Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume10 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 7===

They were in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.

Specifically, they had snuck into a library closed for the night to search through the old books there.

Mina Mathers and Dion Fortune had been searching for the Licht Liebe Leben Temple, but the situation was changing rapidly.

Christian Rosencreutz was dead.

Baby Lilith was giggling happily and playing with the tarot cards on the table. Instead of the ordinary arcana, this was the Crowley-style Thoth Tarot which used some different symbols.

Something was unusual about the arrangements of cards she produced. They were clearly missing some of the major symbols.

The Tower, which meant doom.

The Art, which indicated the accomplishment of a phenomenon.

But at the same time, cards indicating danger kept showing up. Which meant nothing was over yet.

Like the Hanged Man, a symbol of defeat, and the Aeon, the final choice.

These cards kept gathering in concerning places.

It would actually have been a relief for to simply see Death.

Black Cat Witch Mina Mathers sighed expressionlessly.

“So CRC has left the game board after being defeated by Alice Anotherbible. That makes our trip to Nuremberg a waste of time.”

“I want to die… Look at this horrific amount of books we read through. Is this what I get for actually working hard for once?”

Dion Fortune collapsed into a heap on the same table.

If Christian Rosencreutz had been who the legends said, they would have had a hard time believing the news of his death. But from what they had heard, it sounded like that silver young man was in fact someone else entirely: Johann Valentin Andreae.

So the legend had been nothing more than a legend.

As people who were half legend themselves, that possibility could be easy to forget. The Golden cabal really did exist, so they had a tendency to believe other legends also existed.

Mina Mathers and Dion Fortune here were not the same as Aleister. They were not the same magicians who had been active during the 19th and early 20th centuries, but they could use nearly all the same thought processes and spells as the real ones.

So however he came to be, they had believed without evidence that anyone calling himself CRC would have the same specs.

Mina Mathers sighed softly.

“Then our next stop is England. The focus is now on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, so there isn’t much more we can do here in Germany.”

“Ehh!? If we’ve finished our work, can’t we go get a hotel!? Here in Nuremberg!? I don’t expect much in the way of a hot spa culture here in Germany, but we’re in the country of local beers, sausages, and potatoes. Stuffing ourselves with local delicacies and diving into a huge bed sounds like the perfect luxury to end our day with!!”

“It isn’t too late to catch a plane. And work which did not result in anything can hardly be called ‘finished’, my idiot of a student.”

“I’m pretty sure I’m the one being smart here! The idiot here is you for letting Japan’s toxic work culture corrupt you! My stupid idiot of a teacher needs a lesson in keeping a healthy work-life bal- owww!? Did you really just s-scratch me with your claws!?”