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- She could not send any commands to the A.A.A. Yet if she had tried, she might have been
- able to stop that thick rotating blade some other way.
- The silver girl did not hesitate to swing down her right hand.
- That movement linked with something.
- And then a dull sound burst out.
- Another fierce attack struck that already hopelessly torn-up hunk of flesh.
- It was an assault chainsaw meant to bring down the main gate of a fortress.
- One body part, which was just barely still attached by white and pink flabbiness, was now
- fully severed.
- With an almost silly splat, the detached right forearm hit Shokuhou Misaki in the forehead
- and then her arms held it to her large chest. That was no more than the standard reflex to
- protect your face when a ball flew toward you. There was no conscious thought in her
- widened eyes. She had the strongest psychological power and she was an expert at
- controlling people’s minds, but not even she could accept this shocking visual.
- “…!!”
- Something sparked in Mikoto’s mind. Her vision filled with gray static. With a soft wet
- glop, a dark red liquid splattered across the ground.
- But.
- It was not over yet.
- “When working to save his life, I suppose Imagine Breaker would be the biggest obstacle.”
- The palm-sized girl groaned in a different way than Mikoto. “But that was still a little
- much!! Don’t just throw out everyone else’s opinions because you alone know everything
- about Kamijou Touma’s inner structure, Aleister! Surely you know it’s exactly this kind of
- arrogance that led to all your defeats and failures!”
- A dark-red light glowed from the joints of the A.A.A. that Mikoto wore.
- It released a function that not even the #3 girl knew about.
- “I have no interest in high magic at the moment. I will remove the artistry and break
- through the closest gate in as vulgar a way as necessary. My physical body bears
- stigmata—the mark of the worthy—on the hands, feet, and side. It is a human body, but
- its flesh and blood can return to the starting point of the Sacrament of Holy Communion.”
- The silver girl kneeled.
- She clasped her hands in front of her chest as if squeezing the fresh juice from a fruit.
- She extracted the scarlet liquid from her own wounds.
- “Longinus was a blind soldier. He was the saint who pierced the Son of God’s side to
- confirm his death. The holy one’s blood dripped down the lance and entered Longinus’s
- body where it healed the foolish soldier’s eyes and revealed a visible world to him. This
- drop can produce miracles, so reopen the realm of possibility to this trapped one!!”
- Normally, any kind of miracle may have failed to manifest as long as Imagine Breaker
- remained in Kamijou Touma’s right hand.
- But that was no longer the case.
- That was why the silver girl had chopped off the boy’s right hand with that giant chainsaw.
- A single drop fell from the silver girl’s hand and into the center of Kamijou Touma’s chest.
- That was all.
- But the effect was dramatic.
- This was not the story of a restless night. This miracle happened in clear view below the
- morning sun.
- Something invisible passed through all of the boy’s blood vessels to reach every part of his
- body. The burst blood vessels and disturbed blood flow was used to automatically
- determine what needed healing and a gentle light enveloped all of the torn, crushed, and
- hopelessly destroyed parts. Bone, flesh, muscle, and skin returned to that of the original
- boy, like it was being polished with an invisible silk cloth. It was like popping a collapsed
- plastic doll back into shape.
- “Kami…jou…-san?”
- Shokuhou Misaki spoke his name while half in a daze.
- Misaka Mikoto’s searching eyes moved with real hesitation.
- And there she found the boy’s eyes shut as if he were gently sleeping. She saw the normal,
- ordinary, and entirely irreplaceable face of that older high school boy.
- But there was no time for relief.
- There was a sound like a balloon popping.
- It came from where Kamijou Touma’s right hand should have been. Everything past his
- elbow was missing. No, everything past there was refusing to heal. Something was
- obstructing the healing process.
- Mikoto’s eyes widened.
- “Eh?”
- This was far better than the hunk of flesh that had looked more like a disturbing mosaic
- than anything. But a single wound to the wrist could be deadly. They could not just leave
- him like this. Unless they stopped that blood gushing out, the recovered boy would lose
- his life before reopening his eyes.
- - New Testament Volume 22 Chapter 1 Part 2
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