From now on this fic's chapters will be divided in parts so it's easier to make a setting.
Chapter 4: The Roman Catholic Church's Move
Part 1
Mornings at the Tokiwadai School Start Early
But even so 5:20 am is still over the top. At this time the dorm is usually silent and it's not normal to have someone still awake. After all boarders comprise of 80% of 2.3 million inhabitants of Gakuen Toshi even though there are some exceptions. Even though Tokiwadai is supposed to be the Zenith of what Gakuen Toshi can offer it has very bothersome rules like "lights out" and "curfew" although it's known that some level 5's and members of Judgement frequently manage to sneak out.
With those rules in place, anyone in the school dormitory would normally be asleep… except for one
Kuroko Shirai is still awake rolling around left and right in her bed. It's more likely that she cannot sleep but won't get up.
Usually she ties her tawny hair into twin pigtails with a thin ribbon, but right now they're unfastened and spread out on her bed. One has to examine closely to see the almost-invisible lace shorts in a light coloured extremely transparent negligee. Consequently her upper torso from her flat chest to below her navel is wholly exposed but even so she doesn't seem to care. It's probably because this is a girls' dormitory and aside from that, her roommate is special which has strong implications.
"…" Koroko Shirai looks troubled as she would continue her movement and stop frequently just to stare at her roommate located at the bed beside her. She looks at her.
The other bed is no further than 50 centimeters away. At that short distance, another girl is fast asleep. Small amounts of sweat stick to her shoulder-length light blond hair (if not orange), her slender white figure slightly discernable under the pale blue baggy pajamas. In this altered state, the decorative hairpin the girl usually wears on the side of her head is now placed on the side table. It was no other than her beloved Misaka Mikoto.
"… damn it idiot if I win you'll do anything I say for the next three days." Along with a somewhat unmistakably happy smile, these words spilled out of the sleep talker's pretty lips. Shirai, on her bed, makes a mess of her own hair with both of hands! As she vigorously and frantically scratches .
"Gah! I'm worried! What is one-sama dreaming of? Ever since she met that boy she's been like this. Just whom is she intending to announce those words in her dream!" Shirai whispered to herself loudly.
"Za- ha- ha," Kuroko Shirai takes a breather to calm herself down. Shirai is a girl and so is Misaka but there is something peculiar about Kuroko.
She's a kouhai who would want to do things in a roundabout way since saying them directly would be too unsophisticated for her.
There would not be a problem if she were the target of this sleep talk, but she can't remember her being referred to by Misaka as a boy. As far as she knows and believes, whether the opponent's a boy or a girl could be a huge problem; however she would choose a girl because having a boy opponent would mean that Misaka is uninterested in a girl x girl relationship which pretty much kills Kuroko's chance right there and then.
And as for the totally unconcerned Misaka Mikoto, she's currently tightly embracing her pillow as if it were an everyday occurance.
"… If I win hmm… I wonder what should I make you do you jerk – munya." The sleep talker lovingly rubbed her cheeks on the pillow's soft silk cover.
With this, Shirai Koroko continued rolling about left and right on her bed and her appearance wasn't that of a happy girl, and it wasn't the appearance of a sad girl either it was more of the appearance of a prisoner destined to be killed with an electric chair.
"Damn you whoever you are! Oh Onee-sama, why are you brushing your cheek against the pillow while subsequently drooling on it? Just what are you substituting that soft pillow for?"
Now the time is 5:25 am after a sleepless night another day is about to start.
Meanwhile at Misaka Imouto's Place:
The time is 5:00am. Unlike Tokiwadai the people in this mansion have no concern our whatsoever to wake up early. In fact after the events yesterday it would be normal if they overslept until afternoon. However someone too can't sleep in this place.
It was none other than Misaka Imouto serial number 10032. She's very sleepy and yet she cannot close her eyes for one bit. She tries to keep still and lull herself to sleep but for some reason she will always fidget and turn left or right.
Misaka Imouto model number 10032 is an identical clone of Misaka Mikoto. She has the same physical characteristics but has a very different attitude. The goggles she usually wears is now hanging around a nail erected in front of her door. Around her neck is a necklace she received from Touma yesterday. She has her left hand gently closed on her chest with the kitty shaped brooch in it. Her slender white petite figure still stands out in that baggy pajamas given to her by Mikoto awhile back.
Just beside her room is a boy's room. A spike black haired boy sleeps on a bed with his arms arched over his forehead. His slender yet muscular figure looked fatigued as he breaths deeply in his sleep. The boy will moan every now and then, a symbol of stress and fatigue accumulated from today's escapades.
Touma is about three years older than Mikoto but is still a level 0. He's Mikoto's sempai who studies in a different school which is referred to as 'A Certain Highschool'. The ranking of the city goes as: 5 = super power, 4 = great power, 3 = impressive power, 2 = extraordinary power, 1 = imbecile, 0 = idiot. However even though Touma is classified in the lowest category he has a special power that puts him in another level more regarded if not equal to that of a level 5.
"Misaka wonders why Misaka is so excited knowing that only a 10 cm thick wall is separating Misaka from her saviour?"
Misaka fidgets left again with her hands so flat on her chest.
Just in front of her room was another room occupied by two people.
A white haired boy keeps moving left to right sweating badly as if he's having a nightmare. Accelerator's face is contorted with the look of pain and anguish annoyance and anger at the same time. His black shirt is pulled up because of his constant whirling movements leaving his navel exposed. The cane which usually supported him for his walking is now lying on the side table beside him. He is still wearing his choker that activates his ESPer mode to be weary of ambush attacks.
Accelerator is the strongest level 5 inside Gakuen Toshi. He's about Touma's height and the same age. It was not until a certain level 0 gave him the punch of his life and totally changed his lifestyle that we can see him today in this state.
This powerful, nearly invincible person is currently having a nightmare as one would see from the way he fidgets on his bed. What dream could the once strongest person in the city be having for him to be troubled this much? Let's take a look!
Accelerator's dream:
"I've done it! Every single one of you shitheads getting in my way are dead!"
Accelerator stood on a mountain of scientists; scientists who forced him to comply with the 'Sisters Experiment' and scientists who experimented on him when he was little. They are in a bloody pile as Accelerator laughs menacingly kicking around the corpses having them fall down from the small mountain of dead bodies.
"Now that I've finally rid of this bastards I can finally live as I want." He said to himself with a certain little person in mind.
He jumps off the pile of corpse and walks to a huge mansion, his dream mansion so to speak which contained his one true happiness and the reason he wants to protect. He stands outside the door to savour the moment and expects for someone to jump in his arms small enough for him to completely embrace.
"Heh- finally I can rest happily with that shitty bra—"
Accelerator opens the door but what he sees is unexpected and made his jaw fall down.
"My hero! You finally got rid of those annoying scientists." A spike black haired boy congratulates him in a wedding dress. It's Touma in a 'thumbs up cool pose' gesture.
"What the fuck!" Accelerator's eyes widens in fear as he distances himself from the Touma in a drag.
"Come here and give me a hug!" Touma jumps with his arms spread wide to hug Accelerator.
"Get away!" Accelerator tries to repel Touma with his power but it got cancelled so he punched him instead.
"Homo janai!" Accelerator shouted at the Touma lying face first on the floor.
However the figure stands up and slowly raised its face. The wedding dress disappears as it looks at Accelerator with a different face.
"Tsundere!" Says the figure which turns out to be Misaka Imouto as she raises her hand to point her index finger at Accelerator.
"I'm not—what the hell! Shut up!" Accelerator is furious and tries to shut the girl up.
However, try as he might the Misaka Imouto in front of him just keeps calling him Tsundere. Even worse the room is soon filled with all 20000 sisters pointing at him calling him a Tsundere.
"Tsun- tsun- dere- dere, tsun- tsun dere- dere~" The sisters begin circling him moving in a merry-go-round manner while singing a hymn.
"Stop! Stop it!" Accelerator is already on the ground in a foetal position rocking back and forth. "Homo-janai!"
He is about to lose it but a small figure pierces through the circle and pulls him away to safety. He did not recognize who it is but he's thankful to be saved from that horde. They are more powerful that any level 5 or scientists he faced before.
"Thank you, ha- ha- ha," he thanked the figure who he first thought out to be Last Order.
"Please don't thank me dad."
"Ah—wait what?" Accelerator asks and fails to comprehend what he just heard.
The child that saved him just now wasn't the last order. It was a spike white haired boy which reminds him of both him and Touma.
"Our child brought you here just in time for dinner." Says a Touma wearing an apron as the background turned into a dining room.
"Grahhhhhhhhhh ! Noooo! Homo janaiiiii!" Accelerator screams as he crazily pulls on his hair almost ripping them out.
End of Dream
"Homo janai!" Accelerator screams as he wakes up then sits up.
"Are you alright? Asks Misaka as Misaka worriedly clings on your shoulder."
Last Order, Accelerator's roommate, immediately comes to his rescue after hearing him scream. She is another Misaka Clone but with one big difference and that's her age. Unlike the other Misaka's who were about 14 years old she has the body of a 10 year old. The thin layer of cotton string that makes up her sleeve is pulled down to the point that her pink one piece dress can almost fall if she was nudged.
"Y-yes I'm fine," replies Accelerator still sweating badly from the bad dream.
*Crash*
Accelerator's door crashes down after someone kicked it from outside with full force.
"Is everything alright here? We heard a scream!"
Touma is in action mode even though he just woke up because of Accelerator's scream.
"Y-you..."
The white haired boy suddenly remembers his dream and grabs his cane to throw at Touma.
"Get away from me!" He shouts while in a pitching stance having his cane on his right hand.
"What? I'm just trying to help!"
Touma tries to explain himself while backing away from the angry Accelerator. It was to no avail though as a cane flew by and just missed his face by a couple of centimetres.
"Gah! What badluck!" Touma shouts while he runs away to escape injuries.
Meanwhile just beside Accelerator's room is another room which another person is sleeping inside.
The silver haired nun is unaffected by the noise outside and continues to dream. Her hair usually covered by a hat is spread out on her bed. Her arms and legs are coiled around a hug pillow as long as her height. A large grin on her face can be seen even without closely examining it. Her petite and slender body is closely attached to the pillow as she enjoys the feeling of silk touching her skin.
"Index will finish all of this giant marshmallow nyan~!"
The nun begins to chomp on the pillow probably as how she chomps on the marshmallow on her dream. It's always her habit to chomp on things including Touma's head.
The time is 5:25am and after a sleepless night (for some) it's finally time to tackle another troublesome day.
Part 2
Far away from Gakuen Toshi, another group cannot be settled with the growing force that they have no control over. This organization is far older than that of Gakuen Toshi as it's almost as old as Christianity itself. After wiping out all other religions from the face of this Earth The Roman Catholic Church has been considered as a world power if not the most powerful force.
But in contrary no matter how powerful an organization is there will always be a counterpart that can threaten it. For The Roman Catholic church this is no other than Gakuen Toshi. While TRCC (The Roman Catholic Church) relies heavily on magic Gakuen Toshi relies heavily on science. To avoid conflict the two groups decided to sign a non-hostility contract and assured peace between the two. The magicians will not harm the ESPers as long as the ESPers will not harm the magicians and there will be no interference from each side about each other's business.
However there will always be extremists. Right now a group inside TRCC are taking steps to weaken Gakuen Toshii in preparation for declaring war.
The group is no other than 'God's Right Seat'.
God's Right Seat is a group composed of five people, no it would be wrong to simply call them people as they are closer to angels. Each member of God's Right Seat has an Arch Angel helping them in whatever endeavour they do. The current members are:
Aqua of the Back. A muscular fellow, about 6.5 feet tall, who prefers to wear fitting clothes that reveal his muscles. He has light blond hair that hangs on his face freely while he constantly frowns for some reason that even his comrades don't know. The Arch Angel by his side is Angel Gabriel which allows him to use the ability 'Divine Mother's Mercy'.
Fiamma of the right. He is a tall, skinny man with red hair wearing a red suit. He is always seen with a calm expression and a slight smile. Because of this poker face no one can tell what he's thinking which makes him a hard opponent to beat. He's the leader of God's Right Seat and the Arch Angel beside him is no other than the leader of all Arch Angels the Arch Angel Michael! His special ability is known as 'The Regard of God' and is able to use the spell 'The Holy Right'.
Terra of the left. A small, menacing-looking old man wearing a green robe. The wielder of the Arch Angel Uriel and uses the ability 'God's Medicine' and the spell 'Execution of Light'.
Vento of the Front. She wears a yellow clad and her face is heavily pierced and at its top, she puts on heavy make-up. This is to give people a negative impression of her and make it easier to trigger the 'Divine Punishment' an ability given to her by her Arch Angel Raphael. Unlike the other members of God's Right Seat she hates Science with all her heart as a result of an incident from her past.
All members of God's Right seat are not able to use normal magic humans are capable of. This is because all members of God's Right Seat have an angel that requires their hosts to be free of original sin. To use a human spell would require them to be human and a human will always suffer from original sin. However as mentioned above , they have angels that give them miracles which surpasses the strongest spells available for humans.
"When are we going to move to destroy those heretics?"
A very impatient Vento walks to the centre of the room where the four were having their meeting. Her eyebrows are twitching and her cheeks are red with fury. She's clearly not happy with how the meeting is going.
"Vento you know it is not our decision please be more reasonable."
Fiamma replies with his poker face, smiling even. He has his left foot raised resting on his right leg with his head resting on his right hand while his right arm rested on the arm of the chair.
"Tch… I hate science and everyone who likes it!"
"We are God's Right Seat Vento our existence is supposed to protect the balance of this world not destroy it."
Aqua joins in lecturing Vento of her bad temper and their priorities. He's leaning lazily on his chair while he has his arms arched over his head.
"That's true but if somehow the other side causes the imbalance…" says Terra of the left with a smirk in his face.
Terra's appearance looks menacingly with a smirk on his face. He has his hands clasped together and close to his face while he's leaning towards the centre.
"What are you suggesting?"
Aqua was surprised by Terra's suggestion and now has his attention turned to the short man who looks like a leprechaun.
"Nothing, nothing, tee-hee."
"Enough, for now let's focus on the abnormality in one of our men's reports."
Fiamma takes out a clipboard with documents on it. On one of the documents was Index profile with her picture on it. Under it are reports on the events regarding Index.
"This report about the living grim moiré it somehow aroused my interests." Says Fiamma as he tosses the clipboard to the table at the centre of the four.
"It's the girl who has all the books of magic in her. I do not see where the abnormality is."
Aqua takes the clipboard and begins examining the reports carefully. He turns the pages slowly to make sure he gets every detail there is.
"I am not particularly concerned about the girl I am more concerned about the man she's acquainted with."
Fiamma points at the name of a boy appearing in the fourth page of the report.
"Kamijou Touma…" Aqua read the name aloud.
"Apparently this Kamijou boy defeated high ranked magicians in Necessarius."
"Who cares? Necessarius sucked anyway."
Vento lazily walks back to her seat and leans in a care free manner.
"We have a Saint in Necessarius mind you."
Aqua opposes Vento's uncaring statement with an mild urgent tone in his voice.
"No, she's right. Even a Saint is still a human who can be defeated by another human. The biggest problem is about how they were defeated." Fiamma explained.
"Apparently our men's magic did not affect this guy at all. As stated in their report, 'all their magical attacks got repelled or cancelled'."
"What? But isn't that the special ability of your 'Holy Right'?"
Vento is now interested in the topic as one would notice in her leaned forward position.
"Yes my Holy Right. Arch Angel Michael's ability to cancel magic upon activation. But this man apparently needs no activation to dispel spells."
"No way!"
"Is it possible that the ESPers have developed that power?" Aqua asked.
Aqua continued to talk calmly in contrast to Vento who looks more and more surprised and excited the longer the meeting goes.
"Impossible!"
Terra of the left finally intervenes. His face is still filled with arrogance.
"I would not be surprised if that's the case but this man has cancelled Angel's Fall. A spell ranked as a miracle of God."
Fiamma says this troubling report with calmness that it's almost annoying yet scary.
"A man that can cancel magic and miracles this is troublesome indeed."
"We have to investigate this boy and take care of him if he poses as a threat." Fiamma decided. "But which one of us will go?"
"I—"
Aqua tries to volunteer but…
"I'll go!" Shouted Vento.
Vento looks eager with some shine on her eyes.
"Vento you cannot go you will just try to destroy that place!"
Aqua is against Vento and for good reason. Ever since the meeting started Vento is all about hating science and the academy. It will be truly catastrophic to send this homicidal person there.
"Now, now, we do not judge a person by her cover."
Fiamma overrules Aqua's objection and favoured Vento. Nothing changed from his calm smiling face.
"But—"
Aqua looks troubled and worried. He can imagine horrible things happening if this continues.
"Enough, I have decided. Vento if you promise not to do anything stupid and selfish there I will give you this task."
"I promise!"
Vento has a grin on her face while she says this.
"Good then this meeting is over."
Fiamma was the first to stand up and leave the room. Everyone left too except for Terra who followed Fiamma to his car.
"You know you cannot hide anything from me tee-hee," Terra snickers in his trademark scary fashion.
"I do not know what you're talking about Terra-kun." Fiamma replies with a smile.
In all honesty it's confusing which one is more scary. The freaky snicker of the old leprechaun look alike of a man or the emotionless smile of the leader. Nonetheless one of them is hiding something from the other.
"You are more interested in this boy more than you claim Fiamma-kun."
"You don't say?"
"Well I'm sure we'll find out soon enough once you go with your plans."
Terra decides to let the conversation end since he cannot get anything from their leader.
"You're too perceptive for your own good but I won't have to worry about you soon."
Fiamma says to himself as he enters his car. For the first time showing an emotion one that of evil and a killing stare.
"I wonder how this is going to affect your plans, he who operates from behind the curtains. Eh? Aleister Crowley?"
Miles Away from Rome in Gakuen Toshii:
"So you have finally made your move Fiamma of the Right."
A man is floating inside a tube. It's the founder and owner of Gakuen Toshii, Aleister Crowley. He can be seen floating upside down inside the tube that keeps him alive. He was regarded before as the ultimate human magician and even wrote one of the books stored inside Index entitled 'The Law'.
"Is there a matter?"
A frog faced doctor walks inside the room to give Aleister Crowley weekly checkups.
"Nothing Heaven Canceler, it's just that my plans just moved one step forward. Don't you find it amusing when everything goes as you expected?"
Aleister has a triumphant grin on his face. Is this the signal for trouble? Or is this the beginning of a new war between countries?