Talk:Kamijou Touma/Abilities and Powers/@comment-173.87.221.2-20150408002555/@comment-26030698-20150408215214

@Kamina lowell

I do beg your pardon, since I didn't remember Othinus saying that. I do have a question for you about that: does Othinus, or any other magician on the series for the matter, can actually provide accurate information on the IB? I mean, sure, right now you can take it as true, but it wouldn't be surprising if Kamachi used the same argument as me to go back on his word. He did need an actual reason for Othinus not to kill Kamijou Touma, beyond "She had a scrap of goodness in her heart", no?

Secondly, when I disagreed with you on "Kamijou Touma is average at best in maths", I wasn't agreeing with the possiblity of the IB being his power. I just wasn't seeing any evidence backing up your point and decided to point it out. I mean, you get make-up classes if you don't get a passing grade in a single subject, independent of whether or not you took straight tens in everything else. Not saying he's some sort of hidden-genius, just that you can't really say he isn't.

Finally.... the IT. Sure, the dragons went from one to eight, and the IT went from superpowerful to puny. But "change", isn't really the only way to see it.

Sure, you can chalk the difference in power from exhaustion, but what if... it simply wasn't the same IT in both battles? We can't see it, Othinus didn't see the original so she wouldn't be able to differentiate them and when did the novel ever say "The IB holds three/two things at max"? In fact, as of the Level 5.5 Misaka vs Touma battle, it got clear that it can hold at least eight different beings, if the IT and the Third Power were mixed between them.

Also, this would clear up the issue with why Aleister and Gremlin are so fixated with the IB in spite of the IT being so weak( from their point of view). It'd literally be the ultimate army-in-a-can!