ice pick guts

“If he’s the seventh of the seven, that means he’s the weakest of the Level 5s, right?”
“That sounds like something Level 0s like us could handle.”
The very #7 they were discussing could not remain silent.
“Non non!! I already told you! That whole Level 5 and #7 thing was all a boring
digression!! What’s important here is guts!! It’s not too late! So just listen to m—Ow!
Stop beating me with a bicycle chain lock and stabbing me with an ice pick! Ow ow ow
ow! You all lack guts!!”
It looked like a comedic scene, but about ten episodes worth of material for two hour-
long suspense dramas was present in the storm of violence.
And after it all, Sogiita Gunha simply wouldn’t die. His assailants began to find this odd.
(although their attacking hands did not slow in the slightest.)

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume SS2, Chapter 4