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Originally Posted by Qilin

It's related perhaps, didn't she already try doing something like that? Remember earlier in the arc where she tried taking down every facility connected to the experiment, only to realize that it was for nothing?

That was where she realized the futility of trying to take down the system. For every, institution or potential researcher she gets to, even more show up to take their place, especially if we consider knowledge to be shared within Academy City's academe. That was when she switched tactics to ones that work around the system instead of ones that go against it directly. There goes her plans of forging Tree Diagram's predictions and sacrificing herself to mess us the experiment's assumptions. That's where Touma comes in.

Once again, I should say that I think it would be difficult and impractical to find those responsible when you have the entire scientific community of Academy City as the enemy.

And yet at the end of the day, the Sisters were saved from a supposedly impossible situation. The situation has drastically changed and you'd normally expect her to reassess the situation and examine whether it's actually still possible.

I don't think it's so much an absence of faith in Anti-Skill than it is being aware of its limitations. Throughout the arc, there is no sign of Mikoto even considering approaching Anti-Skill to deal with the problem. I mean, she has all the evidence she could even need, particularly all the classified research documents she had to obtain to learn about the project. Even so, she spend her efforts with the goal of stopping the experiments rather than incriminating the responsible parties. From this, it can be guessed that while she trusts Judgment and Anti-Skill for mundane peacekeeping matters, she knows that they are powerless when it comes to the territory of city's dark side.

It can be guessed or it could just be a plot hole, which is what I'm saying.

One of her exchanges with Kuroko is telling in this regard. In the exchange, she makes it clear that becoming an enemy of Academy City, as she resolved to do while heading out to tamper with Tree Diagram, entails becoming an enemy of Judgment as well, which would apply for Anti-Skill as well by extension. As Kuroko puts it, she would protect the peace and order of the city even if it meant going against Mikoto. At this point, it's clear that she views them to be on opposite sides of the fence.

At that point yes, but there's no reason to suggest that's set in stone. Only that, at that particular point in time, Mikoto was fine for it to be like that.

Originally Posted by SilverTalon

Their own health is the only threat they currently face. The only other thing ever threatening their health was the level 6 shift which she knows to be stopped.

Until the the people who started it are finally dealt with, they will continue to be under constant threat.

Um, why do you think she has faith in authority? That was my point... abolutely nothing has happened to give her faith in authority and multiple things which should cause some one to question the ability of those with authority to enforce it did happen. She doesn't trust judgement to protect people or she wouldn't be interfering all the time despite Kuroko telling her not to. She witnessed AS being completely powerless against Kiyama, ordered to drop the Poltergeist investigation against Thelestina, completely ignore the rather numerous facilities she destroyed. She may not distrust individual people, but that doesn't mean she has faith that the institution of Anti Skill can do its job outside of minor day to day matters. She has never really seen AS do anything to stop any of the problems in the anime... AS was useless and those got solved because she did it on her own (with her friends for one of them i guess).

Sure but is there actually any evidence to suggest it has? She interferes with Judgement all the time because she's reckless, emotional and headstrong, but when Kuroko chides her for it she always looks nervous and sorry for it. There is so far nothing that suggests Mikoto has any opinion, positive or negative, on the Anti-Skill, which is just another part of the plot hole.

Thats your opinion which is fine, but I disagree. Railgun is a spinoff. I do not think a spinoff needs to have an incredibly large info dump to explain what is overall something with an extremely minor detail. If you don't want to include the novels, how the city works is fairly well implied in Index II.

That's irrelevant unless it's clear that Mikoto knows about it.

Spoiler for Relating to what he just said from Index II:

Going to be intentionally vague, but no, thats incorrect. I'm pretty sure I know what you are talking about, and that is actually just unfounded fear (because they don't understand the true purpose of the sisters) in some of the characters and there is absolutely no way that event would have endangered them.

Actually, it looks like you're thinking of something else, because what I'm talking about happened in the first season of Index, not the second.

But the sisters are currently safe. They would be in far more danger if Mikoto actually did get all of the AC higher ups held accountable. AC is watching after them now. You remove all those people running it and get rid of AC and who else is going to protect 10,000 illegal clones?

Who else is going to endanger them?