Stiyl Survives Somehow

“Explode from the inside, ye runic magician.”
The sound that was made almost sounded comical.
Just as he had declared, Stiyl’s body inflated like a balloon for a moment. Immediately
afterward, his body burst out vehemently from within. A jumbled mass of blood, flesh,
bones, organs, and muscles splattered all over the nearby surroundings.
Parts of his flesh and blood instantly reached the ceiling, then spread out from there in a
dome shape. It covered the vast room like a planetarium—it was a work of art from the
magician’s very blood and flesh.
“...!”

And the terrifying part was that his blood vessels were connected. His organs hadn’t
been destroyed. It was almost like a train map. The red fluid his bared heart was
pumping passed through his outstretched arteries, reached the organs that were dotted
about, and returned back to his heart.
He still wasn’t dead.
Despite being in that state, Stiyl Magnus was very much alive.
In pieces.
The magician’s possessions, cards with runes engraved on them, whipped up like a
blizzard of sakura petals.
The groggy Index fainted atop the desk at the sight of such extremes.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 2, Chapter 4 Part 1