Even if I transform, I will never be captured.

However, Satella has yet to fulfill Touma Kamijou's wish.

This is definitely not because Satella doesn't value it...

Okay, being engrossed in VR games for the past few days was one of the reasons, but that's definitely not the key!

How should I put it...

Satella felt that all of this was too strange.

She spent half a day investigating the high school Touma Kamijou attended and his accommodation address.

Then, on the third day after arriving in this world, Satella went straight to the school and confronted Touma Kamijou. However, Touma, who was on his way, refused to accept this inexplicable gift. Just as Satella was about to resort to force to make him submit, Misaki Shokuhou happened to pass by. The inexplicably angry little queen then forcibly dragged Satella away.

On the fourth day after arriving in this world, Satella, on a whim, slipped money under the door of Touma Kamijou's dormitory. However, the moment she stepped out of the dormitory, Touma's room caught fire...

On the fifth day after arriving in this world, Satella tried a variety of methods with her wild imagination, such as stuffing money into the shoe cabinet, having the client hold a lottery event in a place where Touma Kamijou often passed by, and so on. However, all of these methods failed for some inexplicable reasons.

Now, on the sixth day since she transmigrated to this world, Satella, having reached her limit, once again cornered Touma Kamijou at the school gate.

"You have to accept this 10,000 yen today, no matter what!"

"Okay."

"Don't even think about running away. I'm coming prepared this time... Huh? You said... okay?"

Satella, who thought she was going to be rejected again, paused for a moment, then looked up at Touma Kamijou with a blank expression.

"Personally speaking, I don't want to accept this 10,000 yen. After all, it's not a good omen for someone like me to receive money for free."

Still in his adolescence, Touma Kamijou was clearly unable to handle Satella's adorable, innocent face. He turned away somewhat shyly, scratching his head with his right hand: "Besides, you were taken away by the Disciplinary Committee before..."

"I already said it was a misunderstanding!"

"Okay, okay, I was wrong!"

Faced with the girl about to explode, Touma Kamijou hurriedly took a step back and waved his hand, saying, "Anyway, if I'm not mistaken, all those strange things that have happened these past few days were your doing, right? Although it still feels very strange, you must have had some reasons for going to such lengths, right? If that's the case, then I'll accept it."

"that's it?"

Even after Satella stuffed 20,000 yen into Touma Kamijou's hand and the system notified her that her wish had been fulfilled beyond its limit, she still couldn't believe it was real.

The task that had been troubling her for several days was solved so easily?

"Huh? Wasn't it supposed to be 10,000 yen?" Touma Kamijou asked suspiciously, holding the two large bills in his hand. "How did it become 20,000 yen?"

"If you don't want it, take it back!"

Now that the mission was accomplished, Satella no longer needed to be polite to Touma Kamijou. She immediately threatened him in a harsh tone, making a move to snatch the money back.

"Wow--"

Kamijou Touma gesticulated wildly as he stepped back a distance, exclaiming, "What's given away can't be taken back!"

"Pfft! I was just kidding."

Satella covered her mouth and laughed at Touma's comical appearance, then put her hands on her hips and said disdainfully, "A mere 20,000 yen is nothing to me!"

"I don't think 20,000 yen can be described as 'meager' at all. For a high school student like me who is always hungry, this is a huge sum of money that can last for a month!"

"No, you definitely won't need it for a month, because you'll definitely lose those 20,000 yen in no time!"

Snapped!

In the air, it seemed as if the sound of an arrow being shot could be faintly heard. Poor Kamijou, clutching his heart with one hand and supporting himself on the ground with the other, knelt down.

orz……

Satella felt refreshed after giving Touma a sarcastic remark. She waved her hand and said, "Now that things are settled, I'll be leaving. Hope we can meet again someday."

"and many more!"

Touma Kamijou quickly got up and called out to Satella, who was about to leave, "I still don't know your name."

"Huh? Why do you want to know my name? Do you want to pursue me? No way, to be honest, I think we're better off as friends."

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"What's with getting a haircut right off the bat?... Wait! I didn't even think that far ahead! You overly self-conscious young lady!"

Kamijou Touma patted his chest with an air of superiority, "What I want to say is, no matter what your reason is for giving me these 20,000 yen, I, Mr. Kamijou, will never accept favors for nothing."

"Didn't I already say that I don't care about 20,000 yen at all, so you don't need to care about it either?"

"No, no, no, no matter what, these 20,000 yen are incredibly precious relief funds that pulled me out of the crisis of having to eat tree bark! And Mr. Kamijou believes in the ironclad fact that it is only right to pay back debts."

“I see…” Satella gently touched the corner of her lips and tilted her head: “Alright then, my name is Satella, just Satella.”

“Satella…right?”

With a tone as if he wanted to etch the name into his mind, the ordinary high school boy named Kamijou Touma patted his chest and smiled at the silver-haired girl, saying, "My name is Kamijou Touma, and one day, I will definitely repay this kindness!"

Author's Note:

PS1. Thanks to Bookguer95277499985, Mengying, Mohezi, Adult Elementary School Student YES, Lao San's Second Oldest, Lyakad, Patchouli Norrell, Weichen233, Aiya~Sao Dongxi!, and Shinomiya Kaguya for their knives and donations.

P.S. 2. I failed to cultivate immortality last night and missed one chapter. I'll make up for it when I have time. There will be another chapter later today, but it will be very late...

Chapter 35 Misaki Shokuhou - Waiting

"PS10, 15-inch LCD monitor, Xbox Seven, Nintendo handheld console, tablet, spare phone and power bank..."

In her bedroom inside the [Talent Workshop], Satella lightly counted her gains over the past few days and the things she planned to take with her.

It's now the last day of the seven-day period, and there are only ten hours left before Satella is forcibly kicked out of the A Certain Magical Index world.

Although she was still very reluctant to leave this world, Satella would not wait until ten hours later to leave.

Because by then, Misaki Shokuhou, who goes to school, will be going home!

Although she is now a girl, Satella still hates those soap operas where people cry and whine when they part ways.

Therefore, Satella will not wait for Misaki Shokuhou to return home before leaving.

because……

She will cry.

In order not to become the kind of girl she hates, Satella decides to leave early.

However, to be honest, this trip to the world of A Certain Magical Index has been incredibly fruitful.

Leaving aside the digital devices for now, I gained two things in terms of practical capabilities alone.

One of them is the initial version of Misaki Shokuhou's "Mental Control" - "Mental Suggestion".

As a low-level ability (level 1), the effect of [psychological suggestion] is not significant. Its only effect is that, when combined with certain language skills, it can make your words more convincing.

Additionally, after exceeding Touma Kamijou's wishes, you obtain the [Flawed Imagine Breaker].

Although Satella has complained many times about why there are incomplete versions, even incomplete versions still possess the [Imagine Breaker] ability, and their effects are still very useful.

The effect of the incomplete version of Imagine Breaker is still to eliminate supernatural abilities, but the difference from the complete version is that—

Satella herself must understand the object she is eliminating.

In short, she can eliminate Misaka Mikoto's Railgun and Shokuhou Misaki's Mental Control because she understands the nature of both abilities.

However, she could not dispel the magic because she knew nothing about it.

Therefore, her "Incomplete Imagine Breaker" won't bounce away all her luck like Touma Kamijou did, because she simply doesn't understand what "divine luck" or "the red thread of fate" really are.

Furthermore, because he exceeded Touma Kamijou's wishes, his skill tree was also unlocked for Satella.

It takes 40 Prayer Points to advance from [Fragmented Imagine Breaker] to [Illusion Breaker], 80 Prayer Points to advance from [Illusion Breaker] to [Reverse Imagine Breaker], and 160 Prayer Points to advance from [Reverse Imagine Breaker] to [Divine Purification].

...In short, unless Satella becomes the next generation's workaholic, she probably won't be able to upgrade Kamijou Touma's skills.

Oh, right, besides these orthodox skills that need to be leveled up one by one, Touma Kamijou also has a separate passive skill called [Premonition Perception], which only requires 20 wish points to unlock.

Satella exceeded Touma's wish by gaining 20 wish points, so she immediately activated the skill without hesitation.

—This skill is absolutely divine!

Although limited by physical constitution, its potential is extremely high, making it a skill that you will definitely not regret investing in!

In addition to the skills mentioned above, Satella also brought along all the equipment she had bought before.

The wind-up bandage was strapped to his body, while the other two guns were carried on his back.

"It's time to leave."

As she murmured softly, Satella looked around the house where she had lived for seven days—perhaps her transformation had made her heart more fragile, for just looking at this familiar scenery almost brought her to tears.

After sniffling and managing to suppress her emotions, Satella, her eyes slightly red, began searching for paper and pen.

Although she decided to leave quietly, it didn't mean that Satella would leave without a word.

She knew that if she didn't leave something behind, Misaki Shokuhou would go crazy...

Unfortunately, the bedroom was truly highly modernized. Satella searched for a long time but couldn't find a pen, so she picked up her phone to send a text message to Misaki Shokuhou.

After spending ten minutes, with tears completely soaking her phone screen, Satella finally finished editing a text message and sent it to Misaki Shokuhou.

"All right!"

Satella patted her cheeks, trying to cheer herself up, and began the final check-up.

"I've brought everything. I've stored thousands of novels and single-player games on my phone. That's about it... Let me think of anything else I need to bring... Oh right, game discs!"

Satella let out a sigh of relief, feeling a bit scared. If there was only a game console and no game discs, then even if she brought everything into Re:Zero, it wouldn't have made a difference!

Satella began collecting the game discs she had scattered around. Once she was done, she was really going to leave.

Meanwhile, Misaki Shokuhou, who was in class, also received a text message from Satella.

“Shokuhou-chan… Although you’ve always told me to call you Misaki, I still can’t bring myself to say it.”

"I'm about to leave."

pat!

It was as if all the light and heat in the world had been sucked away; Misaki Shokuhou, her body ice-cold, couldn't even hold her phone, and it fell to the ground.

But the next second, as if she had suddenly gained power from somewhere, Misaki Shokuhou stood up abruptly and ran towards the classroom door.

"It's not about leaving the [Talent Workshop] or leaving Academy City, but about truly leaving this world."