"Are you okay?"
says Misaka as Misaka asks a question.
Thank goodness...
Damn it... thank goodness...
Thank goodness, for real...
This world is cold and harsh, to be sure,
and filled with malice beyond all hope.
However, if you make the decision to stretch out your hand,
and struggle, and struggle, and struggle some more,
there will definitely be light up ahead.
Which means that the world is not so desperate a place
that one cannot reach out and snatch a ray of that light.
Misaka hates to be a wet blanket while you're having your touching reunion,
but this doesn't look like the war is going to have such a happy ending.
The light is converging around that giant heap.
If it discharges toward the ground, the outcome won't be good for anyone.
Screw that.
Whoa--
Misaka Worst...
I'm going to go stop that. Can you keep the kid safe?
Well, nothing's changed, has it?
"Where are you going?" says Misaka as Misaka poses a question.
"You aren't going anywhere, right?" says Misaka as Misaka seeks confirmation.
You don't have to worry.
I'll put an end to this in no time.
"No...
I want us to be together forever," says Misaka as Misaka begs you.
You're right.
I wanted us to be together forever, too.
I see...
This... is what it's like to fight to protect something...
"A Certain Magical Index III"
"#26 Son of God"
There's another light?
What in the world is going on?
Kamijou Touma, are you up there?
What is this?
The necessary output should have been achieved.
There should have been enough destruction taking place on the ground
to meet the strategic conditions, and drive me to victory.
Are you done yet?
It's high time for you...
...to give up this illusion of yours!
What...?
The animosity that's been encompassing the earth is decreasing?!
Why?!
Tch!
Warning, chapter 88, verse 1--
irregularity in main body during search operation.
Gravely negative effect on operational efficiency developing
due to over-susceptibility to external stimulus.
The Anglican magicians?!
Such misfortune.
I only need to buy five to ten seconds.
In that time, I'll forcibly reset the grimoire library.
I don't care if the high load burns out all 103,000 volumes!
I'm going to flush away the enemy before me!
Here I am, trying to maximize the miracles and blessings of the Son of God
to bring this phenomenon about, and this bastard shows no regard!
Fortune or misfortune doesn't factor into this.
He has the power to trample such blurry distinctions under his foot!
If you think yours is the only way to save anyone,
then I first need to destroy that illusion of yours!
Excuse me! Sasha and I have already escaped in the container.
Please hurry, yourself. The Star of Bethlehem is about to start falling.
This is it, then.
Hey, let's go.
The remaining escape containers probably won't be of any use now.
At best, it's a question of finding an individual-sized one that will work.
Only one of us is going to survive this.
Looks like.
Are you sure?
I'm someone who doesn't really know just how big a place the world is.
Oh, yeah?
In that case, go and find out for yourself now.
Misaka?!
Hey, can't you set down anywhere?
"Shaking incident to the fortress's fall will be too intense,
so we cannot get any closer," explains Misaka.
"Even if we did set down, our chances of escape would be remote," says--
Okay, fine.
Keep us as level as you can. I'm going to drag that idiot over myself.
Don't do it! Stay back, Misaka!
Shut up, will you?! There's no turning back now!
Not yet.
"The fortress's shaking has exceeded the designated value,"
reports Misaka.
"If we get any closer, we could collide."
Let him have buttons, or a belt, or whatever,
anything to let me reel him in with magnetism!
Huh?
Touma?
Index...
Why didn't you escape?
Same reason as with your spiritual item.
It's because I have to take care of the whole fortress, too.
I'm sorry.
I'd kept it hidden this whole time.
But I wasn't sure whether it was really the right thing to do.
I've done something terrible to you. I've been tricking you all this time.
There's no guarantee I'll ever come back from the Star of Bethlehem.
So I'm going to tell you now, while I still can. I've...
I've lost my...
That's okay.
It doesn't matter now.
Nothing matters, as long as you come back your usual self.
I swear I'll be back. And once I get back, I promise,
I'll bow down and apologize in person, not just via this spiritual item.
50.9 megahertz.
You'll be able to connect with the speakers here. Tell the Anglicans.
I need their advice as to how to bring down the Star of Bethlehem more safely.
I can't do that. I can't go back of my own will.
I guess not, huh?
Head on back ahead of me, okay?
Mm-hmm.
Touma...
So, if I destroy the elevating spiritual items that are keeping the Star aloft,
I can change the location where it will fall, right?
The items are in 20 different places in all.
If you destroy three of them--numbers three, nine, and 13--
it should come down in the Arctic Ocean.
Got it.
You know, her consciousness was there on the Star of Bethlehem earlier.
Couldn't you have resolved this situation by using her knowledge then?
You think I could let Index suffer like that for one minute longer?
Third spiritual item confirmed destroyed.
This is strange. There's something huge out there...
Telesma? What would it be doing there?
Misha Kreutzev is advancing toward the Arctic Ocean!
Reading a line of Telesma between the two.
Reciprocal interference is clearly being generated.
What?
It couldn't be some new power... No, is she trying to restore herself physically?
What do you mean?
Misha Kreutzev presides over water.
If she uses the polar ice cap, including special symbols and emblems,
her power will become even greater.
But there's a possibility that if she tries to elicit too much power,
the very body that Misha is composed of will explode,
and a great deal of Telesma will be released.
How do we stop her?
We weren't sure we could stop even the old Misha with an organized response.
The Star of Bethlehem has deviated from its earlier course.
What?!
Don't tell me he's...
Sure, this world may perish someday.
But it doesn't have to be a tragic ending, like this.
It has to be okay to fight to keep that from happening.
Damn it, I can't find anything!
I have to find something, doesn't matter what, that will let me negotiate with Academy City.
Hamazura, we have to get out of here, now. They'll be coming for us.
I know. Just a few more minutes.
Use my blood as an insurance policy.
The Number 4's DNA map. If all three of us are carrying it,
we can keep them in check.
Mugino...
Honestly...
You are so much trouble, aren't you?
Who are you?
Your ally. Perhaps you recognize me from my work up the chain of command?
What is it she always says?
"It's always like this with you."
It's a relief to secure Takitsubo Riko, my top-priority objective.
Takitsubo is your top priority?
You didn't notice? When you attacked those masked units,
Takitsubo Rikou affected Mugino Shizuri's Personal Reality.
Are you saying...?
She is already indicated as such on the Parameter List,
but she has the extraordinary potential to become the "8th."
If her evolution continues,
she could become someone capable of providing
all of Academy City's functionality all by herself--
a so-called "Academy Individual."
Hold on.
You're saying you knew this beforehand?!
That no matter how hard we try,
those who succeed, succeed, and those who fail, fail?
Takitsubo and I have gone down this road on our own. But if Hamazura
had been given a fair and equal shake...
Mugino...
Not the reaction I'd expect from you.
Have you gotten so you can sympathize with the feelings of weaklings?
Shut up.
It's okay.
We're Item. That's not something I regret.
So it's okay!
You still alive, Hamazura?
Thanks, Digurv! We're still alive because of you.
Why?
This isn't Academy City.
Even a Level 0 like me was able to rely on the help of others,
and managed to survive.
Reinforcements will be here soon.
Nothing about the situation has changed.
I know.
You said something interesting a moment ago. "Parameter List," was it?
You're going to tell me everything you know about it.
I'll show you just how cruel a person can be
so long as they can excuse it as protecting the ones they love.
This is the recovery team. Target secured.
Now heading to the rendezvous point with the main unit.
Where are those kids?
Another unit has them.
Hmph, then promise me something--
From now on, do not issue any orders to use that kid or the Sisters as a shield.
Do not toy around with a single one of their lives any further.
I won't permit you to force people like me
to do dirty jobs for the underworld, either.
You don't seem to get it, do you?
Huh? No, you're the one who doesn't seem to get it.
H-His switch is turned off, right?
Yeah, it should be.
Double-check it.
This isn't a negotiation, a suggestion, or a trade.
It's my triumphant return, you sons of bitches.
I-It can't be...!
Aleister Crowley?
Sure enough, I'm well recognized when outside of my tank.
But why?
Though you may not realize the value of things,
you did go after that right hand a bit too hard.
If only you had recognized it
simply as a right hand that could negate extraordinary powers.
But you got a peek as to what's inside, didn't you?
That is something I cannot allow to be left unattended.
What was inside...?
I'm sure you know what it is.
Though it was an unsuccessful, outdated plan,
how is it any different from Academy City,
which is a world with a certain sort of power enclosed within it?
I see... so in my own way, I've gotten close to the truth of the world.
Looking at your face, I can sense the futility of what I've done.
Someone who could truly save the world wouldn't make that face.
At the time, at that place, he stood where no one else could reach him.
I don't think it's going to work.
It was never a question of whether or not it will work!
I can't allow you to trample all over it!
That fact that you thought you could explain that right hand,
and Kamijou, The One Who Purifies God, with no more than Christianity,
is where your failure really lies.
I'm reading something!
This wavelength is that of the Golden magician, Aleister Crowley!
So, he is alive.
Well then, things are just starting to get interesting.
Board Chairman Aleister...
You seem to be enjoying this.
Yes. I find it quite pleasant.
Or more precisely, I'm delighted that this pleasant time will be prolonged.
He has done well. It was less about purging me,
and more like a shift into a different domain.
I think you should learn a little more about humans.
If you underestimate them, you may end up stabbed through the heart in no time.
What are you saying?
If those delicate humans could actually do such a thing,
then wouldn't you find that to be an extremely fascinating case?
Hmm. Looks like he's still alive, anyway.
You don't want this to end like this, after he mopped the floor with you, do you?
I want you to tell me what you saw and heard.
Who are you?
Ollerus.
Someone who once should have been a Magic God,
but had that position stolen by the One-Eyed Othinus.
A wretched magician.
We have looked over the conditions presented to us by Academy City,
and have agreed to a seat at the conference table.
As of this moment, I declare all hostilities at an end.
It is my sincere wish that this decision, which we all reached together,
will be recorded in the history of a future world at peace
as having been correct.
Hmm...
For someone who's always claiming "Such misfortune,"
you have some pretty strong mojo, don't you,
Kamijou Touma?