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Touma Kamijou, a certain spikey haired level 0, could only watch in horror at what was before him. Sitting crossed legged in his student dormitory, cursing his misfortune, he could only whimper as his food storage was being erased from existence.

"Touma, still hungry, give me more" came the words of girl dressed as a nun, the words almost seemed to be mocking him yet without any evil intent.

Touma could only sigh in response as he recalled his hard spent effort facing the wrath of the crowds he went through in the bargain sale rush. The food supplies the he had purchased but a few hours ago had ceased to exist before his eyes. Raising the nun known as Index had once again crippled his hard thought out budget plans.

"Oi, Index-san, please show mercy at least until more money comes in"

"I am Touma, you'll notice that I'm only asking for one extra meal instead of the usual amount."

With the way this was looking so far, the boy of misfortune would soon have to surrender to the monster that was known as Poverty if this continued.

He needed to think of a way out of this mess but the small nun had appeared to seal the option to cut down food expenses,

Before he could think of any alternate routes his phone vibrated in his pocket, he left the room as to not having to hear the cries of hunger from the nun as he talked on the phone.

As he rose the phone to his head he braced himself for the probably bad news that was soon to follow, perhaps it was his homeroom teacher inviting him to join one of her joyous redeemable classes, maybe.

"Oi, Kamijou" came the familiar masculine voice across the speaker, sure enough it wasn't a voice that guaranteed that trouble was soon to follow over the horizon.

The voice belonged to the red-haired fire mage from the church of Necessarius, Styl.

"Hello, this is Kamijou Touma, how can this ordinary high school student help you today" The boy said, hoping he could pass the call as just a friendly greeting.

"Kamijou!" responded the phone speaker, perhaps a bit irritated. "Stop playing around, it's me Styl, you know that guy who almost burnt you to death a few times, but that's not important, what is important is that you and Index have been officially summoned to England "

"Eh, what?" the black haired boy furrowed his brow hoping for a little more details.

"You didn't get it? I said you and Index need to get yourselves here to England, there is a very important matter that only she can resolve and as her guardian you have to unfortunately have to come to."

"England? I have to go there? What's going on? Don't tell me it's some magic war again?"

Touma heard a light sigh over the phone, expecting to hear news of an incoming magical Armageddon he clenched his fist, listing intently to the phone, a brief silence before the reply came back that was slightly deadpan.

"Okay, Kamijou, this might be hard for you to understand so I'll explain it carefully, now pay attention, Index or Index Librorum Prohibitorum has a dentist appointment and is needs to be here for it"

"A dentist appointment" Touma repeated not sure if he had heard correctly. "Are you serious?"

"Correct," Styl spoke over the phone with no hint of sarcasm in his voice. "As you know she doesn't have proper identification to go to the fancy dentists where you are so hurry up and get to England already"

The spikey haired boy was almost unbelieving with the situation, they expected him and Index to travel across the world to meet a dentist in England, it wasn't like he didn't understand the importance of dental hygiene but this was a bit much.

"Listen Styl, if it's just that I hardly think it's worth all the-"

"Kamijou Touma, pay attention to my words" Styl was now heavily emphasizing each syllable of his words as if trying to convey a hidden meaning to his words. "She has to go to the dentist, if you get my meaning"

The last words were even my emphasized in a slightly louder voice. Touma fit the feeling that maybe it was maybe more important than he thought, maybe the phone line was bugged or something and they were probably using some code.

"Uhh, I see, fine, fine, we will go so hold on till we get there okay" the boy scratched his head, trying to see if there was maybe a hidden meaning behind his words, either way with the results as is it looked like a trip across the world seemed to be in his future.

"Good, I hoped you'd see it my way" came the reply. "Now according our the schedule, you can take a plane two days from now at the airport, it will be a one trip flight, don't you dare mess it up"

The wielder of Imagine Breaker immediately felt something was off about this though, .

"Just a second did you just give me a two day grace period, your not just going to abduct me as soon as I end the call right?"

"Abduct you? What kind of shady organization do you think we run here? You should be more grateful that you have some time prepare this time, then again I guess you could also say the situation is strenuous enough that you need to be prepared instead"

"Got to say, you make this dentist trip sound a lot more painful then it should be, and it sounded pretty painful in the first place"

"Whatever you say, just don't be late or their will be consequences"

The call was ended before any exchange of farewell could occur, the spikey hair boy put down his phone and waited five seconds, true enough no sneak attacks and abductions happened, although this should be a good thing to not be kidnapped, he placed one of his hands at the back of his head and re-entered his living room.

"Touma, who was that?" said the Index the nun who had a dentist appointment in a few days, she sat directly next to the bed playing with the cat known as Sphinx and didn't seem interested in spite of her question.

"Hey Index, how do you feel like taking a small trip in a few days?"

Misaka Mikoto also known as #3 The Railgun of the Level Fives, The Ace of Tokiwadai, The Electric Princess, 'that crazy bitch from Tokiwadai' and occasionally as Biri-Biri was coincidentally waiting be a certain infamous vending machine, or at least it was what she would tell people if they asked why she was acting so suspious, it was a coincidence, yes, by coincidence she just happened to by waiting by the vending machine, by coincidence she had been waiting there for over ten minutes now, by coincidence she had managed to get two drinks out of the vending machine by kicking it an extra time than usual.

'He is running late today' tea-colour haired girl thought to herself despite her the words she had prepared, lifting her head fidgeting every so often to check the area, still she would wait there for a few minutes more at lease.

The unfortunate high-school boy known as Touma Kamijou was not having a joyous day, even while leaving out his usual amount of bad luck like broken property, usual amount of things tripping his feet, miss placing of shoe lockers, his head was full of stress and dread.

The day had started well enough, he debated if he should go to school or not, somehow the feeling that he should be preparing for his trip in two days was quite persistent, the problem was that he had no idea how to prepare, should he bring a weapon, medical aid, rope? It was the one time the Anglican church gave him advance notice to prepare but why did it make it more stressful, he knew that he should be a bit more grateful that they didn't just throw him into a plane with nothing more than the clothes on his back considering their usual antics.

Since he was undecided on how to prepare he went to school hoping to ponder on how to prepare while in class, at least this way he could boost him attendance rate at least, perfect attendance was a hope shattered long ago but he could hopefully still scrape enough to graduate hopefully.

He was still deep in his thoughts as he walked home cutting through the park, not really aware of his surroundings like he was earlier today, not even the reprimanding shouts of Seiri Fukiyose or Komoe Tsukuyomi and occasional poke from Himegami Aisa earlier had managed to properly stir him awake. He continued walking through the park, perhaps he would go to his dorm and invite Index to go shopping and have her choose what they should bring on their journey to England, or maybe not, thinking about it in that case would cause him to only bring would an excessive amount of food.

He had almost reached the exit of the park when suddenly he felt a very sudden hard pain strike the back of his head.

"Hey! Don't ignore me!" came the female voice above his head as he doubled over, effectively bring him into the world of the awake.

He the noticed a metal can of "Coconut Cider" on the ground near him, apparently someone had thrown it at the back of his head and scored a perfect bulls-eye.

"Hnghh, that hurts" muttered the spikey haired high schoolar, rubbing the back of his head with his left hand as turning towards his assailant.

"Oh, it's just Biri-B-"

"It's MISAKA MIKOTO you idiot!" shouted the electomaster giving of a small ball of lightning as a friendly greeting. "You have a lot of nerve to ignore me like that!"

"Yes, yes," The boy casually lifted his right hand to void the electric shock and continued speaking as though nothing had happened. "My apologies Misaka-san, Kamijou will reflect on his actions sincerely"

Mikoto let out a sigh, her emotions always seemed to change on the fly whenever this guy was around, using the magnetism capabilities of her electric abilities she lifted the can of the coconut flavoured drink she had thrown earlier and threw it again towards the chest of the nearby boy albeit a lot more gently than before.

"Here," she said offering or rather forcing the drink on the guy. "I coincidently got a extra drink from the vending machine earlier and it be a shame to waste it"

The spikey haired boy expressed gratitude for the drink, not willing to cite that that attacking him with a can was justifiable for a for a reason like that and wished to incur any outburst .

"So Misaka, what do I owe the pleasure of meeting one esteemed level fives today?"

Mikoto hesitated on what to say next, she had called him out on reflex as usual, maybe she would say something generic of the wildcard excuse again of wanting a duel.

"You looked like you had some free time," keeping her voice as neutral as possible while trying to sound a bit ambiguous. "So I thought I could be merciful for today and let you keep me company for a while"

"So Misaka-san was feeling a bit lonely and wanted some company right?" the boy interpreted in prideful tone.

"What!? Don't be an idiot all of a sudden, Th-Thi-This is for your sake not mine! That's right! You should show some appreciation for my generosity, yeah, you should spend some time with me praising my name"

"Heh, hee, as much as I would love to take you up on that offer, it is unfortunate that Kamijou-san has already has plans right now and won't be able to make it"

"Eh?"

"I'm going on a trip in the near future and need to go and buy some things so that I can have a safe and enjoyable trip"

"I see," the girl sighed in disappointment but then a thought sprung up in her. "Wait, did you just say you were going on a trip? Don't tell me your in some kind of life-threating mess again aren't you?"

Touma couldn't help but feel a bit a sadness his friends idea of his version of a "trip" was somehow synonymous with "life-threating mess", but he figured it wasn't something he could altogether deny.

"No, no, Misaka there isn't any danger as far as I know, as far as I know it will be a peaceful uneventful trip"

Well it was a kind of half truth, he wasn't technically told of anything dangerous directly anyway.

"Is that so?"

Mikoto spoke with a disbelieving look on her face, appraising the boys every move to see any sign of deceit as Kamijou nodded his head.

"You said you were going to get something for your trip now right, since it's only that, how about letting me come along for a little bit since I have some free time?"

"Ummm"

"No objections right? Actually no, you don't get the option to reject!"

Forced with this unreasonable demand, any hope of the Imagine Breakers resistance had be erased.

Stuck with an unexpected party member he had no choice to go shopping, although it was true he was going to purchase supplies either way his choice of what to get had been more limited to the criteria of "I'm not going to war with this item" as to not tip off the girl to any danger.

"Wait, wait, no matter how I look at it this seems way to much for a simple trip, how long are you planning to be gone? What are you fleeing the country or something?"

"What are you talking about Biri-Biri, these are but a modest amount of food for about a day"

As much as Touma thought about it he wasn't able to think of any way to buy anything special to prepare for the trip with that gone he might as well at least get enough for to pacify Index for a day, two if he was lucky.

"Is this something you would normally buy before going somewhere, I mean wouldn't you normally take the chance to try their local food while your away"

"While that may be a choice, I am sorry to say my wallet is not able to keep up if I embraced the life of a rich ojou-sama, besides with you here I wasn't going to let up my chance to capitalize on those "one per person" discounts".'

"What kind of person do you think I am here?!"

"A kind and reliable friend, that Kamijou-san greatly appreciates that she had the time to spare to help such a misfortunate person"

Mikoto sighed, this person never failed to provoke her emotions, every feeling from anger to love, he played them as easily as breathing yet he never seemed to oblivious, she thought once or twice that this guy was doing it intentionally but dismissed it as overthinking things.

They decided to take a rest stop for now. The two sat on a bench by roadside near a crepe store.

Now that they had for the moment the girl took the chance to get her thoughts together, this boy who always seemed to be fighting some unknown enemy was leaving the city to go somewhere, she couldn't help but assume the worst considering it was this person.

"Can I ask you something seriously, your not in something troublesome are you?"

"Ugh, nope, nothing more than the usual for me"

Touma knew he might have to lie when it concerned the magic side, still he didn't want to misinform someone he trusted so for now he would stick to half truths for now.

"I see, where are you going anyway?"

The misfortunate boy considered if it really would be alright to tell her, but she was his friend and he didn't for know for sure any reason not to tell her.

"I'm going to England, you know the land of the Anglican church, the Queen, et cetera, nothing to concern yourself with."

"England, huh? Well I guess it's not the worst place you could go too"

"You have something against England?"

"A bit, it's nothing special though"

What Misaka didn't mention, that when England was brought to her mind, she couldn't help think about the last time someone mentioned that place to her, that someone was Kamijou Touma himself. During the last incident she heard of that guy in England, he had randomly called her on how to unlock a electronic gate like a special safe, it seemed weird at the time and as she got more information about it the weirder it became, after that, a bunch of incidents happened and as the result Kamijou Touma was reported dead. Back then she thought that phone call was the last time she had heard his voice. True the report was now proven false but those reminder of those uneasy feelings were still there from that time.

The door opened to reveal the male resident of the room as Kamijou Touma made it back to his apartment.

"I'm back"

"Welcome back, Touma" said the white nun Index, she turned to greet him and returned to watching the television, a calico cat resting on her lap.

"Before I get dinner started, did you watch the news earlier like I asked?"

"The news didn't report anything on England, but aren't you being a bit too paranoid about this, I even phoned the church earlier and didn't hear anything out of ordinary."

"Too paranoid? You don't find anything wrong with asking us to leave the continent for a dental appointment"

"Nope, since it must just be that it's just a really good dentist, besides they would have told me if anything was wrong somehow, even if the their was something wrong with the science way, they are still several hundred ways to communicate with magic "

"Really? Can you say with 100% certainty that nothing could have happen"

"Hmmm" Index closed her eyes and thought for a bit. "I can't say one hundred percent sure but I can guarantee about ninety-nine percent."

"99%? What about the leftover 1%?"

"It impossible to get the full hundred since there might be unknown factors like stuff we don't know about, but the odds of getting something pass my grimoire library is almost zero"

"Heh heh, Index," the spikey haired boy said in a prideful tone. "Don't underestimate my misfortune, whether it is 100%, uh, 99% or even less than 1%, in the face of my bad luck that even broken mirrors envy it might as well be 100%."

"Touma, that isn't something to be prideful over, but if your so sure of it how about we have a small bet"

"Go on"

"Let's see...If nothing happens in England I want...oh, 3 extra meals everyday for a week and if you win...uh, then you only have to give me 2 extra meals everyday, deal?"

"No , definitely not, if I accept that then no matter what happens it's my loss, how does feeding you and extra 2 times satisfy me in anyway?"

"Fine, then what do want?"

Kamijou wondered what he could ask of her, making her clean or cook would be suicidal.

"How about we go with the classic do whatever the winner says for a day? Even if I can't think of anything I want you to do now I can worry about it later."

"So I just have to cram the extra 21 meals in a day, shouldn't be a problem, I could even do more probably. Alright Touma it's a bet"

Soon the time to depart had come, Touma Kamijou decided to pass up on bringing any extra items and stick to arming himself with just his fists, he reasoned that even if he brought something the plane security coupled with his bad luck would result in his bag being checked and he would have probably missed his flight. Up to the very end the extra preparation time had only given him unnecessary extra stress.

Touma had received him plane tickets in the mail, and to his surprise there instead of the super-sonic flight he had been expecting and dreading, he had received two business class tickets to England. Perhaps they were wary what had happened the last time they tried to ship him via super-sonic, in that incident which involved buying different tickets and a terrorist attack.

The boarding off the plane went without incident or at least no incident that was really worth mentioning if you take in consideration the high-schooler's LUC stat was set at "Such Misfortune".

After setting the alarm a few times and Index and Touma having to change clothes to satisfy the unmerciful metal detector did they safely board the plane. The small nun of course grabbed a window seat leaving Kamijou to sit beside her.

It wasn't until the plane was in the air did something happen, the flight attendant explained the usual regulations and "moving around freely" was permitted.

Suddenly as Kamijou Touma was about to relax, his vision suddenly went black and he felt someone at the back of his neck.

"Guess who?" came a cheerful greeting.

'Please don't let it be a terrorist!' was the boy's first thought.

The boy slowly moved the hands that covering his eyes away from his face and turned around. It was not someone he expected to be there, then again if you could consider all the possibilities, this person was more likely to appear than a run of the mill character. It appeared that this person had arrived from the first class area to greet him.

"Biri-Biri! what? How? What are you doing here?"

The Ace of Tokiwadai put one of her fingers to her chin.

"Well, why do you think I'm here?"

Touma crossed his arms and thought, there were several different scenarios that came to his mind, but the most prominent one was...

"Your stalking me aren't you?"

For a second, Misaka's conscious seemed to have stopped and her face turned red.

"Idiot! W-wh-why would you think that! I mean, I just came b-because I was worried about you! I mean- I mean it's perfectly normal for a friends to worry about each other right! Especially a friend that ends up in life and death situations as soon as I take my eyes off him, that's right, so...I'm here"

"Hmmmm," the boy frowned but got the gist of it. "So Biri-Biri was worried about me eh?"

"Oh course, there is nothing wrong with that, is there?" snapped the Railgun.

"No, there is nothing wrong with worrying about a friend, but why would you worry, it's not like I told you that I'm going to do something dangerous right?"

"Why would I worry? It's you were talking about. Your leaving the city, that's enough to get me worried, every time you go somewhere I don't know about, the next I hear about you is that you almost died trying your hardest to save someone ."

Touma was astounded that he gave that kind of impression to her, but now that he thought about it he couldn't come up with an answer that would disprove that impression.

"Err, I can't argue when you put it like that but is it really okay for the one of the level fives to suddenly take off like that."

"It's fine, I handled it, it's not like my position is an official job and it's no problem if I skip school for a few days, I also have someone covering for me if something shows up"

The level 0 had to admire here determination, he didn't think he would be able to turn her down and it wasn't just because the were in mid-flight.

"Short-Hair, how did you even find us in the first place?" interrupted Index who was watching from earlier and had not decided to be amused or annoyed.

"I simply hacked the information from the airport, it's pretty simple with my power, then I just bought a ticket"

"Oh that sounds neat," then the walking library turned to Touma. "What does "hack" mean?"

"It means something like she stole the data from somewhere"

"Wah, stole? isn't that illegal?"

"Well Index-san, it is no more illegal than hiding foreigners in your apartment when they don't have a full proper ID"

"Oh, so I guess that makes it okay then."

The misfortunate boy shrugged a "yes, I suppose" in response.

The electromaster grinned with the matter settled, in return the boy began to marvel at the power that being an ojou-sama could bring.

"Now with all said and done, the fact is I'm stuck on this plane with you, I'll even follow you if you decide to jump out of the plane this instant, I am involved since you can't get rid of me and you have nothing to gain by trying to trick me, so you might as well honestly tell me what's going on."

Imagine Breaker put up his hands in a sign of surrender, it was logical but it was hard to find a place to start, especially since the story wasn't as built up as the level 5 believed it to be.

"How do I put this, would you believe me if I told you were just on the way for a dentist appointment?"

The girl stared at him with face that clearly showed her answer.

"Okay then, right, can't blame you, I wouldn't believe me either"

Touma put his hand to his head, struggling to come up with a answer that would make the truth believable, he considered telling her about his suspicions about journey's hidden agenda, but without any big evidence but the feeling in his gut. Kamijou kneaded his head to come up with a reason that wouldn't cause him to get electrocuted.

"Short Hair! I know this is unusual for Touma but it's true were going to a English dentist, I thought it was weird too so I even contacted the church to make sure, even though using the phone was hard"

"Hmmmm"

The level 0 was grateful to his saviour Index, with her backup he could persuade the electromaster to possibly spare him.

"But I know what you mean," the nun continued. "Touma always do this and that without telling me anything, like just a few weeks ago he did that thing, then he was with some girl, he didn't tell me anything and then he left me without food..."

It appeared that his saviour was losing track of the discussion, if this kept up a familiar feeling of being bitten was going to be added to his problems.

Mikoto turned her attention back to the high-school boy, ignoring Index when she started mumbling to herself about how hungry Touma had left her.

Figuring it would be bad to let the girl come to her own thoughts about the situation and blow the scale way out of proportion, Touma persisted to explain in rushed details.

In response, the Electromaster took a deep breath and tried to summarise the whole thing.

"So let me get this straight", she folded her arms over her chest and looked straight at the boys face.

"So you mean to tell me, you, no, we skipped school, boarded a plane and are currently flying to England so this Silver Sister can go to the dentist?"

"Yes"

"Are you serious?"

"Yes"

"There isn't some enemy or organisation that your going to stop?"

"Yes"

"Ergh," the girl let out a deep breath. "Your going to England for a reason like that, that's stupid and what's even stupider is that I look like an idiot for following for a reason like that"

"Yes"

"Don't agree with me you idiot! Do you want to be electrocuted!?"

"Misaka-san please remember that the plane rules asked to keep electric devices off, all I've told you are just the facts as I know it"

The level 0 lifted up his right hand, partly just in case a shock came his way and partly making a gesture signalling the electromaster that there was more to it to than just the facts.

"While this didn't seem odd to Index, but don't you think that something is weird about the whole "summoning to England for dentist thing"?"

"You think so?" replied the middle school girl, the words dripping with sarcasm yet anticipation.

"Lets say hypothetically that the magic side-"

Before he could continue the misfortunate boy felt a pain strike the back of his head, Index apparently wanted to get his attention.

"Touma, before you explain your theories to Short-Hair, my biological clock says it's time to eat and the lunch trolley isn't here yet"

The flight had safely reached the designation of England, though the mood seem to be at a low despite this. Emerging from the plane emerged a severely bitten Kamijou Touma, a slightly put off Misaka Mikoto and a still hungry Index.

Touma rubbed his wounds, while he was lucky enough that Biri-Biri was considerate enough to fathom that releasing electricity in a crowded plane was a bad idea, the same didn't apply to Index's biting, whether the gnawing of his head was meant as a punishment or whether Index was hungry enough to reach the level of a cannibal could be either case.

Greeting him from his flight at the gateway was the Amukasa Saint and once Fallen-Angel-Ero-Maid Kanzaki Koari and the fire mage that looked older than he appeared Styl Magnus, it wasn't particularly hard to find them, their outfits did not do subtly.

After purchasing a meal to go for Index and entering a somewhat suspicious vehicle that Touma felt it safe to question the magicians.

"Once again, thank you for coming Kamijou Touma," began the Saint who sitting across from him, the group had entered the vehicle which had two rows of seats at the back. Incidentally the seating arrangement was Kanzaki and Styl in the first row while in the back row Touma had Index on his left and Misaka on his right.

"Yeah no problem, but could you please tell explain the whole situation to me now it should be safe right?"

"Do you mean Styl didn't tell you?" The swordsman Saint, raised one of her eyebrows ad gestured to the red-haired man sitting next to her who just shrugged in response.

"He told me to run off around the world just because of a dentist appointment, I mean that's not all there is right?"

The swordswoman stared at the fire-user.

"I told him that it was a dentist appointment, nothing more and nothing less, it's not my fault if the idiot here misunderstands."

"So...so..your actually telling me that it is just a dentist appointment," the misfortunate boy did a breath take. "There is no hidden agenda and you made me cross the world just for this".

"Correct."

Touma started making sounds that could either be a hollow laugh or weird sounding sobs.

"Aargh, I can't believe this," the electric esper could be heard mumbling to herself. "To think I was actually worried about this idiot."

Even though her voice was low, everybody could clearly hear her, Styl in response pulled out a cigarette from his pocket and drew it to his face.

"Whether you believe it or not, it actually is justifiable, do you really think we would let those academy crackpots near our precious forbidden grimoire library?"

"Forbidden grimoire library?"

"It's the-.. wait! Why are you even here if you don't even know that much? Actually I don't recall ever seeing you before today, who are you anyway and what exactly do you want?"

Somehow it felt like the question should have been asked earlier, at least before they entered this vehicle together at minimum.

"What? Now you question why and who I am? I've been here the whole time!"

Feeling the need the brown-haired girl before she gathered momentum, Index cleared her throat to remind everyone that she was still here.

"Don't worry Styl, this is Short-Hair, I don't know why she is still here, but she is a friend, oh and she is apparently an esper also"

"My name is MISAKA MIKOTO! It is not Short-Hair and it is not Biri-Biri! It's Misaka got it?"

"Alright, Misa-eh-esper girl," Styl appeared indifferent as lit his cigarette. "You'll have to forgive me, Kamijou always has girls around him, so I just figured that you were something like his accessory or something to that affect"

"Why you-!"

"So Imagine Breaker is not in the city right now," said a robed figure, his presence hidden by a special spiritual item. "Such a pity, I wanted at least some risk for the job."

A group of four people had infiltrated Academy City, each wearing specialized cloaks to help hide their identities.

"Why would you want to make our job harder than it already is?" said the second figure. "This whole idea is so troublesome already"

"Ahem, for now let's do recon for now, we will sortie and meet up at the arranged co-ordinates at 16h00, agreed"

"Fair enough, lets get started"

The four of them split up, they all understood what they had come to do in the city of espers.