A Certain Magical Index, Vol. 17 by Kazuma Kamachi

Author:Kazuma Kamachi [Kazuma Kamachi & Kiyotaka Haimura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Light Novel
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2018-11-13T00:00:00+00:00

6

Kaori Kanzaki had a cell phone to her ear.

At a glance, it looked like she was calling someone, but she wasn’t. Her telephone wasn’t the thing sending and receiving information—it was the pigeon charm hanging from it. The rubber mascot character vibrated to create a “voice.”

“Yes. Yes, that’s right. We’re looking into Scottish magical groups centered around Edinburgh, but most of these groups seem to be reserves for the actual sorcerer’s societies.”

The voice belonged to Agnes Sanctis.

Originally the leader of a unit under the Roman Orthodox Church, the girl, along with her entire unit, was currently working for the English Puritan Church. Evidently, they’d been using their greatest weapon—their numbers—to look for any group that might have used an illusion to interfere with the forced landing and headed from Scotland to England using that main artery.

Watching Kamijou and Index out of the corner of her eye, Kanzaki spoke. “Society reserves—such as clubs or circles of friends—not polished to the point of being an actual sorcerer’s society but made by newcomers simply interested in magic?”

“They seem to be groups of anywhere from three to five people each. Small groups that don’t do anything more serious than love readings. We’ve confirmed between one hundred and two hundred in existence. In most cases, their ‘activities’ seem to start and end with meditation or other mental acts, and they dissipate naturally without affecting other people or society at large.”

“…And someone like that caused an incident that affected a country?”

“The thing about the society reserves is that it’s a mix of small fries who amount to nothing and bigger, actually polished fries. This incident was probably a group of golden eggs.”

“Does that mean you’ve already found something out about their identity?”

“I’ll give you the details at a later time, but there are traces implying they’ve been secretly doing stuff for quite a while. They seem to have plotted all sorts of things in the past, but they never had a chance to do any of it in reality. They turned up after tracing strange device purchases and dubious eyewitness information,” explained Agnes in a natural tone. “Our unit depends on our numbers. With our human wave tactics combined with English Puritan authority, we can get our hands on quite a bit of information.”

She said the next part as though she was reading from a memo. “Their group is called New Light. Their composition is the typical society reserve layout, but their polish is far superior to all the others. They seem to be using the category of ‘society reserves’ to maintain a relaxed position. Four members in all. I’ll send you their names and pictures later.”

“Where’s their base?”

“We found it, but we were too late.” Agnes’s voice was tinged with bitterness. “The place was set up to manufacture Soul Arms of fair quality, though it smelled of Scandinavian magic to me. Also, there was a detailed map of a certain city. Not just where roads and buildings are located—it was detailed down to the surveillance cameras, of which there’s said to be tens of thousands in the city.

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