Editing Toaru Majutsu no Index:Item3 Chapter4 (section)

===Part 6===

Pure white explosions pursued Kinuhata in quick succession.

Sharp welding-bright flashes of light implanted pain in her retinas.

The frozen floor and the electronically-locked container doors were all rupturing from within.

Kinuhata could stop a bullet, but she couldn’t ignore an explosion.

And electric ones were a bad match for her.

She had only just learned that the hard way against the ground combat drones commanded by the Japanese wolf.

She jumped back while working to find a common point in what she was seeing.

(The electric wiring is exploding! But this warehouse is super big. If I move to the center where there isn’t any electronic equipment…)

Something suddenly emerged from behind a pile of containers.

It was an AGV used to move around containers weighing more than a ton.

“!?”

It exploded.

A metal-melting white flash erupted right in front of her.

Without her excellent physical defense, Kinuhata would have been killed instantly.

“Kah...ah!? It isn’t just the stationary wiring!?”

“Hee hee. You have to get creative if you want to use your power more effectively.”

The brown-skinned girl with silver ringlets spread her arms wide.

Satou Lycaon gave a roar with an ecstatic smile.

“The world is flooded with electronics. Humanity has remade the world in that way! And all I must do is supply just a bit of external energy to it all. That is all it takes for any powered device or cable to be reborn as a bomb!!”

With the forklifts and loaders, there were still plenty of unmanned vehicles taller than a human that transported large containers and boxes. The quiet sound of their motors running was mildly painful. Focusing only on the range of the blasts made it all the harder to predict when the bombs themselves might be sneaking up on her.

There could always be an electronic lurking out there that Kinuhata was unaware of.

It didn’t help that she knew very little about this massive cold storage warehouse.

“Now, then, villainous eyesore☆ Just let me know when you are tired of living. I have a caring and compassionate heart, so I will immediately stop stretching this out and kill you with a single explosion before you can feel any pain or fear!!”