One-way traffic

"Hatsune, remember to take good care of Yomikawa and Yoshikawa with that extra individual guy. Last Order must be protected closely and their safety must be ensured."

"I'll be over there in a bit, no problem, after I've dealt with these worms."

After dealing with the insects in front of me.

When those words were heard, the soldier felt his body trembling uncontrollably.

He quickly glanced to his side and spotted a small exit ahead.

If you seize the opportunity—

*Thud*—When he came to his senses, he found that his entire body had collapsed onto the ground.

His two legs were torn off.

"Gua ...

Thump! Before he could finish yelling, the other person stepped on his severed limb, forcibly stopping the flow of blood.

"Which secret service remnants are you from?"

“I…we are the people of ‘Sign’…After the doctor who was originally in charge disappeared in an attack caused by a spacetime anomaly, we have been thinking about starting over…!”

"Who gave you the orders to do this?"

"What, what are you saying...? We acted on our own—cough cough cough!!!"

Accelerator didn't give him a chance to talk nonsense. He stomped on the guy's leg and crushed him back and forth.

Moreover, he never intended to extract any information from this guy in the first place.

"I see... It must have been some bastard in the General Council who sent you here to do this."

"Huh...? Why, why would you—"

"You might find it incredible that I know this kind of thing, but that doesn't matter. I never expected you to understand it anyway."

After instantly reading the other party's mental vector and fully understanding the memories in the other party's mind, Accelerator lost interest in letting him stay.

For an instant.

He unleashed a powerful strike that instantly slammed into the soldier, sending him crashing into the wall of the underground tunnel like a meteor.

There's no need to look anymore; that body has been completely crushed into a mass of flesh and blood.

Staring at everything before him, Accelerator fell silent.

Although he now possesses the ability to read the other person's nerves and obtain various kinds of memory information after mastering the vector of the mind, at most it is only the information that person knows.

It's obvious that this soldier is just a pawn and doesn't know much at all.

Even so, he learned that the mastermind behind this incident was likely a member of the Council of Directors of Academy City.

After thinking for a moment, he turned on his phone.

"Have you got things sorted out on your end?"

"Shouldn't I be asking you if you've got it sorted out yet?"

The voice on the other end was the second-best in Academy City.

After completely defeating everyone present, Accelerator directly contacted Kakine Teitoku.

It's no longer the time to care about idols or not.

"Listen carefully, these guys are remnants of a useless secret service, but without exception they are all just dogs of the mastermind behind the scenes, not the real mastermind at all."

"That makes sense. How could a bunch of idiots possibly have the guts to deal with six Level 5 superpowered individuals?"

On the other end of the conversation, Kakine Teitoku sneered and asked again.

"So, which guy is it—"

suddenly.

The sounds became incredibly noisy.

Accelerator frowned, noticing that the phone signal had completely dropped to zero. At the same time—

In the distance, a beam of light appeared.

The enemy unleashed a barrage of stray bullets directly in his direction.

Boom——! ! !

The first person's body was buried thereafter.

Of course, he was completely unharmed.

But when Accelerator saw what was in front of him clearly, he frowned slightly.

It looks like a mantis-like creature, five meters long, with scythes and mechanical arms on the left and right sides, and something like a Gatling gun in front.

But Accelerator knew exactly what it was.

"FIVE_Over...?"

FIVE_Over——Modelcase_"RAILGUN".

An autonomous AI-driven armor modeled after the Railgun, the third-ranked robot in Academy City.

simply speaking.

That kind of thing is capable of outputting bullets at the level of thousands of railguns per minute, surpassing the third-ranked monster in terms of raw damage output.

Why would something like this appear in a place like this...?

"No, if that's the case—"

That further confirms the possibility that someone else is behind all of this.

If we do this, we can catch the real mastermind behind it all.

BOOM ...

We must not wait for one side to pass and think it through.

Ahead, a giant mechanical monster began to sweep its weapons in this direction.

Boom! The tunnel collapsed because of that situation.

Countless rocks swallowed everything on site, and the entire tunnel almost completely collapsed.

The number one in Academy City, he once suffered brain damage for some reason, which led to an extreme situation where he had to rely on electrodes on his neck to walk and use his abilities.

In such a deep underground tunnel, if the surrounding area were destroyed and the signal connection to the ground were completely blocked...

Even if you're number one, you probably wouldn't be able to escape.

This is AI's autonomous thinking.

But a figure emerged from the inside of the tunnel.

He completely ignored the rocky barrier and reached out towards the direction of the drive armor.

"The intelligence is way off, you idiot."

For an instant.

FIVE_Over's mech was instantly torn apart by the monster's two arms as if it were being ripped open.

Even a five-meter-long mechanical mantis, equipped with a Gatling electromagnetic cannon machine gun weapon on its inner side that can surpass the output of the third-ranked monster, is simply no match for it.

The gap is too large.

Even if it surpasses the third-ranked Drive Armor, it will still face the number one and strongest esper in Academy City.

Even the third-ranked being cannot match it in the slightest; this is simply beyond imagination.

Bang! The machine parts were scattered all over the ground.

In less than a few seconds, this super-class autonomous AI-driven armor, which cost countless sums of money in Academy City, was completely torn to shreds.

The first one stood amidst the sea of ​​fire and the wreckage of metal.

"…wrong."

If the truth had been thoroughly investigated, this wouldn't have happened.

The guys in the council knew very well how powerful each of the seven Level 5 superpowered individuals was, and none of them could be dealt with by those remnants of the dark side. Even with the addition of FIVE_Over, whose firepower surpassed that of the third-ranked superpower, it would still be impossible.

They couldn't possibly be only at this level.

In other words.

Even the appearance of FIVE_Over was just a prelude to something else.

To offer a starting point for discussion.

Something bigger is definitely lurking behind this.

At that moment.

Accelerator suddenly noticed.

"...?"

My own abilities created a feeling of being attracted.

"This is--?"

It's almost like that.

It's like someone is taking away your own abilities.

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bang-

Countless fragments were scattered all over the ground.

Those were fragments of a drive armor called FIVE_Over. There wasn't just one; many FIVE_Over units were destroyed.

"Good—now all the guys who are obstructing people's safety will be blown up, right?"

"Although it has a stronger output than the third-ranked thing, it is still just a machine after all... How can a brainless thing beat a human with a brain?"

Shoban Junba and Mugino Shizuri stood in the center of the square.

The drive armor called FIVE_Over is now everywhere, and there should be more than six of them.

Then, basically every Level 5 superhuman casually destroyed one of these things.

"It's really nothing new."

*Thud.* Kakine Teitoku, with six pure white wings on his back, landed on the ground.

Also accompanying them were Misaka Mikoto, ranked third, and Shokuhou Misaki, ranked fifth.

Scattered all over the ground were fragments of FIVE_Over's mechs.

"Although his raw strength surpasses that of the third-ranked individual, there is still a fundamental difference between him and a true Level 5 superpowered individual. If his AI performance could be adjusted, it might be better... but he is still far from that level."

"So—Misaka-san, what do you have to say about witnessing your strength being surpassed?"

"What surpassing... Besides, there's nothing to be happy about in creating something without permission and then establishing a title to place oneself above others, is there?"

Misaka Mikoto also successfully destroyed a FIVE_Over.

Although her railgun is far inferior to FIVE_Over's Gatling gun in terms of both raw power and firing speed, she can hack into the enemy's internal systems to control them electronically.

In this way, even though the Drive Armor claims to be superior to the opponent, it is still far inferior to the third-ranked one in terms of precise control.

"But what should we do after that..."

"Hmm...that is indeed a problem."

There are five Level 5 superpowered individuals present.

Shokuhou Gunba and Shokuhou Misaki have already evacuated all the ordinary people, and now, only a few of them remain in the entire Live venue.

In that case, the Live event is completely over.

"Ugh, this is so annoying! I was hoping to give that idiot a chance to see me... but these morons ruined it all!!"

"That idiot...? Oh, so Misaka-san already has someone she likes?"

"No...it has absolutely nothing to do with you! And besides, don't listen to other people's mutterings!"