Editing review, starting from Natsuki Subaru shocking the world

Touma in the picture was no less pale.

The same cannot be understood.

Just like the public opinion erupting in the live broadcast room at this moment, he was shocked to see his own dire situation! ?

He looked up and found that the umbrella was not opened into a perfect circle, but its shape was unnatural, like a wrinkled half-moon.

Parachutes do not function properly when opened in any posture.

If you try to open the parachute while your body is spinning in the air, the risk of failure will increase.

Not only that, the height is not enough.

In fact, even if the parachute is used normally, if the footsteps are not stepped properly when landing, the impact force may still cause fractures.

It's easy to see what would happen if the car hit the asphalt road in this situation.

In a word, "life is at stake."

(If I fall... I'll die...!)

Even though he knew it was futile, Kamijou still moved his limbs subconsciously.

at this time.

Boom! Kamijou's body suddenly stopped falling, as if it had been hooked onto something. The impact was so strong that he couldn't breathe for a moment. After a while, he realized that his body was swaying from side to side like a pendulum.

"this……?"

He looked up and saw that the umbrella, or something more like a curtain, formed a makeshift lifeline, extending in a straight line. The front end of the "lifeline" was hung on a steel outline that looked like a giant fishing rod.

(… cranes… high-rise buildings under construction…?)

It is estimated that there are at least thirty floors.

Kamijou was at least two hundred meters away from the asphalt road.

The building is still under construction, and this is not the roof. I imagine the height of the crane will rise layer by layer as the exterior decoration is completed.

Kamijou's toes were about seven meters above the rooftop, about the same height as jumping from the second floor to the ground. However, perhaps because the crane was about to lift the steel frame from the ground, it stretched outward. At this rate, even if Kamijou removed the parachute bag, he still couldn't touch the building, and would only end up hitting the ground.

At this moment, a creepy sound of breaking fibers was heard from directly above.

It is not uncommon for a parachute to drift into the forest with the wind when landing. If it hangs on a thick tree for a long time, it may cause necrosis of the axillary artery.

If the designer had tinkered with the fabric to eliminate this risk, so that the umbrella could withstand air resistance but quickly break and fall to the ground when it got caught on a branch...

(Oops……)

Kamijou hastily grabbed the rope that was hanging his body with both hands.

The sound of fabric tearing became more and more obvious.

(Oh no! If the parachute hanging on the crane breaks, my head will definitely hit the asphalt road! I have to climb to the crane before that...!)

That being said, things were not as simple as Kamijou imagined.

Since Kamijou was suspended by ropes, all of which were connected to his back, he could only use his hands to support his weight as he climbed.

If they are special forces in movies or documentaries, they may be able to climb up and down cliffs or rope ladders dropped from suspended helicopters easily. However, this is only possible when their limbs are also tied with safety ropes and they can use these auxiliary tools to distribute the required force.

If you try to crawl forward using only your arms without your feet, you will be surprised at how difficult it is to move - just imagine rotating the situation 90 degrees to withstand the maximum gravity.

If it weren't for the weightlifters, it would be impossible.

Kamijou's inner arm began to ache before he could even climb three meters. His muscles gave up on the load that exceeded their limits.

“Are you kidding…? ”

He watched as the fabric of the parachute began to tear.

Once it breaks completely, it's over.

Even his right hand, which could negate any effect, couldn't allow him to land safely in the free fall from hell.

(…Will I die so easily in a place like this? Losing my life without knowing anything, without even knowing who is attacking me… How can I do this!)

At this moment, there was a "boom!" sound like the low hum of the wind.

This is not the common building style in the concrete jungle.

After all, it wasn't wind at all.

It's a huge body.

It was the dragon-like flying monster that had just flown with the supersonic passenger plane and split the aircraft in half.

After it finished off its iron prey, it did a big turn in the air as if to say it was not satisfied yet, and rushed straight towards Kamijou who was hanging in the air.

"……Bar?"

The young man didn't even have time to complain about the fickleness of life.

The steel crane that hooked onto Kamijou flew into the air.

The boy's ears couldn't even detect the sound of the collision.

The scenery gradually turned into a distorted streamline, and he realized that he was swinging in the air like a hammer, and it seemed that a chill ran up from the soles of his feet to his heart. In the chaotic vision, Kamijou could barely recognize one thing - his feet were approaching a road outside the building that was wide enough to allow small aircraft to take off and land.

Then he immediately understood the situation.

(…The broken crane is crashing onto the road…?)

The sound of snapping interrupted Kamijou’s thoughts.

The parachute fabric that tied him to the crane finally reached its limit.

Kamijou’s body flew out of the wreckage of the spinning crane like an object accidentally slipping out of his hand, just like attaching a stone to the tip of a stick with double-sided tape and then swinging the stick hard.

Even so.

Kamijou’s body still couldn’t touch the roof of the unfinished building.

He fell into the middle floor where the glass had not yet been installed.

“Aa ...

The screams caused by severe pain were drowned out by the sound of the huge crane wreckage hitting the ground.

Kamijou curled up in a fetal position in agony, rolling on the ground and wailing. This was not just a distraction. He himself might not know that in some track and field events, such as sparring, athletes would shout in order to make their brains secrete substances that remove the body's restrictions.

"Woo, woo woo..."

In a floor with no interior decoration but only exposed concrete and steel columns, Kamijou finally stood up shakily.

Outside the building, the monster was approaching fiercely. Kamijou quickly hid behind a thick pillar.

The pursuit did not come.

The monster covered with a lot of red lines seemed to be satisfied with just shooting down the crane, so it flapped its huge wings and flew away without carefully checking the results.

(…Where’s Index? And Misaka, Perdavi, Reisa, and Kumokawa Maria! How are they? Did they land safely? Did they not get attacked by any strange creatures?)

Kamijou took out his mobile phone from his pocket and dialed Index's number. Although she wouldn't normally answer this zero-yuan phone, she had no choice but to dial one by one now.

but--

"……What's wrong?"

Index didn't answer the phone.

In fact, there wasn't even anything resembling a dial tone.

Instead, a pre-recorded female voice repeatedly announced the incident:

"…Currently, the lines are extremely congested. In order to prioritize emergency communications with the police, fire department, etc., please refrain from unnecessary phone and email services. If you would like to confirm the safety of your relatives and friends, please use the voice message board service provided by each mobile phone company during a disaster…"

The phone wasn't working and neither seemed to be the email.

The simple bulletin board used for mobile phones also cannot be displayed, and the screen always shows a communication error.

Kamijou had originally tried a roundabout way of using a calling app on a Wi-Fi or other wireless network, but there was no response either… Then again, the cell phone he had was made by Academy City, so it was normal for some of the services to not work when outside, but it was a little too weird for all of them to not work.

At this moment.

He even suspected that someone had deliberately blocked the communication network.

But it shouldn't be like this.

Before you throw out conspiracy theories, there are things you should be more skeptical of.

in other words--

Does a line blockage mean that something big has happened that will cause the line to be blocked?

"..."

Kamijou looked back at the window without glass.

Since he rolled on the ground for a long time, he was more than ten meters away from the window and could not confirm the condition of the wide road below the building. If he wanted to confirm, he had to get close to the window and look down.

Do not know why.

He found himself strongly emotionally averse to doing so.

This is not because of fear of heights, nor because I don't want to remember that I am in a dangerous place. It is because I may see something beyond my imagination.

That being said.

Whether confirmed or not, the facts will not change.

And if we can get a little more information, maybe we can increase the options for future actions.

Kamijou moved unsteadily.

He slowly walked out from behind the steel pillar and approached the window without glass. One step, then another. Every time his shoes touched the floor, he could clearly feel the nauseating tension increasing, as if he was watching the possibility of Russian roulette firing a live bullet increasing as it kept failing.

The boy took the last step.

Kamijou stood on the edge of a cliff with nothing to hold on to.

He looked down with a stiff movement that seemed to make a sound.

His panicked pupils contracted.

The video paused here.

Switch the screen again and go to the other side, where the other girls are still parachuting...

.......

Chapter 179. Gremlin Appears!

parachute.

Immediately—

Everyone evacuated.

An old-fashioned and common plot setting.

This situation usually occurs when the protagonists are about to challenge a powerful enemy.

For example, the Sasuke pursuit battle in Naruto that we have reviewed before was a one-on-one fight between teams. God knows why Tsunade had the courage to send only a bunch of novices to chase after Uchiha's only son when she knew that he had escaped from Konoha.

Another example is the classic Battle of Judicial Island in One Piece, where CP9, which is equal in number to the protagonist group, is perfectly established to counter the protagonist group.

It's like the various plots in JOJO. No matter how many people are together, it will eventually turn into a one-on-one fight.

So -

Should I say this is a coincidence, or should I say this kind of plot is very cliché?

Admittedly... this is definitely a clichéd plot, but the problem is that many comic book creators will only use this method until they die, and the result is that they will never be able to reach that top level...

However, that is just the plot written in the comics.

But now...

The situation where Kamijou Touma, his group, Misaka Mikoto and others were completely separated was a completely edited plot that would inevitably happen in the world of Magical Index one day in the future.

Kamijou Touma would definitely be shot down from the plane in Tokyo because of the chaos caused by Gremlin.

As a result, they will be cleverly separated from their companions again, and a new adventure will begin immediately -

Um...