“Now, let’s return to the real issue at hand here, shall we? My boy’s life has already been in danger
long enough. It’s been about an hour since you started tormenting him as you pleased.
“Wh-what?”
It had been about an hour? Come to think of it, Aozaki did mention something about waking up
after her head had been crushed. If she had been asleep in her Workshop, then it certainly would
have taken an hour to get to this apartment complex. She couldn’t have gotten here in just a few
minutes, it would’ve been impossibly fast.
Suddenly, Alba looked at the boy who was lying on the stairs.
... The wounds on his legs were the same, but the back of the boy’s head, which he had struck many
times, was no longer bleeding.
This boy was unconscious solely due to of the bleeding from his legs.
“Ridiculous, what kind of Magic did you use Aozaki?”
The young man interrogated her weakly.
He had already lost his vigor. The difference between the two Magi had been shown to Alba, there
was no way he could have the will to attack Touko anymore.
“In a battle between Magi, a Magus shouldn’t talk recklessly about Magic. This is already my third
time coming to this lobby. I had constructed a Bounded Field from scratch in this room alone. Just
to be safe I took precautions and have prepared some tricks. For example, your thinking went blank
when you were surprised by Kokutou’s counterattack right? That was me lightly intervening with
your consciousness.”
“That time..?”
Alba groaned in frustration. It was true that when he had stopped the boy’s knife with the palm of
his hand, there was some sort of odd blankness.
From that time on, it had felt like he had been dreaming. He must have been standing there blankly
until the Magus Touko arrived.
“Haha, Hahaha, I see. You’ve had me in the palm of your hand since the beginning. I’m sure you
had fun, Aozaki. As much as I hate to admit it... It seems that I was the clown from the start.”

Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners, Volume 5, Paradox Spiral 6 /15