Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:MvM Chapter5 (section)

===Part 24===

Shokuhou didn’t even need to use Mental Out.

As soon as the king saw Mikoto’s face as she stomped toward him, he fell on his rear and raised his hands over his head.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll talk, I’ll tell you anything!!”

“What did you do with the grimoire you stole from Bakerian!? You have 3 seconds! If you can’t remember, I’m frying you up nice and crispy!!”

“I don’t even know who or what Bakerian is!”

All hell broke loose.

Eventually, the #5 got fed up with it all and held her remote against the king’s head and made him confess.

He answered with his body limp and a vacant look in his eyes.

“I believe I sent that book to another kingdom. A collector in Mjolnir really wanted it, so I provided it in exchange for better terms in our treaty.”

“Mjol-what?”

“I mean the Mjolnir Hegemony, ignorant girl.”

Mikoto and Shokuhou exchanged a glance.

Discovering the grimoire’s location was a big step forward, but hegemony?

That made it sound a lot more powerful than this kingdom and likely meant it ruled over multiple smaller kingdoms too.

“By the way, what treaty did you hand over this grimoire for?”

“One that gave us an advantage in the slave trade. If we end up hunting more elves and other monsters than we can use ourselves, Mjolnir promised to buy them from us.”

This was sounding worse all the time.

The humans were the ones attacking those people and then they were a nuisance to be sold off? This society really was rotten to the core.

“So is that our next destination?” asked Shokuhou.

It seemed unlikely this hegemony was going to sit idly by after everything that had happened.

If they weren’t stopped, Mikoto, Shokuhou, and everyone in the areas that had agreed to free their slaves would be at risk. And that went beyond the direct slavery issue. This hegemony would likely want control of the land and air routes and control of all data being transferred via letter and carrier pigeon.