Episode Title:
Balloon Hunter.
Episode Description:
Tokiwadai begin the Balloon Hunter event against the opposing school, who gains an early lead due to intel on Tokiwadai's espers provided to them by a boy named Baba. Believing Misaka 10032 to be Mikoto, Baba sends his teammates to gang up on her while he sends a robotic mosquito to inject her with a nanodevice. After the event ends in Tokiwadai's defeat, Mikoto goes to have lunch with her mother Misuzu, having a run in with Touma and Misaki while getting drinks, while Ruiko and Kazari decide to search for a rumored metal known as Shadow Metal. Meanwhile, Misaka 10032 collapses from the nanodevice, at which point she is discovered by Misaki.