A Certain Magical Apology (A Certain Magical Index)

A Certain Magical Apology

Academy City.

A city with a population of 2.3 million people, 80% of which are students. A city far more advanced than any place on the planet. A city that is mostly cut off from any other place in Japan and the world. A city where lots of its inhabitants are esper users.

And finally, a city notorious for being a battlefield - whether it was from the magic side or the science side.

A certain black spiky-haired boy stirred awake in a hospital bed at a certain hospital. Opening his eyes, he found himself in a very familiar hospital room that held a special flower pot that was not seen in any other hospital room.

"Back in the same hospital room, huh? I guess that isn't misfortunate." The boy known as Kamijou Touma said as he tried to raise himself up from the hospital bed. He found it to be pretty hard to do so as pain struck through his body, more specifically around his upper body, so he could only manage to slightly sit up against the metal headrest of the bed.

"Ah. You're awake now." A voice rang out from the door of the hospital room. Kamijou Touma turned towards it to find a very familiar face in the hospital walking inside his room.

"You are quite the patient aren't you?" The frog-faced doctor known as Heaven Canceller spoke as he held a clipboard in front of him. "You up and left right after we pulled the bullet out and caused an even greater injury to your body. I was quite surprised you happened to last a long time out there."

Kamijou Touma awkwardly chuckled before answering. "Well a lot of things happened you see and I still needed to finish things off. If I didn't push myself then I wouldn't have been able to save someone." He looked out the window to see it was bright, likely close to noon. Yesterday was a scene of both enjoyment and chaos as not only was the Ichihanaransai festival happening that day but a large-scale rescue and battle operation which he found himself involved in just to save a girl named Fräulein Kreutune. Kamijou Touma had gotten injured during the operation due to a misunderstanding that found himself having a bullet pierce his upper body.

"A self-righteous hero as always I see." Heaven Canceller smiled before looking at his clipboard to check over Kamijou Touma's health records. "Well you're going to need to stay in here for a couple of days so that you can fully heal. Or at least until you are somewhat able to walk without too much pain in the case of you not wanting to stay in here too long. I do wish you would stay longer though. Having specific nurses set to you really does add light to this hospital." He chuckled.

"I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear that last part..." Kamijou Touma awkwardly chuckled again out of embarrassment and a very slight blush could be seen if one looked very closely at his face.

Heaven Canceller finished reading the records on his clipboard before looking over Touma with a grim expression. "You were also involved in an incident that had Antiskill fire a gun at you. It seems they want to question you once you were awake enough to talk."

Kamijou Touma froze as he just came to the realisation. "Oh... I forgot about that... Of course that's the first thing that I have to deal with as soon as I wake up. Such misfortune!"

The doctor chuckled before replying. "Relax. I can delay their response so you can get yourself around things for now. And before you ask, you won't really be able to avoid it." He answered just as Kamijou opened his mouth to ask a question.

"Such misfortune."

"Just make sure you stay in here so we can keep an eye on you." Heaven Canceller started making his way towards the door of Kamijou Touma's hospital room, opening the door so he could leave. But just before he was about to make an exit, his body jolted as if he just remembered something. "Oh. One more thing as well. You have a visitor."