02x11 - s*ab Sword

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Her mother?

Didn't you say something about college earlier?

Yes. I've gone back to school. It's all kinds of stimulating.

What do you think, Toma?

What do I think? Well, it's nothing we couldn't...

Hmm?

Obviously, there's something not right here!

There are so many unnaturally young adults all around Toma!

Ordinarily, this sort of thing would be unthinkable!

Let's put that aside and eat something.

I brought along some lunch, just like a mother would.

Ta-da!

On today's menu is cheese fondue!

Stop sneaking hazardous materials into Academy City!

Oh, but...

...nibbling away on a tiny box lunch

won't deliver the nourishment to the places that need developing.

What are you talking about, "develop"?!

Oh, yes, what could I be talking about?

My, my...

Are we at it again, Toya?

Huh? N-No...

Eat lots to grow bigger, huh?

Toma!

Toma!

I may hate being bitten, but this is painful, too, in its own way.

"A Certain Magical Index II"

I gazed at the coin I had flipped

If it's heads I go, tails I stay

Let me know your answer first

"Please, won't you tell me?"

But the angel continued to smile in discernment

Wander on! There's nobody to lead you by the hand

The answer handed down from God is one of woe

Yes, that is what your gift from God is

Once you overcome it, you'll start to see, so right now... (Look for it by oneself, no buts about it)

No buts!

Here.

Thank you!

Bye!

I thought I told you...

...to avoid contact with private citizens as much as possible.

And I am avoiding it, as much as possible, aren't I?

How are things on your end?

No one has found you yet, right?

Rest at ease.

Right now, I am sitting perfectly still.

How comfortable for you.

I'd sure like to take it easy. A hotel workout would be nice, too.

I've asked you to refrain from such indecent expressions.

Oh, my, you're reading too much into that.

Whoo, Lidvia's got a dirty mind!

I have to admit, though,

I do understand that the waiting can be tough, too.

Toma! Toma! I think I'd like to try

some of the fruit juice they're selling over there!

Look, you,

we just barely got done eating lunch, right?

If you keep eating and drinking like this, you're going to get fat.

I-I will not!

Oh, no? I'll bet you've upped your armor class,

and you're just not aware of it.

If you don't believe me, then you can always measure my stomach!

It's not like I walk around with a measuring tape, right?

You don't need one!

Huh?

Sissy!

Sissy!

I-It is not nice to step aside at the last moment.

Sorry, sorry. I'm in a hurry right now.

W-W-What is the matter, Sissy?!

Do not tell me you are going to that gentleman--

I mean, troglodyte, to cheer him on!

N-No way! I forgot to tell my mom about a change to the program.

Is that right? Even though he is, in fact, right there...?

Eh?!

Do you suppose they are expecting?

Can they already tell that the baby is kicking?

Why, that...

Drop dead, you sick creep!

Huh...?

J--

Just my luck!

Orsola! I told you, you can't eat muffins inside the library!

But these were made by the Amakusa for me.

Stop getting crumbs everywhere!

You two are well acquainted with the current situation, aren't you?

Thanks to you, yes.

I am, after all, a cryptology specialist.

Dealing with large amounts of data is a piece of cake for me.

Miss Sherry, I am quite adept at decoding, myself.

Anyhow, we'll get to the report data later--

You idiot! I told you, stop spilling crumbs!

Geez... When did Necessarius get to be so mellow?

Hey, you!

The walkways of Academy City are no-smoking areas at all times!

Have you never heard of the term "secondhand smoke"?

Of course I have.

Then why are you lighting up another cigarette?!

Hey! Please, listen to me! Look at me!

Miss Komoe?

Whoo, I guess I managed to get away somehow.

I found you.

And just in time.

Himegami?

We've got a bit of a problem.

Come on.

O-Okay...

U-Um...

Is something the matter?

Er, well, Himegami...

I guess it doesn't bother you too much, huh?

Come on! I have to confiscate those!

Please give them to me and don't make trouble!

--I said give them to me, please! Come on!

--There's no need to stop that. --I said give them to me, please! Come on!

But...

Hello?

Kami, she's on the move.

About three minutes ago, I spotted Oriana

at the Seibusan subway station, in School District .

Where's Stiyl?

Yeah, he's right here.

Then bring him with you and come to the station.

All right.

Ah! Hold on! I'm not done talking to you!

Himegami, you take it from here!

Yoink.

Hey! What do you think you're doing, Himegami?!

Have to avoid any frivolous holdups.

Hurry it up, Stiyl!

Two more stops.

Hmm? What are you looking at?

Material from the British Library about the Croce di Pietro.

Have you found out anything?

It'd be too much trouble to tell you verbally.

I'll forward the data to your cell.

O-Okay.

How am I supposed to read this?!

Where's Tsuchimikado?

Where are you now?

Yeah, sorry.

The autobus I'm on has been held up.

How far away are you?

I could probably run there in ten minutes.

If he's that far away, she could get out of the search perimeter.

I know.

Stiyl, if I send instructions to draw a Four Ways to Truth pattern

to your cell phone, could you do it?

No way. I don't know anything about eastern spells.

Then, can you do a search with a western one?

If I could, would I be asking you? It's completely out of my expertise.

All right. I'll invoke a Four Ways to Truth array here.

I'll send the results to your cell, so you take it from there.

Hold on!

Are you going to be okay if you use any more magic?

You're sure?

I am a magician. A specialist is only as good as the magic he uses.

Oh, you really want to know where I am that badly, huh?

Well, then...

...what should my next move be?

"A Certain Magical Index II" ...what should my next move be?

"A Certain Magical Index II"

Himegami?

Is there something that's troubling you?

No, it's not that.

I was just thinking, Kamijo was acting strangely.

Mm-hmm, he may have simply been feeling the pressure

of the next competition bearing down on him.

But he seemed a little odd.

He seemed to be on edge...

...like that one time...

But I don't think he would get that way over a competition.

So what you're saying, Himegami,

is that you have an interest in Kamijo?

I think I'd prefer if you didn't say it like that.

Kamijo and I aren't even that close,

and if there is any misunderstanding,

Kamijo will be the one put out by it.

Himegami, please have a look at this.

The night parade?

The nighttime Academy City will be lit up

with lighting and laser beams, and it will be very, very pretty.

What if you were to invite Kamijo to it?

I couldn't.

Even if I were to invite him out of the blue,

I'm sure that Kamijo would just be taken aback.

It's not his style.

Th-That's not true!

Himegami, if you invite Kamijo to something you think is fun,

I'm sure he will be delighted.

That's the kind of boy Kamijo is.

I said I wouldn't invite him, and there's no way I will.

Hmph, why are you being so obstinate?

I'm just not going to invite him.

She's caught on to us.

She suddenly changed direction. Now she's heading northwest.

You can't use your Red Spell?

No, I can't.

I'd have to interrupt the Four Ways to Truth spell to do that.

If I do that, I couldn't track Oriana's location anymore.

She's still heading northwest.

It looks like she's trying to shake us off linearly.

Hurry. It's only meters until she's out of our effective range.

You don't have to remind me.

Wait, she suddenly changed direction!

What is this? She sped up all of a sudden!

Tsuchimikado!

He's had it.

From what?

Oriana wouldn't know how far she would have to go

to escape the effective range of the Four Ways to Truth spell.

So what would she do?

You don't mean...

Yes, she would take out Tsuchimikado,

the one at the exact center of the spell.

We have to hurry, too!

Where to?

To wherever Tsuchimikado is, of course!

And I'm asking you, where is that?!

We do not know where he is.

You have to give me all you've got.

When you sense out wherever my location is,

it means that I can sense you, too.

You're the most resourceful and dangerous one,

so I came to put you down.

"Fallere ." Remember that. It's my magic name.

Hmph. My name is "Basis ."

And now that I've stated it, I'll make sure that I win.

I don't find that violent youthfulness to be unlikeable.

Is your style to use your magic as little as possible?

If so, you're going to die.

I do have means such that I raised a barrier around us.

You don't have any help coming.

You rotten fools who have grown lazy in peacetime,

unless you wanna die, time to wake up!

You're too late.

It's all over, huh?

It can't be...

The barrier has been disrupted?

It looks like even I was able to bring down your barrier, huh?

I guess you can handle a tougher workout than your looks let on.

I have to make sure word of what's happening here gets out, you see.

Hmph, silly boy. Even if those two who were chasing me get here...

I don't mean them.

What did you say?

What are you, dense?

How many members of Necessarius do you think there are?

Do you expect me to believe you?

Tsukebumi Tamazusa--

originally an accessory used to make its target see illusions,

but depending on how it's used...

A communications spell?

Now that we know you don't have the s*ab Sword,

there's no reason for us to have her sit out anymore.

Yes--Kanzaki Kaori!

Did you not consider the possibility

that there'd be a saint in Japan? Moreover,

Kanzaki has some personal friends here in Academy City.

Even if, by chance, word gets out, it won't be any big deal.

Why won't you go quietly?

Well, for the moment, I've destroyed your search spell.

It would be foolish to stay here any longer,

letting myself get hurt by a wounded little boy like you.

Damn it all...

Kanzaki Kaori's grand entrance...

It would have been great if it had actually happened. Still,

this Tsukebumi Tamazusa was a fakeout.

I'm surprised she believed it.

Now then...

Looks like using the Four Ways to Truth is out of the question.

Tsuchimikado?

Oriana should be trying to get herself away from here now.

That's because I made a teeny little bluff.

The closest thing to the underground mall where Tsuchimikado is would be the subway.

I don't seem to have any tails.

The Croce di Pietro preparations are still a ways off.

Whatever shall I do?

Planning some spells to use against a saint might be fun.

Himegami, we have to take a shortcut, or we'll miss the next--

Oh, Miss Komoe...

Now you've gone and done it.

I-I am so sorry!

Ah, and are you all right over here?

Y-Yes, I'm fine.

I'd be more concerned about her.

Ah! Himegami, you're all soaking wet and showing through!

Miss Komoe, you're getting pointy around the chest, yourself.

A Celtic cross... Necessarius?!

Himegami?

What's the matter, Himegami?

The closest transfer point from here is...

...an autobus stop meters north.

, huh?

That smell...

Miss Komoe!

K-Kamijo!

Teacher, what exactly is...

Teacher, what happened here?

We bumped into this woman...

Suddenly, she made this scary face, and then...

Oriana.

Why would she? What's her reason for attacking Himegami?

Right there.

That "Walking Church" accessory is a special item.

She took her to be a List-of-Prohibited-Books-class magician,

and concluded that she was chasing her.

It was a mistake?

She did all this to Himegami, just because of a simple mistake?

T-P-I-M-I-M-S-P-F-T.

An ambulance has been called, yes?

You should wait for them at the path entrance.

They won't be able to spot you here.

Hold on!

What?

She got caught up in this because of us!

You're just going to leave her here like this?!

What else can you do for her?

Don't get too full of yourself, ride-along!

There isn't a thing you can do for this injured girl.

Right now, the only thing we can do is go after Oriana.

If you really intend to defend anyone, then clench your fists.

The only power that right hand of yours has is to destroy illusions.

Tell me, where is there any power to protect illusions?!

Son of a bitch!

Don't go thinking that anger belongs to you alone.

What are you doing?

When I was with the Sister, doing this helped somehow.

No way! Are you...

Why isn't Himegami getting better?

We were just talking about the night parade a few moments ago.

And now...

No, you've got it wrong.

Just like scooping up seawater in a bucket,

you first have to mark off the area of your miniature landscape.

Kamijo Toma, you go after Oriana.

Hold on a second. Don't tell me you're...

Don't expect much. This is outside my area of expertise, too.

Making use of the knowledge from the List of Prohibited Books she has,

we're just going to do some first aid.

If you want this to be resolved in its entirety,

then leave us behind and go, Kamijo Toma.

All right.

Stiyl, take care of Himegami.

I'm sorry, Himegami. I'll come back to your hospital room

before the night parade begins.

So make sure to sit tight for me.

I can change even the destiny that entwines me

so I have everything in my hand!

If I lack the power to not be outdone by anyone

I can always destroy that illusion

The laid out system backup install is okay

Fields unknown even to God become opened

It's a "living form" that not even data

from , memories in a moment's miracle can infer

In a Magic∞world exciting time or space there's no limit

I want the power it takes to protect somebody

I can change even the destiny that entwines me

so I have everything in my hand!

"Preview"

"Preview" I've found out the secret of the Croce di Pietro.

The place where it will be used must be where Oriana is, too.

But where exactly is that?!

Next time, "Belvedere."

When science and magic cross paths, the story begins.