[h1]Kakine[/h1]

"Good to know. I'd have liked to keep the situation under wraps, but with someone as unpredictable as that it's better we have those two groups as backup." Kakine stated as the beetles within Marisa's hat immediately found themselves a new friend.
"..."
"The witch has made contact with Kamijou Touma and has kidnapped the Magic God under his surveillance. This is going to get rough."

[h3]Touma and Index[/h3]
Luckily enough for Index, Touma had managed to push her off of his head and back onto the bench as Marisa lunched for her hat. It took them both a few seconds before they realized what Marisa had just attempted to do. UNfortunately enough, it also made Index even more annoyed.

"Oh, that explains a lot!" she fumed. "You're not a witch! All you do is steal magical artifacts and use someone else's power! That's just mimicry, not actual magic!"

Before she could continue on her tireade, though, Touma quickly stepped in front of Marisa and stared her down.

"Don't know what you're here for, Ms. Kirisame, but you're not stealing her on my watch."

[h3]Othinus[/h3]
Othinus was taken quite off guard when Marisa had grabbed her and stuffed her inside of her hat. Though she had expected a very cramped space inside, what she instead found herself in was what more more or less a pocket dimension. Well, that made calling for help a bit more difficult...
Seeing the little blonde spot where Marisa's head was- in other words, the exit-, Othinus began pulling a few hair out before sighing. This took more out of her than anything else. Maybe there was something else...?

As that thought crossed her mind, Othinus noticed a pair of white beetles staring her in the face. They felt... Familiar, for some odd reason.
Wait, didn't she use the Number Two's power to make Gungnir before? The same sensation she got them was the same that she had now...
But it couldn't be, right?

[h1]Hazama[/h1]

Of course it wouldn't be that easy. Well, hopefully the Azure Grimoire didn't freak out when it had whatever the heck that hermit was planning to do done to it. Energy overflow was definitely a possibility, and the results of that could...
Well...
It'd probably cause his usual power to start flowing out, which meant corrosive auras and release of power restraints. While neither was really a 'bad' thing, giving any semblance of power from the Azure would inevitably lead to someone picking up his trail... And possibly that hermit realizing the power of the Azure. Shit.

Well, maybe if he bailed fast enough after negotiations with the rebels were finished...?
No, that wouldn't work. He'd have to burn up all the excess energy in another way.

"...Fine, fine." Hazama sighed, extending his hands forward towards the girl. "If it can't be helped, then..."