Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out Manga Chapter 019

The nineteenth chapter of the Toaru Kagaku no Mental Out manga, released on June 27th 2023 in Comic Newtype.

Major Events

 * Shokuhou Misaki and Shirai Kuroko have a brief scuffle with Kihara Yuiitsu, who resents the former over what happened to her grandfather Kihara Gensei.
 * Kamino guides Shokuhou and Kuroko through the Kaisei Corporation while explaining about their past as well as their connections to □□ and the former #1 Level 5.

Characters
By order of appearance:
 * Kihara Yuiitsu
 * Shokuhou Misaki
 * Shirai Kuroko
 * Kamino
 * "Senior"

Abilities

 * Teleport - Shirai Kuroko, Level 4
 * - Kamino

Locations

 * Academy City
 * Kaisei Corporation

Trivia

 * Yuiitsu's tablet has pawprints on its cover design, likely a result of her association with and affection for Kihara Noukan.
 * In addition to doing research work with the company that is the Kaisei Corporation, Yuiitsu had at least one other tie to the medical field around this time in the form of Yakumi Hisako, then-member of the Academy City Board of Directors, who specialized in the field of medicine and was the unwitting recipient of Yuiitsu's brainwaves. Whether or not there is any connection between these two is currently unknown.

Referbacks

 * Yuiitsu refers to Shokuhou as being 'acquainted' with her grandpa, with Shokuhou claiming he was so mad it melted his brain. Shokuhou had come into conflict with Kihara Gensei and his machinations when he was after the Sisters for his own experiment in the wake of the Level 6 Shift Project's cancellation, and had ended up facing him directly when he seized control of Exterior for that experiment on the second day of the Daihaseisai. Shokuhou eventually managed to outwit him by altering her own memory, tricking him into inputting Exterior's self-destruct code, resulting in its destruction and him being incapacitated as a result.
 * According to Railgun manga editor Ogino Kentarou, Shokuhou had then attempted to cripple Gensei's mental processes with Mental Out, but Gensei avoided it by throwing away his physical body, becoming a disembodied thought entity in the process and unable to endulge in further experiments.
 * Kuroko recognizes the name Kihara and mentioned how it often crops up in connection to high-level esper crimes, giving the Level Upper case as an example. In that particular case, Kihara Gensei was behind the experiment which left the Child Errors in Kiyama Harumi's care comatose, and had an indirect hand in her subsequent development of the Level Upper, which he would later use for his own purposes.
 * Kuroko had previously expressed skepticism at the idea of Gemstones while having her hair cut by Sakashima Michibata in April.