Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 10===

Everything started to move all at once.

The aircraft and spacecraft in the Hotel Town were moving haphazardly.

Kamijou’s eyes widened.

“What the hell!?”

“If AI Aneri isn’t doing this, then the enemy must have a similar tool.”

Lessar made it sound like it wasn’t her problem.

“Like what?”

“I dunno, maybe a specialized hacking tool?”

“Wait, hacking? Then what about searching for my document!? They aren’t going to destroy the cargo management database that tells me where it is, are they!?”

Also, who was the enemy here?

What did they think they were doing with some underground hacking tool!?

There wasn’t just 10 or even 20 of them. Large passenger planes, military transport planes, and even what looked like space shuttles were moving all over the place. A hit from even one of those would leave him no more than a stain on the pavement.

Kamijou was seriously uncertain if he should charge in or not.

He saw Kanzaki, Stiyl, and some other familiar faces heading toward the center of the chaos. Couldn’t he wait for those experts to fix this and then ask them what was going on?

But even from here, he could tell ''something'' was rapidly escaping from here.

Did they need to stop that to restore calm as quickly as possible?

And the others would need as much help as they could get.

“If I capture anyone who looks suspicious, I should be able to figure this out, right? Is Hamazura behind this, or is there some other villain? I’ll have to find some way of- whoa!?”

“You’ll die, so excuse me.”

If Dion Fortune hadn’t kicked Kamijou out of the way, his entire upper body may have been obliterated.

Was that a large military transport helicopter distorting the air as it flew this way? It of course wasn’t actually rotating its two giant rotors to fly under its own power. …''A giant arm growing from the ground'' had grabbed it and thrown it this way.

That wasn’t AI Aneri or the enemy’s hacking tool.

Kamijou’s eyes widened from the ground.

“Wait…did the Anglicans just attack us?”

“Of course they did. You’re working with me, the Archbishop who they decided to unfairly dismiss in the middle of a mission. Nothing is more troublesome than a political enemy you failed to finish off. They now aren’t sure which side you’re on, so they will eliminate you before you can interfere with this mission.”

“…Are you serious?”

He should have realized from the moment he discovered they had shoved their ally Dion Fortune in a cell. The Anglicans were beyond caring about appearances. Or rather, they were acting indiscriminately. Were they really that afraid of Great Demon Coronzon’s influence on the world, like Accelerator had mentioned?

“Is Hamazura Shiage really that much of a threat?” mused Birdway. With a touch of exasperation in her voice.

“He’s supposed to be carrying some kind of dangerous possibility about Coronzon’s power or her apocalyptic ideology or whatever, right!? He saw me kill Coronzon, so he must hold a grudge. Isn’t that why this is happening!?”

“Yes. Great Demon Coronzon is definitely dead, but the theory is that a portion of her Sitra Achra – a Telesma-like energy – remained in this world and is contained in Hamazura Shiage’s right hand. Nonsense. That does seem to be why the Anglicans are pursuing Hamazura, but none of that evil material is here.”

“How can you be so sure? It sounds plausible enough to me.”

“Don’t worry. There’s no chance.”

“But how can you know, Birdway!?”



“''Because I’m the one who dispersed Great Demon Coronzon’s lingering energy.''”



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“Wh-wha-what did you just say, you little villain?”

“I went through the ley lines to do it all the way from England.”

He wasn’t asking ''how'' she did it.

“There’s no real problem with some of it existing spread out across this entire world. As long as it doesn’t gather together and pass what you could think of as a lethal dose.”

Genius Teacher Birdway could see the obvious confusion on Kamijou’s face.

She continued like she was speaking to a small child.

“Did you wonder why the Dawn-Colored Sunlight, Europe’s greatest magic cabal, didn’t join you yesterday when Coronzon was a step away from destroying the world? Because there were things I had to get done behind the scenes, idiot.” Birdway maintained the calm on her face. “The threat Hamazura Shiage supposedly poses is at least half incorrect. I scattered Coronozon’s Sitra Achra, so none of it is contained in Hamazura’s body.”

“And I have my doubts about the other half too.” Dion Fortune sighed. “Could Hamazura Shiage really draw in enough people to establish a new religion just by telling them about a side of Great Demon Coronzon the rest of us don’t know? It’s honestly possible, but it seems far too unlikely to me. It’s beyond what could happen just by getting lucky.”

That was no reason to relax.

Birdway, who had seen the good and the bad the world had to offer, continued as if to say they were finally getting to crux of the issue.

“Now, why are the Anglicans so dead set on pursuing Hamazura? The Anglicans are an effective enough anti-magician organization that the Dawn-Colored Sunlight must always keep a cautious eye on their activities. And Necessarius is the best of the best. They shouldn’t be behaving like a bunch of bumbling cops.”

Leivinia Birdway summed it all up with a final sentence.

“There’s something more to this.”