Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume SS/Prologue

Title - Prologue: The Calm Before the Start of War. Breakfast.

Volume SS

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Prologue
There is one tube-shaped Fish Paste Cake left over.

"Hmmm..."

In the kitchen, Kamijou Touma lets out a groan, as the tube-shaped fish paste will reach its expiration date at 10 AM today....

Devoting yourself to salad instead of ham is the latest trend. The coloring shows it's beyond gone bad, but on the other hand, it's another 2 or 3 hours before the expiration date passes.

For students, morning is an important time.

"I can't always be troubled by my luck, but what do I with this leftover fish-paste?" Kamijou was in a quandary when he looked over from the kitchen to see a "calico cat," who was assaulting him by constantly purring. As its winter coat is growing in, it seems a little bigger.

(…)

Kamijou, from the kitchen, turns his gaze toward what quietly sits on bed.

There was a single nun there.

Her name is Index.

Despite the principle of early to bed early to rise, she's always lazily idling on top of the bed. Yet, this time her back is straight and crisp, while her knees are on the floor and her hands together as she undergoes a quiet prayer this morning.

The calico cat came this way, as if trying not to bother Index.

(Phew...)

Kamijou took the remaining fish-paste in a column and, leaning over the kitchen floor, spoke in a low voice to avoid alerting Index,

"...Do you want to eat this fish paste?"

"Meoww!" The calico cat let out in a loud voice.

Feeling that his happiness maxed out from the look of the small pet's tail, Kamijou Touma squeezed down on the tube.

And the Calico cat sinks its teeth into the center of it, almost like a dog with a bone, and runs off from the kitchen once again.

When cats eat their own food, if it exceeds a certain size, they have a trait to sneak off and eat in privacy.

It would likely sneak off to underneath the TV or somewhere similar, Kamijou thought appropriately, before going back to making breakfast.

Replacing the calico cat was Index, who came in and started her assault.

"Are we eating Fish-paste!?"

"Hah? No, that was the last one!!"

The calico cat stared quietly at the glittering glare of Index's eyes on the fish paste. Moreover, she is giving off a muddy "How was the calico cat secretly eating without my approval?!"-like feeling. Kamijou quickly stopped her.

She wasn't picky. From foreign food to Japanese style food, at this rate everything in the kitchen will be gone instead of one fish-paste.

"Wait Index, 10 minutes! No, just 7 minutes and breakfast will be ready!! So please don't raid the fridge—!!"

"Fish Paste Cake is Fish Paste Cake!!"

"I don't know what you're saying anymore! And what the heck were you praying back then for!? You sister-san whose stomach is never full!!"

Wait, it's only halfway done, so wait!! But Kamijou doesn't have time to stop Index, who races into the kitchen and starts moving her mouth.

October 3rd, 7:02 AM.

Kamijou stood and finds himself dumbfounded that, aside from the side dish in one hand, his own share of food was eaten up too.