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- In that instant, the gravel below his feet exploded like he had stepped on a landmine.
- A large amount of gravel scattered in every direction and at close range it was
- reminiscent of a shotgun blast.
- “...!”
- By the time Kamijou realized what was going on, it was too late.
- He immediately brought his arms up to cover his face and over a dozen small stones of
- various sizes struck Kamijou’s body. Just when he thought his feet had been knocked
- from the ground due to the large shock, his entire body was forcefully blown back. He
- rolled along the ground before finally coming to a stop a few meters back.
- “...Too slow,” said an unpleasant voice that sounded like pieces of rusted metal being
- scraped together.
- The intense pain had disoriented Kamijou and he merely looked blankly in the direction
- of the voice completely forgetting to stand back up.
- “That’s nowhere near enough. That speed of yours is just 100 years too
- sloooooowwwww!”
- Accelerator stepped on the ground again.
- He must have converted the vector of that shock in some way because a steel rail lying at
- his feet stood up on end like there had been a spring under it. Accelerator used a
- backhanded blow like he was brushing a spider web away and knocked the rail flying.
- His action had been nothing more than the slight strike one would use on an
- unreasonable child, but a great noise like a church bell resounded throughout the
- switchyard. The steel rail bent into a shallow V-shape and flew straight for Kamijou like
- a bullet.
- “!!”
- Kamijou frantically rolled and jumped away from its path.
- Immediately afterwards, the crushed piece of steel pierced into the ground like a holy
- sword in the exact spot Kamijou had been lying in before.
- Kamijou thought he had just barely managed to avoid it, but the mass of steel weighed
- hundreds of kilograms. When it struck the ground, it sent a large amount of gravel flying
- into the air. It was like a meteorite striking the sea.
- Countless small stones stabbed into his body.
- The shock this gave to his chest forced all of the oxygen from his lungs.
- “Gh...Ah...!”
- Accelerator fired a second and third steel rail at Kamijou who was rolling on the ground.
- Those masses of steel flying through the air were as unavoidable for a human as
- handgun bullets.
- A direct hit from one would be certain death and even barely avoiding one would lead to
- damage from the gravel scattered by the hit, which would slowly but surely add up and
- lead to death.
- All Kamijou could do was continue to roll along the ground. Beyond that, all he could do
- was try to read the direction the gravel would be sent and jump in the same direction to
- reduce the damage as much as possible.
- He could not approach.
- He avoided 10 or 20 of those steel bullets and was struck by the scattered gravel each
- time, but he was gradually heading away from the center of the switchyard and to the
- outer part.
- - Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 3, Chapter 4 Part 6
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