A chill ran down his spine. After all, his opponent attacked with a strike that
could slice through all dimensions that could be represented with whole
numbers. If he misread the situation, he wouldn’t just lose his right arm. His
entire body would be sliced in two.
However, he didn’t have time to worry too much about that.
He didn’t have time to slowly put together a strategy.
“Heh,” breathed Carissa.
At the same time, an explosive sound resounded.
The white wall separating the two of them had been kicked straight up into the
air by the second princess.
Carissa did not lower her leg.
Her second kick mercilessly struck Kamijou’s gut. The attack was more like a
machine gun than human martial arts.
With a thunderous noise, Kamijou’s body easily flew a few meters before hitting
the ground and bouncing a few times.
“Gh…bhaaaaahhh!!!???”
He couldn’t suppress the urge to vomit and a surprisingly red mass came out.
While Kamijou writhed on the ground, Carissa smiled while spinning her sword
around like a baton causing thin pieces of dimensional wreckage to fall to the
ground. Villian finally started bringing her bowgun up, but the situation was
changing so quickly she didn’t seem able to aim properly.
(Gh…Dammit…Cough…I just can’t keep up with her speed…!!)
Kamijou could tell he had completely lost strength from the very core of his
body, but he still tried to stand up. He didn’t notice, but his fingertips were
trembling unnaturally.
“Oh, come on. What’s wrong? And I was going easy on you.”
Carissa’s expression did not change.
It was as if she were saying that he could not change the situation if he couldn’t
even stand up.
“It seems there are side effects to carelessly putting a large amount of Telesma in
your body. I’ll have to eventually put together a spell to remove that restraint.”
(She’s going easy on me…?)
Kamijou looked over at her as if he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
Seeing that, Carissa swung Curtana Original over to point in a certain direction
with its tip-less end.
“It’s dangerous to just sit there, you know?”
- To Aru Majutsu no Index Volume 18 Chapter 7 Part 4