Document Summon

“I already said...”
Quietly breaking the silence, Stiyl smirked.
“...I engraved the Opila runes.”
“Ehwaz (Go),” Stiyl said and flicked the oversize envelope he was holding from his index
finger like he was flicking a postcard. The thick envelope spun like a Frisbee and slowly
landed into Kamijou’s hands.
A strange symbol was inscribed on the mouth of the envelope like it was some kind of
seal.
“Gebo (Receive).”
The moment Stiyl had muttered that, the words on the envelope started to glow. The
seal opened right down the middle as if it was sliced apart by a knife.

“Have you heard of a cram school called Misawa?”
Stiyl asked in a singsong voice. The necessary documents flew out of the envelope, and
each indeed appeared to have a rune inscribed on it. They floated together in the air
before Kamijou’s eyes like a flying carpet.
“Misawa...?”
Kamijou Touma had memory loss.
Having precisely zero memories, he had no choice but to scan the name through his own
knowledge. However, he still had no impression of a Misawa Cram School. It had
seemed that the pre-memory loss him lacked interest in university entrance exams.
“At the least, it’s apparently the prep school with the most market shares in the nation,
but...?”
Stiyl made the suggestion disinterestedly.
A prep school, as the name may have implied, was a school for preparing for exams.
Think of them as cram schools meant for the “wandering students” who had failed
university entrance exams.
In Academy City, the definition of a university prep school was a bit more contrived. It
could also refer to a prep school made for people who were good enough to get into a
university, but who would purposely become wandering students for a year in order to
advance to an even better university and study for its exams instead.
One of the documents floated in front of Kamijou.
It seemed that Misawa Cram School was both that kind of university prep school and it
had students who weren’t yet wandering. In other words, it also acted as a prep school
for normal high schoolers trying to take entrance exams in their senior year.
“...So, why are you telling me about this Misawa Cram School? Is there a discount
offered when you introduce it to friends?”
Kamijou looked at Stiyl with clear distrust; the priest in front of him seemed a bit
removed from the concept of prep schools.
“It’s like this,” Stiyl nonchalantly explained, “A girl was imprisoned there, and it’s my
duty to save her.”
Kamijou stared at him, speechless.

It wasn’t because of the scary word “imprisoned”, but because he was questioning that
man’s sanity. No, if Stiyl was simply insane, there wouldn’t be a problem. Except there
was, because he had the power to freely control flames.
“Hmph, I think you’ll figure it out if you take a look at the documents.”
Stiyl lifted his index finger up again. One after another, more sheets of copy paper flew
out of the envelope Kamijou was holding, and like a blizzard they danced around
Kamijou and surrounded him.
—One of them was a sketched map of Misawa Cram School.
However, there were apparently inconsistencies when compared to a full-scale map
measured externally via infrared and ultrasonic waves. There were clearly crooked,
hidden rooms in various places on the image, looking like leaves nibbled on by a worm.
—The second was a chart of Misawa Cram School’s electricity bill.
However, the cost didn’t add up when all the rooms and electrical appliances were
accounted for. Someone somewhere in the building was clearly using a large amount of
electricity, away from prying eyes.
—The next one was a checklist of people going in and out of Misawa Cram School.
However, a very large amount of food was being bought in bulk, even considering all the
students and teachers. Even if you dressed up like a garbage-collecting janitor and
investigated all the trash cans, the quantity wouldn’t add up. It was clearly being eaten
by somebody in the building.
—And the last sheet of paper was...
A report of a sighting a month ago, regarding a girl walking into the Misawa Cram
School building.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 2, Chapter 1 Part 3