One-way traffic

So, an unexpected situation has arisen.

Accelerator squinted, holding the coffee can in his hand. He didn't know if there were any supernatural or other supernatural things in this world, but what he was seeing was definitely not something a normal person would do.

The task at hand is already very clear.

"Does it mean you can't settle down no matter where you go...? That's so simple and clear."

The first monster couldn't help but laugh.

With a grin on his face, he followed the corner he had just turned and walked in.

Chapter Ninety-Two: Shouldn't it be my turn to take the initiative?

Accelerator followed and walked to the corner.

In the blink of an eye, a huge warehouse appeared directly in front of him.

The first one has witnessed many supernatural phenomena so far, both in Academy City and in other worlds, and has had countless valuable experiences.

Theoretically speaking, his decision to act was to understand first and then take action.

If it's something he's never seen or understood before, he'll try his best to avoid getting involved.

So what he's doing now is trying to understand all of this.

"…What's this?"

Accelerator, dressed in white, arrived at the warehouse entrance.

The door was blocked, and he could see inside through the glass window in the curtain.

A dozen or so people gathered around.

It wasn't just a simple gathering; the dozen or so people were like members of a religious ceremony, forming a circle and chanting incantations.

"There's really no other way."

"That's right, the pressure is too much."

"Wouldn't it be better to just die after all?"

"Yes, yes, but there's a proper way to die."

"Ugh~ That's so unfair! I'm about to die, why make things so complicated?"

"Of course! For example, strangulation, poisoning, curse death, suffocation, scalding, burning—"

"Wow, there are so many methods! I want to try them all!"

"We have enough time; one person can try it all at once."

"Yes, hehe."

"Hehe, hehehe, hehehe meat hehehe?"

A dozen or so humans were gathered around there—though that's what they said, their tone was so eerie it went beyond what normal humans would expect.

Accelerator placed his hand directly on the doorknob, but couldn't open it; it seemed as if the door was being held down by something heavy from the inside.

Without hesitation, he changed direction and hurled a blow that was comparable to a cannonball forward.

He kicked the door open.

Even so, even though the door frame he kicked away flew past those people and crashed onto the warehouse floor, they remained unchanged.

The dozen or so people stood there as if bewitched, chuckling softly.

He noticed something.

These people all had something like an inscription on their necks.

Boom—! Some unseen force erupted.

Accelerator looked around, not feeling any fear, but even so, the situation seemed far too eerie.

There is no doubt that some laws, which scientists cannot explain, are at work all around us.

"Will you come with us?"

The dozen or so people turned their heads and looked at him with sharp, astonishing smiles.

"It would be better to just die. Staying in this world is painful, isn't it? Every day is a burden because of work, getting married, buying a house, buying a car. Wouldn't death be the simplest relief?"

"I have to go to school every day to study, it's so tiring, so why not just cut my own throat and then I won't have to keep reading the words in the book?"

"It's such a hassle to squeeze onto the bus to work every day and have to deal with my boss's attitude. It's so annoying that I just want to kill myself. Oh, right, why not just bang my head against a corner of the wall? Corners are sharper, they can smash my frontal lobe. That would kill me faster, right?"

"I want to eat pesticide! But I want to dip the pesticide in ice cream and eat it together, then it'll be just like strawberry ice cream!"

"Yes, yes, let's die, let's hurry up and die!"

"Let's die together?"

"Die with us—?!"

They stared intently at the one-way lane in front of them, shouting with great anticipation.

A sense of mental oppression swept over Accelerator.

It was like a pharaoh's curse, like an unimaginable malice.

This kind of mental pollution, a combination of the negative emotions of purely social individuals, rushed towards him without mercy.

Die, our lives are full of oppression.

This society is so dark, and the pressure it puts on us is immense. To survive, we have to go to work, study, earn money every day, and also have to be mindful of our superiors' moods. This darkness is truly suffocating.

So—let's die together, shall we?

That's it.

then.

"Something like that that specifically targets and controls psychological weaknesses?"

Accelerator calmly and rationally analyzed it this way.

He was not affected at all.

Not enough, not nearly enough.

What kind of oppression, pressure, and darkness does modern society bring to people? Do we have to work hard every day just to make a living, and also have to be mindful of our bosses' moods?

Child's play, that's hilarious.

These are just the dark complaints of ordinary people, the mere pressures of modern society; they're nothing more than a fart.

This level of darkness is utterly childish trash compared to this aggregate of the strongest evils in Academy City.

The dozen or so people in front of them were immediately frightened by the bizarre scene and stood frozen in place.

Because they never imagined that this person in white could so ruthlessly disregard their negative emotions and darkness.

"Since you're not the ones behind it all, that means you're all being manipulated."

He took a step forward.

"As for you bunch of trash who have been beaten down by mere social oppression, you can all get out of here."

While Accelerator satirizes the so-called darkness of society, he stirs up a storm around him.

With just one step forward, more than a dozen people were blown away.

The strong winds made them dizzy within seconds, and then they were placed unharmed on the ground on the other side.

So, the henchmen have been dealt with.

"Although I'm too lazy to deal with these trivial matters that have nothing to do with me, I am indeed standing here as a heretical bastard."

The first one, who called himself evil, turned his head, his sharp gaze fixed on what was behind him.

"But I'm even more disgusted by guys who use this childish so-called darkness to attack me, so—you piece of trash playing hide-and-seek, it's about time you came out, isn't it?"

He raised his hand and stretched his right hand directly into the air.

That moment.

He tore apart dimensions beyond the third dimension.

boom--! ! !

Accelerator waved one of his hands toward the unseen space in front of him, and in that instant, glass-like objects appeared everywhere.

The world has undergone tremendous changes.

After manipulating the vectors of the surrounding alternate space, he could directly pierce through this so-called disguise. Reflecting spatial forces of eleven dimensions or higher would cause strange phenomena in three-dimensional space. This was actually a valuable experience that Accelerator had learned in past battles.

So, wouldn't reversing this experience be a way to break the current situation?

Look, the mastermind is right in front of us.

—The strange creature that appeared before Accelerator, encased in a huge room.

It is neither human nor animal, nor anything else that humans can imagine or understand.

If I had to describe it, it would be like a monster that had been forcibly taken out of an oil painting frame; its twisting and body movements are irregular.

From the surface, it looks like a two-dimensional creature, but when you turn your head, you find that it is a monster that exists in three dimensions.

This is no longer a situation that can be solved simply by physical phenomena.

However, Accelerator grinned even more gleefully at this.

"What is this? Ha, is it a pixelated character that popped out of a video game?"

He does indeed adhere to the principle of avoiding intervention in situations where he doesn't understand something.

But that has no meaning for him now.

Because it was always just 'trying your best'.

Boom—!! A creature beyond human imagination launched a direct attack on him.

Tentacle-like vines extended from the surrounding walls, and the flowers and plants on the ground began to grow, their petals covered with human faces, like faces carved out of an oil painting.

It's only natural that something of this magnitude couldn't possibly shake him.

bang——

The reflection worked successfully.

He easily twisted several of the opponent's vines, not as a result of a failed reflection, but as something he did intentionally.

He twisted dozens of vines together and held them tightly, completely disregarding the sharp spikes on them.

With extreme brutality, he used his right hand to violently pull the enormous monster, which was over five meters tall, toward him.

"At least let me have some fun, okay? You lowlife!"

A white, devilish grin.

Accelerator laughed loudly, and in his madness, he swung his left fist, instantly sending his opponent flying again.

If this punch were to land directly on the ground, it would be enough to cause significant deviations in seismographs around the world.

The sound cheered because of him; in short, it exceeded the speed of sound. The monster's body was sent flying by a punch that was as simple as it could be, directly enduring a punch of earthquake magnitude.

The aftershocks alone were enough to instantly tear apart all the small monsters around them.

The enormous monster collapsed to the ground, still convulsing, with jet-black mist continuously emanating from its body.

The white light fell directly onto its body.

"Okay, thank you for cooperating with my performance."

The demon's voice reached my ears, and regardless of whether it had any self-awareness, its only fate was to remain the same.

"—I'll make sure you die a glorious death, so thank me."

He stomped down with his right foot, and the monster beneath him instantly turned into a puddle of mud.

The battle was over in less than five seconds.

Bang! The world returned to normal.

The bizarre world that had seemed like a joke vanished with the disappearance of the monsters. Accelerator stood still, looking around.

A dark, glittering spot of light fell onto the ground.