Fighting you is like being in jail.

Kamijou Touma clenched his fists and stared intently at Accelerator.

"Tsk! Your friend?"

Accelerator grinned and asked, clearly annoyed.

Misaka Sisters gave Touma Kamijou a strange look. "Please leave if you are not involved."

What are you saying?

"Please leave if you are not a member of the public."

"Are you kidding me? What do you mean by 'unrelated personnel'?"

"This is an experiment, so please leave."

"The experiment you're talking about is having him hit you?"

Kamijou Touma stared wide-eyed in disbelief, utterly bewildered.

"This is a legitimate experiment; there's no need to be nervous or call the police."

Misaka Sisters explained calmly.

"This……"

Kamijou Touma took a half-step back in disbelief, silently looking at Accelerator ahead.

Noticing his gaze, Accelerator coughed up blood and said unhappily, "I didn't make the first move. This guy found me out of nowhere and started a fight out of nowhere. And he won't let me cancel the experiment."

"What!?"

Kamijou Touma stared blankly, then looked at the Misaka Sisters.

I never expected that the culprit would be Misaka Sisters.

"Why? Didn't he say the experiment was canceled?"

He asked, puzzled.

"His application was rejected, but the experiment continues."

"..."

This situation truly shocked Touma Kamijou; he had already understood what was going on.

"Then how can we end the experiment?"

"I die, or Accelerator is defeated."

How could this be?!

Touma Kamijou's eyes widened in fear and astonishment.

Then, as if remembering something, he looked at Accelerator and asked, "Can you admit defeat?"

"Do you think that's possible? You're despicable!"

Accelerator's eyes flashed with ferocity as he grinned angrily, saying, "You found me out of nowhere, started a war out of nowhere, and now you want me to admit defeat? Ask yourself honestly, is there anyone in this world who's that kind of person?"

"..."

Touma Kamijou fell silent, head bowed in thought.

Thinking about it carefully, it's true. Being beaten up for no reason and then forced to admit defeat is something no one can tolerate.

But... there's no way things can continue like this.

"In that case... I'll defeat you! That way, you won't have to continue the experiment."

He clenched his fist and held it in front of his eyes, staring at Accelerator with unwavering certainty.

"You, you're pretty brave! Do you know who I am? The invincible No. 1 of Academy City! Accelerator! You think someone like me can be defeated by someone like you who just popped up out of nowhere?"

However, Touma Kamijou didn't give him a chance to speak, clenching his fists and running up quickly.

He threw a punch at Accelerator's face.

"I'll break this experiment!"

"Ha! You scoundrel! Getting close to me was your biggest mistake. Let's see how you break through my defenses..."

Hmm? Why does this situation feel so familiar?

As this situation unfolded once again, Accelerator raised an eyebrow, sensing something subtly amiss, and a sense of foreboding rose within him.

We can't possibly encounter someone who ignores vector shields again, can we?

How could it be such a coincidence!

He felt it was unlikely; once or twice was one thing, but three times was impossible.

then……

Biu~!

The shield disappeared the instant Touma Kamijou's fist touched it.

"What?!?"

He opened his mouth and shouted, his eyes wide open, his pupils filled with disbelief.

boom--!

Accelerator was hit squarely in the face, and blood gushed from his nose instantly. The immense force sent him flying backward; this was no smaller force than before, but the full power of a strong young man.

"Buga—!"

He crashed into the ground behind him, his nosebleed arcing through the air as his body slid half a meter across the ground.

At this moment, on the rooftop of the alley, Leng Chang and Kaname Madoka squatted on the roof, watching the battle in the alley and couldn't help but admire it.

"Tsk tsk tsk, no one else can do this."

"Oh dear, will Accelerator become depressed after encountering people who completely disregard his abilities?"

Kaname Madoka, her mouth full of juice from eating melon, looked up at Leng Chang beside her and asked.

In response, Leng Chang reached out and took out a tissue, wiping Kaname Madoka's mouth while remarking, "It shouldn't be that bad... with what you're eating."

"hey-hey!"

Madoka Kaname smiled sweetly, overjoyed.

as predicted!

Accelerator, who was lying on the ground, suddenly sat up, covering his face in a daze.

His pupils trembled, his fingers trembled, and his lips, hidden by the shadow of his palm, quivered.

"How could this be!? Another one!?"

Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?

Accelerator felt his brain, which was like a supercomputer, stop working at this moment and become unresponsive.

But in just a moment, he felt a sense of relief.

If it weren't for the fact that I've spent a lot of money training these past few days and developed a strong body, that punch would have been enough to make him completely unconscious.

Just a little bit more... I would have been knocked out by that punch.

Is it laziness? Or has the world completely changed?

No! It's not that I've become lazy, nor that I've become weak... it's that I've never truly understood this world from the very beginning.

And now I'm finally opening my eyes to the world!

I have to admit, that man really did wake me up at that moment.

If that man hadn't fought me off back then, I probably wouldn't have been able to defeat even a mere puppet...

"Hahahaha! I'm absolutely overjoyed!"

Suddenly bursting into maniacal laughter, Touma Kamijou was startled and stared wide-eyed at Accelerator, too afraid to move. He stood there warily and nervously watching Accelerator slowly rise from the ground.

The moment he stood up again, a powerful and domineering aura erupted from him.

His clenched fists, white knuckles, and bulging arm muscles constantly reminded everyone that this man had entered the peak state of battle!

"Come on, let me see just how capable you really are."

Accelerator raised his hand and beckoned to Touma Kamijou. His blood-red eyes blazed with madness, and his gaze reached its limit, revealing his snow-white teeth.

"Can't we just admit defeat?"

Touma Kamijou really didn't want to fight, but he absolutely couldn't let this continue.

This should have been wrong!

"Defeat me, isn't that the same thing?"

Accelerator's eyes narrowed, and his aura rose once again.

"Since that's the case... then don't blame me!"

As soon as Kamijou Touma finished speaking, he rushed forward, his fists clenched so tightly they felt like steel were being squeezed together.

With the acceleration of his sprint, he swung his fist once more forcefully towards Accelerator.

Bang bang bang!

In an instant, Touma Kamijou felt a blur before his eyes, everything turned upside down, and he even felt his body was becoming uncontrollable.

"Huh?"

His pupils shrank to the size of needles, and his head buzzed.

Only then did he realize that the instant he got close, he was hit by Accelerator, sent spinning through the air, and fell directly to the ground.

Poof!

He collapsed in front of Accelerator without warning, completely unprepared.

The skills honed through street fighting are no match for Accelerator's systematic learning and powerful deductive reasoning abilities, honed through exceptional learning capacity.

This is a world apart, an insurmountable chasm.

"What's wrong? You can't handle this? I underestimated you when you hit me before."

Accelerator glanced sideways at Touma Kamijou lying on the ground with disappointment in his eyes.

Reiji and Madoka Kaname, who were watching this scene, couldn't help but express their excitement.

"Quack! It's phase two! Retreat!"

"Great! Blood will flow like a river!"

The two were itching to observe every detail of the battle below through binoculars, then, in a moment of frenzy, Madoka Kaname asked thoughtfully:

"Can't we just go down and stop this pointless battle?"

"What's meaningless about it? Accelerator is growing stronger! Besides, now we can observe Misaka's situation more closely. Her system has been able to collect the vectors emitted by Accelerator since the battle. It seems her level is not high enough. I thought she would just take away his ability directly."

Leng Chang glanced sharply to the side, using his peripheral vision to observe the Misaka Sisters who were standing motionless behind him.

Just then, Touma Kamijou stood up from the ground and launched another attack on Accelerator.

This time it was faster and the movements were more swift.

Unfortunately, Accelerator was faster and more powerful.

boom!

A punch worth five million yen landed on Touma Kamijou's face, pausing him in shock. Before blood could even flow from his nose, another punch came flying in.

boom!

A powerful fist slammed into his face, and the force of it made his subconscious begin to blur.

But Accelerator didn't stop; his fists struck even faster and more fiercely.

Bang bang bang!

Under the gaze of a tiger, blood-red eyes, a fist slammed into his abdomen, forcing Touma Kamijou to bend over to deflect the force.

Who knew that in the instant he bent over, a spinning kick would strike!

boom--!