The Legend of Level 0 in Academy City

Frenda, who was talking to Mugino Shizuri, also noticed Misaka Mikoto walking in through the door. Her cheerful expression instantly turned into one of disgust, as if she had swallowed a fly.

Mugino Shizuri held his drink with his right hand and rested his chin on his left, listening to Frenda's rambling with boredom as he closed his eyes.

Suddenly, the surroundings became quiet, and she opened her eyes in confusion, following Frenda's gaze.

"Tch! That's why I hate chain restaurants; they're full of pampered girls raised in a greenhouse!"

Mugino Shizuri turned his head and looked out the window, saying disdainfully.

Bang!

"You don't actually think you've won, do you?"

Frenda suddenly stood up from her seat, slammed her hand on the table, and said provocatively.

"As it turns out, it was a problem with prior intelligence. If I had known you were a Railgun, I would have stayed inside the doll..."

"Frenda~~"

Just as Frenda was talking excitedly, she suddenly heard Mugino Shizuri's gloomy voice and felt something was wrong. She looked at Mugino Shizuri cautiously.

"It's because you forgot to take the doll back that this guy ran away. You haven't forgotten about that, have you?"

Mugino Shizuri seemed to grow angrier as she spoke, her brown hair draped over her shoulders seemed to defy gravity and floated up, and a dangerous red light appeared in her eyes.

Is that so?

Frenda, sweating profusely, asked in a trembling, coquettish voice, even sticking out her little tongue in a cute gesture, seemingly hoping that Mugino Shizuri would let her go.

boom!

With a kick to Flanda's fair and delicate shin, Mugino Shizuri said viciously:

"You idiot! You need to reflect on your actions!"

"Ouch! It hurts! It hurts!"

Frenda squatted on the ground, hugging her calves, and kept calling out.

"Guest! You're disturbing other guests. Please be quiet..."

The waitress looked at the fierce-looking Mugino Shizuri and whispered a word of advice.

"Humph!"

Mugino Shizuri snorted coldly, turned her head to look out the window again, and rested her chin on her hand, as if what had just happened had nothing to do with her.

Inoue Hideka and Misaka Mikoto stood awkwardly in place, still unable to understand how things had turned out this way.

"So, are you two with these two ladies? Here's the menu, please order."

The waitress assumed that Inoue Hideka, who had been standing to the side watching Mugino Shizuri and Frenda, was with them, and placed the menu on the table in front of Mugino Shizuri while she was talking to her.

"No...that's not it..."

"How is that possible!"

Just as Misaka Mikoto was about to refuse, Mugino Shizuri and Frenda simultaneously and loudly declared their positions.

"Sorry! It was a misunderstanding. But we're all full now. Could you two please wait a moment?"

The waitress looked around the restaurant. It was lunchtime, and the students were on summer vacation, so almost every restaurant was full at this time.

"Miss, may we share a table?"

Inoue Hideka really liked Frenda.

This girl, who cherishes her life so much that she would betray her comrades and beg for mercy even when she was about to be killed, risked her life to save Saten Ruiko, who was being targeted by the dark organization "School".

This alone is enough for Inoue Hideka to not ignore her fate of being cut in half at the waist by Mugino Shizuri.

Moreover, his girlfriend, Saten Ruiko, also likes cute girls who can act cute and especially love eating her cooking.

Since that's the case, there's nothing wrong with getting to know each other now.

At least it will serve as a reason to save Frenda later, right?

To avoid Frenda suspecting his motives for rescuing unrelated people without any apparent reason.

Frenda, who was deep in the shadows and constantly struggling on the edge of life and death, suspected the motives of the person who suddenly showed kindness. Inoue Hideka did not think the probability of this happening was very small.

Moreover, the current Inoue Hideka is no longer the person who had to pretend not to see the 'tools' when she saw them.

Without any fear, Inoue Hideka walked up to Frenda, who had just sat down, and made a request with a smile.

As soon as Frenda sat down, she saw the boy who was with the third person walk over and start a conversation with her with a smile.

Frenda, secretly pleased to be called a beauty, was quite keen to agree to the request of this discerning young man, but...

Frenda glanced timidly at Mugino Shizuri, who was staring out the window with a displeased expression, and asked in a low voice:

"Mugino... what do you think?"

"Huh? You want me to sit and have dinner with this naive young lady? Frenda, are you out of your mind?"

"Who are you calling an ignorant young lady!"

Chapter 139 Dining with Frenda and Mugino

Misaka Mikoto thought Inoue Eika was unaware of the identities of the two people in front of her, and was about to take Inoue Eika away when she heard Mugino Shizuri's series of slanderous words.

How could she possibly tolerate it, given her equally bad temper?

They immediately retaliated.

"Well, well, this young lady is clearly a well-educated young lady. Misaka-senpai is also a young lady from Tokiwadai, so she shouldn't do such attention-grabbing things in public!"

Upon hearing Inoue Hideka's words, Mugino Shizuri and Misaka Mikoto both glanced sideways at the restaurant.

Sure enough, the customers who were eating in the restaurant all turned around and stared at them with displeasure.

"Humph!"

Upon seeing this, the two simultaneously snorted coldly, but their fierce battle finally came to an end.

"Hey~~ What are you doing~~"

Inoue Hideka pulled Misaka Mikoto along, ignoring her objections, and forced her to sit in the seat next to Frenda. Then she sat down next to Mugino Shizuri and started looking at the menu by herself.

Mugino Shizuri sensed someone sitting next to her, but didn't turn her head; instead, she frowned unhappily.

There were only drinks in front of Frenda and Mugino Shizuri, but no food.

Moreover, Inoue Hideka had been in the restaurant for quite some time, yet the waiters hadn't brought their food.

Guessing that they might not have ordered yet, she simply ordered an extra salmon bento and curry-flavored mackerel can, and also ordered a curry rice bowl and orange juice for herself before handing the menu to Misaka Mikoto.

"Hey! Misaka-senpai, what would you like to eat? Order whatever you like, it's on me!"

"Ah? Oh!"

Misaka Mikoto was still in shock at being seated at the same table as her former enemy, and blankly accepted the menu.

When Mugino Shizuri and Flanda heard Inoue Eika's order of food from the waiter, they glanced at Inoue Eika with some surprise, then exchanged a knowing look, both of them wary.

It's no secret that Mugino Shizuri likes salmon bento boxes and Frenda likes whale canned food.

But this guy, whom they were meeting for the first time, had ordered their favorite foods so precisely. They couldn't be sure if he ordered for them or if he was going to eat three portions by himself, but…

Could it be a coincidence?

"Um, thank you both so much for letting me share a table with Misaka-senpai. Anyway, let me introduce myself first. My name is Inoue Hideka, a first-year student in class 3 at Sakugawa Middle School. Nice to meet you!"

"Tsk!"

Mugino Shizuri clicked his tongue but said nothing, completely ignoring Inoue Eika.

"Ah~~ Um... I'm Frenda, and the person opposite me is Mugino Shizuri."

Seeing that Mugino Shizuri clearly didn't want to talk, Frenda stuck out her tongue helplessly and spoke.

However, he only mentioned their names and didn't continue.

"By the way, did Misaka-senpai, Frenda, and Mugino-san know each other before?"

After Misaka Mikoto ordered a serving of sushi, Inoue Hideka pretended to be clueless and asked a question.

"No, it's less about getting to know each other and more about becoming friends through a misunderstanding..."

Misaka Mikoto muttered to herself.

"Huh? What?"

Inoue Hideka didn't quite catch what Misaka Mikoto was muttering, and asked in confusion.

"It's nothing! We're not really acquaintances, just some past grudges."

"Hmm...I see! How about we take this opportunity to shake hands and make peace? It shouldn't be a deep-seated grudge, right?"

"Well... I don't really care. It's just that the fourth-place person over there, who's so obsessed with rankings, doesn't seem to have that thought."

Misaka Mikoto, sitting next to Frenda, the explosion maniac, felt extremely uncomfortable. She frowned slightly and glanced at Mugino Shizuri with a troubled expression.

The sister incident is over, and Misaka Mikoto isn't the type to make enemies everywhere.

Ultimately, she didn't really take Mugino Shizuri seriously.

If she hadn't been exhausted from destroying research institutes for days, and hadn't been injured in her battle with Frenda, given her abilities and Mugino Shizuri's habitual underestimation of her enemies, defeating Mugino Shizuri wouldn't have been so difficult.

Moreover, when Mugino Shizuri fell from the broken sky corridor inside the research institute, Misaka Mikoto even tried to pull Mugino Shizuri up.

Unless they are extremely wicked and commit numerous atrocities, Misaka Mikoto would find it difficult to treat them as true enemies.

"Oh? The fourth one? Speaking of which, Ms. Mugino, are you perhaps the fourth Atomic Collapse?"

Inoue Hideka pretended to have just found out and turned to look at Mugino Shizuri beside her.

"Huh? What? Kid, you have a problem with that? And stop making that annoying noise, fourth person here!"

Mugino Shizuri seemed extremely unhappy about her ranking being lower than Misaka Mikoto's, and glared at Inoue Eika, issuing a fierce warning.

"Forehead……"

Inoue Hideka was sweating profusely, while silently complaining to himself:

You know that it's because of your volatile temper that you were defeated by Hamazura Shiage twice in a row?

However, Inoue Hideka immediately recalled that Mugino Shizuri had been defeated by Hamazura Shige twice, and after learning that Hamazura Shige liked Takitsubo Risa, he inexplicably developed feelings for Hamazura Shige.