I came here alone to rescue Orsola, who was taken by the Roman Catholic Church.
Well, at least I intended to.
Stiyl and Tatemiya?
And Index too?!
It seems no one will let this incident end this way.
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Toaru Majutsu no Index
yubi de hajiku koin mitsumeta
I watched the coin as I flicked it from my finger
omote nara go ura wa stay
Heads means go, tails means stay
mazu kotae wo kikasete
But first, let me hear your answer
douka oshiete kuremasen ka
"Could you please tell me?"
tenshi wa misadameru egao no mama
The angels kept their smiles while judging us
mayoe sono te wo hiku mono nado inai
Lose your path! No one will hold your hand along the way
kami ga kudasu sono kotae wa fukou datta
The answer God gave was unfortunate
sou sore koso kami kara no okurimono
Yes, that is what God's gift is
norikoetara miete kuru sa dakara ima sugu
You'll see once you overcome it, so for now...
No buts!
Lotus Wand
Focus on attacking; do not worry about defense!
Be prepared to die in order to defeat our Lord's enemies!
N-No way...
They did that to avoid Sheol Fear?
Damn it!
Crap, they just keep coming...
Over here!
Touma!
Hurry!
We should be okay for the time being.
Can you walk, Orsola?
You worry too much.
My injuries are not that severe.
W-What should we do?
M-My Sheol Fear will have no effect on them since they've punctured their eardrums.
And my Spell Intercept can only target one person at a time, too.
My subordinates are doing all they can as well,
but nothing is scarier for a person than the anticipation of their own death.
If...
If The Book of the Law were here, we would have a chance at victory.
It's true that the Angelic Technique is written there.
We could negotiate with them by threatening to undo the seal.
But the stealing of The Book of the Law was nothing more than a hoax to capture us.
That being the case, it's strange that the original could even be in Japan.
it is!
Index, you couldn't decrypt The Book of the Law even if you wanted to, right?
You'd have to have tried to decrypt it at least once to know that.
Doesn't that mean The Book of the Law should still be embedded within your memory?
Yes, the original code remains, considering I was unable to decrpy—
No!
If you do that, she'll memorize the contents of The Book of the Law!
She'll then become the target of even more magicians!
Are you worried about me?
Kamijou Touma!
W-What?
Become even stronger!
If this incident damages her in any way,
I will burn your body and soul, until not even the ashes remain!
Damn it...
So... how exactly does one decrypt The Book of the Law?
Oh, that's right. Let me tell you now.
For the most part, we needn't utilize its power.
All we have to do is show them we are capable of using it.
It's basically Temurah, the letter replacement method,
but there’s a special rule that’s closely related to the number of lines.
First, one must arrange the twenty-two lines of Hebrew text into two rows, focusing on the main row.
It's fine now, I've figured it out.
Um, what exactly did you figure out?
This isn't the correct way to decrypt it.
It's a dummy method the author had left behind as a trap.
The most frightening part about The Book of the Law is that there are over one hundred forms of decrypting it.
And on top of that, every method of decryption creates a new book, and all of them are fakes.
It's not that The Book of the Law can't be read.
Anybody can read it, but it is a grimoire that was created to misguide the decrypter.
No way...
Considering the situation, this might have actually saved you.
But do you really think they'd let you go even if you told them you don't actually know how to decrypt it?
I highly doubt that.
Now that they've shown her true side, they probably won't hold back.
There should be a back door some—
No matter how I think about it,
I just can't see how you'd be able to move so freely while facing that many enemies.
You could say we had a plan.
A plan?
Oh, I see, so that's what you mean.
So you still used your friends as decoys, after putting up such a magnificent show of your bravery?
I remember Orsola Aquinas saying something stupid like "we act based on beliefs, not by deception."
This is too funny.
In the end, you still tricked your comrades, using them as a sacrifice to protect your own life.
No...
I trust them.
It'd be nice if they would trust me, too.
Trust that I'll finish my part of the job.
Do you really think that defeating me would cause my subordinates to cease their attacks?
Well, whatever.
I was starting to get bored, anyway.
I'll crush your illusions as a parting gift.
All things correspond. Of the five elements, the fifth. The symbol of peace and order.
Expand the Bishop's Staff!
First idol. Following the laws of God's child and the cross, connect a foreign object with another!
A coordinate attack?
Teleporting?!
That staff...!
I guess you had to realize sooner or later.
When I damage this staff, other objects will be damaged as well.
Just like this!
Damn, where is that attack coming from?!
Crap!
Do you really think you can dodge these attacks forever?
If I anticipate where you'll be and set my attack there...
You'll just run right into my attack.
We cannot forgive them.
The Christian Church was originally created to help people...
Yet they forget their initial values and use their power for something like this...
So you're using your power for something like this, too...
Are you upset because I smacked you around?
Religious staves simple a form of maces, made to smash through knight armor.
I'm using something made for hitting to hit you. What's wrong with that?
Besides, modern Western magic has used back door tricks of Christianity.
It's more strange that anybody besides us uses it!
Ultimately, any gospel outside that of the Roman Catholic Church can't be considered a gospel at all!
You're such a nuisance.
Hurry up and die, assembly line style!
I was waiting for that attack!
No...
I'm going back there...
Back there... again...
No!
I don't want to go back!
I will never go back!
I'm sorry that you're trying so hard, but it's all over.
It's quiet outside.
It seems as if you were trying to defeat me in order to negotiate something while your decoys were outside.
But this illusion has been completely destroyed, no?
Yeah... You're right.
This illusion is over for you, Agnese Sanctis.
I used four-three-three-six cards for this attack.
It's true that they don't have much in numbers...
But man, you sure can't underestimate these Amakusa Church guys.
To use the rune cards' placement to make an even greater shape, thus turning the whole church into one big magic circle...
It's a multi-structured magic circle which uses everything we got.
This isn't something I could've pulled off alone.
I told you we had a plan.
They weren't running around as decoys.
They were running around the premises, placing these cards.
It's useless, we still outnumber you.
If we group up to crush them, these guys...
What are you doing?! Hurry up and—
They're hesitating...
Even though we could win if we continue to attack them!
They act by believing.
Interesting...
What should I do?
What am I supposed to do against that?
What method? What timing? What weapon?!
What am I supposed to choose?
It's over, Agnese.
You know by now, don't you?
Your confidence was extinguished a long time ago!
Touma!
Touma, wake up! Touma!
D-Did I wake you up?
Oh, it's you, Kanzaki?
I was about to just leave, but...
Huh?
What's that?
A note?
I-It's nothing, really!
Since I now have the chance to talk to you directly...
there's no need for a note.
Huh?
It's something like a closing report.
I came to tell you what happened to Orsola Aquinas...
Unless I'm bothering you?
Not at all! Please tell me!
The situation ended with Orsola Aquinas and the Amakusa Church being brought into the Church of England.
The benefit to this is that they will be protected from any revenge plots on the part of the Roman Catholic Church.
In other words, Orsola is still in danger, right?
No.
The Church of England has publicly revealed that Orsola's method of deciphering The Book of the Law was incorrect.
Now that that is known, nobody should bother her about deciphering The Book of the Law.
Wait, didn't you say that the Amakusa Church have become members of the Church of England?
Yes.
It seems like they had been hoping for that.
Even though I strictly ordered them not to follow in my footsteps...
I see.
You are a member of the Church of England, after all.
Good grief...
Uh, I... I apologize for this incident!
Huh? For what?
Well... this incident...
Basically, I caused you a lot of trouble due to my own personal matters...
Kami-yan!
I've come to see you!
I've brought some convenience store high-class pudding with melon topping!
Oh? Well well, Neechin.
So you've finally decided it's time to apologize to Kami-yan?
I bet it'd be something really hackneyed and polite, like
"I'll return this debt for all the trouble I've caused"...
or "I'll do anything you say"...
Am I right?
Whee, erotic repayment of favors!
T-That's not it!
But you were gonna strip anyway, right?
I... I wasn't!
And what do you mean, "anyway"?
Oh, so you were gonna do some cosplaying for him?
You really are willing to do anything for him!
That's enough! Shut up and get out!
All right, I'll leave the two of you alone.
What do you mean, alone?!
U-Um...
I-I'm just asking, but...
All this foolish talk about the borrowing and returning of favors was just a part of Tsuchimikado's joke, right?
But what else would you have me do?
You place such unbelievable burden on yourself every time...
And this time, you went so far as to solve our problems...
It has gotten to the point where simply lowering my head isn't enough...
You don't need to worry.
Our problem has been solved without any harm done.
"Our," you say?
Huh?
Yeah, me and the Amakusa Church...
Oh, and the Church of England...
Then there's Orsola, Index, and Stiyl...
and you.
That's what I meant by "our" this time around.
The Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England seem to have a lot on their plate...
But to be honest, an amateur like me can't really tell the difference.
It's not like I'm allying myself with the Church of England where Index belongs.
Rather, I ally myself with the Church of England because that's where Index is from.
I would've probably rescued Agnese if she asked for it.
It's true that she just happened to be at fault this time...
but there's no rule that says she'll be the bad guy forever.
The Roman Catholic Church intends to pass this incident off as the independent act of Agnese Sanctis and her armed forces.
They explain that, as a whole, they had no intention of assassinating Orsola.
They will still need to take responsibility for not managing their own people well.
Now that I think about it, you seem to have already known all about the true intentions of the Roman Catholic Church.
If so, why did you not order for Orsola to be rescued from the very beginning?
How puzzling.
Thy discourse doth give me pause.
'Twasn't known to me that Orsola's method of deciphering was faulty.
However, that is of no concern to me.
Think of it this way, Stiyl.
If we had failed to save Orsola in this situation...
would anything have changed?
Either way, if she was returned to the Roman Catholic Church, she would still have been executed.
Whether or not she was saved, The Book of the Law will not be decrypted.
Then why did you as Archbishop order that our cross be given to Orsola?
You won't admit it, you fully intended to save her, no?
T-That is preposterous!
I only interfered for the sole interest of the Church of England.
"Interest"?
I am talking about Kanzaki Kaori.
Kanzaki holds a great power and has a strong sense of morality, so it's no surprise she tends to act independently.
She interfered almost too much in this incident.
Did you not receive the report about what happened to those blundering knights?
Yeah.
Thus, we'll need a new method to chain her down.
It won't be a negative shackle like "We'll harm the Amakusa Church,"
but more towards, "If you defer to us, we will protect them from the Roman Catholic Church."
Well?
Is this not a huge benefit for us?
That fox...
karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara
Because I can change even entwined fates
subete wa kono te no naka ni aru
Everything is in my hand
dare ni mo makenai chikara ga koko ni nai nara
If I do not have an undefeatable power
imagine nante kowashite shimaeba ii
I'll simply destroy the illusion
harimeguru system back up install wa OK
The backup installation of the extended system is OK
kami sae mo shirienai fiirudo ga hiraku
And the field even God does not know of expands
juuman no deeta mo isshun no mirakuru sae
For the hundred thousand pieces of data
and instantaneous miracles
suisoku fukanou na ikiteru katachi dakara
Are unpredictable living bodies
In a magic world exciting time and space there's no limit
In a magic world, there's no limit to exciting time and space
dareka wo mamoreru chikara ga hoshii
I want the power to protect someone
karamatta unmei mo kaete ikeru kara
Because I can change even entwined fates
subete wa kono te no naka ni aru
Everything is in my hand
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