"Bzzzt-bzzzt-"
Brilliant lightning suddenly spread in serpentine trails, its piercing crackle drowning out every other sound.
In an instant, the lightning struck Harumi Kiyama and covered her entire body.
The electrical glow rose rhythmically like breathing, surging and receding like the tide. As the shocks intensified, even the surrounding air gave off wisps of white smoke.
With so much at stake, Mikoto Misaka held nothing back.
Harumi Kiyama was only an ordinary woman, but even a professional fighter could not have resisted that attack.
Yet the first to retreat was Mikoto Misaka, her brows furrowed.
The next second, a compressed storm formed an enormous invisible blade, scattering the current and cleaving the entire room in two, sending shattered stone and twisted steel flying everywhere.
"Onee-sama!"
Kuroko Shirai cried out under her breath and gritted her teeth, but still chose to teleport Saten Ruiko, who stood beside her, out first.
After destroying several nearby rooms, the howling blade of wind kept going, smashing the outer corridors and walls to pieces before finally stopping.
"Kuroko, be careful! She's Multi-Skilled!"
Only then did Mikoto Misaka's spirited warning reach them.
"What?"
Kuroko Shirai gasped, staring uncertainly at the current dispersing in front of Harumi Kiyama.
Rather than dispersing, the electrical light seemed to have been gathered in a single direction, like a branching river channel.
The electric shock had not been ineffective. Harumi Kiyama had been resisting the current while simultaneously manipulating the atmosphere into a storm.
"Electro-induction field and atmospheric manipulation abilities... To think that doctor's hypothesis was actually right."
Kuroko Shirai frowned slightly at Harumi Kiyama's composure. She had not even taken her hands out of her pockets.
"Just like that Gekota doctor suspected," Saten Ruiko said, nervously raising the report in her hands.
"Miss Kiyama is the hub of the shared