A Scientific Urban Detective.

Chapter 1017 Don't Underestimate Index
Since you're already lovers, why do you still need to duel?
Aunt Misaka Misuzu's focus is indeed quite unique, but to Lin Wuming's dismay, in order to explain this issue clearly, he ultimately couldn't avoid his "harem ambitions."

Although it's no longer a secret now, Misaka Misuzu had already figured it all out a long time ago.

However, it's a different story if Lin Wuming admits it himself. Finding a suitable excuse to fool someone without lying is no easy task.

Moreover, it is quite obvious that Misaka Misuzu is now trying to get Lin Wuming to admit and say his true thoughts, even though she already knows the truth in her heart; having already found the right answer in her mind, she is even less likely to accept any other fabricated reasons.

In terms of personal feelings, Lin Wuming was not a particularly decisive person to begin with, and now he subconsciously looked around—speaking of which, weren't there many hostile forces that sent people to infiltrate during the Great Star Festival? Why didn't one or two jump out to help him out at this time?

……

Because the enemies are all going after Touma Kamijou.

Especially after Orianna's side quest to "seduce Lin Wuming" came to an abrupt end, Bishop Piagogi, who was remotely directing operations from the other side of the world, immediately adjusted his strategy, urging his various personnel, both those he had arranged and those he had hired, to teach Kamijou Touma a lesson. His aim was to gather as much information as possible about "Imagine Breaker" before Lin Wuming decided to intervene.

Oriana didn't stand on ceremony and showed no shame for failing the mission. Instead, she took advantage of the situation and used the people arranged by Bishop Piagogi to help her complete the main quest.

Those hired mages were of limited strength, far inferior to Oriana herself, but they were more than capable of serving as miscellaneous soldiers to confuse the enemy and wear them down.

At least, with these helpers, she did force Touma and the other three to split up... finally giving her a chance to catch Touma alone!
—Bishop Piagogi's mission objective was, in essence, to "test the true strength of Kamijou Touma"; as for "seducing Lin Wuming," it was merely a preventative measure to prevent Lin Wuming from interfering.

Orianna, the "delivery person," values ​​her business reputation highly. Even for a side quest, she won't easily give up unless absolutely necessary.

Since the "seduction tactic" failed, let's get straight to the point and test the strength of that "Imagine Killer".

Meanwhile, Touma Kamijou and Stiyl are also searching the entire city for Oriana's whereabouts.

However, Orianna was exceptionally experienced in counter-tracking, and she deliberately created confusion along the way, setting up many wrong routes and traps.

They even went off to perform a side quest, which resulted in a long, completely unintelligible movement sequence during the divination of the Jian Gong Zhai character, making their search much more difficult.

Subsequently, due to attacks from numerous mercenary mages who appeared out of nowhere, Touma Kamijou and his group of four were forced to split up to increase their efficiency.

Just as Touma Kamijou was fighting and retreating, busy reducing the number of enemies who were inexplicably targeting him while also searching for Oriana, his phone suddenly rang. It was Komoe-sensei calling.

The moment Touma saw the caller ID, he felt a pang of anxiety, because Index had been entrusted to Tsukuyomi Komoe's care.

Normally, unless it's something particularly urgent, Teacher Xiaomeng won't call easily, so...

"Touma, it's terrible! Sister Nun has run away!" came the anxious voice of Tsukuyomi Komoe from the phone.

—See, what I feared most has come to pass… Kamijou Touma sighed inwardly, but now he couldn’t blame Komoe-sensei.

He knew how efficient Index was; if he wasn't careful, she really could escape!
“Don’t worry, teacher,” Touma Kamijou said. “I will find Index.”

After hanging up the phone, Touma Kamijou sighed heavily—he was already playing hide-and-seek with the enemy, and now, there was another equally urgent matter to deal with…

"We miscalculated. Index can sense the aura of magical fluctuations. With so many magicians appearing in Academy City today, she must have noticed it!" Having spent some time together, Touma Kamijou immediately guessed the logic behind Index's actions.

Just as Touma Kamijou was pondering whether to notify Stiyl and the others to help search for the person, he happened to see a silver-white figure running out from the fork in the road in front of him.

It was Index herself, dressed in a white nun's habit!

"Index!" Touma Kamijou shouted immediately and quickly chased after her.

But when he passed the fork in the road where Index had run out, Touma Kamijou slowed down and eventually stopped. His gaze seemed to be drawn to something as he turned to look at the scene inside the path.

One, two, three, four, five...

Due to the lighting and obstacles, Touma Kamijou quickly gave up his efforts to count the items.

Only one thing is certain... There are many people lying dead in front of me, scattered haphazardly. And all of this is clearly related to Index, who just ran out of here.

"Touma!" Index came running back again, and before Touma could even speak, she said, "Where did you go? I've been looking for you for ages!"

However, after seeing how travel-worn and panting Touma looked, Index immediately understood.

"Sigh..." The nun sighed, "I knew it, these magicians must be here to see you, Touma."

“Whatever happens to me,” Touma Kamijou said, pointing to the “corpse-strewn” scene in the alley. “How… how did you do that?”

"Haven't I told Touma countless times?" Index puffed out her chest and said proudly, "Even though I can't use magic, I am still a member of the Church of Necessary Evil, not some weak and helpless girl!"

According to Index, even without magic power and unable to cast spells herself, she has plenty of ways to deal with magicians given her knowledge of 103,000 magic books!
Before coming to Academy City, Index had gone on a long escape that spanned most of the globe.

She relied not only on the protection of the then-undamaged "mobile church".

(End of this chapter)