Long time no see, Mii.
Sempai...
You're alive!
It seems so.
Why?
Why didn't you contact me?!
I thought you just...
Don't worry.
I'll disappear again in no time.
Sempai!
Sempai...
Konori-sempai and Kurozuma knew each other?
Yeah...
She never said anything about it though...
But, Kurozuma is...
the boss of Big Spider.
That's right...
Why is Konori-sempai with...
some bastard who tries to gang rape girls?
Umm well...
It wasn't the same Kurozuma...
It's not like that, but I mean...
Hey Kuroko, you try explaining it to them!
Encounters are strange and interesting.
Huh?
I'm just watching everything from the outside.
It bothers me! I need to know!
Why don't we now go ask Konori-sempai directly?
Well, you see...
Sempai hasn't been to the branch office for the past few days.
Huh?
Really?
She won't answer her phone either.
The Ability User Hunt incident hasn't been solved yet...
I guess that's the larger concern here.
It's needless to worry about her.
It's probably better to move it.
Move it where?
Yes.
Who is it?
This is Konori Mii-sempai's place... right?
Oh you're Mii's Kouhai?
I'm sorry, she's out at the moment.
Oh, I see...
Geez... I wanted to ask her about Kurozuma.
Well, that's too bad.
I understand.
We'll come back another time.
Excuse me.
Oh, wait a sec.
She really is horrible. She even worries her kouhai.
It's okay... really.
So, it appears that Kurozuma is back.
I would never have thought that he was still alive.
You know Kurozuma?
What kind of relationship does she have with Kurozuma?
Wait a second.
Before I get to that, let me hear what you know.
Huh?
I see.
That explains it.
Umm.. and...
How did Konori-sempai know about Kurozuma?
Did she arrest Kurozuma in the past or something?
No, it's not like that at all.
Mii used to belong to Big Spider.
What?!
That's impossible!
Out of all the possibilities, that's impossible!
But sempai is in Judgement!
How could she had been involved in that?
She might look like she does now, but she used to be pretty badass.
Badass?
I don't really want to comment on other people's past but,
Konori-sempai is a Level 3 ability user.
She had countless other ways of enjoying herself.
Why, out of all choices she could have made, did she hang out with Skill-Outs — a group of ability-less people?
Have you ever experienced the feeling that you've reached the limit of your ability?
The feeling of struggling to get over an obstacle and getting depressed,
Huh?
Mii, at that time, felt as if she had no place to go any more.
That was when...
She met people who shined brightly in a dark place.
Though they claimed to be Skill-Outs, they were just hanging out with other people they liked.
Sure, I was worried at first.
I kept asking her if it was worth being with them,
even if it meant keeping the fact that she was an ability user a secret from them.
But...
"Big Spider is a place where I can express myself."
That's what Mii told me.
Her place, eh?
The feeling of being excluded...
Pursuing yourself...
That disease is like the measles — you will definitely catch it if you live in Academy City...
Maybe Mii had it that time, also.
But someone can only catch the measles once.
Eh?
Onee-sama?
Railing: Kuro | Mii
Yo!
Oh, I was just...
I hear you are a Level 2.
Then you shouldn't be—
Let me stay!
I have no where else to go.
I beg you!
Being an ability user is also difficult, I see.
Well, it's fine, though.
But you see...
Do you intend to stay here the next year and the year after?
Well, it's up to you to decide.
Railing: Kuro | Mii
Sempai...
I don't get it.
Onee-sama?
Sure, it's shocking that Konori-sempai was with the Skill-Outs,
but why does she need to take time off from Judgement?
Is there a connection here?
Like I said that is...
The past is the past!
Sempai is working hard in Judgement now.
She's really nice to us. Sure she's a bit strict sometimes, but she's always been dependable.
We like sempai for being like that, so why do we have to talk about her past now?
Maybe she can't forget about it that easily.
Your past makes you what you are today.
If that past happened to be something special,
then it's even more the case.
Right?
No it's not like that.
I'm not objecting to you or anything...
Geez.
I don't get this at all.
What now?
Attendance is horrible.
What can we do after that happened?
That's true.
Hey, was Kurozuma-san fake?
I refuse to believe it!
Kurozuma-san is Kurozuma-san.
But remember,
he freaked out when he was called Hebitani.
You saw that, too?
He was really freaked out.
Who'd you say was freaked out?
K-Kurozuma-san!
If you got time to doubt me, then you've got time to find and mess up that fucking fake!
We don't need two Kurozuma Watarus in Academy City!
Y-Yes!
Now hurry up!
Go!
We're going!
Wait up!
Hello?
Yeah, it's me.
Huh?
The Capacity Down?
We're making good use of it.
Shut the fuck up!
We have some important damn business here, too!
There's stuff more important than Ability User Hunting!
What the fuck?
Has Misaka-san been like that ever since?
Yes.
Well...
Huh?
There's mail from Anti-Skill.
Huh?
Uhh...
To counter the Skill-Outs, the Anti-skill headquarters will conduct a coordinated crack down...
on the 10th Academy District Area G, A.K.A. Strange tomorrow morning at 10.
TL Note: This is the same notice that Uiharu was reading.
Mii, you forgot something.
So you came here, after all.
A Certain Scientific Railgun
Academy City
Misaka-san...
Why are you here?
You're not here to tip off Kurozuma about the crackdown tomorrow, are you?
I don't think this is the right place for you to be.
That's right.
This isn't the right place for me.
But, you see...
It was Kurozuma who taught me that.
Sempai, please don't go!
Text: No Subject I've taken that idiot Hebitani as hostage. Come alone if you want him back.
You say that, but I can't just leave Hebitani.
It's just a trap anyway!
Oh yeah, I told you before but,
this place is not the place for you to engrave your name.
Sempai...
When I rushed to the scene...
And... here I am now.
But... Even so...
You're in Judgement, now!
It's wrong to let criminals escape!
That's—
Yeah.
It's wrong, right?
Sempai?
Two years have passed since then, hmm?
After all that, I woke up in the hospital.
I was sent straight to the institution,
and they just released me 6 months ago.
Sempai, I...
I never thought I would see this scenery ever again.
I thought I would never meet you again, either.
Since, if we meet, we will once again...
Again? Are you going alone? Just like that time...
I'm the one who established Big Spider.
So I'm the one who has to crush it.
Not the Anti-Skills.
Don't go!
You're always like that!
Always thinking about others...
and acting selfishly.
Because you're like that, I'm...!
Aren't you like that, too?
That's why you're here, right?
So...
Just go home, now.
She looks puzzled, too.
See ya.
Take care of the people and places where you are now.
I'm going, too.
I don't want to experience something like that ever again.
Enough, Mii.
Things have changed...
between you and me.
It has nothing to do with the past or right now!
Even if my place changes, my feelings won't!
Hey Kuroko,
even if times and positions change,
are there still emotions that don't ever change?
Isn't that what loving someone is all about?
Huh?
And the thing that makes someone shine right now is the build-up of those emotions.
Build-up...
I might sound presumptuous, but...
Even though it's been short, there are things the two of us have built up in the time we've spent together.
I see.
And we will still continue to build them up from now on.
You know Kuroko,
Will you do me a favor?
From here on, we will conduct a coordinated crack down on Academy District Area G, A.K.A. Strange.
Man your vehicles!
You two...
Why?
Oh hey!
What is this?
This is how you should be.
This is my...
How did you?
Konori-sempai...
You look cool.
Looks like people are working hard early in the morning.
I've come to put an end to it.
He's...
The guy from last time!
Damn you!
I guess you know but,
I'm strong.
Yeah.
You're really strong.
But people say the same thing about ability users!
You're no match against our numbers and our weapons!
Wait a minute!
Mii...
You look cool.
Konori-san?
Hebitani-kun,
you really have become quite the lowlife.
You're using sheer numbers as power and even wielding weapons.
Shut up!
What would you understand, after betraying us and becoming Judgement?!
Now, show them our power!
Shall I drive them straight into your body next time?
But we have that—
By that, you mean...
This?
You don't think we would fall for the same trick twice, do you?
Get them! Get them now!
B-But...
She's the Railgun from Tokiwadai!
Railgun?!
We're no match!
What do we do?!
I told you to get them!
Get going or I'll kill you guys!
You two stay out of this.
Let your sempai show off sometimes, okay?
Eh?
Now go!
Hey, man.
You need to get more serious.
This is too easy!
I'll be taking this away.
And this Stun-gun too.
How...?
So that's your ability.
That's good.
Isn't it?
Now I gotta show off too!
So then.
What will you do now?
You think you've won?!
Watch this!
Dynamite!
A suicide bombing?!
If you come any closer,
everybody will get blown up!
Eh?
So?
What do you do now?
Freaked out now?
Man, it's so much trouble.
D-Don't come!
You'll blow up!
Hebitani, we had a lot of fun back then.
Don't come!
I told you not to come!
We would just hang out together and do stupid stuff...
What's gotten into you, now?
Don't come...
What's gotten into you, Hebitani...
I-I had no choice.
I really had no choice...
We had no other place to be.
I had to be Kurozuma to lead Big Spider.
That's why...
you're not needed any more!
Hebitani,
your "place to be" means the place that you can be yourself.
Well, it's all finished.
Now,
Mii.
Kurozuma Wataru.
You are under arrest on the charge of assault and battery.
You look great.
But, well.
Isn't that leather jacket a bit tight on your chest?
Of course.
Since I've been drinking that every day.
If we're having milk,
It's gotta be Musashino Milk!
They're talking about chest sizes again.
Strangely, somehow it doesn't sound perverted.
Sempai...
Thank you.
The wind really does feel nice here.
Onee-sama, you came all the way for this?
Huh?
Aiaigasa are so out of fashion, now.
Mii loves Kuro...
Are they cats or something?
It means that, even in a place like this, the feeling of one loving each other still remains.
Academy City, eh?
Next Episode
Sempai, I'll never forget...
Tsuzuri During Summer Vacation
all "those" games you taught me.
The happiness of being a woman... it allows you to rise up the skies.
Hey, what's with these perverted lines?!
It's your punishment for losing.