Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume8 Prologue (section)

===Between the Lines 1===

District 12, the Bridge Builders Cabal Consulate.

Time had frozen.

In her sinister leather outfit, Alice Anotherbible’s bare skin was exposed to the January air as she stared at a single point. She didn’t seem to have any interest in the outside world.

Even the powerful Transcendents were hesitant to speak to her.

They all knew a single careless word would be enough for an “ordinary” Transcendent to be pulverized.

“A-”

So it wasn’t that H. T. Trismegistus was careless.

He was willing to be pulverized in the attempt to bring the flow of time back to his beloved master. The action was the butler’s way of showing his loyalty.

“Alice?”

The following silence was deafening.

It carried so much tension.

Any Transcendent of the Bridge Builders Cabal knew firsthand that Alice Anotherbible’s mood trumped the world itself. So they all assumed this was a landmine. They assumed a storm of destruction was imminent.

But nothing happened.

She had stopped. The small girl did not collapse or slump to the ground. She simply stood there, frozen. Not a single hair on her head moved, like she was a stone statue.

She reminded H. T. Trismegistus of a stopped clock.

It had been that great a shock to her.

Maybe Kamijou Touma being her “teacher” was something imprinted on her after the fact.

But his rejection had still hit her just as hard.

The butler bit his lip until it produced an unpleasant tearing sound.

“Ohhhhhh!”

But it wasn’t just his lip.

The tearing sound continued. On and on. His entire silhouette collapsed.

He split right down the middle.

And even as he split himself apart, H. T. Trismegistus roared toward the sky above.

Using the giant fissure as his new jaws.

As a Transcendent, he could provide the ultimate cutting edge to any object or phenomenon.

“Mut Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeebes!!!”

And so the punisher Transcendent was released.

Once dispatched, Mut Thebes would not stop until she had completed her mission.

“H. T. Trismegistus.”

An exasperated voice spoke to the butler who had been driven to such great emotion he had split himself down the center. The demon girl placed a hand on her hip, spread her batlike wings, and sighed at the butler who had gotten a little ''too'' inhuman.

The Bologna Succubus removed the red transfusion tube from her arm as she spoke.

“I’m free to do what I want now, but don’t get into a fight with Good, Old Mary just because I’ve skedaddled. Try to be chums. Mama is in extremely upset with you, so you need to make the first move to patch things up between y’all.”

“…”

With a series of wet sounds, the butler grabbed his head in his hands and pushed his split body back together. The unharmed Transcendent wordlessly fixed himself up again before responding.

“Understood. Now that Mut Thebes’s ''role is complete'', common sense would indeed dictate that you are free again. With that in mind, I would like for you to support her punishment mission.”

“Then what will you be doing?”

“Calling in some members from outside the city. Common sense says the battle has already begun.”

H. T. Trismegistus bit his lip after that.

He said nothing more.

The Bologna Succubus was with the Rescuers who supported Kamijou Touma.

(And that will likely be the greatest attack against Kamijou Touma who harmed our Alice.)

It wasn’t just Anna Sprengel and her information on the cabal.

Kamijou Touma also needed to die.

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