Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 8===

Kanzaki Kaori and the rest of the Anglicans were prepared for their next action.

The Amakusas and the Former Agnese Force ran all around.

There were many innocent people in the Hotel Town, so they had to be evacuated in advance using a people-clearing field and other spells. It was a lot of work when covering such a wide area.

Kanzaki looked grim.

“We may have underestimated that AI Aneri thing. If Hamazura Shiage can accomplish this much, we need to recalculate the threat he poses.”

“At least there is still no sign of him directly using magic,” said Itsuwa before glancing to the side. “And at the same time…”

(I can’t believe she took a direct hit from ''that'' and it didn’t even scratch her.)

She meant Good, Old Mary.

That Transcendent had apparently been hit by a science side strategic weapon, but she was standing there like nothing had happened. She claimed to have immediately mixed together a potion that created thick concrete upon contact with the air, but was that really enough to explain what happened?

(Well, cement was often used when building large sacred grounds, like the pyramids of Ancient Egypt or Roman temples.)

Anyway, the Anglicans had two main concerns.



First, that Great Demon Coronzon’s Sitra Achra power had been sealed inside Hamazura Shiage as a Telesma-like energy.



Second, that Hamazura Shiage’s mistaken proselytizing and evangelizing would spread an apocalyptic ideology in support of the already dead Great Demon Coronzon.



The first was the more direct threat, but the second couldn’t be underestimated.

Coronzon’s name was already well known, so it was incorporated into various parts of the magic side.

The Anglicans, the Amakusas, and the former Roman Catholics were a group bound by faith, so they saw the possibility of Coronzon being spoken of as a hero as a definite threat. They knew better than anyone that formless and abstract faith could transform into an international military force. Because that was what they were.

A Level 0 had gained an exceptional power.

That symbolism reminded them of a different boy. And that other boy was proof that a perceived threat to the world could bring together people from different nationalities and affiliations.

…They couldn’t let that incidental phenomenon be used ''in a negative way''. No matter what.

(A demon…a dragon. I don’t like the symbolism. And Hamazura Shiage is also officially classified as a Level 0. Let’s just hope he doesn’t have anything weird lurking in his right hand.)

“We will capture Hamazura Shiage here in District 23. That way we can keep his influence to a minimum.” Kanzaki spoke cautiously. “Academy City is known as a city of espers, but it’s said most of those espers are Level 0s who never developed any real power. That means there are a large number of people here whose development failed, leaving them frustrated with the current world. We must avoid a situation where they resonate with Hamazura Shiage…or with Coronzon’s shadow, really.”

Academy City’s technology was said to be twenty or thirty years ahead of the outside world.

The same was said of its trends.

So if Academy City was lost, there was a chance the same would happen to the world as a whole once, sooner or later, it spread outside.

That was yet another reason they couldn’t let Coronzon’s apocalyptic ideology take root in Academy City.

“No sign he’s noticed the people-clearing field. He may not be used to using Great Demon Coronzon’s Sitra Achra inside him, or maybe he isn’t even aware it’s there.” Kanzaki remained cautious. “So it would be best to secure him while that safety remains. If he can wield Coronzon’s magic alongside that AI Aneri, we truly won’t be able to keep up.”