Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:NT SS (section)

===Part 9===

A girl had looked up to someone.

She remembered that person like a strict older sister.

That person had refused to take on apprentices, so the girl had been forced to learn her techniques through observation instead of being taught them. Even so, the girl could now say that she had been built up by her.

But that person was gone.

Death was always unreasonable and clearing one’s regrets brought nothing back.

There was something the girl had only realized once she had lost that person she had looked up to: she knew nothing about that person. She wanted to tell the world about the person, but she had no way of determining if any of it was accurate.

That was why she had wanted to know.

That was why she had wanted to read it all.

She had wanted to learn what that person had done in her life and she had wanted to know what rewards and punishments that person had earned. That magician had never revealed her past to anyone, so the girl had wanted to read the Book of the Dead that magician had written in her life.

She was not thinking of anything as grand as calling back that person’s soul or eternally preserving her corpse. She simply wanted to tell the world about that person and explain what kind of person she had been. Surely that much could be allowed.

That person had gone to her grave without a single complaint and had remained silent about all that, so she may not have wanted anyone to speak of her. She may not have desired any of this.

However, the girl wanted to understand her no matter what.

After all, the records said that person was terribly cruel and merciless and that she was nothing but a goddess of shed blood and slaughter. The people believed that was the proper view of her, so the girl had wanted to express some simple facts like that the person had had a weakness for sweet foods or that she had always charged straight into the battlefield when she had heard a crying child, even if she had nothing to gain in that battle.

So…

For that reason…

The girl troubled by all this had become afraid that she herself had not truly known the person she had looked up to.

Just like the other ignorant people, what did she actually know of that person?