Academy City's Weather Report! (Toaru) Chapter 279: Academy City Weather Report! - 279

Different realms, different rules—science and magic were clearly demarcated territories.

Even that bastard Accelerator couldn't properly apply his reflection to the unfamiliar domain of magic, because the vectors in magic were no longer what he understood.

According to Natsu Sonoko's current thinking, unless she could study all sorts of magically created products...and, on the way, figure out how these magical products changed due to incantations or different users, only then might she be able to properly apply her own abilities to these creations.

Really, it wasn't all that different from normal ability developnt: still about gathering information, seeking connections, and continuous trial and error.

It's just that magical knowledge was like ancient, indecipherable text to Natsu Sonoko.

Aside from the two types of power themselves, the human terminal wielding this power remained as fragile and insignificant as ever.

After dispelling the water orb on their heads, Natsu-san finally noticed they had gills like a fish's on their necks, breathing the oxygen reserved in the water through them.

She'd been startled seeing it at first too. This must be another form of magic—truly marvelous.

But these magical girls seed to have underestimated their opponent once again.

Wearing a magical water orb couldn't stop a certain bun-headed girl's vicious clutches; Natsu was famously ruthless.

Placing the three captives in mid-air, having fully learned from last ti's experience, Natsu-san wouldn't let that red-haired mage rescue them again.

The space elevator's opening ceremony was tomorrow. Even if just so everyone could happily go up for a visit, she needed to get to the bottom of what was happening.

The start of many things wasn't decided by Natsu-san, sa for everyone including Misaka-senpai; they were just passively receiving others' malice.

But you can't just pretend trouble isn't there. Even if it's a headache, you have to resolve it as best you can. Burying your head in the sand just makes you an ostrich.

Natsu-san really disliked trouble, so she always hoped to solve it completely in one go, then have everything return to normal—the daily routine of just going to school and coming ho.

There's a saying, isn't there? Each ordinary day we live might just be a series of continuous miracles.

To protect those miracles, Natsu-san would fight anyone. Her reason for fighting was utterly ordinary from the start.

Returning her thoughts to the present, Natsu-san focused on the remaining opponents.

Her initial idea was to use a high-power shockwave attack, leveraging the atmosphere's force to counter the enemy's flas.

The first attempt failed, but the second went surprisingly smoothly.

Sensing the dense flas in the hallway and that fla creature, Natsu-san swung her 'cannon' around, and a powerful shockwave instantly surged through the hole in the wall.

Like clearing a clog from a pipe.

Under the imnse atmospheric pressure shockwave, with an initial velocity exceeding Mach 1, the flas of the Innocentius clogging the corridor instantly grew unsteady.

The fla creature seed to want to push forward against the airflow, but found its body constantly forced back, only managing to grip the walls on both sides tightly.

Then its massive form could no longer hold its position. After leaving several deep gouges in the walls, it inevitably slamd into the wall at the other end of the corridor.

The Judgnt Branch 177 office, with its missing door, was instantly blasted by the huge shockwave, sending items flying everywhere—though honestly, it was already a ss thanks to Natsu-san earlier.

The wall at the corridor's end was instantly smashed into a hole two people high by the fla creature's body. The reinforced concrete behind it quickly gave way under the trendous impact.

The mont it was blasted out of the building, the monster's body began to uncontrollably disintegrate, turning into countless embers, faintly mixed with a few other glimrs of light.

With the passing of that single shockwave, both the fla creature and the raging sea of fire in the corridor vanished completely, leaving only a charred, blackened environnt.

"That thing disappeared again."

Natsu-san was sowhat surprised.

She'd just blown the fla creature out of the building, and then it vanished. Was there so kind of causal relationship here?

She rembered the last ti this thing disappeared into thin air too.

So perplexing. Mages and magic were both the sa.

Which is why Natsu-san really liked straightforward, direct people.

"You used a move like that without hesitation? Weren't you afraid of hurting and Onee-sama in the process?"

With an unseen spatial ripple, Shirai-san inexplicably appeared beside Natsu Sonoko, her gaze glancing at the three magical girls knocked out not far away.

Skillfully finding the updraft near Natsu-san, she held onto a slightly disheveled Misaka-senpai with one hand.

Misaka-senpai's clothes were slightly yellowed from the heat, but fortunately, she wasn't burned by the flas.

"Not at all. I carefully noted your and Misaka-senpai's positions. I'm not as reckless as you are, Shirai-san."

Retorting slightly, Natsu-san stood expressionless, seemingly still pondering what just happened.

"You..." Shirai-san, sitting in her wheelchair, couldn't help but sigh at the scene of devastation before her.

Judgnt Branch 177 was going to need a major renovation, it seed. At least no one on their side was injured.

"Natsu-san, did you find that person?"

Misaka-senpai wasn't quite used to the feeling of standing on an updraft; it was like being in quicksand that wouldn't sink.

Looking closely at Natsu-san, Misaka-senpai imdiately understood—the Natsu-san before her was just an illusory projection, with a vague, unreal feeling about her.

"Already found her."

Natsu-san, from who-knows-where, spoke using air vibrations. If she deed it necessary, she would choose to hide herself.

If a certain teleporter's style combined attack and evasion, then Natsu-san's conventional combat thod was blending into the environnt and using it.

Although the opponent also used a technique similar to her projection—more like a mirage, really—in front of Natsu-san, that person still had nowhere to hide.

She'd pinpointed the opponent's location the mont they used fire magic; they couldn't escape Natsu-san's perception.

Fully transparent, Natsu-san hovered in mid-air.

Her two eyes observed the corridor now open on both sides, her feet resting on the updraft, like a wandering ghost.

The place still reeked of burnt material, but Natsu-san decisively blocked out the sll.

However, Natsu-san also noticed a card left in the corridor, not completely destroyed, with so strange symbols drawn on it.

Didn't she see sothing like this last ti she encountered that fla monster too? Natsu-san couldn't help but wonder.

"When did another person show up?"

Startled slightly, an uninvited guest suddenly appeared in Natsu-san's mind.

Extrely fast movent speed—arriving beside the red-haired mage in an instant—even Natsu-san had trouble reacting.

Against soone whose physical movent speed already exceeded the speed of sound, she couldn't catch up, probably couldn't win in a fight either... Natsu-san was utterly helpless.

But judging from the information relayed by the radar map, the outline of that person seed sowhat familiar.

Now, at the junction of the corridor and the stairs, the mage in the black cloak appeared once more.

And beside him stood a trendy, fashionable young woman.

A belt at her waist held a katana over two ters long. A white T-shirt was tied up at her waist, and she wore worn-out jeans below.

"So it's Kanzaki-san."

Seeing the other's appearance, Natsu-san muttered, sowhat bewildered.

Co to think of it, didn't Kanzaki-san go back a few days ago?

"You've gone too far, Stiyl."

"Even if igo Arisa truly is a Saint, you actively attacked two of Academy City's Level 5s this ti. This is practically starting a war between science and magic."

Kanzaki Kaori stood with her hands on her hips, speaking with clear dissatisfaction.

This ti, the people sent to retrieve igo Arisa included not just Stiyl's group, but Kanzaki Kaori as well. It's just that this one seed to have been... offline for a bit.

"It seems the higher-ups haven't told you the latest orders."

"Then again, these kinds of orders really aren't suitable for you to know."

Stiyl, who had sohow lit another cigarette, looked through the hole in the wall at the three magical girls unconscious in mid-air.

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