Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item7 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 5===

The shot from point-blank had splattered her hair and face with red and black.

Hanano Choubi pulled a clean handkerchief from her skirt pocket and wiped her face off. The handkerchief was quickly stained red.

“So am I ‘dead meat’ now? …Peh heh heh! The #4 terrifies everyone, but if you already know how she’s going to react, you can make use of it. Oh, Mugino-san, you are just so predictable. Peh heh!!”

She scoffed.

The situation was rapidly changing. She could sense it.

“What now, #6?”

She spread her arms, looked up to heaven, and spoke to someone who wasn’t here and now.

Yes.

This was a death sentence to the world.

It was beyond even a declaration of war.

“Ha ha ha. Mugino and I are both ''confirmed survivors''. That means neither of us is allowed to die here in the past!! But there is no stopping Mugino now. I mean, I murdered her grandfather before her eyes. Hwa ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!! Thanks to the inviolable rules of her organization and her familial love as an individual, ''Mugino Shizuri can never forgive a traitor''!! Hee hee, gya hya hya hya hya hya!!!!”

This had set up a fight to the death between Hanano Choubi and Mugino Shizuri.

No matter where Hanano tried to run now, even if someone else got between them…and no matter what might happen to the world as a whole, Mugino would come to kill the traitor.

This primary rule had been established from the start.

Traitors were the one thing Mugino could never forgive no matter what.

Not even Academy City’s #6 could stop it now.

In fact, the #6’s involvement wouldn’t change things much. Because Mugino, Hanano, and the #6 were all ''confirmed survivors''.

Meaning…

“Will Hanano Choubi win by killing Mugino Shizuri, or will Mugino Shizuri win by killing Hanano Choubi? As things are, those are the only ways for this to end. If you don’t like it, you’ll have to get in between us, #6.”

Hanano grinned as she roared.

She had decided she would make that self-important #6 regret this to death.

Truly ''to death''.

And she had pulled it off.

“If anyone in this three-way showdown dies, it will mean losing a ''confirmed survivor''. Heh heh. And that means losing the ''present'' you so badly want to protect, #6!! Ah ha ha, gyaha gyaha! Too mad to talk, huh!? Cackle cackle cackle cackle!!”



The collapse of a distant future was no skin off Hanano Choubi’s nose since she lived in the past.

She simply had to go on living life as she saw fit in the changed timeline.

But it was a different story entirely for the #6 who had shown up from the distant future to meddle.