Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Crossover3 (section)

===Part 1===

'''(0 Minutes After)

The Intellectual Village of Noukotsu Village was at the pleasant time after dinner. Specifically, it was just before nine at night. A small, black-haired boy named Jinnai Shinobu who would turn six this year was running noisily around a thatch-roof house.

“Nee-chan, Nee-chan!”

“What is it, Shinobu?”

A sexy, black-haired Zashiki Warashi casually wearing a red yukata raised her eyebrows slightly and looked back.

Young Shinobu held something in both hands.

It looked like a stuffed gray pig, but…um, what was it?

“I caught this.”

“Boo. I was caught.”

It was even smaller than Shinobu and it kicked its short legs around as the boy held it from behind.

“Nee-chan, what kind of Youkai is this?”

“Hmm… I’m not sure. It doesn’t look like a Katakirauwa.”

The Zashiki Warashi’s long, silky hair swayed as she tilted her head in confusion. She was supposedly a centuries old Youkai, but her memories and experience were not much help here.

The gray pig tensed all of his limbs and spoke.

“My name is Boo Boo!”

“I already know that.”

The round pig looked like a large soccer ball and young Shinobu buried his face in the back of his head.

“Hmm, he smells a bit like a beast.”

“Of course I do. I’m a beast and proud of it. And you smell like a human. And a bit like milk.”

“Anyway, we’ve got to give you a bath. Mooom!”

Young Shinobu could summon anyone in the Jinnai household if he made a fuss. His mother had her chestnut hair braided and wore intelligent-looking glasses. She was the type that would leave no one disappointed if it suddenly turned out parents day at school was coming up without warning. And as soon as she saw the gray stuffed animal her son was holding…

“Ohh, a new species! I wonder what he eats. Maybe a snack of juicy bacon?”

That would basically be giving pork to a pig, but Boo Boo was unaware of the karmic meal he was being threatened with and cheerfully swung his stumpy limbs around at the thought of being fed.

“That doesn’t matter,” said Shinobu. “Not so many snacks!”

“Oh, why not?”

“They have a lot of salt and it makes you feel bad!”

“Boo. What an adult. Beatrice says things like that sometimes too.”

Meanwhile, Shinobu’s mother did not rush the emergency operation known as “giving Shinobu a bath”. She made the preparations by the book.

While he waited, Shinobu spoke to the Zashiki Warashi who had a 98cm measurement for one part of her anatomy.

“And, Nee-chan, we haven’t done ''that'' in a while, so let’s do it.”

“That?”

“You know! You have to know what I mean!!”

Still holding the gray pig, Shinobu tackled the Zashiki Warashi’s narrow waist again and again.

And he rubbed his head against her soft side as he explained.

“Let’s do the 1st Sleepless Championship again!!”

“Ugeh!?” groaned the Zashiki Warashi.

Making a basic tsukkomi about not incrementing the number did not matter here. Boo Boo tilted his head while being held.

“What does that mean?”

“Only kids go to sleep early! I’ve decided I’m never going to sleep again!!”

Shinobu was clearly a kid at six, but there was no point in arguing with him here. Everyone judged things from their own viewpoint. Just as the sexy Zashiki Warashi did not see herself as a centuries-old fossilized old hag (virgin), Shinobu did not recognize himself as a little kid.

But that aside, a voice spoke from the large living room TV.

“What? Alcohol? Smoking? If you ask me, sleep deprivation is even worse. Especially for a growing child! Not only does it close off the neural circuits in the brain, but it supposedly shrinks the brain as a whole. I can’t recommend that for anyone who isn’t trying to slowly kill themselves. People will stay up for days on end studying for entrance exams, but how are you supposed to learn anything like that?”

It was the usual fare for TV commentators: a broad interpretation of their personal theory with no guarantee it was true even if they were not lying. However, it packed enough of a punch to shake the Zashiki Warashi to the core.

In her mind, she knew she had to do whatever it took to get that mischievous boy to sleep as soon as possible!!