500 Meters

It seemed Stiyl and someone else were still fighting in some other place, because intermittent explosions could be heard in the distance. And it seemed that fight was growing closer to Kamijou and Index.

“...Is an enemy magician being driven towards us?”

“Touma, we will be unable to escape the explosions within twenty minutes at this rate. We need to find and defeat the enemy magician before that happens!”

They did not have time to just stand idly by.

This crossing of paths was probably their first and last chance.

From the intensity of the distant explosions they assumed were being caused by Stiyl, they seemed to be closing in on them. Kamijou wondered if the others could hear the explosions occurring near him and Index.

They were approaching each other without being able to see each other.

Five hundred meters.

Four hundred meters.

Three hundred meters.

Two hundred meters.

One hundred meters.

Road to Endymion, Chapter 2, Part 5