As Carissa held Curtana Original in one hand and the radio connected to the
destroyer in her left, her most villainous smile yet spread across her face.

“I was planning on firing this after creating a bit more of a sense of danger that
brought my mother here, but the Griffin Skies were defeated ahead of schedule. I
have no choice but to move the schedule up a bit.”

“Shit!! That warhead will blow away an area with a radius of 3 kilometers in
every direction!! Buckingham Palace isn’t going to be the only place hit. One
shot will be enough to do serious damage to London!!”

“You can shout all you want, but a cruise missile is quite fast. With the Concorde
and the Eurofighter, France and other EU countries have been demanding quite a
bit of money for development, but that has strengthened this country’s
supersonic technology. I believe the obsession with the shape of the cruise
missile’s stowable wings have brought them to the level of being at or near Mach
5 at low altitude. It won’t even take one minute to travel the 100 kilometers.”

“Dammit!!”

Three kilometers in sixty seconds. That wasn’t a distance human legs could take
someone. That may be different for a Saint like Kanzaki, but most of the
Anglicans there would not make it in time.

“I won’t let you do that,” said Kanzaki Kaori cutting off Kamijou’s thoughts.
She checked over the wires in her hand.

“I will set up a defense barrier in the air to intercept them. A range of 3
kilometers in every direction and about 200 smaller explosives spreading out…
That is not an impossible scale to deal with!!”

“It’s true that you may be able to deal with a bunker cluster using magic.”
Carissa smiled. She was surely only standing there because she was confident
she could escape the blast unscathed using Curtana Original’s power.
She pointed up into the night sky with the hand holding the radio.
There was an artificial point of light there that was clearly not a star.

“But you don’t have time for that kind of preparation.”

“!!”

Kanzaki strung the seven wires up into the night sky as if the repel Carissa’s
words. The wires formed a three dimensional magic circle and bluish white light
ran across them creating a thick wall covering up an entire city block.

That was the special magic of a Saint that was an order of magnitude greater
than normal magic.

However…

“You’re defenseless. As I expected.”

“…!? Kanzaki!!” Kamijou yelled out, but Carissa was faster as she swung
Curtana Original while licking her lips.

The tremendous noise of the severing of dimensions was heard as everything
turned to rubble. Kanzaki barely managed to avoid the 100 meter cross section,
but that delayed her from preparing her defensive spell. The thick wall that was
supposed to be covering the night sky was torn apart in a straight line.

The cruise missile continued to approach.

Kanzaki started to construct the defensive spell again, but she did not make it in
time.

To Aru Majutsu No Index Volume 18 Chapter 7 Part 5