One-way traffic

The dawn sunlight streamed in through the window, and his eyes were so blinded by the glare that he immediately reflected the sunlight back into his eyes.

The time is 6:15 a.m.

The night had passed, spent in a drowsy state while he lay in bed.

—But he had absolutely no sense of reality about it.

For Accelerator, everything he had seen in that dream was still vividly remembered, and the flow of time he perceived in his mind seemed to have only been a few minutes.

For him, it was as if he had just been lying in bed and then, in a few minutes, it had turned from night into day.

My body didn't feel like I was asleep at all, but the surrounding environment was telling me that everything would be like the next day.

"...Was it really a dream?"

Is it really just a dream?

Accelerator couldn't help but sit up in bed, clenching his fists.

Everything the man in black in the dream mentioned was too abnormal, and all of it was too distorted for him.

But no matter what, even if he racked his brains, it was meaningless, because he simply didn't know how to understand those things.

As Accelerator's consciousness returned, a transparent screen appeared before him.

It contained all his information; it was the soul system he possessed.

At the top of the system, a very clear countdown and reminder message are displayed.

We'll be teleported to the next world in about fifteen minutes.

Because the system itself has defined the current world as the world where he usually lives, even if he travels to other worlds, he can still return here.

In this way, his original goal was completely lost.

Accelerator has only ever moved forward in order to return to his original world. Now that he has achieved that goal, is there any need for him to continue?

Reality left him no choice in making decisions. Whether he wanted to stay in this world or not, he had to move forward and step into a new world.

Looking up at a certain spot on the system screen, Accelerator realized something.

The mission in this world can be considered completely completed.

The system's rewards are still waiting for him to unlock, and he hasn't touched them yet.

After shaking his neck, Accelerator immediately clicked on the still flashing notification bar.

In an instant, the light spread throughout the entire room.

Then, what reappeared before him was the new mission reward he had received.

There's just one thing that's not quite right.

"--ah?"

Under Accelerator's gaze, something else began to flicker.

The necklace around her neck transformed into six purplish-black generators, which floated in mid-air.

The light emanating from the system instantly enveloped it.

after that.

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Early in the morning, Hatsune Miku got up from her room.

It was truly out of necessity. I could have slept a little longer during this time, but I was forcibly woken up by someone else.

"Hmm... I want to sleep a little longer..."

"...Pay a little attention to the time."

Sitting at the dining table, Accelerator looked at Hatsune Miku, who was still in a daze, and said...

"It's almost time to teleport to the next location, we can't afford to waste any more time."

"Okay, I know, that's what I say, but I really feel so tired..."

Constantly having to rush around like this must be really tough for a girl like Hatsune Miku.

After breakfast, neither of them woke up Last Order and the extra characters.

Because there's no need for it anymore. After you leave, time in this world will flow at a very slow pace, or it might even stop altogether.

The two held hands together, without the slightest resistance between them.

"Get ready to go."

"Ah."

After that, the radiance enveloped their entire bodies.

Hatsune Miku and Accelerator traveled directly to the next world.

—That's how it should have been.

In that instant, a purple-white stream of light enveloped Accelerator.

Perhaps he himself was completely unaware of what it was.

That is actually a vector.

It is a vector related to spacetime and dimensions.

崩坏三

Chapter 252 The Collapsed World

When traveling between worlds, the sensory time is essentially only a fleeting moment.

Therefore, Accelerator doesn't need to worry about factors like the distance between worlds. No matter how far away the time is, it only takes a moment to reach the other side.

——This is how it should be.

"What?"

The number one in Academy City, wandering in a vast world.

There is no one here, and you can't see any actual location. It's described as a colorless space, but upon closer inspection, it's actually a colorful place.

Although there are spatial vectors here, they are extremely intertwined and chaotic.

more importantly.

Where is Hatsune Miku...?

There's only one person here, a single Accelerator.

Hatsune Miku was not by his side.

Accelerator was quite certain that he had not reached his actual destination; he was still in the process of traveling between worlds.

However, even he himself didn't know what had happened.

The intersection of spacetime and dimensions caused certain chaotic vectors to instantly distort the surroundings, a situation that even superpowered individuals capable of manipulating all energy directions in the world could not handle.

however.

At one point, Accelerator witnessed an even more surprising situation.

Logically, everything around should be in a completely chaotic dimension; the concepts of time and space are all distorted.

But Accelerator saw it.

He saw some incredibly chaotic energy directions that he had never grasped before.

He spoke softly about the essence of those things.

"time…?"

That moment.

The top Level 5 esper in Academy City was thus plunged into an unprecedented realm.

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We arrived above the city.

"—!!"

When he came to his senses, Accelerator had already arrived there.

He was hundreds of meters above the ground, and could see an endless expanse of clouds when he looked up.

If you look down, you can see the shadow of the city gradually approaching him.

At a height of several hundred meters, if an ordinary person fell from here, they would be smashed to pieces, leaving not even a trace of flesh.

Accelerator's expression remained unchanged.

The white shadow accelerated its descent, like a missile, and arrived inside the city in an instant.

An unprecedented shock enveloped the entire city.

But surprisingly, there was no noise whatsoever.

He stood there, the dust settled, and the first person in Academy City looked up and gazed in all directions.

This is indeed a modern city.

However, it was deserted.

Despite the clear skies and the city's structure appearing no different from a normal city, it was—far too desolate.

Not to mention the buildings in the distance, the cluster of buildings around him alone already looked like they hadn't been inhabited for years.

The buildings were covered in moss, and some were even quite dilapidated, with a quarter of the buildings forcibly shredded away by some unknown force.

This is the new world he has arrived in.

"...What exactly happened?"

Accelerator still remembers everything he saw in that strange space.

Moreover, Hatsune Miku wasn't even by his side.

This should be considered an unprecedented situation to date.

After turning on the phone, not to mention whether there was a signal, even Hatsune Miku's own location was not marked on the phone's map.

That proves that the two of them are now truly living in different worlds.

A completely unknown world, and a very strange encounter... everything is completely different from the world I have experienced before.

pat.

Just then, Accelerator heard a sound coming from behind him.

It's footsteps.

Looking back, he couldn't help but squint.

"...Is it a person?"

In terms of appearance, it looks like this, right?

Those shadows walking on the street not far away, their bodies swaying, sometimes in a low growl, sometimes in a state of incomprehension.

It looks just like a zombie in a post-apocalyptic world.

'Ignoring other factors, there's an 80% chance this world is full of these inhuman, ghostly creatures that look like zombies, and the energy vectors flowing through them are completely different from those of normal people.'

Under normal circumstances, Accelerator would probably think they were just ordinary zombies.

But not the same.

He could sense that some kind of 'other energy' remained inside these people's bodies.

In that very moment, these people, like walking corpses,...

I noticed him.

Bang——! !

That was probably just a fleeting moment.

The figures lingering on the street, eyes wide, approached the pedestrian crossing at a speed that was difficult for a normal person to keep up with.