Toaru Majutsu no Index SS: Kanzaki/Chapter 5

Synopsis
The Underwater Prison is having navigation troubles and is heading towards India. At this rate, once the submarine reaches India, the prisoners inside will be release into the wild. Kanzaki and co are sent to sink the submarine and kill whoever tries to swim to the coast. It's a simple killing mission, no need to rescue the wardens inside.

So here they are at the Nagercoil Coast in southern India.

The Underwater Prison is an underwater prison transport that is used to transport magic-related fugitives from all over the world to the Necessarius. There are 12 of these submarines in total. But because these submarines travel throughout the world, they can't go undetected by the Science side. So what they did is transform one of these submarines into a luxurious underwater cruise which is actually operating. To the public, it would seem that all 12 of theses subs are luxury cruises, but in fact only one is, and the other 11 are operating as prison transports. In order to prevent these submarines from being hijacked, they cannot be controlled from the inside. Instead, 7 spiritual devices called the "Cape of Good Hope" are spread throughout the world to navigate these subs.

At first, they suspected that the "Cape of Good Hope" located in India was rigged and someone used it to change the course of the sub. However, the magicians in charge there did not find anything wrong. So Kanzaki and co headed to the spiritual device to chek it themselves. There, they used their own methods, but didn't find any problems with it. This means that the "Cape of Good Hope" is not the reason for the sub's navigation problem, which means that the problem should be from the inside.

Then Kanzaki suggested the Naglfar. In Norse myth, it's a ship made from fingrnails of the dead, and it transported those who opposed the Gods. The prisoners in the sub symbolize the ones who oppose the Gods, and the culprit who hijacked the sub probably killed people inside and spread their nails throughout the sub, essentially turning the sub into the Naglfar. Since it's now Naglfar in essence and not the original sub, the "Cape of Good Hope" cannot control it anymore.

Just as they started heading towards the coast again to reach the sub, Kanzaki was contacted by another magician sent by the Necessarius. It turns out because Kanzaki and company took too much time, the other magician was sent to destroy the sub. Because the Naglfar did not have diving capabilities, the sub went to the surface, and is therefore easily reachable.

The other magician headed towards the sub, and not wanting innocent people to die, Kanzaki chased after her on foot. At the edge of the coast, Kanzaki caught up to her and tackled her, then crashed into the sand. However, since they were travelling at such high speed crashing into the sand would be devastating, so Kanzaki had to cast a defense magic. While Kanzaki was focusing on the defense magic, the other magician broke free and headed towards the sub on water. Kanzaki chased after her again. They cannot run on water, but what they can do is using the stuff floating on water (garbage, drifting wood, nets, etc) as stepping stones. This of course is done in high speed. Kanzaki caught up to her and kicked her, but she didn't fall and didn't sink. The magician had a drop in speed, but picked it up again.

While wondering how that magician managed to keep up with a Saint in terms of power and speed, she noticed that the magician kept on throwing triangle pieces of leather onto thte water. In Norse myth, Vidar slayed Fenrir while wearing a pair of shoes made from triangle pieces of leather. These triangle pieces of leather that the magician throws onto the water symbolizes Vidar's shoes and grants her strength. When the magician threw a punch into the water, the water splashes hit Kanzaki with a great force, even though the punch didn't hit her. This is because the triangles also lets the magician increase the power of the wind around her to give her an even bigger boost. Then Kanzaki started to use her wires to cut those triangles into irregular shapes. It you cut a triangle with a straight line, at least one of the 2 parts would also be a triangle. Therefore, Kanzaki cut them with curves into irregular shapes. However, the magician retaliated by using the wind and water to cut those irregular shapes back into triangles. Soon this turned into a high speed leather cutting match. Theoretically, the magician would not lose if she doesn't make any mistakes, since keep on dividing these pieces in half would only lead to an increase in the number of triangles, which will give her even more power. The pieces eventually became so small that the magician could not accurately use her power to cut, since the power that she used is not her own power. In the end, Kanzaki won the cutting match and the other magician fell into the water.

By then, they have already reached the sub, and the prisoners inside saw this "fight". Kanzaki basically said to them "I don't know which of you is the one behind this hijacking, but if you still want to fight after seeing that, please come out." (not her exact words, of course), and the issue was resolved without fighting anyone inside. The sub was turned back into a sub and went back on its way to England.

Characters

 * Kanzaki Kaori
 * Jeans Shop Owner
 * Tour Guide Girl

New Characters

 * Víðarr Shoes Woman

New Abilities

 * Cape of Good Hope - Unknown
 * Naglfar - Unknown prisoner
 * Vidar's Shoes - Unnamed Necessarius' female magician.