World Composition

Touma Kamijou felt a weight sink into his arms. The girl's soft body still carried residual warmth, and he instinctively tightened his hold, barely keeping Index from slipping to the floor.

Stiyl stood there stiffly, his lips moving several times, yet not a single word came out.

Kaori Kanzaki slowly lowered the hand gripping her sword. The sheath of the Seven Heavens Seven Blades knocked against the wooden floor with a dull, soft sound.

She stared at Zhang Qi, her eyes—usually sharp as blades—now filled with complicated, indecipherable emotions.

"Is—is it over?"

"Yes, I broke the spell formula inside her body—"

Zhang Qi nodded and explained.

"Uh—just like that, it's been lifted?"

Stiyl's voice rose as he asked in disbelief.

Though he did not know the details of the spell formula inside Index, as a security measure designed to prevent the leakage of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, it had to be the highest technological achievement of Necessarius.

Something of that level had been dealt with so casually?!

"That's right. Although the structure of this spell formula was complex, its core principle was not.

It merely used psychic sensing and life-force monitoring to set up a timed self-destruction and passive defense program.

As long as you bypass its defensive logic and directly alter its instruction set at the source, it naturally becomes ineffective."

Zhang Qi nodded as he answered.

Hearing that, Stiyl opened his mouth, but for a moment, he did not know what to say.

Too many things had happened today that had overturned his worldview. He was gradually getting used to it.

"So that means—Index, she's really all right now?"

Holding the peacefully sleeping girl in his arms, Touma Kamijou could not help but let out a sigh of relief.

"Yes, she's all right."

Zhang Qi gave him a