Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 Chapter3 (section)

===Part 12===

“Nyah!?”

The underground command center’s walls and floor had collapsed.

Hamazura heard a panicked voice from nearby and looked over to see a flustered Blodeuwedd the Bouquet. It wasn’t that she had been suddenly pulled down. The emaciated girl was being crushed by her own weight.

Or more accurately, by the weight of her thick metal coat covered in copper panels that could move like an independent creature.

…Her ability to survive a hit from a 10-ton truck or launch the truck up from below apparently came from the metal coat. Was it like a powered suit? When the giant engine had blasted her with flames, had she protected her exposed face with magic or did the coat provide some kind of protective field? Whatever the case, Blodeuwedd the Bouquet herself must not have been particularly sturdy and tough.

“Th-this is bad… That Narthex girl sealed my metal coat. Will no one other than you accept me as their ally?”

She had sided with Kamijou and worked toward killing Coronzon not long ago, so maybe it was only natural Narthex resented her.

Kamijou and Narthex were fighting in a fairly distant location, but apparently they were still close enough for the effects to reach them here. With the thick walls and floor collapsed, there was no longer any division between rooms.

“So what now, Hamazura?”

“What now?”

Narthex Coded Cathedral was an unofficial Anglican nun weapon who could use magical and scientific technology with a focus on the concept of “sealing”. She was a forbidden trump card Coronzon hadn’t had a chance to play before she died. Level 0 Hamazura Shiage couldn’t think of a single way of hurting someone like that.

“No.”

Blodeuwedd the Bouquet must have known what the waver in his eyes meant because she immediately rejected his thoughts.

“You see how chaotic their battle is, right? He’s wide open right now. Your vengeance probably can’t reach Kamijou Touma if you attack head on, but you might be able to stab him in the side right now. That’s what I’m talking about.”

So.

Was she asking if he could see what Narthex Coded Cathedral had done today and guess what she was likely to do in the future…and still focus on attacking Kamijou Touma instead?

“Why are you here?”

That was the fundamental question.

And not just in this moment. It was a question he had asked himself over and over: when he saw Coronzon die, when he was trapped in that box, when the cell was unlocked, and after he was freed.

“To save the world and put smiles on everyone’s faces? Or to get back at Kamijou Touma!? …You need to actually face your own goal here, Hamazura. You need to stop blaming someone or something else, lamenting that your circumstances or environment are the problem without trying to fix them, and cursing the world as a whole. Neither Kamijou Touma nor Narthex Coded Cathedral are paying any attention to you. As you can see, I can’t move with control of my metal coat sealed. So whether you win, lose, save, or destroy, you’re the one who holds the choice in your hands, Hamazura Shiage!!”

Blodeuwedd the Bouquet was the Transcendent who loved the hated.

Good, evil, humanity, the world…and even her own life were secondary to that.

“None of those ridiculous conditions matter.”

So she smiled as she made a suggestion.

As a Transcendent, it was an extremely destructive suggestion.

And it was just like the one he had once given Coronzon.



“''Just do whatever it is you want to do,'' Hamazura.”