[Miraluka]

Originally Posted by Shadow5YA

The Sisters arc is Mikoto's story, after all, and I think she changed the most after this arc. Mikoto always did things on her own and refused help from others, because I think she was a bit cynical on humanity to begin with.

Saddly still she does thing on her own.

Spoiler for ch3:

As she recalls back to a certain time when a group of thugs were hitting on her:

"They actually came on to me. What a bunch of morons... Oh well, if they get too noisy, I just let them have a taste of my electric shock."

"It's just... well..."

*a guy looks at the scene*

"Oh, someone looked over here."

*guy turns away*

"Ahaha, just like everyone else.

It's not like they're heartless and want to sit there doing nothing. I know that. To be exact, they wouldn't be able to achieve anything even if they were to get involved. They would just get themselves hurt.

Everyone treasures him or herself. That's normal.

Someone who helps a stranger and stands up for justice... Even if a person did exist, that person must be an idiot."

Mikoto thinks that no one would help others they don't know or if they're not sure they can succeed. Since Mikoto has to find a way to stop Accelerator, and Accelerator is the strongest, she thinks that no one would come help her, so she isolates herself and tries to deal with the experiment on her own. Since she's failing everytime, Mikoto starts to believe more and more that she can't stop the experiment. If she can't stop the experiment, and she believes no one would willingly help her stop the experiment, she falls into despair.

Of course, that's where Touma comes in again. Like that time he helped her against those thugs, he goes against Mikoto's beliefs on human morality. Since Touma is willing to put himself in danger for the sake of others, Mikoto finally asks for someone else's help, not for herself, but to help Touma.

You could say that against Accelerator is the only time Mikoto really put herself in any real danger. Before, she was never in real danger because she knew she had the power to outclass any opponent, so she always did things on her own.

Isn't like she thinks that no one would come help her, she does thinks nobody can help her.