Well, it looks like this fanfiction keep attracted many people now which made me happy. Now I finally finished episode 3, I hope you guys enjoyed.

The Rupture: Well, just like I said before, Touma and Ruiko only become a close friends in this fanfic and I decide Kamikoto in this one because I think it suited for my story in this fanfic so I'm sorry that you don't wanna see Kamikoto.

BlueJack22: Well on the first one, she didn't bring her baseball bat in this one because she left hers on her dorm room so she will fight them humanly without her trusty baseball bat.

Invitado: I'm glad that you like the dynamic of these two. Well I didn't pair Touma and Ruiko as a lover in this fanfic, but as a trusted friend that Touma has because I know that Touma only has Mikoto who he knows is trustable (Misaki wasn't included because she kept getting forgotten). To be the truth, I too like ToumaXRuiko, but I think I wanna change it a little because I don't want this fanfic to be called a ripoff of the Never the Twain shall meet fanfiction so just like the other guy, I'm sorry but you will see Kamikoto as a ship in this fanfic while ToumaXRuiko as a close and a trustable friend.


Ep 3: Pyro magician.

As the magician look past Touma and Ruiko, he commented at Index wound, "Looks like we went a little overboard there."

"Why?"

"Why she came back here again?" The magician said, "Who knows. Maybe she forgot something that's she left accidentally."

Touma then realized what she was trying to get.

The magician then continued, "She brought her hood when she come here, but maybe she dropped it somewhere?"

Touma then remembered that Index's walking church got destroyed but not for her hood which still contains a magical energy. Now Touma realized why Index came back, because she's trying to not make Touma involved with the danger Index's faced in this whole time which made his anger boiled inside.

Ruiko looked at Touma with his angry face in concerned, "Kamijou…..san." She knows that Touma shows his expression that he's angry.

"You idiot!" Touma cursed to index.

"Hm?HmHmHm…."

Both students looked towards Stiyl who's speaking behind them.

"C'mon, I don't like to being stared like that. And I'm not the one who attacked her, I'm pretty sure that Kanzaki doesn't intend to made her bleeding like that. Her walking church has an absolute defense, But we're not sure why did the walking church's power got destroyed."

Upon hearing this, Touma went to ask in anger, "Why?" Ruiko looked at Touma again, "I never believe anything about magic at all and I also don't understand about you magicians."

Touma clutched his fist as he stand up, looked straight at him, "But… You guys also know about justice and evil, right? Chasing and cornered a little girl like her…" Touma then looked at Index, "And made her lying in the cold ground injured like this."

Touma then angrily asked, "With all those proofs, you still brace enough to talk about justice?"

"Why would someone like you do this? She's just a little girl and you magician left a bad wound on her back, so why? What's the point?" Ruiko asked.

However, the man only replied coldly, "If you're done, please get out of the way, I must retrieve it."

"Retrieve it?"

"Retrieve it?"

"That's right, retrieve the 103.000 grimoires that she brought." The red haired man told them.

And then he added, "Oh I almost forgot, you better be careful because someone like both of you just only by reading one of the pages already enough to killed you both."

"That's just a load of crap." Touma countered.

"Where is the 103.000 grimoires that she brought? There isn't any grimoires around here at all."

"It's inside there, inside her head." The red haired magician answered.

The red haired magician proceed to explained about Index ability about perfect memory which allows her to memorized anything on her head just by looking at it, which includes all 103.000 grimoires that's inside Index's head. He told them that she's not dangerous because she cannot use magic at all but those grimoires still counts to be dangerous so before those grimoires are stolen, they decide to shelter it.

As the red haired magician proceed to mocking about no matter how good or innocent the person was, there's no way they're able to survived being tortured or given drugs. Continued with him told the two students imagined every person in this world that tried to kidnapped index that could hurted their heart which made Touma gritted his teeth as he tried to punch the magician and angrily cried out, "Son of a Bitch! Who the hell, do you think you are!?"

The magician dodge Touma's punch with no problem at all.

'He dodged Kamijou-san's punch?'

"Stiyl Magnus."

Ruiko thought got interrupted by the Magician.

"That's how I want to introduced myself. But, just call me Fortis 931."

"Fortis 931?" Ruiko repeated.

"In Japanese, it means a strong person." Stiyl explained, "Well, I don't really care about it's language, but that is my magic name."

Stiyl then gloatedly asked, "Felt unfamiliar?" and made Touma blinked once.

"We magician are not allowed to revealed our name to someone else. I don't even understand because it's an old tradition, but what's important that I already revealed my magic names to the two of you. In our homeland, it means a killing name."

As soon as they heard the last sentence, both Touma and Ruiko eyes widened in fear. Because they realized what Stiyl was about to do. As they saw Stiyl throw his cigarette outside, he became to chant a magic power and the cigarette transformed into a high amount of fire which made both Touma and Ruiko shield their eyes. And then they saw Stiyl Raised his right hand upwards with opening his palm, concentrating a high amount of fire gathered on top of his right hand palm.

As the two level 0 looked at Stiyl's power, Touma asked to himself, "Is this…. Magic?"

'This is really different than the esper power that I know.' Ruiko knows how it feels to use an esper power because she already felt it when she used a level upper.

While on Touma himself, he backed up a bit before looked at his hand as he wondered if his right hand could countered magic just like anything that is supernatural he always block but he still unsure know any other power than that.

Touma got no answer as Stiyl was about to throw a high surge amount of fire on his hand.

"A gift of pain for the giant!"

"Kamijou-san!"

Stiyl throw a blazing surge amount of fire towards Touma. The heat waves went through the whole balcony and explode like an erupting volcano and then only a black smoke bursting in front of Stiyl.

Stiyl scratch his head as he said, "It looks like I overdid it."

Stiyl turned around and then remember, "Oh yeah, there's the two of you. I guess you're next."

Stiyl prepared another fire magic in top of his hand, "I'll make sure that your death will be painless and fast."

Saten Ruiko only stand there in fear, she would try to fight back if she has an esper power. But it would be a suicide if she fight back, but also a suicide if she didn't do anything as well because the man in front of her is prepared to kill her in place.

Her body can't move at all because right now her fear has overwhelmed her.

'I'm really are powerless, I can't even try to protect Kamijou-san because I don't any power to stop this person at all. Why? Why I don't have anything to protect Kamijou-san?'

"Well too bad, even though you have an esper power, you're not able to beat me no matter how many times you've tried."

"And who's not able to beat you no matter how many times I've tried?"

Stiyl froze in place as he heard the voice while Ruiko surprised hearing the voice that interrupted Stiyl. As they turned towards the direction of the incoming voice, they saw no one else but the only Kamijou Touma standing with his right hand raised out in front of him.

"Impossible!"

"Kamijou-san! You're okay!" Ruiko felt really glad that her friend, Touma is okay.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. Why would I be scared? This right hand is the one that destroyed her magic robes." Touma have forgot about that fact because he tried to forget about the embarrassing incident that happened this morning with Index.

"DAMN YOU!" Stiyl swing his hand, throw another fire attack towards Touma again.

As the fire reach Touma, he raised his hand in front of him again and then clutch his right hand into a fist. And then a glass shattering sound was heard with the fire shattered into million pieces.

Stiyl and Ruiko saw Touma just shattered the fire attack which made Stiyl surprised while Ruiko looked in amazement. Ruiko knows about Touma's right hand, but she never saw Touma do it directly in front of her.

"Wow.." Is all Ruiko able to say, amazed to see Touma in action.

"I see… Now I finally understand the culprit who has destroyed the walking church." Stiyl said in understanding with Touma walked closer to Stiyl.

The magician began his chanting again, a fire swirled around Stiyl on the floor with Ruiko got surprised again while Touma stopped walking as he witness Stiyl chanting. The fire gathered again on top of Stiyl's hand which is raised above him now.

After he finished his chant, a fire created it's shaped and transformed into a giant fire monster behind Stiyl, but also in front of Ruiko which made Ruiko step back because of the heat.

"Its name was Innocentius. Its meaning was 'I will surely Kill you'."

As soon as he finished explaining, Innocentius tried to attack Touma and Touma swing his hand as he said, "Out of the way!"

The monster suddenly vanished after Touma's right hand hit the monster. Ruiko saw Innocentius has disappeared, but something made her felt bugged. Her feelings was right when the fire gathered behind Touma and then Innocentius Suddenly regenerate and reappeared behind Touma.

"It has a regeneration?!" Ruiko was surprised seeing this.

"You gotta be kidding me." Touma was equally surprised seeing the fire monster came back to life.

The monster summoned a giant fire cross on it's hand and proceed to swung it towards Touma, but Touma blocked it with his right hand and then both Touma and Innocentius power clashed against each other.

'My right hand didin't worked at all? These fire keeps coming everytime they got negated.' He thought to himself.

'Kamijou-san power isn't working at all right now, but why did that monster coming back after Innocentius got negated? Is there a set back behind Innocentius coming back?'

"Rune."

A voice coming from Index direction made both student looked at her, and saw Index with her lifeless eyes and voice explained to Touma and Ruiko about how to beat Innocentius. The only way to beat Innocentius only by destroying the rune, not towards Innocentius because it keep coming back as long as the runes are out there.

When Touma asked if she's Index, she answered that she's indeed is Index. She went to explained that she's from a church from England named Necessarius. She is a library of grimoires which made her official name is Index-Librorum-Prohibitorum but she called herself in short index.

As she keep talking about her being operated by someone, Stiyl suddenly went past Ruiko and stomped index on her head, which made Ruiko step back from Stiyl.

"You won't be able to destroy all runes in this building." Stiyl then looked at both Touma and Ruiko as he continued, "It's impossible for the both of you."

Suddenly Stiyl summoned a fire on his right hand, "Ash to ash." Stiyl summoned the fire on his other hand as well, "Dust to dust."

Seeing this Ruiko fearfully started running away from Stiyl and told Touma, "Kamijou-san, we need to get out of here!"

"Vampire hunting Cross!" Stiyl swung the two flame swords horizontally towards Ruiko and Touma.

"Saten!"

A giant explosion burst through the 8th floor with a giant smoke bursting to the sky.


With a dumb luck, Touma with him holding Ruiko's hand run through the emergency stairs with a smoke coming out from their body. As the two of them finally get into the 7th floor, both of them stopped running as they both all fours on the floor to catch their breaths with both of them sweatdropped.

While still panting, Ruiko commented, "That was really close there."

Touma also still in the similar state, but he also agree, "True, I thought that the two of us are going to die there. We're seriously gonna die if luck wasn't on our side."

"Kamijou-san, look!"

As Touma looked at where Ruiko pointed out, He saw multiple Paper with a strange writing sticked on the wall, floor, and also the ceiling.

As Ruiko took one of the paper, she can only guessed one thing, "Could these papers are runes?"

"Seems like it." Touma could only answer that.

But soon they have to run again when they realized that Innocentius is still chasing them with Ruiko took the fire extinguisher tool that's right beside them.

The two of them kept running, but they suddenly forced to stopped running when they find themselves into a dead end.

"Oh crap!" Touma cursed.

"It's a dead end! There's nowhere to escape now."

As the monster got closer and tried to attack the two of them, Ruiko grabbed the hose on the fire extinguisher and aim it towards the monster.

"Take this!"

Ruiko shoot out the fire extinguisher towards the head of Innocentius and made a smoke around It's head.

Seeing this, Ruiko told Touma, "Kamijou-san, now's the chance to run!"

Touma only replied with a nod and run slipped through Innocentius with Ruiko followed him from behind. As they took the emergency stairs again, Touma suddenly made a mistake on his footing and accidentally jumped out of the emergency stairs and fall into the bicycle parking spot with two bicycle is on top of him.

"Kamijou-san!" She called his name out loud when Touma suddenly fall from the high place and saw that he landed on the bicycle parking spot, but she cannot worried about him when she realized that now Innocentius is chasing her now.

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As Touma opened his eyes after he absorbed the pain, he saw Ruiko run as fast as she can trying to escape from Innocentius which now is chasing her.

"That monster is chasing Saten now." Touma tried to force himself to stand up while still have to dealing with his pain from falling.

What came to his mind now was to trying to call anti skill, but he remembered that his phone isn't working at all because he accidentally stepped on it in the morning. So the next thing he try to do was find a nearby public telephone.

As Touma was about to take a walk, he then stopped realized that this isn't the time to run because someone's life is in danger right now. And then he remembered about what Index said to him in the morning.

"Will you follow me to the depths of hell?"

That word came to his mind again as he hold into the railings near him, clutching his right hand.

'Who the hell even want to go together into the depths of hell with someone that they just met?'


Saten is running as fast as she could because she's running for her life being chase by a giant fire monster named Innocentius.

Right now she somehow manage to run into the fifth floor and it turns out that there's still more runes on her way there sticked into the walls, ceilings, and a floor.

As she looked at more Runes sticking on all parts of the building in that floor, but she decide to ignore that for now because she knows that Innocentius is still chasing her so she went to the emergency stairs again.

But as soon as she tried to go into the stairs, a giant fire hand blocked the path. As she turned her head to the right, she saw Innocentius was the one who's blocking the staircase.

So Ruiko forced to turn around and run away from Innocentius. She reacted immediately by running away from Innocentius. But just like before, Saten got cornered into a dead end again.

She turned around and attack Innocentius again with her aiming towards it's head, but this time the monster blocked the fire extinguisher with its hand. Ruiko desperately kept shooting out water from the fire extinguisher but it didn't work at all as the smoke from the vaporizing gone faster.

She kept using the fire extinguisher multiple times in fear until she ran out of it.

Knowing she can't defend herself anymore, she walked back slowly until she lean against the wall.

'I can't run anymore and I also cannot fight him back.'

Innocentius coming closer towards Ruiko slowly.

'Is this how I'm gonna die, I don't even know whether Kamijou survived from that fall or not, but am I going to die here?'

As she saw Innocentius was about to attack her, she closed her eyes as she prepared to finally face the worst.

But suddenly an emergency fire alarm ringing so loudly made Innocentius stop attacked Ruiko and Ruiko opened her eyes in surprised, along with a ton of water came out from the water sprinkler in the ceiling.

Afterwards, Innocentius took a stair to go upstairs now, leaving the level 0 girl behind.

As ruiko looked at the water sprinkler, she asked to herself, "The fire alarm has turned on? But who would…..!"

She realized who could have done it, made the girl smiled happily across her face.

"This must be Kamijou-san's doing." She sighed in relieved, and then noticed the paper losing it's ink on the paper because of the water.

"The inks on the paper has gone, which means Innocentius should have been destroyed now." Ruiko guessed that Innocentius should be gone now, but she wondered again, "But what about that magician? Did he finally lose now?"

The girl proceed to take the elevator, pressed the button to the eight floor to check out if Touma have beaten Innocentius or not.


As Ruiko finally get out of the elevator, she's made it in time to witness Touma run towards Stiyl and punch him in the face with Touma's right hook, sending Stiyl rolled on the ground a few meters away from Touma and fainted on the ground.

With the victory has decided, Touma took his time to catch his breath for a few second and then he heard a footstep with someone calling his name from behind him, "Kamijou-san!"

As Touma know that familiar voice, he turned around immediately and suddenly he got hugged by none other than a girl named Saten Ruiko, who have wrapped her arms around him.

Touma got surprised, but he embraced her back with one hand on her back and the other hand on her head, "Saten, you're okay."

As Ruiko hugged him tightly, Ruiko with tears coming down from her eyes told him, "Thank goodness that you're okay as well. I thought I was about to be a goner back there, that was the scariest experience I ever felt in my life."

Touma knew that she's being chased by Innocentius in this whole time, so he knows that for a girl around her age it's scary for her so Touma decide to calm her down with him running his hand through her hair, "I'm sorry that you have to experience all of that, but don't worry because everything is over now."

The two of them kept staying in that position for a while with Ruiko released all fear she experienced for a while. As Touma keep try to calm down Ruiko who's still crying, he looked towards Index and wondered where he should bring Index now.


Alright, Episode 3 has finally finished, I hope you guys enjoyed and see you in the next chapter. Oh yeah, i also apologized that i kept using both Ruiko name Saten and Ruiko because sometime i liked to write both family names and given names.