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

===Part 8===

Leivinia Birdway looked up at a dull tremor in the distance.

“…Something just happened.”

“Enough self-absorption. We need to come up with an actual plan.”

Lessar’s comment shattered the mood so much it made Kamijou flustered.

Dion Fortune walked over to look at the map Lessar had unfolded.

“Decided on our next objective?” asked Kamijou.

Birdway pouted her lips and pointed at a point on the map. Maybe she hadn’t been too fond of the legendary Japanese portable food: cup noodles. If that damn rich British girl had a problem with it, she should have just poured in fancy tea instead of hot water and waited three minutes for the flavor to change.

“Here.”

She indicated a special airbase used for Academy City’s unmanned anti-air weaponry like the Six Wings attack helicopter.

That was one of the last facilities they wanted the Black_Oneday user to take over.

Kamijou frowned.

“Yeah, that would be dangerous…but what makes you so sure it’s here specifically?”

“Did the villain give themselves away somehow?” asked Dion Fortune next to Kamijou.

Lessar frowned.

“We can follow the actions of the villain…or really the people they’re manipulating.”

“Hm? Why would you do that, Lessar?”

“You know how delinquents who drive modified cars will intercept police radio and know where all the speed cameras are locate? This is the magic version of that.”

After explaining that, Lessar (who was really enjoying the junk food), pointed at a point on the map.

“The Anglicans are always trying to crack down on us ‘bad’ magicians, so we know exactly how they do things.”

“!?”

So Kanzaki, Stiyl, and the others?

“It would be one thing if they were acting alone, but when working as a group, they tend to use voice communication spiritual items. Even when speaking with one of their own people less than 2 meters away. We just have to track the faint magic power this uses.”

“That’s true enough… Academy City is a big place, but not many people here use magic. London or Rome would be one thing, but we can detect even faint magic over a distance in this city of science,” added Dion Fortune.

…It hadn’t seemed so easy during the Coronzon battle yesterday. Maybe it helped that these shady magicians had gathered a lot of data on the Anglicans. Just like you would have a hard time searching for an unfamiliar stray cat, but could find your own cat right away.

Lessar wagged her index finger.

“Looks like the area around the drone base is an off-limits zone. There are cameras and sensors everywhere and entering it without permission will get you filled with holes by the defense program. Yet the Anglicans are having a picnic there without getting shot. Unnatural, right?”

“The Black_Oneday user is controlling them using money, faith, brainwashing, or whatever else, so the Anglicans are useful pawns. The Black_Oneday user must not want to lose them so easily. We need to assume the drone airbase and its defense program have been taken over. The Anglicans are only safe because they’ve been added to the white list.” Birdway seemed curious about the earlier tremor, but her tone remained light. “If the Anglicans are being used to pursue and kill Hamazura Shiage, then either he’s hiding somewhere around here, or he will be here soon. Both the villain and Hamazura are here. If we want to end this, we need to visit that drone airbase.”

(Hm. I still don’t know how the Anglicans are tracking Hamazura. Could they be getting information out of someone from the science side they captured?)

Kamijou observed Birdway, but it didn’t seem like that possibility had occurred to her.

Really, that just made her seem more like an ordinary person.

“…We’ll be shot if we’re detected, right?”

“Of course.”

“Then we need a plan! That smug grin isn’t going to stop bullets!! These stupid magicians are so focused on attacking they’re not even thinking about defense. We’ll be riddled with bullets before I even have a chance to think!”