"I'm definitely going to win!"
In the specially designed training ground, Mikoto Misaka smiled.
Blue-white electricity swayed and blossomed over the girl like flowers of frost.
As the petals unfurled, rings of light spreading like flowing water danced lightly, sending a feverish flush across her body.
But Roland merely watched her with a smile and lightly beckoned, offering no response to her provocation.
That silent contempt swiftly reddened Mikoto Misaka's pretty face with anger once more.
But she soon put those unnecessary emotions behind her and focused all her attention on Roland before her.
Even though she could see no weapons on him.
Even his stance was utterly casual, his loosely joined hands seemingly the only preparation he had made for this battle.
Yet she could clearly sense an indescribable terror spreading from him.
This again...
Mikoto Misaka knitted her slender brows.
It had been the same last time. Even by the time she lost, she still hadn't figured out Roland's finishing move.
Their abilities clashed too strongly in nature. Railgun was the name given to an Electromaster, someone who generated and manipulated electromagnetic phenomena, upon reaching Level 5.
When she used her ability, she was inevitably affected by natural electric fields, along with all magnetic fields and electromagnetic information.
The Esper Ability Roland called magnetic field rotation, entirely different from an AIM Diffusion Field, was particularly outstanding in that regard.
Whether she used her usual Iron Sand Sword or Lightning Spear, it made little difference before Roland. Each time, they simply collapsed in precisely the right fashion.
Her ability seemed completely ineffective against Roland, a fact even Mikoto Misaka herself found absurd.
But facts were facts.
And after the ability she prided herself on was defeated, she had been easily crushed in both physical fitness and technique, suffering an