"Wha-…?"

Just as Lola grew suspicious, something reached her ears.

They were voices which sounded incredibly out of place.

"Huh? Hey, Nephthys, some neat-looking toy just fell out of the sky."

"You're right, Niang-Niang. It isn't every day that someone wanders into this sealed timeline without permission."

Lola Stuart was not so stupid that she did not know what this meant.

For one thing, it had been Coronzon herself who used Karasuma Fran to guide Kamisato Kakeru into Academy City so he would make a mess of Aleister's plans. She had of course received reports on the annihilation of the many Magic Gods along the way.

"The exiled Magic Gods…? Wait, then this earth must be…!?"

"Hmm." Despite the groan, the modified mini-China dress girl with pale skin did not actually seem to give it any thought. "This is a time-shifted place, much like the excess frames on a film, that Kamisato Kakeru's World Rejecter exiled us to as a prison, right? Then did you maybe get caught by some part of relativity? Like how approaching the speed of light causes the flow of time to slow?"

"For example, if you set out on a long-distance space journey intended to leave the solar system and then made a U-turn, it's possible you could have gotten shifted from your origin point and ended up on the time axis of this earth instead. It would take miraculous odds for it to happen, though."

It finally hit her.

She realized why Human Aleister had launched Coronzon into space and why Aiwass had intentionally lost and made his exit before they arrived at this earth.

What was it he had said?

"It is time you experienced the loneliness of Urashima Tarou, you mere debris."

And there was one problem more important than the logic behind this.

…Unlike the proper earth where 6 or 7 billion lived, this earth contained no lifeforms, human or otherwise. Here, there were only the Magic Gods who had mastered the field of magic until they had achieved the title of a god. Only those true beasts who were satisfied so long as they could wield their extraordinary power without being a nuisance and who were willing to engage each other in unceasing combat in this eternally-regenerating prison where they could go all out.

And now they had found a new toy.

A new rule, never before seen in online mode, had been added.

The Magic Gods gathered around, licked their lips, and spoke up in unison. Just as Coronzon herself had wanted, they did not even attempt to hide their extreme cruelty.

"Looks like we aren't going to be bored for a while."

To Aru Majutsu no Index New Testament Volume 19 Chapter 4: Are you Prepared to Distort the Laws of the World? – Human - Between the Lines 4
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And.

“Abh, hh, abhahh…!!!??”

Somewhere in Academy City, a portion of the perfectly normal scenery split apart and an arm burst out. It sank down, rose back up, and then pulled out a face and torso along with it. At that point, several arms grabbed at the hair and clothing and dragged it all back down again.

“Ooahh!!”

Even so, that being had returned.

Avatar Lola Stuart.

And Coronzon within.

With multiple Magic Gods clinging to her like the sludge of a bottomless bog, she had taken one last large step to force her way back from World Rejecter’s shifted timeline.

“Oh, crap! We got carried away and played around a little too much!”

“Oh, dear…. This is not good. The crack has sealed back up.”

A modified mini-China dress girl with pale skin and a sexy woman with bandages wrapped around her brown skin had been dragged up with her. Those two sounded panicked for once, but it was too late now. They had made so many compromises to reach that catastrophic paradise, but the door had already sealed up tight.

Lola gasped for breath with them tangled around and clinging to her.

And she sensed someone’s gaze on her.

Someone was looking down on her as she tried to gather her strength and stand up like a newborn fawn.

Their appearance had entirely changed.

The fact that they were now a young girl felt very immature.

But Coronzon immediately saw through it.

“Alei…ster…”

“Oh, would you look at that. It seems I have an absolute victory on my hands for once. How about I give you the throne of the needy while we are at it? I mean, with you back, Academy City is in a precarious position. It really is no laughing matter for me.”

“Shut it, you hip-thrusting animal. Your failures and defeats change nothing. I am the one who watches it all and laughs.”

“It’s quite sad seeing a nude ape pointing and laughing at me. It doesn’t even make me angry or exasperated. I just feel sad for you. Did you really think I would simply hand over Academy City if I could have predicted this would happen?”

Then something happened.

With a deep noise, the lights illuminating the dark night were all extinguished.

The Great Demon was dumbfounded and the human sneered down at her.

Yes, it was now Aleister’s turn to laugh.

She toyed with a stamp-sized flash memory card between her fingers.
To Aru Majutsu no Index New Testament Volume 19 - Epilogue