Prologue: In Time

Part 1

"Of all people, why me?!"

A spiky-haired boy was running across the street with his school briefcase in hand.

The rumbling noise from the cars driving along the road beside him only increased his frustration at his current situation. People could be heard chatting at a bus stop, waiting for their buses to bring to them to work.

Yesterday, in spite of his world record breaking dash to the bus stop when he woke up an hour late for school, an inconsiderate act from a random passer-by resulted in his defeat. If only he had not slipped on a banana peel. If only the bus came just a minute later.

However, today was a different story.

When he ran past that bus stop, whatever those people were chatting about before completely changed.

It was not because there was something wrong about this boy. Other than his spiky hair being his most distinctive feature, there was nothing remarkable in terms of his appearance about this high school student named Kamijou Touma.

In terms of his luck however...

A foreign blonde-haired girl with blue eyes dressed in a white dress and black stocking covering her entire legs chasing behind him had a cruel smirk on her face as she let loose a fireball the size of a tennis ball from her flower shaped wand.

The fireball flew past Touma and blew up the concrete in front of him. Both the shock at what she did and the impact knocked him down backwards.

"Damm!" Touma said.

Several fireballs rained down on Touma, and he stretched his right hand to negate those that would strike him directly. Burning hot concrete bombarded Touma as the remaining fireballs struck the area around him.

Standing in front of Touma, the girl shook her head. "You know, sometimes I wonder how in the bloody world you managed to defeat an army of 70,000 all by yourself."

"What are you talking about?!"

"Ah yes, how could I have forgotten. You can't remember anything at all."

It all started when Touma offered to help a lost foreign girl who introduced herself as Leivinia Birdway to a famous tourist destination in the city until she brandished her flower shaped wand and launched a series of impossible feats that he had only seen in fantasy TV shows so far.

Your right hand has a power named Imagine Breaker which can negate all my attacks. To be exact, it can negate any supernatural phenomena. It's only limited to your right hand, so don't be a retard and get your left hand blown off or something.

... You are also a pervert who likes peeping at females while they are changing.

... And a bloody retard as well.

Those were the few things he had 'forgotten' together with the other nonsensical stuffs she uttered while engaging him on a life and death chase. The only thing he had forgotten was how misfortunate he truly can be. Besides, why does every girl sees him as a pervert anyway?! He was not a pervert! Nobody ever believes this poor Kamijou that it was just a misunderstanding caused by his misfortune.

Touma sighed, fear no longer evident on his face. Initially, it was shocking to see a human throwing a fireball out of nowhere, but after thinking about for it for a moment, wasn't this impossible feat just another creative method those unreasonable people used as an attempt to kill him for being a jinx before he entered this city known as Academy City?

"I think you need help. Let me get you to the nearest mental hospital first. Have you been skipping your medication? I know many of you have the tendency to skip medications because you don't believe you're sick, but that's not good you know?"

Leivinia rolled her eyes, "Very funny."

Her flower shaped wand morphed into a sword. She swung the sword down. A gust of wind blasted the group of black armored vans and cautious Anti-Skill officers wielding rifles and shields who were surrounding them away.

"I wonder who's the one who needs actual help."

Touma let out a chuckle as he clenched his right fist. Like what the girl had said, his right hand could negate her attacks. He was not powerless against her.

"Well, I do need actual help in making you stay put while I punch that stupid face of yours. Honestly, I'm pretty excited to see how much more misfortunate I can get. Give it your best, airhead."

"Yo-You..." Leivinia trembled in anger, "Did you just call me an airhead?! "

Another swing from her sword summoned another gust of wind, shattering the windows from the nearby shophouses on her right.

"You must be a bloody airhead to dare insult me, Leivinia Birdway."

Touma just stared at her, unimpressed. This unexpected reaction forced Leivinia's cruel smirk into a curious gaze.

"You... are not afraid at all?"

"After a while, you just stop being scared of things if you still want to live. I don't understand why you're here, why are you telling me those strange things, and why you're attacking me, but in time I'll understand why if its important enough. For now, I guess I don't have a choice but to punch the air out of your empty head. Do you even realize how much damage you've caused to the people around you and the government of this city?"

Leivinia smiled. It felt like the girl before and the girl now with the smile was two completely different person.

"That's right. In time, you'll understand why I'm here."

She tilted her head to one side. "Speaking of which... she's here."

Leivinia leaped towards a building behind Touma, leaving him with multiple fractures and burn injuries in a street laid in ruins.

Part 2

"Why am I not surprised it was you." A boy wearing sunglasses with spiky hair mixed between green and blonde said as he scrolled through an article using his smartphone.

He was Touma's classmate, Tsuchimikado Motoharu, seated at the table beside him

"Such misfortune indeed."

Touma leaned back on his chair inside a classroom and let out a tired sigh. After two weeks of observation in the hospital, the doctor decided he was well enough and discharged him. Today was his first day back at school. As usual, due to his misfortune, getting to school was an adventure almost interesting enough to be written as a chapter in a novel.

"Any idea why she chose you as the victim?" Motoharu said.

"Because it was fun?"

Motoharu slammed his smartphone down and broke into laughter. "Because it was fun?! Such misfortune indeed!"

Even if this was Academy City, a city in Japan with technology far more advanced than the world, no one could accept the fact that a mere foreign girl had the power to cause such destruction rivaled by a light artillery strike with presumably the sword she held on one hand.

Within the past two weeks after the incident occurred, there were many addresses on the issue made to the public by the government. While the media tried to portray the government in a good light, if one were observant enough, it was clear that the government was at a loss to how best they could deal with this issue and calm the public down.

While Touma didn't think that Leivinia was doing all this for fun, his diagnosis of her mental state (psychosis, and signs of split personality disorder) seemed to suggest at that a subconscious level, she was a sadistic monster who secretly enjoys hurling fireball at innocent people. Then again, he was not a psychologist, so even he himself knew better not to give value to his own diagnosis.

"Anyway, do you really have to wear sunglasses wherever you go? It just makes you look silly." Touma said.

With all the media attention he was receiving for being the unfortunate victim, perhaps he should invest in a pair of sunglasses and a face mask... if he had money in the first place.

"You don't understand how a good pair of sunglasses goes a long way in attracting those hot chicks."

"And yet I don't see you with any one of them?"

"I'm still working on my pick up skills."

"Ah, I see."

A girl three tables away from Touma left her seat and walked up to him with a slight blush.

"Here's a small gift, I hope you are okay!"

Motoharu let out an annoyed sigh watching the girl moving back to her seat after leaving behind a small, red box.

"Another reason why I haven't got much luck with the girls is because of you, Kamijou Touma."

More and more girls started crowding around Touma's table, showering him with care and concern as the presents on his table piled up.

Sometimes Motoharu wondered if it was a good deal to be misfortunate in all other aspects of life except for getting girls. If it wasn't for Touma's apparent denseness towards any sign of affection from females, he would have created a huge harem by now. What a waste.

However, he could turn that paradise Touma was experiencing into a complete nightmare by exploiting how illogical girls can become when they are negatively affected by their emotions.

"Such misfortune indeed, Kamijou Touma. Sorry, but you can't just expect me to just watch and do nothing while you steal away all my targets."

Motoharu took out a photo and flung it towards the crowd of girls.

A pale Touma turned to face a smirking Motoharu as he prepared himself for the onslaught.

In the photo, there was a long, blonde haired girl with cute, doll-like features, and a chest much impressive than all the girls surrounding Touma giving him a kiss on the forehead while he was lying on the hospital bed asleep.

Part 3

"I wonder if I could get to my house in peace" Touma muttered as he walked past the street bathed in a warm orange glow from the setting sun without a paparazzi mob ambushing him for an interview... yet.

According to the news that Touma read from the papers, the estimated collateral damage from the incident was 650 million yen with the death toll at 7 and the people injured at around 50.

Was it my fault again? If I didn't exist, maybe none of this would have happen?

Before Touma entered Academy City, he was a jinx who brought misfortune to everyone around him. Some say it was a coincidence, but many decided that it was all his fault.

Was it his fault that a businessman lost all his money in a financial crisis a few days after he shook his hand as a friendly gesture? Was it also his fault that a boy who crossed the road together with him died in a car accident hours later?

Now, was it his fault that he caused 7 people to die and countless more injured just because of that lunatic foreign girl?

Touma swallowed his anger as he continued walking.

Just when he thought he could finally live a normal life as a boy whose misfortune affects only him and no one else after moving into Academy City, this had to happen. Causing misfortune to people merely because of his existence.

"Hah, such misfortune indeed."

When he reached the lift lobby of his apartment building, something struck him as odd.

Why are there no paparazzi at all?

It was odd considering the media attention he was receiving this morning. It couldn't have disappeared in less than a day. Was the media in Academy City different from the media outside? Probably so. There are often many questions in life that cannot be answered, and many more not worth seeking the answer.

After taking the lift up to his apartment room, a girl standing outside holding a white cane gave him a bright smile.

"Is that Touma?"

It was the same girl in the photo which Motoharu threw at the crowd of girls. A long, blonde haired girl with cute, doll-like features, and a chest much, much impressive than all the girls surrounding Touma during class today.

Beside that girl was another girl with shoulder-length black hair dressed in a pink track suit who nodded. Her blank expression made her seem to be more like a oddly dressed robot than human. Does a robot need to exercise?

"Yes, it's him."

Touma had a mixture of emotions between shock and happiness and guilt on his face. He did not know how to react to her sudden, unexpected appearance. "Why are you here?!"

"It's been a long while since we met. I wanted to see if you're okay, and ma-"

"But you can't see! Wait..."

The blonde-haired girl's eyes were different from what he remembered. Her eyes were now red with her irises was replaced by golden stars.

She broke into a brilliant smile, accentuating the innocent beauty of her cute, doll-like features. "I still can't see perfectly, but I can at least see colors instead of black all the time! Maybe in another 10 years Academy City's technology would be so advanced that they can fully restore my sight. I can't wait to see how much you've grown."

"Leave."

It was all Touma's fault that his childhood friend Shokuhou Misaki ended up blind.

"Touma..."

"I said, leave! I don't want to see you ever again!"

She was the reason why Touma finally decided to move into Academy City alone and away from everyone else 8 years ago.

Misaki bit her lips, holding back tears. "At least you still are able to see me. I...I can't even see you. All I wanted was to be fri-"

8 years ago his misfortune caused her to lose his sight.

Touma clenched his right fist. Seeing Misaki almost bursting into tears felt like a incandescent blade stabbing right through his chest. So painful that even he was almost in tears.

"Shut up! I don't need a worthless friend who can't do anything on her own!"

Now, 8 years later, would his misfortune cause her to die instead?

That's why, it was better that they never meet again.

The expressionless robot-like girl with shoulder-length black hair took out two guns from her pockets. One facing Misaki, and one facing Touma.

Touma's heart almost stopped in utter horror.

That's... impossible? Is my misfortune really going to cause her to die? What's going on? First that crazy girl, now this?! It was too late to take back whatever he said about being pretty excited at how much more misfortunate he was going to be.

He sensed vibrations from his pocket and flipped open his phone.

It was a message from the girl standing in front of him. After seeing a lunatic foreign girl who could shoot fireballs, having the ability to send a message to his phone without a phone did not trouble him at all.

Her life, or your life. Choose.

Touma took out his phone.

It was an easy choice.

In fact, it was the only choice he had.

My life.

Perhaps in the past he had caused misfortune to this expressionless robot-like girl, and now she was here to exact revenge? There are often many questions in life that cannot be answered like this question, and sometimes, the answer doesn't really matter at all.

Touma closed his eyes.

Fine then. It's about time I paid for my sins anyway. Please be happy, Misaki.

"Don't just go ahead and die on your own. I haven't had enough fun with you yet, you retard." Leivinia said.

Touma's eyes snapped open to see Misaki horrified. The gun facing Misaki was now touching her temple.

"What's going on, Suzuki? Why are you pointing a gun at me?!" Misaki said.

Leivinia pointed her sword at the expressionless robot-like girl. "That girl is not even human. Listen up, Takitsubo Rikou. Only I can kill this boy, it's not up to you to decide."

"As arrogant as ever, Miss Birdway. However, I will not fail in my mission."

Rikou grabbed Misaki by the collar before jumping off the building with her. Without a moment of delay, Leivinia leaped off with a strong gust of wind, almost knocking Touma down. It was much weaker compared to the one during his first encounter with Leivinia.

Touma received another message.

Come to the railway track at District 18 if you still want her alive.

Part 4

All of Touma's memories regarding his battle between Takitsubo Rikou and the lunatic foreigner Leivinia Birdway appeared to him as a disjointed, blurred, sped up movie.

He could only remember being surrounded by a green light. A green light that refused to disappear. Why did he get that feeling from that green light? Was his Imagine Breaker supposed to destroy that light, but failed? And why couldn't he remember anything?

"Where am I...? How did I end up here...?"

Touma found himself lying on a vast grassy plain. A stone castle occupying an area equivalent to the size of several football fields could be seen within walking distance.

"Leivinia Birdway?"

The girl staring at him with a slight frown was definitely the Leivinia Birdway he remembered hurling fireballs at him.

"Blimey! This Academian knows my name?" Leivinia said.

Instead of her white dress, Leivinia wore a white, pleated blouse with a grey skirt. Unlike the rest of the crowd behind her, she did not wear a black cloak. Otherwise, their outfit were mostly similar.

"What a tragedy for our top student Miss Birdway."

"I thought she would summon a huge dragon or at least a griffin?"

"I suppose an Academian is slightly better than a commoner, but what's with his weird clothing."

"That's the price to pay for being too arrogant."

Touma concluded from the crowd's noisy chattering that the crowd behind Leivinia were students, and the middle aged man in a black cloak holding a long, wooden staff was the teacher. Just like in that famous novel about wizards, the stone castle must be a school... and what the heck is an Academian?!

"I guess you have no choice but to continue with the ritual, Miss Birdway." The middle aged man in a black cloak holding a long, wooden staff said with a kind smile. "The fact that you managed to summon something proved that whatever you were thinking about had some value. "

Leivinia nodded. "Yes, you are right, Mr Colbert."

Touma could not summon enough strength to get up. Just what exactly happened before the green light summoned him into this strange world? Why is Leivinia here? Did the green light brought her into this world as well? Then why doesn't she seem to remember him?

I don't have a good feeling about this ritual... the question is how bad would it get?

Leivinia turned her flower shaped wand into a cup, and sprinkled water from the cup onto Touma's head.

"Done."

A burning sensation engulfed Touma, and he sprang up feeling like his whole body would just melt away in agony.

"Ju-Just what did you do to me?!"

Leivinia shrugged, "I just didn't want to kiss you, so I thought I'd use another... method instead."

"Complete your ritual properly! It's obvious that you were wrong if I'm in so much pain!"

"Well, it's not like I did the summoning ritual according to what was taught in the beginning so clearly you can't say that I'm obviously wrong if this were to happen. It's rather unfortunate that I am stuck with an Acadamian instead of a volcano dragon or something much more rare and powerful." Leivinia said.

A tanned, busty girl with deep crimson hair from the crowd looked at Leivinia with distaste. In spite of inflicting severe pain to an Academian, Leivinia's expression remained as cold and arrogant as ever.

"Tabitha, tell me why again do we have a monster like her in our class." The tanned, busty girl who was known as Kirche said.

A bespectacled blue, short haired girl pointed to a female student in their class with a staff taller than her.

"Worse."

Kirche let out a loud sigh as she folded her arms. "Maybe."

She knew how cruel nobles can get when it comes to disciplining the commoners. That particular girl Tabitha pointed at had a history of whipping maids as punishment, until the monster Leivinia wrecked her room by unleashing a tornado while putting a sword at her throat. Who was the monster here? Leivinia or that maid whipping classmate? Tabitha went for the latter while Kirche went for the former.

Touma dropped to his knees, his fists clutching the soil on the ground. The searing pain grew more and more intense by the second. If this were to continue, he might just die here in an unknown world filled with so many questions.

He couldn't die here.

Touma didn't understand why, but in the face of impending death, he found himself unable to accept his fate.

"Sorry, but I still want to live. God, if you think this is the end of my misfortunate life, then let my Imagine Breaker prove you wrong!"

A loud, unnatural sound of glass shattering reverberated through the air as Touma fell face down unconscious.

Author's Note:

The Academy City in this story has no espers, but remains technologically advanced. It's just that it's not an important part of the story at this stage, so I didn't develop it as much.

Now the most important question. How did Touma enter the summoning portal even though he has Imagine Breaker?!

He didn't instantly negate the summoning portal, that's all. Just like how in Vol 1 his Imagine Breaker could not completely negate Dragon's Breath. The portal is just that powerful. There's also a reason why Touma doesn't remember anything at the abandoned railway track... but I'm not going to spoil anything. I don't know if you can see it, but Touma was summoned into a time where Leivinia had not met him at all, while the Leivinia who appeared in Academy City already knew him. Here's a clue, there's a reason why this I gave this prologue that title.

Basically, this is just a story where Touma becomes Leivinia's familiar instead of Touma being Louise's familiar, and how different things would end up. So in that sense it's a fic that caters more to the To Aru readers since Louise isn't the main character. If most of the readers reading my story don't know much about the To Aru world, then Leivinia Birdway can be pretty much considered as an OC. I hope I can do a good job writing an OC, and if I'm doing bad, please help by leaving comments!

Eventually you'll see that its rather inspired by one of the other fics already posted in this crossover section. I see this fic as a different take of that fic.

Apologies for being so inactive. I was busy :(

This story idea was bugging me so much that I just decided to just slowly write at least the first chapter and... I'm done.

Haven't been writing for a long time so I hope the quality is still okay. The story might be a little confusing so if you have any questions do ask me :)

Also, if you liked the story, do leave a review in the review box below.

Thanks for reading!