22 Magic Police

Amidst the tense atmosphere, Touma looked at the agents with a calm gaze and then at his grimoire, which the latter made him raise an eyebrow.

'It changed.'

The grimoire that was floating there wasn't coverless anymore, it had a blue cover with a clock in the middle and instead of clock hands, it was a dark five-leaf clover.

'Not only that, now I can feel a deeper connection and much more, but I will need to test it later.'

"Hey! Are you listening?" Screamed an agent after noticing that Touma was ignoring them. "Stop whatever you are doing or else we are going to use force!"

'Or I can test it now, I think I've gathered enough mana to do it.'

Touma looked unfazed by the threat of the agent, instead, the grimoire hovered in front of him.

Alerted by the sudden movement, the agents immediately entered in action. Those with swords charged forward while the ones who stayed behind pressed the trigger and fired at Touma.

Unfortunately for them, it was all useless against the power of time.

The bullets were suspended mid-air while the agents were stuck in the same position, unaware of their own situation.

"This feels more natural, if it even makes sense." Touma muttered to himself. For him, if casting spells was like entering a stance in a martial art before, now it feels like just moving your arm, a completely instinctive action. 'So this is the power of [Power Boost Card] huh.'

Touma inspected his grimoire, choosing to ignore the agents for now.

"Aside from Time magic, there is the addition of Gravity, Soul, Body, Bone and Blood magics. Everything that Lucius used in the battle is now mine too." Touma concluded and felt a connection to Lucius' soul inside the grimoire. "And there is also [Unite] or [Devil Assimilation], if the information is right, then it can be very powerful if I play my cards right."

"Now, let's see who these belong to." Said Touma as he walked towards who he presumed to be the leader.

First Touma removed any weapon the agent might have, then he checked the man's wallet.

"Ryu Asuhi, was born in October 1984 and has 2 kids. Also quite rich too, I mean, who carries 100k yen in his pockets?" Needless to say, Touma took the money and tripped the man to the ground before proceeding to rob all their money.

When he was about to unfreeze the man, Touma suddenly remembered the state he was in, wearing torn dirty clothes soaked in blood.

'This can't do.'

In an instant inside the frozen time, the clothes were reverted to the original look, clean of any blood or holes.

Touma nodded to himself and sat on the chair before unfreezing the man.

"Huh?" The man muttered in confusion before planting his face on the floor.

"No matter what your fetish is, there is a place and time for those kinds of activities, old man. I may be stepping outside my boundaries, but making out with the floor in front of a high schooler is inappropriate." Touma mocked him.

Hearing a voice in front of him, the man immediately got up and jumped back, instinctively reaching for his side to grab the sword, but he felt nothing.

"'Missing something, Asahi Ryu?" Touma asked as he waved Ryu's sword.

"Bastard, how do you know my name?" Ryu asked as he turned around. "What are you guys doing, restrain him—!"

The agent widened his eyes when he saw them motionless and the bullets stuck in the air.

"Don't worry, if you answer all my questions with no falsehoods, nothing will happen and everybody will go home." Said Touma as he gave a few swings with the sword. "And forget reaching to your sleeve or ankle, I already took your assassin toys."

Ryu panickaly patted his arms and legs and it was as Touma had said, he felt nothing there. Sweat poured down his forehead as he raised his hands.

"Alright, I will answer your questions, but before that may I know your name sir?" Asked Ryu politely to avoid angering the youth while also trying to assess the situation and how to come out alive.

"I don't remember giving you permission to ask though." Touma said with a 'smile', making Ryu swallow his saliva in nervousness, but as he was about to apologize, Touma cut him off.

"I'm just kidding, it would be awkward if we didn't know each other's name." Touma laughed, which irritated Ryu a little, but he quickly calmed himself and didn't let it show in his face.

'This brat…!'

"My name is Kamiya Touma, make sure to remember it."

'Kamiya Touma, I never heard of someone with that name nor a notorious Kamiya family, so the chance of him being an offspring from one of the branches of the four ancient families is rather low. And of course, there is a chance it isn't even his real name.'

"T-Then Kamiya-dono, what do you wish to ask?"

"For starters, which organisation do you belong to?"

"We belong to the History Compilation Committee, Kamiya-dono."

"Is it like a magical police or something?" Touma asked genuinely, beside god slaying humans and heretic gods, he didn't remember much about this world.

"Y-Yeah, you could say so…" Ryu had his eyebrows twitching in annoyance as he controlled himself from doing anything harsh.

"Then what I want to ask next is why did you come here?"

"We spotted an unusual amount of mana gathered in this room, so we were tasked to investigate the cause and stop it if possible."

'It must be when I was brought to Lucius' dimension, the grimoire was still here and was the source of mana.'

"Jeez, that explains why you guys were so tense. You need to relax more or you will go bald without even knowing." Touma's nonchalant response made Ryu even more annoyed as he gritted his teeth.

'It is because of you bastard! Who wouldn't when a guy shows up out of nowhere in front of them soaked in blood!?'

"Then my last question, where is the direction to Norway?"

"…"

"What? Is there something on my face?"

…

"Leader, are you alright? What happened here?" One of the agents asked, seeing Ryu looking outside the broken glass of the hotel room with a solemn expression.

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Ryu replied and then gazed in the corner of his eyes at the chair where Touma was sitting previously.

"Shouko."

Hearing their leader calling for her, she turned her head towards him.

"We have to report to the higher-ups, there is a monster heading towards Norway."

'And that bastard took all my money! No matter how, I will make him pay one day!' Ryu thought as a vein popped out of his forehead.

"Leader, my money suddenly disappeared!"

"Mine too!"

"Same here!"

"…Shit." Ryu cursed that youth again.

Meanwhile, Touma was flying high in the sky at high speed, he could've gone with even higher speed, but he decided to enjoy the scenery.

"Acting like a bad guy is quite fun in its own way." Touma chuckled as he recalled the time when he was bullying Riser.

'I am sure he already reported to his superiors about me and it would be a problem if other organizations started looking for me in their free time.'

Then his body glowed for a second and revealed Touma with a totally different appearance.

Touma looked like an average teenager, with brown hair and green eyes.

That's right, Touma was now using Kazuma's appearance as a temporary disguise.

'Next destination: Norway!'

…

At some mountain peaks in Norway, the tourists and locals were enjoying their day skiing or skateboarding on the snow, before the ground started suddenly shaking, making " people fall on the snow and causing avalanches.

In their panic, they didn't notice a hole in the clouds and a tray of a rainbow beams slowly disappearing into nothingness.

A few mountains away from them, a single figure walked through the snow without difficulty and a pair of ravens flying near him.

It was an old man wearing fancy clothing with gold armaments and an eye-catching eyepatch covering his right eye.

In his hand was the old man's most trustable weapon, a 'simple' wooden cane,

"I shall wait for you here, you who holds the knowledge of the unknown."

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Sorry for late update, working 11h per day isn't easy for me ;-;

Anyway, there is one chapter ahead on my pat lion (link in my profile) and please throw your kidney stones at me.