I am the celebration monster of Academy City

No one would have thought that the tall Englishman would be a priest.Even though he wears a robe and can recite the Bible with his eyes closed.

His name is Stiyl Magnus.

A magician of the Church of Necessary Evil belonging to the "Zero Sanctuary".The job is to kill all the magicians who have a negative impact on society, and then destroy their bodies so that they can't even hold a funeral or memorial service.

The reason why they destroy the corpses is because they believe that these deviant scum should continue to be punished after death.Those souls are absolutely not allowed to ascend to heaven.

No one would believe that this man who traveled the world doing dirty work was actually only 14 years old, a teenager.

Not long ago, Steele burned to death 19 members of a small society in Siberia.

This association believes that mere birth will not bring hope to people, and only death can make people redeemed and reborn.So they're enjoying pinning their hopes on some little kid they've been ashamed of...

And Stiyl, who had just finished the mission, received new instructions non-stop.The new stop indicated was a certain city in the Far East.

To be honest, Steele is no stranger to this city, but if possible, Steele doesn't really want to set foot in this city, because he has left too many unpleasant memories in this city.

In this city, apart from guys like Fantasy Killer who feel uncomfortable just thinking about it, and even want to beat him up, there is also a guy who hides in the dark and licks his tongue, always ready to come out as a disgusting person.

But even though he was reluctant, Stiyl still came.

Tasks are tasks, and there are things that must be done.Maintaining the balance of the world, maintaining the boundaries between science and magic so as not to break out of war, this is the field that Tsuchimikado Motoharu and Kanzaki Kaori are good at.

And the field he is better at is, literally, erasing the scum.

Stiyl generally uses runes to fight, but he is not limited to them. Depending on the situation, deception, trickery, torture, etc. can be used to defeat heresy.

The matter has become so serious that Steele has to be dispatched, and Steele has no room to shirk because of personal preference.

However, what makes Stiyl a little uncomfortable is... he was caught by troublesome guys just after he arrived in Academy City.

No, neither Kamijou Touma nor Index, nor some bastard.It's a teacher who looks very young.

After arriving in Academy City, Stiyl found a smoking area to smoke a cigarette and take a rest before starting to act. Unfortunately, he was caught by a teacher who happened to be in the same area and could tell his age at a glance.

Although Teacher Steele was mistaken for a loli, in fact his real age is only 14 years old, so it is not surprising that he likes a girl who is close to his age.

But the age of a certain teacher who seems to be only 12 years old is another matter...so for Stiyl, she is more like a mature woman...or a sister character.

The mood and thoughts of rest are gone.After finally dismissing a certain teacher, Stiyl officially started to act.

Relying on the location of his mobile phone, Steele came to a bank next to the station in the seventh school district.

Although it was not too late, it seemed that there was no one approaching the area, only the street lights on the side of the road were still on to provide light.

This is a bank that has been abandoned and has not yet been re-used to utilize the space.Steele tried to turn the door handle, but the door was unlocked.

After finalizing the location, Stiyl pushed open the door and walked into the dark building.Even though he tried his best to lighten his footsteps, the sound of footsteps still echoed in the hall.

Fortunately, there were no surprises at all.The companion who took the initiative to contact him was indeed waiting here.

Stiyl, who always felt that he smelled something strange, concentrated on sniffing for a while, and what came into his nose was a rust-like smell.

It's the smell of blood...

Approaching his companion - Theodosia -, Stiyl noticed the blood-stained clothes on Theodosia's body.He frowned slightly.

"Are you injured? I just arrived in Academy City, and the specific situation is not very clear. I only know that someone has defected. Is that guy very strong?"

"Very strong."

Theodosia approached Stiyl and nodded to him seriously.

"But I've already taken care of the wound beforehand, so don't worry about me."

"I don't care about you. If you care about this kind of thing, let your four sons and eight daughters do it. Do you have any specific information?"

Steele frowned slightly, he still felt something was wrong, but he couldn't say it for a while when asked to point it out specifically.

Not noticing Stiyl's confusion, Theodosia took out a matchbox from the basket in his hand.Handed it over to Steele.

"The information is here, you can see for yourself."

"Huh? You got a new spell item again? What kind of hobbies and personality do you guys have..."

"Hey, that kind of thing is not important, the important thing is that this time it is used in a fairy tale style! When you light a match, the visual information will be displayed... How? Great, isn't it? Very strong ? Genius huh?"

Theodosia, who was too lazy to answer and twitched, clucked his tongue slightly and lit a match. When he looked towards the flame, a picture came into view.

Theodosia is not lying, there is really a lot of information stored in the flame.

He can even see all the details clearly.So Stiyl wrongly blamed Theodosia, this guy is not stupid...

"Ow—"

Howling like a Tom cat, Stiyl frantically threw the match aside, frantically flicked his hands, and stomped heavily on the match several times.

The flame might store information, but the match burns out quickly and burns to Steele's fingers.

The most frightening thing is that Stiyl is completely unaware of this!The magician who was proficient in the fire department was burned in an unexpected place.

Stiyl, who was burning with anger, glared at Theodosia, but instead of being embarrassed at all, the woman hugged her chest triumphantly.

"Ugh. Don't worry, this video has a total of 40 minutes."

Stiyl's body trembled slightly...

Finally, after more than 30 matches were burned out, Steele finally read the entire document.

Stiles finally breathed a sigh of relief.From intelligence, he learned that Puritan troops were chasing defectors around Academy City.

But during the chase, those people hid in Academy City.The power of Theodosia, who sneaked into the garden city, was not enough, so Stiyl, who had just finished the mission, was also sent here.

"Woooooh, my finger..."

On one side, a woman who was about to turn 40 was whining with tears in her eyes, but Stiyl didn't bother to pay her any attention.

Thinking about the information he got from Theodosia, Stiyl had a general understanding of the current situation.Then he looked at Theodosia and wanted to ask her about her actions before he arrived.

but……

Stiyl's gaze suddenly fell on Theodosia's neck where the most blood remained.Judging from the blood left behind, Theodosia's neck seemed to have been seriously injured.

In that case...

"Hey, Theodosia, I have a question for you."

"what?"

"You... are actually not good at healing magic, so, who treated your injury for you? If you deal with it yourself, you won't be able to do it so perfectly."

A moment of silence.

Theodosia immediately threw the match at Stiyl.But faster than Theodosia was Stiyl, who summoned the Flame Sword with both hands, and swung it towards Theodosia without hesitation.

Stiyl finally knew what he had ignored!The bloodstain that Theodosia left on purpose to confuse Stiles became a clue for Stiles to see her through.

The two people who were still chatting cordially one second, the next second they killed each other without hesitation.

This is not so much an anomaly, it is better to say that this is the so-called magician, or that the magician is such a creature in essence.

Chapter 26 No matter how strong the magic is...

The battle started so suddenly and so naturally.

A red flaming sword appeared directly on Steele's right hand. When this flaming sword was lifted by Steele, it could be seen that a thin sheet had been pasted on the place illuminated by the flame light. cards.As for when this card was affixed, no one knows.

However, this is not the end.

"TIAFIMH (my hand has fire), IHTSOTS (its shape is a sword), AIHTR (its job is to judge crimes)—"

Suddenly, a blue flaming sword appeared in Stiyl's left hand.At this time, the ground and the pillars were covered with countless neatly arranged rune cards.

Stiyl's rune magician has no upper limit of strength. In theory, if he can fill the entire world with runes, he can summon Miss 42...

Ah no, it is to summon the witch hunting king who is the same or even higher in strength than the legendary flame giant Shirtel who brought the twilight of the gods.

"die-"

He waved the flaming swords in both hands towards Theodosia mercilessly.The red and blue flaming swords intersected into a cross and circled towards Theodosia.

However, Stiyl's attack fell through.The flaming sword swiped across Theodosia's face, but missed her.

Even Diodocia didn't move.

At some point, Steele's position moved back a lot.

Theodosia flicked a match from the matchbox, ignited it and threw it towards Stiles. Like a grenade, the match exploded.

High-heat flames and expanding hot air spread.The space between the two people is occupied by flames, and the two people cannot see each other.

Although he couldn't see Theodosia, Stiyl could see the changes in the flames in front of him.

The flames from the explosion turned into a wall of fire and pushed towards him.

Stiyl urgently evades.Although he is a magician who manipulates fire, there is no such thing as elementalization or fire elemental resistance in this world.Steele could be scalded by a match, and naturally he would be roasted by someone else's flame.

While evading, Stiyl was also rapidly analyzing Theodosia's technique.

Deodosia kept shaking the matchbox, or threw matches, and used different methods to attack Stiles, but Stiles did not lose face, but became more and more calm, because he had almost seen through Deodosia's tricks up!

Indeed, Theodosia can be used in many different ways by shaking the matchbox or throwing matches, extending space, creating flames, and generating wind away from her direction.

But think about it the other way around.If you want to actually cause damage to the enemy, do you have to use such a roundabout method?

So in fact the matchbox is not the point, nor is the changing method of use, or even the damage that is caused. All of these are to hide the truth, that is, all the magic is defensive magic, and its function is Used to keep distance from the enemy.

From this point of view, it is easy to draw conclusions.

"This is magic from Northern Europe, to be precise, Iceland. The flames over there are used to protect important treasures. Just like you are now!"

"what?"

"Although it's a pity that you have such an understanding, but Diodocia, when I see through the tricks you play, it already means that you will be killed by me!!"

Stiyl occasionally acts with Kanzaki Kaori, because Kanzaki Kaori's overwhelming power creates the illusion that Stiyl is indeed a weakling.

Indeed, compared with saints like Kanzaki Kaori, Steele is indeed weak enough, but this does not mean that Steele is really a noob in the world of magic.

It's better to think about it the other way around, as an ordinary magician, is it really only because of the friendship connected by Index that he can act together with Kanzaki Kaori?

To be precise, there are only a few magicians who can keep up with Kanzaki Kaori, and Stiyl is one of them.

Theodosia is nearly 40 years old, and Steele is only 14 years old.

There are fundamental differences between the two people in the field of rune research and in the study of killing techniques.Overwhelmingly overwhelming...

It's Steele!

If Stiyl couldn't even achieve this level, he wouldn't be able to travel all over the world alone to hunt down those magicians who would endanger the world! !

The flame sword was once again summoned with both hands, but although it looked like a similar move, in fact Stiyl's attack would never miss again this time.

Theodosia, who also clearly recognized this, showed panic on his face.

Originally, he wanted to coax Stiles to relax his vigilance and then kill Stiles.Who would have thought that Steele was more sensitive than imagined.The title of genius fire method is absolutely worthless.

"If I'm still hiding at this time, I'm really going to be killed by him!!"

Theodosia screamed, and Stiyl was slightly taken aback. With his eyesight, he could of course tell whether Deodosia was bluffing.

And now, the question is, if Theodosia is not bluffing, then who is her companion?

Stiyl, who came to Academy City knowing nothing, didn't even know what mission the English Puritan Church was carrying out.Not to mention guessing about Theodosia's companion...

When thinking of this, Steele's heart skipped a beat.He suddenly remembered the unexplainable unpleasant smell that he had "smelled" since he entered here!

At first Stiyl thought it was the smell of blood from Theodosia's body, but now it seems... definitely not that kind of smell.

After hesitating for less than a second, Stiyl once again swung the flaming sword in his hand towards Theodosia.But this attack is not a sure kill as Stiles just said.It's smoke bombs, it's cover!

Ever since that bad feeling appeared, it entrenched in the bottom of my heart like a tree root and grew slowly, eventually covering the entire heart.

The more he stayed here, the more uneasy Stiyl became.

He didn't need to defeat Theodosia right away as he hasn't figured out the situation yet. He is much more familiar with Academy City Stil than Theodosia, and he will be able to be more accurate and effective after he contacts the Puritan side to obtain further information. action.

Yes, this is not an escape.

It wasn't Theodosia's sly plea for help that made Stiles give up continuing to attack and instead run towards the bank door. What made Stiles change his actions was his own instinct to save himself countless times.

Theodosia dodged Steele's flaming sword in a panic, and it was impossible for her to attack again.No one appeared around, but Stiyl became more and more uneasy.

Finally, Stiyl stepped out of the gate of the old bank, and finally rushed out of the bank...

With the sound of Peng, Stiyl's tall body collapsed limply on the ground.