One-way traffic

Within ten meters, only the two people who were still facing off remained.

"Oh dear... So, what should we do next?"

Something else appeared in Tokisaki Kurumi's hand.

A retro-style rifle, a retro-style pistol.

"My target has never really been you, you know that yourself, right?"

Tokisaki Kyo continued with a smile.

but.

The other person laughed.

"That's completely wrong."

"...?"

Even she couldn't help but show a surprised expression at this moment.

"Idiot, it seems you have no idea what the actual situation is."

The first person picked up a finger and lightly touched it to their forehead.

"You are not the one who has the right to decide the goals."

A very simple and easy-to-understand statement.

As if to make his stance clear, the strongest of the group took a slow step forward.

"Get your facts straight before you speak, you idiot."

In other words.

From the very beginning, Accelerator was not one of Kurumi Tokisaki's targets.

To be able to choose the goals one needs to decide, one must be a strong person with sufficient resources.

So, is Kurumi Tokisaki a strong person?

This is certainly true for an elf who overrides the rules of this world.

But what would happen if he were compared to the upright and righteous monster standing before him?

"I see."

Hunter and prey.

It's clear who the hunter and the prey are.

"However, in the end, what we need to do is still exactly the same as what we had to do at the beginning, right?"

Despite the significant change in their positions, the things these two are doing will remain exactly the same.

correct.

Elves and monsters.

The two men faced each other, sneering at each other.

And so, in that moment that made the world tremble.

The number one step in Academy City has taken a step forward.

boom----! ! !

The ultimate speed of sound is a fleeting moment that takes hundreds of repetitions to barely reach one second.

The white monster unleashed an absolutely fatal blow.

Chapter 389 Time VS Spacetime

then.

The results were exactly as expected.

Accelerator's fist slammed directly into Kurumi Tokisaki's jaw.

boom----! ! !

The shockwave, like that of an atomic bomb explosion, spread outwards in all directions.

No one could tell that this was just an ordinary punch. No one could have imagined that such a seemingly fragile fist could unleash a strike more threatening than a nuclear weapon in an instant.

Kurumi Tokisaki, who took that kind of attack head-on, couldn't possibly be unharmed.

The shockwave made it impossible for her to even maintain her human form, and she was blown away in mid-air. The sheer force of the shockwave caused her body to gradually disintegrate.

"whee."

But she gave a strange smile.

Accelerator raised an eyebrow, and then he saw this scene.

In an extremely short time, just before landing, Kurumi Tokisaki seemed to make some kind of move.

He was not wrong.

The other person pointed his gun at his forehead.

boom--! !

Gunshots ripped through the air.

"What…?"

Even Itsuka Shido, who was not far away, couldn't help but be stunned, but what happened next shocked him even more.

"Oh dear... that was really close, it was so urgent."

A playful voice came from ahead.

Accelerator calmly stared at the area in the air in front of the rooftop railing, where—a certain shadow was slowly rising.

Kurumi Tokisaki, an elf girl dressed in a gothic gothic dress.

She smiled gracefully and used her spiritual power to bring her flying body back down to the rooftop.

The limbs, body, and jaw area that had just been directly hit by the attack.

Everything was completely unharmed.

"How is this possible...! It clearly, it clearly hit!"

Just now, the number one player should have landed an unparalleled blow squarely on the opponent's jaw.

But at this moment, Tokisaki Kurumi was clearly in a state where not even a single hair was damaged.

Unable to comprehend this, Itsuka Shido's initial shock became even more exaggerated.

What was happening before my eyes was simply like a fairy tale.

"Humph."

but.

Faced with this extremely bizarre scene, the white figure merely clicked its tongue in apparent boredom.

"A boring trick, something you can guess with a little thought."

"oh…?"

"You've already shown the power you possess from the beginning, haven't you? The ability to manipulate time. With that in mind, it shouldn't be difficult to guess the outcome."

As the number one in Academy City, he guessed the actual situation based on only this level of information.

"The instant I struck your body, you used the gun in your hand as a medium to directly cast a time-related power on yourself... something like that? Judging from the effect, it's not hard to guess the result. The answer is simple: you turned back your time to the moment before you were hit. It's nothing more than this kind of trick of a little devil."

"laugh--"

To this, Kurumi Tokisaki simply chuckled.

"Hehehehe—!! That's amazing! As expected of Accelerator! His keen insight has completely exceeded my expectations!"

Since they can exert the ability to absorb other people's time, it's not hard to guess that they can also manipulate time to a certain extent.

"No matter what you plan to do, do you think you can defeat me with your mediocre skills?"

"Oh my... that's quite a confident statement."

The elven girl maintained her elegant smile.

What then emerges is a black and red cave that spreads out around it.

Countless figures with identical appearances emerged from it.

Those were all Kurumi's clones.

Do you really think you can defeat me now?

Countless Kurumi figures then floated up.

That scene was like countless demons descending from the sky to invade the world at the end of the world.

"At first I didn't use the angel's power, but now... it's completely different."

As you can see, an enormous clock seems to have appeared behind Kurumi Tokisaki.

"Zafkiel".

He raised his two guns, striking a pose resembling the hour.

Kurumi's true form laughed wildly.

"Aleph the First Bullet—!!"

boom--! !

The gun, infused with black and red power, also unleashed a torrent of ammunition of the same magnitude.

Kurumi Tokisaki ignored this and continued to fire her gun at the clones below.

The clones that were hit were not harmed in the slightest.

"Then, please let me see what you've got."

Followed by.

Countless clones surged forth like a tidal wave.

"Can your unpredictable abilities really stand up to my power, which allows me to manipulate time at will?"

Oops!

Shido Itsuka remembered that Kurumi Tokisaki had used that same power to defeat Mana Takamiya before.

"Get out of the way! She can not only reverse time, but also accelerate the timeline for those hit by those two guns!"

In other words, that is an extraordinary ultra-high speed.

In exchange for being hit, Kurumi's clones gained super speed that surpassed all others.

It's not just about supersonic speed; the extreme intensity of this speed is such that even a shadow can hardly keep up.

but.

Surrounded by a tidal wave of clones in the center, Accelerator showed no sign of panic whatsoever.

He calmly raised his head.

—All his clones that tried to approach him were forcibly repelled by some unseen force.

"Don't you dare piss me off, you bunch of bastards."

Thump—! ! ! He casually stomped his foot on the ground.

A shockwave exceeding the magnitude of a tsunami blew all the clones off the rooftop in one go.

The rooftop floor cracked due to the overwhelming force, but the destructive power, which could have engulfed the entire city in an instant, remained confined to this high-rise building.

Just how precise must the control be to limit destruction to such a precise level?

"Zafkiel - The Seventh Bullet (Zayin)".

boom--! !

The bullets with special abilities shot towards them in an instant, and this time, Itsuka Shido noticed them once again.