Chapter 3: Closure. Battle_Cry.[Part 6]

The gunfire hadn't ceased.

Since Sherry was beaten down, Ellis couldn't move; but Anti-Skill hadn't given Ellis the decisive blow, so of course they didn't dare to stop their attacks. Kamijou turned his eyes from Sherry, who was knocked 5m away, and turned to look at Ellis.

(Speaking of which, if I'm to suddenly destroy this…won't the bullets hit me?)

Kamijou gingerly reached his right hand out to Ellis…

"Ho…hohoho…"

Suddenly, he could hear a girl's laughter. Kamijou turned behind and looked at Sherry.

She was smiling, she was lying on the floor and smiling.

But she was still holding onto the white oil pastel.

Shua! She swung the oil pastel quickly on the floor as if she was drawing a sword, drawing some mysterious lines that looked like a picture or symbol.

"Ah…damnit, you're thinking of creating of creating a second one?"

Kamijou dashed forward, intending to stop her.

"Hoho…hohoho…hohohohoho. That's impossible. Since Ellis exists, I can't create a second Ellis. If I could create more than one Ellis, why do you think I didn't create an army of Ellises? Even if I'm to barely create a second one, I can't maintain its shape, it'll collapse like rotten mud."

Sherry then laughed in a sinister way.

"But as long as I can use it properly, I can create such an effect."

In an instant, with the lines that Sherry drew on the floor as center, an area of radius 2m collapsed. Sherry got carried into the hole and disappeared as if she had been swallowed by the hole.

"Damn it!"

Kamijou frantically dashed forward, but there was only a hole there. The hole was extremely deep, it was hard to tell how many meters deep it was. However, it seemed like there was air flow inside it.

(Damn it, this is an underground passage…)

Kamijou said. At that moment, Ellis, which wasn't moving, suddenly collapsed. Since both golems couldn't exist at the same time, it was likely that Sherry destroyed the old golem to create a new golem. With the destruction of the old Ellis, the gunfire ceased.

(However, it somehow doesn't feel right.)

Seeing the inside of the dark hole, doubts lurked within Kamijou's heart.

Sherry Cromwell's persistence to her target was too little. This was a lot different from the other magicians he had met up till now. If it had been those magicians from before, they would not escape that easily with the target Kazakiri Hyouka there (and Kamijou himself was a target as well).

(Think! What am I so worried!?)

Kamijou carefully recalled every word that Sherry had said before, his face looking serious as he lowered his head. After a while, he suddenly looked up.

"Oh, isn't the key to the Imaginary Number District with you? That…that…how do you pronounce that? Really, Japanese names are so complex."

That was right. Thinking back, Sherry's interest in Kazakiri wasn't that high from the start.

"I need a spark to ignite a war, so I have to let more people know about it. I'm a member of the Anglican Church, got it?—ELLIS!"

If Sherry had another motive, and killing Kazakiri was just one way to achieve the it…

"Anyhow, it's alright whoever it is. It's not like I have to kill that brat."

If Kazakiri could be replaced by someone else…

"Hoho…hohoho…hohohohoho. Index, Imagine Breaker, the key to the Imaginary Number District, who shall I choose? Can I choose anyone? Hoho, what a hassle. It's problematic if there are too many options."

Sherry Cromwell didn't escape.

She went off to find a new target.

Also…

She had only 3 targets, two of them, Kamijou and Kazakiri were here, protected by Anti-Skill.

The only one not there and not protected by Anti-Skill was—

"DAMN IT…INDEX!!!!"