"We shall see."

As Aureolus said those words, Himegami began to have doubts inside of her. With a high tone, she asked him a question.

"Wait a minute, Aureolus Izzard! You aren't going to do anything awful to him, right? Don't forget your promise to me!" she said as she stood in front of Kamijou Touma with her hands outstretched, blocking the boy from the view of the alchemist.

Despite feeling repulsed and intimidated by that boy, she still didn't want him being killed by Aureolus Izzard. It just didn't feel right to her. While all of that was happening, the boy watched this scene with raised brows.

"Himegumi, listen…" he said giving her a kind smile, Himegami ignored his misspelling of her name and waited what he would say.

The presence of silence was present in this room…

…Until the alchemist broke it with few firm words from his lips.

"…Just die"

In the next instant after those malicious words.

Her heart has halted.

The girl abruptly fell to the floor on her back. The 'thud sound' was heard as soon as her body touched the floor.

Her death had been extinguished so quickly she couldn't even properly react.

Kamijou Touma scrutinized her now dead body. He saw her dull eyes and her mouth slightly hanged opened. Gripping his spiky hair with his hands, the boy shook his head.

「"Oh no! My childhood friend from the age of two is dead! What I'm gonna do?! What I'm gonna do!"｣ shouted the boy with visibly imitated panicked tone and acting.

Seeing such scene, Aureolus raised his brow before closing his eyes and sighing. As he sighed, the alchemist spoke again with small, confident smile.

"This annoying bitch is finally put down…" he said as he glanced upon lying dead Himegami before turning and concentrating his gaze at Kamijou. "So, boy, I want to ask you something out of curiosity. What in the world made you decide to come back? Is it some miracle caused this, or it is the work of fate? Did you return somehow your memories?"

「"Well, let's say that my ol' buddy gave me a hint that there were some people I forgot!"｣

"I don't know who is your ol' buddy, but I must admit that he gave you a right hint. You look for the priest and the girl, right? Well, the priest is dead and I turned his body to ashes, but the girl is right here~" saying last word, Aurelous stepped to the right, revealing to Kamijou's sight a nun sleeping on the desk.

As soon as he saw this girl, Kamijou felt some sort of feeling. He felt as if this girl was something more than a stranger, just like before. He stared at her until Aureolus blocked her from his view by his body.

"It would be a shame if something happened to her, right?"

Kamijou gripped his hands; he felt his words scratching his nerves. His fake smile has dropped its act, and with furrowed brows he glanced down at the floor; it looked like he tried to hold his composure. Several moments passed, Kamijou returned to his back old self. His fatuous smile returned back to him, and with blue eyes, he glanced back at the alchemist.

「"You should worry about yourself too, you know?"｣

"As I said early: We shall see."

And then, for a moment, there was silence, a grave one.

The tension appeared in the air, and so strong enough, it feels like it ready to distort something.

There was a silence until…

Something happened!

Absurd-sized screws were materialized in Kamijou's hands, and as soon as they appeared, the boy, smirking like a Chesire cat, gripped them before flouncing towards the alchemist with almost superhuman speed.

Aurelous Izzard himself hasn't moved an inch. With calmness in his eyes and small smile, Izzard observed how the boy lunged at him with screws gripped in his hands at speed abnormal for average human. And again, the green-haired man hasn't moved an inch, and when the boy was already about six meters close to him, the alchemist let out a couple of words with firm voice.

"Be hit."

Suddenly.

A strong gust of wind appeared in front of Aureolus before turning itself into some sort of projectile. In a blink, it flew towards the running boy, hitting him in the chest before dispersing out of existence.

「"Gyyaahh!"｣

The boy let out a cry of pain. As the wind hit him in the chest, some bubbles of blood along with air escaped from his mouth, and forced his body flew through the air far away from the magician. He landed on the floor on his back with a 'thud' sound; the distance between the spiky-haired boy and the green-haired man was now about fourteen meters.

The groan of pain was heard from this boy as he rose his upper body up slowly. The blood was trickling down from the edges of his mouth; he coughed up some blood onto his black pants. Kamijou felt his ribs being broken and lungs slightly punctured; however, despite his damage, the boy was able to get up with his legs. Standing steadily, he gripped his screws and pointed each tip at the direction of the magician, putting his foots in a sprinting position.

Aureolus observed such a scene with a dull expression on his face, sighing. "Are you going to sling at me again? Be more creative."

Though, what happened next, Izzard certainly didn't expect. The loser made a movement that indicated a start of his sprint. All of a sudden, as in the twinkling of an eye. Kamijou Touma has appeared in front of the alchemist about one meter apart. As if he teleported.

"W-what?!" exclaimed Aureolus Izzard widening his eyes.

With the gripped screw in his right hand, Kamijou jerked his arm backward before thrusting it forward to the direction of his enemy's head.

Moving forward, the screw was ready to plant itself on Aureolus' forehead at near moment.

Then….

There was no sound echoed in the room.

Kamijou's screw was stopped in midair; it was several centimeters from the face of the magician. Kamijou Touma didn't stop its movement, rather, something stopped it. In fact, some sort of invisible wall blocked a screw, and Kamijou couldn't pierce it through; it was like trying to pierce something very solid with toy knife.

Kamijou rose his brows up from such unexpected occurrence while Aureolus simply sighed in relief with closed eyes.

"…It seems it is not in vain I created the command about no attacks reaching me. As you can see I was prepared to your visit. Be sent further away from me."

In the next second.

The misfortunate boy was sent flying through the air away from the alchemist. He felt as if something invisible had grabbed all of his body parts and carried him away through the air. He was sent back about ten meters back before he felt the force let him go, and fell to the floor with a 'thud' sound.

As he was on the floor, he let out a groan before rising his upper body up and setting his gaze at the alchemist.

Alchemist spoke. "I really didn't expect that from you. I don't know if it was teleportation or your capability to run at such instant speed, but that is not important right now. What is the important is that you are going to suffer for my amusement." as Aureolus said that his grin was spread across his face.

Kamijou put his screw in his right hand down on the floor and wiped remained blood from the edges of his mouth before speaking.「"I just to want to mention, you look kind of silly with such sadistic attitude, Aureolus-kun; just wanted to mention. So your ability is to turn whatever you wish into reality? Sounds cool; but look what I can do."｣ Saying the last word he raised his right hand and snapped his fingers before taking his screw back from the floor.

Aureolus rose his brow up from such action perfomed by Kamijou.

He jerks his arm backwards before throwing his screw at the direction of Aureolus.

Even if this magician had some cocky and arrogant attitude he still possessed some caution.

He started to pronounce a command.

But.

"Free-"

He was cut off in the middle of the word as the sound of flesh being pierced echoed in the room.

"AARRGGH!"

A tremendous scream of pain was heard from Aureolus Izzard.

Gritting his teeth from pain, he glanced at his left shoulder and saw that absurd-sized screw being slammed into that part of his body.

'S-SHIT! What did he do?! How come my command didn't work?! Did he cancel it somehow? Did he do that with his right hand?!'

He returned his gaze back at Kamijou, scrutinizing him with the look of animosity and pain. Noticing his toothy smirk on that boy's face the alchemist furrowed his eyebrows deeply, gritting his teeth with more force. He felt his pride on the verge of shattering. Calmness, and even confidence, was slowly slipping away from the mind of the green-haired man. Such a feeling was something similar to the previous fight with him; but this feeling, right now, was stronger, and his determination was too weak to muffle it.

Immediately, a certain obvious thought appeared inside of his head. He smirked himself before he put his right hand inside of the pocket of his white suit jacket; he extracted a golden needle, bringing it near his neck. With a golden needle he pierced his neck and twisted it to the left. Confidence and calmness; all of them were back in a complete form. Then, with lips curved up, he brought his hand inside of a white suit jacket, drawing from it an antique-looking pistol and aiming it at the boy.

The boy watched all of it as if it was a play.

Then, the alchemist shouted.

"Begin firing a blade that severs his right arm!"

In the next instant, a thin long-bladed sword swiftly came out from the nose of the pistol before firing itself forward. Rotating as a main helicopter rotor, it flew towards the misfortunate boy in a rapid speed, more precisely, towards his right arm. Level 0 barely reacted to the moving blade; but it was too late.

The sound of sliced flesh has echoed in the air.

The boy became dumbfounded by such occurrence.

The blade instantly severed the boy's right arm before hitting the wall on the opposite side of the room.

His severed right arm rotated several times in air before it fell on the floor.

The blood, like a waterfall, began gushing out from the hole of his shoulder.

Seeing that, Aureolus stretched edges of his lips further as he could; ideas about how to torture him for amusement were popping out inside of his mind.

From such damage, a normal human would've screamed out from pain before falling out of consciousness or outright die.

But.

Kamijou Touma neither didn't scream in pain nor fell unconscious. Instead, he quirked his lips up into a grim smile before putting his foot forward.
"What?!"

Aureolus Izzard was taken aback as he saw the boy starting to advance toward him in a slow manner. After a moment, the alchemist regained his composure before aiming with his pistol at the boy again.

"Copy previous action. Fire a blade that severes his left arm!"

Another blade popped out from the barrel of the pistol, and a moment later, it flew to the direction of Kamijou again. The blade severed Kamijou's left arm almost in an instant, making blood gush out from the left side of his shoulder.

But.

He still continued to move without any wince and stop.

The limbless Kamijou was closing the distance between him and the alchemist slowly. A panic slightly had irked inside of the alchemist. He aimed again at the boy, making another command.

"Load out:Magic Bullet. One is enough. May this bullet fire and crush his head!"

As soon as he finished this command, Aureolus pulled the trigger. The gunpowder sparked from the caliber, propelling the magic bullet out.

The bullet flew towards the boy who had a smile of a madman at supersonic speed.

The boy's head was exploded like a tomato as the bullet pierced through his skull, and the limbless and headless corpse of Kamijou Touma fell to the ground with a 'thud' sound.

Seeing his dead body, Aureolus thought it was over.

He was wrong.

A moment later, boy's corpse has rose itself up as if it was controlled by a puppet. Then, his head appeared to be attached back to his body as he returned back to life. His arms also returned back to his body. No signs of injury or any kind of damage were present on the body of Kamijou Touma.

As if it didn't happen.

Seeing such unexpected and paranormal occurrence, the alchemist started to tremble. His calmness was melted into nothingness. Drops of sweat were pouring down from his face.

'I-i-s h-he some sort of immortal?! I don't know if I can defeat this bastard!'

The boy continued to advance toward him in a same pace as before with a devilish smirk.

The alchemist started to prepare another command.

"Innumerable decapitation blades into position! Sever his head from his body immediately!"

In the next instant, many guillotine blades appeared from the ceiling above the boy's head. All in once they moved down through air to him to slice his body into pieces.

But.

They all simultaneously disappeared before they made the contact with the boy.

"W-WHAT!?" shouted out the alchemist as loud as possible.

He started to prepare another command.

"Be electrocuted!"

Nothing happened.

The magician took a step back as the distance between him and that boy was now about five meters.

Again, he started to prepare another command.

"Just die!"

And again, nothing happened.

An enormous abusrd-looking weapon was materialized inside of hand of Kamijou.

Seeing lack of results in killing him, Aureolus decided that there is need to be another method to put him down. He remembered how he put him down in their first confrontation.

He started to prepare another command.

"Forget about- GGWAH!"

He suddenly cut off in the middle of the command as he vomited blood from his mouth and dropped the pistol down. Wincing his face, he felt that something had stabbed him, more precisely, his stomach. Looking down, he saw an enormous screw stabbed in this place. Gripping his wound, he returned his gaze back to the boy; who was now standing two meters close to him.

The alchemist noticed something off about this expression; he noticed that his brows were furrowed, and his lips were turned downward. He seemed to be unhappy despite being in a winning position.

The boy spoke to him.

"You know, I didn't even use my ability after you exploded my head. Those things you have imagined disappeared on their own." said the boy with seriousness in his voice.

The green-haired man gritted his teeth hearing that; he felt humiliated after acknowledging such fact.

"You..shitty…bastard. Just…what…is your ability….?"

Ignoring his cursing and question, Kamijou continued speaking.

"It seems your ability has one great weakness among others: your mental and emotional state. Your power to turn anything you imagine into reality is surely interesting, but it could work uncorrectly or not work at all, for example, if you believe that it may not work on your opponent."

The alchemist was in silence, and Kamijou continued.

"Man, and I thought you could be the one to stop Othi-chan."

On such questions as 'Who is Othi-chan' or 'What is his ability" he would not get answers.

In a moment, he felt various parts of his body being pierced through before his life gets fade away from the existence.