One-way traffic

"However, according to Euthinus's orders, I will only choose to delay the enemy as much as possible, nothing more."

Humph.

Accelerator gave a cold, smirking smile.

There are absolutely no extra people around here. The explosion just now didn't seem to have left any survivors either, so it couldn't be more suitable as a battlefield.

And so, in an instant.

Two pure white figures began to move.

But the first to act was, as expected, the strongest monster in Academy City.

Boom!! Then, the sound exploded, and with a speed exceeding the sound, Accelerator stomped forward.

Speed ​​that surpasses Kihara Kagura's physical movements.

The man's expression remained unchanged, and he swung the several-meter-long blade forward without hesitation.

"too slow."

But in Accelerator's eyes, it was incredibly slow.

By using computational abilities to supplement his senses, Accelerator can now perceive even a supersonic plane hurtling towards him as traveling at the same speed as himself, or even slower.

In this situation, the blade moved at a snail's pace.

He quickly dodged the blade and clenched his right fist.

A single strike released by manipulating a small number of vectors.

It hit Kihara Kagura squarely in the abdomen.

Boom! An invisible impact, like a wave, exploded on the opponent's body.

The force shook the air.

The man's body was clearly deformed from the impact, and his body was then thrown into the air.

And Accelerator still hasn't stopped.

He casually lifted his foot and placed it straight on the ground.

Click! !

The crack, with a radius of about ten meters, exploded on the spot due to his force.

Beneath the circular crack, countless fragments of rock, each a few centimeters in size, shot upwards like machine gun fire.

The streaks of light shot out so fast that they even caused the rubble to burst into flames.

Thump thump thump thump—countless sounds of being hit came from the man's body.

Kihara Kagura was indeed hit. Although it was unclear whether he would die again as a corpse, Accelerator still didn't care.

He had faced too many monsters that were neither alive nor dead, and even real zombies, so he knew very well how to deal with monsters that did not belong to the realm of the living.

The rubble struck Kihara Kagura's body in the next second.

Everything shattered like a hand grenade.

Like a shining planet, it exploded in the air at a height of about tens of meters.

If you use absolutely enough power to blast the opponent's body to the point of being completely obliterated, whether it's a zombie or a creature with extremely strong regenerative abilities, most of them will be defeated at this point...

then.

From the afterimage of the explosion, a humanoid shadow swooped straight down.

"Tsk."

This scene made Accelerator squint his eyes.

He clenched his fist again and slammed his foot on the ground.

Boom!! A white shadow flew straight up from below, while a similarly sized shadow came hurtling towards One-Way Street from the opposite side.

Accelerator's move is like raising a fist, while Kihara Kagura's is a genuine blade attack.

Their bodies clashed together.

And so, without any hesitation, they both struck each other head-on.

*Crack!* But Kihara Kagura's attack took an unexpected turn.

His blade was clearly blocked by an invisible barrier.

"…I see."

The man, now a corpse, showed no sign of surprise.

"Even if it's a spell the first one is unfamiliar with, as long as 'direction' exists, it will still be refracted to a minimum?"

Even if he offers his own interpretation, the other party will ignore him.

Accelerator pierced Kihara Kagura's heart with his fist while raising his left hand.

There's no way to make a corpse explode using methods like reversing blood flow.

But—in his hand, a tornado formed, rapidly converging from the hurricane.

The first one widened his eyes and immediately raised his left arm.

BOOM—! BOOM! BOOM!

Pale wings of wind shook the peaceful street.

With a total length of 187 meters, even a tank's main cannon could surpass it, instantly engulfing Kihara Kagura's body.

It's a single, devastating attack that leaves nothing behind, completely engulfing even the most basic particles.

——Click.

Then, the phantom was once again cleaved apart by the light blade.

"...?"

Accelerator was slightly taken aback when a human figure flew out from the dust.

Kihara Kagun.

The man's entire body was ravaged by the attack, and even his upper body clothes were torn apart.

However, no injuries were visible.

While he wasn't completely unharmed, there wasn't a single fatal wound on the man's body.

He raised the light blade again, and the knife, which was originally only a few meters long, had now extended to about fifteen meters.

Kihara Kagura delivered the blow head-on.

Moreover, the aftershocks of that power were enough to tear the street apart.

Boom! Accelerator barely managed to dodge, but the entire street behind him was already destroyed by the attack.

The two looked at each other.

And it is precisely at such a moment.

The cube that attacked from behind instantly imprisoned Kihara Kagura's body inside.

"...!"

Even the most emotionless men changed their expressions at this moment.

Seize this moment.

Without hesitation, Accelerator grabbed the sickle-like object in one swift motion.

A massive burst of flames then surrounded Kihara Kagura.

"Devour it."

The demon's karmic fire tore apart the white of Kihara Kagura's body.

A fiery tornado broke through the clouds and shot straight into the sky, completely engulfing Kihara Kagura's body.

The firelight flickered ahead, and he landed on the ground.

Behind him, the girl who had arrived at some unknown time was already following beside him.

"I've already evacuated everyone around here, so it's perfectly fine to unleash attacks as destructive as this one."

"It helped a lot."

After briefly thanking Hatsune Miku, Accelerator looked ahead again.

He waved his hand, causing the flames to gradually dissipate.

The figure fell out from there.

The man who had been wearing a white coat had his clothes almost completely burned black, with only a small portion remaining on his upper and lower body.

His body was covered in charred marks, making it seem at first glance that he had come back from the dead.

But there is a mistake here.

Even though he was covered in wounds, even though Kihara Kagura had just been engulfed by the raging fire—

He was still able to maintain a minimal level of activity.

That attack should have completely engulfed Kihara Kagura's body in an instant, a fact Accelerator was well aware of, but it did not happen.

This can only prove one thing.

"Besides the blade you just used, you must have other abilities, right?"

"..."

"Before this, I had already pierced your heart, abdomen, and weak points such as your arms and head. Even if you were immortal, your movements should have been somewhat hindered. Even with super regenerative abilities, they should have been evident. But you didn't show any of that. Instead, it was as if you had never been injured in the first place."

However, Accelerator's fiery tornado did indeed cause damage to Kihara Kagura.

If we calculate it comprehensively...

"I don't know much about magic."

The first one casually pursed his lips and pointed to the edge of the solar system.

"But precisely because I don't understand it very well, it's not impossible that there's magic that can 'abolish fatal wounds and allow one to suffer only the minimum damage,' right?"

If Kihara Kagura still possessed the personality and consciousness he had in life, he would surely praise the person before him now.

This man from the past did indeed learn a technique called magic.

Based on Icelandic mythology and epics, the magic formula was developed using mythological elements such as "the blade will chip when the master is at a disadvantage, and the battle will be reversed by the scattered fragments".

First, it can summon a blue-white light blade several meters long. Then, based on this, the greater the user's injury, the greater the power of the light blade.

Not only that.

"The gems inlaid on the sword hilt have healing effects during battle"... Kihara Kagura also considered things like this.

Although his own magical skill level is not high enough to completely reproduce this prototype, he can still do so to some extent, using a spell to completely avoid fatal wounds.

By combining the two techniques, Kihara Kagura would gain almost limitless destructive potential in battle.

To be able to glean such intelligence from a mere few dozen seconds of combat.

Moreover, these are all genuine facts.

"Although you're fighting like a corpse, judging from your current reaction, what I said is indeed true."

Even though Accelerator said that, Kihara Kagura did not reply.

Rather, his expression remained unchanged throughout.

"One party...!"

Suddenly, other voices came from the girl behind them.

"Look over there!"

The two of them turned their gaze to the distance and saw what was happening on the horizon.

Whoosh—it was a shadow flashing by at high speed, a giant dragon.

It's exactly the same dragon that Accelerator just killed.