One-way traffic

"Male? Male male male male—?! What nonsense are you spouting, you idiot!!"

"Isn't that right? The expression on your face makes you look like you're in the throes of first love."

"Oh, ladies, instead of talking like best friends at a time like this, wouldn't it be better to use your energy to drive away these monsters?"

"This guy and I are not best friends!"

Actually, the thing that really bothers Misaka Mikoto so much is very simple.

It's simply that the boy she cares about doesn't seem to be in this city anymore.

I can't get through on the phone, and I can't send text messages either. It shows that the other party's location is out of signal range.

It's impossible that guy ran away to another world, right?

'Seriously...that idiot, where did he go during such a dangerous time!'

Despite her girlish heart, Misaka Mikoto has no choice but to devote all her energy to fighting monsters.

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Deathly silence.

In the darkness, on the throne devoid of any light or shadow, a being with an appearance exactly like Accelerator slowly opened its eyes.

"...So, you've become somewhat familiar with the way lower-class creatures speak?"

The way of speaking is no longer the same as before, which is mechanical.

Rather, it was a state of being extremely fluent.

It seems that this extraordinary being has completely adapted to today's low-end, language-based communication methods.

"Unfortunately, will you ever be able to understand my wish?"

He gazed at the sky in the room.

But then, a sorrowful expression appeared on his face.

"...Whether it's you or me, we're just pawns in this boring story."

"I really hope that you and I can stage a play that is completely free from all constraints."

He returned to calm.

They remained silent in the room for a long time.

Chapter 828 The Battlefield Reaches a White-Hot Point

boom! ! !

Under these circumstances, this doesn't even qualify as the most basic combat.

Accelerator rose straight up from the ground, manipulated the vector, and kicked the enemy like a flying kick.

The overwhelming blow rendered it incapable of resistance.

By manipulating vectors, even such a simple kick can cause immense damage, leaving the monster with absolutely no chance to retaliate.

However, despite suffering an overwhelming first attack, the monster still did not die.

It should be said that it does not have the concept of death.

"No matter how much damage he takes, he can recover. Is this the ultimate level of regenerative ability?"

After a series of attacks, the force was enough to revert Earth's biosphere to its pre-Earth state, but the monster before them still retained the ability to move.

It wriggled its enormous, twisted body, occasionally spitting out a series of mud-like substances from its mouth, while its pierced body continued to recover.

It's pointless to inflict any harm on it.

These monsters cannot be killed by brute force alone.

"I don't want to use my trump card in a place like this. A thing like you, which is neither fish nor fowl, is not worth my trouble."

Roar—!!! As if it understood what Accelerator said, the monster roared fiercely at him, spewing out countless slurries of mud from its mouth from time to time.

The first one ignored this.

He snapped his fingers, and the necklace-like object around his neck flashed with an arc of light, instantly transforming into six deep black generators that hovered behind him.

"Doomsday Destroyer", Time Generator Mode.

As the first one moved, the six generators instantly moved above the monster's head—to a height of nearly tens of thousands of meters.

then.

The six spiked generators rotate at high speed, which directly expands the internal space radius to twenty meters.

"Black Hole".

Simple words, yet containing extraordinary meaning.

Because of this phrase from Accelerator.

Within that space with a radius of twenty meters, an overwhelming force twisted out directly from the inside.

Black hole.

It is neither mimicry nor conceptual.

That is something genuine, indistinguishable from a black hole in the universe.

The first one relies on manipulating the vectors of time and space to achieve an extreme balance. When this balance reaches its extreme, it will cause a distortion, and this distortion will cause a new round of balance.

It constantly cycles between the two extreme realms of balance and distortion, eventually leading to the direction of time and space exceeding the limits, forming an overwhelming pressure.

That's a black hole.

The internal connection leads to a world where nothingness exists; it wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it emptiness.

Nothing can survive in a world where time and space are completely disrupted.

Even the greatest power will be completely absorbed.

"I'm not going to waste too much time on a nobody like you."

Accelerator didn't even glance at the monster.

"So, you'd better just disappear right now."

call----!!!!

Immediately afterwards, the terrifying gravitational field, which even completely shook the blood pool, distorted everything around it.

The boundary between heaven and earth has been altered.

The monster's body, taller than a building, was suddenly drawn by an overwhelming force.

It roared and tried to struggle, but it couldn't move an inch.

The surrounding pools of blood and skeletons were also drawn upwards.

It swallowed everything into a vortex, except for Accelerator, who stood calmly in place, while everything around him was incomparably affected.

Even the world was plunged into darkness as a result.

The small space, with a radius of about twenty meters, could absorb the blood pool, which was nearly infinite in size, completely. Moreover, even the skeletal monsters with infinite power within them could not struggle here.

It was mercilessly swallowed up and thus completely disappeared from the world.

And that immense power has vanished forever at the far end of the black hole.

It was as if nothing had ever happened in the first place.

The six generators then disintegrated and returned to the position behind the leader.

The weeds blocking the road have been completely cleared away.

"Then it's about time to find the direction of the road... huh?"

Accelerator looked down and saw a huge hole.

That led to a pitch-black, incredibly deep cave.

It opened right below where those corpses were. Now that we've dispersed the corpses and the monster itself, we can proceed directly downwards from here.

Even if it weren't here, Accelerator could still use the vectors of space to find the direction of the road again.

Without hesitation, he leaped into the deepest part of the cave in an instant.

pat.

I seemed to hear a dripping sound.

The first person had barely landed when they were hit by an incredibly disgusting odor.

"...What kind of garbage is this?"

He curled his lip in displeasure, and after a moment of changing the direction of his taste, he looked around.

It was pitch black, but that didn't affect Accelerator, who was an Absolute Level 6.

By concentrating the power unique to absolute ability users—that is, the purplish-black lightning—on the optic nerves, even the darkest world can become crystal clear.

however.

Once inside the road, he discovered that it wasn't just a place with an extremely ugly smell.

Something strange was thus revealed before the first one.

It looks...like a mural?

However, the texture of the entire corridor felt like the intestines of some kind of creature, which made him wonder if someone had carved these things on the intestine-like walls.

"What's this?"

The murals depict images with strange meanings.

In the beginning, there was a pen and a piece of paper.

Below that branch is a white dot.

Dots are transformed into lines, and then woven together—

It's an eye.

However, it only has one eye, and it seems to be constantly watching some kind of enormous chessboard.

There are all sorts of people and all sorts of beings on the chessboard.

But that eye seemed unaware of one thing.

…It can even see the entire chessboard at a glance.

In itself, it is merely a pawn.

Once a piece is on the chessboard, it cannot break free from the board's limitations.

Unless someone pushes it, no new movement will ever occur.

That concludes the entire painting.

"What does it mean? This painting seems to be trying to express something..."

According to his speculation, the so-called eye should be the so-called evil eye.

but--

Judging from the content of this painting, the Evil Eye itself... is merely a pawn being used.

But if that's the case, then what exactly is the being that can control even such an evil eye?

The most powerful being in this world is the one with the Evil Eye. If even it is merely a piece on this chessboard...

Ultimately...

What exactly does the so-called "chessboard" refer to?

Just as Accelerator was pondering these details.

He sensed an unparalleled explosion coming from ahead.

There are people fighting ahead.

He stopped thinking and stopped paying attention to what was in front of him.

If he wasn't mistaken, the person fighting ahead should be—