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- Kanzaki Kaori and Knight Leader made no more attempt at conversation.
- The fog and darkness were split as the monsters attacked Aleister from the front and back
- simultaneously.
- They shattered the sound barrier.
- Their extraordinary attack transformed their very bodies into deadly weapons. Kanzaki
- Kaori used Nanasen, seven wires blended into the exaggerated motion of drawing her
- sword. Knight Leader simply used his double-edged sword. They combined trickery and
- a straightforward attack so their enemy could only respond to one of them. It was
- complete overkill that would smash a criminal’s body to pieces instead of just take off
- their head.
- But Aleister only breathed an exasperated sigh.
- Meaningful numbers scattered from her right and left fingertips like orange sparks.
- Immediately, silence fell. At first, it seemed like time had come to a halt in some kind of
- mistake. She had blocked both Kanzaki Kaori’s wires and Knight Leader’s sword.
- One with a golden staff with a spherical head. The other with a large silver scythe.
- The two weapons symbolized the sun and the moon.
- Aleister remained between the two monsters and fended them off with a hand each.
- “Is it that strange?”
- She giggled.
- And Aleister whispered like a demon with the strange weapons in hand.
- “Is it that strange that I can easily stop your supersonic attacks when I could not even
- dodge Kamijou Touma’s fist? There is an answer to your question. If you have any thought
- left in your heads, then enjoy figuring it out. That is the greatest luxury of human life.”
- They were in the midst of a battle and a war.
- So Kanzaki Kaori and Knight Leader did not respond to her words.
- It truly happened in an instant.
- In less than the blink of an eye, a spear shredded the darkness on its way toward the
- national traitor’s chest.
- Knight Leader had caught a spear tossed to him by another knight and made a further
- attack with it.
- Wars were fought with the sword, but executions were a different matter. An axe could
- remove the head or a spear could pierce the heart. In the capital city of London, there
- were plenty of things that had taken more lives than the average war.
- This symbolized a tragedy of the wealthy, not a war of the starving.
- Knight Leader had fought on equal footing with Acqua of the Back, aka William Orwell,
- who held a unique position even among the Saints. Meanwhile, the silver girl already had
- both hands full. She should have had no way of blocking the spear aimed at her heart.
- This spear had its weight magically increased, so it would break her body to pieces.
- “Again,” whispered Magician Aleister Crowley in a singsong voice. “I was asking if you are
- shorthanded.”
- With a heavy clang, the spear tip was forcibly repelled. It happened at just a few dozen
- centimeters from the silver-haired girl’s back. After missing its mark, the spear struck a
- nearby steel streetlight. The streetlight broke.
- Accelerator stood nearby, but he had not interfered with his control of vectors.
- At some point, the unrealistically large scythe had vanished and Aleister had touched the
- spear with her perfectly normal right hand.
- Kanzaki Kaori took a cautious step back.
- Or perhaps she was creating the distance needed to launch her next attack.
- “What’s wrong, frontline fighters?”
- Aleister gave a cruel smile, but at what was it directed? At the proud fighting force of the
- homeland she so loathed, or at herself for having to once more rely on magic after coming
- so far?
- “Surely you have not mistaken something as simple as this for Imagine Breaker. If you are
- that devoid of knowledge, I won’t even bother with you. I will trample you down and
- continue on.”
- “Modern Western magic.”
- Something spilled from Kanzaki Kaori’s lips.
- She spat it out in an unnaturally hateful voice no one had heard from her before.
- “Are you the magician who created it all?”
- No matter how many Crowley’s Hazards she had fought as they arrived from the ocean,
- none of it would help with this battle here.
- -Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 20 Chapter 2 Part 8
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