Chapter 257

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Just as Touma was sinking into silent agony, a voice as crisp as flowing water rang out.

"Hey! Why are you talking as if I'm already dead?" A petite, miniature figure crawled out from under the pillow, and Othinus patted Touma's head in dissatisfaction.

Kamijou Touma: "....?! Othi-chan?!!"

Kamijou Touma didn't even have time to be excited; he was simply stunned as he stared at Othinus, who should have been dead but now looked like a figurine!

"What's wrong? Are you disappointed to see me?!" Othinus asked, hands on her hips, looking displeased.

She then explained the reason to Kamijou Touma.

Because she hadn't returned her eye yet, she was still a Magic God. When Touma destroyed the Fairy transformation, the last shot of the crossbow failed to release.

Therefore, she didn't completely collapse. Besides, a Magic God's body breaking doesn't mean death, Othinus explained while lying beside Touma's head.

Now, she was composed of the remaining 1% of her being, standing about 15 centimeters tall. She was still a Magic God, but she possessed no power.

"I mean, is it really okay for this right hand to touch you?" Touma asked, dazed.

"What?! If I hadn't told you, were you planning to grope my entire body with your hand?!" Othinus asked, shocked and embarrassed.

"Listen to me, it's not like that! And Index, stop grinding your teeth!"

Othinus thought about it; she could be touched before, so being smaller shouldn't be an issue. She wanted to say more, but was suddenly snatched up by Sphinx, the calico cat in Index's arms.

Afterward, Kamijou Touma learned of the punishment the World Alliance had imposed on Othinus.

——Forever watch over this happy world that is within reach yet unattainable; this is the greatest punishment from the humans who achieved victory.

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【Mery: "A cat that soloed a Magic God has appeared!"】

【Othinus: "A mere beast... how audacious! To dare be so rude to a god!"】

【Kamado Tanjiro: "That's great, it wasn't all for nothing. Kamijou Touma saved everyone!"】

【Orochimaru: "A Magic God... who has lost their Magic God powers? What a perfect research subject."】

【Jiraiya: "Orochimaru, I won't stop you if you want to end up like Kyubey, just don't bring trouble to the entire Ninja World."】

【Loki: "Perhaps this counts as a decent ending, if the story were to conclude here. But it seems everything is just empty talk; in the end, the world is ruled by strength."】

Record of Ragnarok World

"While essentially a hero, he is just an ordinary person, yet he ultimately understood a god and even redeemed one," Adam said, biting into an apple, his bright eyes fixed on Kamijou Touma in the screen.

What is ordinary? Ordinary is having no chance to even turn the tide when faced with a Magic God or immense malice.

Human heroes prevent tragedies from happening, but gods prevent tragedies that have already occurred. The former, no matter how much effort they exert, cannot eliminate pain at its root; he cannot stop the tragedies he fundamentally cannot change.

This is what it means to be ordinary: to be a hero yet also a human, unable to traverse time, unable to be omniscient, unable to change existing mistakes, unable to undo tragedies.

Therefore, gods and humans have never stood on the same side, unless... the god also climbed up from humanity step by step, and the human personally felt the pain and sorrow of the gods.

Adam finished the apple and tossed it aside.

Humans defeating gods is a taboo; humans walking alongside gods is also a taboo.

But taboos?

Those things have always been meant to be broken!

Bleach World

"Even after reaching the realm of gods, one is still disturbed by the seven emotions and six desires?"

Aizen's expression was unreadable.

On the screen, he had witnessed too many gods: Madoka, Tiamat, the perfect Magic God Othinus. But every single one of them made him... unable to accept them.

They possessed the power of gods, yet were still swayed by emotions.

"A god should look like a god," Aizen said, brushing his bangs aside with one hand, his eyes flashing with darkness and ambition so deep it was extreme.

A Certain Magical Index World

Academy City

"I was actually startled by a low-life like you! Making the world your enemy and actually succeeding," Accelerator said, a twisted smile on his face.

But as he laughed, his expression suddenly turned gloomy.

He remembered the collective consciousness of the Sisters... and the words they said to Kamijou Touma.

Accelerator's expression flickered between light and shadow. At this moment, no matter how stupid he was, he couldn't deny that the Sisters were independent existences with consciousness!

"What 'lumps of meat without consciousness,' I was really played by you people... Hahahahahaha!"

Accelerator's eyes flashed crimson as he hunched over and laughed wildly.

Although he hadn't fallen into the trap, this matter wouldn't be settled so easily!

He would definitely make up for it!

However, at that moment, a faint, childish voice interrupted him. A little girl with an ahoge on her head said crisply, "Um... Mr. Accelerator, can you give Last Order a home?"

Accelerator froze, looked down, and said, ".... Ha?!"

Accelerator suddenly thought of what he said on the screen, that among 6 billion people, there were those he wanted to protect... Could it be?!

Soon, the screen changed again—

【Index Easter Egg Chapter—

1. Accelerator smashes a building—

"Control all vectors!!!" After learning that the Level 6 Shift was a lie and that he had been played, Accelerator arrived in front of the Windowless Building!

He thrust his hand into the building, and a terrifying roar echoed throughout Academy City!

In that instant, the Earth's rotation was delayed by about five minutes, and all the energy generated was converted into an energy cannon, blasting toward the distant Windowless Building!

The forcibly launched building broke the sound barrier, emitting bursts of sonic booms; it was so fast it left afterimages!

The spot where Accelerator stood was a corner surrounded by buildings, but all the buildings blocking the path between him and his target shattered like tofu!

His wrist had stripped away the massive energy that allowed Mars to rotate!

Because the vectors were manipulated, that energy transformed into a demonic strike!

"Boom—!!!" The building collided violently with the Windowless Building, and the whole world seemed to echo with the massive sound!

But the Windowless Building before him didn't change in the slightest!

Accelerator's debt—8 trillion yen!

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Across the Myriad Worlds

After a brief shock, everyone arrived at a terrifying truth.

The energy Accelerator used from the Earth's rotation was equivalent to 210 billion hydrogen bombs, launched at 0.999998 the speed of light!

This strike, if converted into a meteorite impact on Earth, could create a crater 4,000 kilometers in radius and 4,000 kilometers deep!

In other words, even before Accelerator obtained his White Wings and Black Wings, he already had the power to destroy the world!

But what was even more shocking... this extinction-level power couldn't even destroy Aleister's Windowless Building?!

Everyone was baffled. You say Aleister is afraid of death? He broke into the Hidden World alone, fought many Magic Gods, and finally destroyed the Hidden World's phase to return.

You say he isn't afraid of death? Yet he built a Windowless Building without even a door, and its defensive power is such that even a meteorite impact or a world explosion couldn't destroy it!

In everyone's eyes, this Windowless Building should only be destructible by a Magic God or a quasi-Magic God.

But things that can't be destroyed don't need defense, and things that can be destroyed can't be defended against. Everyone understood Aleister's thought process less and less.

What was even more laughable was that, in the end, Accelerator was left with an 8 trillion yen debt.

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Easter Egg 2.

Kamijou Touma's Four Great Orthodoxies (Dumplings)—Shokuhou Misaki, Misaka Mikoto, Index, Othinus!

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Index World

The four people on the screen looked up simultaneously. Four Great Orthodoxies?

Could it be the "Kamijou Sect" that Touma created earlier? And they were the Four Great Orthodoxies of the Kamijou Sect?

Doesn't that mean they are the people closest to Touma?

Doesn't that mean it's a sure win?!

For a moment, joy prevented the four girls from overthinking the meaning of "dumplings" at the end.

Meanwhile, inside the Rose Cross Society, a woman who looked like a ripe peach sneezed heavily. Anna looked puzzled.

Did she catch a cold?

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