Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume6 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 5===

As expected, the long silver hair and giant wimple continued to tremble.

Aradia was still moving.

She wouldn’t be broken so easily. Her trick had been revealed, but she would not step down from the stage. She trembled and squirmed, but she finally, slowly got up from the ground.

She wanted to save the witches.

She wanted to create a world that would protect the people ostracized from society.

Kamijou didn’t know the exact conditions or the details of her goal, but he knew the basics.

But he did not back down.

“I can’t help but like the Bologna Succubus better.”

“?”

Aradia could tell this wasn’t just a joke or provocation.

A single mistake or a single moment looking the wrong way would mean instant death for him.

Anyone, even the Transcendent, could tell he was placing his life in these words.

“She doesn’t ''just'' want to reach out a helping hand to the persecuted witches. She doesn’t need to limit herself like that before rushing toward certain death with a smile. It’s way less realistic and I like it way more.”

And.

Kamijou Touma was willing to risk his one and only life to save her.

How much time did she have left now?

She had to still be fighting on the verge of death while Index’s group helped her. She wasn’t a cold demon who could only provide pain. He refused to let her die after she underwent so much abuse to rescue a complete stranger like him. He wouldn’t allow it.

He still couldn’t reach the depths of Transcendent Aradia’s heart.

But peering into her darkness and reaching out a helping hand could wait until after he had saved the Bologna Succubus.

“The night, the moon, and the witches. Hecate, Isis, the Morrígan, Freyja. The ancient goddesses of wisdom have always viewed the world from three perspectives while providing a powerful protection for the priestesses serving them.”

Aradia spread her arms and raised her voice even as she coughed up blood from the fall.

“No more…holding back! Risk 4: Releasing triple seal – leaving human territory. Activating the ''triple goddess'' within my flesh!!”

Aradia’s shadow stretched out in three different directions.

They spun around her in a circle, dyeing the glowing pavement like an ink stain. It may not have had a fixed shape and it looked something like a Rorschach test that held a different meaning to everyone who viewed it.

This was something inhuman.

The beautiful woman standing there may have only been a temporary form and this was the true essence of the Transcendent.

What had happened to Triple Reload? And the ointment at her feet?

Perhaps she had thrown all of that away and a completely new transcendent magic was about to come his way.

He couldn’t say anything for certain.

The rules of the battle had suddenly ''blurred''.

The flow of battle normally would have changed here.

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In an ordinary battle between magicians, the poor victim would have been overwhelmed and torn to shreds by the Transcendent before even managing to analyze her new magic.

But.

Something shattered before Aradia’s eyes and her extreme mystical power was negated.

It ended far too easily.

“?”

“Allow me to introduce you to Imagine Breaker, false goddess.”

Othinus’s whispered words were like a death sentence.

Her first mistake had been allowing a certain boy to get this close to her. Her last mistake had been thinking she could fight back with the occult. After all, his right fist was the greatest enemy of that sort of thing.

“The more you rely on magic…”

“~ ~ ~!?”

“The more I’ll destroy that harmful illusion!!”

With a dull impact, an ordinary boy’s fist caught Transcendent Aradia’s cheekbone.

And he swung through with his full body weight.

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