The events of the date passed quickly, but just a day later, another incident occurred. A magician named Sherry Cromwell entered Academy City, and her appearance signaled the arrival of another key figure.
Kazakiri Hyouka, is the conscious form of the aggregation of the AIM Diffusion Fields, a formidable creation of the scientific faction. Aleister is indeed quite powerful, as he can actually create an artificial Angel like Hyouka.
However, now Asahi is somewhat curious. Although the appearance of Hyouka has nothing to do with Misaka Sisters, the subsequent formation and diffusion require the Misaka Network and Last Order as a foundation.
But now that all of those are gone, how will Aleister find a way to shape the true scientific angel, Hyouka? It's important to note that this entity possesses considerable power and, when teamed up with Accelerator, can suppress even an Archangel.
Asahi is also paying attention to the Academy City, or perhaps, due to Aisa and Index, he's paying attention to Hyouka.
Because staying in the manga store all the time is quite boring, Index often goes to play with Aisa.
Although she herself is also interested in school-related things, Index will not give up the chance to sleep in naturally every day to go to school. After all, school is just a bit of curiosity for her, not a necessity.
So, she often goes to see Aisa, and because of her good relationship with Komoe, she hasn't been kicked out of school yet.
Moreover, a school like a certain high school, to be honest, is just a miscellaneous school, and they won't care much of the students' performance.
In this way, Index and Aisa directly met with Hyouka in her human form, and on the other side, Sherry Cromwell also entered the Academy City.
Speaking of Shirley Cromwell's beliefs, Asahi finds them somewhat absurd. In the past, due to the alliance between the science side and the magic side, she attempted to teach magic to someone, but it is a pity that the Espers on the science side cannot use magic.
Likewise, magicians from the magic side cannot use Esper abilities. Trying to force the use of magic resulted in a situation where Ellis ended up severely injured, ultimately being killed by the knights from the science side who do not tolerate the mixing of science and magic.
As a result, Sherry Cromwell has become somewhat peculiar. She aims to provoke conflict between the science side and the magic side to prevent such incidents. After all, the abilities between the two are incompatible. However, Asahi honestly feels that this approach is quite irrational and typical of needless worry.
There are already significant inherent problems between the science and magic sides, and Asahi believes Sherry Cromwell's meddling is entirely pointless.
There are always stubborn individuals trying to experiment regardless of the circumstances. Over the years, there have been many ability users on the magic side and quite a few magicians in Academy City, but with Sherry Cromwell's recent actions, is there any point to this?
The conflict between the science and magic sides, frankly speaking, is not something that can be resolved by her alone. Her behavior is no different from the knights' actions in the past.
This kind of person makes Asahi couldn't help thinking about Madara, a guy whose final goal is peace. But the things Madara did from start to finish had nothing to do with peace.
The current Sherry Cromwell is somewhat similar. She might not be as twisted as Madara, and her impact isn't as significant. But the modus operandi is the same... striving for what's supposed to be peace but creating chaos instead. From start to finish, aside from causing trouble and harm, neither Madara nor Sherry Cromwell achieved anything meaningful.
But Asahi can't just sit and do nothing about the current situation involving Sherry Cromwell. It's because she had her eye on Index, of course, when Asahi planned to go over and intervened, he decided to stop after looking at the situation.
The Underground Shopping Center is where the Railgun Quartet are. As long as they're there, Sherry Cromwell wouldn't be able to cause much of a commotion.
Asahi didn't have any thoughts about this person, as she had nothing to do with him, and Aleister also wouldn't kill her.
So Asahi didn't directly get involved. At the same time, there was indeed a conflict between Sherry Cromwell and everyone in Underground Shopping Center. Her idea seems to be to cause chaos and then provoke conflict.
Once she ignites the conflict, her goal will be achieved, so at this moment, she's controlling her stone giant to wreak havoc in the Underground Shopping Center of Academy City. This behavior, however, has attracted the Railgun Quartet.
"She should be a magician!"
Seeing Sherry Cromwell using crayons to draw various symbols over there, at a glance, it's pretty evident that there's not much connection to Esper abilities, so the other party is obviously a magician.
"It should be. Ehhh, Index and the others are here too!"
Suddenly Mikoto became a little angry when she saw the target of the stone giant's attack. She launches a bolt of lightning directly at the stone giant. It was attacking Index and the others, but with this bolt of lightning, it's reduced to a pile of debris instantly.
"Index, are you all right?"
After destroying the stone giant, Mikoto and the others approach, checking on Index and the others.
"No problem, Himegami, Kazakiri, how are you…"
Index, who was initially going to check on her friend, suddenly froze in place. It was because the current Hyouka had one of her arms severed, but instead of blood, there were peculiar glows emanating from the broken limb.
At a glance, it was evident that Hyouka wasn't a normal being.
"This… what's going on?"
Hyouka, who realized the difference between herself and other people, was also stunned, completely unable to understand what kind of existence she was. Others would bleed when injured, but her situation was vastly different.
"Kazakiri, don't worry, let's deal with that person first, and then we'll figure out what's happening with you!"
Index has encountered many strange occurrences, so just because Hyouka's body exhibited some uniqueness, she didn't perceive her as a monster or anything of the sort.
After all, there are people here who can transform into winds and lightning.
"So that's it, the monster created inside the Academy City!"
However, Sherry Cromwell blurted out these words at this moment, and instantly, Hyouka's emotions began to spiral out of control.
In this regard, several crosses appeared on Mikoto's forehead.
"You… you're the one attacking others, yet you're calling them monsters? If we're talking about monsters, you're the one fitting the bill!"
Mikoto is really irked now, and the crackling of lightning around her couldn't be held back anymore.