After the chaos had continued for quite some time, the streets in the neighboring Seventh and Eighth School Districts of Academy City finally began to quiet down. The Lava Two-Headed Hounds had stopped chasing people, and nearly all the Anti-Skill officers, passersby, and residents had fled the area.
The cruel facts had once again proven that when a Level 5 esper standing at the very top of Academy City was prepared to face Level 0 powerless people (ordinary folks), she had an overwhelming advantage!
So, if more than a thousand Anti-Skill officers armed with rifles and other light weapons hadn't been able to put up much of a fight, then it was even less surprising that they'd been routed by a certain troublesome little girl who played dumb to catch people off guard. Though she'd only used power at a Level 5 scale, her control over fire was already astonishingly refined. Just like the Anti-Skill officers outside, their best outcome was to run away as fast as they could.
Without being able to identify the little girl's location and take her down immediately, they had no better choice when faced with monsters that didn't fear rifle fire, were immensely strong, and radiated scorching heat.
"..."
"Annie, your big fiery dogs didn't cause too many casualties, did they?"
After waiting a while, Misaka Mikoto finally took a few steps out of the alley. Looking at the Anti-Skill officers lying motionless on the ground, the shell casings and bullet marks littering the street, the overturned and torn-up armored vehicles, the rifles and debris scattered everywhere, the roadside flower beds burned black, the trees broken and scorched, their cracked trunks smoking, the red lava splashed all over the place, and the wrecked public facilities, she couldn't help asking the little girl who'd gone