Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 067

The 67th chapter of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga was released on January 27, 2014. The chapter involves Shokuhou Misaki failing to stop Gensei from getting the release codes and Mikoto's transformation coming into its opening stages after defeating Gunha and Touma being the only one left standing to contend against her.

By the release of the 10th volume of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga, the contents of chapter 67, along with chapter 66 and 65 are combined to form a single chapter in the tankobon, chapter 65, named Defeat (敗北). Because of this, the rest of there is a discrepancy between the chapter numbering of the magazine chapters and the tankobon ones.

Synopsis
Gensei is trapped by the Graviton Panels. Believing that she has achieved victory, Misaki gloats at the trapped Gensei. However, her relief only lasts for only a moment as Gensei reveals to her that his hand is merely a prosthetic from one of the times he nearly died when to focused on something else. Gensei says that it is due to his experiments that lead to this state. Moreover, Misaki cannot fool him, for he knew that she still had hope when she was running away and had relied too much on her power to read peoples motives. With that Gensei used his Multi-Skill to choke Misaki, making her pass out. At last, now the limiter release code is in Gensei's hands.

Meanwhile, Kuroko continues her pursuit of Mitori inside the building. Kuroko finds the last blindspot of the building, only to find that she isn't there. Kuroko goes over thoughts once more, and discovers that Mitori may be hiding in the sewers and that she was led into a trap by Mitori. Mitori's puppet later catches up to Kuroko through a ventilation duct. As Kuroko uses another anti-listening device to seal her echolocation, Mitori turns one of the Homing Cameras she has hacked toward the blind spot. Considering the lag when Kuroko teleports and the locations where she is likely to jump to, Mitori has her puppet fire a knife hidden inside it towards Kuroko. However, unbeknownst to her, Kazari has hacked that particular camera to display dummy footage, allowing Kuroko to escape. With this, Mitori then sees Kuroko teleport behind her puppet, the only safe spot for her to teleport to, as she predicted. She then sees Kuroko hit by it through the camera, and later has her Homing Camera roll to see Kuroko's body on the floor below. In the sewers, she laughs madly. Mitori apologizes, saying she wouldn't have killed her if she didn't interfere, though she added that she'd still meet the same fate when the city gets destroyed.

Left alone with Gunha unconscious, Touma witnesses another of Mikoto's transformation. Mitori then senses that the time is ripe for her to use Mikoto again. Mitori then guides Mikoto into creating a black sphere aimed at the Windowless Building. She mentions that though Mikoto could destroy the city she had to make sure that that person would definitely be eliminated. Mitori tells them to apologize to "her" in the afterlife, yelling for Mikoto to blow them away. Back with Gensei, after retrieving his hand, he also sense Mikoto's tranformation, something he claims as her "Opening Stage" and then uses the release code to fully open Exterior.

Characters
In order of appearance:
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Kihara Gensei
 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Kouzaku Mitori
 * Sogiita Gunha
 * Kamijou Touma
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Uiharu Kazari
 * Saten Ruiko

New Characters
No new characters were introduced during this chapter.

Abilities

 * Multi-Skill - Kihara Gensei
 * Aero Shooter
 * Teleport - Shirai Kuroko, Level 4
 * Liquid Shadow - Kouzaku Mitori, Level 4
 * Railgun (ability) with Misaka Network - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5
 * Mental Out with Exterior - Kihara Gensei, Level 5

New Abilities
No new abilities were introduced in this chapter.

Locations

 * Academy City
 * Exterior
 * Judgment 177 Branch Office

Trivia

 * The manhole that Kuroko entered in to get to Mitori was first featured last chapter on the title page.

Tankobon version


As stated above, the contents of this chapter are combined with chapters 66 and 65 of the original magazine numbering to form a single chapter in the tankobon version.

In the tankobon version, content from chapter 69 of the original magazine numbering is moved to this numbering instead. The events played out relatively the same with Touma being the final push in freeing Mikoto from the strange power that has overwhelmed her. However, perhaps the most glaring change in the tankobon, second only to the addtional chapter added in chapter 70, and likely one of the most important scenes in all of the Toaru Majutsu no Index storyline, is the addition of 7 dragon heads after Touma's arm was severed by the Mikoto's power, bringing a total of 8 dragons, which includes the most familiar one to the readers. Originally only implied in the magazine version through "eyes in the darkness" just after the dragon is about taking a bite of the sphere that covers Mikoto, the change shows the additional 7 dragon heads appearing right after the first dragon head bites on the sphere. From then on all 8 dragon heads begin viciously ripping apart the sphere until Mikoto is freed.

Events play out the same just like in the magazine version afterwards.