Talk:Shinyaku Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 09/@comment-187.41.136.219-20131212020715/@comment-5230978-20131213004657

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''(So…) Kamijou Touma clenched his fist. He clenched it so tight blood oozed out. Instead of using his right hand on the white wings being swung down from the right and left, he evaded them by swinging his upper body out of the way. He then used all his strength to throw his fist at the center of Rensa’s face as they glared at each other from extreme close range. (So think for yourself!! Think up a way of saving the person you want to protect most!!) His fist flew. A look of surprise appeared on Rensa’s cyborg face. And…''

Touma obviously cannot know the future, but he really trusted Rensa, and even if he wasn't 100% sure about the outcome, the odds of #29 acting to save Yakumi were extremely high. You have to consider that Touma already knew people that for protecting/saving what they care the most were willing to do cruel things, but weren't evil, and he also knew people who thought they couldn't protect their loved ones (e.g. Accel), but at the end they realized they were wrong and so saved their loved one. Rensa is the same, thus Touma could understand her feelings and, to a certain extent, even predict what she would have done. By their discussion he understood that she would have done everything to save Yakumi (though he didn't thought that she would have destroyed her cyborg body to do it) even if she was saying the opposite. Also Touma, unconsiously or not, played the role of the villain that wanted to deprive Rensa of the person she cared the most driving her to save Hisako. Touma made a gamble, but the chance of victory were high. Obviously the failure could have come, but his faith in Rensa desire to save Yakumi was strong enough to take that risk. It's more correct to say that Touma was willing to put Hisako's life at risk than saying he was willing to kill her. It's similiar, but it's not the same. I mean, in case he had thought that Rensa wouldn't have tried to save Yakumi, do you really think he would have killed Yakumi to save Rensa?

do not understand why you want so much sanctify Touma, he's a good guy, but he has also shown to have a dark side in old testament volumes 2 and 17, in vol 17 he even laughed seeing a human being suffering (terrorist) it's just very difficult to show that side of him.

Oh no, Touma is not a saint, he is quite of human (and this one onf the reason I like him more than other shounen series' main protagonists). The term savior fit him well, but he is not perfect; he have a break point, and when this point is reached he can react with strong violence and become even willing to kill. In vol 2 he was about to kill Aureoulus Dummy, because it was the very first and unique time someone was killed in fornt of him but, thought he was raging, he stopped and didn't killed him. In vol 17 he it the pilot with a metal bar and repeatedly punched the terrorist, but it was because Index, one the person he cares the most, was almost strangled. He hit the first because his actions caused that situation and punched the second because he was about to kill Index. He showed this violent side of him only in extreme situation, and I think everyone would have done the same in such a situation, even if it could have been morally wrong. Anyway, saying he would normally sacrifice a life to save someone else's without any way to save both lives is a completely different thing.