Pre-chapter notes:
This was started the day I updated the first chapter so I was a little wry of what to write. So I just did my best and winged it.
Shouts to Darkdeath12, D3vilNeverCry, Sargent Crash, indextype010, and Loopsey for being my first 5 reviewers for this story. They all basically said the same thing, but it made me excited to write more. Also, when I did the other shout in the last chapter I forgot to mention his/her name, .
Disclaimer: I still do not own Index. All disclaims will be applied to future chapters and stories.
Kamijou Touma sat on his bed. He gazed up at the ceiling of his student dorm.
*Sigh* "This is actually harder than it sounds."
The spiky haired boy said to himself.
Kamijou threw his back onto his mattress, sighing even louder in the process.
Sounds of voices and sound effects like sparkling and background music were coming from his right.
His television was on, but he wasn't the one watching it.
Kamijou turned his head to the right to the person watching his television.
Sitting on the floor next to his bed was a girl, dressed all in white garments.
"Oi, Index. What are you watching?"
"Magical Powered Kanamin!" The girl said happily without turning away from the TV.
Index, the girl who, not even a week ago, was being chased by magicians from the Anglican Church in order to get her memory wiped, was sitting cheerfully next to Kamijou's bed watching anime.
"Hmmm."
Kamijou quickly viewed the show the girl found so interesting.
The art style wasn't that strange, but the characters were too bright, and effects too flashy. On top of that the action seemed poor and the villains looked so weak Dragon Ball's Yamcha could easily beat them. All these factors added into one TV anime just made Kamijou say
…
"Ok, I guess I'll watch some."
Kamijou shifted off his bed and nonchalantly sat next to Index.
She let out a little smile, happy knowing she could simply sit next to him like this without any trouble.
She turned her head slightly towards the boy, and then eyed his right arm.
It was wrapped entirely in white bandages only leaving his fingers and thumb exposed.
"Hey, hey Touma, why do you have to keep your arm wrapped up in those bandages like that?"
"Again? I've told you already. It makes me look SUPER COOL!" He said with a thumbs up and victorious smile.
"Yeah, but-"
*Growl* Her stomach growled loudly.
"Touma, Touma, I'm hungry!"
Her focus shifted instantly.
"What!? But you just had both portions of lunch not even 10 minutes ago! You can't really be hungry again already!"
She didn't say anything. She just stared at him smiling with large sparkling eyes, almost like the ones from that anime they were just watching.
*Sigh* Kamijou gave up.
He got up from his spot on the floor and walked over to his kitchen area. He opened the fridge and, surprise, surprise, couldn't find anything that could POSSIBLY fill the young nun's massive stomach.
"Op. Oh no." The boy said nonchalantly.
He closed the fridge and began walking back. "I guess you're just going to have to wait until-l-…" Kamijou stopped talking and paused in his spot.
A dark malicious aura appeared around Index, growing bigger and bigger every second.
"To-u-ma…"
"No, I don't care how empty your stomach is or how malicious you can make yourself seem. I can't go buy you food now. I'm almost broke."
"But, Touma…"
"No, No buts. Hehe, 4th wall humor. BUT NEVER MIND THAT, no is no!" Kamijou was firm with his answer. He was determined to keep as much of his money as possible.
". . ."
". . ."
Index's malicious aura faded.
She got up from her spot on the floor and began walking towards Kamijou.
Then she did something, something that he never would have expected Index to do.
Index grabbed Touma's shirt, with two hands, and threw her face into his chest.
Kamijou wasn't sure of what she was doing but suddenly panicked when he felt a part of his shirt become wet. He could also faintly hear sniffling from the girl.
The girl looked up meeting eyes with Kamijou's.
'CRAP!' Kamijou thought.
Index then showed the saddest face that could make any man, with any sort of heart, feel the pain of a thousand knives driving deep into his soul.
"P-please, Touma?" She begged in the sweetest tone.
"A-a-aaa..." Kamijou was at a loss for words. His manly protective instincts were too strong to overcome.
Plus, he told her he didn't want to see her cry unless it was for something happy, and he was going to keep that promise. This 'new Kamijou's' pride was just too high.
"A-alright. I'll go buy you something to eat." 'Damn, when did she become this evil?' He thought crying anime tears in his head.
The girl let go of Kamijou's shirt and smiled brightly.
"Really!?"
"Yeah."
Kamijou walked to his door and put his shoes on.
"Just don't go anywhere or break anything until I get back, okay?"
The girl frantically nodded her head in response to his question.
"Ok then. I'll be back soon."
He opened the door and walked out. The door closed with a soft *slam*
Kamijou walked to his familiar little convenience store.
It was still the middle of the afternoon and the sun was beating down on him with great intensity.
"Gwaaa. It's way too hot out here today. Grrr, it's all that dumb freeloader's fault. My room was nice and air conditioned, but she made me come out here just to buy her damn food!"
Kamijou grabbed his head with both hands and screamed.
"Gwaaaaa! Even, though she knows I don't have any money and haven't eaten anything myself yet. Aaaaa, Index, you'll pay one day!"
Kamijou continued walking down the busy streets of District 7.
"Hugh. . .Hugh. . ."
"Hey get back here!"
"Hugh. . . Hugh. . ."
People were running through an alleyway, frantically chasing someone.
"Hugh. . .Hugh. . ."
The victim being chased was a young girl, a bit shorter than Index, but somewhere around her age. She had lengthy black hair that reached half-way down her back and bright silver eyes that could resemble a full moon's light.
She was running through alleys, narrowing the sharp turns and trying to avoid any paths that could possibly lead to a dead end.
"Hugh. . .Hugh. . ."
Her breathing was staggered and hard, as if she has been running for a long time. Her legs were also shaking. Her figure was about to collapse from the stress, but she did her best and held on.
She narrowed another corner. At the end of the alley was a bright light. The sounds of people walking and vehicles speeding down the road could be heard.
"There she is! Don't let her get away!" Screamed a voice from behind her.
She didn't look back at the nearing voices. Instead, she focused all her attention on making it out of this alleyway.
The girl was really tired and looked like she was about to collapse, but she continued further without hesitation.
The end of the alley was getting closer and the light was getting brighter. She ran, and ran, and ran some more. In a feat of glory, the light became its brightest and sound was crystal clear.
The girl finally found herself out of the extreme labyrinth of an alley, but was taken by surprise at her next action.
". . .!"
". . .!"
"GWAAA!" The two voices yelled simultaneously.
The girl accidentally ran into someone with great force that knocked them both down. She was now in a most unfavorable position. She was lying on top of the other person with her leg in between his in a sort of sexual manner.
". . .?. . . Eek!" She squealed.
She panicked a bit before quickly getting off the guy and pretending to ignore it.
Unfortunately, there were more than enough people around to 'accidentally' take witness of the unforeseen events.
"Ugghh. That hurt." The person spoke.
The girl looked at the one she ran into. He had dark spiky hair with one red strip and blue strip on opposing sides of his head and bandages tightly wrapped around his right arm.
"Hey, watch where you're going!" He yelled pointing a finger at the girl.
Kamijou Touma was leisurely minding his own business when he was suddenly rammed into by this unknown girl.
He stood up from the dirty street sidewalk and dusted his clothes off.
The girl dazedly looked at the boy.
". . .y-you. You are. . ."
"There she is!" A voice yelled that snapped her out of her daze.
In an attempt to hide, she scurried to behind Kamijou Touma.
"Hey, what're you. . .?"
"Stop!" A roaring voice called out.
Kamijou turned his head to see 3 guys running out of the alley on his left.
They each had black leather jackets and bulky black jeans that seemed like they would fall off.
The tallest guy, in the center, had light yellow hair that had combed back spikes, piercings on his ears, nose, and mouth, and a red and black t-shirt with a skull on it.
The other two on the dies, both had low buzz cuts and blue hair. There was nothing extraordinary about them compared to the guy in the center.
"Hey. . ." The main guy called out. ". . . hand over that girl right now and scram!" he did his best to sound intimidating, but wasn't really working considering his heavy breathing.
Kamijou looked at the delinquent uninitiated. He looked behind him to the girl, who was trying to look away, the, looked back to the delinquent.
" Who are you?" He easily asked.
"That doesn't matter! Just hand over the girl and leave!"
Kamijou put on his best troll face. "Say please first 3!"
"D-don't FUCKING MESS WITH ME!" He roared back.
"Oh well, I guess you don't need her then. Come on mysterious girl, let's go." Kamijou grabbed her hand and proceeded to walk.
"Youuuuuu. . ."
The delinquent was infuriated. He wasn't going to take crap from some loser on the street.
He opened his palms. Two bright red flames appeared in his hand with sparkling intensity. The flames extended to reach his entire arms. He clenched his fist with the intense flames still burning brightly. He ran towards the unsuspecting Kamijou whose back was still turned.
"What, the. . ."
The delinquent threw his left fist and
*WHAMMM*
The burning fist came into contact with Kamijou's left cheek and sent him flying.
*CRASH*
Kamijou landed on the other side of the street with a loud crush. Dirt and dust flew everywhere from the impact.
"Heh, Heh, You never should have messed with me fucker. I'm a level 2 with pyrokinesis. Heh, Heh! That'll teach you to get all smug!"
He laughed hysterically. The other 2 delinquents laughed with him.
The girl could only look in utter shock, witnessing the events that just happened.
She couldn't move or say anything. She just fell to her knees, unable to stand back up. One of the ordinary delinquents from the back ran over and forcefully tried to secure the girl.
"H-hold still you damn brat."
The girl was frantically moving, only doing what she could to avoid getting captured. But it was useless.
"I said. . .HOLD STILL!"
The delivered a large kick to the girl's face.
She flew a couple feet, but ceased moving.
"Heh,. . . heheheheh! Don't mess with us little brat!" All 3 delinquents started laughing again.
The boy walked over to go secure the girl, feeling victorious. . .
when. . .
"Guhg!" He gasped.
. . .
Someone grabbed the back of his head. The force of the hold was strong, strong enough to put a dent in his skull. He was freaking out! He thought the strength of this grip was scary enough to traumatize people… but no… what he heard next was much. . .
. . .MUCH. . .
. . .SCARIER!
" HEY THERE GUY! WHAT YOUR FRIEND DID BACK THERE WASN'T REALLY NICE! DO YOU THINK 'YOU' CAN PAY FOR WHAT HE'S DONE?!
". . ."
He was terrified. Never in his life would he even THINK about encountering something that could terrorize him THIS much. But here it was. Standing right behind him, gripping his head.
"WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The boy screamed.
He quickly escaped from the grip of the 'Monster' and jumped back a couple of feet. He was expecting to see something horrible, but. . .
"!"
. . .all he saw was a certain singly spiky haired boy staring at him.
"Yo!"
"Y-you!?"
Kamijou Touma was standing over the unconscious girl bearing many sharp cuts from grass, and bruises.
"Man, all I wanted was to buy a few things for my hungry roomma. . ."
Kamijou felt an intense heat approaching from behind him.
"Youuuuuuu. . .!"
The lead delinquent threw another one of his flaming fists intending to end the battle easily. . .
. . .but this time, was different.
His flames dissipated instantly. His hand was caught in the center of Kamijou's right.
"W-what!?"
"Gosh, what a nuisance."
Kamijou grabbed the already trapped delinquent's hand with his right and threw him over his left shoulder to his front. Then, while still in midair, threw a solid punch to his stomach, making him cough up saliva.
The delinquent landed on his back in front of Kamijou in extreme pain.
"OOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!"
". . ."
". . ."
The other two delinquents stared, dumbfounded, at the implausible action they had just taken witness to. Their group leader was just instantly taken-out with minimal effort.
"N-no way." The two delinquents said simultaneously.
"Now then. . ."
Kamijou turned to the delinquent behind him.
". . . which one of you, will be my next victim?" He talked in a low, daunting voice.
The delinquent backed away slowly.
'Where the hell did that terrifying voice go?'
Kamijou was slowly approaching the terrified delinquent.
"G-get away."
Slowly nearing closer and closer. He was emitting a sinister aura, one that could only remind anyone of one thing. . .
"G-g. . ."
". . ." *GROWLING*
. . . EVIL.
"G-GET AWAYYYYYYYYYY!. . ."
"HALT!"
". . .!"
". . .!"
The sound of a loud commanding voice rang through the boys' ears.
Kamijou and the delinquent turned their heads to look for the source of the directing voice. On his left, and the delinquent's right, stood a normal looking boy. He was a bit shorter than Touma but about the same age. He had messy brown hair and blue eyes. He wore a normal school uniform, a white polo shirt with black dress vest. His most distinguishable feature was the green and white stripped armband he had around his right arm that he was flashing off.
"This is Judgment! Drop any weapons you are holding and surrender silently."
"C-crap, Judgment is here." One of the delinquents silently cursed. "K-Kairou, we have to get out of here." He said to the lead delinquent trying to get off the ground.
"N-no way. Sarutobi Kairou doesn't run away from a fight! I still have to make that spiky bastard pay."
He stood up and lit his fists with more bright red flames.
"So you won't go down without a fight huh?" The Judgment boy whispered to himself. "Very well then, I, Kanatami Sora, will take you on!"
"Heh." Sarutobi smirked. "Good. I won't go easily, you hear me?!" The boy roared.
"K-Kairou please don't do an. . ."
"AAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH!" The delinquent raced off to fight Kanatami.
Sarutobi threw his fists at Kanatami. Though he easily dodged left and right, avoiding the delinquent's attacks with magnificent grace.
"FUCKING. . . HOLD. . . STILL!"
His fists were still going, avoiding contact with every swing.
'This is too easy.' "Now it's my turn."
Kanatami jumped back swiftly, but Sarutobi chased after.
'Angle of projection: 47, Height of jump: 13 in., Average power level: 2, Motion of next attack: 2 o'clock,' "Too easy."
Kanatami instantly completed a series of calculations done in his head.
Kanatami closed his eyes and focused. A light blue outline surrounded him.
". . ."
"YOU'RE MINE!"
Sarutobi was about to go for a critical hit but. . .
. . .In that moment, Kanatami opened his eyes and threw his, now opened, palms in front of his opponent.
"Huh?" Said a surprised Sarutobi.
". . .Now. Take this. . .
JET BLIZZARD!"
A large stream of blue and white dust rushed out from his palms and hit Sarutobi with incredible force. The blast launched him back to the other side of the street.
"Aaaaaaaggghhh!"
"K-KAIROU!"
Sarutobi landed hard, but no dirt or gravel flew up. Instead the area was surrounded with a thick layer of cold frost that made it hard to see.
"K-KAIROU, WHERE ARE YOU?!"
The delinquent was frantically trying to find his teammate, while covering his eyes to avoid the frost.
He came up to something.
"K-Kairou, is that you?"
He stretched his hand out to feel whatever he had just run into. It felt like a normal hand. It had the fingers, skin and everything, although it was a little wet.
"Kairou. . ."
The thick frost began to clear up.
" . . .thank goodness you're alright. Hurry we have to get out of. . ."
The sight of something completely extreme was presented to the boy.
The thick frost completely cleared up.
"Whew. Glad that all cleared up pretty quickly." The Judgment boy said carelessly.
". . .K-Kai. . ."
In front of the normal delinquent boy, was a body. . .
. . . Frozen entirely in a thin block of ice.
"KAIROUUUUUUUU!"
With an exception of his two hands, that were on fire at the time, Sarutobi Kairou's body was locked-in-place by a large, thin boulder of ice. His expression and everything else was frozen and unable to move. Even his hands that were still free, were too cold to use or feel.
"D-don't worry. I-I'll get you out of there. I just need something. . . Oh there!"
The delinquent rushed to go pick up a large metal pipe sitting near a dumpster from the alley they ran down. It was rusty, wet from a dirty puddle, and looked like it had traces of blood on it. But, the boy didn't care. He wanted to save his teammate no matter what.
"One, two. . ."
He swung the metal pipe like a baseball bat onto the piece of ice, but it didn't even leave as much as a crack on it.
"One more. . ."
He swung the metal pipe again, but his efforts were still fruitless.
"You know, it's not gonna break until I let it." The Judgment boy pointed out.
The delinquent didn't listen, he kept on banging on the ice in an attempt to free the trapped boy.
'Man, and it's annoying too. Oh well.'
Kanatami stuck his hand out again.
"Just. . .once. . .MOREEE!. . ."
A blast of cold air shot out in the same process and hit the other delinquent across the street. He became frozen solid, in the same state as his leader. Frozen with the metal pole in mid-swing.
"Oh man, they couldn't just surrender peacefully. Awww. . . Konorii-san is gonna be on my ass again today. *Sigh*" Kanatami complained
"Oh yeah, the other two!"
Kanatami frantically looked around for the other two boys, but they were long gone. The unconscious girl that was lying on the sidewalk wasn't there either.
"Awww man. I let them get away. Now I'm really in trouble." Kanatami complained with a defeated look. "I guess I should call Anti-Skill for this mess."
The boy took out a phone and dialed a number.
Kamijou carefully sat the girl on the park bench. He then took a seat right next to her.
"Damn, all this commotion. I couldn't even make it to the damn store. And why did I even take this girl with me?"
Kamijou looked to the girl resting on his right. She was conscious again, but ended up falling asleep on the walk to the park.
'Who is she anyway?'
'Why do you ask that question now?'
A deep voice sounded, only audible to Kamijou.
"Well I didn't have time to ask those other guys when they ran into me. All that happened, then that Judgment kid popped out of nowhere and had to be a freaking hero and stop those idiots…"
'With the power you have now you could have easily taken care of them. Why didn't you?'
"I don't want to fucking slaughter everyone if I don't have to."
'The more blood the better.'
'Who the hell says that?'
'I say it you incompetent mortal.'
"Wait, how did you. . ."
'I'm sealed to you. Of course I'll be able to read your mind.'
"Figures."
"Mmmmn. . ."
The girl on the bench slid closer to Kamijou. She gently placed her head on his lap as if it were a pillow. She looked innocent and peaceful with a cute smile on her face. She began quietly snoring.
". . .?"
'Euuuu, looks like she's taken a liking to you. Maybe you can use her a bit.'
"Use her? For what you stupid. . . I don't even know what to call you."
'You've given me the name of Hachiman, correct? Where did you even come up with that?'
"I don't know, it just felt right. Anyway, use her for what?"
'What else? Can't you feel that emitting from her?'
"No, what?"
'Oh well, I guess if you can't sense it yet, I'll just explain later.'
"Grrrr." Kamijou growled.
The voice disappeared from his head.
*YAWWNNN* The cute girl yawned still sleeping.
"*Sigh* Hmmm?"
Kamijou noticed a group of about 3 girls walking past him. They were obviously talking about him.
"Hey did you see that?" Girl 1 asked
"yeah, he looked like such a delinquent. Was that his daughter?" Girl 2 answered
"Probably. Maybe he's a single parent."
"But, he's kind of cute."
"Yeah, those colored bangs make him look really dangerous." Girl 3 intervened
"Yeah, that's. . ."
The sound faded from Kamijou as they got farther.
"Hugh man, delinquent? What a nuisance." He said with his eye brows twitching.
"Ka-mijou. . ."
His attention shifted to the girl on his lap.
". . .I. . .I'm not. . .scared."
'Is she having a nightmare?' "Hey, wake up." Kamijou said lightly shaking her.
". . .No . . . No. . ."
"Oi. . ."
". . .No. . .NO!"
Kamijou's patience ran out. He then did the craziest thing he thought to do. He picked up the girl and started spinning around at INSANE speeds!
"IIIII SSSAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIDDDDDDDDDD. . .
WAAAAAAAAKKKKEEEEEE UUUUUUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!"
"AAAAAAHHHHH!" The girl screamed in his face as she was forced awake in the most terrifying way.
Kamijou dropped her back on the seat.
"Hugh… you awake now?" He asked panting with an uncaring, close-up stare.
The girl didn't say anything, but fiercely nodded in response.
"*Sigh* Good." 'Luckily, there was no one around to see that.'
"U-uh. . .ummm. . ." The girl called.
"Hmm?"
"Th-than-k y-you for saving me-ne."
Her voice was cute and high. Almost like Index's but not exactly. Something closer to the type of voice a "little sister" character would have.
"Don't. It wasn't my intention to save you in the first place." He said denying her grattitude.
'Liar.'
"You shut up."
"O-oh." She said saddened.
"N-no not you! Just someone else I'm talking to."
". . ."
"But, you aren't in any trouble now. So at least you can be happy about that."
Kamijou began to walk off intending on leaving the girl. "Well, see ya later, maybe."
'Hey, you're really just going to leave her there?'
"Well obviously. What she does next has nothing to do with m-. . ."
Kamijou was abruptly stopped by a tugging at his sleeve. He stopped to look at what was tugging him.
Standing there, holding his sleeve was the same girl who he was just intending to leave. Her left finger was shyly covering her mouth.
"U-umm. . ."
"What is it?" Kamijou asked.
"Are y-you. . . Kamijou Touma?"
'Huh!? Did I ever tell her my name? How does she know me?' "Y-yeah?"
As if her troubles have just vanished, the girl's expression immediately lit up. She smiled a grand smile and had sparkling excited eyes. She went on to hug him, tightly, from the back.
"Hooray, I've finally found you-ne.!"
"Huh?"
'Ohhh, I didn't know you had a secret admirer like this. What a terrible man.' Hachiman (IT) said sarcastically.
'Can you NOT right now?' Kamijou thought angrily.
'Yeah, yeah'
"hey, why are you hugging m… Ow, why are you so strong!?"
She didn't hear him. She continued happily hugging the Kamijou boy.
"Waaaiiitttt, wait, wait, wait, wait!"
He slid his arms into the girl's and forced the girl to let go. His arms spread apart forming a large gap between him and her.
"P-please tell me, how do you know who I am?"
"O-oh! I'm sorry, I forgot to tell you-ne."
She took a couple steps back and spun around in place.
"My name is Liliana. Lili for short-ne."
"Yes, yes." He responded while nodding.
"The bad people trying to capture me are from a group called LESSON-ne."
"Mmhm, mmhm. Go on."
"T-the reason they want me is b-because. . . I-I'm. . ." She was stuttering. She didn't seem to enjoy what she wanted to say.
"You're a what?"
"I. . .I'. . .I'm. . ."
". . ."
"I'M A FRAGMENTARY AIM ENTITY-ne!"
". . ."
". . ."
". . ."
"Y-you hate me now don't you?"
"Hmm?"
"You do, don't you?"
Lili started to tear up. She was frantically trying to wipe away her tears.
"People. . . only want me to do bad things-ne. I'm only a tool for destruction-ne. *Sniff* No. . . nobody likes meeeeeee!" *WAAAAAAA*
Liliana started balling her eyes out. She didn't even try to hold it in. Her tears flew like waterfalls. It was actually, sort of, impressive how she could cry that much.
'Wow, it's actually impressive how she can cry that much.' Kamijou thought to himself. "Hold on who said anything about. . ."
"WAAAAAAAA!"
"*Louder Sigh* "Look I never said I'd hate you because of something stupid like that! What're you crying for?!"
"H-hey, do you see that boy making that girl cry over there?"
Kamijou heard sudden whispering. The area seemed to fill with more people while he wasn't paying attention.
"Huh?" Kamijou quietly asked to himself.
"Yeah, Why would someone do that to such a cute girl?"
*Another conversation*
"What an evil guy. Delinquents like him should just be arrested."
"Yeah, we have enough things to worry about as adults, we shouldn't have to constantly worry about our children's safety too."
Two mothers were talking
*Another conversation*
"Dammmmmnnnn that guy! How dare he make such a cute little sister character cry like that! I swear I'll beat him up and take her from him!"
"Dude, calm down. That would kind of be kidnapping. Besides, you have a girlfriend. She wouldn't like it if you just 'steal' another girl."
"Yeah, I know. But still that guy's a jerk."
"I guess I can agree with you there."
A conversation of two high school boys.
Kamijou could feel the death stares of those from around him. Even though he constantly tried to ignore them, he found it quite hard, as they were sending chills down his spine. But it didn't scare him as much, almost as if this always happens to him?
"Oi, oi why are you still crying?!" He said in a loud whisper.
He turned around to the crowd.
"Hah?"
The death stares became more intimidating.
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN!"
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN!"
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN!"
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN!"
"WHAT A TERRIBLE MAN!"
They all said simultaneously.
'AAAAAHHHH! FORGET THIS!'
Kamijou acted quickly. He picked up Lili, princess style, and jet out of the park.
"Aaaahhhh, now he's kidnapping her!"
"Someone do something!"
"Quick, someone call a Judgment officer or Anti-Skill!"
'Anti-Skill?' Kamijou disastrously thought
"In the mean time, anyone with at least a level 2 ability and sense of justice, follow him! Don't let him get away!
Kamijou was far ahead.
'Gosh, what the hell is wrong with everyone?'
Lili was still crying, though it calmed down enough for her to stop forming mini waterfalls.
'This girl. . . wha-'
As he was thinking, a fireball flew right past Kamijou's left, almost singeing his hair.
". . ." His mouth was agape, but no words came out.
He turned to look back to see. . .
'DAMN! WHY ARE THEY FOLLOWING ME!?'
A mob of about 20 ESPers were rapidly gaining on him, throwing projectiles of all kind.
"STOP, KIDNAPPER!"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN KIDNAPPER! AAHH!"
An icicle flew past him fast.
"HE SAID STOP!"
'Crap, if I don't think of something soon. . .'
'Why don't you just use your power?'
'I don't want MORE people after me!'
'Are you sure? You look like you can handle a few more.'
'NOT. . . THE. . . TIME!'
'Hehe. Interesting human.'
'If you're not going to try to help, leave!'
IT stayed quiet after that. Only letting out a few snickers every once in a while.
"*Sniff*"
"YOU'RE STILL CR. . . no, no, calm down.
This Kamijou is not going to get phased by something minor like this. Oh, there's a path."
Kamijou quickly turned into a narrow alley.
"Don't let him get away!"
"Damn, these guys are persistent. But, I'll lose them in here."
Kamijou sped up hoping to gain some distance between and the pursuers.
"Heh. . . Heh. . . f-finally."
Kamijou was breathing heavily. His long run, around part of the city from an angry mob, was enough exercise to last him for about the next few months.
Lili was lying sound fully asleep on an old, nearby couch.
'Why would anyone throw out a perfectly fine couch?' He thought to himself.
He went and leaned on a wall.
"Gosh, all this trouble and all I did was pick up a girl before she got hit in that crossfire. . . . I still don't even know how she knows my name."
Kamijou looked up to the thin strip of sky still visible in the alley.
"It's gotten darker."
He took out his phone to check the time.
"17:41. the sun is still up, but it's gonna set in a couple hours. I don't even know where I am. How am I supposed to get back to. . . . . . CRAP! I FORGOT ABOUT INDEX!"
In the midst of all the commotion, Kamijou Touma unintentionally and completely forgot about his roommate with the black hole for a stomach, Index. She was bound to very angry and HUNGRY right now.
"*Sigh*. Well, there's no avoiding it now."
Kamijou took a seat near the sleeping girl with a relaxed look on her face.
"Hugh. . .back to square one. In the end we got nowhere huh?"
"Mmmmn. . ."
Lili was waking up.
"*YAWN*. Good morning."
"Aaaahhhh. Good morning princess. Did you enjoy your nap?"
Lili happily smiled and nodded.
"Ohh, that's good."
Kamijou sat up and stretched.
"Now then. . ."
He quickly turned to the still sleepy girl and took a deep breath.
"NOW CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!?" He yelled.
"Eeehh!"
"No! No crying! Just tell me why you know who I am."
Lili quickly wiped the incoming tears away and sat firmly on the couch.
"O-ok."
Kamijou relaxed and moved back onto the couch.
"T-then I'll start from the beginning-ne."
"Like I said before, I am a Fragmentary AIM Entity-ne."
"What's that mean."
"I am an unnatural being born from the combined presence of several ESPer's Personal Realities. With 80% of 2.3 million ESPer's separate Personal Realities, each differing from one another in more ways than one, it puts more pressure on the 'Thought Plain' surrounding the city-ne."
"Wait a minute, if each person has their own Personal Reality, how does it affect this 'Thought Plain' that you just mentioned, and what is the 'Thought Plain'.
". . .well, . . . first, the 'Thought Plain' is a field of existence where it manifests a separate being of any person who is in it depending on the person's state of mind, even though that person is not aware of it-ne. Second, since the ESPers in this city's Personal Reality is affected by their state of mind, they can also generate ESPer powers based off the collected AIM from each separate being in the 'Thought Plain'.
". . . I-I'm a bit confused by all of this. Hold on, let me breathe first. . . haaa."
". . ."
". . .Ok, you can continue."
She nodded.
"With every Personal Reality came various types of powers. But unlike this field of existence, the powers were unstable and usually went out-of-control. With the uncontrollable powers, the entities' AIM fields went insane and accumulated into a mass where they could be contained.
". . .And that's when you were born, correct?"
She nodded at him.
"I was made into the controller and director for the AIM in that field. But, since I was also a being with AIM, I could also use a power, a power that I used to control and direct the AIM fields-ne."
". . .huh? Wait, then what's your power?"
"I-it doesn't have an exact name, b-but I-I nicknamed it. . . W-WISHES-ne."
"WISHES?"
"An ability that lets me control reality around me up to 500 kilometers-ne."
'F-FIVE HUNDRED KILOMETERS? Wait, I don't know how long that is.' "Continue."
"Everything sort of went back to normal after that for the next few years-ne."
'Years. . .'
"Until, about 7 or 8 years ago, someone with the power to distort and negate the AIM fields showed up, messing with the flow in that field. That person. . ."
She raised a finger to Kamijou
". . .was you."
"Me?"
She nodded again.
Kamijou looked down at his right hand with a concerned face.
"With your encounters with various ESPers, little-by-little, you distorted the 'Thought Plain' by interrupting the flow of AIM. The more you came into contact with ESPers and negated their powers, the more AIM you cut off, sending it in disarray-ne."
". . ."
"Then. . ."
"Then?" Kamijou looked up.
". . . You met her. . ."
". . ."
". . .the 3rd ranked ESPer in Academy City. . .The Railgun."
'Railgun? Who's that?'
"With someone with such a powerful AIM field's power negated, it caused a massive shift in that plain-ne. During the space shift, my original body was split into two-ne. Somehow; this body was brought into this field. I'm thinking that was also your doing. I can still use my power to an extent, but the toll it takes on this plain is more disastrous than in the 'Thought Plain', so I haven't used it-ne."
". . ."
"T-that's for how I got here-ne."
". . ."
"D-do you want me to tell you w-who the people chasing me are?"
". . .*Sigh*. . ."
Kamijou then faced her and smiled a bit.
". . .Well, I have a feeling you're going to tell me anyway, so why deny it?"
She smiled happily back.
"W-well, you're the person I feel most comfortable with." She said quietly as a slight blush appeared on her face.
"Hmmm. . ."
"A-anyway. . ."
Kamijou's expression turned serious.
". . .The three people that were chasing me were part of an organization called LESSON."
"LESSON, what kind of weird name is that?"
"I don't know much about the group or where they got t-there name from."
". . ."
"F-from what I've heard, they're not an official organization. Actually, they only have about 15 members in total including the leader and the three who chased me-ne.
'So they're a pretty small group huh?'
"Their leader, he didn't say much, b-but he said his name was I-I. . ."
"I-what?"
"I-Izzard, I think-ne"
"Izzard?" 'There are really some strange things out there. Really, I've only been in this city for about 3 days after leaving that hospital and the first thing I do is run into trouble. *Sigh*.'
"Hmmm?" She looked at him with concerned eyes.
"O-oh, I-it's nothing." He quickly waved off. "P-please continue."
"Okay. Well, his name wasn't the only thing about him-ne, whenever he was alone, he'd always talk about how he'll use his power to save 'that girl' and how his power was the strongest among all.'
"What?"
"But, what was the most odd was how he kept talking about 'magicians' and running from the 'Roman Catholic Church'."
"All of this?"
Kamijou was extremely surprised by it all.
'W-wasn't Index saying something about magicians and how they're related to religion or something like that?'
"I-is something wrong-ne?"
Kamijou stood up from his seat.
"Lili, do you know where LESSON's base is at?!" He asked urgently.
Mi-Misawa Cram School-ne."
"Misawa Cram School, eh?" He said quietly to himself.
Kamijou took out his cell phone and brought up the map of Academy City. He typed in Misawa Cram School in the search bar.
". . .District 17?"
Kamijou then looked up their location.
"Oh, we were still in District 7 the whole time. Well, that makes things easier."
"Wait! He has someone else trapped in there-ne."
"Someone else?"
"She was captured just like me. She looked like a highschooler just like you, but. . ."
Lili started tearing up.
"She helped me escape for help knowing she might get caught-ne. I don't want anything to happen to her. I-I don't want *sniff* anything to happen to her. P-please be careful with how you do this-ne."
". . ."
Kamijou looked down at the almost sobbing girl. He knew that Lili was an innocent girl inside and would break down if she found out that she'd have maybe left someone to get killed. He didn't want her to suffer, like a certain nun he'd wanted to protect. He could see a bit of what Index was like in this little girl, suffering because of something that was her fault. He didn't want to see that again.
That alone was his reason.
His reason to fight.
His resolve as the 'new Kamijou Touma'.
He gently placed his left hand on her head.
". . .?"
"Don't worry, I won't let anyone hurt that friend of your any more than they did already."
He let out another gentle smile that could easily cause half of Academy City's female population to fall-in-love with him.
"So leave it to me, okay?"
". . ."
She didn't say anything. All she did was run up to hug him, because she was truly happy she had met this boy.
But. . .
"Burr. . . h-hey is it a bit cold to you?"
"Y-yes."
It felt unnaturally colder. It was the middle of August so it shouldn't even come close to being this cold yet, even though. . .
. . .
"Gosh, I finally find the other delinquent and all this happens."
"!"
Kamijou recognized this voice. He heard it not too long ago. A familiar male voice. . .
He turned around to see a familiar figure walking in from the shadows in the alley.
"You, you're. . ."
The green and while armband on the boy's right arm proved it.
"Yup, it is me, Kanatami Sora, at your service."
Kamijou quickly got into a fighting stance in case he was attacked.
"W-Wait a minute! I don't want to fight you!" He yelled throwing his arms up for defense.
"What?"
Kanatami calmed down a bit.
"I-I overheard some of what you were talking about. About LESSON and 'magician' and all of that, and I just wanted to say. . ."
"Hmmm?"
". . ."
". . .Let me help."
Post-chapter notes:
Before I start let me say this, I really didn't enjoy writing this chapter. I'm more of an 'into action right away' guy but this was just annoying.
Whelp, Chapter 2 is finally finished. Hoped you guys and girls liked it. (I didn't).
1st, A guest asked, "Hachiman"? Ok, according to Wikipedia, Hachiman is the Japanese, Shinto God of War and divine protector of the Japanese. Kamijou just named the IT that out of instinct. How, he just did and that's it.
2nd, this story WILL NOT have the same goody Touma that's in the original LN and anime, but a more selfish and unreasonable kind who enjoys fighting thanks to his 'Resurrection' because of the IT. If you don't want that, just don't read it.
So as some might guess, this is the rewrite of the Deep Blood arc. The idea just came to me while writing. I didn't really think things through. More status will be updated about Lili and Kanatami. Both will be important characters in this story.
Next chapter's the conclusion for this arc. After that, it'll be a fan favorite. (The most favorite I think)
So stick around next time if I didn't lose you here.
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