A Certain Magical Index: New Testament - Volume 18 by Kazuma Kamachi

Author:Kazuma Kamachi [Kamachi, Kazuma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

7

Mikoto felt some kind of sharp pain run through her temples as she focused on what the A.A.A. was picking up.

“…Kh!!”

She grimaced, but something like quiet static continued to intermittently play from the small speaker (which she had acquired by sending Shokuhou’s cellphone to its grave). Like reading a barcode, it was converted into a few human words as it slipped into Mikoto’s ears.

There was no context.

There was no advance warning.

There was no kindness.

There was no asking if the listener understood.

The intermittent array of words felt like peering into someone’s mind. There was no need to arrange it so someone else could understand and they already understood all the advance information needed to comprehend it, so it was like a rough and random riot of words. There was no structure or grammar, only an exchange of isolated terms emphasized in accordance to their importance, so it felt like peering at the notebook of an obsessive memo-taker and trying to use all the words crammed on the page to reconstruct what they had been thinking at the time.

Shokuhou Misaki specialized in reading people’s minds, so was she always facing this wild vortex of information? Or was what Mikoto was viewing a highly unusual case?

She pushed back the pain scorching her brain cells and forcibly worked at converting it into understandable language.

She felt like she was on the verge of seeing something.

…Who was on the other end of the A.A.A.?

…Who was this grand pile of scraps connected to!?

“…?”

A sweet honey scent gently enveloped her face.

She focused on the outside world once more and found Shokuhou Misaki pressing a handkerchief to her face as if wiping a small child’s nose.

“You have a nosebleed.”

“Really?”

“There are legends saying expert chess or shogi players will get a nosebleed if they go too far with their concentration ability, so maybe this is something similar.”

“Nn.”

“Oh, dear. Are words out of style now?”

As Mikoto let the other girl treat her like a child, her focus slipped and she was trapped by the feeling that the fish she had nearly caught was escaping.

Even so, she felt like something was taking vague form as she linked together the fragmentary terms. Misaka Mikoto felt a vague anxiety that accepting this would cause everything she had built up to come crashing down, but for some reason, a very familiar phrase appeared there and would not go away.

To ensure the entire stone wall did not collapse, she slowly and carefully pulled out just one of the stones.

And she gently placed it on her tongue.

“…Kamijou Touma.”

“?”

Shokuhou Misaki’s slender shoulders definitely jumped.

“He really is a part of all this. But it’s written differently…? Would that spelling mean…the One who Purifies God and Slays Demons…???”

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