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- “You bastard. You weren’t thinking that you could crush my Imagine Breaker just by
- cutting off my right arm, did you?”
- He bared his teeth, his eyes with such a glint that they might have fired red light from
- them.
- The boy spoke, sincerely delighted.
- (Wha— Wait, don’t think unease ba—)
- Aureolus was able to pray, but he wasn’t able to stop thinking.
- In that instant...
- That hole, left by Kamijou’s missing right arm...Something strange happened to the flow
- of fresh blood erupting from it. Something unknown, something transparent, slowly
- began to show its form, like scattering blood on a glass sculpture.
- Something leaped out of the hole in Kamijou’s right shoulder then, and it was certainly
- not a human arm.
- It was a jaw.
- It was like nothing he’d ever seen before, save in legends, for it had a length of more
- than ten meters and a ferocious brutality. It was the gargantuan, gigantic jaw of a
- dragon king—also called Dragon Strike.
- He should not have been able to see it, for it was transparent, but it was covered in blood.
- As if it were the boy’s own arm, he slowly opened its mouth, lined with fangs like saws.
- As if he was saying that this was the true form of the power packed into his right hand.
- One of the fangs made contact with the air.
- Nothing particularly large changed. However, something he couldn’t see had definitely
- been altered. Though the alchemist’s presence had been filling the room, it vanished, as
- if his very initiative, the ownership of this area, had been modified.
- (Wha...)
- Aureolus looked up in spite of himself to the distasteful planetarium of human flesh,
- created with Stiyl Magnus’s skin and blood. The carnage spread about the room began to
- slither toward one point...as if his order had been canceled.
- (It...can’t be. He is coming back? The same as Himegami, who I already destroyed—!)
- The moment he thought that, Stiyl dropped to the floor, not a scratch on him.
- Icy fear stabbed into Aureolus’s back.
- Without a doubt, his own insecurity had revived the magician.
- (Wait, this is no more than my unease, calm down, erase unease and I can erase this
- ridiculous thing—!!)
- Desperately biting down on the terror about to claw out his heart, Aureolus attempted
- one last resistance. This scenario should have been no more than something created by
- Aureolus’s own misgivings. So if he calmed himself down and got rid of this anxiety, the
- strange power in the boy should also disappear.
- But the light of the transparent dragon king’s shining eyes was brought to quietly glare
- at him.
- That was all it took to give Aureolus the illusion that his vision was fading from terror
- alone.
- (I can’t...There’s no way...)
- Immediately after thinking that, the jaw of the dragon king opened as wide as possible
- and devoured the alchemist from the head down.
- - Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 2, Chapter 4 Part 2
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