709598b8ab610434268b737ee1e86a3f by Unknown

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the blast. The alley had been nearly deserted earlier, but when they heard the noise, people began to look in from the street, one after another. Rail thought the two journalists from earlier might turn up as well, but... Even though he was the one responsible for this, his eyes were filled with a questioning light that he couldn’t dispel. “What...? Why?” With the echoes of the explosion still in his ears, Rail murmured about what he’d just seen. “Say, Frank? Why did my bomb explode...way over there?” In front of them, the men who’d been sent flying by the blast’s wind lay on the ground, groaning. That said, none of them seemed to be lethally wounded. They’d been knocked into the air and come down—that was all. Even though I'd set it to kill half of them... There hadn’t been five yards between them and the bomb. But... “T mean, if it had exploded where I put it, the blast could have ripped off a few limbs.” As the hypothetical phrasing indicated, the bomb had actually burst more than ten yards away from them, near the opposite side of the alley. Just before the blast, Rail had seen something closing in on the bomb. Since he’d set it in a hurry, the watch-type timer had started with a timid one minute. In order to cover for that, Rail hurled taunt after taunt at the men, but... Just as the second hand had shown that it was time, he’d seen something like a silver disc bearing down on the device. Before he could tell what it was, the disc had connected with the eggsized bomb. As if to drown out the sound of the activating percussion cap, a sharp metallic clang had rung out, and the bomb had been knocked more than ten yards from its original location. As aresult, the men had been left nearly unscathed. “Q-over there, Rail. There...” Frank was pointing at the wall. When Rail glanced that way, he saw a small, silver, stick-shaped object protruding from it. It looked as if someone had pounded a nail into the concrete wall with

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