One-way traffic

Looking around, countless shadows just like it surrounded this place.

"Alas…!"

There were about two meters tall 'people' whose heads were taller than their bodies, and there were probably more than a dozen of them. They surrounded the two people in the center.

The girl's back trembled violently as fear gripped her, causing her to instinctively cover her mouth with her hand.

"Hold on."

The first voice, which remained almost unchanged at all times, then followed.

Mikoto Himeno immediately grabbed Accelerator's right arm as if she had grasped a lifeline.

One-way looked around.

"How strange... Ha, it would be wonderful if all the strange things were as monotonous as this bunch of trash."

For an instant.

As if they understood his words, the people roared fiercely.

Huge, monstrous-looking humans with enormous heads kept charging toward the direction of the passage, each step they took shaking the earth.

Mikoto Himeno didn't even dare to lift her head anymore.

Ignoring the girl who buried her head in his arms, Accelerator simply raised his right foot.

"—Isn't it time to tear up the trash?"

boom! ! !

His right foot was on the ground.

The impact, exceeding the highest level of earthquake magnitude, spread instantly within a radius of ten kilometers.

In that instant, all the strange-looking shadows were blasted into the sky.

The entire process takes less than a second.

"Calling you trash is quite apt; this look really suits you... well, for small fry."

Completely unconcerned about all this, the first-place person casually twisted their neck, making their bones crack.

At the center of countless fallen giants, only the white symbol of death stood there as firmly as a nightmare.

Chapter 538 Sharp Snail

Boom! Dozens of giants were sent flying backward by the force of the impact.

Accelerator looked behind him and clicked his tongue in displeasure.

"Is this never going to end? Are you planning to chase after us?"

The battle had been going on for almost several minutes.

For these giants, Accelerator's strength was overwhelming; even without doing anything, he could easily crush them with his reflection alone.

But their numbers seem to be endless.

Even if you kill off a large number of them, a new batch will immediately emerge from other places.

We have no idea where they came from, nor how many of them there are.

Perhaps these creatures with heads bigger than their bodies are simply multiplying indefinitely.

If it were just me, it would be fine… He couldn’t help but look at Himeno Mikoto, who was closely following him.

Having Mikoto Himeno by your side will inevitably bring more concerns during battles.

There's nothing we can do about it.

"pay close attention."

"Eh...? Eh—? Waaaaaaaah—!!!!"

Ignoring Mikoto Himeno's continuous screams, Accelerator grabbed her and leaped backward.

Immediately upon landing, he slammed his right foot onto the ground.

The earth ripped apart, and a strike manipulating the energy instantly blasted the ground in front of it.

A massive crack, spanning several kilometers, completely covered the area in front of the two people.

Moreover, the crack spread directly, dividing the entire area into a circle, and even turning the entire area into an independent existence like an island.

The giants on the other side simply couldn't cross such a distance.

Even those with amazing jumping abilities would fall into the bottomless crack after flying about several dozen meters because they couldn't grab the edge.

This level of depth can already be described as a cliff and a canyon.

Accelerator approached the edge of the cliff, while the giants on the other side could only stare at him helplessly.

"Is...it ready now?"

"It's all right now, open your eyes."

He then used his body to block the shadows of the giants.

While blocking the way, Accelerator walked towards Himeno Mikoto, and the girl looked around in surprise.

The surrounding area was full of trees and bushes.

Like a primeval forest, it instantly evokes images of tropical rainforests, but the entire forest... is filled with an unimaginable sense of oppression.

Why come to... a place like this?

"If you keep going forward, you'll reach the location of that singularity."

If the two were teleported using a time-space generator, it would probably be faster, but Accelerator is uncertain. What will happen to Mikoto Himeno, who is a spiritual being, after she directly crosses through the chaotic alternate dimension?

In this situation, it's safer to proceed cautiously and steadily.

“I’ve already isolated this place from the outside, so those guys can’t jump in here, and there’s no need to worry about them.”

"I see..."

Himeno Mikoto nodded as if she understood, and she did indeed hear a roaring sound coming from behind her.

The girl didn't dare to look back, and quickly followed Accelerator into the depths of the forest.

but.

A more unsettling feeling instead filled my heart.

"...Is this really the road leading to that point?"

"What is the problem?"

After hearing this, Mikoto Himeno couldn't help but clench her hands tightly.

"I... I have a feeling that this place is even more dangerous than the previous places."

"...How do you feel?"

"I don't know either, it's just... that kind of unconscious, subconscious feeling... Anyway, I feel that this place might not be... what it seems..."

The more she talked, the lower Mikoto Himeno's head drooped.

'Waaaaah…! What am I even saying?! How would an outsider like me understand any of this? I'm going to get yelled at by Accelerator…'

She was just an ordinary high school girl.

Compared to himself, Accelerator, as the number one fighter in Academy City, must have been a seasoned veteran, having experienced countless strange and terrifying phenomena. Judging from his intuition alone, Accelerator should be far superior to him. And yet, he dared to say such a thing about such an experienced and powerful individual…

But in reality, Accelerator didn't say anything.

The two remained calm, neither speaking, simply walking forward step by step.

--jingle.

At that moment, the sound rang out.

"—Huh?!"

The first person to hear the sound was not One-Way Street.

It was Himeno Mikoto.

"Who, is anyone there?"

The girl looked around in a panic towards the nearby bushes.

Naturally, there was nothing there; the only sound was the rustling of a leaf in the wind.

Is it...an illusion?

I've been so tense that I'm... hallucinating...?

"That's not an illusion."

Immediately afterward, the words of the person next to her interrupted Mikoto Himeno's train of thought.

The girl turned her head and looked at the spot in front of the other person.

"…Huh?"

At this moment, even Mikoto Himeno was stunned.

Because something was blocking their way.

It's a continuous, unbroken iron fence.

The fried food was tied with red ribbons, and on those ribbons, one could vaguely see something that looked like a bell.

"Was the bell sound I just heard coming from up here?"

If that's the case, then it makes sense.

Because the wind was blowing the bells, they jingled from time to time. In addition, the whole forest was in a state of silence, so any sudden sound would be even more jarring.

"Do not."

One-way, standing in front of the fence, directly rejected this idea.

"It would be a mistake to apply this conventional thinking to this."

Those words caused the girl behind him to fall into deep thought.

"This is an abnormal world. Applying the conventional physical laws of the real world to it won't work."

The first one in white approached the fence step by step.

Bang! !

The moment he raised his hand, one of the iron bars was knocked away by his blow.

"Let's go."

"Huh...? The singularity is... inside here?!"

"Otherwise, there would be no need to come all the way to this godforsaken place."

Upon hearing Accelerator's words, Mikoto Himeno felt the hairs on her body stand on end.

Could there be a singularity hidden in such an extremely bizarre place...?

"what…!"

However, when I came to my senses, the first person in front of me had already moved a little further away.

She quickly followed, afraid that she wouldn't be able to spot Yifangtong in the dark forest.

The space behind the fence wasn't very large, and the two of them reached what seemed like the end of the road after only a short while.

just.

What they saw left them somewhat confused.

"...?"

Mikoto Himeno and Accelerator both looked in surprise at the spot directly in front of them.

First, the entire area is enclosed, like a circular space.

Everywhere there were the same iron railings as at the entrance, all wrapped with the same red ribbons and bells.

But this time it's different.