Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S Episode 16

is the sixteenth episode of the second season of the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun anime adaption, and the 40th episode overall. It was first aired on July 26, 2013. The screenplay was written Yamada Yatsumoto, storyboarded by Ohashi Yoshimitsu, and directed by Kasai Ken'ichi. The episode was co-directed by Komatsubara Sei, Naoya Takashi, and Kumagai Katsuhiro.
The secret plan that was made to empower Accelerator has beesunk to the ground by the right fist of Kamijou Touma.
Accelerator, the person which the secret experiment was built upon, is felled by the right first of Touma. Air, wind, atmosphere, all this was grasped by the hands of the Accelerator, all this through its vectors, to strike down Touma. All of this, is an attempt by the Accelerator to surpass being the "Strongest" and reach "Invincibility" at last, and in this, knocks Touma down.
As her surroundings tremble at the sight of Accelerator trying to achieve absolute power, Mikoto attempts to stop it herself, for she was the one who gave birth to this "experiment," and allowed this broken man before her to involve himself.――However, this would ruin Touma's plans in taking down the predictions of Tree Diagram by having the "Weakest" defeat the "Strongest."――
The only one who can stop this now are the "Sisters". With this, Mikoto asks for her sister, Misaka Imouto, to "protect his dream." Finally, it is come to the end Kamijou Touma and the Accelerator face each other once more for one final clash.
==Synopsis==
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 04m 32s.jpg|Mikoto declares that the clones are indeed her "sisters".
An overzealous Accelerator gloats at his newest achievement, the gathering of large quantities of plasma from manipulated air particles, now sitting atop the skies of Academy City. However, his moment of glory becomes short-lived as the plasma gradually dissipates into the air above him. Accelerator quickly notices the presence of "unusual" winds and assumes that wind manipulators are nearby. In fact, the cause of this disruption is the manipulation of the many wind turbines scattered across Academy City, possible by reversing the polarity of a turbine.
Accelerator then turns to the only person he thinks can produce this outcome — none other than the Sisters, who are in a united effort to disrupt his calculations. Enraged by this move of insurgency, Accelerator decides to finish off the only Sister in the vicinity, Misaka 10032. However, Mikoto prepares to defend her "younger sister" at all costs.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 05m 11s.jpg|Accelerator mocks Mikoto's reasons.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 05m 57s.jpg|Mikoto chokes up after seeing Touma rise again.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 06m 06s.jpg|With one foot in the grave, Touma rises to finish what he started.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 06m 08s.jpg|Accelerator is shocked by the turn of events.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 06m 31s.jpg|Accelerator steps back against a half dead man.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 07m 03s.jpg|Mikoto fumbles at the worst possible time.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 07m 08s.jpg|Accelerator tries to attack Touma one more time.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 07m 17s.jpg|Touma breaks Accelerator's fingers.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 07m 27s.jpg|Touma smiles right before striking the final blow.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 08m 05s.jpg|Accelerator as a child facing down the City's army.
Mikoto stands firm in front of Accelerator, who questions her and Touma's conviction to save the Sisters despite considering them to be knockoffs of the original. In fact, Accelerator even points out that Mikoto has a reason to hate them more than anyone else. Misaka 10032 looks away with embarrassment as Accelerator continues to speak ill of her and Mikoto, especially the latter for making the experiments possible in the first place. However, Mikoto remains calm and rejects Accelerator's offer of becoming a god and, for the first time, calls her clones "sisters", much to Misaka 10032's surprise.
There, Mikoto declares that no one will die as long as she stands.
Accelerator simply laughs at Mikoto's dedication, calling her reason idiotic. Then, his smiling face turns into a scowl as he shows his increasing annoyance at the fact that he had to share the position of Level 5 with someone like Mikoto.
The strongest Level 5 prepares to eliminate Mikoto and her "sister", until the presence of another person on the battlefield re-emerges. Mikoto gasps in shock as Kamijou Touma, despite his grievous injuries, stands up.
Shock sets in as Accelerator fails to comprehend how Touma could survive something 10,000 clones could not. Meanwhile, Mikoto stops Misaka 10032 from coming closer to Touma. Although a bit shaken by this spectacle, Accelerator builds confidence that he can kill Touma with a single touch of his ability. In a split second, Accelerator leaps into the air and prepares to destroy Touma. The sudden attack startles Mikoto that her hand fumbles upon attempting to intercept Accelerator using her Railgun.
Accelerator swings his right hand and misses.
Accelerator swings his left and has his left index finger broken by the impact of Touma's right fist.
At that moment, all he asked was, "Why?"
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 08m 14s.jpg|Who is the real monster?
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 08m 48s.jpg|What could have been.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 09m 07s.jpg|What it truly has become.
Those memories of having a power so powerful that it can unite the entire world just to contest it... being confronted by scientists into participating in their projects... and the wish to gain absolute power that cannot be contested by anyone. All of those entered Accelerator's mind at that instant. Amidst all this, for the first time, Accelerator wonders what he has been doing all this time.
Then, Touma's fist connects with Accelerator's face, knocking him out on the spot.
With that, everything turns into a standstill.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 09m 21s.jpg|Accelerator realizes something just before being struck down.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 09m 27s.jpg|Kamijou Touma defeats the Accelerator.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 10m 12s_stitch.jpg|Misaka 10032 visits an injured Touma in the dead of night.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 10m 31s.jpg|Mikoto readies herself to meet Touma.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 12m 08s.jpg|Touma discusses the Sisters with Mikoto.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 13m 13s.jpg|Mikoto and Misaka 10032 having a little walk.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 14m 05s_stitch.jpg|Mikoto unable to find the right words to say.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 14m 13s.jpg|Misaka 10032 playing with children
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 14m 50s.jpg|Misaka 10032 "corrupts" children.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 15m 01s.jpg|A certain nun visits a certain someone.
Kamijou Touma wakes up later that night in a hospital room, visited momentarily by Misaka 10032. The next day, the Original shows up, although Touma was asleep when she arrived. For a moment, Mikoto remarks about how crazy Touma was in leaping straight into that fight, but soon decides to take a closer look at Touma's sleeping face. Unfortunately, Touma wakes up just as she slowly inches closer to Touma.
A bit startled by Touma waking up, Mikoto decides to go straight to the point and hands over the expensive cookies she bought before heading to visit him. Touma, however, prefers handmade cookies instead, expecting anyone would do the same thing. Mikoto flies into a rage, causing sparks to fly around Touma's hospital room.
After that rather frightening development, Touma mentions to Mikoto that one of her "sisters" had visited him the night before, and relays the news about the cancellation of the Level 6 Shift Project. Although Mikoto has caught wind of this news, she still puts herself to blame for everything that had happened. Touma points out that it was Mikoto who was responsible for the existence of her clones, but he considers it a good thing, as their existence allowed them to experience things a human being feels. For that reason, Touma tells Mikoto that her sisters wouldn't like it if they see her down because of it.
After the visit to Touma's hospital room, Mikoto heads to the courtyard where she stumbles upon Misaka 10032, who is reunited with her cat and is bandaged due to her injuries. Fortunately, Misaka 10032's wounds were not as serious as that of Touma's, as 10032 claims herself. At that moment, Mikoto thought that the reason why her clones thought of themselves as guinea pigs is because they were called as such by the people around her. However, she thinks that people can eventually change how these clones think of themselves if they start treating them like human beings too.
Mikoto seems interested in taking this first step. However, seeing 10032 get lost over the most trivial things like playing on a swing set on a nearby playground would make things difficult for her. To make things worse for Mikoto, she was mistaken for 10032's younger sister just because she owns Gekota merchandise. 10032 seems interested in making fun of Mikoto in front of the two children they saw in the playground, but she actually means good things for Mikoto, who just risked her life to saving her younger sister.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 15m 25s.jpg|Little girl wondering who the little sister is.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 15m 40s.jpg|Mikoto's childish preferences betray her.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 15m 43s.jpg|Misaka 10032 gives a hearty chortle.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 15m 54s.jpg|The truth hurts.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 16m 35s.jpg|Misaka 10032 look upon her free hands.
As the children continue playing on the swing, Mikoto and 10032 spend some time in the shade. Misaka 10032 feels that this moment seemed surreal, knowing that she should have been dead during the experiment held the night before. Then, she recalls on their reason for existence: to be killed in experiments alongside 10,031 of her fallen "sisters" — a reason now lost due to the efforts of the Original herself, Misaka Mikoto, and Kamijou Touma. Right now, they face the problems any person faces, particularly the need of a reason to exist.
Misaka 10032 pleads to Mikoto to stay by her side and help her find the reason to exist, admitting her request was selfish of her.
Mikoto quickly agrees.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 16m 45s.jpg|Sisters awaken to the tidings of freedom.
Later that day, Uiharu and Saten are surprised to receive a request from Mikoto herself regarding the need of an available kitchen to bake cookies. In Saten's apartment unit, they began cleaning up the ingredients used, while talking about how relieved they are in seeing Mikoto return back to her normal self again. Mikoto, on the other hand, already has the cookies she prepared in a paper bag, although she seems reluctant to give it to him personally out of embarrassment.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 18m 20s.jpg|Saten and Uiharu having a knowing look.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 19m 03s.jpg|Touma fresh out of the hospital.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 19m 17s.jpg|Touma laments a certain roomate.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 20m 10s.jpg|Mikoto once again being incapable of saying her feelings.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 21m 02s.jpg|Kuroko surprised at Mikoto's strange expression.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 21m 59s.jpg|Mikoto fails to give her cookies, but receives something for her effort.
As scenarios of what would happen if she gives the cookies to him whirl around in her head, Mikoto is accompanied by Touma, who is still in bandages and a crutch but seemingly recovered well. Mikoto is clearly shocked at the sight of Touma being out of the hospital earlier than expected, and Touma explains that he wanted to avoid the slowly rising hospital bills, as well as the wrath of a certain roommate in white. Touma then returns to question to Mikoto and proceeds to tease her again, but Mikoto ends up too embarrassed to even say anything in front of him.
Unfortunately for Mikoto, Touma already plans to head back home. Touma greets her goodbye using his nickname for her "Biribiri", and Mikoto finally manages to speak, pointing out that her name if Misaka Mikoto, not Biribiri.
Then, as Touma calls her "Misaka", Mikoto felt like her heart skipped a beat.
Moments later, Kuroko heads to where Mikoto is and she quickly panicked at the sight of Mikoto's face. However, Mikoto quickly manages to calm her down. It turns out that Kuroko is there to warn Mikoto that the Dormitory Supervisor has caught wind of their violations as of late. Mikoto seems calm about everything as opposed to Kuroko, and despite Mikoto's positive mood, Kuroko can't help but be perplexed...
...especially upon seeing a face that she hasn't seen in Mikoto ever.
Elsewhere, in a twist of luck, a Misaka clone finds a Gekota patch in a gachapon machine.
Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S E16 23m 24s.jpg|A Misaka clone remembers about the Gekota patch that Mikoto gave the previous clone.
==Major Events==
*With the aid of Mikoto and the clones, Touma is able to defeat Accelerator.
*The Level 6 Shift experiment is suspended, and the clones are sent to facilities for readjustment on their bodies.
*Touma refers to Mikoto by her family name for the first time.
==Adapted From==
*Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 03
*Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 038
*Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 039
*Toaru Kagaku no Railgun Manga Chapter 039 special
==Adapted To==
*Game: Toaru Majutsu no Index: Imaginary Fest Main Story
==Characters==
*Misaka Mikoto
*Misaka 10032
*Sisters
*Accelerator
*Kamijou Touma
*Misaka 10032's cat
*Index Librorum Prohibitorum 
*Misaka 9982 
*Kusakabe Yumi 
*Kanmi Eiga 
*Misaka 8912 
*Saten Ruiko
*Shirai Kuroko
*Uiharu Kazari
===New Characters===
==Locations==
*Academy City
*School District 17
*Heaven Canceller's Hospital
===New Locations===
==Abilities==
*Accelerator (ability) - Accelerator, Level 5.
*Radio Noise - Sisters, Level 2-3.
*Electromaster (Railgun-variant) - Misaka Mikoto, Level 5.
*Imagine Breaker - Kamijou Touma, Level 0.
*Teleport - Shirai Kuroko, Level 4
===New Abilities===
==Trivia==
*With at least 15 episodes dedicated to the story, the Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S version of the Sisters Arc is the longest story arc along with the Daihasei Festival Arc in the animated series.
*Index makes a cameo appearance for the first time in Toaru Kagaku no Railgun S.
===Referbacks===
*Episode 4 is referenced a few times during this episode. First, showing the cookie mold that the girls bought in Seventh Mist being used for the cookies that Mikoto should've given to Touma, as well as the gatchapon machine after the end credits, showing a Misaka sister acquiring a Gekota badge on her first try.
===Cultural References===
===Differences in Adaptation===
===Animation Trivia===
*1 minute and 30 seconds of content are reused from the previous one as the recap sequence for this episode.
*Scenes from episode 4 are used as a flashback for this episode.
===Soundtrack===
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===Unanswered Questions===
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