One-way traffic

No matter how glorious the world he usually lived in, he could never forget the image of that girl.

Regardless, Accelerator will continue to fight in order to return to his original world.

After finishing the coffee in the can, he casually sighed.

"When we get back, let's replenish our coffee supplies a bit."

That's it.

Accelerator then turned his gaze to a direction not far away.

"...Or was there someone else who wanted to try the coffee before that?"

For an instant.

The coffee can he launched at three times the speed of sound burned up completely in the air in an instant.

As the sound was broken, only the shockwave shot out and flew towards the distant hills.

The violent shockwave instantly tore the ground apart, triggering a minor explosion.

It turned out to be the case.

Is this what they call the "witch cult" related hints?

He grinned and looked in a certain direction beside him.

"What kind of person hides like that? Stand right in front of me now."

"Despicable."

pat.

It was a woman dressed in black robes with an extremely ferocious face.

Despite the other person's peculiar appearance, Accelerator still recognized who it was.

Ah... another encounter, another encounter with you!

The woman who appeared before him was tearing her face apart with her hands and laughing loudly.

"My brain is trembling—!!"

That's right.

Petichius Romanee-Conti, the Archbishop of Sloth and Sin of the Witch Cult.

He is still alive; he is not dead.

Chapter 82 The End of Ugliness

I can never forget that face.

It wasn't that the other person's existence was particularly noteworthy in Accelerator's mind, but rather that he simply felt disgusted by them, which is why such a mark was left in his memory.

"A voice that people don't need to remember."

"Oh, how ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous!"

Ignoring Accelerator's words, the woman in front of him laughed loudly.

That look was definitely Petitschius.

Even if Accelerator doesn't offer any opinion, anyone with the most straightforward eyes could tell that.

"You probably never expected that I would come back, did you? That was inevitable. Someone like you who has abandoned love could never understand the love I believe in!"

The woman, possessing the consciousness of Petitchius, raised her hands and roared loudly.

next moment.

—Without even giving her a chance to say a word, the storm instantly tore her body apart.

"Whoa whoa whoa—?!"

With a simple wave of his hand, Accelerator sliced ​​the woman in front of him in half.

This kind of thing is over in less than a second.

however.

"What a cruel trial..."

The sound came from nearby again.

Under Accelerator's watchful gaze, another figure emerged from not far away. This time, he appeared to be a young man in his twenties, but his expression was incredibly ferocious.

It was still Petruccius's consciousness.

"For the sake of my love for the witch, she didn't hesitate to let my body be cut open countless times and die countless times, and keep going on and ...

"But that's okay too."

A new smile suddenly appeared on his incredibly ferocious face.

"Even if my body is cut open and my brains spill out, my diligence will not end like that!"

"I can keep living! I can do anything with my fingers!"

"finger?"

What does that mean? But we can more or less guess what it means.

In Accelerator's view, Petitchius in front of him must be using some kind of ability similar to possessing someone else to continue resurrecting in this way.

One stores one's spirit in a specific person, and then, if the current body dies, the spirit is transferred to another person.

If that's the case, then it might indeed be possible to achieve continuous resurrection.

"You really dare to do that! You villain!"

Boom! A strange power suddenly erupted from behind Petitchius.

Under Accelerator's gaze, Petitchius stared wide-eyed and spread his arms wide, a mere gesture that caused some unusual energy fields to shoot out.

"The Witch's Favor! The Power of Sloth! The Invisible Hand—!!"

In that instant, Accelerator seemed to genuinely sense something approaching him.

It just comes quickly and goes quickly.

Boom! The unseen force was instantly neutralized by an equally unseen force.

Even though Accelerator did nothing, a surge of power instantly appeared on his body, easily blocking the equally invisible force and returning him to the past.

reflection.

Any law that can be understood by One-Way Street can perfectly manipulate vectors and make them return to their original path.

And that's exactly what happened to the unseen power of the other side.

"Ahhh, it's done again! It's done again! How is this possible?!"

Petitchius's expression completely wavered, and he stepped back without hesitation.

A large crater instantly appeared where he had been standing.

"That power was clearly given to me by the witch! It should have been the witch's favor towards me alone! But why, why can you control it! Why are you not hurt by my invisible hand!"

The invisible hand.

That was a power derived from something called the Witch Factor by Petritchus, which allowed him to exercise the authority of the Archbishop of Sloth, the so-called Invisible Hand.

The arm was so strong and powerful that only he could see it; no one else could perceive the form of the invisible hand. It was such incredible power.

but why?

Why could this person in front of me block the attack from that invisible hand without getting hurt?

Ultimately, it all came from the witch's power.

Even the witch herself, whose whereabouts are unknown, doesn't seem to frighten Accelerator, let alone just pure power.

Although he could not see exactly what Petritchus's power was like, he could certainly reflect it.

Back when Subaru Natsuki faced his first death, he had already incorporated the formula for that power into his own personal reality's numerical values.

Accelerator looked ahead again, said nothing, and simply stomped his foot on the ground.

The shockwave spread outwards, instantly tearing apart the ground beneath Petitchius's feet and swallowing him whole before merging back together.

You can also hear screams coming from deep underground as the earth crushes you.

"You cannot stop my diligence!"

Then, the sound came from afar once again.

It's that same power again.

The power struck Accelerator directly, then was reflected back, but this time Accelerator turned around and looked at the source of the power.

Zzz—something instantly twisted under an unseen force.

He reversed the flow of the opponent's internal bio-current at the instant he reflected the opponent's power.

The result of this is that it directly leads to the destruction of the other party's physical and mental health.

but.

"Whoa! Trials! The difficulty of the trials keeps increasing, all because of the witch's will—!!"

It's not over yet.

Despite Accelerator's ability to reverse the opponent's bioelectricity to attack even the brain and mental level, it seems he has no way to stop Petyrius from continuing to revive.

The snarling, eyesore emerged once more from the woods in front of them.

Perhaps it's just as that guy said.

As long as those bastards called Fingers remain, Petitchius will not die, never.

In any case, he will have a body that can be used as a substitute.

"Come on, try it! This forest is full of my loyal fingers! See if you can kill them all!"

"If you can't do it, then you're just—lazy."

Thud! The sound came again.

Before the finger could finish speaking, his head was torn apart by a stone traveling at more than three times the speed of sound, and his body was crushed along with it, but this was all in vain.

Even if you kill your opponent a dozen or twenty times, they might still have a spare finger.

That would mean there's no end to it.

only.

"That bastard just said that this whole forest is full of his fingers, right?"

what.

Wouldn't that make things simple?

Before he knew it, a strange smile had appeared on Accelerator's face.

—It was a smile more terrifying than Petitchius's twisted smile, a smile like that of death.

"Then let's play something more interesting?"

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In conclusion, Petitchius is now in a position of certain victory.

He could continue like this indefinitely, while his opponent's stamina was ultimately limited. Although he didn't know how long that invisible force, which could deflect even his invisible hand, could be maintained, he knew that when his opponent was physically and mentally exhausted, that would be the moment of his victory.

That's what he thought.

Just keep wearing down your opponent by using the finger-based rotation tactic.

"…Huh?"

Then, Petitchius, who was hiding in the bushes, couldn't help but blink.

got windy.

No, that's not the only way.

—If it were just a breeze, it wouldn't attract his attention at all.