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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8: Personal Reality, Asphalt, And City Wide Blackouts

Date: July 18, 2009

It all started when Misaka, me, Saten, and Kuroko, went to see Uiharu, who had become ill from a cold.

It was while we were visiting her, that Misaka decided to bring up the Level Upper urban legend that Saten had mentioned several days earlier.

Kuroko also pointed out that this was not the first time an Esper's power and recorded level have been vastly different.

Since, Hatsuya, the level 2 Esper who had caused the graviton bombing at the mall several days ago, apparently had powers equivalent to that of a level 4 Esper, when he should've been a level 2.

It was at this point, that Misaka and I decided to do some investigating regarding the Level Upper, which involved us going into a restaurant, and posing as customers.

It was when we happened upon a bunch of delinquents who were discussing the Level Upper, that we decided to drop the act, when they refused to tell us anything further.

This led to us going to another location, in order to try and discuss further information, regarding the Level Upper.

However, this would wind up proving to be a heck of a lot more trouble then it was actually worth.

And to make matters a tad bit worse on top of that, the damage that would be caused from what lay ahead, would further compound this.

Things then wound up getting pretty bad. That while Misaka and I were fighting against the groups leader, Elder Sister, who had the Esper ability to manipulate asphalt.

Our railguns wound up damaging a nearby generator in the process.

"Oops, guess our aim was a bit off there huh Misaka?" I said with a halfhearted laugh, as a bead of sweat found its way down one side of my face.

Misaka however, did not respond to what I had just said, but instead she simply nodded in response.

I mean how would you wind up responding if you had had a hand in causing damage to something which wound up creating a city wide blackout to all of Academy City?

However, despite this happening, I was at least able to look on the bright side of things.

Actually, you know what, there really wasn't a bright side to this, when it comes to damaging a generator by accident and causing a city wide blackout to all of Academy City, there really isn't much of a bright side, is there?

Well, at least Misaka and I had each other, and that was good enough for me, despite the damage to the nearby generator and causing the city wide black out that is.

Meanwhile, during the time while Misaka and I were having our fight against Elder Sister, Saten was busy browsing the internet on her music player.

This continued on for a little bit, until she happened across a hidden link on her music player, and when she clicked it, it brought up a song, and the songs title read two words "Level Upper."

It was then that things were about to start to get a whole lot more interesting, but also, a hell of a lot more dangerous too.

As future events would wind up proving this fact much later on.

Well, I guess you know what they say. "You can't make an omelet without first breaking a few eggs."