The Legend of Level 0 in Academy City

Upon seeing this, Touma and Kamijou immediately hid.

Sneaking past the searching crowd, the two entered the cabin and hid in a room to discuss their escape plan.

Rumble!

Another loud bang was heard, and Kamijou and the other looked out through the round glass window on the side of the room.

On the calm sea, one after another, giant ice ships, just like the one they were on, emerged.

Kamijou suddenly remembered Index, who had been left alone on the shore. He nervously took out his phone to call Index, but could not make the call because there was no signal at sea.

At this time.

Squeak~~

The sound of the doorknob turning rang out.

In his nervousness, Touma only had time to cover Osora under the sheets before the door was opened.

But what came into view was an acquaintance.

Looking at the petite nun standing in the doorway, Touma Kamijou couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "Agnès?!"

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Inside a spacious room on the giant ice ship.

A golden-haired man, around 4 years old and dressed in a luxurious holy robe, stared at the ice wall in front of him with a look of disdain in his eyes.

Behind him stood two men of very different builds, one thin and one fat.

The fatter man, watching the golden-haired man's arrogant retreating figure, said displeasedly to the thinner man beside him:

"Toktu, since His Holiness the Bishop doesn't need us, there's no need for us to fawn over him, is there?"

The language they spoke was different from the others; it was fluent English.

"..."

Upon hearing this, the thin man named Toktu pondered for a long while before speaking to the golden man:

“Mr. Pusoni, I hope you will reconsider. As you know, that boy’s right hand can nullify any magic. If I may be frank… here, only Paterson and I can subdue that boy. Moreover, our purpose is only to take that boy hostage as bait, which should not conflict with your purpose, right?”

Upon hearing this, the golden man known as Pusoni couldn't help but let out a contemptuous laugh.

"Heh... Don't confuse my Roman Catholic Church with you pagans. You can't do it simply because you're incompetent! Besides, something that rejects the Lord's grace should be cut off immediately. How can we allow you to take it away! Alright, I've completely lost interest in your ridiculous remarks. Considering your relatively respectful attitude, I'll let you off the hook for now! Get out!"

"Tsk, in that case, Mr. Pusoni, you'd better watch yourself! Just don't ask us for help later!"

The thin man, Toktu, clicked his tongue in resentment and beckoned the frosty-faced Paterson to walk out of the room.

Magicians possess a variety of methods, and even in the deep ocean, they have ways to escape.

Therefore, the man in gold was not worried about how the two of them would survive on the surface of the Adriatic Sea after leaving their ship.

However, contrary to his expectations, the two did not leave the ice ship after coming out of the room, but instead found a place to hide.

It seems they haven't given up on their goal and intend to observe secretly, waiting for an opportunity to act.

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Academy City, District 23.

This is a school district specializing solely in the aviation and space industries; all of Academy City's major airports are located here.

Unlike other areas, this school district, filled with runways and rocket launch sites, doesn't feel cluttered with skyscrapers. Looking around, it's like a flat asphalt road dotted with control towers and testing grounds.

Inoue Hideka stopped the magnetic force operation, panting, and looked at the runway a little distance from the airport, where several large passenger planes, each tens of meters long, were parked.

If you look closely, you can see a figure standing in front of a passenger plane under the streetlights.

Inoue Hideka walked through the business boarding gate and passageway to the plane where the person was.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Inoue?"

Waiting in front of the passenger plane was a boy of about eighteen or nineteen years old. When he saw Inoue Eika coming over, he asked her a question very politely.

"Yes, it's me."

"Okay, please follow me."

Following behind the boy, Inoue Hideka boarded the passenger plane and entered the cabin.

Finding a place to sit down, Inoue Hideka fastened her seatbelt and said to the boy with some curiosity:

"Working at this hour must be really tough!"

Inoue Hideka assumed the boy had been forced to work because of her, but to her surprise, the boy laughed heartily and replied:

"No, I was originally a passenger plane worker, I just temporarily changed jobs. Besides, not only will I get to see the legendary 7 km/h passenger plane, but there's also a high salary, so I'd be happy to do this kind of work!"

"Oh, I see... Hmm!"

As they were talking, Inoue Hideka suddenly felt a jolt, and the plane started moving.

At 7,000 kilometers per hour, under the gravitational force generated by this speed, Inoue Hideka felt his internal organs were under intense pressure, and he was forced to stop speaking halfway through his sentence.

After a while, the plane's speed seemed to stabilize.

Without the added pressure, Inoue Hideka felt much better and asked the boy again:

"At this speed, it shouldn't take long to get to Italy, right?"

"Yes, it takes about an hour and a half to get there."

"Okay, could you please let me know 1 minutes before the plane reaches the Adriatic Sea?"

"Okay. Please don't be so polite. It's my duty to provide service to passengers; otherwise, I wouldn't be able to afford such a high fee!"

The young flight attendant gave a professional smile. Inoue Hideka didn't know why the boy was working at an age when he should be in school, but she was quite satisfied with his work attitude.

"Ah... in that case, I'd like to ask if there are any telescopes or anything like that here?"

With a "let's give it a try" attitude, Inoue Hideka made her request.

If possible, he wanted to use binoculars to check the sea surface below when passing through the Adriatic Sea, so as to roughly judge the situation of Touma Kamijou.

"Um... if you mean a regular telescope, I'm sorry, no."

The flight attendant looked at Inoue Hideka with some difficulty.

"However, this passenger plane is equipped with fixed telescopes that can be used to observe the situation below. I wonder if they could be used as a substitute?"

"Huh??"

While Inoue Hidekazu was still struggling with how to check the situation directly below from the plane even with binoculars, the flight attendant's words gave him a pleasant surprise.

"where?"

"If you'd like, please come and sit here."

Inoue Hideka unbuckled her seatbelt and followed the flight attendant to the back of the plane.

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An hour later.

Over the Adriatic Sea, the passenger plane, which could originally reach a maximum speed of 7 kilometers per hour, had now reduced its speed and altitude considerably.

Inside the passenger plane, flying smoothly.

Inoue Hideka gripped the strut that was attached to the passenger plane and connected to the telescope, his eyes fixed on the image displayed inside the telescope.

Below lies an endless blue ocean, with one or two small islands occasionally appearing within the circle formed by the telescope's lenses.

Although the passenger plane had entered the Adriatic Sea, the exact location of Kamijou and his team's battle was not easy to find in such a vast ocean.

Inoue Hideka quickly and carefully rotated the telescope in his hand, adjusting the angle, trying to find that ice-blue fleet as fast as possible.

Got it!

When Inoue Hideka's eyes were starting to ache from staring through the binoculars, he finally saw ice ships appearing on the sea.

Adjusting the focus, Inoue Hideka located the largest ice ship among the many vessels, adjusted the focus again, and examined the situation on it.

On the deck, what Inoue Eika saw was the Amakusa-style members confronting the Roman Catholic nuns, and Kamijou Touma, Index, Osora, and others who had just rushed in through a door opened on the ice ship...

Hiding in a corner of the deck, there were two men, one fat and one thin, who shouldn't have been there!

Although they hid very well, they could not escape the eyes of Inoue Hideka, who was looking down from high above.

The two did not follow Touma Kamijou into the cabin, but remained hidden in place, seemingly monitoring the movements on the ship.

After a quick look, Inoue Hideka could basically conclude that the two people, one fat and one thin, were the variable in this situation.

Without further thought, Inoue Hideka told the flight attendants to ask the pilot to lower the altitude and speed to the minimum before putting on her parachute.

The flight attendants didn't ask any further questions, nor did they try to dissuade Inoue Hideka from jumping out of the plane when there was seawater below.

He understood perfectly well that the person who could command Academy City to send a special passenger plane for him was no ordinary person.

The pilot was very skilled, and in no time, the passenger plane had descended to an altitude of about 2 meters.

Inoue Hideka donned her parachute, opened the cabin door, and felt the howling wind whipping against her face.

Taking out the pistol he had brought with him just in case, Inoue Hideka thought to himself with relief:

I never thought this thing would actually come in handy.

At the same time, he felt the wind and humidity with his body, and silently calculated the effects of light, gravity, Coriolis force, and the weight and caliber of the bullet on his head based on the techniques he had learned from Indian poker. He then took his pistol and fired a bullet at the largest of the many ice ships.

Although pistols don't require the same level of careful analysis and consideration as real sniper rifles, given the altitude of 2 meters and the range of the pistol, Inoue Hidekazu had to carefully choose the angle of fire.

boom!

The moment the bullet was fired, Inoue Hideka leaped off the passenger plane, simultaneously extending his palm towards the direction the bullet was flying and using a magnetic glove.

Controlling the magnetic force in his hand, Inoue Hideka followed behind the bullet, maintaining a steady descent, falling quickly and steadily towards the direction of the ice ship.

Chapter 347 Magical Armor

The wind howled in her ears as Inoue Hideka used her parachute and magnetic pull to descend steadily toward the ice ship.

When they were less than 50 meters from the ice ship, Inoue Hideka pulled out the red cross from her back, ripped it across the rope connecting her body and the parachute, and then swung the red cross in her hand and threw it towards the ice ship's deck.

Within 50 meters, Inoue Hideka used magnetic gloves to push the red cross into the ice on the deck.