One-way traffic

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"The golden apple can bring people an endless life, while the lifespan of an ordinary person is only a small fraction of that."

If we substitute it in this way, it becomes the whole and the individual—the macro and the micro.

That is precisely the essence of the ability possessed by those with holistic abilities.

"You mean you want me to use all the energy that could give someone an endless lifespan on restoring someone to a normal lifespan?"

This should be an incredibly exaggerated thing, right?

However, those who possess holistic abilities excel at precisely this kind of thing.

Use a flame comparable to a nuclear bomb to light a cigarette, and use the immense energy of a black hole somewhere in the universe to bend a spoon.

Compared to these things, it's like compressing energy that could grant immortality into something that simply restores a person's normal lifespan...

It doesn't seem like a pipe dream.

"Even if we did that, what would be the point? The machines in Academy City could easily revive the dead—"

"Idiot, there's a fundamental difference in this respect."

He interrupted Kakine Teitoku again and directly stated the solution to the problem.

"The reason you feel that the resurrected guy is different from the original living person is simply because the energy you used to resurrect him was not used on the guy's soul at all."

"To achieve this, we must be able to apply the energy of resurrection fully to all areas, including the soul."

With this in mind, an extremely delicate ability to manipulate energy is required.

correct.

This is precisely why Accelerator came to find Kakine Teitoku.

"You want to use me and your hands... to revive... Ringo?!"

"She's not the only one."

For Accelerator, it would be incredibly inhumane to resurrect someone simply to satisfy his own selfish desires while disregarding the others.

"I will use this power to pull back from the brink of death any of those who die in this boring farce created by Academy City because of the tragedy of inequality."

"As for whether there is enough energy to revive them? It's simple. Even taking just a small part of this fruit is enough to make people live forever. Taking just a small piece each time is more than enough."

That was simply...an unbelievable development.

Kakine Teitoku stood there, somewhat incredulous.

He had never imagined that he would have thoughts like Accelerator's today.

Who exactly... do you intend to resurrect?

“I will include all the guys who died in this city for innocent reasons… I will personally oversee them all.”

If they were the kind of people who had given up on themselves from the very beginning, had no remorse whatsoever, and were complete scum, then Accelerator would never have used this opportunity on them.

If this gets out, I will definitely be criticized.

People might question themselves: why only resurrect a small number of people? Although those people are scum, scum also have their own human rights. Everyone should have the right to be resurrected fairly. What right do you have to make this decision for them?

Who cares?

Let them say whatever they want. If anyone actually has that kind of thought, then it doesn't matter if they consider Accelerator the worst scum in the world.

He had already been preparing to do this for a long time.

He would bear all the consequences himself, and he would accept all complaints without paying any attention to them.

As the number one esper in Academy City, hasn't he always acted this way?

"let's start."

Gazing at Kakine Teitoku before him, Accelerator made his choice with utmost calmness.

"You're a crazy bastard."

"From the moment I stepped into this damn city, I was already destined to be this crazy for the rest of my life, you bastard."

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Consciousness is in the darkness.

Perhaps this is death; she has no idea what has happened to everything around her.

All I know is that I have been in this chaos and nothingness for a very, very long time.

until a certain day.

"—"

The girl felt her consciousness slowly floating up from the dark, gloomy sea.

“…Eh…”

Bare Ringo.

The girl, whose internal bodily functions should have been forcibly stopped by external mechanisms, opened her eyes again.

Very strange.

Even though his body had just been forcibly revived, he didn't feel anything like rigor mortis, as if he had never fallen to the ground.

She felt herself being held by someone.

The little head slowly turned to the right, and it could see directly the person holding it in their arms.

Behind him grew six pure white wings that he considered incredibly beautiful.

"Yuan...root..."

He regained full consciousness.

Ringo... a girl who has returned from the abyss of death, stares incredulously at the young man before her.

"How...did I......"

"...Really."

I seem to sense that some kind of transformation has taken place within me.

Unable to control his emotions, Kakine Teitoku could only suppress them with a helpless smile.

"If you want to thank someone, then thank that guy as much as you like."

"That guy...?"

"Ah, that's right."

Look up at the gaping hole that has been torn open above your head.

Kakine Teitoku then sighed directly.

"The number one ranked, the strongest bastard."

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A considerable amount of time has passed.

Although it's only a day in reality, today is the most important day in Academy City.

Christmas Eve.

During this time, most people enjoy peace and happiness and don't pay much attention to troublesome things.

However, there is one thing that is different.

Being the "strongest" in this world, he never stopped.

He still has something he needs to accomplish.

This was the last thing, and also the most important thing in his life.

"That's it."

Realizing that no one was around, Accelerator placed his hand directly on his neck.

Doomsday Destroyer.

Using it, you can cross the bridge between the world and go wherever you want.

but.

This time, the first place they're going to isn't some distant, otherworldly realm.

It is a very simple and straightforward place.

"…ah?"

Just before that kind of thing happened.

He noticed first that there seemed to be something unusual on the streets on December 24th, a winter day.

"Ugh... Pfft!!"

Touma Kamijou, a high school student with spiky hair.

He was lying on the ground, his mouth full of blood, his eyes rolling back as if he were convulsing.

It was almost like a spasm.

"That... guy?!"

Accelerator noticed this and immediately looked at the other end of the street.

There were a few people there.

One was a petite girl I had seen a long time ago, wearing a white and gold nun's habit.

One of them is Misaka Mikoto, the third-ranked student in Academy City. She is dressed in a red and white outfit like Santa Claus and stands there looking terrified.

There seemed to be an incredibly tiny figure on the ground nearby. Accelerator knew that it was Othinus, whose body had been shrunk.

However, further ahead, there is another person.

"uh-huh."

A mature woman dressed in strawberry-colored clothing and with long hair of the same color.

"Ah ha ha!"

She was laughing softly and joyfully.

"Should I say the Christmas gift was too extravagant? Or was it the stimulation from my older sister that was too much? My enemy... you are really cute."

"Cough...Pfft...Gulp—?!"

"Dang, Touma!!"

The girl in the nun's robe immediately shouted in shock.

Misaka Mikoto, who was standing nearby, was furious.

"You—you bastard!!!"

"Don't go there!"

Ottinus immediately called out to the angry third person, but it seemed to be too late.

The woman with long strawberry-colored hair casually raised her hand.

Even so, something pure gold appeared at the feet of the third person.

That's a magic circle.

From within the magic circle, incredibly fierce lightning burst forth!

"Guwooa ...

"Oh dear, she seems to be going through puberty? What a disobedient little girl."

Fall down.

The third-ranked Level 5 esper in Academy City—that kind of thing seems completely irrelevant to the present.

Misaka Mikoto lay on the ground, her body so badly damaged by the purple lightning that had surged from the magic circle that she couldn't even lift a finger.

"You think you can stop me with this level of skill? You're seriously underestimating me."