A Certain Scientific Bee-eater

"No wonder Misaka-san doesn't have any friends. I haven't done anything like crying in front of others since I was three years old! It's okay if you don't feel grateful, but you still say such insulting words! It's unreasonable!"

"Who is it that is incomprehensible..."

Misaka Mikoto was stunned when she heard this.

"And in the end, who is it because of people like this! You made people into such a mess, Misaka-san, are you planning to evade responsibility like this? You're scum!"

However, Shokuhou Caoqi didn't listen to the other party's words, and complained angrily.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain

Misaka Mikoto couldn't help complaining, but then she seemed to be amused by what she said, and sighed with a smile,

"But... um, that's how I know you. But then again, it's really nice..."

Seriously, talking to oneself like this, can you do it more quietly if you want to change the subject?

"What's great?"

Even though she thought so, Shokuhou Misaki asked as if she didn't know anything.

"It's... that... I said before that we were friends, friends or something... At that time, the situation was completely overwhelmed and I said it out, but after thinking about it, I always felt a little uneasy."

Misaka Mikoto looked away, her cheeks flushed slightly, and she stuttered.

"But seeing how worried you are about me, you see me as a friend, don't you? It's great that I'm not just talking to myself—"

"No."

However, before the other party could finish speaking, Shokuhou Misaka interrupted Misaka Mikoto indifferently.

"Eh?"

Misaka Mikoto was stunned for a moment, and then spoke urgently,

"Wait, wait, didn't you? You were so worried about me just now?"

"That and this are two different things. Although I don't want you to die, it is absolutely impossible to be friends,"

As Misaka Mikoto's eyes gradually turned gray, Shokuhou Misaki made her own declaration.

"Misaka-san, please give up."

That's right, in the past, she couldn't be friends with Misaka Mikoto because of her unpleasant experiences and misunderstanding that she was the same as other people who couldn't accept her abilities.

But now that she has experienced such a thing together, she knows that the other party is different from others, and not only fully accepts herself, but even makes her feel the reality of the world.

She already regards Misaka Mikoto as one of her most important people.

She wants to keep the other person by her side, wants to make the other person only her own, and wants to be with the other person forever... This is an increasingly greedy desire, she doesn't want to use 'friend' or some exact word to describe the relationship imprisoned as a yoke.

It can be said that she is cunning and willful, right?Maybe it's just like the other party once complained about 'where is she the queen'.

But what does it matter?Having been forced to taste the pain of loss, she will never let the future become BadEnding again this time.

ps: Misaka・[Atmosphere Breaker]・[Speaking straight]・Mikoto (dead eyes): How, how could this happen...

44. That, that part is not good!

After that, Misaka Mikoto, who seemed devastated, fell into silence.

Presumably the other party misunderstood that he refused to be friends with her?No, in a sense, it is not a misunderstanding.

Because Shokuhou Caoqi really does not want to agree to be friends with the other party, but it is not that he refuses to get along with him, but that he does not want the relationship between two people to be imprisoned by the definition of 'friend'.

In short, she is not satisfied with just staying with Misaka Mikoto in the ordinary relationship of 'friends'.

If she had said it properly, Misaka Mikoto would probably not have been hit so hard, but she still held back and did not explain.

Not being able to confess your sincerity to others may be part of the reason, but the main reason is,

——Retaliation for Misaka Mikoto saying that she...that thing.

Although I knew that the other party was such a straightforward personality, I guessed that maybe it was deliberately done by the other party to hide her shyness or to make her change her mood.

However, unhappy is unhappy.

Shokuhou Misaki is stingy.

"Ah, I remember..."

Should it be a big heart or something, just after a while, Misaka Mikoto recovered from her "eyes dead" state, and spoke as if she suddenly remembered something.

"Shokuhou, I want to ask you something."

"What's the matter? I want a kiss☆~?"

Shokuhou Misaki, who had regained his senses, opened his mouth in doubt as he tapped his lips with his finger.

"That's not it! What is 'love kiss'! Didn't you just reject me from your friends!"

Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but speak with some grief and anger, and then she frowned and blushed slightly.

"What I want to say is that from the very beginning, I felt a bulge at the waist on the ground. I guess it was a gravel or something. The stabbed hurts my back, so... Can you, can you help me move my body?"

"Eh?"

Shokuhou Caoqi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard the words.

- 'Can you...'

The unfinished words that the other party said to her not long ago flashed in her mind. Could it be that,

"Is that what you wanted to say to me in the first place?"

"In the beginning...? Ah, yes, you suddenly lay on top of me and cried, so I never had a chance to say, what's wrong?"

Misaka Mikoto asked with a confused expression on her face.

"No, it's alright..."

Recalling past events because of deja vu, and then self-consciously breaking down without confirming it at all... The source of the trace turns out to be something like 'helping to move your body'?

Ah, she didn't want anyone to know about this, especially Misaka Mikoto.

In order to prevent exposure, why don't we put a 'firewall' on this memory later...?

While thinking about it to herself, Shokuhou Kaori stretched out her arm, intending to help Misaka Mikoto move her body, but she didn't expect her hand to just touch the opponent's waist,

"Ah~!"

Underneath Misaka Mikoto, she couldn't help but let out a seductive girl's scream.

"...?"

Shokuhou Caoqi, who stopped moving, looked down in a daze: the other party's pale cheeks were now red like a ripe apple, biting his lip, not daring to look directly at her.

"Well, not there...! I...my waist is very sensitive, so...no way."

It's like 'a young girl who accidentally touched sensitive parts after being pushed down, and exposed her weaknesses in order to hide her shyness', but such a 'rejection' will only make people more popular.

"Eh... So Misaka-san can make such a cute voice?"

Especially for the current Shokuhou Kai, it is even more lethal.

"What are you talking about, ah~"

Before Misaka Mikoto could finish her words, her sensitive parts were 'attacked' again. She resisted the shame and said angrily,

"Hey, I already told you that it can't be done there, ah~!"

"Even though he's asking for help, yet he still uses this attitude? Bad boys should be punished~"

Shokuhou Misaki, who seemed to be the incarnation of Queen S, showed a happy expression on his face.

"...! You bastard, bastard! Demon! Hmm~—"

"Damn, when I recover, I must make you look good, ummm~"

"Ah, it really is the arrogant Misaka-san, really refuses to bow your head~ Do you have to say harsh words at such a time? Originally, I just planned to play a prank and stop, but it is rare to have such an opportunity."

If this is a manga rather than reality, then there is probably black air coming out of Shokuhou Kauki. She looked at Misaka Mikoto, who looked like a 'prey to be slaughtered' under her. A switch is turned on,

"Let's settle the old and new hatred together, Misaka-san☆~"

Miss Shokuhou Caoqi is very vengeful.

ps: Misaka Mikoto (playing a bad face): Shoku, Shokuhou...you...you wait for me, I will return this hatred to you sooner or later...

ps2: The belated security guard (standing at the door with an embarrassed face): This...are we coming at the wrong time?

45. To Hug

When the long-arriving security guard finally arrived, Shokuhou Misaka put the arm of Misaka Mikoto, which seemed to be broken, on his neck, and supported the opponent who had regained some mobility. went out.

Although I don't know why the oncoming guard looked embarrassed.

But what happened next went smoothly.

The guards arrested almost all of the 'Death Knot' members one by one. According to the 'criminal evidence' provided by Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto, they will all be punished.

Of course, Shokuhou Misaki didn't forget to use [Psychological Mastery] to give them the psychological suggestion that 'Don't hurt Shokuhou Misaki and Misaka Mikoto'.

After all, it is also important to eliminate potential dangers.

When the guards took prisoners in custody, Shokuhou Misaki told the other party the clues about the 'mastermind', hoping that they could contact nearby colleagues to hunt them down.

Although after being ambushed, she felt that the possibility that the other party would actually be at the address that Misaka Mikoto traced through the Internet was very slim.

But maybe we can find some clues that the other party has no time to destroy?

However, when Shokuhou Misaki told the guards the address, there was a strange look on the other party's face.

"The place you mentioned had a gas leak three days ago, detonating the experimental equipment inside, and the entire institute was almost razed to the ground."

This shocking news was also said.

"what……"

Shokuhou Caoqi suddenly remembered that Misaka Mikoto's confused expression when she tracked down the address at that time, I'm afraid the other party also knows about it, right?

And she didn't pay attention because she was hospitalized and her whole mind was investigating the 'Dead Knot' boy group.

"However, it's strange to say that the gas pipeline is buried deep underground. How could a leak happen? And it happened to detonate the experimental equipment..."