In a beginning of the night.
A certain nun was running through dark empty streets of Academy City while breathing rhythmically .
Running like her life was depending on it.
She didn't know where to go so she chose the random path.
She doesn't know what to do at all.
On her face were written such expressions as: "despair" and "worry".
She, logically, could've go to the apartment where she with this misfortunate boy resided temporary.
But.
She doesn't want to put the scary rude man into danger.
She didn't believe that boy will beat the swordwoman.
After that boy defeated the red-haired magician he didn't even have a scratch. So, supposedly, he can face a magician like this red-haired man with easy.
But.
Saints are on whole completely higher level in comparsion with magicians.
Comparing a magician with a Saint was like comparing a grenade with a nuclear bomb.
So, if you are an "ordinary" magician and managed to defeat an average magician with easy that doesn't mean you can defeat an average Saint unless you have some special power.
She didn't believe that boy will win, even though, she doesn't know his power.
That is why she was angry at herself.
Angry at not believing him.
Angry at being helpless to him.
She wanted to cry so much.
As she ran around the corner.
The girl bumped into stranger.
"Gkh!" cried out the girl.
From such collision she fell to the ground on her butt.
"I-I am sorry!" apologized the girl as she took a look at the stranger.
The stranger's hair was dyed green. He wore a white suit with white tie and black shirt beneath. He also was a foreigner with european features.
The nun felt something odd from him.
Not only his weird appearance or the fact that he is an european foreigner in Asian region.
This stranger emitted some odd presence.
A presence that an ordinary person wouldn't have.
"Long time no see, Index."
The presence of a magician.
The presence of a danger.
He possessed an almost similar presence to those who chased the silver-haired girl.
She felt the chill move up her spine.
She felt the fear rising up from her belly.
She felt the heart pounding rapidly from the fear.
She felt the sweat forming on her body.
She was incredibly scared of him.
The fact that she didn't know him, but he know her, made Index much more scared of him.
Like he could do some terrifying things to her.
But.
The eyes of stranger looked like he had some good intentions.
"Go to sleep." said the green-haired stranger.
He said like a very strict father ordering his daughter go to bed at the late night.
But, it was in the fact, indeed, an order.
Not to her, but to something.
As soon as he said that.
Index's eyelashes started to get lower slowly and slowly.
The nun felt how her eyelashes gets heavier and heavier.
Not only her eyelashes but her entire body also get slowly heavier.
Like her body slowly turns into heavy bag.
The silver-haired girl tried to resist but it was useless.
While she tried to resist, the stranger took her in the bridal style.
After he did that, the girl finally closed her eyelashes and went to the world of her dream.
And above them "someone" watched.
"Someone" was on the roof of the building watching the entire scene on below.
"Someone" was the young boy with spiky blond hair and sunglasses.
"Someone" was Tsuchimikado Motoharu.
The esper-magician hybrid and double spy.
'Tsk. Styil and Kanzaki-nee would be pissed off at me for sure.'
Attacking the green-haired foreigner was too much risky for him.
He perfectly has knew who is he and what is his power.
Meanwhile.
In Kihara Amata's apartment.
The scientist with dark bathrobe was sitting on his couch and staring sternly at the ceiling in his own house with narrowed eyes.
Before him was a wine bottle on a wooden table, for some reason though, he never pulled out the cork after getting the bottle from the kitchen.
He was too busy wandering at his thoughts while staring at the ceiling.
Was it a pure coincidence?
This was the main topic of his thoughts.
Yesterday, he received the news from the Superintendant of Academy City that he gets the vacation for the whole week.
He didn't know the reason why he gave him a vaction, maybe as a reward for his work?
But.
At the same day, the boy with this nun came to his house, claiming that he will stay here with her for a while against his will.
For the time being, he will be the boy's personal servant and cook, also against his will.
His vacation was ruined as he will be basically the personal servant of this boy he hated.
So.
Was it a pure coincidence that Aleister gave him a vacation or the part of his some weird plan?
Was it indeed?
'Indeed it was a pure coincidence' said in his own thoughts the scientist.
Yes.
It was indeed a pure coincidence for him.
He silenced.
He stopped wandering at his thoughts.
He just stared at his ceiling.
Until.
He instantly got up from his couch with his bloodshoted eyes and shouted from all of his lungs while staring at the ceiling.
"THE FUCK?! THE PURE COINCIDENCE?! IT AIN'T PURE FUCKING COINCIDENCE! WHAT THE FUCK?! THIS FUCKING ALEISTER! WHAT THE FUCK IS HE DOING?!"
After he shouted all of that, Kihara Amata started to breath heavily.
He continued to stare at the ceiling until he heard the sound of opening door from the hall and the voice of the boy.
「"I'm home!"」
Kihara Amata turned to the door that lead to the hall.
The spiky-haired boy stepped out from the hall to the room where Kihara was and greeted him.
「"Hi Kihara-kun!"」
Kihara didn't greet him and just stared at him with hostile brows.
「"Huh? You don't want to greet me? It's pretty much rude, you know? Anyway, where is Index-chan?"」
"That nun? Didn't she go with you?"
「"Well, she did, but we faced the dangerous crazy exhibitionist woman-thug samurai with katana sword , so I told her to run to my home. She must be got lost"」
"So you call my apartment your ho-Wait! What the hell do you mean "the dangerous crazy exhibitionist woman-thug samurai with katana sword?" On what fucking bizzare shit you stepped on? Well , I don't care. I hope you won't bring any fucking trouble to me and my house, right?"
Kamijou put a silence for a bit.
「"...Maybe."」
"Maybe?! Fucking "maybe"?!"
「"Well, anyway. I will go search Index for a while."」
"For a while? Maybe you will go from my home, MY HOME, for an eternity?"
「"Hahaha! It was very funny, Kihara-kun! But it is serious matter."」said Kamijou while faking his laugh and and wiping out his non-existing tears.
"I ain't fucking joking, you brat."
「"Anyway, I go."」
As Kamijou said that, he went to the hall, opened the door that lead outside of Kihara's apartment and left with closed door.
After he left.
"Sigh. Where is my bankcard?"
As Kihara said that, the scientist started to search all of his apartment for his bankcard.
"Are you serious?! Index was abducted and you didn't do nothing?!" yelled the red-haired magician at the blond spiky-haired boy as he violently grabbed his Hawain's shirt and pulled him closer.
They were apparently in dark narrow alley.
Behind Styil Magnus was unconscious Kanzaki Kaori leaning against the wall in a sitting position.
Despite being stabbed with two screws from the each side, the Saint was alive. Styil with healed injuries managed to bring her to the nearby alley to heal her. After he bringed her, Magnus tried to pull out the screw from her waist to start heal her.
As he did that.
The red-haired magician fell in bewilderment.
There wasn't even a scratch on the place of Kanzaki's body where he pulled out a screw.
The same result was after her pulled out another screw from her back.
Except, her pure white hair returned back to her original color.
Aside from her minor injuries on her legs and on the part of her shoulder, there are no serious damage inflected on her body, so he just started to heal trivial damage.
After he was done, Tsuchimikado Motoharu came with bad news.
Index was abducted by the magician.
This magician was Aureolus Izzard, the alchemist.
The former caretaker and teacher of Index.
Styil was in a furry.
The Saint would've also been if she wasn't unconscious.
"But Styil, If I tried to fight him, he would've killed me for sure! The sources from Magic Side told me that he possess Ars Magna!"
Styil was shocked from this fact.
"A-a-ars Magna! I-it's impossible!"
"But it's true! I'm pretty sure he was prepared against any suprise attacks!"
"Pretty sure?! How are you "pretty sure?", you goddamn backstabber? Damn you!"
In the next instant after he said that, Styil tossed the blonde spiky-haired boy aside.
He stepped close to the wall right before him and started to bang his right fist against the wall.
From each and each bang he cursed.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! DAMN IT!"
The last bang was with more strength than previous.
Styil heavily exaled from stress and fatigue.
Styil looked down while his fist remained on the wall.
With calm tone and expressionless face he said.
"We still can't deal with this spiky-haired trouble, and yet, there is more trouble uscended upon us. Sigh."
Tsuchimikado and Styil silenced a bit.
The red-haired magician broke the silence.
"Whatever."
As he said, Styil Magnus pulled his fist back from the wall and looked at Tsuchimikado.
"I am going to defeat this alchemist. I don't know what is he want to do with Index, maybe save her, but I don't care. I'm going take Index from him and save her from the death."
The blonde spiky-haired with sunglassess didn't say a word and silencely stared at him.
Styil Magnus started to walk towards the exit of alley.
As he passed, he said while not turning his glance to the boy.
"You are going to take care of Kanzaki. If she wake up tell her-"
"Wait." interrupted the boy with ordering tone.
"What?" asked Styil as he stopped and turned his head back towards the boy.
"What if we use that "spiky-haired trouble" as our bait, nya?" proposed Tsuchimikado as he smirked and put his finger under the chin.
"This guy?"
Styil with curiosity turned his body towards him.
Tsuchimikado started to explain while stretching out his arms.
"Yeah. We don't know what he can do exactly. There are many rumors about this guy with screws in the Dark Side of this city, nya. Some rumors says that he possess regenerative power to the point that he is basically immortal. Some rumors are saying that he holds the power to make powerful illusions. Only true rumors I can fully confirm that he is a Level 0."
"Confirm? Are you his acquaintance?"
"Well, kind of. I live in the same dorm with him in District Seven, unfortunately, nya. That jerk tried to molest my Maika-chan. I did some research on this asshole. He doesn't attend school at all and lives in the room that, somehow, doesn't exist in the documents. I do wonder how this guy lives in the room with no water, electricity and gas."
"So he is a esper, but not magician?"
"Technically must be, nya. He passed the Power Curriculum Program after all. I don't know how he possess any ability while being a Level 0. If he was a magician-esper hybrid like me, then he would pretty sure had showed negative side effects on his body."
"He didn't show though, I didn't feel the presence that usually magicians have from him at all. So what if we use him as a bait? What if he dies with no useful results?"
"Then we would have one less problem nya, if he does somehow success in defeating the alchemist, then we would just put him down for the time being with some spell, if he isn't a magician, then he must be pretty much vulnerable to simpliest and weakest spells. Even if he is a no-hybrid esper and he will die by hands of magician, it wouldn't cause the heavy flick of the conflict between Science and Magic Side since Level's 0 espers are almost irrevelant to Academy City ."
"Good idea. But the problem is: would he agree to be a bait, no , more like, to be our "temporar" ally? Heh."
"I ho-"
As Tsuchimikado tried to say something, he was interrupted by the loud, searching voice from far away.
「"IIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNDDDDDEEEEEEEEEEEEXXXXXXXXXXX! IIIIIINNNNNDDDDEEEEEXXXXX-CHAAAANN! WHERE. ARE. YOU!?"」
Despite with playthful tone, the voice of the boy clearly stated that he was looking for someone.
The voice was from the nearby street.
Both turned their stares to the exit of the alley.
"It's that idiot." stated Styil.
"Nya. I will take care of Kanzaki-nee, you try to negotiate with him."
"Fine." as Styil said that he took the direction towards the exit.
The night.
The street where Kamijou Touma tried to find the silver-haired girl with white nun clothes was empty.
「"Index-chan! Where are you?!"」 shouted the boy while looking around.
He took a step slowly one by one.
Until.
"Hey, you. Spiky hair."
He was stopped by the voice of the adult man.
The spiky-haired boy turned his head back and saw the familiar red-haired magician behind him.
"We need to talk."
The windowless building.
The place where the Superintendent of Academy City resided.
The name of the Superintendent was Aleister Crowley.
He floated upside down in his giant tube filled with liquid, maybe, water or something similar.
He doesn't wear any emotions and expresses on his face usually, but today was exception.
He showed slightly displeasing expression as he watched the floating screen displaying him the scene.
The scene with the alchemist carrying Index Librorum Prohibitorum in his arms.
It wasn't jealosy or something that was unlikely and irrelevant to him
It was the frustration.
He was frustrated with unpredictable situation.
Well, he predicted that Aureolus Izzard will come to this city, but not too soon.
But suddenly.
Aleister Crowley became again expressionless.
Like he wasn't never a human in the first place
"Hmmm..."
There was the tone of curiosty in this "human".
"It will be interisting to see how All-fiction will be against Ars Magna."
[All-fiction] was the name of ability that user called.
As "human" said that.
He smiled.
Hello everyone! Sorry for such a long absence.
I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Also, I wanted to say something about my another story "From Misfortunate Hero to Miserable Villain." Reviewers told me that they want continuations of this story, but unfortunately for you, there won't be. That fic was originally planed as a One-Shot with no ideas how to develop the story. I am terribly sorry.
I hope you won't be angry at me.