Out of near infinity once more you chose me ellow again readers, sorry for the delay had a bit of a slump but we're back in business today Been Reading GT4 as fast as Js06 can translate and damn is it good so far. Even gave more insight into characters and behaviors which will help me portray them better. Anyways onto the reviews!

Fencer29: Komoe likely knows it's the delta force, she's unlikely to do anything she wants to help them to be good students after all. I mean… was there any other comparison to be made that wouldn't leave people tilting their heads In confusion?

5had0wHand: Touma's in denial lets all admit that. The kami-yan disease knows no bounds! Yes… that was out of character wasn't it? If I'm honest? I actually believe that the Deltaforce just lets themselves be beaten up. Tsuchimikado is a flipping highly trained assassin, Touma compared Aogami to Misaka in strength in OT1 and well we all know about Touma. Let Komoe fantasize. Whatever it is, it'll bring misfortune to poor Touma. Yeah doubt that'll happen but I do have a few thoughts relating to the powers within IB for the future (read: I have nothing but… it'll come to me!…. eventually…right?)

Whwsms: like I said to 5had0w I really just think the Deltaforce lets themselves get beaten up. Like one is a trained assassin, one is compared to lvl5's by Touma and the other IS Touma. Do we really think Fukiyousie was actually able to put them down without them being willing? Yeah I fear for whoever must manage the delta force is Itsuwa is there to see it.

Anyways, let this tale of an infinity continue!

Chapter 20
2 Deers and a basket of eggs

Index was so excited she couldn't sit down, not even the newest season of Magical Powered Kanami could keep her still. One, because she couldn't know if Touma had been attacked, but more importantly she and Touma would be celebrating Easter. Her excitement had caused Sphinx to start chasing Othinus who was now standing atop the TV to avoid her feline menace.

She looked at Index with slight annoyance on her face and said "I get you're excited that the human has decided to celebrate with you. But could you keep that damn beast in check!? I nearly ended up it's lunch… again"

Index stopped her swaying and shuffling in excitement and looked to Othinus. "You always say that yer Sphinx only plays with you, no harm done." she then smiled beamingly "and besides Touma said that we'd go shopping today-" she paused a moment thinking. "Eh? Does that make this a da-"

Othinus interrupted before she finished "No it does not because I'm going with you, besides your nun so that relationship is not allowed." before muttering under her breath "and there is no way I'm gonna allow you to take that human from me"

Index pouted glaring at Othinus "I am still in training so that means I might for instance forget that I'm not meant to have romantic relationships! Ah-" Index then caught herself noticing what she just said 'I want a romantic relationship with Touma?' she went silent as Othinus spoke once more

"That's a convenient excuse but one that does not work, you clearly know that you're not meant to have such a relationship. And you can't forget, remember so that excuse doesn't work for you anyways." The tiny former god sighed and shook her head "and besides, he clearly sees you more as a younger sister."

They both went silent for a moment, Index hanging her head a bit upset. 'That's why It always hurt when he smiled at someone else. That's why It hurts whenever I see him talk to a girl that isn't me. That's why I feel so warm, and safe around him, why my heart beats so fast when he looks at me with that smile.' She took a breath and released it 'I'm such a bad nun aren't I?' she then shook her head and slapped her cheeks with her hands before smiling. "No matter either way we're going shopping with Touma and that's all that matters!"

Othinus for a moment appeared to smile "I can't say I disagree that human's housewife skills are a joy to watch."

It was at that moment that the door opened and Touma entered he walked over to Othinus with an eyebrow raised. "Sphinx?" he asked to which the Norse god nodded sheepishly. Touma smiled softly and looked to Index "well we got a whole day, so as long as we don't find out anything on Celt and she doesn't attack us, so why don't we go to seventh mist?" he suggested.

Index nodded and he placed his hand near the TV allowing Othinus to climb onto his shoulder before he grabbed a thing of coupons for eggs and similar items.

"Well, let's go then," he said and the three of them (plus one cat) headed off to the Seventh Mist mall

Touma, Othinus, Index (+ sphinx) made their way to the Seventh Mist mall, on the way they noticed a larger amount of Anti-skill and Judgement members around than normal.

Seeing this Touma spoke "I guess the events of late have caused quite the commotion, Anti-skill and Judgement are on high alert" he shrugged as they continued walking

"Due to the attack on the district 7 hospital yesterday the perpetrators of which have yet to be caught Curfew will be pushed forward for the foreseeable future. Students are advised to stay in groups to stay safe even in the day. Rest assured the two responsible shall be caught as testimony from the staff have given clear descriptions to their identity." announced a news broadcast from the blimp floating overhead. Index felt like facepalming as she knew exactly who it was talking about

The group entered Seventh Mist, it was fairly busy so there was quite the crowd. Index followed Touma as they wandered through the mall checking things here and there. It was odd, despite the news broadcast and the recent events. Things weren't as tense as Index had thought they should be.

"Hey Touma?" Index asked looking towards her spiky haired friend.

"Yes Index?" Touma said as he examined a flyer talking about a sale on chicken breasts and vegetables.

Index followed Touma as he headed in the direction of the store where the sale was. "Why aren't people more tense and worried? Considering what's been going on of late you'd think they'd be more panicked right?" she asked as they wandered through the store.

Touma stopped and turned to Index Othinus resting on his shoulder, her eye closed as she leaned against him. It annoyed Index how comfortable and intimate she was behaving with Touma. However at the moment that didn't matter as Touma was talking to her now, not that pagan god.

"I'm kinda shocked you had to ask that Index" Touma said looking at her with a semi-shocked expression "This is academy city remember? Sure we don't understand magic, but the happenings of late while unexplained are still familiar." he then smiled "I mean you realize how often parts of the city need to be rebuilt cause some esper goes on a rampage?"

Index thought for a moment before nodding "so they don't see any point in panicking when it's only a little different from a normal occurrence here?"

"Exactly, it's just a different type of the normal you could say." Touma confirmed.

They were about to continue heading towards the sale when Index noticed an unfamiliar black haired girl nervously glancing at Touma. Seeing Index looking somewhere Touma looked towards the girl. Upon seeing her Touma waved

"Hey, Saten was it? What are you hiding over there for?" he called to the girl Index did not recognize.

Feeling a bit annoyed that this girl that she didn't know knew Touma Index glared at Touma "Touumaaaaaaaaaa! Who's this girl and why don't I know her?"

Touma stiffened a moment and turned slowly "Index, please don't bite this Kamijou-san's head in public. I'd rather us not get thrown out so let me explain." He seemed nervous and even scared, and he should fear her wrath this is what happens when he keeps secrets from her.

Index nodded an eyebrow raised as she saw the girl, Saten from what Touma said slowly approached. "Alright then Touma, explain" she said

Touma's tension seemed to lessen but didn't go away, oddly he seemed to still be nervous. "Well you see Index, back during the Daihasei last year Saten here was kind enough to lend me her good luck charm for the scavenger hunt." Touma spoke quickly but his explanation was good however he didn't appear done. "Later when I went to return it to her I was able to learn of a threat to Misaka and was able to save her."

Index's eyes softened and she sighed before looking at Saten "So, you're not another of the girls he saved?" she asked

The girl, with shoulder length black hair, blue eyes, a white flower pin and wearing the Sakugawa middle school outfit of around 13-14 years of age smiled at Index. "Nope I feel I'm missing out actually" she said with an odd look of forlorning before turning to Touma making Index feel irritated "sorry about hiding, It's just well… you know." she spoke nervously expecting Touma to understand what she was talking about.

Touma confused tilted his head "no, I really don't know" he said matter of factly

Index narrowed her eyes "what are you trying to say?"

Saten sighed, took a breath and continued "Well you see, I like hunting urban legends, and well there was a… ahah interesting one about You directly Kamijou-san" she nervously scratched the back of her head laughing slightly.

Touma's eyes fell and he hung his head "Such…. Misfortune" before looking to Saten with dead eyes "which one?" he asked.

Index noticed Saten's expression become shocked a moment before she spoke "Wait… there's, more than one about you?" before then facepalming "oh Duh! Of course there would be you're the guy who saved that girl in Denmark! I knew the person was familiar." Before she instantly grabbed his hands which really annoyed Index. "Tell me what sort of mad thought went through your head when you did that? Also also why were you in a position where you could confront the terrorist Othinus? Oh And what was that huge light wing thingy!?"

Her questions came at a rapid fire pace causing Touma's eyes to spin before he shouted "ROOOOBEERRRTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" at the top of his lungs, causing the whole mall to go silent a moment.

"Did that kid just shout the name of the US president like he did something to him?" a bystander muttered

"He looks familiar, I wonder why?" another said.

"Look at that poor girl he shouted next to, he should apologize" a third remarked.

Touma, noticing these remarks closed his mouth and muttered "sorry Saten" before stepping back.

Saten was a bit ruffled but she said "no, it's not your fault, I asked way to many questions at once."

The bystanders continued their business and Touma appeared to grow more nervous. Why Index wasn't too sure but she'd ask him later. She noticed Othinus was stirring on his shoulder but decided not to call attention to her.

Index was however curious about something and spoke up "Say, how did you find out Touma was involved with denmark?" she asked Saten.

Saten blinked and then widened her eyes slightly in understanding "Oh! Yeah that, My friend Uiharu did that, She's part of judgement and when she found out that it was possible an Academy City student was involved in the incident she depixelated the video footage that was broadcasted internationally so we could see the faces of those involved." she smiled with pride while speaking about her friend.

Touma then cut in "hold on, how did she find out it was possible a student from the city was involved?"

"Kuroko noticed some weird behavior from Misaka, and when we asked her about it she wouldn't tell us. We then found out she had gotten an email from an anonymous source from inside the city that was deleted. Uiharu couldn't recover much but what she did recover mentioned Othinus, and a student." Saten replied looking at Touma "Now, about what I asked?"

Touma glanced at Index who shook her head, turning to Saten he sighed "I really, really can't tell you the details, It'd be bad and put you in danger. However, I will say this I don't regret my actions that day, nor do I think I ever will. I did what I did for myself and no one else." He smiled and Index saw Saten blush a little.

Saten then shook her head "Was it magic?" This caused both Index Touma and Othinus to cough/stumble/start in shock.

"How!? How did you?" Touma started but then shut his mouth. Seeing Index shake her head rapidly.

Saten smiled slyly and said "Oh please I told you I hunt urban legends, and R and C Occults? It's obvious, not to mention that Angel Dragon Kimi had". This got Touma's attention as he slowly turned to Saten his eyes dead cold.

"Angel Dragon? Your, sure that you saw that?" he said looking her straight in the eyes.

Saten nervously backed up a little due to how close he was. "Uh.. yeah A Holistic Girl named Shudan Kimi had it, it was really affecting her badly. I don't know exactly what happened, but It shouldn't be able to bother anyone anymore." she confirmed.

Index was confused as she had never heard of an Angel Dragon before. But she wondered if it was related to that.. Fake. she noticed Touma's expression turn to one of relief

"Thank goodness it can't hurt anyone, thanks." he smiled at Saten who sheepishly smiled back.

"By my Name! your telling me there was a perfectly good Holistic Esper already In Academy City!? And I DIDN'T need to go through the effort of forcing the second rank to make me one out of his Dark Matter!?" cried out an indignant voice of a particular pagan god.

Saten's eyes went wide, Touma looked like he had just witnessed a body. And Index felt like if she wasn't a pious nun, she'd have swore.

Saten now noticing the hand held norse god had a smile on her face. "Oh no way you can deny magic to me now, you literally wouldn't be able to explain how the girl you saved in Denmark. Othinus herself, Is not only alive but sitting on your shoulder like a fairy." she grinned almost impishly

Othinus looked to Saten with her one eye "well well, someone's observant glad someone realizes who I am."

Touma sighed "Yes… magic exists but don't go thinking you can use it, espers… can't not without serious injury."

Index nodded "Generally it would kill them, which is why i'm confused, Touma how come none of the espers we've seen use magic have died yet?" she inquired

Touma shook his head "just… an excess of good luck maybe?"

Saten looked at them like they had said the most obvious thing in the world "Well no duh! I saw what it did to people okay? No way I'm gonna use magic, my friends fell for that trap and were laid up in hospital for days afterwards." in hindsight, maybe it was fairly obvious.

Othinus shrugged "You're quick, I like that, however you do realize knowing magic exists puts you in danger right? You must not speak to anyone that you don't trust and don't already know. Understood?" her one eye look at Saten with a deathly sternness that promised divine punishment, that Othinus couldn't give ironically.

Saten nodded "I understand" she then looked to Index, "Um as an apology for Interrupting you guys how about I show you to a nice outfit store I frequent?" she asked nervously

Index glanced at Touma who shrugged and rummaged into his wallet before going pale. "Index..." he started and suddenly Index felt like she did something wrong "Tell me why is there only 200 yen in my savings?"

What followed thereafter was a heated argument which ended in Touma's scalp getting bit, again a series of apologies and Saten offering to pay for any outfits Index picked out as compensation for the trouble she caused. And as a show of faith that she'd keep the secret of Magic, and Othinus for them.

Index agreed and decided to follow Saten, Othinus stayed with Touma who mentioned that he'd see if he could withdraw any more money from his account and if not still had enough coupons for what they wanted.

After reaching the grocery section of the mall, Touma set out searching for the cheapest, but still fairly high quality eggs he could find. He had finally found the ones he wanted when he felt a pair of hands grab his shoulders.

"Yo Kamijou, took a bit to find you" said a familiar voice

"Please sister you were stalking him this whole time" said another familiar voice

Turning around Touma found who he expected "Galistic, Boahban? What are you two doing here?" he asked.

Othinus facepalmed "Human… you made a promise… didn't you?" She said, the two sisters still arguing.

"Oi!, don't you go pinning all the blame on me Sis! You were the one constantly sneaking around trying to get a glimpse of his backside" Galistic said

"And you were the one brazingly keeping tabs on him by tracking his phone sister. Honestly where did you figure out how to do that?" countered Baohban sith

Touma used his left hand and tapped both of them on the head causing them to turn to him. "What are you two doing here? Not that I mind" Touma smiled.

Instead of her usual casual outfit Galistic was in a simple dress and skirt with long stockings and a pair of long stylish jeans. All were of course various shades of green. She had a necklace and matching earring with an aquamarine embedded in each. Instead of the usual sneakers she had a pair of cyan dress boots with teal accents and a white celtic symbol which looked like three loops linked together.

Baohban Sith was wearing something more formal of course, Instead of her normal flowing dress however. Baohban Sith wore an elegant lime colored sheath dress, with a sea green bow at the waist. Like her sister she had a necklace with a matching set of earrings. But instead of an aquamarine her's had emeralds. She wore a set of low heeled ankle height shoes of a forest green color. Instead of jeans she wore silken clothed long pants that had a leaf green color.

The two deadpanned at Touma and Galistic said "Sheesh, he really does have it bad"

"You forgot… already?" Baohban Sith asked?

Touma then had a look of realization "Wait, Now? Here? I though we'd meet up somewhere." he said shocked.

Othinus sighed "Human, read.. The… ROOM!" and used her small fist to punch him on the temple eliciting a small grunt of pain.

Galistic shrugged "No worries, so long as you understand, but let me tell ya something Touma mac Kamijou" she looked at Kamijou with a serious gaze as she continued "If a gal asks you if you wanna hang out. They generally mean a date, alright?"

Touma's face froze, then lit up red and he began speaking fast and stuttering "w-w-w-waait you me-mean you two asked me out on a.. A date!?"

Othinus looked at Galistic "You take matters of the heart seriously,… you used the celtic honorific 'mac' when addressing my Understander here. Touma, son of Kamijou…. Intriguing one way that could be read as. 'Invisible Demon, son of Above God'"

Galistic first responded to Touma "good, you understand no worries though, you didn't get the hint when we asked ya back then so this won't be a date." before turning to Othinus. "Me and my sibs, we take those matters deadly seriously you would know Woten."

Baohban was still teasing Touma "buuut, don't think just because this isn't a date that me and my dear sister aren't gonna tease the ever living daylights out of you. Hehe!" she giggled as she tugged on Touma's left arm.

Othinus shook her head as Galistic joined in "Especially after you gave such an adorable reaction ya big dork" Galistic ruffled Touma's hair.

Of course, such a happy scene wasn't gonna last long with Touma's misfortune "This is Judgement! You two are under arrest for assault of hospital staff and endangerment of patients!"