Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Biohacker Chapter5 (section)

===Part 13===

She probably had no real reason for it.

In fact, the girl with her hakama fluttering in the wind must not have been aware she was even fighting with anyone. The Beginning Child must not have even known where she was or what year it was. That made it hard to create a logical explanation for her actions.

But she would do what she could.

Just like someone feeling around for the walls and floor after waking up in the dark. It was just that she could do far more than most could to test her surroundings.

That was not something that could be judged as good or evil.

Nor was it about a clash of emotions.

It was no more than an issue of bad timing. That she remained in this state meant that no one in this world had managed to rid her of her anxiety.

The dangerous lost child raised her voice.

She roared.

Everyone could tell that her surroundings changed each time she did so. Molten rock would fill the world with an orange light or a thick layer of ice would cover everything, but her power was nothing as cliché as producing fire or water from her hand.

''She would designate a specific living creature and supply the ideal environment for that creature’s survival.

''In a way, it was a localized form of terraforming.

If the conditions were right, she could survive being thrown onto the moon or Mars. In fact, she could survive being thrown into the center of a black hole or the Big Bang without issue. After all, her power would remake the area around her into the environment needed to survive.

On the other hand, that was all her power could do.

She had nothing that was fundamentally meant to harm people.

She simply remade her surroundings into an ideal environment. She repeated the process over and over. It may have been similar to a child lost in an unfamiliar land crying and searching for a place to rest.

So it had all been about bad timing.

This damage never would have occurred if things had fit together better to begin with. If someone had realized the problem, they may have been able to put her at ease and stop her with a method other than combat.

But.

So.

It was unclear which conjunction was the better fit here.

Regardless, the time had come.

How many times had she done this now? Would peace never come to her? The schoolgirl in an old-fashioned hakama-style uniform breathed in deep once more. And…

“Beginning Child!!”

Someone else yelled before she could.

Her eyes focused on a specific point, even if only on a whim.

Kamijou Touma rushed straight toward her.