Wang Li Art Academy.

It is one of the most famous art museums in the United Kingdom, and it also has activities similar to art schools in order to train artists of the next generation. You can still hear the lecturer's voice in the museum.

Standing in front of the fluorescently lit podium, is Shirley? Cromwell.

She is a woman with blond hair like a lion's mane and a chocolate complexion. The costume is a tattered black gothic loli dress with scratches everywhere. Shirley, who is widely known as an excellent sculptor, has no taste for beauty except for her own works...... Among the students, she was evaluated in this way.

"You guys who only know how to grease canvas must think these things don't matter, but when it comes to painting something with a special message, this knowledge may help you. Of course, I understand that you are in a low mood, just listen to it. ”

At this time, there were several knocks on the classroom door.

Placing the sculpture as a sample on the podium, Shirley looked at the door in surprise.

There was no sound at all, and the door opened a crack in the door, and it was the young clerk in the museum. It was a young female clerk who had only come here last year to take up her job, and she lowered her little head slightly and said in an apologetic-sounding voice.

"Well, someone from St. George's Cathedral is looking for you."

"Yes."

Shirley replied appropriately, then touched the edge of the sculpture with her index finger for a moment's thought.

"Well, I'm sorry, but let's study on your own for a while."

Shirley dropped the sentence to the students in an extremely perfunctory tone, scratched her head and walked out of the classroom.

After coming to the hallway, the petite clerk looked at Shirley with very embarrassed eyes.

"Well, I'm so sorry."

"It's okay, those guys prefer self-study too. It's not something that can be made by teaching alone. The group of guys who like self-study don't have the talent for this in the first place. ”

"Ha, haha......"

The clerk smiled ambiguously, and Shirley asked in an impatient tone.

"So, where is the other party?"

"Well, please come to the office."

Shirley was led by the clerk into a small room.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw the red-haired priest, Steele. Magnus.

"Huh? It's you? ”

Shirley's expression was slightly surprised.

"Let's just because of work."

Steele replied sullenly.

The clerk, who noticed that the atmosphere was not quite right, nodded slightly at Shirley and then exited the room, and after watching her leave, Shirley turned her head impatiently and asked:

"Now, what's the matter?"

"Because of this guy, but you really didn't see it?"

Following the direction that Steele indicated, Shirley's gaze moved from the face of Steele, who was one meter nine high, to the lower left by dozens of centimeters.

"Staring~――――"

Shirley's extremely aggressive gaze like a laser startled Shirley, and the part on her chest seemed to be burned by the other party's gaze, and she could faintly feel a little hot.

Shirley, who thought she was dazzled, rubbed her eyes, and an elegant-looking girl appeared in front of her.

"What is this?"

"International students,Sent by the school city.。

Steele sighed and exhaled a puff of smoke:

"I'm going to study at the Wang Li Art Academy for about two months, so I'll come and say hello to you first."

However, hearing this, Shirley's face instantly sank:

"If you don't want to die, go back to the school city.。

"Huh?"

Misaka Miling, who was desperately maintaining her demeanor, instantly depressed in ORZ posture, but Shirley did not give up and made an additional attack:

"This is not the place for a little ghost like you, and if you want to stay here, don't show up in my field of vision, it will be disgusting to see it."

"Goo"

The girl who was crawling on the floor had been hit to tears:

"How could it be that the first impression was already so bad that it might as well be issued a good person card"

The blonde magician, on the other hand, seemed to be infused with a lot of anger, and slammed the door with a blue face and left:

"Anyway, just hurry up and get out of here, otherwise don't blame me for dying here, I didn't remind you."

“”

Steele looked at the door that closed with a "clang" a little helplessly, and then looked down at the girl who was bending forward in frustration on the floor, and sighed heavily:

"It seems that I still can't let go."

"Abominable and abominable"

Shirley. Cromwell gritted her teeth and walked so fast that anyone could see her anger, so all the staff members along the way dodged and hid on the side of the road.

School City,Capable one,English Puritanism,Magician。

About twenty years ago, there was such an experiment - an experiment that tried to combine superpowers and magic.

At that time, Shirley. Cromwell befriended Alice, a girl from the school city.

After experiencing some sad and happy things, the two became close friends.

Alice is serious.

She truly believes that the fusion of superpowers and magic can create a new era.

So, she is very serious when she studies.

I took the classes very seriously, and then I learned all the necessary knowledge in the library, and even the difficult Latin in order to read some ancient texts

However, it is very difficult to get superpowers to perform magic.

The experiment hit a bottleneck.

But the grown-ups decided to give it a go.

Alice is not unconscious, she is also mentally prepared:

"If it really fails, then at least it will prove that this path is wrong, and then there will be no more needless victims, right?"

Shirley knew, and she was scared, because, Alice's hands were shaking as she said something like this:

"And, if it works, you can stay with Shirley forever."

Yes, if you succeed, you can always be together

Then, as a result of the trial, failed.

The mess of the test site made people realize the fact that "superpowers can't use magic".

As a failed test subject, the outcome can be imagined.

Alice, who is no longer human, was killed by the "knights".

Pain, sorrow, anger, and remorse are born out of which the magician, Shirley. Cromwell, whose magical name is-

Intimus 115 (Latin: fetters).

The meaning of sustenance is to give everything to a deceased friend.

Controlling a four-meter-tall Kabbalah Gargoyle, Shirley calls her "Alice" by her best friend's name.

In order to prevent a tragedy like Alice's from happening again, Shirley tried her best to prevent the constant intertwining of the wizarding and scientific worlds, hoping to keep the two worlds in a state of frequent war. On September 1st, he invaded the school city without permission and targeted the wind slashing Binghua, Intix, and the "Fantasy Killer", hoping to provoke a war between the wizarding world and the scientific world.

The operation failed, and Shirley was defeated by the teenager, and she herself was subjected to religious scrutiny by the "Church of Necessary Evil".

After that, there was no severe punishment, and Shirley was still engaged in document sorting and code interpretation.

However, there are some problems that do not exist without thinking about it.

When I saw that the school city sent such a girl to me again,The former best friend,And the figure of the girl in front of you,Suddenly coincided.。

Is that kind of experiment about to start again?

Although he tried his best to resist, fate seemed to come full circle, and then returned to square one.

This sense of powerlessness and frustration hit the blonde magician deeply.

For the sake of human beings' filthy desires, how many tragedies must be born before they are willing to give up? How many children's lives would have to be lost for the sake of that unrealistic delusion? How many children's lives do we have to gnaw at in order to satisfy those who are rotten?

The pain, sadness, anger, and remorse of the past were uncovered with the old scars, and they soaked Shirley's body and mind again.

Looking at the child's face as he struggled to gain his approval, an irrepressible anger exploded in Shirley's chest.

A sucker! Why come here

A sucker! Don't you know that superpowers and magic can't be fused

A sucker! Is it just listening to those beautiful blueprints woven with lies that you willingly put yourself on the altar?

Stupid stupid

Didn't you say okay, you want to be together forever?

Dumb Alice !!

"I say, Steele"

In the corridor, the girl who followed behind the red-haired priest made a lifeless and sudden voice:

"Was my first impression of Shirley that bad?"

Turning his head slightly and glancing at Misaka Meiling, who was like a soul wandering in the sky, Steele pinched the cigarette holder and took a hard puff and said:

"Maybe it's because you've been staring at her boobs for too long."

"Oh, yes, it looks like that's going to get a little lost, isn't it!"

The girl who was about to die suddenly woke up:

"You, you, how do you know I'm staring at her!? This is slander! Slander! Don't think that I won't dare to sue you if you have the status of a national civil servant! ”

“？”

Steele tilted his head with a puzzled expression:

"Go to court and sue me for what I have to do with state civil servants"

"Uh, yes, it's not the Celestial Empire here, isn't it! Don't get off the hook! Believe it or not, I'm going to court to sue you for sexual harassment! ”

"If you're going to be sexually harassed, you're the only one, right? And it's harassment of the same sex. ”

"Help! Sexual harassment!! There are perverted priests!! HELP~HELP~”

"Bastard, bastard! @#￥%……”