One-way traffic

"Yes, Sayaka often goes with me to that hospital to visit a friend from her past."

"Is that friend injured...?"

"Yes... I suffered very serious injuries due to an accident."

Madoka Kaname nodded and continued.

“Although I usually visit Kamijou-kun with Sayaka, this time is really strange.”

"Why is Sayaka suddenly in such a hurry to visit Kamijou-kun? And she didn't even take me with her..."

The girl's face was full of confusion; she couldn't understand what Miki Sayaka was thinking.

then.

'—— Kamijou? '

Accelerator's eyes widened instinctively.

This surname just doesn't sit right with me.

It sounds like I've heard it somewhere before.

The more he thought about this surname, the more an inexplicable anger rose in his heart, even though he didn't know what the surname meant.

Regardless, if I actually see that guy named Kamijou, I probably won't give him a friendly look.

As Accelerator thought this, he became increasingly anxious.

"...Let's go."

"Huh? Are you really... really going?"

“If I leave that brat alone, that bastard named Cupid might do something, and I don’t want any more troublesome stupid things to happen.”

With that in mind, Accelerator and Hatsune Miku immediately got to work.

Their destination was the hospital they had visited before.

Chapter 113 The True 'Hero'

Arriving at dusk in the afternoon.

Once the door is closed, even inside the hospital, everything around becomes quiet.

"...Listening, what is it?"

"The flaxen-haired girl."

A boy lying on the bed, and a girl sitting to the side.

The two were about the same age, but their facial expressions were completely different.

The girl had an expression of anticipation and excitement, while the boy's face was simply indifferent.

The tranquility of forgetting everything.

"Ah... I remember, it's a piece by Debussy, isn't it?"

"It's amazing that you even knew that."

"That, that's all knowledge that Kyosuke taught me!"

Upon hearing this, Sayaka Miki's expression immediately brightened with delight.

"If it weren't for you, always teaching me about these things, I would never have known so much! You see, when people at school ask me similar questions, I chime in, and it always surprises them that a girl like me knows so many songs—"

"Sayaka."

He interrupted the other person.

Said word by word.

"You—are you trying to make fun of me?"

"…Eh?"

The girl blinked, completely surprised that the other person would use such a word.

"No, no? I didn't even think about it—"

"What's the point? After saying and doing so much, in the end, I'm still stuck in this situation. And what are you saying here? This music that I don't want to hear anymore?"

"Don't want to hear anymore...? But, but Kyosuke—!"

"That's enough."

He used his only movable hand to take off his headphones.

"I've said enough!!!"

Thump—! He raised his left hand and slammed his bandaged arm hard against the record player.

The disc was smashed to pieces, and the shattered fragments pierced through his arm.

Blood stained everything red.

"No, no! Kyosuke, you can't do that to your hands—!!"

Sayaka Miki gripped his arm tightly.

even so.

"...Do you know that?"

Kyosuke Kamijou laughed, but it was a helpless and tragic laugh.

His voice trembled.

"It's hopeless, it's hopeless! I can't even feel pain in my hands, let alone play music, I don't even have the most basic sense of pain anymore! That's the desperate reality!"

"No, no... I'll definitely recover! As long as I keep doing the rehabilitation exercises the doctors told me to do—"

"I already said it's no use, are you deaf?!"

He roared without any mercy.

"It was those doctors! They were the ones who told me this... There's absolutely no chance of my hand being cured!"

"how…"

"Modern medicine is completely incapable of treating this kind of injury. They even suggested I have an amputation... There's absolutely no hope left!!"

The boy roared, his eyes wide open.

Tears streamed down his face.

"If only miracles and magic really existed, but that's impossible. My hand will never... never in my entire life—!!"

"…some."

"What…?"

I said, yes.

Sayaka Miki raised her head and spoke loudly.

"It exists! Miracles and magic, things that can truly heal you, Kyosuke... they exist!"

correct.

This world holds a miraculous power that modern humans have never known before.

She raised her head and looked ahead.

Just as she had expected.

A white shadow, which hadn't been seen all day, appeared outside the window directly in front of me.

"Have you finally made up your mind, Sayaka Miki?"

"…Yes."

Under Kyosuke Kamijou's astonished gaze, she stood up.

"Sayaka...who are you talking to?"

"It's alright, Kyosuke, everything will be over..."

She took a deep breath and looked at the white presence before her.

That's right.

It was Cupid.

“Come, Cupid… I have decided on my wish.”

"Is everything alright? You don't need to worry about this boy. I will erase all his memories of this matter afterward."

"Yes, that would be best."

Sayaka Miki nodded, ignoring Kyosuke Kamijou, who looked utterly astonished.

Miracles and magic are real.

That's right, if you want to... you absolutely can change all of this.

For the people I want to protect!

"If it can heal Kyosuke's injuries, I'm willing! I'm willing to become a magician—"

The sound hadn't even faded yet.

A force faster than sound tore through everything in an instant.

BOOM! All of this happened while Miki Sayaka was watching directly.

Kyubey, standing directly in front of them, was instantly torn apart by a blade formed from wind, and fell to the ground below.

Eh?

"What kind of bullshit joke is this..."

A rude and violent voice descended upon this place.

When Sayaka Miki turned around, a figure had already appeared outside the door.

He raised his hand, his scarlet eyes reflecting the sunlight outside in the dim room.

"What are you trying to do, kid?"

"Mr. Fangfang...?"

Sayaka Miki almost never imagined that something like this would happen to her.

then.

An unprecedented surge of excitement and anger erupted from the depths of her heart.

"What are you doing…"

"what?"

"I asked you what you're doing?!"

She screamed, her eyes wide open.

"Do you know what you're doing? That was the only thing that could heal Kyosuke's injuries! Do you understand? You've personally destroyed Kyosuke's chance to recover. Do you even know what you've done?!"

Miki Sayaka went berserk and started shouting, completely unlike her usual self.

Kamijou Kyosuke was utterly astonished.

"Sayaka, what, what is this—?!"

"...Looks like you're missing a screw in your head."

Accelerator slightly raised his eyes.

He stepped on the floor, and a small pebble bounced off the floor and landed precisely in his hand.

"Go to sleep."

Thud! The pebble landed on Kyosuke Kamijou's head instantly. He didn't feel anything and lay back down on the bed in astonishment.

"Kyousuke!"

"This kid isn't dead, he's just passed out. Don't worry about it."