bus tip

“There weren’t! Yes, now that I think about it, there weren’t any other passengers!
Everyone probably got off the bus to watch the relay-race qualifiers for group A that
they’re doing this morning nearby. They’re calling it the highlight of day one, since it’s
got all the potential festival winners in it or something. I think that’s what it said in the
pamphlet. Why’s that important?!”
“Oh, that’s good, then...Stiyl?” Tsuchimikado spoke not to Kamijou but to Stiyl over the
phone. “You put rune cards on the sides of the buses at the repair yard, didn’t you? If
they’re still working, I’d like to place an order. Blow up the card on the vehicle
numbered 5154457.”
The response was immediate.
An explosion was heard
Flames erupted from the side of the slowly accelerating bus. A moment later there was
an explosion inside the vehicle, and its back went sliding across the road. When it
became perpendicular to the street, the momentum rolled it over onto its side. Now a
giant hunk of flaming metal, it bounded and rolled across the ground. The flames,
erupting up out of it, touched the shopping arcade roof and began to spread.
Tsuchimikado clicked his flip phone closed with one hand.
“Effective...Maybe too effective, nya?” he said, grinning in a worried way.
Kamijou was at a loss for words as he stared at the blazing bus. Obviously their goal was
to stop Oriana, but wasn’t this a little outside the realm of just “stopping” her?

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 9, Chapter 4 Part 2