One-way traffic

"I have my own things to do, and I don't need you to worry about them."

In other words, he doesn't intend to stay long.

They had clearly returned to the world they were supposed to return to, and they had clearly seen the loved ones they wanted to protect.

Even so, Accelerator still had to leave this place in order to go deeper into the darkness.

Her heart was instantly filled with even more complex emotions.

"you…"

The girl, who had finally mustered the courage to say something, could only stare at the empty windowsill in front of her.

On the rooftop of this building, a white figure flew down in one breath.

“…You idiot.”

Recalling Hatsune Miku's understanding and seemingly pitying look at him, Accelerator couldn't help but chuckle.

There's absolutely no need for a girl like that to worry about a monster like myself.

He may seem like he knows nothing, but he is actually the one who truly understands everything.

It was precisely because he was clear about how Hatsune Miku viewed him that he tried his best to avoid her.

"There's no need for that. There's absolutely no need to drag you into this."

That's it.

The king who reigns supreme in the darkness of Academy City has once again slipped into the depths of darkness.

"It's enough for me to be alone in this shitty darkness."

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That's it.

In order to deliberately avoid any surveillance that exists only as a possibility, Accelerator chose to check into an empty hotel all by himself.

He specifically booked the entire hotel and stayed there alone, in order to completely avoid any possibility of being monitored, not even the slightest possibility.

Last time, the fact that the ruling chairman of Academy City detected his situation was enough to make him take it seriously.

Not knowing who or where he was being observed, Accelerator had to avoid all of this. Therefore, the only option he could have was to completely distance himself from those around him.

The purpose was to avoid involving those around them.

"It's finally over."

The time was approximately 10:10 AM.

Stepping out of the hotel bathroom, Accelerator took a long-awaited shower. After all, he usually used his ability to reflect his entire body, so neither dust nor bacteria could possibly get on him, and there was no need to take any precautions.

The so-called bathing is just for relaxing the mind and body.

He deliberately avoided meeting Last Order in the morning, and only felt relieved after he went to the Underworld Soul Chaser after she was discharged from the hospital and confirmed that Last Order had been discharged safely.

However, at that time he also confirmed something.

"Speaking of which, may I borrow your electrodes for a moment? If possible, I would like to use them to develop mass-produced products to treat more patients with injuries like yours."

"as you like…"

But it was only after he said that that he realized something.

The collar-like electrode on my body was gone.

I confirmed it was hidden in my system inventory just yesterday, so it shouldn't have been lost at all.

Come to think of it, his combat suit also seems to have been transformed using the purple crystal given to him by the system before, so it seems to be the same problem.

The electrodes and combat suit appeared and disappeared after being tampered with.

So, who could do this? What kind of person could bypass the system's power and directly take his items from his inventory?

hum-

As he put on his clothes, the phone rang.

The above are the contacts he has marked.

Accelerator did not show any extreme expression; he calmly picked up the phone and answered it.

"it's me."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu was a member of the same secret organization as him, and they had previously communicated with each other in Avignon, France.

"We have work to do, let's get ready to assemble."

"...Is it the same job as in Avignon last time?"

"Don't you understand me?"

Tsuchimikado Motoharu repeated it like that.

"It means 'we' have work to do now, we're all very busy."

Upon hearing this, Accelerator finally understood the whole situation.

—The covert organization "Group" has been given a new mission.

Chapter 186 The Prelude to the Chaos

Traffic in Academy City was somewhat congested.

For some unknown reason, Accelerator found the road ahead congested, and it was impossible to get through in just ten minutes; it would take at least half an hour.

But this wasn't a problem for him.

After a few simple operations on some of the dashboard screens, the silver-red sports car instantly shot into the air.

Yes, it's just like an airplane.

Nathos, having reached mid-air in one breath, burst forth at a supersonic speed and disappeared at the end of the road in an instant.

At first, you could hear people discussing in astonishment, but then you couldn't hear it at all because it had exceeded the speed of sound.

Meanwhile, Accelerator, sitting in the driver's seat, accepted everything without any change in expression.

Crash! The car landed violently, but without any damage.

Once he reached the deserted highway, he resumed his high-speed driving.

"So... what are the specific details?"

He didn't deliberately turn on his phone to make a call. If you look closely, you can see a transparent system interface bar above the dashboard, which connects the phone's contacts with Natos's own system.

This way, you can make phone calls while driving.

"That guy Haiyuan is missing, or rather, he's gone missing."

"Hmph, what that kid does is irrelevant. I just need to know exactly what happened."

Accelerator didn't care about Kaihara Mitsuki's fate at all; he snorted and continued to ask.

"It's a staffing (management) arrangement."

This name sounds familiar.

Accelerator recalls that he had dealt with a subordinate with that name shortly before he left this world.

"I've caught the person who dispatched the talent, arrested him, and sent him away by car. Haiyuan has gone to that person's residence."

"So it's a place similar to a shelter? That's probably like a nuclear bunker."

"No, the other party doesn't seem to have that much money; it's just a regular apartment."

Tsuchimikado Motoharu refuted this point by Accelerator.

"The location of this talent dispatch guy was an apartment. Then, when Haiyuan contacted me, he heard a sound like an explosion. When he found the apartment, it had already been blown up."

"Ha, you're really quick."

However, this kind of information alone shouldn't be of much use.

Accelerator drove this monster sports car. There was almost no sound inside the car. The sound insulation was excellent, with only a slight humming sound like the air conditioner starting up.

Therefore, he easily heard the voice coming from the other end of the call.

"Oh? Looks like Jiebai has found some nice toys."

"Was it left behind by that guy Haiyuan?"

"Pretty much...they're banknotes with IC chips embedded in them."

It is common knowledge that all currencies in Academy City are equipped with specific chips.

It's likely that Mitsutaka Kaihara used this to store important information in the meantime, so that no matter if he was captured or escaped, the information could be stored somewhere.

“Jie Biao found it in a broken microwave oven. Let me see… Hmm, there are quite a few good things there.”

"Did you get the new stockings Santa Claus gave you?"

"Stop talking nonsense, it's a list of personnel dispatch."

The talent dispatcher is the same unlucky guy that Accelerator caught before. Like him, the person in charge at headquarters also seems to be in charge of selling various illegal smuggled goods.

The transaction list contained not only goods, but also people—namely, special mercenaries.

"A mercenary was traded to someone else through a talent dispatch agency."

"What kind of guy is that?"

"The sand vessel is dense."

Through his conversation with Tsuchimikado Motoharu, Accelerator clearly heard the mercenary's name.

"He doesn't seem to be a simple mercenary; he's an assassin-type sniper, and quite expensive at that, 700,000 yuan? For an assassin, that's a hot commodity."

"What about the others?"

"The weapon is a magnetic sniper cannon, designated MSR-001. This thing is very suitable for assassination because the ammunition is made of electromagnets. Therefore, there is no recoil when it is fired, and there will be no deviation effect that a regular rifle would have. The difficulty of controlling the recoil is not high."

"Just listen to these things, and then what?"

"...Tsk."

A somewhat agitated tone came from the other end of the line from Tsuchimikado Motoharu.

"The following content was so intensely heated by the explosion that it seems impossible to repair it in a short time..."

"That's not enough information. Even if we wanted to take that guy down, it would be very difficult."

"Hey, wait a minute..."

Just as Accelerator was about to use his own abilities to search for the sniper, Tsuchimikado Motoharu's voice came again.

"There's new information; it shows the location that the dense sand vessel needs to go to."

"what?"

"The plaza in front of the Seventh School District Concert Hall... Wait, the one with the ship in the middle? Is that one of the twelve members of the ruling council?!"

The Governing Council, on the surface, is a group whose authority is second only to the Governing Council Chairman of Academy City. Including the Chairman of the Governing Council, Aleister Crowley only has twelve members.

Although most of these guys are basically puppets, you can have as many as you want.

Recalling his random attack on one of the ruling council members on September 30th, Accelerator immediately made this assertion.

"That guy is just one of the puppets anyway, so it doesn't matter if he gets assassinated."

"wrong."

However, Tsuchimikado Motoharu directly refuted this.

"Although most of the members of the Governing Council are puppets of the Governing Council Chairman, there are also some truly kind people who want to work hard and treat the people well."

“That’s the kind of person Okafune Moraka is. She’s willing to try to give the children of Academy City the right to choose for themselves, a right that applies to everything.”

Simply put, even something as simple as war can be voted on by a group of students who are not even eighteen years old.

This may sound far-fetched, but it could actually be feasible.

"For some of the old guys in Academy City, if the plan proposed by the pro-shipment ship passes, their interests will be reduced to 30%. Do you think they will just watch something like this go smoothly?"

"...So, you think this guy needs protection?"

"No matter what you say, I still believe that Chikazuki is a kind person, a truly good person who genuinely wants to think about the children."