Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume4 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 10===

The unnatural cold wave bringing temperatures down to twenty below ended like someone had flipped a switch. That was thanks to the Logistic Hornet rejecting R&C Occultics’s commands.

The buzz of activity had returned to Los Angeles. Human presences and warmth could be found everywhere. Where the wind had blown the fine sand into piles, people emerged alive, like they were surfacing from a deep body of water.

“Pwah.”

The identical girls were among them. Those mass-produced military clones known as the Sisters rattled the guns they had borrowed from the Academy City tent base.

“It would seem we are still alive, says Misaka as she looks to the sky and considers how surprisingly easy this world makes it. This calls for a hearty fuck you to destiny, baby.”

The people hesitantly walked out onto the major streets. Some were the people of Los Angeles and some were uniformed Academy City soldiers.

And among them…

“Pant, pant.”

Kamijou Touma lent his shoulder to a certain woman. She had short silver hair and brown skin. But when he used his right hand to support her, she did not crumble into sand.

Another small figure stood across the road from them.

It was the girl who had been left in his care.

She was trembling between a priest who reeked of cigarette smoke a nun in a white habit. She looked afraid that this might vanish like a mere dream or mirage.

But the clock was still ticking.

She hesitantly walked across the large road. Her pace picked up to a run.

Kamijou decided this was a time for some tact, so he pulled his supporting shoulder away and pushed gently on the woman’s back.

She took one step and then two.

Then she slowly kneeled down.

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To put herself on eye level with the daughter she had wanted to see this entire time.

At that point, the girl no longer hesitated.

Mother and daughter shared a tearful hug in the center of the street.

That signaled the end of an incident.

After making sure they were reunited, Kamijou sighed and turned around.

Someone followed him away. The silver-haired nun caught up to him. She had worked to protect Helcalia while Kamijou was busy chasing after Melzabeth.

“Touma.”

“How are things on your end? Like with Kanzaki.”

“She was pulled from the sand along with the other priests and such.”

Only then did Kamijou realize that Kanzaki was not the only magician to be defeated by Citrinitas’s sand magic. R&C Occultics could cause a lot of damage.

But now it was time to take on their HQ building.

Index peered up at his face.

“You aren’t going to name yourself as the person to save those 30 million people?”

“God, no. That sounds like such a pain. Not to mention that we entered LA by climbing over the gate at the empty airport. We’ve been here illegitimately ever since. I don’t know how America’s laws work and I don’t even want to think about how many other legal landmines I’ve stepped on since arriving.” He sighed with Othinus on his shoulder. “Besides, I don’t like to keep score about those things You’re supposed to save people when they’re in trouble, so I don’t want any special credit for it. The world would be a much happier place if everyone did it that way.”

“Hee hee.”

Index laughed and leaned against his side.

He frowned.

“What is it?”

“Oh, nothing. Hee hee hee hee.”

Since they were here illegitimately, they needed England or Academy City’s help to get back to Japan.

But he liked the sound of grabbing a giant burger to eat before he went crying to them.

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