Oh… Oh, aaaaaa…"
Rencha, with pure white wings, staggered towards him as if responding to him.
Perhaps her inner collapse had reached a certain point where Rencha couldn't even stand up straight, and couldn't even notice that she was swaying, but even so, she still stood up to face Kamijou.
(But, but——)
Their eyes met.
Both of them are filled with some kind of inexplicable power.
(No matter how much resentment this may bring, no matter how contradictory it may be, the person in front of me can still be saved! I know this too!)
"...I will save you."
As if he was risking everything.
Kamijou Touma said:
"I will save you."
"Gah, gah…are you kidding me…did you get the wrong person…?"
moment.
This was the only time that the two sides had a fierce conflict.
The cyborg Rencha rushed to Kamijou at supersonic speed and swung down the pair of white wings on his back at the same time. A mere boy would not be able to handle it. Not only was this true from the perspective of speed, but Rencha could also completely erase the subtle changes on the surface of his body and expressions by inputting parameters. In other words, Kamijou could not use the insight he gained from experience.
but.
Kamijou Touma lowered his body as if it was an agreement.
Since Rencha attacked with amazing speed, it would be too late to catch up if he waited until he saw it. The boy waited for Rencha's attack with great precision, as if he had taken a step ahead.
The inner side of Rencha's body was severely collapsed, and even #029 himself could not control it.
Although I can usually make the expression disappear by inputting the values perfectly.
But now, that subtle tremor is back.
Faced with this scene.
Kamijou Touma clenched his fists.
The force was so strong that blood oozed out.
The boy deliberately did not use his right hand to attack Bai Yi, but twisted his upper body to avoid it. Then he aimed at the center of Liancha's face, who was staring at him at a very close distance, and released his fist with all his strength.
"So you better think about it carefully! Find a way to help the person you want to help the most!"
Fists thrown.
The cyborg Rencha, who was very close, showed a panicked expression.
Then——
Chapter 174. Demonic Traces
The end of Yami Hisako was that she was eaten into residue.
Even thinking has become a luxury.
After the collapse at the scene.
No one can believe it.
Yaowei Jiuzi actually has a way to escape.
While everyone at the front line is still enjoying the comfort of surviving the disaster.
She tried to escape.
Little did they know.
At the end of this road.
That person had appeared in the clip.
Floran, one of the protagonists of the plot events, appears.
It's like saying you want to eat human brains.
The person who triggered this series of events was devoured until only a mouthful of residue was left.
Of course, for now, this matter only involves her as the executor.
And the audience in front of the screen knows.
Now everyone finally understands.
Why the previous plot?
Floran will say that she has made a good friend.
It turns out that the good friend she was talking about was not someone else.
That is the main goal of this mission.
This person decided not to expect to be rescued by a hero.
A girl who strives to change the status quo in order to protect everyone's smile.
"It seems that this world called a Certain Magical Index is indeed more vast than many other worlds, even though I am the main character of this world."
"Everything that this boy named Kamijou Touma has experienced is not unique. In this world, there are many plots in which he is involved, and there may even be other people who are the main guides of the events."
The audience all knew that the end of this incident meant that this chapter was about to come to a temporary halt.
Sure enough, a dark scene passed by.
Inside the screen.
The conversation between Kamijou Touma and Hamazura, who were lying on the hospital bed, reappeared in his mind.
The content of the communication was the group of cloned Rencha.
At the end of this plot, there is a very intriguing dialogue.
When Kamijou Touma was about to be discharged from the hospital, Hamazura Shige, who was still lying on the bed, suppressed the pain, propped up his upper body, and asked loudly what Kamijou Touma's future plans were.
Hamazura couldn't help but talk to the figure from behind:
"What are you going to do next?"
"…Same as usual."
Relatively.
Kamijou Touma replied without even turning his head:
"No matter how many times the game ends, no matter how miserable the process of repeatedly starting over is… I will still keep going."
That's the end of this.
Then, a new scene unfolds again.
That is the most profound and shocking chapter...the chapter of the coming of the devil.
The beginning of this chapter, as in the past, describes Kamijou Touma's humorous and funny daily life.
I have to say, this kind of content, which seems to add a touch of icing on the bleak plot, is really delicious to eat.
First, two magicians were found occupying Touma's side at his home.
Looking again, he saw Index approaching, which led to a misunderstanding.
Fortunately, this farce did not last long and quickly moved on to the next chapter.
In the daytime room, Bai Dewei hung up the call and put the phone in the pocket of her skirt, muttering with an expression as if she was planning a world-class conspiracy.
"That way we are ready."
"Hmm? Did you order pizza delivery?"
"I've come all the way to the other side of the world, so of course I'll order sushi or wheat noodles if I'm hungry."
Kamijou, who was covered in wounds, heard the heartwarming conversation between Perdway and Index in a daze.
To put it bluntly, he seriously felt that the future of the world didn't matter at all.
Although the most urgent thing was to find a way to deal with the square opening in the bathroom wall, to be honest, Kamijou was so afraid of paying the deposit and gift money that he hesitated even to complain to the dormitory head. He began to think of escapist thoughts such as "Can we quietly find a mysterious team of masked renovation experts to perfectly repair the wall so that there is no visible crack?"
...Underwater battles that often broke out in the dark corners of Academy City usually left no evidence or signs of destruction, so such experts definitely existed. It was a pity that he had no idea how to contact them.
In short, in order to use the bathroom, we can only use blue plastic sheeting to cover the square hole in the wall. If people can see everything when taking a shower or going to the toilet, it is too desperate for the living environment.
By the way.
Kamijou Touma was lost in thought, probably because of the excessive bleeding. This was understandable, because the white-robed nun used her ferocious fangs to decorate his head with pomegranate-style decorations.
He moved his mouth feebly and muttered like a ventriloquist puppet at a traffic lecture.
"…Oh, that's right. I was too careless. Now I'm not far from a serious fight with Index who has switched to 120% Beast Mode, or a fatal battle with the materialized black shadow-like misfortune collection…"
"Seeing you just casually wrap a bandage around your head and think it's done, I deeply feel that the so-called human being is indeed full of mysteries. I originally thought that the human body, including the microcosm, had long been nothing to study."
While putting her feet into the kotatsu table, Bai Dewei said this casually, staring at the toast and salad in front of her with dissatisfaction. It seems that she came all the way to Japan and hoped to have rice and miso soup for breakfast.
Meanwhile, the beast sister Index, dressed in white, split the toast in half right down the middle, and forced the lettuce (without sauce) that was originally on the plate in the middle, and began to chew it all in one go.
"Touma! Something that takes only fifteen seconds to finish doesn't count as a meal! I want more bread, ham and eggs! More! More! More!"
"Your way of eating is too grand! Mr. Kamijou wouldn't admit that something like that is called a sandwich! Index, your move is just a tactic of 'it's the same as long as it enters the stomach'!"
Still sleepy, Resa tore up some white toast, soaked it in hot milk, and then held the milk in her mouth. It looked more like she was trying to use a bedtime drink to scare away the temptation of a nap than eating breakfast, which made people a little worried about whether the child would have cavities.
The TV he turned on was talking about G14 in New York. At this time in the morning, most of the channels were news or programs for elementary school students. Kamijou often thought, it would be great if there was a big hilarious show at this time.
If you only read the headlines and the weather forecast, you should be able to read the news in 30 seconds... Thinking this way probably proves that Kamijou's sensibility is no different from that of an average high school student; basically, he only reads the TV schedule when reading the newspaper. By the way, Index can copy the "Today's Bento Unit" into her mind with full memory ability, but she can't cook it herself. She is really a nuisance to others.
"I won't do that. No ham and eggs! The most important thing about eating is a balanced diet! If you feel hungry, it's because you didn't chew your food slowly, Index!"
"What? If you say so, then I challenge Sphinx's breakfast! Touma, if you don't want it to starve, go prepare some ham and eggs!"
"What a brutal terrorist attack!"
The plate on the floor was lifted high, causing the calico cat to stand up on its two hind legs, with sharp claws silently emerging from its front legs. The resentment caused by food is really terrible.
Bai Dewei drank a sip of milkshake made by adding eggs and sugar to milk (he claims it is a non-alcoholic version of eggnog), then kicked someone's feet on the kotatsu table and said leisurely:
"...I feel like after coming here, all the world-wide turmoil and the allied forces' attack have become insignificant..."
"Don't act like this is your second home! The trouble you've caused is much greater than that of others! And did you mix in some sensational words in your previous remarks?"
"Huh…"
Reisa, who gave up breakfast for sleep, lay down on the floor and groaned. If the kotatsu table hadn't been effective, her panties would have been exposed from under her miniskirt.
She handed the jerky she had given up to the calico cat whose feed had been taken away by the tyrant, and said:
"...We... er, we are preparing to make sure our 'ace' is ready to strike at any time... Um, anyway, first we need to make sure that Imagine Breaker..."
"Wait! Don't sleep next to the kotatsu, or you'll catch a cold! And explain to Kamijou-san! You really want to drag me down with you! If that's the case, at least explain it clearly!"
"Huh... We're playing rock-paper-scissors in 'New Light'... I'm the winner of the Asian tourism rights competition... I'm stepping on Floris, who's grudged in the final match, to snatch the plane ticket..."
"I'm not asking you to explain how a person came here! I'm asking you to explain this dangerous aura!"
Although Kamijou yelled, Lesser was probably too lazy to pay attention to him and only fed the calico cat bread crumbs and jerky with weak movements. Her actions only added fuel to the fire of jealousy in Index's heart.
"That one."
Birdway spread butter and powdered sugar on his toast and interrupted with a casual attitude.
"Finally, all the people who find the 'troublemakers' annoying have gathered together, including the English Puritans, the Roman Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the American and Russian armies with average military power. Well, in short, there are a lot of forces."
"Well, this has nothing to do with me, right?"
"Why do you think I had to come all the way to such a crowded room...? You idiot, you didn't think this was just like waking up my childhood friend who lives nearby?"
"Why are you dragging me into this?"
"Because you've complained about this before...! Who is this guy who said, 'You'll turn against me if I'm not thrown to the most dangerous place in the world'? Do you want me to help you tighten the screws in your head?"
"Wait, wait, this translation in my head isn't right… Wait a minute! Bertholdt, that staff can't fit into a place like that…! I'll just listen to you, please calm down!"He was the one who planned the girl's experience and everything from the very beginning.
Hisako Yami's plan...a human resources plan.
She wants to use this plan to transform herself and undergo a transformation.
Transform yourself into an AIM thinking entity.
She wanted to escape from the constraints of this world and run freely to all parts of the world.
All she had to do was let all these guys kill each other.
Anyone who participates in the human resources plan or knows about the human resources plan will be destroyed in turn.
In reality, she thought she was doing pretty well.
But at this moment, the final result...
Not expected.
No one would have thought of it.
This is just seen as a transitional piece to all of this.
It had no effect at all. The little girl who was just thought to be easier to control and take advantage of actually had such a qualitative change in her mentality.
This scene, this iron-like awareness, made many viewers in front of the screen brighten up.
Who says Academy City is only the stage for Kamijou Touma and people with super powers?
Even if they are incapable.
As long as there is a chance.
Can also turn the tide and become the protagonist of anything!!
Right now.
The scene before my eyes...
Dreams, come true!!!
"Uhhhhhhhhhhh!"
The smell of medicine roared miserably for a long time.
But no one in front of the screen felt sad for her experience.
Even that group of cold and crazy scientists.
After seeing this scene and witnessing the failure of her evil plan, they all calmly accepted this look in the end, because as scientists, they had also encountered many obstacles, and most of them even had to leave their homes because of these obstacles. This level of failure, the results of the test experiment were beyond their expectations, they were already accustomed to it.
"Sure enough, science is so interesting because it is full of unpredictability." In the world of Naruto, Orochimaru's pale face showed a playful smile when he saw the little girl suddenly explode. "Although I didn't expect that such a little child would disrupt all the plans of this scientist, I have to admit that this proves my theory... There is no limit to human ability. The only ones who have real limits are ordinary people who are stuck in bottlenecks and lose the opportunity to evolve for various reasons. That's all."
"Ah, it's really a farce to want to take advantage of this opportunity to become something beyond human. However, I have to admit that if her plan doesn't have unexpected people appear, it will naturally succeed."
In the mansion of the Border Lord, the owner Roswaal's humorous and cheerful tone was full of eccentricity, and it was completely impossible to tell that he was an existence who empathized with the people in the video, until Betty couldn't help but say, "You are the same, you thought Subaru was easy to deal with, but it turned out to be a failure." The centuries-old magician who pretended to be calm raised his eyebrows and smiled helplessly: "This is not the same thing, Betty-san~ You have to know that the arrival and uncontrollability of Natsuki Subaru are completely different from the one in the video. It should even be said that the situation in the video is the most difficult to control. I see that you don't understand anything at all~"
"It's such a surprising ending. In the end, the winner is decided by such a situation." Even Frieza, the emperor of the universe, who is outside the universe of the Dragon Ball world, let out a hearty laugh, and was full of joy and playfulness towards the scene in the video.
No one expected the result to be like this, but what everyone was most curious about at the moment was not anything else.
But another thing...
At this moment, the scene in the video returned to Kamijou Touma's face again, the young man who could be called a savior.
See the scene happening in the video at this moment.
Accelerator couldn't help but raise his lips, watching the scene, and commented indifferently:
"It's obvious that your opponent wanted to kill you just a moment ago, but at this critical moment, you still want to save this group of scumbags without hesitation. This is really..."
'.....'
In the editing screen——
A chaotic "snap!" sound was heard.
The sound came from the body of Rencha, the female cyborg who was licking her lips just now.
"oh--?"
She paused.
The black wings that sprang out from behind dissipated instantly.
"What's going on? Wait, I don't remember calling on this kind of messed up power..."
He was interrupted before he could finish his words.
With a bang, her abdomen expanded like an overcharged lithium battery.
...Before.
Rencha (strictly speaking, #028), who was planning to use Kamijou Touma's ability, once lost control of an incomprehensible force and caused one of his arms to explode.
In the end, it was the same this time.
However, this time, it was Fremea Severon who inserted a being named Yami Hisako into Rencha's body.
"Ah, ga... slow, what... is this, ga! Ugh!"
"Ha, oh haha. Ugh... I actually... ended up like this... hehehehe!"
The two voices overlapped.
As their (?) voices continued to echo, Rencha's body continued to swell. Her chest, face, limbs, and other parts were all swelling, and the already swollen parts were getting bigger and bigger, until she could no longer be seen as a human.
Turning around on the ground, Kakine Teito, who had slowly regained his form, quietly spoke to the only boy who could still move:
"…Let's put an end to this."
"I know."
Kamijou clenched his right fist even tighter than before.
He walked towards Rencha, who was changing suddenly in present continuous tense.
Rencha stared at Kamijou as he approached with twisted eyes.
"Hehehe☆What's going on? You want to kill me? The ideals of people like you are full of contradictions. There's not even a single correct point!"
"…"
Kamijou Touma's right hand is inhabited by a power called Imagine Breaker. Regardless of magic or supernatural powers, all supernatural powers will be destroyed on the spot with a single touch.
And he would probably only need to move a finger to erase the "mutation" that had entered the body of the cyborg Rencha from this world.
If we want to rescue #029, who is bearing the heavy load along with Rencha's body, this should be the most efficient method.
but.
"...what to do?"
"Haha, haha! Don't make me laugh. I've told you before, right? I became like this voluntarily. Even if Yakumi Hisako, a member of the General Council, becomes 'this way', she is still my benefactor! You want me to hand her over? You want me to abandon her? Impossible. For me, that would be one of the few things in this world that is more painful than death!"
That's right.
There must be a reason for following the evil that led such a plan. Even if Kamijou didn't know it, the life that someone had lived still existed.
"Ten people are in a desperate situation. Only nine can be saved. Even if one person is abandoned, it is called emergency refuge, and the "Carnades' plank" (Note: a thought experiment proposed by the ancient Greek philosopher Carnades. Two sailors in distress saw a plank that could only support one person. In order to survive, one of them pushed the other down, causing the latter's death. After being saved, the sailor was not sentenced to death because it was considered an act of self-defense in an emergency refuge situation) is not a crime. At that time, in front of me who only wanted to "kill someone or sacrifice myself", that person told me
There is another way! Even in this form! She gave me a way that even if the ten people who are more important than the world are reduced to nine, no one will die-... It's not just me and the guy who was supposed to die at my hands who were saved. For the others who were saved at that time, they don't have to bear the heavy pressure of "killing to save themselves"! So... So I decided to repay her even if it means going the wrong way!"
"…"
"It's not just me, it's not just #029! Although I haven't heard others say it, each of us has our own reasons for following that woman and running in the 'darkness'. How can we let someone like you, someone who can't catch up, take it away...! Now! The Yakumo Hisako squirming in this armor! To us, she is the greatest hero in the world!"
Kamijou knew this very well.
Kamijou Touma alone cannot save all the people in the world who ask for help. Since the world is still turning, there must be someone who is in a place he doesn't know, using a method he doesn't know, saving people he doesn't know.
certainly.
There are also people who worship this kind of hero.
"So I won't give it to you… I only have this, gaaaaa————!"
During this period, Rencha's body continued to expand. The beautiful female outline had completely collapsed, and some kind of fiber was gushing out from everywhere, looking like a scarecrow stuffed with firecrackers to make it explode.
"In that case..."
Kamijou said through gritted teeth.
His voice immediately turned into a helpless cry.
"In that case, why didn't you go and rescue Yaowei Jiuzi earlier!"
"...!"
"No matter how long you wait, the hero will never come. That's reality. But if you work hard before the hero catches up! If you fight as hard as you can to make the hero catch up! Maybe you can change the outcome a little bit!"
Before it became like this.
Before Hisako Yakumi became some kind of AIM thinking entity.
When she was still a normal human being.
A long time ago.
"You actually said something like that..."
Rencha's face continued to shatter, twisting further from the inside, but she still spoke:
"You're pushing this impossible thing on me! This isn't about 'how many chances do I have to control this body' or 'I'm just a nucleus smaller than a test tube'. This is a more basic question. Do you think people like us can imitate heroes?!"
Kamijou didn't say "yes".
In contrast, he shook his head and replied:
"…Now, you have already done this, right?"
"That's a lot of nonsense."
Rencha spoke as if to interrupt Kamijou.
The cyborg, whose interior was damaged, glared at the enemy in front of it with its bright red eyeballs.
"As for me! I will never be one of those stereotypical heroes like you! If this is the only way to repay you, I'll be a dirty tool!"
Who protects whom.
Who kills whom.
Even without a detailed explanation, everyone should be able to understand this simple thing. Kamijou Touma clenched his right fist and declared loudly:
"Come on, hero."
"Shut up..."
"Now I can only destroy! This hand only has the power to kill illusions! So you have to find a way to make it catch up!"
"Didn't I tell you to shut up————————————————————!"
The wings burst out from Rencha's tattered back again.
But this time the color is not pitch black.
Snow white.
In the past, the top student in the school city obtained something and sublimated the result into the strongest power. Rencha - #029 finally reached his level.
Kamijou Touma has no strategy.
Just one step.
Another step.
Go straight towards your enemy.
You cannot use the excuse that "the other person doesn't have a living body".
For example, the AIM diffusion field aggregate, Wind Slashing Ice Flower.
For example, Florent Croix-Dune possesses a body that exceeds human standards.
For example, we can mass-produce as many Misaka girls as you want.
The boy had treated these unusual beings as human beings and saved them. Because of this, Kamijou could not simply choose. The path he had taken so far did not allow such behavi