Chapter 44 - Zodiac Member

While Touma and Shizuka were on their morning run, when the two of them crossed one of the sections of the circular path that encircled the hill where Yuragi Sou was standing. The two of them accidentally saw the body of Stiyl Magnus, who was lying stiff on the street with clothes covered in rips, a body covered in scars and trash. Also animal droppings in large quantities on his head along with other parts of his body.

And right now Stiyl wasn't in his illusory form where he looked mature, but his true form where he was of a short stature that was only slightly taller than Index. .Touma doesn't seem to care about the fire mage who is always arrogant and addicted to smoking, because he knows that Stiyl's current situation was caused by Stiyl's actions when Touma heard the story about Stiyl's disrespect towards Chitose which caused Chitose to give a bad luck to Stiyl to punishing him and teaching him a lesson, last night from Chitose's own mouth.

And how Stiyl ended up near Yuragi Sou was none of his business and he didn't want to care about it at all.

Shizuka who had a kind heart tried to help Stiyl. But Touma prevented Shizuka from doing that, because Touma knew Stiyl's misfortune triggered by Chitose's power could also bring Shizuka's misfortune too. And Touma didn't want that kind of thing to happen to Shizuka.

After Shizuka understood what Touma's reason was, forbidding herself to help Stiyl. Shizuka still wanted to help Stiyl because her heart was moved with compassion. Bbut at the same time Shizuka also didn't want to be unlucky like Stiyl, so Shizuka called the medical staff from Heaven Canceller's hospital so that at least someone could help Stiyl.

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Aureolus Izzard, became very annoyed when he learned from his subordinates that the Himegami Aisa he wanted to use to lure vampires into the ritual he would perform in a couple day had run away from the school dormitory where Aisa lived. If he doesn't find Aisa soon, then the important ritual he will perform at the important night in a couple day will fail and he will have to wait a year so that he can perform the same ritual.

That's why he's currently sending his men so they can find Aisa and bring Aisa back to him. He even asked for help from members of the Zodiac to find Aisa. Because he had a bad feeling that his plan would fail if he didn't ask the Zodiac for help.

The member of the Zodiac who had come to help Aureolus was a girl of around fifteen to sixteen years of age with curly white hair and red eyes named Usami. Aureolus didn't know what kind of power the girl had, but he could feel that Usami was much stronger than him in term of physical strength so Aureoulus himself didn't dare to ask Usami what power he had.

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Usami Ikkoku, a member of the Zodiac who looks like a gyaru. She was sitting on a rooftop eating the takoyaki ahe had just bought, while watching Shizuka and Touma who were running in the morning.

What she noticed more closely from Shizuka and Touma was that Touma caught her attention, because of the level of power she felt from within Touma's body. As someone addicted to fighting strong foes, Touma was someone she felt worthy of being her opponent.

And Usami was impatient to fight Touma, but of course ahe would do it right after she finished her mission to find Aisa.

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Mikoto Misaka felt bad for Touma, because she had left Touma alone along with one of her clones.

But she had no other choice, because it was already very late and if she didn't return to Tokiwadai Dormitory soon, she would receive the wrath of the head dorm. And that was something she didn't want at all, even though it was right after she returned to Tokiwadai Dormitory.

Mikoto once again sneaked out of the dormitory in search of more detailed information regarding the Level 6 Shifter project.

And how shocked Mikoto was when she found out that the Level 6 Shifter project along with her clone project had been stopped by someone.

When Mikoto saw the name of the person who had stopped the project from Level 6 Shifter she became even more shocked. Because she had heard Kotori say that name several times and called the person by that name her grandfather.

The name of the person stopping Level 6 Shifter a few years earlier he was Hiko Seijuro XIII. Who according to the information she received was one of the oldest humans in the world whose age was more than hundreds of years old as well as one of the most influential people in Academy City and also the grandfather of Kamijou/Itsuka Kotori and Kamijou Touma.

Two people she knew very well, especially Kamijou Kotori who was her age.

Mikoto realized that the Kamijou family had their quirks, after she got to know the two Kamijous in Academy City. But an ordinary human being who can live for hundreds of years is beyond the understanding of the science she knows. Because even with all the technology that Academy City had, there was nothing that could be used to extend a human's lifespan by more than a hundred and twenty years.

(Mikoto didn't know that Heaven Canceller had succeeded in inventing the technology that could allow a person to live beyond a thousand years that was used by Aleister Crowley.)

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At the dining table, Misaka 10032 and Himegami Aisa ate very voraciously. And the eyes of the two of them lit up, when they ate the food made by Chitose. It was the first time for the two of them to eat food so delicious that they couldn't stop eating.

Index feels a little jealous of Aisa and Misaka 10032 who can eat a lot without being banned by anyone.

But Index couldn't do anything, because she was forbidden to eat more than one bowl of rice per day. Plus because of the acupuncture treatment that Chitose did to Index she couldn't eat much because just one bowl of rice made her feel full.

Seeing the way Misaka eats from 10032 and Aisa's brutality makes Kirika, Ayu and also Motoharu feel a bit disgusted. So they have no appetite and choose to end their breakfast a little earlier.

At the same time as the three of them finished their breakfast. Shizuka and Touma had just come back from their morning run and they both went straight to ofuro to clean themselves up.

After that, the two of them along with Ayu, Kirika and Motoharu went to school together as they sometimes do. Of course Shizuka and Touma didn't forget to bring Chitose's packed breakfast so they could both have breakfast at school.

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"Sigh, it seems that Touma-san is going to be in big trouble again today," Chitose said who had a bad feeling when she saw Touma's teacup cracked when she was washing it. "And I think it's a double problem at the same time, if you look at the big crack in this glass."

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