Chapter 20 - Touma vs Kaori/Stiyl 1

Right after school, Touma immediately set off to look for Kaori and Stiyl's whereabouts in Academy City. Because Touma want to expel Kaori, Stiyl, as well as Index from Academy City so that he wouldn't get into trouble with the three of them in the future. Even though he himself knew, that Aleister would never allow Index to leave Academy City.

Since Index was one of Aleister Crowley's pawns, so that his long-term plan to exterminate 'magic' from the face of the Earth could proceed smoothly.

But the 'new' Touma, would not allow himself to be controlled by Aleister Crowley like the original Kamijou Touma. Because he wasn't just Kamijou Touma, but Saotome Ranma who was reincarnated as Kamijou Touma.

And different from the original 'Kamijou Touma', Saotome Ranma who was born Kamijou Touma has a much stronger physique, better control over Imagine Breaker as well as the ability to imitate other people's abilities along with many other abilities that he has mastered while traveling with his grandfather on every summer vacation. Ranma who became Touma, had a lot of things that Aleister Crowley didn't know at all. Which will obviously make Aleister feel hopeless and frustrated, because Touma will be a factor that Aleister can't predict at all.

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When Touma went to look for Kaori and Stiyl, he certainly didn't forget to tell Shizuka and Kotori so they both wouldn't worry about him.

On his mission to find, Kaori and Stiyl. Touma knew that he could find the two of them easily, because their appearances were quite conspicuous. So even if Touma didn't know where the hotel Kaori and Stiyl were staying, finding the two of them wasn't difficult at all.

And sure enough, just by looking for the two of them in a bunch of tall buildings near Yuragi Sou. Touma could find them watching Yuragi Sou using binoculars on the roof of a building.

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"We've been waiting for Index to come out of that inn named Yuragi since this morning."

Right now Stiyl was looking very angry, as he had been waiting for Index to come out of Yuragi Sou for hours. But there were no sign that Index was going to leave Yuragi Sou at all, and that irritated Stiyl so much.

"How long will the two of us have to wait for Index! I'm sick of having to do useless things like what we're currently doing!"

"Until Index comes out of Yuragi Sou, of course," Kaori said who was currently still looking at Yuragi Sou using her binoculars. "So be patient a little bit, and stop complaining."

While Kaori and Stiyl were chatting, Touma approached the two of them while dispelling his presence, covering his body heat and body odor using Yin ki and also walking silently so that neither of them would be able to notice his arrival at all. Which would surely surprise them both if he suddenly appeared in front of them.

Surprising two people who were always being annoying was a pleasure for Touma.

"Both of you know right, keeping an eye on someone's residence from the roof of a building is an act that is close to criminal and also suspicious," Touma said who was standing right behind Kaori and Stiyl while putting his hands in his pants pockets so he could look cool in front of Stiyl and Kaori.

The voice of Touma who was behind them, make Stiyl and Kaori by surprise.

To the point that the hairs on their entire bodies stood up, and they both almost fell off the roof of the building. Because of the shock they experienced from Touma's voice.

"Who are you!" Kaori shouted who immediately pulled her katana from its sheath due to Touma's appearance which she couldn't feel at all. "And how did you get so close to both of us without us noticing."

"Don't ask too much Kanzaki," Stiyl said who was ready to attack Touma using the fireball that had appeared in his right hand. "Because I believe that he is the enemy we must fight."

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Stiyl Magnus, was currently sweating profusely from his body. He recognized the man who was currently in front of him, because yesterday he saw him in front of Yuragi Sou. And for some reason at this moment his dangerous instinct told him that he had to run as far as possible from the man in front of him.

He who should have a very accurate detection ability by detecting body heat, was completely unable to feel the body heat of the man who made his danger instincts flare up. And that made Stiyl feel even more anxious, because the man in front of him must be so strong that his dangerous instincts told him to run.

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Kanzaki Kaori prepared to dash towards Touma and immobilize his movements, so that she could interrogate Touma. But before she could do that, Stiyl had already attacked Touma using a sizable burst of fire from his right hand. But a strange thing happened just as the burst of flames from Stiyl was twenty centimeters away from Touma.

The flames disappeared completely, and Touma was not injured in the slightest. And his face looks so bored and sleepy, he even yawns because Touma is currently feeling very sleepy due to the boredom that comes from having to deal with fire magic users like Stiyl.

"Ashes to ashes and dust to dust! Take fire into my hands. Its form is that of a sword and its role is to execute my enemies!"

Two fire swords appeared in Stiyl's hands, and he threw two fire swords with temperatures over three thousand degrees Celsius at Touma. Which once again vanished as soon as it hit Touma's body, as if the two fiery swords had never existed.

Stiyl was shocked and speechless, as he had already attacked Touma twice. But his attacks had no effect on Touma.

What Stiyl didn't know was, Touma used the Flame Alchemy to eliminate the oxygen in the air. The skill that he learned in the FMA world when he traveled with his grandfather to that world. Because the essence of Flame Alchemy is manipulating oxygen to control fire. Different from Stiyl's principle of fire magic which generates fire directly using magic and controls it...

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Kaori who saw that Stiyl's attack had failed to injure Touma, this time was able to shoot towards Touma without interruption. And intended to hit Touma with the blunt part of her katana to knock Touma unconscious. But Touma was able to stop Kaori's attack by just backing his body slightly back at the same time as Kaori attacked to reduce the energy that was generated by the momentum of Kaori's attack. Touma could hold Kaori's sword with only the index and middle fingers of his left hand which he had strengthened using ki and years of practice.

Touma is now very strong, physically. But his physical strength was still not on par with a Saint like Kaori, so he used a special technique so he could withstand attacks from monsters like Kaori.

In order for him to attain physical strength on par with Saints, Touma still had to do much harder training. Even the body strengthening he had using Ki and Esper power was only enough to slightly offset Kaori. .In this world perhaps the only one who could surpass Saints like Kaori physically was probably only his grandfather Hiko Seijuro who was the swordsman with the best physical strength in the world.

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