One-way traffic

Buzz—! Kakine Teitoku's wings stirred up a hurricane.

Accelerator ignored the opponent's actions, but in reality, his personality had long cultivated the idea that he should not be arrogant towards any enemy, so he subconsciously took a step back.

Then he began to discover something.

"…Um?"

One of them felt a stinging pain in the front of his arm.

That's the effect of the wind piercing the skin.

"You bastard, you wouldn't...?"

"Yes."

Kakine Teitoku raised his hand.

In that instant, the sunlight shining on the white wings distorted into a morbid white light.

Accelerator raised an eyebrow slightly and dodged to the left. Unfortunately, the white light shone on the back of his hand, causing him to feel a burning pain again.

It looks like a burn.

"The second-ranked ability in Academy City is called DarkMatter."

It was almost like reading it from high above.

Kakine Teitoku disregarded the one-way passage on the ground and unilaterally opened his arms.

"It is not a theoretically existing or yet-to-be-discovered substance. It is a product of my abilities, something that truly comes from another world... In other words, its existence was created by me."

That means one thing.

"Since it is a new thing created by me, it will not be subject to the mere physical laws of the real world."

He stirred up a storm once again.

The wind stirred up by the white wings behind Kakine Teitoku seemed to come alive, transforming into a delicate, flowing motion that flashed past Accelerator.

He felt itchy in certain parts of his body.

"sand…?"

"Transforming wind into liquid and then using contact to create the sandification of the human body... this is just one application of that ability."

"Where did your physics knowledge go? When did wind become liquid? And what was that utter nonsense you were spouting earlier?"

"That's why I said you don't understand my abilities at all."

Kakine Teitoku's tone was full of confidence.

"The laws of physics are merely laws that are limited to this world."

"And that level of reality laws doesn't apply to my primordial matter, because... it's a completely new substance that truly comes from other worlds where these things don't exist!"

This time, the power exploded once again.

Kakine Teitoku's two pairs of wings extended to a length of thirty meters, and the moment they tore through the ground, they twisted toward Accelerator.

Accelerator could easily shatter the opponent's attacks with his own hands and feet, but he didn't do so.

Even the weakest enemy must be treated with caution; this was a precaution he took for himself.

Boom! Accelerator flew into the sky, and so did Kakine Teitoku.

The two leaped over the tall buildings in one breath and flew parallel to the street on the left.

"Accelerator, you say your reflection can counteract all energy directions in the world, but that's actually inaccurate."

"What you call reflection is nothing more than building a wall of 'harmful' and 'harmless' on the power itself, which is to say, a whitelist and a blacklist."

During the conversation, Kakine Teitoku exceeded the speed of sound at a certain moment and then cut a tall building in half.

Fortunately, the building was a demolition site, and there was no one inside.

Accelerator flew towards the bottom of that building and kicked it away, sending it flying like a rocket out of the clouds.

“You put everything except what you need to survive on the blacklist of reflection, and keep everything else on the whitelist. With this ability, you can even distinguish whether the target of an attack is well-intentioned or hostile, but this has become your weakness.”

Boom boom boom—!

Coming to his senses, Kakine Teitoku had already arrived behind Accelerator.

The tips of his three pairs of wings erupted with a pure white burst of light, instantly shooting towards One-Way Street.

"During the fierce wind and sunlight just now, I injected 25,000 completely different vectors into each of them. At the moment of attacking you, I will adjust the feedback data so that I can bypass your whitelist and attack you directly."

"In other words, I'm just using the vectors you listed on the whitelist to attack you, making your reflection mistakenly think that this is a substance that does not require reflection."

Simply put, it's like a disguise.

Accelerator's reflection can indeed change the direction of all energy in the world, but he himself also needs oxygen, gravity, and other necessities. If he reflects everything, Accelerator will gradually leave the atmosphere due to the loss of gravity and eventually fly out of the universe.

Kakine Teitoku's Unreal Matter possesses laws and effects completely different from those of the real world. Relying on these abilities, he can easily transform vectors that are originally harmless to the human body into harmful vectors.

Although Accelerator could also readjust the reflection, that would still take time. Before that, Kakine Teitoku had already obtained the attack feedback data, and by then the new vector attack had probably already been defined.

This is how he broke the first reflex.

"This is the true nature of undifferentiated matter."

Seeing Accelerator barely managing to withstand his attack, Kakine Teitoku shouted.

"We live in a world that defies the laws of physics... This place is no longer the physical world you know, you villain!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than an unimaginable bombing erupted once more.

But that's meaningless.

After Accelerator forcibly distorted the previous light burst using his ability, he once again waved the four tornado wings behind him, easily widening the distance between himself and Kakine Teitoku.

pat.

Accelerator stood flat on the high-rise building in a posture that completely defied friction, while Kakine Teitoku flew not far away from him.

"What a joke! What is your purpose in doing this? Are you doing this on behalf of the Dark Division?"

"That's not it at all. I just want the right to negotiate with Aleister."

"what?"

This unexpected answer surprised Accelerator slightly.

"Don't you understand? Standing at the top, you are the most qualified person to negotiate with Aleister, yet you do nothing. As a result, I have no choice but to kill you, the first candidate, to become the irreplaceable core of the plan!"

"What a pointless idea! You're willing to hurt innocent kids and women just for this kind of nonsensical ideology?"

"You've really changed a lot."

Kakine Teitoku's tone turned dangerous.

"You're becoming less and less like a decent villain, you bastard."

The confrontation erupted instantly.

Kakine Teitoku concentrated all his radiance into a single point, and an unimaginably massive impact transformed into a pure white beam of light, which instantly surged forward accompanied by a howling gale.

One strike was enough to traverse the entire school district.

The strength of the second-ranked person in Academy City is so terrifying that they are capable of competing with the first-ranked person for the strongest position.

Accelerator looked at him indifferently and gently placed his foot on the floor of the building.

Squeak-!

Ignoring the shattered glass on the inside, he compressed part of one of the steel bars into a sphere, and the moment he kicked the sphere away, its speed exceeded ten times the speed of sound.

The two forces clashed.

Like the end of the world, Academy City began to shake violently, and the panicked cries of the people could be heard from afar. But the two who caused all this remained unmoved; they were not the kind of people who would stop acting just because of this phenomenon.

Accelerator and Kakine Teitoku landed smoothly on the ground.

The surrounding area was already a mess.

"...You bastard."

"What, are you scared?"

"You've been targeting me from the very beginning; your motives go far beyond that."

Kakine Teitoku smiled casually after hearing his words.

"I will rule the entire Academy City."

He stretched out his arms, revealing an expression of unprecedented excitement.

"I have to do this no matter what. Only in this way can I put an end to everything and truly bring peace to the world!"

"..."

"For that reason, I will stand before Aleister no matter what. Do you understand now? First of all, you are the bastard I must kill no matter what!"

Accelerator fell silent as a result.

He saw a shadowy emotion flicker in Kakine Teitoku's eyes.

"Pathetic fellow."

"what?"

"Didn't even I realize that? Oh well."

Accelerator finally understood one thing.

Academy City is a sinful city built upon tragedy.

The villain standing before him must have experienced something in the past that was enough to change his mind and body.

"But that's no excuse for your recklessness."

Accelerator calmly looked at the second person in front of him and said.

"To inflict everything on innocent people for your own selfish desires, ha, when you have such a ridiculous thought, you are already the lowest of scoundrels."

"You really do have a way with words, don't you?"

Emperor Kakine smiled casually.

"At this point, what means do you have left to fight me? Is reflection still useful? It's long since become meaningless!"

Boom—!! Countless light wings exploded instantly.

The attack from the second-ranked academy city came from all directions, and Accelerator's body was surrounded without any blind spots, leaving him with nowhere to escape.

That's enough.

With the whitelist for reflection exploited, this guy has no chance of winning against me.

"Okay, that's enough."

suddenly.

The sound burst forth directly from the radiance.

"I've made enough of a scene, it's time to clean up this mess."

What follows is a very simple scene.

A burst of purplish-black light exploded, instantly obliterating all the wings composed of primordial matter.

"Wha, what?!"

Kakine Teitoku's eyes widened, but he was sent flying by the overwhelming force.

The figure in the white winter coat was no longer there.

It was still Accelerator himself, but things were different now.

Behind him, six purplish-black generators floated, and his clothes transformed into a purplish-black combat suit that shone with data light.

Kakine Teitoku could not suppress his astonishment.

The first monster merely cast its gaze at him in a monotonous manner.

"You really want to be at the heart of the plan, don't you? Then let me tell you."

"What kind of enormous gap exists between you and me?"