Tokiwadai Election Arc

The Tokiwadai Election Arc is a story arc in the Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out manga series. The story focuses on Tokiwadai's Student Council Election.

Relics
Around the time of Tokiwadai's student council presidential election in October, Shokuhou Misaki was investigating a "relic", something leaked from a now-defunct laboratory that supposedly had a close connection to someone at Tokiwadai. Although it had started as a simple investigation, Shokuhou ended up taking out a related institute, with individuals connected to the group involved attacking her in the next day. The group in question was represented by two squares (actually two cubes). This group apparently sought the rumored Shadow Metal, said to exist in cubic crystals, and their activity had apparently increased after an incident in the Daihaseisai in September which created a large quantity of it.

Increased movement that day had also been seen with other individuals, connected to Academy City's "previous generation", said to be mysterious and rarely mentioned. This generation also apparently included the previous 1st-ranked Level 5 esper, before Accelerator assumed the position, apparently in a cubic form in the present. There was also a Level 5 who possessed a spatial control ability.

Tokiwadai's Student Council Election
In October, elections for Tokiwadai Middle School's student council were being held, specifically the Student Council Presidential Election (生徒会長選挙).

The candidates in the current year's election were Gaouin Tsukasa (the current vice-president of the student council), Kamino, Kokuchou Mayui, Iori Mashiro, Inubushi, Kumamori Tazuna, Tatsuki Mirei, and Shokuhou Misaki, who had joined after provocations from Gaouin and the urging of her clique (the largest in Tokiwadai).

Recent Events
During an incident on the second day of the Daihaseisai, a large quantity of Shadow Metal was produced, with the day marking an increase in activity by the previous generation and the group represented by two squares, the latter seeking the Shadow Metal, said to exist in the form of cubic crystals. In the same incident, Shokuhou Misaki encountered Kouzaku Mitori, both former subjects of Clone Dolly, and after a reunion with their mutual friend Dolly, Kouzaku came to carry out a number of investigations on Shokuhou's behalf.

Not long afterwards, Shokuhou was involved events surrounding the distribution of Indian Poker and Hokaze Junko's meeting with a disembodied girl, legacies of Clone Dolly's third lab Ideal, with another figure from Clone Dolly manipulating events in the background.