The road to completion starts from the Gate of Truth

At this moment——Bang——! Along with the wave of air that extinguished most of the flames in an instant, a figure suddenly stood between him and the spiky-headed boy.

"That's it!" This was a female voice that was still a little childish.

"Girl?" "Female esper?" While Kamijou Touma was happy to have reinforcements, he was also very worried about this female classmate who took action righteously - the enemy in front of him was very strong, so don't harm this girl. He was also injured... And Steele felt shocked.

He originally had contempt for the so-called scientific side, but the first time he fought against an esper, he encountered a strange esper who could eliminate his own flames, and then another girl who looked more powerful jumped out. , I couldn't help but sigh in my heart for a moment, Academy City is indeed a land of crouching tigers, hidden dragons. Except for the seven Level 5s on the surface, the two ability users I met casually were not weak.

"That bad priest with the barcode tattooed on his face, you're not from Academy City, are you?" Just as the priest was thinking about the power of science, the girl who broke into the battlefield said this with certainty, which immediately made Steele think. My heart sank.

This girl knows the identity of his magician? Is he someone from the dark side of Academy City? Was it because his actions went too far that he was sent by the controller of Academy City to stop him? No, that’s not right! Before entering this city, the Archbishop had already greeted them. Academy City would not stop them from recycling the catalog of banned books, so why... Forget it, I don't want to think about it anymore! Anyway, the girl in front of you is also an enemy, just recognize this! "Hmph! Are there another reinforcements?" Steele did not answer the girl's question, but snorted coldly, took out more rune cards from his sleeves, tossed them casually, and under the influence of magic power, they were all over the place. The upper and lower apartment buildings turned this place into a rune space that was most suitable for him to use magic.

The next moment, most of the flames that had been extinguished by the wind and waves driven by Saten Ruiko suddenly rose again. Not only did they return to their original size, they even became more violent with the blessing of countless runes.

The priest raised his right hand high, countless flames gathered in the palm of his hand, and a spell representing mystery and magic came out of his mouth: "One of the five elements that build the world, the great magical flame! That is the light of grace that breeds life. , It is the light of punishment that punishes evil! While it brings happiness and happiness, it also destroys the cold and bad luck of the cold darkness!" With the chanting of the spell, some kind of terrifying "existence" awakened from the flames! "His name is fire, and his duty is the sword! Appear! Devour my body and turn it into power! The witch-hunting poof——!!!" Moving her fist away from the unconscious priest's abdomen, Saten Ruiko watched. The flames, unable to condense and form due to the loss of the guidance of the initiator, had no choice but to dissipate in the end. They curled their lips with some disdain: "With such a long attack forward, do you think we are playing a turn-based game?"')280' \u003eChapter 279 The so-called pseudoscience

In the eyes of the boy Kamijou, everything that happened today seemed as unreal as a dream.

First, when I woke up in the morning, I found a foreign nun who called herself Index hanging on the balcony of my house. Then, this nun with a big stomach who seemed to be the incarnation of gluttony and ate everything also talked about magic and grimoires. Something that no one would believe upon hearing it.

Seeing that the boy Kamijou didn't believe it, she even used the nun's uniform she was wearing as evidence, saying that it was a "mobile church" made of magic and capable of protecting against nuclear bomb-level attacks. However, he touched it with his right hand. My shirt was blown out of my clothes.

Although the girl's naked body is indeed very attractive, the other person's toddler size is not really a benefit, but he was still bitten by the angry girl with teeth marks all over his body... What a misfortune! But the misfortune was still to come - after a whole day of painful tutoring, when he returned to the dormitory, he found Index lying in front of his door, with blood flowing under her body, and she didn't know whether she was alive or dead.

Then, a tall bad priest with a barcode tattooed on his face jumped out and talked a lot about magic, church and things that people couldn't understand. He also claimed that he wanted to "recycle" Index and put her She treated him as a pure tool... Naturally, he started fighting with the opponent. Although the bad priest's cool fire magic really shocked him, when he blocked the opponent's fire attack with his right hand, he went up. The young man understood that he had no chance of winning.

However, just when the battle was about to escalate, a girl who looked like a high-level ability person suddenly came out - she was definitely smaller than him in terms of height and appearance - and actually defeated this girl who looked like a person with one move. A very strong bad priest! Well, even though I took advantage of the opponent's big reading, I rushed in front of him unprepared and knocked him down with a punch... "Um... thank you!" Even though I relied on my right hand, I couldn't really fight myself. He might not be able to defeat the bad priest, but Kamijou Touma still expressed his sincere gratitude to this girl who was kind enough to lend a helping hand.

"You're welcome. I just saw the fire here and took action because I was worried that the fire would continue to expand."

While waving the strong wind to extinguish the remaining flames, Saten Ruiko answered nonchalantly.

"I see someone lying over there. Is he injured? Do you need my help?" At the beginning, she had already discovered the figure lying on one side of the battlefield.

Judging from the nun's uniform that was completely out of tune with the overall atmosphere of the Academy City, it should be an outsider like the bad priest.

Well, it should be the magician that the master once mentioned.

However, unlike the bad priest who was arsonist, the nun seemed to be a victim. Judging from the attitude of the boy, it should be someone he knew. Was she involved in some trouble... "Ah! By the way! Index is injured! I have to take her to the hospital!" After being reminded by Saten Ruiko, the young man Kamijou belatedly remembered that there was a seriously injured nun lying at the door of his dormitory! However, just as he carefully helped Index up and wanted to take her to the hospital, his movements suddenly froze - 'No... No! Index didn't enter Academy City through regular channels. Without an ID here, if she goes to the hospital, her information will be easily exposed...' Kamijou Touma only thought of this at this time, and was suddenly at a loss.

"If you are worried about the identity of this nun lady and can't go to the hospital, I think I can help."

The next to him, Lei Zi, seemed to see Kamijou Touma's dilemma and took the initiative to lend a hand.

"Really?" Kamijou boy immediately turned his head to look at Lei Zi, with an expression of grabbing a life-saving straw.

"Well, don't look at me like this, in fact, I also have some experience in medical first aid!" Said Saten Lei Zi, her tone full of confidence.

... "Is this... really okay?" After thinking about it, Kamijou Touma couldn't think of any other way, so he finally handed Index to Saten Lei Zi and asked her to help.

However, since Kamijou Touma's dormitory had fallen into a fire caused by an arsonist, Lei Zi took the nun and the boy and moved to an uninhabited park.

"It's okay, trust me!" Said Saten Ruiko, while roughly tearing open the hole on the back of Index's nun's uniform. Because of the big movement, the wound that had already coagulated a lot of blood accidentally broke again, and more blood flowed out. Kamijou Touma saw it and felt even more unsure.

"Ah, sorry, sorry!" Saten Ruiko also found out her mistake, apologized a little embarrassedly, and her movements became gentler.

However, her next move almost made Kamijou Touma jump up.

"What are you doing!" Kamijou saw the sparks flashing in the girl's fingers, rushed forward in one step, and pulled Saten Ruiko away from Index.

"Huh?" Feeling that the magic power flowing in her right arm disappeared so abruptly after being grabbed by Kamijou Touma, Saten Ruiko was immediately shocked and doubtful.

"…Is this your ability? Eliminate other abilities?" Because the magic power was eliminated, the supreme power in the girl's arm that could catch dragons and throw elephants disappeared, and she had to work hard to break free from the hands of the young boy Kamijou.

"I asked you first! Didn't you say you were going to save people? What are you doing with your electricity on Bilibili?!" Kamijou Touma said with a look of collapse - he thought that Saten Ruiko could really heal Index, but he didn't expect that she was the same electric girl as Bilibili? ! "Boy, do you know? A moderate amount of micro-current stimulation can promote the rapid division of cells!" Saten Ruiko transferred the magic power back to her right arm, restored her own ability, and explained to Kamijou Touma.

"Huh? Is that true?" Kamijou Touma, who was essentially a poor student, had never heard of what Ruiko said, but he thought that the other party, as a high-level ability user, was naturally much stronger than himself in academic ability, maybe it was really true? "That's right, that's it! So don't interfere with my treatment anymore!" As she spoke, the girl condensed a weak electric spark in her hand and touched the wound on the nun's back.

As expected, just as she said, wherever the electric arc passed, the huge and hideous wound seemed to heal thousands of times faster, and in the end, there was not even a scar left.

"Good, so amazing!" A certain boy who didn't know how powerful Kamijou was was stunned.

'No way! I'm kidding you! ' Said Saten Ruiko in her heart.

In fact, this was just her channeling the vitality contained in the divine power thunder that possessed both vitality and destructive power, and injecting it into Index's wound, promoting the healing of the wound.

This was a purely mysterious method, and had nothing to do with the so-called science.

')281'\u003eChapter 280 The first meeting between the Shazam girl and the female pope

"Touma..." Just as the young Kamijou boy was thanking Saten Ruiko profusely, the healed Index finally woke up from her coma.

"Where are we?" Index, who had just woken up, was still a little confused. She half-opened her eyes and looked around. For a moment, she didn't know where she was.

"Index, how do you feel?" Hearing the call of the silver-haired nun, the trapped Kamijou boy immediately left Saten Ruiko and rushed to Index, asking nervously.

"Feel... eh? Are my injuries healed?" Index was still a little confused at first, but after she woke up, she suddenly discovered that in addition to some weakness caused by excessive blood loss, her injuries It's completely healed! "Well, this young lady saved you... eh? Where is the person?" Kamijou Touma was about to introduce Saten Ruiko to Index, but when he turned around, he found that the other party had disappeared.

"... Just left like that, I didn't even have time to ask her name..." Kamijou boy scratched his scalp, and finally could only put the matter aside for the time being.

Looking back, the biggest problem he has to face now is where to stay tonight! …… On the rooftop hundreds of meters high, a female saint with a long black ponytail and very shady clothes landed here carrying the unconscious red-haired bad priest.

"I didn't expect that even Steele would be defeated..." Kanzaki Kaori sighed, the light of healing magic lit up in his hand, and he treated Steele who had been hit hard in the internal organs.

A few minutes later.

"Well——" The tall but fragile bad priest came to his senses while clutching his still painful abdomen. He opened his mouth with a curse word: "Shit! You actually attacked me while I was chanting the curse!" "Steele, You are careless!" Kanzaki Kaori shook his head and expressed his dissatisfaction with Steele for underestimating the enemy in this operation.

"...Yeah, I was indeed careless..." After the initial anger, the bad priest also calmed down - this time the failure was indeed his own problem.

He was clearly facing a powerful ability user, but he never regarded the opponent as a real powerful enemy. Instead, he had a feeling of contempt in his heart, and he just chanted spells and cast spells in front of the opponent. .

Although he was surrounded by flames of over 3,000 degrees when he chanted the spell, which was theoretically enough to provide him with strong protection as a spell caster, there were thousands of kinds of magic in the world, and the ones in Academy City There are no two students with the same super power among the 1.8 million students. It is impossible for there to be someone strong enough to break through his flame protection.

But he just stood up and cast the spell unpreparedly. As a result, he was knocked unconscious by the opponent's sudden attack to the abdomen. He didn't even have time to release his ultimate move. The defeat was really embarrassing.

Steele had no excuse for his mistake and could only admit it.

But what he was most concerned about was another thing - "...How is Index?" Kanzaki Kaori shook his head and said: "I don't know, the tracking technique on the Mobile Church has been completely destroyed. In order to prevent you from being captured by the security personnel in this city, I can only take you to retreat first, and I have no way of understanding the situation at Index."

"...This is really troublesome..." Steele took out the cigarette case from his breast pocket and pulled out a cigarette. The ring engraved with flame runes in his hand flashed an invisible magical light. A candle-like flame lit up his fingers, lighting the cigarette.

He took a deep puff, then exhaled the depression of being defeated by a little girl along with the second-hand smoke filtered by his lungs, and then said: "I think I know who destroyed the Mobile Church."

"Oh?" When Kanzaki Kaori heard this, his expression suddenly changed: "Who is it?" Steele took another puff of cigarette, and then said: "It's the boy who took Index in.

When I attacked him before, I discovered one thing - that boy had the power to eliminate magic. "

"The power to eliminate magic?" "Yes, when he blocked my flames at first, I thought he was an esper created in Academy City with defensive abilities. But after we fought several times, I It was discovered that what the boy eliminated was not the flame, but the magic foundation that caused the flame phenomenon."

Although Steele seemed very reckless in the previous battles, he was actually a genius in magic. In just a few fights, he discovered part of the truth about Kamijou Touma's ability.

"Destroy the power of magic... As expected, Academy City is my biggest enemy on the magic side!" Kanzaki Kaori nodded, understanding in his heart.

After all, although the "Mobile Church" is powerful and its defense reaches the level of the Pope, the basis of its function is still magic and magic. If it is a power specially created by this science-side base camp to deal with magic, then it is indeed very possible.

"Yes, and that girl... Although I was defeated because of my own carelessness, that guy was able to ignore my fire defense and get close to me. He is also a strong man..." "Oh? Then I am really honored, the two intruders on the magic side!" The person who answered him was not Kanzaki Kaori, but another voice that had just impressed Steele.

"It's you?!" Following the sound, the two British Puritans saw the figure floating in the air. It was the girl who defeated Stiyl so easily before, Saten Ruiko! 　　"I didn't expect that you would chase me here! Kamiya, you were followed by someone?" 　　Stiyl looked at his companions with an incredible face - as the ninth of the only twenty saints in the world, his strength can be ranked in the top ten among the magicians in London, but he was followed by someone without knowing it? ! 　　"No, I can confirm that when I took you away from the scene, no one was following me!" Kamiya Kaori shook her head seriously. She was sure that when she took Stiyl away from the battle scene, no one followed her. This was her confidence in her own strength.

"Perhaps, the other party has the ability to detect in a wide area..." Kamiya Kaori gave her own guess.

"That's right! My perception range covers the entire Academy City. Anyone I have seen will not escape my perception tracking unless they hide in some special shielded buildings!" Like a feather falling slowly from the air, Saten Ruiko seemed to be kind enough to explain some of her abilities, but in fact she wanted to use words to put pressure on the other two.

"Strong perception ability, as well as the ability to be immune to high temperatures of flames, the ability to drive wind, and strong close combat ability... Are you a person with multiple abilities? No, it should be that you have developed a certain ability to a very comprehensive level. You are not a Lv.5 in this city, right?" Counting the power displayed by the girl in front of them one by one, Stiyl guessed the other party's identity in his heart.

')282'\u003eChapter 281 Seen through [Seven Flashes]

Although they have a deep-rooted aversion to the scientific Academy City and superpowers in their hearts, in order to enter this city full of extraordinary people, the two magicians still did their homework in advance.

They at least knew one thing, that unlike magicians without "talent", the ability users in Academy City could only use a single ability throughout their lives, and at most could only derive additional abilities in the same field after the ability was developed to a high level.

And the one who could develop the original single ability attribute to a very versatile field could undoubtedly only be the seven highest combat powers in this city, the existence of a superpower! 　　Unfortunately, Stiyl and Kanzaki Kaori's guess was fundamentally wrong.

The one who fell from the sky and appeared in front of them was not the so-called Lv.5, not a superpower user, but a mysterious side power user in the guise of an ability user.

"Lv.5, I'm not that kind of big shot!"　　Sora Tenri directly denied the bad priest's guess, and changed the subject, saying before the other party spoke again: "My identity is irrelevant, let's talk about you outsiders first! I don't remember that Academy City has become a place where you magicians can come whenever you want!"　　In the previous few months of guidance, Fang Yuan had roughly explained to Saten Tenri some of the dark side of this world, such as the dark side in Academy City that specializes in dealing with things in the dark, and the magic side forces that are not in the vision of ordinary people.

Among them, Fang Yuan especially focused on the contradictions and disputes between the magic side and the scientific side, as well as the disgust and malice of magicians towards superpowers and Academy City, the base of the scientific side.

Therefore, when she confirmed that the two in front of her were magicians, she subconsciously regarded them as enemies-especially the previous unscrupulous arsonist performance of the bad priest, which made Saten Tenri's impression more deeply rooted.

"From your appearance, you should be someone who knows about the existence of the magic side in Academy City, right? We are magicians belonging to the British Puritan Necessary Evil Church. We entered this city to recover the Forbidden Book Index, which is the injured nun. You should have seen it, right?"　　Since Stiyl had been defeated by the girl in front of him before, it was Kamisaki Kaori who came forward to negotiate this time.

She said: "Besides, before we entered this city, we had reached an agreement with the general director of this Academy City. We will not cause damage in this city, but Academy City cannot hinder us from completing our mission."

"Recover... the Forbidden Book Index? Treat people as props..."　　As soon as Saten Ruiko heard what Kamisaki Kaori said, she immediately formed a bad impression of the so-called Necessary Evil Church that "does not treat people as people".

"Heh! It's really the same style as the corrupt church in the Dark Middle Ages!"　　The girl frowned, and the sense of justice in her heart made her unable to remain indifferent to what was happening in front of her.

Although the other party seems to have reached some kind of agreement with the upper echelons of Academy City, what does this have to do with her? She is just a Level 0 at the bottom of the Academy City pyramid. She doesn’t care about the dirty deals of adults! "Hmph! You said you won't cause destruction, but didn't you just set fire to a building? And I saw with my own eyes that you were trying to commit violence against ordinary students in Academy City. This is completely against your rules. The so-called agreement!" The smart girl completely ignored the specialness of a certain Kamijou boy's right hand, and directly unilaterally characterized him as an "ordinary student", and even described a certain bad priest's fighting methods as arson. Suddenly he stood on the moral high ground, thinking that he had grasped the "righteousness" of taking action against these two magicians.

"This..." Regarding Saten Ruiko's statement, Kanzaki Kaori couldn't help but get stuck.

Speaking of which, they were indeed at fault for taking the lead and causing quite a stir.

But can this trivial matter be compared with the matter of the Index of Prohibited Books? ! This is completely a matter of two levels, okay! Kanzaki Kaori wanted to defend herself, but her eloquence could only be described as average. She couldn't find any good words to say, and fell into an awkward silence.

"...I'm sorry, but it is our mission to recover the Index of Forbidden Books, so I'm offended...[Seven Flashes]!" Since words can't be communicated, the only option is to use swords.

Kanzaki Kaori's right hand grasped the handle of the sword at his waist.

The next moment, along with the sudden strong wind that cut the face, a series of cutting marks appeared on the cement floor of the rooftop, just like the invisible sword energy in the movie, just right around the place where the girl stood, but He almost cut off a strand of the girl's hair - such a scene did not happen.

In fact, the real situation is that after the sound of the sword being sheathed was heard, the cuts and scratches on the ground stopped abruptly in front of the "ability user" girl, but the so-called "invisible sword energy" was revealed by the seemingly white and tender girl. The little hands clenched tightly, and their true bodies were revealed under the moonlight - they were seven extremely thin special steel wires that were almost indistinguishable to the naked eye.

"You were underestimated! You deliberately avoided my body. Do you want to scare me away with this little trick?" Saten Ruiko used force in her hands. The huge force that required tens of thousands of tons was instantly applied to the tough body. On the wire.

Bang——Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang—— Seven times in a row, there was a sound like the strings of a piano were being broken. The seven steel wires, which were made by a special process and blessed with magic, just broke without any warning.

"Use whatever means you have!" Kanzaki Kaori: "..." Only then did she realize that the girl in front of her was not an enemy that could be dispatched by just using [Seven Flashes], but A powerful enemy on the same level as her, one of only twenty saints in the world! So, do you want to use [Only Flash] here? No, that is a unique move that can only be used when facing a real and unrelenting enemy. The girl in front of him is from Academy City, and her original intention is not to be an enemy of the church, so she stands in front of herself and others. Yes, but for Index... However, if she does not use the power of the "Son of God", she may not be the opponent of the girl in front of her.

——Just now, when Saten Ruiko grabbed the wire fired by Kanzaki with her hand, with her dynamic vision that still crushes mortals in her normal state, she didn't see the opponent's movements clearly! ')283'\u003eChapter 282 The battle was interrupted

In the windowless building, a scene from a certain rooftop is being displayed on a projection screen.

In the picture, a female saint in revealing clothes is confronting a girl with long black hair and straight hair who is wearing an ordinary school uniform and looks like an ordinary junior high school student. On the other side, there is a red-haired girl who cannot interfere with her at all and can only watch. Bad priest.

"The plan has gone a little awry. Saten Ruiko should not have been involved in the Index of Forbidden Books incident at this time."

A voice with no audible emotion came from the life support machine.

"So, do you want to revise the plan?" A voice mixed with noise echoed.

"It just needs a little correction."

Aleister conveyed his will through the machine.

... In a dark alley, a person's upper body was exposed, and his chest was only tightly wrapped with bandages. He was wearing a school uniform, and his lower body was wearing a highly revealing miniskirt. Overall, he looked rather disgusting. The beautiful girl with busty breasts, who was even better than Kanzaki Kaori, had her cell phone ringing.

"It's me... Got it!" Bang - After hanging up the phone, the girl looked up to determine her location, took off the military flashlight that never left her body from her waist, and waved it in a certain direction. After a few seconds, , her figure disappeared here.

Yes, this is the leader of the windowless building in the 7th School District. He is one of the best space users in Academy City. His LV.4 coordinates have moved, and his name is Danki.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that she was seriously injured due to space movement and the psychological trauma was too severe, based on the strength of her abilities, she could even be recognized as a Level 5 superpower.

However, due to her own psychological problems, her abilities were unstable and she lost her potential to become Level 5. After experiencing a series of events, she fell into the dark side of Academy City and eventually became a certain general director. The chess piece in the leader's hand took on the job of leading the way.

And now, she has received a new mission.

... On the rooftop, Kanzaki Kaori and Saten Ruiko were facing off nervously. The atmosphere at the scene was very solemn, enough to trigger a battle between the magic side and the science side.

Just when the atmosphere between the two parties was stagnant to the extreme and was about to explode, suddenly, a graceful figure suddenly appeared here.

"Both sides, stop it first!" The visitor recovered from the discomfort caused by the space movement and immediately said to both parties in the confrontation: "Saten Ruiko-san, it is true that these two magicians entered Academy City. It was approved by the chairman. In view of the agreement reached between the two parties, Academy City cannot interfere with their recovery of important materials belonging to their church, so please calm down."

She paused, then turned to the two magicians and continued: "On the other hand, I also ask you two to be careful when moving in Academy City, so as not to cause the same commotion as before.

The chairman has said that the damage list for the apartment building that suffered the fire will be sent to your archbishop. Please try to exercise restraint in the future. "

Saten Ruiko \u0026 Kanzaki Kaori \u0026 Steele: "..." "Tsk!" The long, straight black junior high school girl did not doubt the words of this girl who suddenly jumped out.

First of all, the other party called out her name as soon as she arrived, and it was obvious that she had already investigated her identity.

And Saten Ruiko was very careful in her past actions and basically never showed up. Even if she showed up later, she never reported her name, let alone exposed herself to ordinary cameras.

Apart from the Chairman of the Board who can monitor the entire Academy City in real time with the "Sky Loop", who else would notice a small character like her who should be at Level 0? On the other hand, although she has never seen it, she has heard about the "Guide" in the urban legend, and her teacher once described the appearance and characteristics of this urban legend to her.

The breasts wrapped in bandages were so obvious that she recognized them at a glance.

Although theoretically speaking, she, a scientific "heretic" whose abilities have little to do with Academy City, does not seem to need to obey the orders of the Chairman, but for Saten Ruiko, this city is not just for her. The place where she learned about supernatural powers is also her second home.