"Attacks involving research institutions have been increasing at an alarming rate lately."
Misaki Shokuhou looked at the enormous screen before her, a thoughtful expression on her face.
The monitoring system before her was the tangible result of using Yafei and the Imperial Polarity Scripture as the central computer, together with Judgment's outward-facing Library.
Although it did not cover every detail like Aleister's AIM Diffusion Field, combined with the monitoring of minds and wills by Yafei, who possessed Magnetic Field Power, it could often prevent incidents before they happened.
Now that Academy City had begun returning to its normal schedule, this system deserved considerable credit.
However, because of the special nature of research institutions, apart from those that had actively drawn closer to the Blue Dream Company, quite a few facilities still chose to handle security themselves.
After all, many people believed that against someone capable of openly destroying a research institution's security, a few more Yafei would change nothing.
The gulf created by this difference in understanding meant that Misaki Shokuhou had little detailed intelligence at hand.
Still, she would not have worried about this matter anyway.
The girl curled her lips and looked behind her.
Dressed in her Tokiwadai uniform, Mikoto Misaka stood quietly to one side, staring at the screen with her arms folded, without a word.
"What do you think, Misaka?"
"I thought you would have seen this coming ages ago."
Mikoto Misaka pursed her lips and tapped her arm irritably with her fingers.
She hated that deliberately mysterious tone of Misaki Shokuhou's. To her, that attitude felt like a silent taunt.
"I did foresee that you would take action."
Misaki Shokuhou sighed softly.
"But I didn't expect you to be this reckless. Destroying over seventy percent of the research facilities in one go, in an Academy