Kamijou Touma followed the advice of the person on the phone and ran to the metal bridge.
However, he did not find Last Order there.
He found God's Right Seat.
He found Vento of the Front.
"Wha-…You!!" roared Kamijou as Vento swung her giant hammer while turning around.
A blunt mass of air tore through the rain and Kamijou knocked it away with his right hand.
An invisible tension ran between the two of them.
"Why are you here!? What did you do with Last Order!?" shouted Kamijou.
Vento frowned before replying, "Are you here to let me kill you?"
"I'm asking what you did with that girl!!"
"Last Order? I don't know anything about that!!"
The two of them yelled at each other.
However, it did not develop into an actual fight.
A tremendous light suddenly assaulted their eyes.
When his vision was taken out, Kamijou went on guard, assuming it was a strategy of Vento's. However, he could hear Vento gritting her teeth as well.
He could not grasp what had happened and then the sound and shockwave struck a moment later like with lightning.
All of the joints in his body cried out.
"Gwaahh!!"
Kamijou collapsed to the road. That large bridge made of metal shook like a suspension bridge. He heard a number of bolts burst due to the motion.
(…Kh. What is going on?)
Kamijou shook his head while crouching down.
The gap between light and sound meant this was a distant event.
(Where's Vento…!?)
The light was not bright enough to blind him over a long period of time. Kamijou frantically stood up and looked around.
(What?)
She was not looking at Kamijou.
Vento's eyes were fixed on some distant object with her hands on the railing and the hammer on the ground next to her.
"That bastard… Aleister!!"
Her hate-filled cry rang out.
The anger in her voice was dozens of times stronger and clearer than when she had directed it at Kamijou.
Vento turned back toward him.
"I'll deal with you later. …I'll kill him. I see. So this is the true form of the Imaginary Number District – Five Elements Institution! Damn you. Do you want to mock us this badlyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!?"
She grabbed her hammer and swung it full-force at her feet.
The asphalt was smashed to pieces with a great roar.
"!!"
Kamijou covered his face with both hands and Vento was gone by the time he could see again.
(She disappeared? Wait, it can't be!!)
He frantically ran over to the railing. However, he could see nothing but the black river noisily flowing by when he peered down. The rain had swollen the river by quite a bit. Had she jumped down there? Or had she used some sort of magic?
(What is going on? What was she looking at?)
Vento had attacked Academy City to kill Kamijou Touma.
Yet now she had completely abandoned her primary target.
Kamijou moved his gaze up from the river and looked straight ahead.
He wanted to see what Vento had been looking at.
"You're kidding…"