The Academy City World, more precisely the A Certain Magical Index World.
If we say this world is complex, it's incredibly complex. The novels become quite confusing later on.
But if we talk about the current stage, is it complex?
Definitely not. There aren't nearly as many issues as in the future.
Kamijou Touma's Imagine Breaker is interesting, but Kaito wasn't interested now.
It wasn't about completely erasing abilities but "restoring" them.
Look up the details if you want.
Besides, what about that arm (the hand bones)? It looked rather gruesome.
Especially since it required sacrificing your own abilities and luck.
What use would he have for such an ability, unless it had no side effects?
So, Touma could just continue being "unfortunate". The main story was still far off.
"So, this is another world?"
Because she was possessing Kaito, Beelzebul entered his body, created a Pure Land of One Heart, and followed him here.
In a sense, Beelzebul was also Kaito's guardian deity, just like Baal.
That's why she could traverse with him.
As for Raiden Shogun, that was a different matter.
But to be fair, that first pull, getting one free, and now getting two free, was really satisfying!
Pulling Baal gave him Beelzebul and Raiden Shogun!
"Yes, this is my friend's world."
"Mm... Why do I feel like I can't quite remember things properly?"
"I don't know either. Maybe it will become clearer over time."
Facing this question, Kaito had no answer. It was similar to Ginko yesterday; she had forgotten many things about the chat group. Even when reminded, she retained very little.
How much the chat group wanted to reduce its own presence was anyone's guess.
"Alright, here she comes."
"Mm..."
Beelzebul held Kaito's hand without resisting.
Before, she would have tried to pull away. But after talking with Baal for a very long time...
Well...
"Hi~ Kaito! Welcome to my world."
Misuzu had arrived in her sports car.
Kaito was currently on a road outside Academy City.
It wasn't that he didn't want to go directly inside, but Misuzu happened to be nearby, so he had traversed to this spot.
"Oh, this is your guardian spirit, right?"
Misuzu got out of the car, saw Beelzebul beside Kaito, looked at her curiously, then walked around her, examining her.
"I'm so jealous."
"You're jealous of a lot of things. Let me introduce her. This is Beelzebul. You can also call her Raiden Ei."
"Okay, nice to meet you, Beelzebul!"
Misuzu seemed to prefer calling her by name.
Beelzebul politely gave a slight nod.
They then got into Misuzu's four-seater sports car and drove straight back to the Academy City's checkpoint.
Kaito and Beelzebul used hypnosis to create visitor identities, entered, and headed to Misuzu's newly bought luxury villa.
"I'm sure we were monitored the moment we stepped in."
"Well... don't say that. It gives me the creeps."
Misuzu also knew Academy City wasn't as lenient as it seemed on the surface. But with Kaito around, she wasn't afraid of anything.
This damn sense of security! At this moment, Misuzu felt she wouldn't back down even if she had to fight the whole world.
"This is the house I bought here. Mikoto will be back after school this afternoon."
"Heh, why don't we go pick her up together?"
"Sure!"
Misuzu didn't refuse. Kaito smiled, while Beelzebul felt Kaito's intentions weren't as simple as just picking someone up, but it seemed normal enough?
So what was the real situation?
Picking up Misuzu was partly to see if he could catch a glimpse of the legendary Saten Ruiko with her "Level 6. Incognito Mode" ability.
If not, maybe he'd see the so-called queen of the Tokiwadai Middle School faction.
Yes, that's Shokuhou Misaki, the "Queen of Tokiwadai's White Stockings", the fifth-ranked Level 5 Esper in Academy City.
Her ability is Mental Out, which allows for memory reading, personality brainwashing, telepathy, memory erasure, will amplification, thought reproduction, emotion transplantation...
Mikoto once quipped: An omnipotent Esper who can handle all kinds of mental phenomena—practically invincible.
Especially...
Misaki's looks rank among the top three in the A Certain Magical Index series. Her art style is worlds apart from Mikoto's.
Star-shaped pupils, golden hair, a slender figure yet... well-developed. She looks more like a high schooler than a middle school student!
"Come on, make yourselves comfortable. I'll take you to the most luxurious hotel in the city for lunch."
"Sure, sure. But don't make tea. Your technique is terrible."
"Oh, hehe... Well, I can just use a tea bag, okay?"
"Then quickly put away that fancy Gongfu tea set you prepared?"
Kaito laughed.
As for letting Misuzu trying to emulate Kie's Gongfu tea brewing.
Her technique...
Was disastrous!
To use an analogy, it might be on par with Beelzebul's cooking skills, who is sitting right beside him?
No, maybe not that extreme.
After all, no matter how Misuzu brewed Gongfu tea, the result was either too strong, too weak, or she spilled it everywhere.
But Beelzebul's cooking could kill someone!
Of course!
If Kaito knew Beelzebul was currently working hard on learning to cook, he'd probably be terrified...
Luckily, she hadn't mastered it yet. She was secretly learning from Yunyun and Baal how to make the ginseng and black chicken soup Kaito loved.
While casually drinking tea, Misuzu brought out a map to show Kaito the locations Mikoto had gathered as clues in recent days.
Like the laboratories related to the Misaka Sister clones.
Also...
The location of Academy City's founder, Aleister Crowley.
For lunch, they did go to a nearby luxury hotel. The food was fine, nothing extraordinary. While shopping in Academy City...
Kaito happened to run into someone interesting.
Ahead, the real "showing off"...