Clip exposure, the savior Kamijou Touma

"What about Othinus? Is she..."

In front of the video, Kamijou Touma muttered to himself, staring at the scenes in confusion, truly confused and wondering what was going on.

He was preoccupied.

Muttering to myself involuntarily.

I don’t know if there will ever be a day when everything will be completely restored to its original state.

I don’t know if this girl named Othinus can still stand shoulder to shoulder with myself in the video.

How can the current situation continue?

Everything is unknown.

At least for Kamijou Touma, this familiar yet unfamiliar environment in the video really makes people feel worried.

Every second, I feel worried because of the scenes in the video.

Almost with every breath, I was looking forward to seeing Othinus appear in the video next time.

Just wait slowly like this until you hear footsteps.

"Is it coming!?" he murmured.

Similarly, these steps touched everyone's heart.

However, it wasn't long before everyone was disappointed.

...Someone did come out.

But it was not the Othinus he was expecting.

The one who rushed to the battlefield upon hearing the news, without stopping for a moment to sympathize with Kamijou Touma’s sorrow, was—

Quack! Tai! Doctor!

He looked at Kamijou Touma lying on the ground with a displeased look, with his hands on his hips, and complained a lot.

"I hope you'll worry about your own broken body, which can hardly survive without this."

"...I know all this, right? Doctors always say some exaggerated words to scare patients who have just been admitted to the hospital. I've seen it on TV! Do you think you can fool me with this dog training method!"

"Well, if you want to do that, I won't stop you."

"Eh, that's weird, unexpectedly ruthless... Uh, really? Can I really not survive if I don't do such an exaggerated thing? If you ask what's scary, the scariest thing is a doctor who keeps silent!"

"It is confirmed that he has the strength to scream. So can we allow visitors to see him?"

After talking to himself, Doctor Frog walked out of the ward quickly. The fear brought by the doctor's disregard for the patient has been deeply engraved in the patient's body.

At this time, someone came in to replace the doctor.

The first person to visit the patient was a girl named Index, wearing a white nun's robe with gold embroidery. Even though this was a hospital, the girl still put a calico cat on her head.

“Ah! This is absolutely me, Touma Touma! Look, this is absolutely me!”

I don’t know if the silver-haired nun was being malicious or not, but her eyes were full of colorful stars. She pointed excitedly at the scene in the video and sighed, “Touma! Look, look!”

OK OK...I saw it, I saw it...

"But why is Index here?"

Tsuchimikado's question seemed a bit low in EQ, but it was obviously meant to be a joke.

"You..."

The pitiful Mr. Kamijou saw that he was trying to provoke him: "You don't mean to say, why did Index, who is obviously a hostile force, immediately after the farce ended..."

"Cough! Cough cough!" Mr. Kamijou didn't even have time to say a word. Just when he couldn't help frowning and complaining, Stiyl suddenly coughed violently beside him.

“Don’t say anything to Index that might hurt her!!”

This fourteen-year-old barcode priest, who is about two meters tall, always thinks he is doing something brave and righteous. When Index is being teased, he will suddenly run out and say a bunch of inexplicable and childish lines about being a hero and saving the damsel in distress.

But, these are all unimportant things.

The images in the video are still playing.

Index walked into the room.

She started out by saying:

"...Touma, you probably have something to say to me."

"Well, don't show your canines yet, let's prepare a venue for the meeting."

"Touma, I will look down on a child who doesn't say thank you or sorry."

“Although I wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy, my whole body was fixed and I couldn’t move!”

Kamijou was floundering on the bed, his movements as clumsy as a battery-powered stuffed bear swinging three times with a hammer.

Seeing the right hand that was almost completely wrapped in bandages from the shoulder to the fingertips, Index looked worried.

"Are you okay, Touma?"

“…I…”

Kamijou also looked at his arm sticking out from under the quilt.

A brief silence fell.

“It’s impossible to save…Othinus. I think the rift had already spread beyond repair when she rejected redemption and started the final battle. No matter what the right hand did at that time, the result would not have been changed.”

“…Touma.”

"What is the so-called 'salvation', after all?"

Kamijou exerted a little force on his right hand, which was almost unable to move.

“She smiled at that time. She did smile before she was shattered to pieces. Even with that ending, even with that hellish journey, Othinus still said that she was saved. She smiled and said that this was salvation.”

Save people.

Kamijou always thought it wasn't that simple.

However, he did not yet understand the meaning of the smile that Othinus showed at the end.

Is it really okay to regard that kind of thing as salvation?

Is it redemption if the person smiles? But can it be redemption if the person violates his will?

"…Is the so-called 'saving people' just meddling in other people's affairs?"

The essence of this right hand is destruction.

The exact opposite of the demon god who is responsible for creation.

In the endless hell, he knew it all too well.

“Even so, I still hope to see that smiling face in different situations. It’s just like this.”

This is probably just pure willfulness.

Probably it’s not about saving people or not, it’s just Kamijou’s personal likes and dislikes.

However, this was the boy's sincere words at the moment without any falsehood.

Othinus voluntarily accepted death and disappeared from this world.

This is her redemption, and she smiles at the end.

Although I feel bitter inside, I still have to accept the facts and move forward.

After all, Kamijou, who was left behind, still has to live on.

...

At this point, it was clear that the fact that Othinus had died in battle was a foregone conclusion.

Therefore, the audience also looked unhappy, obviously they did not expect the result to be like this.

It was obvious that the boy had tried his best, but in the end, he failed. But...he failed just like that. There was no success at all. It was just a hearty waste of time.

Thinking of Kamijou Touma's desperate struggle in the video and the already inevitable failure, many viewers who had hoped for a comeback were deeply disappointed.

The result...is it still the same?

In front of the screen, Orelus took a sip of water expressionlessly to calm himself down, but his deep eyes behind his bangs were filled with disappointment and regret, and it was obvious that he was helpless that everything had developed to this point.

On the other side, Othinus, the main cause of the dispute, was also stunned when he saw this scene, and then shook his head helplessly. He could only sigh and murmured silently in his heart that this was indeed her true ending.

How could a person who, in common sense, has committed so many evil things be rescued so easily?

That’s right, she eventually became the evil person who deserved to be completely crushed.

In the fairy state, the released crossbow also accumulated power and dissipated it to the last shot.

This situation is obviously a hopeless situation.

Even if he wanted to survive, it would only be if Kamijou Touma luckily touched the core at the last moment, but in that case...

"It's impossible no matter how you think about it, and..."

The girl lowered her eyes, as if mumbling to herself, looking at the video, and couldn't help mumbling to herself:

"That's a good thing, right?"

However... it happened to be at this time——

It was at this time!!!

"…Hey. How did it turn out that I'm already dead?"

A familiar voice suddenly sounded.

A small figure emerged from under the pillow.

A girl who is only 15 centimeters tall.

But, she did...

"Othinus...? Why are you...!"

"…There's no reason why. One of the reasons is you."

Othinus, who was the size of a palm, lay next to Kamijou and said:

"First, I haven't put in the 'eye' yet, so I'm not a human being in essence, I'm still a demon. Second, the 'crossbow' didn't fire the last shot, and before that, Imagine Breaker destroyed the 'fairy transformation', so I didn't completely collapse. Third, a demon won't die just because his limbs are shattered. "

I heard the explanation suddenly and my brain couldn't catch up.

Kamijou looked at Index, but she also widened her eyes. Index's 103,000 volumes were the knowledge that allowed humans to "reach" the demon gods. What would happen after that was perhaps still incomprehensible.

Othinus lay on his stomach and shook his index finger.

"At that time, the demon god Othinus was already 99% dead. But the remaining parts seemed to have reorganized themselves. Not only did the body change, but the past power was no longer usable. However, it seems that the will of "I" still remains here."

so funny.

Although this is an extremely exaggerated situation like "humans are reduced to dust and then collected again", since the opponent is a demon god, there is no way to pursue it. If Othinus says "because it is like this", then I can only accept it.

To be honest, Kamijou should have seen it once.

In that endless hell, Othinus hid the last "crossbow" behind her back and crushed her body along with Kamijou. Then, she reborn as if nothing had happened.

(…Having said that, can my body really “automatically” reintegrate itself without my own will? I still have doubts about this.)

The shrunken Othinus looked off into the distance, but Kamijou had a completely different question.

"...I said...uh, can I touch it with my right hand?"

"What? Are you going to touch me from head to toe without any special warning...?"

"That's not what I meant! And don't make your teeth click like it's some kind of trap, Index! Because there was a case like the wind slash, so I want to avoid things like 'destroying the moment the right hand touches it'!"

"...When you touched a normal demon before, nothing special happened, right? I haven't tried it yet so I can't guarantee it, but I don't think shrinking will change the nature."

“I see…”

At this point, Kamijou’s mind finally caught up with reality.

That Othinus was right in front of him. They could talk again. It was such a simple and natural fact. Just this alone made Kamijou wonder what kind of expression he should have.

In short, we meet again. He repeated it as if to vomit out what was accumulating in his heart.

"That's it."