One-way traffic

It sank forever into the deepest darkness.

She clasped her hands and feet tightly together, and in this dark world where no one could reach her, her emotions, which had long been calm, began to tremble again.

I don't know how long this has been going on.

One year? Three years? Five years? Or even longer?

It doesn't matter anymore.

Even if one still retains self-awareness, even if one's life characteristics still maintain the state of a living being, one is nothing more than a walking corpse.

From now on, I will forever remain submerged in the deepest darkness.

No one can get to this place, and no one can pull themselves out of here.

Alone, he endures endless suffering forever.

And despair.

"...Help me."

That's what the girl said.

Even after a year, two years, or even a period of time she herself was unaware of, she was still calling for help all by herself, hoping that someone could pull her out of this ocean of despair.

But that was already a hopeless and extravagant wish.

With her eyes devoid of any life, she no longer had the will to keep going.

How long will I have to endure this kind of treatment?

Is there any chance that I will ever see the light again?

There's no way to believe in the future anymore.

Having lost all hope for her life, she let herself sink deeper and deeper into the abyss.

In such a world.

—In the boundless darkness, suddenly.

A strange crack then burst open.

"...?"

The girl, who had completely given up on everything and no longer even hoped to live, trembled with an emotion other than despair for the first time.

The light illuminated her short gray hair and dull sea-blue eyes.

then.

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This is really a chaotic situation.

Accelerator stood in the hidden room he had just discovered, looking at the scene before him with an expression of utter disbelief.

A girl imprisoned in front of a giant experimental machine.

The clothes she was wearing looked like nun's clothes. With the help of the outside light, you could barely make out that she had short gray hair. If she took good care of it, she would definitely be a beautiful young woman.

But that's just how it was 'originally'.

The girl now imprisoned in front of Accelerator is covered in dried blood from who knows when.

Bloodstains were not only on his body, but also everywhere on the ground.

Although there was a lot of blood on her body, the girl's body did not appear to have any wounds.

With her hands and feet completely bound by those two enormous chains, she was already in a state where she could no longer regain consciousness.

Such a bizarre phenomenon is rarely seen even by Accelerator in that blood-red, dark place.

Physiologically speaking, she is of course still alive.

But her spirit has almost completely lost all fluctuations.

Based on the bloodstains on the ground, it can be easily inferred that she must have suffered tremendous damage, as the amount of bleeding far exceeds the limits that the human body can withstand.

The girl is not human.

One could clearly feel a subtle, substantial energy fluctuation emanating from within her body.

It's the same situation as that of Yatogami Tohka.

"There's only one possibility: this guy... is almost completely indistinguishable from an elf."

No, she should be called an elf.

Accelerator now knows exactly how DEM obtained all that data about the Pokémon's bodies.

The document was originally created five years ago.

If his guess is correct.

The elven girl in front of us has been imprisoned for nearly five years.

No.

"...The instrument doesn't look like it's been there for a long time; it seems to have been placed here recently."

If that's the case, the girl was likely only brought here in the last few days.

Before this, they were probably kept in some unknown corner, forced to carry out human experiments that no one dared to imagine.

After enduring so many unfair experiments, even if her body survives thanks to the Pokémon's abilities and her wounds have healed, her heart must be completely dead.

Rather, in this situation, an excessively strong recovery ability is actually a burden.

So, what to do?

Accelerator pondered all of this with a somewhat complicated attitude.

His purpose in coming here was to find out why the people of DEM attacked Hatsune Miku, and now he has more or less guessed the answer to this question.

They wanted to do exactly the same thing they did for this fairy girl, with Hatsune Miku.

"That's really daring of you to think that way."

He didn't know what state his emotions were in at that moment.

But if we're talking about being very angry, that's definitely true.

Accelerator suppressed his anger slightly, then turned his gaze straight ahead.

The elven girl who had collapsed before him still had a last breath left.

Even if rescue measures are implemented, it is not guaranteed that someone who has suffered a mental breakdown can be saved.

Even if he has mastered the vector direction of the spiritual realm, it is still the same.

Because it belongs to him, Accelerator's abilities were never intended to save people from the beginning.

The monster's power represents "destruction".

Rather than improving someone's situation, he is better suited to destructive acts that destroy the opponent with a single blow; this is the way that best suits his abilities.

Ultimately, the girl in front of him was beyond saving. Rather than racking his brains to figure out how to save her, destroying her completely here and ending her tragic life was what he was best at.

That's right.

For him, he understood from the very beginning how he should deal with this kind of thing.

"I really hate trouble, so..."

Accelerator raised his hand.

He ruthlessly and roughly grabbed it and pressed it against the girl's forehead.

"Please resolve this as soon as possible."

In an instant, he gained control over the blood, bioelectricity, and everything else.

Although elves' physical structures are different from humans', they don't seem to be that different in essence.

In that instant, Accelerator could do anything he wanted with ease.

then.

—And so he did his best to explore the mind of the girl in front of him.

There is only one purpose.

In order to pull her out of the abyss of despair and bring her back to life in this world.

"Vital signs are weak, brain electrical signal is 347, blood flow rate is normal, prefrontal cortex reactivity is 25..."

With his superpowers, he grasped the girl's physical condition in an instant.

A massive amount of data, resembling a data chart, flashed before his eyes, but it was far too simplistic for the first person to grasp.

Zhi——!

In an instant, a light like electricity appeared in his palm.

Providing the brain with a certain degree of stimulation in order to reawaken the other person's nerves, but all of this is only the initial step.

As the monster moved its hand, six purple, crystal-like generators appeared directly behind it.

The things we're going to do will never change from the beginning.

He may have denied it at one point, but he really did do it all the time.

Using the power to kill, one chooses to save others.

boom----! ! !

An invisible roar exploded in the air.

The girl, who was being held tightly in his hand, clearly showed an expression of pain on her face.

"Behave yourself...!"

The first monster didn't care about this at all.

He concentrated all the energy directions called spirit into one point.

It's like a drill bit strong enough to break through a solid city wall.

The enormous barrier erected by the girl herself was forcibly breached by something invisible.

About fifteen seconds later, Accelerator finally stopped what he was doing.

He accomplished all of this successfully.

After forcibly breaking through the girl's completely desperate, seemingly dead heart, he then concentrated all her scattered and dissipated spirit into a single point.

It sounds like putting scattered glass balls into a box, but only he knows that the complexity is akin to performing nanoscale operations with the world's most advanced machines.

Even though the girl in front of him was still unconscious, Accelerator knew that her mind had returned to normal.

When I wake up again, it will never be pure despair again.

creak-

The monster raised its right hand slightly, and suddenly, a whirlwind of blades arose within the completely enclosed space.

He cut all the chains that tightly bound the girl's limbs.

"How you choose your path after that is entirely up to you."

"You have to make your own decisions about success or failure in life. Don't always expect others to clean up your messes, damn it."

Regardless, he has done all he could.

This is truly a scene worth pondering.

The person who used to only know how to kill has grown to this level, which is truly something that everyone should think about deeply.

Accelerator casually turned around.

Om-! !

But then, the sound echoed throughout the entire room.

The outer rooms were also enveloped in pure red light.

At that moment, he finally understood the true nature of the current situation.