Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 137

Verbal Attack (口撃) is the 137th chapter of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun manga series, released on January 27th 2022 in Monthly Comic Dengeki Daioh.

Synopsis
Although usually preferring to not use her powers in public, Mikagami Nagisa makes an exception as she fights Yasutoba Suika to protect her clique members. Through the expert use of changing her fat content instantaneously, she outwits Yasutoba's ball-and-chain attacks. Yasutoba eventually changes tactics, using the vulnerable state of her companions in an attempt to throw off Mikagami's calculation ability, but this backfires on Yasutoba when Mikagami exposes her inability to be friends with her fellow clique members. With Yasutoba's focus shaken, Nagisa uses her high-fat form to take down Yasutoba.

Sha Danshan leaves an archaeology laboratory after using her remains-based psychometry to temporarily reproduce a small dinosaur and discovers that Lily and her companions are injured. After learning about what they did to Shokuhou Misaki, Sha assures them that the Level 5 is aware of their intentions and also scolds them for doing something without informing her. Meanwhile, at a "casino" designed for educational purposes, Mikoto discovers a potential use for coins that are used there while she plays a game of roulette with Ruri.

Major Events

 * Mikagami Nagisa fights and defeats the attacker from the Hasekura Clique.
 * After using her psychometry to reproduce the image of a dinosaur from a fossil for researchers, Sha Danshan meets with members of her clique involved in the incident with Shokuhou Misaki and after learning about it, tells them off for doing it without telling her.
 * While at a no-cash research casino in School Garden with Ruri, Mikoto encounters the coins she would come to use for her Railgun.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Mikagami Nagisa
 * Sukezawa Sena
 * Kadosaka Rina
 * Yasutoba Suika
 * Sha Danshan
 * Lily
 * Ouyang Qian
 * Lin Lihua
 * Hokaze Junko
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Misaka Mikoto
 * Shin'enkouji Rurikakesu

Abilities

 * - Yasutoba Suika, Level 3
 * - Sukezawa Sena, Level 3
 * - Kadosaka Rina, Level 3
 * Oil Direction - Mikagami Nagisa, Level 3

New Abilities

 * - Sha Danshan

Locations

 * Academy City
 * School Garden

New Locations

 * Unnamed Laboratory
 * Unnamed Casino for social studies in School Garden

Referbacks

 * An injured Lily and her her companions report back to Sha Danshan about their previous attempt to apprehend Shokuhou Misaki, with fears of being tampered with after their failure.

Cultural References

 * The researcher mentions the usefulness of Sha Danshan's variant of Psychometry, which can produce a physical image of a subject from its remains, in the field of Kōkogaku (考古学).
 * While this is still the case, it should be noted that, strictly speaking, the study of fossilized creatures, such as the small dinosaur she had just recreated for them, falls under the field of (the study of prehistoric life, generally prior to the start of the Holocene epoch) rather than  (the study of past human activity from the recovery and analysis of material remains).