Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Crossover2 (section)

===Part 24===

'''(Quenser/Academy City)

In the schoolyard, the gray pig leaped to the side with all his might. He had the momentum of an artillery shell. A weird “Bgrrh!” came from Kinuhata’s mouth since he was holding her, but there was no time to worry about that.

The great cement serpent dropped down like a surging river and scattered gray weapons all around.

Pink track suit Takitsubo maintained her complete lack of expression. From the outside, it was impossible to tell whether she was taking this seriously or translating solar radio waves into human language.

Quenser used his toes to pull a metal spike out of the ground, kicked it up into the air, and then sent it rocketing out with a second kick. The average human would have been unable to move in time and it would have pierced right through their chest, but it did not work against the concrete witch named Thorbjorg. The great serpent rose up once more and carried her higher than the school’s roof in an instant.

(This isn’t enough. I can’t reach her if I stay on the ground waiting for a chance to strike back.)

He did not know where Thorbjorg’s limits lay, but Academy City was an area of concentrated skyscrapers. There was a near endless supply of concrete for her to use as a weapon. And it would not necessarily work in Quenser’s favor if people gathered to see what the commotion was about. The gray pig was another foreign factor that could threaten the city’s peace.

A lengthy battle would not help him in any way. If Thorbjorg managed to escape and fled to another world, there would be no solving this.

He had to end it at this phase.

“…”

Quenser lowered the two girls to the ground.

Then he looked to his target and took action.

In the span of a breath, the ground exploded and his nearly-4m body flew into the sky. His target was the belly of the mountain formed by the coiled snake. The soft cement body would swallow up its prey like a bottomless bog and then crush them with the change of volume when it hardened, but he was not afraid.

Another explosion occurred when he landed.

The process repeated and the pig-faced giant never did sink into that bog. The creature the Cultivated Muscles were based on had hopped across the ocean surface like a skipping rock to fight a 1000m dragon over the ocean. With the resistance of cement, he could easily run across its surface.

“Tch…!!!???”

The bluish-gray witch roared at the peak.

The surface of the serpent rippled and countless spikes welled up. They rushed toward Quenser to pierce his feet, pin him in place, and drag him down into bog.

But.

Not even that could do it.

He met the tip of the rising spikes with his toenails to negate the impact with perfect equilibrium and managed to stand atop them without being pierced. By repeating the process, he raced along the raging serpentine path at unbelievable speed.

It was not long now until he reached the concrete witch named Thorbjorg.

Quenser could already see fear in her widened eyes.