"Ha! Ha!"
Faster, I have to go even faster...
Shirai Kuroko's mind was a complete mess. She ran and crawled, using her Level 4 spatial-movement ability, Speed, to teleport rapidly and repeatedly toward her friends' secret base. Even after avoiding the busy areas under cover of night, it still took several minutes before she finally reached her destination, carrying a blood-soaked white thigh and supporting "Misaka Mikoto" 9982, who had long since lost consciousness but was still tightly clutching a certain frog badge.
Bang~!!
As soon as she finally reached the sturdy huanghuali-wood front door, she immediately rammed open the completely unlocked inner door. Carrying the body of a familiar "stranger" that had grown incomparably heavy, she charged into the hall where they had treated their friend Saten Ruiko several days earlier, and the two of them collapsed together onto the smooth white marble floor.
"..."
"Sister, my dear Sister..."
Shirai Kuroko immediately propped up her exhausted body. Enduring the splitting headache caused by repeatedly using long-distance teleportation, she sat up from the floor. After staring blankly for a long while at her "dear Sister," who was completely unconscious and barely breathing, and at the crimson severed leg lying on the floor, she suddenly realized something.
"Is anyone there?!"
"Come quickly and save her, aaah~!!!!"
Even though she knew that this "dear Sister" was not her actual Sister, the shock was simply too much for Shirai Kuroko. After coming back to her senses, she immediately threw open her throat and shouted loudly through the enormous, seemingly empty house.
"Coming, coming!"
"Honestly, you didn't bring us any food today, yet now you've come over in the middle of the night to disturb our sleep. We're very angry right now!!"
Index had heard the unusual crash of the door long ago. Knowing