Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:RailgunSS3 Chapter5 (section)

===Part 5===

When Inoue operated his phone in the driver’s seat, he heard a few deep honks from up ahead in the same rhythm as his tapping finger. Something large was approaching based on his phone’s commands. Zero-Day Link gathered online risks daily and the virus storage center created antivirus programs based on the level of risk, but neither of them noticed this danger. The truck had no bright headlights on because the driverless vehicle primarily used map data and radar scans, so light was not all that necessary. After confirming something, Inoue unlocked the driver’s side door. He opened the door a crack while calling back into the treatment space.

“Buh-bye, Maeda.”

This was different from fanaticism.

Inoue remained cheerful to the very end.

He was not even aware that he saw things so differently from the rest of the world.

“You are naïve and not worthy of respect, but your determination wasn’t bad. The scary gym teacher, was it? I was honestly jealous of that. Really. If I could scare the kids into obeying without having to even raise a hand, that net shooter accident might never have happened. That’s something I lack. At any rate, don’t worry about what happens next. The peace of Academy City is safe in my hands!!”

“Shut up, you freak.”

With a sound of blowing wind, the criminal vanished from the ambulance.

With that, it was over.

They would soon experience a nightmarish head-on collision that crushed the steel ambulance like an empty drink can.

Several bodies would be found in the burning ambulance, but they would have been badly crushed by the crash and then burned in the explosion. No distinctive blades or poisons had been used, so an autopsy would not find much of anything.

Some formal suspicion would fall on Inoue as the sole survivor, but he would eventually be back to his normal routine. Rumors and caution faded with time. The sole survivor would seem suspicious, but there was nothing anyone could do without definitive proof.

Maeda hated his inability to accomplish anything here.

But more than the truth of his death going undiscovered, it pained him that he could not protect this small life in front of him here.

And.

The time came.

The ambulance and the 20-ton truck approached in the long, long tunnel.

And they sped right past each other!!

Yes.

That’s right.

The pressure was so great he thought his heart would stop, but the Anti-Skill officer realized something while using his life to protect a criminal.

''The truck had passed them by.

''There was no head-on collision.

“What…happened?”

By the time he asked the question, the change was already underway.