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Verbal Attack (口撃 Kougeki?) 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:

Abilities[]

New Abilities[]

Locations[]

New Locations[]

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

Trivia[]

Referbacks[]

Cultural References[]

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Fossil types in the image
Sha Danshan - Fossils (Railgun Ch137)

Sha, depicted with various fossils in the background.

  • 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 archaeology (考古学 Kōkogaku?).
    • 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 paleontology (the study of prehistoric life, generally prior to the start of the Holocene epoch) rather than archaeology (the study of past human activity from the recovery and analysis of material remains).
    • Various fossils are depicted in the background behind Sha during this conversation.
      • Top left is the fossil of an ammonite.
      • The first row and the second from the left is a partial skull of Smilodon, commonly known as Saber-toothed tiger.
      • The second row and the second from the left is a tooth fossil of Megalodon.


Unanswered Questions[]

  • What were the assailant's past circumstances?
  • What species of dinosaur was Sha recreating?

Quotes[]

  • Mikagami Nagisa: "What would you know about having friends?"

References[]

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