The young boy suddenly found himself somewhere in other place; he recognized immediately where he was. He was in the classroom, sitting at a desk; the design of it was typical of any same room where pupils were taught of knowledge in any average Japanese school. But, this place had something extraordinary enough to make it very different from other similar rooms in any school.

It wasn't located in Japan, and it was certainly not located somewhere on Earth, and it was probably not even in his universe. Most likely, it could've been located inside of some sort of alien dimension, or even maybe it was actually somewhere inside of his mind; he wasn't sure. He had tried to look what is outside of the classroom through a window, and had found a pure darkness embellished with some shiny dots and a couple of glowing clouds.

Perfectly knowing the resident of this classroom, Kamijou Touma gave a look toward her. He was seeing a blond girl in a revealing outfit and witch hat on her head sitting on the teacher's desk, she had a right eye covered with an odd eye-patch. She was Magic God Othinus; the being powerful enough to manipulate the reality to own whims. With elbows on her knees and hands at her face, she was looking at the boy emotionlessly. The presence of silence was between them several seconds until Magic God broke it.

"Why are you silent? Don't you have something to say? Don't you want to say, for example, how did you die this time?"

「"Sorry, I just thought you will say something. Was it all of your doings?"｣

"…What are you talking about?" said Othinus as she raised her left eyebrow.

「"Have you erased my memories and set some sort of play for me to be participated in?"｣

"Human, I genuinely don't have an idea what are you talking about."

「"So you didn't set up some sort of prank? Are you really telling the truth?"｣

"I didn't. Though, believing me or not is your choice, boy." She said as she put her hands down on her laps, "Tell me what happened. You shall feel honored and rejoiced for piquing curiosity in such powerful existence as me, my dear mortal." a small smile was formed on her face as she finished her last words.

Then, Kamijou Touma told everything what happened to him everything in details: from the moment he woke up in the middle of streets in the middle of the night and his try to remember how he got here to the moment he died from these mindcontrolled puppets in the school.

"I see. It is definitely the work of magic."

「"Magic? Come on, it is ridiculous, Othi-chan! I mean-"｣

"First of all, human! Do not call me that, or you will regret!" said the powerful being with high tone, her eyebrows were furrowed.

「"But it is cute!"｣ pouted Kamijou.

"Second of all! Magic does exist. Seriously, I told you that many times, how can you be so foolish to not acknowledge that fact? And before you got your memories wiped out, you had told me about the nun who was chased by magicians, whom you fought. So you must definitely know how much they are different from espers; well, more correctly, knew, since you got your memories erased."

As she mentioned that nun, Kamijou's mind tried to register it again, and failed as usual. Turning his glance down to the desk, he put his left hand on his head to scratch it.

「"So my mind got wiped out by some magician? And whom I fought?"｣

"That priest and some Saint woman, but I don't think that they are ones who did that. Basing on what that Kihara told you on the phone: you and that priest were in that building trying to find that girl, right? So it was most likely the work of a third party." she said as she rose up her index finger.

「"I see,"｣ sighed the boy as he rose from his seat, starting to walk toward the exit of the classroom, 「"I hope that he will be the one I'm looking for, but, regardless if he is or not, he will definitely get screwed for messing with my mind."｣

Watching him walking toward the door, Othinus looked at him emotionlessly and said.

"The one you are looking for? What if he won't be the one?"

As she said that, [Skill Minus] user froze in his tracks; he stood before the door with his back facing her. Completely being silent, he didn't turn around to face her.

As if he didn't know what to say to her.

No longer waiting for the response, Othinus sighed and closed her eyes.

"Just go already. If he won't be the one, I will still wait, so don't worry."

Kamijou didn't respond again. After she said that, he simply went through the exit and left this realm.

As he left, Othinus turned his gaze back to the desk where the spiky-haired boy was before. She was looking at that desk as if waiting something to appear in it.

And something did appear.

One minute later, that boy popped out sitting at the same desk again.

The boy looked at her, smiling sheepishly and scratching the back of his head.

「"Y-yeah. Hi again!"｣

Kamijou Touma opened his eyes as he returned back to his world.

It was 7th time he came back to life.

As he woke up, a certain female cry has pierced his ears, and it was loud enough to hurt his hearing organs. Wincing and pressing his hands on his ears, he rose his upper body up and saw the maiden in a miko oufit looking around the cafeteria while not noticing the boy. Her eyes were widened as much as possible, she had mouth agape as to try to say something but couldn't. Then, she put her hands on her mouth as if trying to not vomit. There is the reason why she is in such emotional state.

She saw all of them. All of these students, who were mindcontrolled by Aureolus, pierced through by those enormous absurd-looking weapons, and they were all pinned.

Some of them were pinned to the floor.

Some of them were pinned to the ceiling.

Some of them were pinned to walls.

Some of them were pinned to some of these tables.

Some of them were pinned to another human body.

The place itself looked like a battlefield with all of these cracks, chunks of floor and ceiling, and others traces of destruction.

「"Hi there!"｣ said the boy as he waved his hand to catch the attention of this girl.

"?!" the girl let out a frightened shriek and instantly diverted her eyes to the source of voice.

She took some steps back as she saw this boy waving her. She totally didn't expect this spiky-haired boy to be alive as she early had seen his body missing some few parts, but now, his body was fully alright.

As if nothing happened to him.

"..Y-you d-did all of this?"

「"Huh? Me?"｣ pointed boy at himself 「"No! I totally didn't do that! I swear!"｣ he said as he waggled his hand left and right.

"…." she stared at him. She didn't know if to believe this boy or not.

「"Nah. I'm just screwing with ya, cutie-patootie! I totally did that, but only for the sake of self-defense! Though, I screwed them pretty good, ain't I?"｣ a small toothy smile was crawled on his lips as he said that.

"…" She continued staring at him silently with her widened frightened eyes. She couldn't believe how he was that non-serious and even having joking attitude about this situation.

Putting his hand on the floor, Kamijou lifted himself up into standing position. Then, he brushed a small dust from his pants and continued speaking to the girl.

「"I assume you aren't that mindcontroller, aren't you? Cause I kind of doubt that."｣

"…" she couldn't speak as if her tongue was numb.

「"Too much stunned of me, huh? Well, I'm flattered. But, seriously, if this scene horrifies too much to speak as if you are some lagged script in a video game, then…"｣ said Kamijou as he brought his hand up.

He curled his hand into such way as to snap his fingers. Then, he made a snapping sound.

And in the next instant.

Before Himegami's eyes something happened.

"?!" she startled from the sudden occurrence.

Bodies which were pinned either to the ceiling or walls fell onto the ground. Somehow, all of their damages disappeared, not even after falling to the ground. All of puppets, who were stabbed by Kamijou, not longer had screws stabbed to them and showed no signs of any damage. All of traces of destruction and battle disappeared.

As if it never happened.

But this bizarre and instant occurrence didn't calm her down.

Instead, it shook her more to the core.

「"Ahm…. It is pretty dark here, right?"｣ said Kamijou as he glanced at the girl, attempting to strike a conversation with the maiden in a miko outfit while guiding both himself and her through lightless hallways with the help of his flip phone.

Himegami and Kamijou were walking side by side, but with some distance present between them.

Himegami Aisa didn't let out even a sound and didn't take a glance at him. She felt repulsed toward him enough to not only ignore him, but also to put some distance between her and him. She didn't hate him, but she feared him, and her fear was gripping on her too much strongly. Even if she had experience watching all of her close people from village being turned into vampires and perished from her blood, she couldn't shake off that gruesome image.

The image of bodies, stabbed with those ridiculously enormous weapons, pinned all over the room, and that boy standing in the midst of it all with a carefree smile.

She had asked that boy how did he fight them and managed to change that scene back to normal.

The boy simply replied:

「A good magician doesn't reveal his own tricks!｣

Though, despite saying this phrase, Kamijou said to her that he isn't a magician; he is a Level 0 Esper, this is what he said.

She didn't believe him and still doesn't. Not only it is nearly impossible for a Level 0 esper to manifest his own ability, but also what he did looked too much unscientific and even illogical for it to be an esper power.

'What if he is an alchemist just like Aureolus Izzard?' this thought appeared in Himegami Aisa.

Whatever power he possessed, she hoped that Aureolus would be able to wipe out his memories and make him come back no more.

Suddenly, Kamijou asked her.

「"So that Aureolus guy can manipulate people's mind, right?"｣

Despite her desire to ignore him, she answered.

"Well, you are correct." said Himegami as she lied to him. She didn't want that boy to figure out the ability of an alchemist.

「"Are you sure you aren't lying, Himegami-chan? Because I don't like when people lie to me….."｣ said Kamijou with sweet tone, staring at the girl with his ungenuine smile.

Despite his tone, Himegami felt a slight shiver run down her spine, feeling a hidden intimidation in his voice. She was silent, she didn't turn her head to him; her gaze was set straight ahead.

Kamijou Touma continued.

「"You see, Himegami-chan, judging from experience in this city, my ability somehow prevents me from getting my mind messed up by espers whose abilities belong to that category. Though, I still kinda doubted that my power protects me from that 100%, and this doubt had grown bigger when I woke up with no memories of recent days near this school. But, what I saw in this cafeteria, made me think that the guy who did that isn't just some mere mind-controller user. Even if it is magic, I still doubt that he made those puppets capable of summoning those annoying ping-pong balls-things by a simple mind control. No, I think there is something more, and I think he managed to erase my memories with better power. So are you sure you are telling the truth, Himegami-chan?"｣

Kamijou continued staring fixedly at the girl in a miko's outfit, seeing no reactions or hearing no answers from her. She was just silent as usual with her gaze still straight ahead. Even so, despite not facing him, she felt his gaze penetrating through her soul; she felt her heart beating louder and louder.

After several seconds of silence present in the air, Himegami finally said something.

"We're here."

As she said that, Kamijou turned his gaze away from her and saw before him a wooden double door of a reddish color. Himegami gripped doorknobs and turned them around, opening a double door and then stepping aside as to invite the boy to this this room.

Without any word he accepted the invitation and stepped into this room. The room, having no electric lights working, was barely lit by moonlight. Though, it had light enough to reveal the person standing on the opposite side of the room. The person was a man with white suit and small smile. Seeing him, Kamijou has widened his smile; he took several steps forward and then stopped; Himegami appeared by Kamijou's left side with a good amount of distance from that boy. He spoke to that man.

Both were 25 meters apart.

「"Hi! Ahm… so I'm guessing you are that guy responsible for messing with my memories, am I right?"｣

"You are completely right." said the man with no traces of nervousness or seriousness in his voice.

「"Well, then you know what is coming to you, am I right again?"｣

Hearing what Kamijou said, a couple of chuckles were escaped from the lips of that man as if he heard a good joke.

"We shall see."

The man, just like the boy, widened his smile.

And Himegami, who was hoping that there will be no bloodshed, upon hearing what he said started to have doubts scratching her mind.

Hi everyone! It is me as usual.

Sorry for such slight long absence. I hope you liked this chapter despite it being short and having nothing significant happen.

Well, see you later.