Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 4===

“Aneri, do you know what they’re talking about?”

The cracked phone buzzed twice.

Meaning no.

“I can’t tell either.”

Hamazura Shiage was in the container yard.

He was hiding behind a nearby container.

Who were those two? Nuns and street-style girls had joined them in a hurry. They appeared to be a mixture of ethnicities and nationalities.

At any rate, this told him what the UK’s policy was concerning him.

Kill him once we find him.

“…”

They seemed to think he was an unprecedented villain. Even though, since Aneri hadn’t done anything, he had no idea how the cell’s door had opened.

It didn’t look like they would be willing to hear what he had to say.

If he put his hands in the air and surrendered, he was pretty sure they would just put a bullet between his eyes.

(The material that acts as the root of all evil. Sitra Achra. Coronzon’s power, huh?)

He repeated the ideas in his head.

And then smiled self-deprecatingly.

(I’d appreciate it if I really was holding a special ticket like that…but this is the real world. A Level 0’s not gonna be given a convenient overpowered insta-win ability without even having to work for it. They’re reading too much into this.)

He was a thorn in their side. He could risk his life and he could rescue a stranger, but the arbiters of justice didn’t care. They could causally kill the “runaway criminal” with impunity and some VIP might even give them a medal for it. With a word of thanks for saving them the trouble of spending the people’s taxes on keeping him in prison.

He felt two vibrations in his hand.

Coming from his cracked phone. AI Aneri was asking for new instructions.

(If I surrender, they’ll just kill me. So what am I supposed to do?)

He didn’t have a goal in mind.

He had escaped the cell and was free to act once more, but what exactly could he do?

Go home?

Would he find a peaceful life there?

For that matter, was a peaceful life even what he really wanted?

He had to consider what it was he wanted.

…Yes, that’s right. He only wanted one thing: to figure out what he could do with his remaining life for Coronzon now that she had died. If he had any freedom at all, he needed to fight and search for that answer.