Misfortune No One Sees, Until Now

Deep Blood: Part II

[I DO NOT OWN THE AWESOMENESS THAT IS 'A CERTAIN MAGICAL INDEX'!]

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The monitor flickered on once more. The words on the screen weren't surprising in the slightest. Everyone knew there would be more to come.

Misfortune. Suffering. Pain.

They would surely see more of all three.

(Is that why...?)

Mugino wondered.

Naturally, she had heard all about it, the boy's suffering that is; the memories that were played before she was brought here- on a whim she should add, something that still royally pissed her off!

Anyway, Hamazura had told Takitsubou, Kinuhata, and herself about the scenes, and they were shocking to say the least. That- compared to the ones they were viewing now, those particular remembrances were a lot harder to swallow.

That, as a child, Kamijou was brutally stabbed because his misfortune was feared. His unluckiness ostracized him a freak, and he just had to simply endure. And he did, because... that was just like him. It truly fit with the title of that particular horror. Acceptance.

Obviously by then she was bored out of her mind. That particular story did nothing but cause a brief interest, but it passed just like that.

But the next one...

(Is that why I can't ignore his existence? Could this be why this flame of curiosity hasn't finished yet?)

The Infinite Hells.

Now, when Hamazura had told them about this one, she had immediately brushed it off as the delusions of a broken individual. If truly desperate enough, the human mind could conjure up anything to sate the appetite of madness and insanity. People would believe what they wanted to believe. After all, are you kidding? The world was destroyed and remade countless times, just to break one individual!? There was no way she could believe something like that.

But... what if it was true? If there was another set of laws, if there was another board to play with, apart from the one she was familiar with- then... why couldn't such a thing be possible?

And so... that meant... that suffering could have been real.

No detail was kept from her; Hamazura had revealed it all. At that time, Mugino did not understand Hamazura's insistence on telling her all of this, as well as the deep respect in his tone when referring to this person that was a stranger to her.

And then imagine her shock when he told her how it started.

The world was destroyed...

The irritation! She remembered wanting to hit him for such a fallacy, but... he said it with a completely straight face... so she let him continue. Now, Mugino often did not admit to many shortcomings in her life but...letting the boy continue... that was a mistake. But now looking back on it, it was a something she was glad for,

He wandered endlessly in the black abyss, trying to gather the hope that he didn't want to let go of. So... he confronted the person who was responsible. The Magic God. Othinus.

Honestly, Mugino didn't want to believe such a person existed. Such a person with limitless power, on a scale that far surpassed that of a Level 5- but she didn't have anyway to refute such a being. After all, she know knew that at the highest stage of magic, was where such beings existed.

And then the trials began-

The boy was made public enemy number one. He was seen as evil surpassing herself, perhaps even surpassing the dark side. In that 'phase'- Hamazura called it- there was no lack of destruction that was used to rid the world of Kamijou Touma.