Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Biohacker Chapter5 (section)

===Part 10===

“Kh.”

Kumokawa Seria held a hand to the side of her head as if trying to stabilize her shaky mind from the outside.

She had been separated from Kamijou Touma.

The direction of the wind kept the unnatural sandstorm from reaching her here. Viewing that giant filthy-looking cotton candy from without emphasized how bizarre the Beginning Child was.

For one thing, that was not a weather phenomenon that happened in Japan. She felt like she was looking at a cheaply edited photo.

That esper could control the planetary environment or the largescale climate.

Even Kumokawa could only think of a few espers on that level.

(The #1’s vector control or the #3’s high-voltage electricity. And when it comes to pure control of weather conditions, she must be stronger even than them.)

The harshest area was over there, but Kumokawa’s location was far from safe. The Beginning Child’s power was extraordinary. She had reached a point where she could take people’s lives just by standing there and without even recognizing them as people.

(I can see why not even Aleister could control her.)

She leaned against a nearby tree and sighed.

(Although if he could have controlled the Beginning Child who can ''freely alter the environment itself'', he may not have needed that fully-airtight Windowless Building.)

Stray shots were flying in all directions.

At the slightest whim, the entire area could become an ocean of magma or be frozen in a block of ice, but she had managed to escape from the Beginning Child for the time being.

What could she do at the moment?

She knew blindly regrouping with the others was not the answer. That would mean letting go of some powerful card she had yet to see.

But she could not rely on L.S.S. tech either.

The sprays, ultrasound speakers, and other safety devices Matsuo Ryuusuke had prepared would have been destroyed already. Searching through the rubble of the villa was unlikely to provide any hint on how to defeat this enemy. That girl was not the same as L.S.S.’s creatures.

(Should I circle around and collect Mitsuari Ayu? Or I could descend the mountain and acquire more firepower. There is no way Aleister hasn’t noticed this, so I am curious what he’s sending in to deal with it.)

She was not in the center of the fighting, but her decision here could greatly change the future.