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- “I appreciate your high opinion of me, but you are wrong. Besides, the Kiharas cannot
- defeat the ruler of this city.”
- “Oh, you mean because of the Archetype Controller? That’s just cheating!”
- Archetype was a psychological term for a common understanding or sense of values that
- developed as each member of a race or group dealt with an identical problem in the same
- way. These included religious concepts such as the palace of the gods being above the
- clouds and the prison for sinners being below the earth. In an extremely broad and
- shallow sense, the idea that the Japanese loved rice and Americans loved burgers was an
- archetype.
- But what if you could control those?
- What if you could create them, send them out into the world, and even destroy them?
- “He was the one that used the terms Academy City, esper, and science side and tossed
- them inside a framework that could be called mankind’s worship of science. To go a step
- further, the category of the Kiharas is another example. That is why we cannot defeat this
- ruler. If he wanted to, he could cut us off from our surroundings using the archetype of
- heretical science and cause the very definition of our existence to vanish into thin air. We
- might manage to survive, but we would become defanged cowards. And I shouldn’t have
- to explain what happens to a defanged and declawed beast that’s thrown out into the wild.”
- (On top of that, he brought glory to the archetype of modern Western magic during the
- Golden period and it is still strongly influenced by him. He could always use that
- archetype to affect the very foundation of today’s magic side.)
- -Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 11 Epilogue
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