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This is my first fanfic, so i'm really sorry if there are some inconsistencies and grammar mistakes in my story(since english is not my native language). Maybe someone here can explain the BetaReader feature (or perhaps even willing to betaread my work) because i don't really understand how it works T.T

As the synopsis of NT 10 hinted a journey to Denmark, i decide to create my own version of that journey. Hopefully this would be good.

Disclaimer : I do not own To aru Majutsu no Index.

Prologue

"Then i will save you, even if it means fighting the entire world."

A certain normal highschool boy named Kamijou Touma had decided to oppose the world.

In the eyes of ignorant people who only saw this situation on TV, this could be labeled as reckless and illogical behaviour.

Some of those people might even think that he was mentally damaged when he make that choice.

Perhaps even Kamijou himself astonished of his own choice.

Nevertheless, he had made up his mind.

Until he managed to explain his circumstances to the others, he would stand his ground at all cost.

To protect the life and smile of a single girl, whose death is the wish of the world.

And now that girl named Othinus looked at Kamijou with both eyes wide open.

"Hey, i brought you back so you could live your short life, not for something retarded like that !"

"Do you realized how foolish your own words are ?!"

"If you think the world will hear your reasons just because you are the one who stopped the World War, then you should carefully rethink whatever your plans, human !"

Othinus kept talking to reject that boy's reckless intention.

Her brain could not predict whatever he had planned inside his head.

As she was thinking another rebuttal words, Kamijou who was anticipating the next attack looked back at her with a smile on his face.

It was a genuine smile, a smile that showed he wasn't joking in the slightest on his own words.

"Don't worry, Othinus. I promise i will think a way to save you."

After hearing those words, there was a short silence between those two. And Othinus couldn't resist to cover her own face with her left hand.

"Are you saying that you weren't thinking properly on your own decision ?"

"Well, it's not that i completely clueless about my own words, but i'm really serious about this. I will save you from this unfair situation."

Yeah, Kamijou refused to accept this one-way slaughter. He would refuse a peace that built with the bones and blood of a girl as the foundation.

"Unfair ? I'm the one who caused all the disturbances around the world. I attacked Hawaii, Baggage City and Tokyo for my own selfishness. I caused despair on millions of people by doing that. I terrorized the world where your parents and friends live peacefully. So it's only natural that my death would be my just desserts."

"...And i'm the one who tortured you ruthlessly. Of all the people, you should be the one who despised me the most."

Before Othinus returned Kamijou's original world, countless of unspeakable hells were created to break him down. Only those two who knew every single hell that were created.

Again, if someone knew the situation of those two, normally one would expect Kamijou to mercilessly kill her and dispose her corpse completely. Heck, even if that someone saw him doing that, they would think that was only natural for him to do that and no one should complain.

But Kamijou didn't think that way. His mind would reject such a cruel solution like that.

When Othinus showed him a world where people smiled without worrying about negative things such as debt,broken hearts and despair, Kamijou used to harbor a great hatred on her for making his existence worthless and insignificant. He despised her for making a world where his actions would be nothing but evil.

But after being brutally murdered by her thousands of times, he realized something along the lines and finally understand why Othinus acted like that. He understand the feelings Othinus had kept to herself only for god knows how long. That's why he would save her at all costs, even risking his own life for it, the life he had strived to achieve after being thrown into worlds of insanity and chaos.

"Yeah normally i would kill you and rejoiced over your death. I wouldn't give a damn about your circumstances and continue to live my school life. Heck no one would blame my selfishness if they know about our situation."

"...Yeah."

"But..."

Kamijou inhaled a deep breath before continuing.

This time Kamijou said this to assure both himself and Othinus, to make sure there's no longer any doubt on any of them.

"If my selfishness could justify my actions to kill you, then it should be able to justify my actions to save you, right ?"

If Kamijou could use his selfishness to kill her and that was accepted by others, then no one should have complained if he used it to save her instead.

Othinus was dumbstrucked with his reasoning. She didn't understand a single bit whatever he just said. She couldn't think any rebuttal words to throw onto him. In her lifetime, she never saw such a human like him.

"...Do what you like."

"The shooting stars were just successfully shot by the coalition army. I don't know what's really happening but some of the shooting stars was vanished before it even hit the ground. Is there some kind of malfunction ? ... Oh we just got a picture of the target. ... Is that a boy ? I saw a boy with high school uniform attire standing there with the target. Are the terrorists possibly recruited some school boys ?!"

"Then what would you do, human ?"

"Emm Othinus, could you just call me by my name ? being called "human" feel so weird for me."

Othinus let out a heavy sigh and looked at him with a disinterested face.

"So, what would you do to resolve this situation, Touma ?

Kamijou felt his heart skipped a beat when she called his first name. But he chose to ignore it.

"That fairy spell, it would stripped your Magic God status right ?"

"I'm still a Magic God right now even though i'm losing its power. Why do you ask ?"

After a short silence, Kamijou asked her something again.

"What did you do to achieve the status of Magic God ?"

Othinus was a bit surprised with his question. But somehow she expected him to ask this question.

"I removed my right eye and hid it on a castle in Denmark, and hang myself for 11 days to obtain the status and wisdom of a Magic God."

Kamijou was surprised that she actually hanged herself to achieve the status of a Magic God. Ollerus already told him this but it still surprised him.

"So, is the status reversible ?'

"What do you mean ?"

"I mean, is the status of a Magic God could be revoked so you could turn into a human ?"

Othinus didn't thought about this before, but his questions immediately sparked an answer on her mind.

"If i could retrieve my right eye, i would turn into a human once again."

"Thank goodness ! so there is a way to save you afterall"

Kamijou were really relieved when he heard that. Othinus looked at him with a curious look as she asked a question.

"So, did you already thought about our transportation ?"

Then suddenly his relieved expression turned into a comedic grim. Othinus couldn't help but to giggle secretly. This is the first time she smiled with a normal human since a dozen of centuries. Kamijou noticed her giggling and let out a refreshing smile again on his face.

But their conversation was interrupted as Kamijou noticed an electrical shocks heading toward Othinus. He quickly reacted by adjusting his right hand to negate that attack, resulting in a high-pitched glass breaking sound.

Then he turned his sight into the source of the attack. Standing there was a short brown-hair he recognized as Misaka Mikoto with a small nun named Index besides her.

Then he also saw a short blonde-hair girl named Leivinia standing behind Misaka along with a tailed girl named Lessar.

"Touma..."

"You idiot ! Why do you blocked my attack ?!"

Meanwhile Leivinia looked at Othinus with a disgruntled face.

"Ara Othinus, what have you done to him ? Did you seduce him with that body of yours ?"

"That's unacceptable. I should be his first time, not you."

Othinus looked at the group with a disinterested face while Kamijou made a grim expression, this time in a non comedic way.

"...I'm sorry guys. But i won't allow anyone to harm her."

"Touma, do you just realized what have you just said? Stop fooling around." Said Birdway with an annoyed look on her face.

Once again, this time with a determined expression on his face, Kamijou declared his intention.

"I will protect her at all costs, even if it means fighting you guys as well as the entire world."

The four of them couldn't believe what they just heard. The boy they trusted so much declared something outrageous that wouldn't even be funny as a joke.

"Touma, why..."

"There's a limit to being such an idiot, you know. What the hell ?"

"I don't have time to play around with you. Step aside or i will crush you as well."

"Don't tell me she just took your first time ? Damn you woman."

Kamijou didn't reply their words of anger and disappointment. He knew that this wouldn't be the appropriate time to tell them everything. For now he would prioritize Othinus above everything else.

While he had to think what should he do to resolve this situation before him and get him and Othinus to Denmark, suddenly he felt a vibration from his trouser's pocket. It was his cellphone ringing.

As he flipped his cellphone, an unknown number displayed on his screen. He hesitatingly picked up the call, only to receive a cheerful loud shout from his cellphone.

"Hey there Kamijou-chan !/return I'm so happy you picked up my call !/return "

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