| “ | I’ll get into trouble and into fights. There will even be deadly fights. But it will all work out in the end. No matter how many people I kill and how much I destroy, everything will be resolved in the end somehow and we can all be happy. All my past experiences have shown that to be true... That’s how it was during the fight between Item and School. That’s how it was when we fought underground in District 23. That’s how it was when we met during the fierce fighting of World War 3. And so I know it will be fine as long as I have Hamazura. No matter what happens, he will forgive me in the end. | „ |
| ~ Mugino |
| “ | You have to dirty your hands to give the dead a clean end. Only the one killed can know how the one killed feels, but only the living can act based on their feelings for the dead. …Rejecting that and running away is not being honest or being a pacifist. It is being a coward. | „ |
| ~ Mugino to Accelerator |
Background
Mugino Shizuri is the 4th ranked Level 5 esper who carries the title of Meltdowner, and the leader of ITEM, a secret organization of Academic City.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 9-C, 8-B with Meltdowner, higher with Body Crystal Overload
Dimensionality: 3-D
Powers and Abilities: Peak Human,Electricity Manipulation, Matter Manipulation (Macro-Quantum), Energy Manipulation and Durability Negation (Can manipulate electrons and use them to create highly destructive beams of high-speed electrons and wave particles that disintegrates the target upon contact), Forcefield Creation (Can create a Meltdowner Shield), Pseudo-Flight, Danmaku, Resistance to Poison Manipulation | All previous powers, plus Statistics Amplification (Can exponentially boost her power with Body Crystal Overload) and Cyborgization (Partial)
Attack Potency: Street level (Physically stronger than Touma and Mikoto. Can throw Hamazura around with a casual blow), City Block level with Meltdowner (Superior to Kiyama, who vaporized a pillar with her beam), higher with Body Crystal Overload. Meltdowner can also ignore durability
Speed: Peak Human, Massively Hypersonic with Meltdowner (Can keep up with Mikoto) with Massively Hypersonic reactions (Can react to Mikoto's lightning)
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human
Durability: Street level, City Block level with Meltdowner's shields (Blocked Mikoto's Railgun. The shield possess the same attributes as her beams)
Stamina: Very High (Superior to Mikoto. Can continuously fight after several injuries, recovered quickly after receiving a heavy blow to the head and was able to stand up after having had an entire handgun's clip emptied into her and having blown up her own left arm)
Range: Standard melee range physically, Kilometers with Meltdowner
Standard Equipment: Silicon cards, Body Crystal | Silicon cards, Body Crystal, Prosthetic Arms
Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius (As a Level 5, Mugino has a calculation process much faster than most supercomputers of Academic City, which are 20 years ahead of the world. She is constantly calculating possible outcomes and means of best exploiting her beam's destructive power)
Weaknesses: Normal human weaknesses, highly overconfident and arrogant, if under sufficient mental stress she can unconsciously stop holding back and damage herself with her own power | Can't aim carefully when using Body Crystal, Body Crystal runs out after a few minutes, leaving her very weakened.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Meltdowner: (原子崩し Genshi Kuzushi (Merutodaunā), lit. "Atomic Destruction"): Mugino's ability is known as the Meltdowner, with the technical classification as Particle Waveform High-Speed Cannon (粒機波形高速砲 Tsubuki Hakei Kōsokuhō). Electrons have the properties of both particles and waves. Mugino's ability allows her to control electrons in that "ambiguous" state and forcibly stuck them in a third, new state where it is both particle and wave. When they strike other objects the electrons controlled by Mugino are unable to react as either a particle or a wave because of their fixed state. Normally, electrons have a mass that is close to zero, but because they are stuck or "stopped" at this state they take the form of a seemingly solid object, which has become a pseudo-"wall" due to the "stopped" state, creating a highly destructive beam of high-speed electrons that pierces through a target at the same velocity that it was fired. Her ability is so powerful that she unconsciously holds back part of her power due to her survival instinct so as to not damage herself with her own ability. When her anger over Shiage hurting her despite being a "worthless level 0" reached its peak she blew up her own left arm from wrist to elbow while trying to kill him with her power. Since her ability is a form of electron manipulation, she can also manipulate enemy electric or electron-based attacks and bend their trajectory away from her.
- Meltdowner Beams: She can fire beams of destructive electrons which are said to be stuck in a state between particles and waves. Mugino initially could shoot four laser-like beams or release one concentrated blast. Normally, her rate of fire is a little slow since Mugino takes her time to perfectly aim and calculate the output of every single shot. She can also fire her Meltdowner like a rocket engine to move at speeds exceeding Mach 20. After World War III, Mugino has trained her ability to the point that she can create up to 20 Meltdowner beams at once.
- Silicon Burn (拡散支援半導体 Kakusan Shien Handōtai (Shirikon Bān), lit. "Diffusion Aid Semiconductor"): To compensate for her usually slow firing rate, Mugino carries special silicon cards. The slots found on the card's surface can disperse the Meltdowner into dozens of small beams to cover the entire area.
- Meltdowner Shield: Mugino can generate round-shaped formations of her Meltdowner to block incoming attacks. The shield annihilates everything that comes in contact with it thus protecting her. Mugino can supposedly also erect a full-body barrier to protect herself from all directions, solely as a last resort.
- Meltdowner Arm: After her mutilation, Mugino replaced her lost left arm with an energy-like Meltdowner Arm which can move according to her wishes yet carry the Meltdowner's properties. She can freely expand the arm in size.
- Meltdowner Eye: After her mutilation, Mugino replaced her lost right eye with a Meltdowner eye. While is not known if the eye is a functional replacement that allows her to see, she can use it to fire a Meltdowner beam.
- Body Crystal Overload: Body Crystal is a special drug developed by Academy City in one of their attempts to reach Level 6. The drug causes an esper's power to overload, and in extremely rare cases that state would strengthen an esper's power, but continued use of the drug will wear down their body and make them dependent on the drug to activate their power. When Mugino ingested a small amount of Body Crystal she was able to shoot tens of thousands of Meltdowner beams around her, presumably much stronger than her normal powers. Since she's constantly shooting beams the sphere around her looks like a solid energy construct. She can also focus the beams in one spot to construct a single-arm almost 20 meters long that easily melted down snow and the earth below it when swung, creating a phreatic explosion; or shoot tens of thousands of beams into one direction. Since Mugino is not actually one of the rare espers compatible with Body Crystal, the drug greatly tires her out, running out after a few minutes at most and leaving her very weakened afterward.
- Cyborg Prosthetics: Mugino eventually replaced the right eye and left arm she had lost in her first fight with Shiage with prosthetics, which she normally covers with special makeup that makes them look like normal human body parts, with only small mechanical wiring left to tell her arm is not made of flesh-and-blood. Her right eye can connect to electronic equipment with cables and let her access information with her mind, and her left arm is strong enough to easily crush St. Germain's carbon spears in her grasp.
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