A Certain Scientific Bee-eater

"I have searched in a carpet-like manner for many times, and I have searched the road section I passed today several times, but I still can't find it... Could it have been collected as garbage by the sweeping robot?"

If that's the case, it's really impossible to get it back.

It was already afternoon, and now, Misaka Mikoto had to give up her search and walked towards the dormitory full of exhaustion.

But on the bright side, in case it was really lost because of the collision in the morning, after she left, the girl who was hit by her might find the quack on the ground and put it away.

So go ask that girl...

Although she thought so optimistically, Misaka Mikoto also knew that she didn't know each other, and she couldn't remember the other person's appearance very well. It was difficult to find a stranger in the huge seventh school district who only had a relationship with one side.

And she wasn't sure that the girl must live in District [-].

After all, the tram tracks and bus routes, except for a few places that outsiders were not allowed to enter, had already filled the entire Academy City.

"Ugh……"

Misaka Mikoto couldn't help but sighed deeply when she saw the Guata doll that Junko Hobaze gave to her.

Not only met friends with common interests, but also got new collections. If I hadn't lost the ornaments, today would have been a very good day——

- "Someone! I beg you! Please help me!"

At this moment, a burst of crying mixed with crying suddenly came from across the road.

Misaka Mikoto turned her head suspiciously, and saw a petite girl with a wreath on her head and a dress crying to the people around her at the door of the bank where the security door was put down even though it was daytime.

- "There are robbers in it! The Disciplinary Committee was attacked by the robbers! Please help me!"

Although a passerby passed by the girl, they just looked at it with strange eyes and left quickly.

This is also normal.

After all, everyone is just an ordinary student, and how can a robber who can rob a bank openly in broad daylight be a generalist?What's more, this sentence is said from the mouth of a child who looks like a primary school student, and people can't help but doubt its authenticity.

"You can only blame your bad luck..."

The corners of Misaka Mikoto's mouth rose slightly, then turned and walked towards the opposite side.

Although there is still the option of calling the security guards, it may be too late when they arrive, not to mention that Misaka Mikoto, who is full of resentment, just happened to want to vent at this time.

"You just said there were robbers in there?"

Arriving in front of the girl who was squatting on the side of the road crying helplessly due to the indifference of the people around her to help her, Misaka Mikoto slightly bent down to support her knees and asked.

3. Misaka Mikoto and the Bank Robbery ([-])

Boom, boom—!

But before the little girl with the wreath on her head could open her mouth, there was a loud noise from the side, and the bank security door in front of Misaka Mikoto bulged outwards from the middle, as if it had received a strong impact from a certain point. ,then,

Boom, boom—!

A few more noises came, and the originally deformed security door was finally broken through unbearably, and a large irregular hole was split in the middle, and the situation inside could be seen through it with the help of light:

A man who seemed to be holding something very small in his hand, and a little girl with a brown double ponytail hairstyle that looked a little embarrassed, collapsed in front of him.

There seemed to be many shards of blast-proof glass on the ground.

"Shiroi-san—!"

The little girl with a wreath on her head, who seemed to have finally recovered from the tragic state of the security door in front of her, immediately wanted to get up and rush in, but was quickly stopped by Misaka Mikoto.

"Let go, let me go! Shirai-san is inside...and there are others...the robber—"

The little girl who was grabbed by her collar struggled to break free from her hands, and spoke incoherently and excitedly.

"Calm down, if the classmate Shirai you are talking about is a brown girl with two ponytails, her life is not in danger, so calm down and tell me the situation first."

Misaka Mikoto spoke helplessly.

This little girl with a wreath on her head has a very petite body, and she can't see what's inside through the big hole in the security door, so she's probably too worried about the safety of the people inside, right?

"Yes, there are robbers! Wanting to take me as a hostage, Shirai-san used his ability to transfer me out in order to protect me, but Shirai-san is still inside..."

After struggling to no avail, the garland girl finally calmed down and explained, then raised her head with tears in her eyes, grabbed the hem of Misaka Mikoto's clothes and prayed,

"Sister, are you a high-level capable person? It might be too late when the guards arrive, please save Shirai-san—!"

"Ah~ I know, I know, I don't need you to tell me I plan to do it."

Misaka Mikoto hurriedly opened her mouth, then put her schoolbag at her feet, and put the Guata doll in the other hand into the little girl's arms, smiled and touched the other's head,

"Take care of it for me? Don't worry, I'll save your friend~"

Then he got up and walked to the security door that had been broken through, raising his arms to face the front.

crackling—

Several electric lights flashed around her body, and the security door in front of her suddenly trembled irregularly, and then,

pop, boom-

As Misaka Mikoto's arm slowly moved upward, the security door was easily lifted from the bottom to the top like a curtain, completely deformed to the point where it was out of shape.

Without the barrier of the anti-theft door, the scene in the bank was finally exposed:

The staff and customers seemed to have been driven to the other corner. On the ground in front of the counter lay a girl with a wound on her forehead and a man with a satchel, next to a tattered guard robot.

As for the little girl with double ponytails and the man who was suspected of being a prisoner that she had seen through the hole in the security door earlier, she was looking at her in surprise at this time.

"What, what's going on? Could it be that the guards have arrived...?"

"No, I'm just an ordinary citizen."

Misaka Mikoto shook her head in denial, then looked at the man with an ugly face in front of her,

"Although I have almost guessed it, let's make sure for the moment. Are you the robber?"

"...I thought it was the guards who arrived, but it turned out to be a little girl without long eyes,"

The man was slightly relieved, looked at Misaka Mikoto with a sneer, and threw a steel ball at her,

"Give you a little memory. If you want to learn how to be an unsung hero in movies, I advise you to go back as soon as possible to eat for a few more years!"

"Come on, he's capable—"

The twin ponytail girl next to her shouted in a hurry.

But even without her reminder, Misaka Mikoto felt a hint of danger from the steel ball that was flying towards her and was not very fast, and her body instinctively dodged.

Bang-!

However, the steel ball flashed by her continued to fly forward at a low speed, and even forcibly knocked a hole in the door frame.

"What is this..."

Misaka Mikoto couldn't help being a little stunned.

"lv3 [absolutely constant velocity], the item I threw, unless it is destroyed or its ability effect is removed, it will continue to move forward no matter what is in front of it."

As the man spoke, he took out a steel ball from his pocket.

It turns out that, that's why the anti-theft door was destroyed unnaturally just now. It would be a bit bad if it was hit, but because the speed remains unchanged, it can only fly in a straight line. In this case,

"...As long as you pay attention to dodging, there is nothing to be afraid of, do you think so?"

A grim smile appeared on the man's face, and then he suddenly threw all the steel balls he just took out of his hand towards Misaka Mikoto.

"Who said you can only throw one at a time? If it's so dense, even if you want to hide—"

Crack-!

Before the man could finish speaking, there was a flash of lightning on Misaka Mikoto's forehead, and the steel balls flying towards her in front of her attracted each other like magnets and stuck to each other, and then fell weakly from mid-air.

"It seems that your abilities are useless to me~"

A smile appeared on Misaka Mikoto's face.

"What, what?! Give the steel ball attached to my ability to... the electric shocker? Magnetic control? It seems that the level will not be lower than lv3..."

The man's eyes widened and he panicked, then he took out a fruit knife from behind and rushed towards the girl with two ponytails who was also a little stunned.

"Take the hostage first—!"

It's not good, the girl with ponytails doesn't seem to have recovered from the surprise just now. If she is really caught by a man as a hostage and blackmailed, her ability will be greatly limited for the safety of the girl. .

You can't let the opponent succeed.

I immediately came to this conclusion in my mind, but the distance from the double ponytail girl is obviously closer to the man, even if I rush over now, I can't catch up, so I can only use that one...

It may cause damage, but as long as the power is carefully controlled, it will be fine.

It seemed like a long time, but it was only a moment. Misaka Mikoto made up her mind and put the metal game coin she had taken out of her skirt pocket by subconscious action between her fingers and poured it out with her thumb, carefully controlling it. the electromagnetic force.

boom--!

The game coin dragged the blue and white electric light and flew past the man like a cannonball, opening a big hole in the wall inside the bank, and the high temperature caused by the friction of the air left a red mark on the man's face.

"If you're not obedient enough to catch it, I won't miss it again next time~"

With the sound of Misaka Mikoto's threatening voice, the stiff man finally came back to his senses and collapsed to the ground with a terrified expression on his face.

"Are you OK--"

Just when she opened her mouth with concern and was about to walk towards the girl with two ponytails,

bell--!

There was a sound of alarm bells outside.

Misaka Mikoto's body froze instantly.

Oops, Oops, here comes the guard.

Although she came forward to use her abilities to save people, but she destroyed the security door of the bank and the wall where the [super-electromagnetic gun] was attached. If you ask for compensation...

No, if she was arrested as an accomplice, rumors of 'Tokiwadai's Railgun was arrested for bank robbery' would spread the next day.

Although she doesn't care much about her reputation, if such rumors really spread, wouldn't it be more difficult for her to make friends in the future?

Absolutely not!

"that--"

The two-ponytail girl in front of her staggered to her feet and seemed to want to say something to her, but realizing the seriousness of the matter, she immediately turned around and ran out.