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Originally Posted by giorno
ever tried having a leg buried in the sand at a beach? it would be the same thing: you feel a bit of pressure, but it doesn't really hurt. And in fact, having her leg stuck inside the wall didn't hurt her. It was trying to force it out that hurt her, since there was nothing between her skin and the wall, and concrete has a pretty abrasive surface, it literally peeled her skin off like an orange
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Wrong. Your analogy is flawed because you didn't teleport inside the sandbox, but merely buried your leg under a few feet of sand. Teleporting inside a block of concrete will crush you (as would teleporting into a closed, extremely sturdy hollow box filled with sand -- it's all about pressure). She's lucky that she didn't get any broken bones (or maybe she did and a certain Frog-faced doctor fixed it). See the following (assume everything, including the walls, to be negatively charged):
Here, the red particle in the first cell is teleported into the ninth cell. How is this done? As I've said
previously in this thread, teleportation in this universe is similar to hyperspace/slipspace jumps in science fiction. That is, you take a shortcut between points A and B by traveling through higher-dimensional space. For this example, imagine yourself taking the red particle in the first cell out from the screen and shoving it into the 6th cell. (What's actually happening is that the image is already crumpled into 3D ball -- the 2D red particle cannot detect this higher-dimensional shape of its 2D plane -- and teleportation merely allows the particle 'access' to higher dimensions and thus, in this example, take the shortest distance from point A to B in 3 dimensions.)
As we can see, the red particle pushes aside the blue particles. However, we must also understand that the blue particles are also pushing against the red particle (and also, against the black wall). In short, all particles here are exerting force on each other (which is typical of matter), and inserting the red particle into the mix will only serve to increase the
pressure in the cell. Now, let's apply this to our solid, concrete wall (blue particles) and soft, sexy leg (red particle). Upon teleporting, the leg would try to push aside the concrete (the volume of concrete which the leg is teleported into doesn't magically disappear). Similarly, the concrete, which has more mass and weighs more than part of a leg, would push on the leg. Basically: She teleports part of her leg into a wall, the wall cracks due to increased pressure caused by making space for her leg, and her leg gets crushed due to the pressure the wall exerted on it (from all directions) as it teleported (think: you simultaneously lift and push down and away different halves of the concrete wall of a house using your leg). What happened as it was explained in the text is that she felt delayed pain, and with her leg
crushed, somewhat, the skin had become disfigured and had probably already become infested by spikes of concrete (due to uneven cracking, etc). Teleporting her leg out would have resulted in a less bloody mess, sure (and it will probably save her the trauma of seeing her own leg devoid of skin), but it would still have left her with a crushed, heavily injured leg.
As for Mugino, she basically just 'melts down' stuff. I don't know if it's explained in detail in Volume 15, but I believe her power mainly converts electrons into a form of unstable, destructive matter. Maybe something like those particles that existed right after the Big Bang? Maybe something from
this list? And it's mentioned that it can supposedly turn her into some kind of intangible energy, so... Basically, she breaks down electrons and makes use of their constituents as she pleases, though her specialty and favorite is this strange
something that can be seen as both a particle and a wave
at the same time (thus breaking
Complementarity).