"Have you two understood what happened before? Yoshino, Uiharu." Toujou Nozomi accompanied Yoshino to school. During lunch break, Saten Ruiko came over and suddenly said something.
"????? Incident? If you don't tell me, how would I know what happened?" Yoshino, who was not very good at gathering information, looked at Saten Ruiko with a strange expression. She had no idea what had happened.
Things seemed quite peaceful lately, didn't they? At home, it was just Sister Nozomi and Sister Yuriko pulling her to sleep and bathe with them; nothing strange had happened.
"Before talking about anything, it's best to explain it properly, Miss Saten," the small Toujou Nozomi, held by Yoshino, said with a smile.
After spending a few days with these children, she had gotten to know them pretty well. She also knew that the energetic child in front of her, just like Kousaka Honoka, had already formed a contract with Yoshino.
Her observations over the past few days showed that she was also a very good child. Yoshino said she was currently learning how to acquire abilities, and Toujou Nozomi could also teach her something.
"I'm sorry, Sister Nozomi! I was being presumptuous." Several days ago, Saten Ruiko saw Yoshino inexplicably coming to school with a doll, so Saten Ruiko curiously asked Yoshino about it.
It turned out that he was the most important person to Yoshino in the previous world. As his junior, she couldn't be impudent. Since her senior was speaking, she couldn't fool around.
"Yes, hmm! The thing is, there have been frequent explosion incidents recently."
"Yes, this is already the fifth incident. Even the Disciplinary Committee Members know about it." It seems like it has already reached the Void Explosion incident. And it has already reached this point.
"Oh! Uiharu is a Disciplinary Committee Member. Do you have any news you can share?"
The news that Saten Ruiko received herself was all from the internet or other verbal sources. As a Disciplinary Committee Member, Uiharu Kazari should know more than she does, right?
"Yes, these few times are the same as the previous explosions. Because the scale of the explosions themselves are not very large, there have been no injuries."
After thinking carefully, Uiharu Kazari didn't find that these few incidents were that big. The range of each explosion was particularly small, so she didn't pay much attention.
"Oh, explosions? What caused the explosions? Bombs? Are there no suspects?"
No matter what, the explosion incident should be considered a terrorist attack, right? Why haven't the Disciplinary Committee Members investigated the cause of this matter yet? Toujou Nozomi felt very strange.
"Yes, yesterday, we finally found some clues. It's the so-called Void Explosion (Gr**iton), have you heard of it?" Uiharu Kazari asked.
"Hmm～ Void Explosion (Gr**iton)? What is that?" For the academically challenged Saten Ruiko, these things were too difficult for her to understand.
"Void Explosion (Gr**iton)... refers to gravitons, right?" Toujou Nozomi, who had some understanding, said.
"Yes, in every incident, rapid acceleration of gravitons has been observed by satellites before the explosion. If aluminum cans are used as the base point to accelerate gravitons at an explosive speed, and then spread them explosively in all directions in an instant, an explosion will occur."
Looking at Saten Ruiko's dumbfounded face, Uiharu Kazari could only express it in simpler terms.
"In other words, turning aluminum cans into bombs, that's the principle." What a magical place, even explosions can have such magical settings.
Previously, Toujou Nozomi thought that things that could only be achieved in theory could be realized here. Toujou Nozomi thought with emotion, she had seen too many things these days.
"But since that's the case, then you should know that this is something done by an esper, right? In that case, as a computer expert in the Disciplinary Committee, Uiharu, you should just need to investigate the 'Bank' in Academy City, right?" Saten Ruiko asked strangely.
Wouldn't this be a very simple way to solve this matter? Why are there still explosion incidents happening now?
"Of course, I already investigated it at the first moment. The ability I investigated is the so-called Synchrotron. If the ability is enough to turn an aluminum can into a bomb, then only a Level 4 esper can do it."
"In that case, isn't that person the suspect? Isn't that a very clear condition?"
"But because she has an alibi. That person has been hospitalized all the time, and the hospital's surveillance also shows it, so it is impossible for her to cause so many incidents."
"Everything that could be investigated has been investigated, and now there really isn't any direction for investigation."
"In other words, someone else did it? Then can you ask how big the range of the explosion is? Is it the same size every time?"
"No, Miss Toujou. The range of each explosion gradually increases, as if it is improving. Now we are afraid that civilians may be injured due to the explosions, so we are stepping up our investigation."
"Improving? Could there be some tool that can improve abilities? Wouldn't that explain it clearly?" Toujou Nozomi said, now this is the only thing that can be explained clearly.
"That's impossible, that kind of thing will definitely be found and destroyed, after all, it doesn't conform to the principle."
"If abilities could be obtained through tools, then where would there be any Level 0 espers now."
"Uiharu, tell me more about it..." Still very curious, Saten Ruiko began to question Uiharu Kazari, while Toujou Nozomi knew that he knew something when she saw Yoshino's expression.
'Yoshino, do you know the truth about this matter?'
'Yes, Sister Nozomi. This is a revenge specifically targeted at the Disciplinary Committee Members. It is an ability used by someone who used something called AIM Stalker. Now the other party is just gradually getting used to the ability, and the power will gradually increase later.'
Thinking of the bespectacled man in the original work, Yoshino felt a little disgusted. Clearly he didn't work hard himself, but he wanted others to save him. Now that no one is saving him, he starts to think it's someone else's fault, it's really unreasonable.
'Aren't you going to tell them? This should prevent people from getting hurt, right?' Why does it feel like Yoshino doesn't want to tell them?
'It can't be done, this is something that must happen. And I can't explain the reason why I know about this matter, they won't believe me.'
She doesn't want anyone to get hurt either, but this is an unavoidable thing. Holding Toujou Nozomi, Yoshino said a little dejectedly.
'It's really hard for you, Yoshino.' Sometimes, the more you know, it doesn't mean that person can be happier, it may also be an unchangeable pain. It's enough as long as she understands Yoshino.
"I will always be with you."
Without anyone noticing, she secretly kissed Yoshino's forehead. It was just Toujou Nozomi's guarantee as a witch, because she became a witch for Yoshino.
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