Chapter 308: It's Just an Automatic Switch for You

Index's situation was just like that cousin in some wuxia novel. She had thoroughly memorized all kinds of martial arts manuals, yet she couldn't use any of them herself.

Index could only use magic through the Automatic Writing Library, and even then, she was unconscious during the process. That was such a pity.

If Index could gain control over magic herself, then with her vast repository of knowledge, she could probably become one of the top-tier powerhouses in this world in no time. It wasn't impossible that she could become a Magic God one day. She had simply memorized too many grimoires.

Listening to what Takumi said, Index couldn't help but feel tempted. After all, she understood her own situation better than anyone. Sure, she possessed the Mobile Church and could use some magic that didn't require mana, but those spells were very limited.

Now, if Takumi could really give her magic... How could she not be moved?

Kamijou Touma felt the same way. His life had just been too full of misfortune.

Seeing the two of them wavering, Takumi continued,

"If I copy the books, it won't cause any harm to Index. And I'm not from this world—eventually I'll be leaving. So making a copy doesn't really hurt anyone, does it?

"Honestly, if I really wanted to, I could've just taken them by force. But I'm a nice guy. I wanted to ask you first."

Bronya rolled her eyes as soon as she heard that.

Nice guy, my foot.

If Takumi was a nice guy, there wouldn't be any bad people left in the world.

Still, what he said was true.

Index and Kamijou Touma looked at each other. They understood the logic.

And if Takumi really meant no harm, then maybe there was nothing to hesitate about?

"If it really won't hurt Index, then I'm fine with it," Touma said, voicing his approval first. "Index, what about you?"

Takumi was already showing them a lot of courtesy. They couldn't afford to be ungrateful.

Touma had always been someone with a good sense of judgment. Plus, it wasn't like Takumi was taking anything for free.

"Okay! If this works, you won't have to keep suffering from bad luck," Index responded. She had made up her mind.

Takumi smiled brightly.

"Good! Then it's settled—deal made. Index, here I come~!"

"Eh?" Index blinked in confusion.

Before she could react, she felt a foreign force invading her mind. She could clearly sense the presence of that external power.

The deep-level safeguards inside her body began to activate in response, but they were quickly shut down by Takumi. He directly forced them into a dormant state and began copying all the magical grimoires stored in her mind.

Seeing all this unfold, Touma grew a little nervous. Was everything really going to be okay?

But before he could worry too much, Takumi had already finished.

For Takumi, copying grimoires was child's play.

He didn't even need to make such a big show of it. He could've come and gone like a phantom and gotten what he wanted without anyone knowing.

With the copying complete, Takumi smiled cheerfully.

"Alright. Next step—giving Index magic."

Takumi already had the hundred thousand grimoires in hand. He also now understood how the magic system in this world worked.

With a bit of calculation, he could easily figure out how to let Index possess magic perfectly.

"That's it?" Index was stunned. Everything felt so anticlimactic.

"Of course. I told you, if I wanted to sneak in, you'd never have noticed.

"But I'm not that kind of person."

Saying that, Takumi moved to begin the process of giving Index her own magic.

He reached out and lightly tapped her on the forehead.

"Let me fix the rest of your internal issues too. Since you're the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, there are a lot of restrictions inside you.

"Now that you've got magic, certain people definitely won't like that."

While speaking, Takumi disabled all the restrictions inside Index's body. Though they technically remained active, they were essentially rendered useless—those controlling them wouldn't be able to do anything.

With that done, he planted a magic seed inside her.

With this seed, Index could now use all kinds of magic.

Technically, she had always possessed magical energy. Otherwise, the Automatic Writing Library couldn't activate in the first place.

What Takumi was doing now was just supplementing her with a magic seed and integrating her with the Automatic Writing Library.

After some tinkering, Takumi finished the process.

Index could now clearly feel the presence of magic inside her body.

She was overjoyed.

"This is amazing! I can finally use magic!"

Although it was just the beginning, she could feel the magic inside her growing stronger and stronger. In just a few days, she'd probably be able to use most of the spells she had memorized.

Seeing her excitement, Touma couldn't help but smile too.

"Now, it's your turn."

"Hold out your arm. I'm going to add a seal."

As Takumi said that, he couldn't help but mutter inwardly—more seals, on top of seals, on top of more seals.

Seriously, the guy's arm already had so many.

Touma's eyes lit up.

"Can I ask what kind of seal this is? If you add it, will I stop being unlucky?"

He'd had enough of being cursed by bad luck.

"Of course.

"Because I'm using power from another world to create this seal, it won't erase your right arm's ability.

"Instead, you'll be able to activate it at will.

"Even more importantly, the seal will automatically unlock itself when you're in mortal danger.

"Even if your whole arm is destroyed, the seal will still remain active.

"It's conceptual—it'll function like your arm.

"Basically, this seal completes the ability in your arm."

Takumi tilted his head slightly.

Yeah, that sounded about right.

With this new seal, Touma's power would still be the same—Imagine Breaker. But now, instead of being a passive ability, he could activate it on command.

Previously, the Imagine Breaker was so powerful that it even erased his own luck.

Now, with Takumi's seal, that flaw would be resolved.

His bad luck would only trigger when he actively used the ability.

Otherwise, he'd live like a normal person.

Takumi explained everything clearly.

After listening to it all, Kamijou Touma was absolutely thrilled.

This was just too good to be true.