One-way traffic

It's not one or two, nor is it ten or twenty.

Instead, an entire street's worth of zombies followed him.

The zombies all leaped into the air at breakneck speed, roaring terrifyingly as they ran. Their behavior was completely devoid of any human norms.

Those were real zombies; they were drawn by the sound Accelerator made and thus found this new prey.

Even with his superpower to control all directions, he was still terrified by it.

but.

"I have no idea how you were born, and I have no way of figuring out such a boring and stupid thing."

click-

What is more terrifying than zombies?

It's a monster.

The white-haired monster plunged one hand into a towering building over thirty meters tall and lifted it up.

"But if you just want to die, no matter how many come, it's never enough to satisfy your cravings!"

Manipulating unimaginable energy directions, he lifted the building high and hurled it out at breakneck speed.

boom------! ! !

This is no longer a question of whether or not they can survive.

The massive skyscraper carried the zombies for a distance of up to two kilometers in one go. The terrifying storm's aftershocks alone were enough to blow away all the surrounding buildings. The zombie horde, which had been as despairing as a tidal wave, was wiped out in one fell swoop.

This is simply throwing the building out.

If he wanted to, Accelerator could directly manipulate the Earth's rotation and revolution, and even directly interfere with the universe itself.

If he intends to, he can control all directions and achieve the effect of a flying kick falling from a height that shakes the entire earth.

correct.

The number one esper in Academy City is a monster far more terrifying than these zombies, the strongest monster.

Monsters are far more terrifying than zombies.

But even monsters need to understand the actual situation.

"Staying here is just a waste of time if we can't kill all those guys anyway."

If the zombies are truly as invincible as in the movies, and the virus spreads extremely quickly, then Accelerator's efforts are simply in vain.

His abilities are limited; he had already used up some of his power during his previous battle with the Dark Side's "Sign."

According to his calculations, there is about 27 minutes of battery life left.

We absolutely cannot waste any more battery power, especially in situations where the actual environment is unclear.

"I still have the charger on me... at least I can find a safe place to charge it."

He quickly picked up his cane from the ground, and before the surrounding zombies caught up, he figured he'd better get out of there as soon as possible.

Boom! He changed the direction of energy again, and the strongest monster soared into the sky at an extreme speed, flying with wings formed by two pairs of tornadoes on its back.

He needs to take a closer look at this city.

With this thought in mind, the first person left the scene at supersonic speed and instantly surveyed the entire city whose meaning was unclear.

—In the end, is this really still the same Academy City as before?

Or rather.

Will this place still be the same world as before?

Chapter Seven: An Apocalyptic World

Accelerator scanned the entire city in a very short time.

Without knowing how many times the speed of sound he was traveling, he easily surveyed the actual situation of the entire city, and the conclusion he reached was far beyond what he had imagined.

This isn't Academy City.

Neither the terrain nor the area it covered resembled Academy City at all. He couldn't find the boundaries of the twenty-three school districts, and none of the iconic buildings of Academy City were there.

This is just a strange town whose location is unknown.

But what's even more terrifying is that Accelerator's conclusions don't stop there.

"...This is really troublesome."

He turned on his phone, but only three words were displayed.

No signal.

There wasn't even internet access.

Accelerator tried to use his abilities to create corresponding electromagnetic wave effects, but for some reason, even if he used all his abilities, he couldn't get through to any of the phone numbers in his contacts.

It was as if he had entered a completely different world.

Although he could instantly leave the city and fly to other places using his own abilities, Accelerator did not believe that this place, no, this world, would still be normal.

When he tried to leave the city, something unseen, like an invisible wall in a game, forcibly stopped him. Even his reflexes couldn't work, and he couldn't figure out what it was.

He didn't know exactly what had happened during his coma, but he did know one thing.

He is now in a world that is like the end of the world.

"What a pleasant surprise!"

The number one superpowered individual is currently in a restaurant.

The only clue that this place used to be a restaurant is the dilapidated signboard. The entrance is completely broken, and the inside is even scarier than a haunted house in an amusement park.

Accelerator deactivated his electrodes and took out his pistol.

He still has plenty of time to use his abilities, but he won't recklessly use them whenever possible. He will choose to use his guns to attack enemies whenever possible.

The only enemy he would encounter in this city was the zombies; he didn't need to worry about intrigue or anything like that for the time being.

If it were those guys from the old Dark Division, they would be even more threatening than zombies. As the saying goes, what's more terrifying than monsters is the human heart.

"Try not to make any noise unnecessarily, and don't attack those guys unless absolutely necessary. A pistol will also cause sound to travel, which will attract those annoying corpse bastards again."

Having made the minimum guarantees, Accelerator began to make plans.

First, he needed to figure out what had happened in the city, and then he needed to figure out how to escape.

Before that, he had to settle down in this bastard city overrun with zombies; it was something he had to do.

"I can't believe I've actually had a day like this."

There was a time when Accelerator also fantasized about what would happen if the world suddenly experienced a zombie crisis.

At that time, his brain was not damaged. If Accelerator were in his prime, he probably wouldn't have needed to worry about so many things.

Shaking his head, the first ability user walked into the depths of the restaurant.

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Through the restaurant, he found some things that could be used as food.

Although the city looks like it has been abandoned for several years, there are actually still many new things to see.

He could find some useful things by opening the restaurant's refrigerator, such as canned fruit, desserts, or canned meat.

He also found a huge icehouse in the restaurant, which was filled with a lot of food items, such as beef and vegetables.

Accelerator used his abilities to isolate the ice storage room to prevent zombies from invading it. Moreover, it seemed that the city had not completely lost power, so the ice storage room itself would not stop functioning immediately.

He simply took some fast food and left.

But for Accelerator, the most important thing is to find the other two things.

"Would it happen? In this godforsaken place?"

Without excessively storing his energy, Accelerator activated his electrodes without hesitation, soaring silently through the sky.

He needs to find two shops.

One is a mobile phone store, and the other is a gun store.

Thump—!! The first monster landed softly on the ground, causing a cloud of dust to rise.

Looking at the room in front of him, he immediately grinned.

"It's still quite heartwarming."

This is a mobile phone store.

Although it was so dilapidated that its original specifications were no longer discernible, Accelerator still chose to enter it.

The first thing he had to do was check the store's storage warehouse.

Bang! The warehouse door was kicked open by him, and Accelerator, leaning on his cane, walked straight in.

He found what he needed first.

Those were dozens of electronic products of different colors and brands, displayed in a glass frame.

power bank.

Sure enough, there were similar things in this city.

"very good."

The first person murmured happily, casually flicking open the protective glass of the glass frame with his cane and taking out all the power banks inside.

"There's no need to worry about battery life, at least for the time being."

Since it's an apocalyptic world, we must take appropriate precautions to store supplies.

Accelerator's biggest weakness is his lack of power. In this zombie-infested city, there shouldn't be anything that could affect his use of the electrodes, so he only needs to solve the problem of maximizing his power supply.

Once he collects dozens of power banks, and changes the plug specifications and adjusts the voltage, he won't need to worry about charging anytime, anywhere.

Accelerator took a burlap sack from a nearby warehouse and put the power bank and the food he had found into it, along with some other odds and ends.

There weren't many items; he could easily take them away even without turning on the electrodes.

The white-haired superhuman straddled the wooden floor on one side. This was the second floor of the shop, and he had already confirmed that there were no zombies in the building.

He took out the electrode charger from his pocket and turned on the electrodes first to confirm the voltage problem in the building.

"...Different voltages?"

Logically speaking, if this were in Japan, the voltage should be perfectly fine.

However, this city looks completely different; in fact, it doesn't use the standard voltage found in Japan.

Speaking of which, the canned food and power bank I received before also had labels that weren't in Japanese, but... in English?

That's really quite strange.

"In other words, we can now definitively confirm that this godforsaken place is not Academy City."

Accelerator made a simple modification to his charger, and for him, adjusting it to the right voltage was too easy.

With a simple transformer and a powerful auxiliary charger, he can slowly restore his power.

There are about twenty minutes left... If you want to fully charge the remaining battery, it will probably only take less than ten minutes.

Fortunately, the post-apocalyptic city still had electricity; otherwise, things would have been quite difficult for Accelerator.

Time seemed to stand still.

The being representing the strongest calamity in Academy City silently tucked one leg into its seat on the floor, listening to the occasional sound of the wind outside, and remained there motionless.

He is thinking.

What exactly went wrong with this world? What could have caused everything to turn out this way?

No, rather.

—Is it the result of some kind of time-space distortion machine?

Accelerator subconsciously made a guess: what if the consequences of the spacetime event would cause his body to directly enter other different realms—

Does that mean he has descended into another world?

But that doesn't make any sense. If Accelerator really did travel to another dimension that doesn't belong to Academy City, how do you explain the problem with the electrodes?