One-way traffic

"Going all out...you still haven't reached your full potential, have you?"

As expected, even such a powerful attack failed to stop the enemy.

DO Apis remained suspended in mid-air ahead.

However, it was no longer completely unharmed.

Accelerator's right arm was trembling slightly. Although he had used his ability to stop the bleeding, he couldn't muster any strength in his arm.

And in contrast to that.

The demon's right arm also bore substantial burn marks.

"...Even so, even if you're not going all out, you should still be able to hurt me, right?"

Smoke rose from its arm, and dark blood flowed out.

Nevertheless, DO Apis didn't take it too seriously, merely raising his hand to look at it.

"Ha, so it seems even an immortal monster like you can bleed?"

"You call me a monster? I don't intend to deny that, but... are you sure that someone who can fight on equal terms with a monster like me can really be considered human?"

The two expressed their views on each other in their own unique ways.

But in reality, that was just Accelerator stalling for time.

'...What should I do?'

While he was communicating with DO Apis verbally, his brain was racing, trying to come up with the best battle plan.

First of all, it's definitely impossible to kill this guy on my own.

Accelerator doesn't expect to kill DO Abis, but at the very least, he has to take this guy out of this world so he can no longer threaten others.

To achieve this, one must rely on his vector manipulation capabilities.

'Using my abilities, I'll grab him at a sudden, unexpected moment, then pull the universe apart, throwing both of us out…!'

He used this method to achieve a surprise victory in the last battle against his opponent.

Using his superpower to manipulate the direction of energy, he would drag this universe along, eliminate himself and DO Apis, then take this guy to a certain region outside the universe, and finally find a way to completely eliminate him.

In any case, we must complete this first step.

To do this, you must first come into unexpected contact with it using your skin.

"However, you've also become a little too complacent."

Suddenly, a voice came from ahead.

In the short time it took Accelerator to think, the demon had already appeared before him.

"—!!"

"It's too late, and besides, you never intended to play seriously with me in the first place."

Thump! In an instant, his neck was grabbed.

No matter how much it resisted, its reflexes were ineffective. Similarly, even if a force powerful enough to shake an entire planet were thrown at this guy, it would have no effect whatsoever.

DO Apis, it just stared at me indifferently.

"You deliberately brought me to this place far from Earth to lure me out again like last time? Fine, then I'll completely dismiss that idea of ​​yours."

"Let me show you just how terrifying the strongest person can be."

Boom—!! Then, a whooshing sound came from behind Accelerator.

His body, held by DO Apis, leaped directly over something.

When he came to his senses, everything around him, as well as the enormous celestial body not far in front of him, shocked him.

It was a fiery red, enormous star, bright enough to illuminate everything.

sun.

"you…!"

"You deliberately wanted me to stay away from Earth, just to protect the humans there and prevent the aftershocks of our battle from harming them, right?"

Not good.

A very ominous feeling surged through his body like an electric current.

"It's really incomprehensible. Why? These people have no connection to you, and you're definitely not the kind of idealistic hero who would do everything in your power to protect everyone, good or bad... I can't understand why you're so desperate to protect all of this."

boom--

The monster gripped his neck tightly with one hand, while slowly raising the other.

And what was wrapped around the tip of that hand was something with even more destructive power than the star behind it called the Sun.

"It is incomprehensible, and it is precisely because it is incomprehensible that destruction is necessary."

It launched the fireball out in an instant.

It is launched in a straight line toward the Earth.

Whoosh—! ! ! In the next second, the fireball completely transformed into a colossal object.

The fireball continued to expand, eventually ceasing to be a simple sphere and beginning to transform into an irregular shape resembling magma.

A tremendous burst of fiery light swept towards Earth.

Are you kidding me...? If that kind of attack hit the ground—!!

Without hesitation, Accelerator instantly unleashed the power of the generator behind him, which was already operating beyond its limits.

His body was transformed into a series of unknown particle states in DO Apis's hands.

True Quantization: Relying on this ability, he transforms his entire body and the surrounding space into an invisible quantum state, and through spatial movement, he carries a large number of destructive particles and teleports backward.

The dark purple phantom then arrived in front of Earth and transformed back into human form.

"Doomsday Destroyer, switching to Time Generator mode!"

Accelerator didn’t even have time to hesitate before he immediately raised his only movable left arm.

"—Paranoia!"

The vectors of time and space intersected instantly at the front of his palm.

That energy direction encompasses all dimensions of spacetime above the third dimension. This power, which changes infinitely in an instant, is incomparable even to the most powerful national sword of the magical superpower, Great Britain, the power of Katina I, which is capable of cutting through all dimensions themselves.

Controlling such enormous energy with one hand, the first person remained completely unfazed.

He swiftly swung his left hand from left to right, unleashing a massive surge of spatial and temporal power.

*Crack*—Then, a void rift, transcending all dimensions, appeared there.

The massive rift was large enough to engulf the entire Earth in an instant, but it wasn't heading towards the Earth behind it; instead, it rushed straight ahead.

The flames that were powerful enough to destroy the entire civilization and the Earth itself upon impact were almost instantly swallowed up by the void rift.

Then, a destructive light surpassing the level of a spacetime explosion condensed the void cracks together and shot directly towards the demon.

BOOM—! BOOM! BOOM!

The demon used its own hands to forcefully grasp the destructive beam of light.

"What--?!"

Even Accelerator was taken aback. He couldn't believe that his opponent had intercepted the attack with just his bare hands, without relying on any defense whatsoever.

DO Apis's body trembled as it stared at the destructive power before it, its hands shaking violently.

But all of this vanished as its wings unfurled behind it.

Its two enormous wings, with their inner sides shimmering with black and red light, instantly unleashed an even greater power.

Click——! ! !

The power that transcended all dimensions was crushed.

The demon's eyes then shifted to the first one.

'Oh no! That guy, even in this state, is still alright!'

We must hold it back no matter what.

We're already above Earth; if the destruction continues, all the star systems in this area will—

"You seem quite worried about the planet behind you."

Consequently, time and dimensions were shattered.

The opponent's speed surpassed instantaneous teleportation, and also transcended the concept of time itself.

"In that case, I'll let you take good care of this planet."

then.

DO Abis grabbed Accelerator's face with his arm.

Boom! The two of them plummeted downwards like meteorites falling to Earth.

They broke through the atmosphere in an instant, taking less than a microsecond, and were only 300 meters away from the ground.

What's even more terrifying is that the place behind Accelerator is the land of Gensokyo.

And so, their bodies returned to Gensokyo.

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"Gulp...cough..."

Accelerator lay in the crater, a silent cracking sound coming from the inside of his chest.

Surprisingly, instead of causing horrific destruction to the entire Earth, their impact only created a crater with a radius of about 500 meters.

It is possible to capture information from all parts of Earth from distant space and limit the destructive power of the falling objects to this extent.

From this perspective, DO Apis might truly be the strongest—or even invincible.

"Was that your full strength just now? Or do you still have power that I haven't seen before?"

"Bastard thing..."

The demon is now standing with one foot on his chest.

Accelerator, however, moved his eyes and instead reached out with his only still-movable left arm towards his opponent.

Bang.

In an instant, his arm was broken by being stepped on.

“Grrr——!”

"Even with his arm broken, how could he still make such a small sound?"

The first one gritted his teeth and glared at him intently.

That moment.

Something within him then coalesced.

Thud!! In an instant, the foot that DO Apis had been using to step on his severed arm was also torn away.

Even the demon himself was stunned.

"Hey."

Even with his arm broken, Accelerator still endured the pain and laughed coldly.

"The reflection seems to have finally worked."

Visible purple-black electricity was gently coiling around Accelerator's left arm.

Perhaps that was the power he had previously witnessed in the spiritual world, and now he was finally able to actively draw upon it a little.

However, all of this failed to steer things in the right direction.

Followed.

DO Apis, instead, approached him with an even colder gaze.

Squeak—its severed limb regenerated in an instant.