Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item6 Chapter1 (section)

===Part 8===

Takitsubo Rikou held her phone to her ear.

“Did you see that strange video of Kamigi Ryouichi sobbing as he smashed something with a hammer? Apparently those were the disks and drives used to store his blackmail material. He backed out all on his own. Kinuhata, do you have any idea why?”

“That was amazing, Mugino Shizuri! I super love you!!”

“Hey, why are you hugging me!? Get away from me!”

“?”

The track suit girl tilted her head at the voices coming from her phone.

“Well, as long as Kinuhata is alright.”

Most of the people had been freed by this: the bottom rung workers, the negotiators, the contact points, the executives, and so on. None of the blackmail victims needed to do as they were told anymore.

And the video had to have been a complete mystery for the many ordinary people with no connection to crime. Takitsubo noticed comments wondering if that company president was exhausted from overwork. The sudden bizarre behavior had also caused the stock price to fall off a cliff. At this rate, the management of the company would soon be given to someone other than the founder.

Takitsubo didn’t know what it was, but he must have sensed some kind of danger and done this to protect himself. It appeared to have completely backfired, though.

Illegal actions weren’t the only way to cause a scandal.

Being famous had its downsides. A single ''mistake'' could have lasting consequences.

“Super how are things on that end?”

“Hm?”

Takitsubo looked to the side.

A weeping Sudori Sayu was hugging her parents who looked taken aback in front of their cheap old apartment.

(We already took the real gun from her. Now we have to swap that out for a model gun and claim the bank incident was an ill-advised punishment game. Where she shot the ceiling might make that difficult, though.)



“Dad, mom! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!”

“Oh, dear. What’s this about? What’s the matter, Sayu?”



She could hear it clearly from here.

Takitsubo Rikou slightly narrowed her otherwise expressionless eyes. As if viewing something bright.

That was a sort of life that Level 4 Takitsubo Rikou and Level 5 Mugino Shizuri could never have.

That bikini girl had barged into a bank with a gun in hand, but the thread of tension appeared to have finally snapped. Sudori Sayu hugged her father and wept like a small child.

That was probably how crime was supposed to work.

There really was something wrong with Item for enjoying it and eagerly charging straight into it.

The track suit girl was still here because she wanted to check around with her searching skills for any remaining members of Kamigi’s blackmailers in the area.

She hadn’t found anything.

“For dinner, how about I make stir-fried vegetables with lots of your favorite: chicken.”

“By the way, why are you wearing a swimsuit? And what’s that hot dog toy? Is it Halloween?”

“Um!? W-well…”

Sudori wasn’t sure how to answer her parents’ innocent questions, but she still looked happy.

That was now a different world from Item’s. Once the track suit girl left, it would be fully cut off from the dark side.

That girl had been freed just like so many others.

Takitsubo Rikou gave a simple report to Kinuhata as she quietly departed.



“Let’s just say it ended exactly the way you hoped for.”

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