…and the two men entered the darkened room where a man in tattered clothing sits impatiently, he drops the yellow file on the floor grinning, the two men were silent for a while before speaking:

"Now then, do we have an understanding?"

"Okay sure. I mean I could kill him, but uh, there's... can I just say something?"

"What?"

"Why not just shoot him?"

"Huh?"

"Yeah, he doesn't have esper powers right? So it's kind of easy killing him via conventional methods as in the non-magic and normal way."

There was a moment of silence before the two men answered:

"I… don't get what you're trying to say, what do you mean by just shoot him?"

"This Touma guy, he has this thing called imagine breaker right? Kind of like anti-magic right? So that means using magic and/or esper powers against him is stupid, I mean come on guys, all I have to do is get a gun in my locker, find him, and shoot the bastard, dude I can do this in five freaking seconds!"

"Now that you said it, I'm really surprised that we hadn't thought of that"

"Now you get it"

"Well, This guy did took down a level 5 esper, the god-mode one"

"No shit!"

"He really did!"

"Wow, that's screwed up man, you'd think that a guy that can beat the hell out of level 5's and/or god-mode magic people would be nigh invincible."

And then another moment of silence before:

"So… will you take the job?"

"Meh, maybe later"

And that's why Touma isn't dead yet. That's the truth…