Clip exposure, the savior Kamijou Touma

yes..

The pain from a fist is unbearable.

But no matter how much pain there is.

There was no way to fight the pain in my heart that felt like my flesh and blood were being torn away.

That's right.

Everything seemed to be written in advance.

In various events.

There are various triggers.

No matter how things change, they still remain the same;

But in these difficult incidents, there is always a situation where the child gets hurt.

"It's really ironic that the final result was completely predicted by an outsider like you."

Stiyl tilted his head a little stubbornly, but his shaking and clenched fists expressed the unwillingness and loneliness in the young man's heart.

Well designed.

All of everything.

Everything is carefully designed from start to finish.

In the eyes of the British royal family and the English Puritans.

The safety and freedom of that child were completely disregarded; only the lofty and supreme records of the magic path were what they pursued and desired.

Within the video screen.

War is inevitable.

But at least it's realistic..

Steele made a request that would have been impossible to make before.

From his point of view, from the bloody storms he was accustomed to, and from his rationality, this request was a ridiculous and absurd joke.

“Run away, Kamijou Touma. With your talent and luck, this is something you can do, right?”

He looked up.

Looking at Kamijou Touma, who was shocked by the request and had not yet recovered from it,

Repeat the next sentence a second time.

"After you evacuate Academy City, you can go to any desolate mountain or forest. As long as you can make this child happy, it's fine."

"Until then, I will do my best to escort you out of Academy City, and I swear on my magical name."

With this oath.

The atmosphere remained stagnant for a long time.

Suddenly, everything seemed to freeze at this moment.

Steele left behind his identity and his partner and came here alone.

At this moment, he mustered up all his courage, and after saying this, he looked up at this peer who always made him feel disgusted: "What do you say, layman!"

Kamijou Touma: “…”

There was no response.

Instead, he continued to lower his head.

"..."

"Tsk, you guys, even at this point you still act like a protagonist."

"..."

"say!"

Always silent.

Unexplained calm.

Stiyl, who seemed to be mostly angry and humiliated, suddenly jumped up and grabbed Kamijou Touma by the collar.

Seeing this, Index wanted to intervene, but when she stretched her arm into the air, she suddenly discovered an indisputable reality...

Of the two people in front of me, one is the person I cherish and care about the most now, and the other is the person who was left in my deleted memory in the past but still resolutely stands in the dark and tries to protect me.

she..

There seemed to be no way to intervene in this matter.

But no matter what.

Even so, the silver-haired nun would rather follow her heart. She raised her head resolutely, her tone still a little hesitant, but she still said:

"You..you stop fighting and let Touma go!!"

"But, Index..." Stiyl spoke very quickly, which meant that he was really anxious, but after seeing that familiar face and hearing her talking to him again, the Fire Mage's heart softened and he wanted to persuade her with kind words.

But at this moment——

"puff..."

Suddenly.

An inexplicable smile popped out.

Although it is absurd, such voices can still appear in such a tense atmosphere.

But these notes were indeed the notes that came out from the mouth of a boy named Kamijou Touma.

Is it a mockery?

Stiyl frowned, helplessly tugged at the other's collar, leaned in and looked at the corner of his mouth that was clearly smiling, gritted his teeth and said, "Are you laughing at me?"

laugh at?

"No, Stiyl, I just find it a little funny."

"funny?"

Steele found it ridiculous.

However, the sudden tight and painful feeling on his wrist made him lower his head and look at his wrist that was grabbed by the young Kamijou boy.

When I looked up again, I saw a pair of deep eyes glowing brightly, eyes that had never shown any sign of discouragement from the beginning to the end...

what. . .

"Ah...yes, it's hilarious, you stupid bastard."

"We're obviously competitors, but you're still pretending to be a nice guy who wants to help me. This is not your style at all, Stiyl!"

"what?"

"You're obviously not someone who would worry about me, right?"

Straight to the point, he opened up the topic.

Kamijou Touma raised his head, his eyes sparkling with stars, and said to his peer right in front of him, "You have always cared about Index, and always thought that everything is worth it as long as Index is happy. Even if you are forgotten, you still want to see her smile. Since you want Index to be happy so much, aren't you my competitor!?"

Competitors.

What a ridiculous word.

At this time, the three magicians who had visited Touma's house not long ago gathered together.

Because Kanzaki and Tsuchimikado followed Stiyl's voice and arrived at Touma's house at the same time.

Kanzaki was about to explain Stiyl's radical and foolish remarks.

"Wait, boy, Stiyl..."

"Ah~ It's better not to interfere in this situation, big sister!"

The humorous and leisurely tone once again gave Kanzaki the opportunity to speak.

It's Tsuchimikado Motoharu.

Only this time.

He was not simply trying to disrupt the conversation between the two parties for some show effect.

But I really think that this matter should be properly resolved.

As for Steele.

He just felt that Kamijou Touma was insulting him.

compete?

What a ridiculous word.

Stiyl instinctively wanted to veto.

But he was interrupted by Kamijou Touma.

"Oh? But I have always regarded you as my competitor. It seems that you don't even want to be a supporting role. You want to be a passerby character who disappears in the background of the story?"

Arrogant wording.

Just a moment...

Stiyl was enraged.

What does this guy mean?

Do you really think that once you appear in an edit, the whole world will revolve around you?

Thinking of this, his face suddenly turned cold, and he was about to make a sarcastic remark, but was stopped again.

Sudden slight pain in wrist.

He couldn't help but look at the hand that was causing trouble.

It was Kamijou Touma’s arm, which had been allowing himself to be pulled as if he had given up resistance.

"That's not the case at all, is it?"

Kamijou Touma said so.

Those eyes, which looked so annoying, seemed to pierce through his heart and see through Steele's truest thoughts.

"You still remember, when we first met in the video, you asked me if I considered myself the protagonist, right?"

"You think I'm showing off my status as the so-called protagonist defined by this editing, right..."

But ah..

"That's not the case at all, Stiyl, think back... think back to when we first met!"

While saying this.

The pain surging from my wrist became more and more obvious.

It was as if this layman in front of them, who had had no contact with them a month or two ago, really knew something.

And what he said, when we first met...

That was not too long ago.

After a magician named Stiyl came to the Japanese Academy City to chase his friend Index, who was about to die, and caused a series of incidents,

When faced with the idiot who caused Index's fever to continue and insisted on gambling with Index to try out his own conjecture, Stiyl was completely furious and said...

That sentence is..

[You, if you have the guts to continue like this, just try it, towards this child who is suffering from a severe fever... you who think you are the protagonist! ]

After that.

Kamijou Touma silently decided to bid the girl a final farewell before his death;

But just when everything was about to fall into place;

Everything has changed.