You're briefly tempted to attack Mugino, for a variety of reasons, but this isn't the time or the place. Instead you decide to keep up the cute and innocent act you've sort of fallen into. That way if she does attack you then she's at fault and it's completely within your rights to turn her into a smear on the floor in self-defense. At least you think that's how the law works. Or how it's supposed to work anyway. In your experience the law will bend any which way you want in Academy City provided you either have enough money or know the right people.
Besides, it's likely that nothing of the sort will happen. You'd have to be pretty evil to attack a couple of kids as cute as you and Last Order. You'd do it of course, but then again you're pretty goddamn evil if you do say so yourself. Anyway, apologies. "Ah! We're sorry Onee-sama! We were just playing around a little and she wasn't looking where she was going. Do you think you can forgive us?" You ask with watery eyes and a pleading look. You even bow a couple of times for good measure.
"Rrraaaaaah, listen you little-" Mugino starts to lecture you but she stops when the girl in the track suit tugs on her sleeve. When Mugino looks at the black-haired girl the girl subtly shakes her head. Mugino's expression shifts anger to confusion and her gaze snaps back at you and Last Order, examining you. Her eyes widen with recognition.
You pretend you didn't notice and instead help Last Order back to her feet. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Misaka Misaka says trying to act tough although the bump on her head really really hurts." Last Order says as she stands up, rubbing her head.
"Huh, so they really did clone the Railgun. I mean, I saw the data so I knew they did it but seeing one with your own eyes is something else." You immediately look back at Mugino, who's looking at Last Order in a disinterested manner, with one hand on her hip and her head tilted to one side. "Looks a little small though. I thought the whole point was for Accelerator to get stronger by fighting tougher and tougher battles but this kid couldn't possible be even a quarter, no, an eighth of a threat the real Railgun is."
The blonde girl's jaw drops and she starts asking a ton of questions."Whaaaaaaa? The Railgun got cloned? What? Why? When? How?"
"Oh? Did I never tell you guys? It had to do with that security job we took a while a go." Mugino off-handedly explains. In the background the blonde's expression goes from shocked to confused to realization to stunned as she works her way through what Mugino said and she starts babbling about how she almost got killed by the Railgun. Mugino's attention shifts from Last Order to you. "So what's your deal? When the project failed they did decide to clone Accelerator instead or something?"
You groan. "Why does everyone assume I'm a clone?"
"Well what else are they supposed to think? Misaka Misaka teases." Last Order giggles when she says that.
"Hm? Did you kids not reach the foodcourt?" You hear Yoshikawa say behind you. Looks like she caught up.
You turn around and wave at her. "Hi Yoshikawa! We were on our way but then Last Order bumped into Onee-sama here." You point at Mugino and her group. "We were just apologizing."
Yoshikawa sighs and turns to Mugino. "I'm sorry about that. Last Order is very energetic. I'm the girl's guardian, Yoshikawa Kikyou. I hope you weren't troubled too much Miss…" Yoshikawa trails off.
"Mugino Shizuri." Mugino provides her name.
Yoshikawa seems to recognize the name at least, even if she didn't know Mugino on sight like you did. "Really? You're the fourth rank?"
Mugino's expression becomes stormy. She probably thinks that Yoshikawa is doubting her power or something. Before she can get real mad though Last Order pipes up. "WOW! Another level five? That's a huge coincidence! Misaka Misaka expresses her wonder at meeting another one."
"Another one? But you aren't a level five. Are you talking about Railgun?" Mugino askes.
"Accelerator also lives with us." You say quickly. You're not sure what you want to do about the Meltdowner right now but you'd rather she not know your power level until you make a decision and Last Order was likely to blab if she was the one to answer.
Mugino's group all drop there jaws at that, except the back-haired one who keeps looking emotionless. "Are you telling me that Accelerator is living with one of the girls he was meant to kill? How does that work?" Mugino asks skeptically.
"It's a long story." Yoshikawa answers. She sounds tired. "I could explain it over lunch if you like. Consider it an apology for Last Order bumping into you."
Yoshikawa's offer catches you off guard. You whip your head around to look at her but despite your usual skill at being able to read people you don't know what she's thinking. You switch back to observing Mugino. It looks like she's about decline when her friends speak up.
"Can Mugino, please? Basically food always tastes better when you don't have to pay for it." The blonde whines.
The tomboy nods in agreement. "I don't know about that but I'm super hungry."
The plain looking one doesn't say anything, as expected, but her stomach rumbles.
"Fine." Mugino relents. "Looks like we're taking you up on your invitation. Thank you."
"It's not a problem." Yoshikawa says. She and Mugino begin to walk towards the food court and the rest of the girls follow. You bring up the rear so you can be alone to think for a bit.
This little incident made you realize something. You have the supposed fourth strongest esper in the city in front of you and you don't know what to do with her. You could kill her to prove your strength, try and make her an ally/pawn, or just ignore her entirely as small fry but the point is you don't know what to do about her. And that's just a part of a bigger problem.
You don't really know what you're doing. You have big goals, taking over the city to start, but you don't have any plans on how to do it. Even a few smaller goals like deciding if you want to go find your own place to live would be a start. Do you want to just take over the city by force, or do you want work in more subtle ways. You could even masquerade as a hero by joining Judgment or something and gain support that way. The possibilities are endless. You just need to decide what to do. You spend the rest of the way to the food court in silence, thinking about this.
What do?
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Write in should cover what direction you want the lunch conversation to go in as well as any specific questions you have for ITEM or actions you want to take while eating with them.
Other than that I want you guys to start discussing goals and plans for this quest. I may or may not have some ideas for encounters and stuff but it's you guys that are going to provide the main impetus of the plot. Try to come up with some goals, both big and small, that you guys want to do as well as some plans for how to get those goals done. Feel free to use meta-knowledge when coming up with the goals. You don't need to work everything out right now but some idea of the direction you want to go would be good for all of us.
