takes cover before explosion reaches him

Immediately afterwards, the fifty tons of airplane fuel ignited and intense heat and light
filled the central lobby.
While it was better than having it sprayed into the air and vaporized, airplane fuel still
had very different characteristics to gasoline.
Kamijou immediately grabbed Mikoto and hid behind the nearby pillar.
Mikoto blushed, but she still managed to hold out her right hand and used magnetism to
create a wall of steel objects that protected the dumbfounded airport workers. The men
in black suits knew much better than Kamijou and the others just what kind of person
Birdway was, so they had already fled the area at full speed.
Kamijou did not have time to check what Accelerator and Hamazura Shiage did.
The fuel exploded and all his senses were blotted out.

- New Testament Volume 2 Chapter 1 Part 9