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- So what exactly had happened?
- To understand that, we must change our viewpoint and move back in the timeline a bit.
- “Ah, ahhh, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!???”
- The sound of something bursting open sounded on the thick ice covering the sea between
- Great Britain and Ireland. This was just before the end of the war when everyone was
- focused on the Queen Britannia as it sank along with Coronzon and Aleister.
- But something else entirely had been happening then.
- It was a much smaller and more personal issue than something influencing the fate of
- nations or the entire world.
- Particles of ice had blown up like a blizzard, so Index must not have been able to see what
- happened even while she dangled from the Bunny Gray balloon.
- Kamijou Touma’s right arm had exploded at the shoulder.
- Nothing external had caused this.
- In fact, it was blown away from within by a power it could not contain.
- “––––––!!”
- The pain was too much to bear.
- He had no idea what he was shouting as he held his torn right shoulder with his other
- hand, collapsed to the thick ice, and rolled around. The wallet and phone fell from his
- pocket, but he did not have it in him to pick them up. He was too busy making sure he did
- not bite his own tongue.
- Even so, he could not bring himself to shut his eyes.
- Something was happening in front of him.
- (What the…?)
- It was his right arm.
- It was floating in that empty white space like it was defying gravity.
- No, this was not all that strange. He had seen it several times before. He had just always
- turned a blind eye because it had always worked out in his favor, so he could not start
- calling it creepy as soon as it fell out of his control.
- The end of his detached right shoulder twisted while dripping with red blood.
- No.
- There was a small clicking sound.
- (What is that?)
- Just as he wondered that, a strange artificial-looking triangular prism appeared about
- fifteen centimeters away from the bloody end of the detached right shoulder. The sides
- were divided into keyboard-like squares that were moving in and out all on their own.
- There was no way he could ignore this.
- That strange object really was there in front of him.
- “Kazakir—no, this is different!” he shouted.
- The triangular prism shined with a pale platinum light and he grimaced.
- It happened silently.
- The triangular prism gained a head and a right arm past the shoulder.
- It all fit together perfectly and resulted in an identical boy standing there in front of him.
- This went well beyond wondering where this other boy had come from or how he had
- appeared here.
- Was there no way to explain this using nothing more than biological science?
- And the monster was wearing the exact same clothing that Kamijou was.
- “What…?”
- He could only just stare blankly up at him.
- No, staring blankly did not qualify as choosing an action.
- With his right hand gone, there was nothing at all Kamijou Touma could do. He could
- only say one thing to the identical pointy-haired high school boy.
- “What are you!?”
- “Imagine Breaker is just one card in your deck? You’re the one in control?”
- There was obvious mockery in his voice.
- A cracking sound shook the air.
- A shocking pink light flashed at the corner of his mouth and an emerald one at the corner
- of his eye. They were pretty colors, but did it mean he was unsure how to process the parts
- that were not quite the body’s surface but not quite inside either?
- And he used that extremely lifelike right hand to calmly pick up the phone that had fallen
- on the thick ice.
- “Don’t make me laugh, you snot-nosed brat. Once this right hand’s taken from you, what
- have you got left? Who would ever accept you as Kamijou Touma now?”
- There was a sound like long, wet hair splatting against a concrete wall.
- Kamijou Touma’s right shoulder should have had nothing attached, but sky-blue threads
- twisted around to fill that empty space. They formed what looked like powerful muscles
- and quickly grew to the silhouette of a human arm. Once it was complete, he felt a
- lessening in the intense pain causing sparks in his mind. The other boy had grabbed the
- phone, but Kamijou used this new arm to reach for the wallet at his feet.
- (An arm?)
- But something scared him more than the bizarre visual.
- It frightened him that his body was accepting this situation before his mind just because
- the pain was gone. The ordinary decision to only believe what you saw with your own two
- eyes could bare its fangs when you saw something truly unbelievable and hard to accept.
- The thing he saw here was a part of his body.
- It was not something to be rejected.
- (This psychedelic thing is…my arm???)
- He did not have time to question it.
- With another bursting sound, the sky-blue arm opened back up like a giant maw. And it
- worked to swallow up Kamijou Touma himself instead of the enemy before his eyes.
- He no longer had anything to stop it.
- Imagine Breaker had gone to the other boy.
- “How can you call yourself Kamijou Touma without this?”
- That other boy grinned while clenching and reopening those fingers.
- As if to show off the power that should have belonged to Kamijou Touma.
- “It’s time you learned firsthand what happens once it’s gone.”
- - New Testament Volume 22 Reverse Chapter 2 Part 7
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