Toaru Majutsu no Index:GT Volume10 Chapter1
Chapter 1: The World is Not So Strong – the_End_of_Real.
Part 1
It was January 6 at the District 7 hospital.
Furthermore, it was morning.
“Uhh…”
Kamijou Touma was zoning out in a bed that reeked of disinfectant. He was wearing his extremely lazy hospital clothes that were rapidly becoming his secondary pajamas. The look on his face said to let it slide since at least they weren’t a track suit.
His precious winter break was almost over, but he had nothing to do all morning.
“Winter break is ending. And then the new school term is starting. ...Is this really happening? And I thought for sure I wasn’t going to survive this time!!”
“Fool, don’t rewrite your own memories to tell yourself you got through this deathless. You needed Good, Old Mary’s resurrection, which is proof enough that you died. More than once, even.”
“Ugh,” groaned Kamijou in the bed.
Someone sat next to the bed on a simple folding chair.
She looked just like a small girl of around 10. Her long, strawberry blonde hair was done up in several flat fried shrimp shapes, creating a volume greater than her short, slender body. Her oversized, baggy red dress was forcibly held up against her chest, so it did very little to cover up most of her skin.
She was Anna Sprengel.
And true to the exasperation on her face, Kamijou’s current survival was not the result of a future he had acquired through his own work and choices. In his conflict against the Transcendents, Alice Anotherbible, and Rosencreutz, he had learned far too well what happened when he recklessly attempted something beyond his abilities.
His thoughts continued on from there.
But Anna was here. She was not an illusion and she would not suddenly disappear.
Also, this was a private hospital room.
...What was Anna Sprengel doing in his room? What was she doing in the men’s ward which smelled as much of sweat, tears, and unfulfilled desire as a baseball clubroom during the rainy season?
“You’re still recovering too, right? Why’d you slip out of your room to visit me?”
“To nurse you,” was her succinct response.
Kamijou blinked twice before responding.
“Ha ha ha. You were lonely without anyone to talk to, weren’t you? To think that wicked woman would end up like this. You never know what life has in store for-”
“This room reeks, fool. It smells like a lonely, loser male.”
“Really, why are you here?”
He even forgot to cry.
The high school boy had dried out to the point his mind went entirely blank, but Anna had an immediate response for him.
“Fool, is your head so defective it can’t remember what I told you three minutes ago? I am here to nurse you.”
Anna soaked a clean towel in a filled washtub and wrung out the towel with her little hands.
“First, I will wash you until you shine, so strip, fool.”
“Bff!?”
This came out of nowhere.
And it was apparently a foregone conclusion in Anna’s mind. She climbed onto the bed with the wet towel in hand. With a silent, catlike movement.
“N-n-now, wait just a second! Do you know what you’re saying!? As a girl!?”
“What’s this, fool? Are you embarrassed?”
“Don’t be silly, little kid! You’re 10 years – no, 15 years and 4 months – too young to do anything for Kamijou-san and his secret love of dorm managers!!”
Anna, who looked 10, blinked silently at first, but she eventually looked down at her own short and slender form.
And then…
“Oh? You aren’t into small bodies?”
She grinned wickedly.
And a moment later, she had grown into a fully grown woman.
“Lucky for you, I can do this.”
“Ahh!?”
“The choice is yours. I’m fine with either form.”
Anna crawled along the bed in a feline way, but this version of her was no kitty cat. She was a much bigger cat and her sweet scent was far more noticeable than before.
Something large swayed below her.
Anna chuckled with the wet towel in hand.
“Then again, now that I have taken this curvier form, it would take a lot of courage for you to come out and say you prefer the little form better, wouldn’t it?”
Could he defuse this situation faster by staying silent than by trying to correct her reasoning?
Asking himself that had been a mistake.
He was only avoiding the issue.
Because if he did nothing to actively put a stop to it, she would continue along her current course. No matter how misguided that course might be.
“Well, I probably should stick with the bigger form. It is more convenient for moving you and rolling you. But if you do get tired of it and want a change, just let me know, fool. I can change forms at any time.”
“The bigger form is more convenient? What, are you going to grab me and flip me over?”
“I am offering the noble service of washing you, so hurry up and get those clothes off, fool.”
“You’re not making any sense. Do have any idea what you’re asking!? This is as out of place as nikujaga made by a gyaru! Are you sure this is what you wan to do, Anna-san!?”
Anna’s grin only grew.
Miss Sprengel apparently found his fluster to be most entertaining.
Such was the mysterious nature of that wicked woman.
“My, my. Is this one of those foolish adolescent rebellious phases? Only one day in the hospital and the forced abstinence is already too much for you? How depraved a life have you been living? Hee hee. Oh, I can practically hear a certain part of your anatomy sproinging up in response to my sinful body.”
Kamijou’s mind was driven to a stage beyond entirely blank.
He was in new territory here.
He averted his gaze and spoke up quietly.
“Um.”
“What, fool?”
“This is really awkward to bring up...but I know they use a ‘sproing’ sound effect in trashy comedies, but that’s only a metaphor and a guy’s body doesn’t actually make a noise like that.”
“Wha-!? It doesn’t?”
Anna Sprengel quaked while in oddly extreme contrast, like the portrait on a piece of paper money.
She had done a lot to come off as a wicked woman...but was it possible?
“Hey, but that’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Ha ha ha. For grownup Kamijou-san, this return to a more innocent age is honestly refreshing. Yes, it’s so nice to meet a pure young girl who isn’t ready for any of that kind of thing. Ha ha ha ha ha.”
Anna fell silent.
Eventually, she sighed.
“Fool. Maybe it would be better to spring it on you as a joke said in a wooden voice, but just so you know, girls don’t actually shout ‘I’m coming’ when they climax.”
“Eh? Wait, I didn’t want to know that. Is this you taking revenge for-”
“It’s the height of folly really. The screenwriters probably just aren’t used to putting together natural-sounding dialogue because even dramas rarely include sex scenes these days.”
“But!? It can’t be! Noooooo! ….Then how does the cosmos work? Wh-what are we supposed to believe in now!?”
“Not that this information has any relevance to a pure and upright fool who has decided to guard his virginity more fiercely than Joan of Arc despite literally no one asking him to.”
“…”
In this case, hanging his head in silence was definitely the wrong answer.
He did not know how to deal with a wicked woman like Anna.
Sensing something in the air, she grinned. That was the look of a bully who had found the perfect target.
“Well, if you do ever find the dorm manager of your dreams after journeying to some other dimension or something, let’s hope she’s the kind of person who let’s her emotions explode out in verbal form.”
“I notice you’ve taken the issue of your own ignorance and swept it under the rug like someone who doesn’t actually know how to clean.”
“What? You wanna fight, fool!?”
“––––––!!”
“!?”
Part 2
She was exhausted.
“Phew,” softly sighed 15cm Othinus.
As swift as the cat was, he didn’t have the stamina to cross a space as large as Academy City. While riding him, Othinus had held onto his collar with her little hands and given him directions. They had finally made it this far after hopping into the back of the trucks driving through the city during the night and early morning.
Still, they had made it safely.
Any knowledge of how monstrous H.T. Trismegistus and Alice Anotherbible were would tell you how miraculous that was.
There was more than just luck at play here.
This had only been possible thanks to someone else’s sacrifice.
This message had to get through.
Grimoire Library Index had let herself be captured by Alice in order to give Othinus this one and only chance. It was unclear how many screws had come loose in Alice’s little head, so it was impossible to predict when she would take a life due to a malfunction rather than any sensible reason. Index had known this but still gone through with it.
Othinus couldn’t let that be for nothing.
She would reward that effort.
This response was like an instinct for her as a god of war.
So she had traveled all the way to District 7.
She had finally arrived at the usual hospital.
“How many times...tell you...off your clothes, fool?”
“And how many...have to tell...that’s embarrassing!?”
With a big “?” in her head, Othinus gave the cat one more instruction.
Cats these days knew how to get into trouble by smoothly opening a sliding door.
The door opened, allowing the voices to reach Othinus more clearly.
“Why am I the one pinning you down to the bed, fool!?”
“Probably because you haven’t been looking after your common sense by making sure you get enough Vitamin C and coenzyme Q10!!”
The voices came from atop the hospital bed.
Kamijou Touma’s pajamas were partway removed.
Anna Sprengel had grown.
The boy had somehow gotten himself turned around while he struggled, so now his pointy-haired head was resting on adult-mode Anna’s lap who was forcibly placing her weight down on him like she had been sitting on her knees before collapsing forward.
Simply put, a human head was trapped between a pair of thighs and a pair of boobs.
Big Anna Sprengel had apparently turned herself into a human mousetrap because she needed her hands free for some other task. She had her face down near the boy’s navel and…
“Just settle down and let me wash you! I am too sexy and perfect to back down now, fool!!”
“Can’t...breathe! Boobs...too fat! Thighs...too- mgh!”
To sum up, it was one of Japan’s infamous fanservice festivals.
The exhausted god wobbled wearily.
Hatred filled her one eye.
Magic God Othinus passed judgment from atop her feline steed.
She lightly kicked the cat’s belly with her little legs to get the clawed and fanged beast to charge.
“I’m just killing you this time!!!”
“Bwah, what? At least give me a reason, Othinus!”
