Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume15 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 9===

The spaceship portion had broken free from the rest of the Jumbo Dragonfly.

It had flown away from the Earth.

Hamazura had imagined himself losing all sense of weight, floating around, and having trouble fighting…but the reality was completely different. He felt a little lighter than usual, which was weird, but he could still stand. He had weight. It was actually the centrifugal force or something, but there was gravity.

But it wasn’t normal.

His feet were standing on thick glass.

The seats were positioned at a weird angle, but that didn’t mean they were on the wall.

Hamazura was standing at a weird position.

“Kh.”

He clenched his teeth.

The guy who had called Coronzon a great demon and mercilessly killed her stood before him. He had to settle things with him.

(The power…to destroy illusions?)

Hamazura Shiage had shaken free of his admiration for goodness and justice by saving strangers from his position on the side of evil.

But Kamijou Touma, who hated him more than anyone, carried the power to negate illusions, anything supernatural, and even divine miracles.

They weren’t opposites.

Kamijou wasn’t a perfect form of justice. It was possible he too felt something off about the world and had attempted to fight that unseen thing.

But their paths had never crossed.

And they had definitively parted when he called Coronzon a great demon and killed her!!

“Gahhh!!”

They clashed again.

But without Aneri’s assistance, a Level 0 was only a Level 0.

Hamazura felt dull pain.

Sure enough, he was the one receiving a thrashing. As if to say he was the world’s designated loser.

(To hell…with that…)

Just then.

His cracked phone buzzed.

“→→K←PK→GPP←←K”

(Aneri’s processing power…is back!?)

Had Aneri found a way to communicate without using the broken antenna? No, maybe reaching space had simply brought them close enough to a satellite or space station.

Either way…

(We’re evenly matched again.)

“Go down. Already!!!”

“→P” “PKTK” “←→P” “K→PK” “KKPKGGPKKPP”

A dramatic change came over Hamazura’s movements. Now he could break free of Kamijou and whatever threat he was up against. He had been stuck on the defensive, but now he could swing his fists and throw kicks. He could now rejoin the fight for overall control of the situation.

And for a brief moment, his mind went blank.

AI Aneri provided no instructions.

No.

He was moving even faster than Aneri’s precise instructions. On his own. Was this what Blodeuwedd the Bouquet had been talking about? His body was moving at a speed of thought that surpassed the AI!

(Yes, that’s right.)

Hamazura filled the blank in his mind by thinking for himself.

This was one thing even Aneri likely couldn’t predict.

(You don’t have to be someone special. You can be a Level 0. It doesn’t matter If you’re a villain or hated. Everyone has the power to surprise people and change both the world and the future!!)

And the same probably applied to his opponent.

To Kamijou Touma.

He had started out as a Level 0, but he hadn’t stopped there.

And that bastard was speaking.

“Hey. Did you know Great Demon Coronzon?”

“Yeah. I knew her so much better than you.”

They approached each other.

They clenched their bloody fists and faced each other.

Kamijou knew a Coronzon that Hamazura hadn’t.

Hamazura knew a Coronzon that Kamijou hadn’t.

So.

They both roared at once.



“Tell me all about the Coronzon I never knew!!!” “Tell me all about the Coronzon I never knew!!!”



And Hamazura Shiage and Kamijou Touma chose to approach to critical range.

They exploded into a fistfight.

And shouted.



“In Edinburgh, Coronzon helped me save Dion Fortune! She went on and on about how it benefited her, but that didn’t mean she needed to do it. She could have abandoned me at any time, but she stuck with a weakling like me to the end!!”



“That great demon deceived the Anglican Church to hold the position of Archbishop while she secretly advanced her wicked ends. She despaired in the state of the world and tried to create a new one herself. With no thought to what kind of being would flourish in the coming age! She was an embodiment of evil, but she was also hopelessly tidy and fastidious!!”



“Kh. Coronzon told me to rest when I was worn out from running away for so long. She did these things because she wanted someone to accept her… But not for her power or her evil nature. She just wanted to be thanked for those ordinary things!!”



“When she screwed people’s lives up to the point of ''creating'' Index and Narthex? When she didn’t hesitate to slash Tsushima’s throat and kick her out into the open to achieve her goal? …Don’t make me laugh. She was a more powerful demon than that!”



“Coronzon was!! A lonely girl!!!”



“No!! That great demon was humanity’s greatest nemesis!!!”



The sounds of blows landing continued.

Kamijou spat blood from his mouth, but he had a smile on his fierce face.

He was proudly discussing Coronzon as if she were his greatest rival. Calling her powerful, great, and cool.

(Why?)

Hamazura clenched his teeth within the metallic flavor.

The person who pissed him off the most wasn’t Kamijou here. It was Hamazura himself.

He was just so pathetic. The more he said, the smaller it made Coronzon seem.

(Why do you know so much about Coronzon that I don’t!?)

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

“Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!”

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