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Index episode 14 around 14:00 minutes.

Touma awakens to find his right hand on Misaka 10032's chest. 10032 then
states that she placed his hand there herself, and that she was reading
electrical currents to measure his life signs.

Given that Imagine Breaker is a passive power, how could that be possible?

So, is it

  1. A white lie. She wasn't reading him. Not likely because Misaka clones usually don't lie and show little emotion.
  2. A plot hole. They just forgot what power was in the hand.
  3. An animation faux. She was actually holding his left hand in the Light Novel.


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How could Misaka 10032 be measuring Touma's life signals while holding his right hand


This isn't much of an answer, but as the question does specifically ask about
whether there is a difference between the light novels and the other versions,
here are my findings:

In Yen Press's English translation of _A Certain Magical Index: Volume 3_ ,
which hand of Touma's that Misaka 10032 is holding to her chest is
unspecified. Here's the quote:

> Lastly, he noticed Little Misaka's hands embracing one of his.  
> It didn't really _matter_ , but she was holding both of her hands to her
> chest...

Furthermore, it also isn't specified which side of the bed Misaka 10032 is
sitting on:

> After all, the only person in the room was Little Misaka, quietly sitting on
> a chair at the side of the bed-

Misaka 10032's explanation for why she was holding Touma's hand to her chest
are same in the manga and light novel: she says she's measuring his brain
waves and pulse via bioelectricity. Neither offers any more insight than that.

From this, one might find it reasonable to conclude that it was indeed an
error introduced by the anime and that by the ambiguity in the light novels,
we should conclude it was Touma's left hand because it would be impossible for
Misaka 10032 to read his bioelectricity from his right.


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