Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Crossover2 (section)

===Part 3===
 
'''(Heivia/Ground's Nir)

After putting on the skin of a handsome boy, Heivia found himself in the middle of nature.

(What is this place?)

He could smell salt in the wind. Was he near the beach or on an island? But the forest around him felt ''too'' natural. Even the most untouched areas would have traces of tire tracks or exhaust smell, crane-fly-like drones flying through the sky, and endangered animals with IC chips in their bellies.

(This isn't a desert on Mars. Can a forest really be ''this'' devoid of a human presence?)

Also, he did not recognize a single one of the trees, flowers, and bugs in the scene around him. That was another shock. His survival knowledge would be useless here.

He was confident it would be a ''relief'' if a thicket parted and a supposedly-extinct plesiosaur stuck its head out. Because that would at least be something from "home". But none of the harmless trees and plants here gave him that relief. He felt as hopelessly alienated as if he had discovered the other side of the moon looked like this.

But that was not what emerged.

It was a girl.

Her long hair was red and silver and was that a combination of armor and a miniskirt she wore?

None of it was practical.

If you included her back into the calculation, she had more exposed skin than red armor. At first, Heivia thought she might be a companion at a jousting tournament for nobles. That was the only logical explanation he could come up with.

But deep down, he did not really care.

There was a young girl in what amounted to a swimsuit in front of him. And he was somehow borrowing the face of a handsome boy! That meant he could do anything without consequences!! What happens in wherever-the-hell-this-was stays in wherever-the-hell-this-was!!!!!!

So Private Heivia Winchell did not hesitate. He forgot all about his position as a noble, raised his thumb like he was hitchhiking, and gave a beaming smile as he spoke to her.

"Hey!! I don't know who you are, but how would you like to have the kind of fun only a guy as good looking as me can get away with!?"

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H-huh? This doesn't look good.

Oh, no. Is she the kind of girl that doesn't completely let her guard down around a good-looking guy!?

But Heivia had bullet and shells whizzing by on a daily basis, was often exposed to the kicks of his busty silver-haired commander and the cold glares of the Princess, and somehow seemed to find himself blowing up 200,000 masses of steel with his awful friend. It would take a lot for him to lose his composure.

Yes, for example...

It would take seeing a red girl's right half burst into flames that roared violently as they consumed oxygen.

"G-g-gnyaaahhh!? I'm into a lot of weird shit, but spontaneously-combusting girls is not one of them!!"

Heivia's fear was directed in a bit of an odd direction, but the girl calmly drew her rapier while half her body burned. The flames crawled up the blade like it had oil coating it.

When taking a history test written by his army of hellish tutors and asked who had invented the light bulb, Heivia was the type to write "The Kappa. Because it glows" with a straight face, but even he understood something here.

"Death to handsome guys!? That's not how it's supposed to work!!"

A large explosion erupted while he was wasting time talking.