One-way traffic

then.

A stream of light appeared directly in front of him.

"...?"

"Eh?"

Not only herself, but even Hatsune Miku standing next to her saw it.

A very strange light directly covered the scene.

"Hey? Are you guys still listening to me? Hey!"

Kotori Itsuka's voice continued on the phone, but the two of them were no longer in the mood to pay attention to it.

What appears before your eyes is Accelerator's own system menu bar.

And what appears above it is the text in the third paragraph.

--connect.

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"Guh... Waaah!!"

Fresh blood gushed from the inside of his body.

Itsuka Shido felt the air in his lungs being slowly forced out, and even the oxygen deep in his blood was gradually being lost.

This is an experience several times worse than dying.

"Damn it..."

It's over...?

Just like that... without any warning... will I leave this world...?

The boy remained conscious until the very end, too weak to struggle.

then.

boom--! ! !

The storm, like a cannonball, blasted directly onto the demon's body.

This power directly surpasses the full-force strike of the most advanced tank's main gun.

The demon that took the direct hit was instantly sent flying backward.

Surprisingly, Itsuka Shido's body was not affected in the slightest, and he landed on the ground intact.

After falling to the ground, he coughed violently and then quickly looked in front of him.

"...You're just causing me this trouble. Get this straight, I just changed my clothes and was about to go on stage."

A very peculiar figure stood before him.

He was dressed in what looked like office worker's uniform, had brown hair, and casually put his hands in his trouser pockets.

The most important point is another one.

Behind this young man, who looked to be around eighteen years old, were six enormous wings.

White, enormous wings that are over twenty meters long.

They're like characters straight out of a fairy tale.

"Who are you…"

With his last bit of strength, he managed to ask the question.

Before he could even hear the last response he received before falling into a coma, Itsuka Shido was already completely dizzy.

The content of that sentence is as follows.

"Dark Matter or the second-in-command of Academy City, whatever it may be... but I still hope you'll call me by the name Kakine Teitoku, kid."

The figure that slowly floated up.

And so, a faint smile appeared on his lips.

"Consider this a special service. You'd better pay me properly later, you number one bastard."

Chapter 384 "Creation" - The Second

The monster's bizarre attacks should have indeed taken Itsuka Shido's life.

but.

Before that, something else forcefully resisted all of this.

"...I don't understand what this thing is."

A brown-haired youth with six wings extending from his back, flying in mid-air, looked over with a cryptic gaze.

He is Kakine Teitoku, the second-ranked Level 5 Level 5 esper in Academy City.

Right now, he should be at the second large-scale public live meeting of the idol project arranged by Academy City... In other words, he will be conducting an interview after the concert, which is why he deliberately changed into this outfit.

But the current situation is hard for him to understand.

Why did I, who was supposed to be on stage, suddenly end up in this area after blinking in the corridor?

No, in the end.

These two shouldn't even be from the same 'world'.

This was the information he received the instant he was summoned.

"...At that moment, the word 'connection' popped into my mind. Although I didn't understand exactly what it meant, something had forcefully entered my brain and conveyed this message to me."

All I could understand was that it was the first person who made the request; he needed help, he needed a sufficiently powerful team.

Perhaps only Kakine Teitoku in the same field can meet this condition.

Although many questions remain, such as how the protective net, which even the fifth-ranked mental control could not interfere with, was suddenly breached by something incomprehensible, and who the boy and monster appearing before him were, etc.

But for now, it seems best to put that kind of thing out of your mind.

Click...

Ahead, the monster, which had risen from the ground, looked at him. Its body trembled slightly, and an unstoppable heat was gradually rising from its surface.

DO Apis, the incarnation of the demon of the abyss.

Perhaps because of the attack he had just suffered, the demon's eyes now appeared even more blood-red, staring straight at him.

Even with their eyes closed, they could guess what the other person was planning to do.

"I see... It seems that no matter what, the things that need to be done will not change."

Kakine Teitoku understood the situation in an instant.

It no longer matters who the attacker is or why they planned to attack the boy.

It is sufficient to clearly state that the other party has ill intentions.

and so.

"--So, we still have to do it this way, right?"

boom! ! !

Its white wings spread out in one go.

As his wings unfurled, Kakine Teitoku's body soared into the air, his target the figure below.

Dozens of tornadoes swept out.

Each one was enough to tear apart an entire high-rise building in an instant, containing such destructive power, and the unimaginable tornado swept in from all directions.

The demon's figure was swallowed up in an instant.

Smoke and dust covered the ground, affecting an area of ​​hundreds of meters.

Even with such powerful destructive performance, Kakine Teitoku did not believe he could harm that kind of guy.

And then, in the next moment...

BANG————!!

Within the endless, abyss-like smoke and dust, a ghostly figure shot straight up.

"Tsk."

The second-ranked superpowered individual clicked his tongue in astonishment.

The wings on his back fluttered forward, causing his body to lurch backward.

The next instant, a strange streak appeared in the sky where he had been standing.

Beneath the blood-red claw mark, which seemed to be directly etched into space, Kakine Teitoku sensed the terrifying power contained within it—a destructive force that was absolutely beyond what the human body could withstand.

When he looked up, he saw something amazing again.

The golden-red shadow that had shot into the air flew towards him again at high speed.

Its sky-piercing momentum is reminiscent of an asteroid or meteorite that strikes directly from outer space.

but.

"If it's just a contest of strength, do you think I'd be afraid?"

The second one condensed all six white wings into a single point.

The wings transformed the storm into energy, which then turned into a strange white stream of light.

The six wings were condensed together by Kakine Teitoku and directly transformed into a spear formed from undifferentiated matter.

The storm transformed into light, a change that is absolutely impossible in physics, but Kakine Teitoku did indeed achieve it at this moment.

His primordial matter is completely unaffected by the physical laws of this world, and thus directly changes accordingly.

He raised his hand, and the white spear, its tip gleaming with light, shot upwards like a rocket.

Pure white and black and red.

Two fundamentally different forces collided directly at this point.

The aftershocks of the storm directly tore apart the clouds in mid-air.

Judging from Kakine Teitoku's experience, the city within a three-kilometer radius must have been significantly affected, probably with buildings shaking like an earthquake.

but.

Even a collision of such magnitude could not stop the demon's actions.

Boom!

A pair of blood-red demonic claws tore apart from the explosion.

Even after being directly damaged to that scale, DO Apis's body was still not seriously injured.

not only that.

"That guy probably hasn't used his full strength yet, right?"

Even blocking the previous attack was not a difficult task for DO Apis, which alone shows just how powerful the enemy was.

That's not some minor character that can be dealt with in a small way.

Upon realizing this, Kakine Teitoku's expression changed instantly.

Boom! The enemy attacked again at supersonic speed.

However, Kakine Teitoku did not choose to confront him head-on.

His wings spread out directly, transforming into something like a grid.

With a speed on par with DO Apis, Kakine Teitoku once again created new wings from his back and flew back into the air.

DO Apis, on the other hand, crashed into the grid he had prepared.

The network of undifferentiated matter twisted together in one go, looking like white clay that had been kneaded into a shapeless mess.

However, when Kakine Teitoku spread his wings again, the distorted primordial matter underwent a change.

It exploded directly from the inside, all at once.