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  1. Kanzaki Kaori and Knight Leader made no more attempt at conversation.
  2.  
  3. The fog and darkness were split as the monsters attacked Aleister from the front and back
  4. simultaneously.
  5.  
  6. They shattered the sound barrier.
  7.  
  8. Their extraordinary attack transformed their very bodies into deadly weapons. Kanzaki
  9. Kaori used Nanasen, seven wires blended into the exaggerated motion of drawing her
  10. sword. Knight Leader simply used his double-edged sword. They combined trickery and
  11. a straightforward attack so their enemy could only respond to one of them. It was
  12. complete overkill that would smash a criminal’s body to pieces instead of just take off
  13. their head.
  14.  
  15. But Aleister only breathed an exasperated sigh.
  16.  
  17. Meaningful numbers scattered from her right and left fingertips like orange sparks.
  18.  
  19. Immediately, silence fell. At first, it seemed like time had come to a halt in some kind of
  20. mistake. She had blocked both Kanzaki Kaori’s wires and Knight Leader’s sword.
  21.  
  22. One with a golden staff with a spherical head. The other with a large silver scythe.
  23.  
  24. The two weapons symbolized the sun and the moon.
  25.  
  26. Aleister remained between the two monsters and fended them off with a hand each.
  27.  
  28. “Is it that strange?”
  29.  
  30. She giggled.
  31.  
  32. And Aleister whispered like a demon with the strange weapons in hand.
  33.  
  34. “Is it that strange that I can easily stop your supersonic attacks when I could not even
  35. dodge Kamijou Touma’s fist? There is an answer to your question. If you have any thought
  36. left in your heads, then enjoy figuring it out. That is the greatest luxury of human life.”
  37.  
  38. They were in the midst of a battle and a war.
  39.  
  40. So Kanzaki Kaori and Knight Leader did not respond to her words.
  41.  
  42. It truly happened in an instant.
  43.  
  44. In less than the blink of an eye, a spear shredded the darkness on its way toward the
  45. national traitor’s chest.
  46.  
  47. Knight Leader had caught a spear tossed to him by another knight and made a further
  48. attack with it.
  49.  
  50. Wars were fought with the sword, but executions were a different matter. An axe could
  51. remove the head or a spear could pierce the heart. In the capital city of London, there
  52. were plenty of things that had taken more lives than the average war.
  53.  
  54. This symbolized a tragedy of the wealthy, not a war of the starving.
  55.  
  56. Knight Leader had fought on equal footing with Acqua of the Back, aka William Orwell,
  57. who held a unique position even among the Saints. Meanwhile, the silver girl already had
  58. both hands full. She should have had no way of blocking the spear aimed at her heart.
  59. This spear had its weight magically increased, so it would break her body to pieces.
  60.  
  61. “Again,” whispered Magician Aleister Crowley in a singsong voice. “I was asking if you are
  62. shorthanded.”
  63.  
  64. With a heavy clang, the spear tip was forcibly repelled. It happened at just a few dozen
  65. centimeters from the silver-haired girl’s back. After missing its mark, the spear struck a
  66. nearby steel streetlight. The streetlight broke.
  67.  
  68. Accelerator stood nearby, but he had not interfered with his control of vectors.
  69.  
  70. At some point, the unrealistically large scythe had vanished and Aleister had touched the
  71. spear with her perfectly normal right hand.
  72.  
  73. Kanzaki Kaori took a cautious step back.
  74.  
  75. Or perhaps she was creating the distance needed to launch her next attack.
  76.  
  77. “What’s wrong, frontline fighters?”
  78.  
  79. Aleister gave a cruel smile, but at what was it directed? At the proud fighting force of the
  80. homeland she so loathed, or at herself for having to once more rely on magic after coming
  81. so far?
  82.  
  83. “Surely you have not mistaken something as simple as this for Imagine Breaker. If you are
  84. that devoid of knowledge, I won’t even bother with you. I will trample you down and
  85. continue on.”
  86.  
  87. “Modern Western magic.”
  88.  
  89. Something spilled from Kanzaki Kaori’s lips.
  90.  
  91. She spat it out in an unnaturally hateful voice no one had heard from her before.
  92.  
  93. “Are you the magician who created it all?”
  94.  
  95. No matter how many Crowley’s Hazards she had fought as they arrived from the ocean,
  96. none of it would help with this battle here.
  97.  
  98. -Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 20 Chapter 2 Part 8
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