"What do you know?"
Kanzaki Kaori heard Zhong Chen's taunt and angrily shouted at Zhong Chen, "If we didn't protect her like this, she wouldn't be able to continue living."
"Absolute Memory."
Hearing Kanzaki Kaori's words, Kamijou Touma, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but murmur, "Absolute Memory?"
"This is the root cause of everything."
"You're saying Absolute Memory refers to those 103,000 books?"
Kamijou Touma looked at Kanzaki Kaori seriously and asked.
Zhong Chen interjected reflexively after hearing this, "That's right, it's those 103,000 erotic novels!"
"They're grimoires!"
Kanzaki Kaori frowned, suppressing the urge to unleash a combo attack on this guy, and continued, "The human brain capacity is surprisingly small, but the brain automatically organizes itself and forgets unnecessary memories."
"That's why humans can continue to live."
"However, she can't do that. No matter how many leaves are on a roadside tree, the faces of all the pedestrians during rush hour."
"Even the shape of every single drop of water..."
"Pfft..."
"These meaningless memories will quickly fill her brain."
"Pfft..."
"So we need to clear her memories once a year."
"What? Aren't you friends?!!!"
"Pfft pfft!"
Swish... Ding!
"Hey, hey, hey, is this anger born of shame?"
"How could it be!"
Kanzaki Kaori looked in shock at Zhong Chen, who had blocked her attack with just one finger.
Although she hadn't intended to truly harm him.
But the fact that he blocked her attack so easily still shocked her.
"You've been laughing ever since you got here. Is it fun to mock others like this?"
"Pfft! Sorry, I'm professionally trained, I usually don't laugh, unless I can't help it! Hahahahaha!"
"You, what's so funny about this kind of thing?!"
Looking at the older sister in front of him whose chest was heaving with anger because of him, Zhong Chen straightened his expression and looked at Kanzaki Kaori seriously.
"Do you know how much a human brain can store?"
"Do you know that different content in the human brain is stored in different places?"
"And do you know how many students in Academy City possess what you call Absolute Memory?"
Kanzaki Kaori looked at Zhong Chen, who had suddenly become serious, and listened to his three consecutive questions. She was instantly rendered speechless.
How would she know about these science-side things? Even using a phone was difficult for her, let alone these deeper concepts.
"You don't, do you? Sometimes I just think this religious brainwashing is really terrifying."
"Not to mention others, I have what you call Absolute Memory. I can even remember every single atom forever."
"Besides, the human brain can originally store 140 years' worth of memories."
"I've lived for so long, why am I fine?"
Zhong Chen crossed his arms, tilted his head, and wore an expression that said, 'I'm doing just fine.'
"Host, isn't it a bit shameless to compare Index with you, a Great Luo Golden Immortal?!"
"Hmph, this monarch is willing!"
"That's impossible! The church clearly said..."
"You believe whatever they say? I also say I'm the God of your Christianity!"
"Why don't you believe that?!"
"But what reason do they have to lie to us?"
Kanzaki Kaori asked Zhong Chen with a shocked expression.
"Oh my goodness, someone like you can become a Saint. I suddenly feel that becoming a Saint might truly not require intelligence!"
"I ask you, isn't Index a large armaments... Pfft pfft... a large grimoire library?"
After hearing Zhong Chen's words, Kanzaki Kaori nodded in agreement.
"Then if you were the owner of a large grimoire library that the entire magic side knows about, wouldn't you have to find a way to control her properly?"
"This..."
"If Index's memories aren't cleared, and she concentrates a certain emotion on a particular person, wouldn't the emotional balance tip towards the individual rather than the Puritan Church?"
"Is... is that so?"
Kanzaki Kaori wasn't truly foolish; the explanation Zhong Chen gave her was something that was entirely possible.
"I will go back and ask those above to clarify this matter. Index will be left in your care for now!"
After Kanzaki Kaori finished speaking to Kamijou Touma, she immediately prepared to go back and contact that damned woman.
"Don't rush off, let me show you another good show!"
Snap... Zhong Chen lightly snapped his fingers, and Index's figure suddenly appeared in the center of the three of them.
At this moment, Index was holding a watermelon, looking around with a bewildered expression.
"Index!"
"Touma!"
"In... Index..."
Kanzaki Kaori looked at the suddenly appearing Index. Just as she was about to step forward, she suddenly remembered that the other party no longer recognized her.
She could only stand by quietly and watch her.
"Alright, no need for a moving reunion, spiky-head!"
Hearing Zhong Chen's call, Kamijou Touma pushed away Index, who was biting him, and looked at Zhong Chen with a puzzled expression, asking, "Mr. Zhong Chen? Is something wrong?"
"You get the little girl to open her mouth, then touch her throat with your right hand."
"Why is that?"
"Where do all these 'why' questions come from? Just do as I say!"
"Ah, ah, yes!"
Seeing Zhong Chen looking at him seriously, Kamijou Touma quickly responded.
"Index, open your mouth!"
"Oh... Ah!"
Although she didn't know why, Index, who knew Kamijou Touma wouldn't harm her, still opened her small mouth.
Buzz... Zzzzz... "Ah!"
As Kamijou Touma's right hand touched Index's throat.
A sharp pain made Kamijou Touma reflexively withdraw his right hand.
And the innocence in Index's eyes instantly vanished, a hexagram pattern suddenly appearing in her pupils.
Trembling black aura began to emerge around her body, and she slowly floated up.
"Warning, Chapter 3, Section 2, confirming that the first to third barriers have all been breached."
"Preparing for regeneration... failure... unable to regenerate independently."
"Currently, to protect the 103,000 volumes of the library, priority will be given to intercepting intruders."
"Referencing the library 100,000..."
"Here it comes, here it comes, Index's tradition, striking my teammates!"
As Index's emotionless voice continued, a red magic circle appeared in front of her:
"Initiating specific magic [Saint George's Sanctuary], intruders will be destroyed."
"How is this possible! Index shouldn't be able to use magic!"
Kanzaki Kaori, who had been paying attention, now looked at Index, who was using magic, with a shocked expression.
"Heh... I told you earlier it was a lie."
Whoosh... As soon as Zhong Chen finished speaking, a white pillar of light several meters thick shot towards Kamijou Touma.
Zhong Chen, standing nearby, simply blew a light breath.
"Hoo..."
Whoosh... Crackle... Zhong Chen's breath easily shattered the incoming pillar of light and continued towards Index with undiminished force...