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

===Part 6===

Hamazura Shiage gulped.

The row of metal detectors and luggage scanners were just like he had seen on TV and in movies.

“Kh.”

(Not good. I must be at the immigration gate for international flights.)

Security here would be tighter than anywhere else in the international airport. He would be in deadly trouble if he didn’t stop running around at random and actually memorize the airport’s layout. AI Aneri’s general stance was to help him with whatever he wanted to do, so it couldn’t sound the alarm at the stage of where he was going or what he was doing.

Still, this was bad. He had to get somewhere else fast.

He of course had no idea what exactly he would do after escaping. But for now he didn’t want to be caught and killed by those Brits.

What could he do for the late Coronzon?

The green light of an emergency exit caught his eye.

If only there was a door that let him escape his entire life.

An exit that would let him and his girlfriend Takitsubo escape danger and live on some distant tropical island.

“Wait!!”

A loud voice called to him from behind. A familiar girl’s voice.

“Kh.”

At times like this, someone he didn’t know might have been better.

Hamazura stiffly turned around and spoke, his voice scratchy.

“Dion…Fortune?”

“That’s right, Hamazura.”

The short girl accepted his gaze head on and nodded.

“Can you tell how dangerous a position you’ve put yourself in? No, sorry. You wouldn’t have done something so reckless if you could. Running away of all things was like offering up your head and asking to be killed. This country has the phrase about grasping at straws too, right? I know how you must feel, but you’re just running around without a clue where to go, aren’t you?”

He couldn’t answer.

She was right…but he wasn’t sure if he should let her know that.

“I can show you the way. I will act as your steady ship and solve all of this for you.”

“…But you’re with them. You’re one of those Englicans or whatever.”

“I am. And my point is I can protect you as the top of the Anglicans.”

“Protect me?”

“I am the leader of their organization. Their Archbishop. Maybe it’s just for show and only meant to be temporary, but I can use real authority for as long as I sit in that seat. That means I won’t let my many subordinates lay a finger on you. …If there’s anything you’re still uncertain of concerning Coronzon’s death, I can use all the Anglican Chruch’s resources to investigate it for you. Hamazura, do you have a better way of turning your ''vague dissatisfaction'' into a concrete goal?”

“…”

“Then come with me!! Leaving your cell and running around is like asking to be killed. And if you’re going to accomplish anything, you first need to make sure you’re safe. I can do that for you. You have me, Dion Fortune, as your trump card! Not the Anglicans or Academy City!”

Her reassuring words just about had him grab her outstretched hand.

Until he was interrupted by some ear-splitting beeping.

Coming from his cracked phone.

AI Aneri had triggered the maximum alarm.

Hamazura instinctually pulled his right hand back a little.



''Fwoosh!!!



Immediately, something sharp shot by between him and Fortune. It looked like an arrow made of light.

And when he glanced over, he saw them.

It was hard to tell at first because they looked like the street type, but he was being watched by a malicious-eyed group keeping their distance. And it looked like they were ready to snipe him with…an esper power? Magic? Well, some kind of paranormal power that didn’t rely on guns.

A young woman with her black hair worn in a ponytail held her palm out toward him.

He was pretty sure she was with the Anglicans.

Was he just pure evil in their eyes? Dion Fortune must have been able to see his feelings rapidly drifting away from her because she shouted frantically to him.

“N-no, Hamazura! I don’t know what happened! I didn’t order them to do that!!”

“Sorry, Fortune…”

Dion Fortune wasn’t a bad person. He knew that much.

But he did not take her outstretched hand. Because he would be killed if he did.

The girl’s shocked expression was engraved into the back of his mind.

But he still said it.



“''I’m through relying on justice’s claims of righteousness.''”