[h2]Saten Ruiko[/h2]

"Well," Ruiko began, "They say the ghost can't stay in one person for too long! It's trying to get better, though, so it can turn people and get their abilities! It wants to get all kinds of abilities!"

The rumor did not, in fact, state why. But it was the kind of thing that made perfect sense! Why wouldn't a ghost want Multiskill?! ... Well, okay, maybe it'd depend... but still. It didn't mean that this ghost wouldn't want to collect Esper powers for... some reason. And if it was going after Espers, maybe that whole 'AIM' thing made it hard for them to be possessed for too long? Yeah, that made plenty of sense! Uiharu brought up the fact that it looked kind of like an alien, but...

"Don't be silly, Uiharu," replied Ruiko with a smile. "That kind of alien doesn't have any hair, but you can kinda see the long black hair in this picture, right?"

The girl held the phone up to see. There was... something dark around the head, at least. It was hard to tell.

[h2]Misaka Mikoto[/h2]

Mikoto didn't believe in ghosts. But the idea of someone wanting to get together a whole bunch of Espers to try and gain their powers somehow... was someone attempting to engineer some kind of multiskill situation? It had been a side effect of Kiyama Harumi's attempt to use the computing power of a network of brains she had built, that she gained the esper powers of those who had used the Level Upper. Was someone trying to deliberately engineer something like that? Or maybe it was something else... There was [i]something[/i] going on. That was for sure.

... Speaking of things going on...

Mikoto could feel the anger bubbling up inside of her. Why did Kuroko decide this was a good idea, exactly? Slowly, the brown-haired girl raised a fist, clenching it tightly as she did, electricity crackling around her head as her irritation mounted higher and higher, threatening to erupt out in an instant.

"Kuroko..." she began, her voice a dangerous tone, "What do you think you're doing...?"