Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T

"A Certain Scientific Railgun T"

While you're still alive,

I'll be taking the data on that virus you injected the girl with.

Right... That girl...

I do not have nearly enough strength left to teleport her away right now.

I see no choice but to contact Uiharu and request someone to pick her up.

I wonder how Miss Misaka is doing.

Don't do it.

Sogiita? You can still move?

No problem. If I put my guts into it, I can stop my bleeding

and get my bones to stick together. But never mind me,

you were about to charge in there, weren't you?

There's something different about her now.

Maybe whatever the girl who put this data inside my head was planning

worked out all right.

Are you sure? I can't tell either way.

Even so, it doesn't look like she can control all that power.

Which is why...

I don't know what your right hand is made of,

but that all over there is a whole lot more trouble than it was a moment ago.

It felt more like it was a mass of compressed energy earlier,

but that looks like something from another world now,

something literally beyond our understanding.

Let me deal with this. I may be able to risk my neck

to do a self-destruct move that will smother it.

No.

Like I said earlier, I know her. I want to be the one who does this for her.

Yeah, but...

I may not be strong enough, like you say,

and I don't really have a handle on this situation,

so I can't say for sure that this is the best move. But ultimately, I mean...

I'll just have to make up for whatever I'm lacking with guts.

Am I right?

You really are a fascinating one, huh?

That's that, then.

Go lay some smack down!

A path...!

Go!

Behave...

...your damn self!

What is this? This isn't my ability!

This must be...

Oh, no. If this gets unleashed, it will do a lot more than blow Academy City away!

There's no way I can let that happen!

If I can compress it down to a size I can cover up with my body,

then blow it up while I'm holding it, then maybe...

Him? Don't tell me he's thinking of stopping this!

Wait! This isn't my ability!

This is something my mind conjured up that wants to smash up...

...and wipe away everything bad about Academy City!

So let me--

No!

I know that there are some really lousy facets to Academy City, too.

I also know that there are elites controlling things behind the scenes

who you and I can't touch.

But to try to purge those things by force...?

Even supposing you succeed,

I don't think the world will end up the way you want it.

You can probably think of others besides me who are trying to help you, right?

You just have to change things a little at a time with them.

And I'll help you, too, of course.

But your arm! You need a hospital!

Huh?

Huh?!

It works like normal.

What is the deal with your body?

Beats me.

Wow, that was quite a show. I never expected dragons to appear.

Awesome guts!

I'd like to take you on sometime.

On the other hand...

What's up with that metal?

Was that there before?

"#14 Dragon Strike "

So, she's all right, then?

Yeah, more or less. Not long after she was brought in here,

the data on the virus she was injected with was sent here.

I was able to synthesize a vaccine.

It will be a few days before she completely recovers,

but she should be as good as new.

Thank goodness.

Um,

I believe one of my friends from Tokiwadai

was brought to this hospital earlier today.

Yes?

Miss Misaka!

Wow, so your sister is in good health?

I am most pleased to hear that.

Is something the matter?

--I'm sorry! --Huh?

For dragging you into all this, and even getting you hurt...

Simply saying I'm sorry isn't enough...

N-No, I should be the one apologizing

for boasting that I would bring your sister back, and ending up like this.

I am pretty pathetic.

Still...

...it could have been so much worse...

Yes, that is true.

However,

even if that had happened, I can assure you

that I would not have regretted any of my own actions.

Miss Kongo...

I am still not a very seasoned person,

so I cannot afford to lay down my life for just anyone.

It was because it was my desire to relieve you of your anguish

that I can consider it as such.

Do you know the expression "Peaches and plums their own paths create"?

Huh?

Though peach and plum blossoms say nothing,

trails spontaneously form beneath them.

Likewise, men of virtue may not say much,

but people naturally beat a path to them.

That's what the expression means.

I cannot say yet that I fully appreciate its true meaning,

but by looking up to your character,

I do think that I have become someone more compassionate towards others.

I'm not all that great a person.

That is something for those around you to decide.

If, on the other hand, you tried to play yourself off as someone great,

it would be meaningless if those around you did not agree.

I have been all alone, going nowhere, trying to do just that, so...

No, that's not true!

Miss Kongo, to me, and to Miss Wannai and Miss Awatsuki, you've been, um...

Miss Wannai and Miss Awatsuki? Why are you bringing those two up right now?

As it happens, the ones who saved you were...

Oh, I see.

Those two did that for me?

Wh-What do I do, Miss Misaka?

I should feel inconsolable for getting those two mixed up in fisticuffs,

and yet, I...

...cannot help but feel happy about it...

Excuse me...

Visiting hours are now over, so...

Oh, okay.

I'll be back again tomorrow, Miss Kongo.

Right.

Miss Misaka?

I...

...am truly glad to be a student at Tokiwadai.

Mm-hmm.

"Misaka, would you like to watch the fireworks at that spot again tonight?

Uiharu and Shirai and I will be coming too. Let's go together!"

The Judgment girl isn't here...

Handcuffs? These are meaningless with my ability...

Why bother?

If I'm still alive, it means that the project must have failed.

I could just stay here and be rat food...

Shokuho Misaki...?

Misaka!

Over here! Over here!

Sissy!