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

===Part 13===

Silence.

The flow of time had stopped.

Or so the overwhelming silence made it seem.

And.

Hamazura Shiage’s eyes dropped to the gun he held.

Yes, Hamazura was not dead.

The bullet had not been fired.

… He was not holding a revolver. It was an automatic pistol that loaded each new round into the chamber from the magazine. So each pull of the trigger wasn’t a gamble. If there was a round in the chamber, the odds of firing should have been 100%.

(Did the weird gravity screw up the springs in the gun?)

Hamazura rejected his own speculation.

He was pretty sure he knew what it was.

(No, that isn’t it. The trigger feels weirdly hard against my finger… Did being in outer space change the gun oil so it hardened!?)

It was possible.

Hadn’t he heard that important spaceship components didn’t use liquid lubricant?

The gun hadn’t been designed for extraterrestrial use, so the manufacturer and factory wouldn’t have performed the relevant stress testing and durability testing. So he couldn’t deny the possibility.

But could he calculate the odds of the gun oil actually changing like that? The oil’s nature changing in such a short time was strange enough, but it had also happened in just the right way to jam up the gun’s components. The odds of that had to be less than 1 in a 100 million, right!?

Yet it had happened.

The unthinkable had unnaturally, unreasonably, and unfairly happened.

The supernatural, the paranormal, misfortune, the gears, the tendencies.

No. What was an illusion exactly?

Did ''the system that caused those things'' actually exist in this world!?

Hamazura could only speak in a daze at this point.



“Are you…kidding me?”



A moment later, Kamijou reached him.

A fist slammed into the center of his face, immediately removing his consciousness.

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