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

===Part 4===

It was evening already?

Once it started to get dark, the winter night arrived fast.

Hamazura knew Takitsubo was in danger, but he had chosen to identify the Black_Oneday user instead of going to her rescue. He didn’t want to waste a moment of time.

“Ugh.”

Next to him, Blodeuwedd the Bouquet glanced at a sign with a simple map. This was apparently a workshop where the cargo containers arriving by plane were loaded onto trucks after inspection. The cargo containers were the dice-like air cargo type, so there was no need for the enormous gantry cranes used at harbors. Here, they used forklifts and loaders instead.

“You suspect the drone airbase, right? …Will a dangerous macho place like that even be on the map?”

“You can’t hide something that size. Trying to hide it when everyone can see it will only worry people more. They won’t release a detailed layout of the interior of course.”

That was when they heard a strange “thunk!!”

A thumb-sized hole had appeared in the metal sign.

Hamazura recognized the distinctive noise of an electric motor instead of a gasoline engine. They were being targeted by one of those small eight-wheeled things with two machineguns.

(An anti-air drone! Is this Black_Oneday again!?)

“What now, Hamazura?”

“Kh. There are still a bunch of innocent workers here. We can’t get them caught up in this!!”

Just because someone didn’t take his side didn’t make them evil.

That would be a messed-up basis to screw up someone else’s life!

Hamazura shouted so the workers could hear him over the gunfire.

“Get down!! Behind that loader! Not even machinegun fire can pierce that huge snow-removal bucket, so it’ll work as a shield!!”

A middle-aged man in an airport security uniform only stared in shock without moving, so Hamazura shoved him behind a cargo container to just barely protect him from the path of gunfire.

While he was at it, he borrowed the automatic 9mm handgun from the man’s holster and returned fire. That drone would be made of alloy and plastic. An ordinary firefight couldn’t defeat it, but he could destroy its important camera lenses. If it couldn’t aim accurately, he wouldn’t need to fear it’s machineguns.

He responded with unbelievable accuracy.

(I’m still alive… What was that about my senses sharpening the closer I approach death? Risk isn’t something you can see, though!!)

You didn’t have to be a force of good or justice to save people.

If a villain moved their body, they could shield someone from a bullet. Saving people was no more than a physical action, the psychological conditions and questions of good or evil didn’t play a role.

So…

“I’m fine being a villain,” growled Hamazura, like he was speaking a curse. “There’s no rule saying only good people can save people. Goodness and justice may have abandoned me, but that doesn’t mean I have to stand back and let everyone else go first.”

This was an alternate approach Coronzon hadn’t considered.

If she had followed this path and saved a great many people with her power, perhaps she wouldn’t have been known as a great demon.

…So why hadn’t she considered it?

Coronzon was smart. Far smarter than a delinquent like Hamazura. It wouldn’t surprise him if she had already thought up anything he could come up with. So why had this one thing slipped her mind?

Some preconception must have gotten in the way, but ''where had it come from?

Blodeuwedd the Bouquet blinked.

“Did you just awaken to a different kind of justice from Kamijou Touma?”

“Are you crazy? I’m fighting with a gun I stole from ordinary airport security. He’s a normal worker. He could be fired from his job for losing it.”

Hamazura Shiage was not Kamijou Touma.

He would never take the same path of justice as him.