact that your consciences have gone rotten!!"
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Little Annie continued