Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume14 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 2===

The space below the pile of debris was not very large.

It was at most a five meter square.

A normal person would have turned on their phone’s light and immediately regretted it. They would have thought the darkness was better. They would receive an intense feeling of pressure while gaining nothing positive, so they might very well have passed out.

Index was seated with her knees against her chest while she toyed with the calico cat in her hands and produced a trembling voice.

“I’m hungry.”

“Didn’t you already say that?” Misaka Mikoto sounded exasperated as she curled up small in the faint light. “I do have some emergency cookies, but the problem is the lack of a drink.”

“Hooray!”

“No hesitation at all!? Have you never experienced that dry-mouth hell before!?”

The resolution had already left their hands.

All they could do was wait for rescue.

They just hoped when they were dug out of the rubble they wouldn’t find the entire planet had been reduced to rubble.

“I hope Touma’s all right.”

“What, do you regret sending him off like that? He’s the guy who knocked out Academy City’s #1 and rescued nearly ten thousand of my sisters. Once he decides he’s doing something, he sees it through to the end.”

“Yeah. No matter how many times I bite him for seeing me naked, it never seems to deter him.”

“That sounds like hi- wait, what has that idiot been doing!?”

They shared some bitter laughter.

They realized they didn’t actually know each other very well. They had Kamijou Touma in common, but barely any direct connections beyond that.

How long was it until dawn?

Whatever the case, this probably wouldn’t last long.

“…I don’t want to die.”

Mikoto stated the obvious.

But there were times when the obvious carried great meaning.

Like when tens of thousands of tons were pressing down from overhead.

“Yeah.” Index again nodded within the deadly rubble. “I can’t go to school with Touma…but I do want to see the ‘new term’ he’s been talking about.”