grenade no injuries

With a tremendous noise, the grenade exploded. A shockwave and a large number of
fragments flew in every direction and gray smoke blew out. The explosion had been
close enough for one of the fragments to scratch Kihara’s cheek. That was enough to
slice open the skin like someone had taken a chisel to his cheek. But Kihara was smiling.
He was filled with nothing but exhilaration.
Silence fell.
Only the entranced nun’s quiet and lengthy singing continued.
“Hyah.”
He had won.
“Gya ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!”
Kihara laughed from the bottom of his gut.
He was dead. That boy was dead. That grenade had exploded only a few centimeters
from his head. No flesh-and-blood human could survive that no matter what they did.
The area was still covered in smoke-like dust, but once it cleared, Kihara would only find
a corpse so torn to pieces its original form would be unidentifiable.
The gray dust produced by the grenade thinned out as it spread. It surged behind Kihara
like a wave and fully covered his vision.
Once it cleared, Accelerator’s corpse would be visible.
Once he saw that boy’s pathetic end, Kihara Amata’s fight would be over.
(Aleister said not to kill that mass-produced brat but that means anything else is fair
game. I’ll give his corpse to that strange singing nun as a souvenir to completely break
her mind.)
“Ha ha.”
Just as that thought came to Kihara...
Someone grabbed the front his face.
“...!!”

Someone was standing in front of Kihara Amata.
The dust prevented him from seeing exactly who it was.
(Gah...!?)
Normally, Accelerator would have been the most likely candidate. But Kihara could not
accept that. Without his powers, Accelerator was weaker than your average high school
student. He could never survive that grenade blast without some sort of trick.
And it was hard to believe that his reflection would have returned for some reason. The
hand grabbing Kihara was covered in soot. If Accelerator’s reflection had been
functioning, even those small stains would have been deflected.
“What...?”
But it was unmistakably Accelerator standing there.
Kihara saw white hair, red eyes, well-formed facial features, supple skin, a slender body
line, a choker, mostly gray clothes, arms and legs with little muscle, and glittering black
shoes.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 13, Chapter 10 Part 9