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

==Prologue: Starting Point – Girl_and_Girl!==

It was January 9, just past 4 PM.

In District 23 after school. Specifically, in the international airport lobby. The place felt unusually spacious, not because the long break had ended and the crowds had vanished, but because the place had only just reopened after the recent trouble.

There now was the pointy haired high school boy named Kamijou Touma, feeling at his wits’ end.

He had run across someone whose presence could only mean trouble.

And not just one. There were two of them.



“Why are you two in Japan?”

The black-haired girl in a lacrosse-like miniskirt outfit was Lessar of N∴L∴, aka New Light.

The blonde girl armed with a blouse and skirt colored like a classy piano was Leivinia Birdway of the Dawn-Colored Sunlight.

They were both magicians belonging to famous(?) magic cabals in the United Kingdom. More than that, Birdway looked no older than 12, but she sat in the boss’s seat of the UK’s largest magic cabal. …And whether his experiences with them had been unlucky or they were just like that, Kamijou sensed a great threat to any possibility of a peaceful life in his immediate future. It was like they came from the world of a foreign gangster movie.

When faced with these people from a world he wanted no part of, what could a peaceful boy do but shout?

“What is Japanese customs doing!? You can’t let people like this in the country! For world peace reasons!!”

“Hey, don’t talk about us like we’re luggage. The word you’re looking for is immigration.”

“People like this, huh? (lol) And, well, he’s right that it’s a foreign affairs matter. But in either case, you’re talking about government officials from outside the city, so they can’t do much about anything happening in the city walls. Oh, my. Does this mean we’re free to exploit some loopholes even more dangerous than those in a young wife’s sexy lingerie?☆”

Lessar cackled.

…The border patrol at the city wall was supposed to be working hard each day to keep dangerous people like this out, but what was with this weird mixture of the two? If they landed in the airport already inside Academy City’s walls, did they get to skip that check altogether? What was even going on in this city?

“Also, do you see the UK’s Union Jack over there?”

Leivinia Birdway jerked her thumb over toward the tempered glass forming one of the walls. Several airplanes of various sizes were visible on the vast tarmac and one of them did indeed have a national flag drawn on its tail fin.

The small airplane looked like a personal plane or charter jet. Yes, the kind you occasionally saw in movies and was referred to as a business jet. …Kamijou wouldn’t have thought he had the time during the New Year’s holiday what with him dying and coming back to life, so he was surprised to realize he had actually watched a movie on TV.

“It’s called a government plane. We’re lending a hand in picking up a criminal being extradited to the UK. …Damn those Anglicans, they only sent the invitation to me as an individual, so all my other people had to stay behind in London.”

Come to think of it, he hadn’t seen any of those people in tuxedos (tailcoats?) who looked like they were dressed for a party (but didn’t look like the party-going type).

Birdway pointed to Lessar, looking less than amused.

“So she’s here as my bodyguard. If I’m so much as scratched, Mark and the others will surround her and ‘thank’ her once we get back, so feel free to boss that weakling around all you like.”

“Yeah, well, my stance is to do whatever I can for the UK, whether its good or bad, but I have my doubts that babysitting this unruly child will help our country all that much.”

Apparently that was the deal with them.

It did make sense.

…But at the same time Kamijou seriously doubted that was all there was to it. His wild experiences in the past told him otherwise.

“You really aren’t plotting anything? You didn’t bring anything dangerous into Academy City because the inspections are lax for personal planes, did you? No, I can see it already! You brought some British magician with a weird mummy or golden mask and Academy City is going to be on the brink of destruction yet again!!”

“Fine. I turned my back on the sunlit world to dedicate myself to studying magic, so if you want to target me with an unfair witch hunt, so be it.”

“?”

Lessar carefully presses her palms against a nearby glass wall.

The short black-haired girl had a huge grin on her face.

She stuck her little butt out toward Kamijou with no concern at all for her short skirt and raised her voice.

With her fake devil tail swishing side to side.



“I’m willing to prove my innocence. Bring on the lewd body search!!”

“To be clear, I’m just going to ignore this kind of nonsense this time around, okay?”



The world seemed to darken before Kamijou’s eyes.

Why was this happening?

To answer that complex and bizarre mystery, we must first find the initial cause!

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