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It's too much RUSHED! What the heck is happening is all I can think of while watching it. It's a good thing I had already read vol 13 but man. They really cramped it all into this episode.
It's epic and the same time not. I gave it a 10 because it's good but it's too rushed for my taste and the transition from one scene to another is just too fast that you can't even absorb what you just saw and turn into another scene.
Awesome building shot!
The SFX for the Railgun is now a lot better than before (Railgun was fine, but Index always got that weird "slime sound")...
Accelerator's appearance at the end was just AMAZING. The way he got LO back....
The flashy white background makes him look like a hero, finally
I agree that it was WAY TOO RUSHED. Especially that scene with Accelerator attacking the windowless building - what the hell happened? Wasn't it supposed to be him taking the energy from the earth's rotation and concentrating it into one extremely powerful attack? Why did it turn into him throwing a building?
There was no contemplation of how he would never be able to return to the world of the light again, the cell phone scene was too short, they used a weird voice for the FUZE=Kazakiri start-up, there are only supposed to be about ten SISTERs remaining in Academy City, and that scene where Mikoto shoots her railgun was entirely copied from the scene at the beginning of Railgun.
That said, I still enjoyed this episode. Accelerator's entrance was awesome, and hell yeah FUSE=Kazakiri!
For those who want to read the uncut version:
Darkness:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuze=KAZAKIRI:
Accelerator was in the dark side of a slightly dirty alley.
He was once again back at the Seventh School District, but it was impossible to feel relieved.
A heavy *gan* metallic sound reverberates in the dark, where only the sound of rainfalls persists.
It's the sound of a [Hound Dog] member, which has turned into old rag pieces, is thrown into a huge dumpster and its lid being slammed shut. From the dumpster lid and its cracks, a thick red fluid is oozing out. It seems like the drool of some greedy hog.
Accelerator places both of his hands onto the back-high dumpster, then his body leans onto it, and with his legs losing strength, his back slithers down onto the ground. He thought the oil-stained puddles are soaking into his clothes and skin.
"Haha..."
Laughter.
He crushed flesh after such a long time.
It felt like he guzzled nothing but coffee, which hasn't been drunk for quite some time. There should be good feelings for it, but it's despondency instead. Even though his mood should have been uplifted, somewhere he can't get over the feelings of resignation. Even though he continued drinking that refreshing and sweet drink, he was in a strange mental condition where, before he knows it, he would tilt his head and say "was that it?"
For some reason or another, he was made to realize it.
The current Accelerator wouldn't try to stop at killing someone with this method. Or rather, what the one who was aware of it said on August 31 was probably right. At any rate, meeting Last Order was a big turning point.
Accelerator doesn't want to kill someone like Last Order. Thus, it's possible to show the same sentiments even to other persons who are living in the same world as hers, like Yomikawa and Yoshikawa. There's something wrong with sweet people walking in the light, being victimized by those who lurk in the dark like Accelerator. So, to hold them back, Accelerator is willing to fight alone.
At first glance, it looks like it appears to be a sensible person's way of thinking.
However, there are holes in this reasoning.
Like for example, if a rotten shitty bastard totally different from Last Order appeared in front of him. Or if an irredeemable person takes away a redeemable. At that point, Accelerator's [I will not kill] restraints would be totally disconnected. Accelerator's anger is on [people of the light being made into food by the people of the dark]. Since Accelerator hates himself for his affinity with the world of darkness, there's no way for him to be able to accept people from his world.
Consequently, only when specific conditions are present can Accelerator tear up human flesh without reserve.
What is contained inside their stomachs will completely spill out and fly till it becomes white.
Just like now.
"—————"
Beaten by the downpour of a rain, Accelerator bowed his head.
In the end, those bounds were useless. That turning point on August 31 didn't wipe out his deeply ingrained darkness attribute. That one is insufficient. And because of that, something is lacking. To return to the human world, several more parts are necessary.
He smiled at what he's thinking so far.
A forced smile like something was given up.
Solitude rules him.
He returned to where he was before he met Last Order.
"Haha..."
Accelerator, leaning back at the dumpster, looked up at the night sky.
Raindrops are beating on his body.
The clouds are heavy. Looking at it, it's as pitch-black as his darkening heart.
(ESPer mode is less than four minutes, eh...)
He confirms his current situation as if he's fed up with it.
(I've even been spotted by the Anti-skill. My mug shot would already be scattered throughout town around this time. With this, I already cannot return to that world even if I crush Kihara and help out that brat.)
His relationship with Last Order is already cut off. Even if he saved her unharmed, she cannot walk on the same path as him. In that case, what's important now is not exerting effort in moving forward on the same path with Last Order. It's the strength to accept the immediate truth. Even that doesn't matter, just the strength to move in order to help her.
*Tch*, he tut-tuts.
It was for a short while, and in a case where he parts with it, a feeling of loss blows open in his heart.
But then, this much doesn't make his crimson eyes waver.
(**I admit it. So what.**)
With one hand, he grabs on the shotgun that was sinking in the puddle.
(I'll bring back from the dark even if it's only that brat. That alone should be my objective, so any excess baggage other than that will be cut off. I'm doing this right here. Right now, what's important is just that shitty brat's safety.)
Holding onto that weapon as a cane, he staggers onto his feet.
Kihara Amata, [Hound Dog], Anti-skill, and what lies ahead—he already cares less about them.
Better to have one purpose.
When he thinks of this, he feels at ease. He felt something heavy that was burdening him taken away entirely. He can now believe on his own that no matter the objective, he can always achieve it.
The last of the chains have been cut off.
Accelerator, having regained his [best] in exchange for what is important, leans on his cane and walks on the rainy streets.
To crush his next target.
To solve his problem, even if he stains everything in blood.
For in the meat of his game, he has an idea.
FUSE=Kazakiri:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuse=KAZAKIRI:
―Imaginary School District - Five Layer System, commencing partial expansion.
―Applicable coordinate, approximate center of Seventh School District, Academy City.
―Overwriting additional modules to base theoretical model [Kazakiri Hyouka].
―Internal, external transformation of theoretical model confirmed.
―Controller and superior of the Sisters [Last Order] confirms the additional imperatives (code).
―Results of enforced operation of the Misaka Network — Successful artificial directional guidance of all AIM diffusion fields of Academy City.
―First stage complete.
―Changes to physical laws confirmed.
―[Fuse=KAZAKIRI] manifesting at Academy City.
―To all concerned, please prepare for unexpected shocks.
Accelerator and Touma:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuse=KAZAKIRI:
Accelerator, standing in the dark hospital, lightly scanned his surroundings.
The enemies, turned to pulp and then spat out, were rolling around somewhere. Since the guns used were not the same kind as his shotgun—that's being used as a cane—reloading ammunition was not possible. There was actually the option of picking up other guns, but he avoided it. He did not want his enemies to know that he's very dependent on firearms.
(Well then, this makes two squads destroyed.)
Accelerator mutters as he gazes at the window being struck by large raindrops.
(With this, even that shitty bastard Kihara would be forced to more-or-less change his plans. The priority to crush me would jump up. Just from that extent, the danger level of that shitty brat would be reduced.)
At first glance, all of these look like an advantage for him, but in fact, Accelerator's inferiority does not change. Even if he smashed ordinary [Hound Dogs] every time, Kihara doesn't feel fear — even as he frets. This is because Kihara possesses a special martial art to completely destroy Accelerator bare-handed.
Furthermore, there aren't even any hints on where in town Kihara Amata and Last Order are, respectively. The present Accelerator cannot start decisive actions. He can only wait for his opponent to show their weakness.
If Last Order is not yet captured, the tactics done by Accelerator thus far would be effective. Kihara would change his plans, surrounding him with even more assassins. That should reduce the number of people who're after Last Order.
However, if Last Order is already captured by Kihara, Accelerator's efforts will end in vain. On top of being unable to find out Kihara's position, he can't even go immediately to help, and what's more, the chances of Kihara showing his weakness will be reduced completely to zero. Their target is Last Order, not Accelerator. It's not important for them to continue to imprudently create more violence.
(This or that. Nothing in between. Great, a situation not to be laughed at.)
Accelerator tut-tuts, then looks at his own feet. There is a radio used by the [Hound Dogs]. Getting irritated, he trampled on it. Kihara must have known that Accelerator had obtained a radio. Important conversations were lost some time ago. And so he can't use the radio any longer.
(Even so, why did they choose this timing to target that brat?)
Leaning back, he ponders.
(As I thought, they'll be heading for the Sisters if they wish to study the research-connected Last Order. Even so, Kihara said that the battle strength of the Sister is not significant. Kihara was a fool who exploited me. If they were dead serious in using ESPers in combat, either using my DNA map or creating a DNA map better than mine should be two options that are suitable.)
During the time he was smashed up by Kihara near the entrance of the underground shopping complex, he said something cryptic. Something along the lines like military applications aren't the objective of the Radio Noise project, if they were really creating an ESPer for combat, they should have used not the DNA map of the Railgun, but that of Accelerator's.
(Radio Noise project, and then the Level 6 Shift experiments that follow it...)
Absent-minded, he moves his eyes about,
(...Me and that brat, just what the hell are we hooked into now?)
He felt that he has a hold on something, but Accelerator's thinking didn't last long.
For suddenly, his mobile phone has vibrated a bit.
[———]
Accelerator holds his breath. And takes out from his pocket a small communicator.
Displayed on the screen was Last Order's phone number.
He ponders.
(Either it's that brat herself or that shitty bastard Kihara. Surely two extreme outcomes, eh.)
He presses the call button.
And places the mobile phone onto his ear.
["Thank goodness, I was finally able to get in touch with someone!"]
The voice wasn't that of Last Order's. On the other hand, it wasn't that of Kihara Amata's either.
Is a lackey of Kihara using it?, he thought, but,
(...this voice?)
He had a hunch that he heard it somewhere, but it's not clear. The phone signal's not good, and what's more, the sound of heavy rain is interfering from the speakers.
["I've just tried all the registered numbers in Last Order's mobile phone. You're the only one who answered. You may not be aware of the situation, but I need your help. I tell you, that girl's in danger!"]
The chances of a trap is very high.
But Accelerator has no way out in order not to get on that trap.
"What's the situation?"
Accelerator asks as he focuses his concentration in order to gather a great deal of information as much as possible.
The voice on the telephone talked non-stop.
About past the final curfew time, he met with Last Order. He was pleaded to help her [acquaintance] who was assaulted by an unidentified group. Arriving on the scene, there are downed black-clads but the [acquaintance] wasn't there. Later, when they were pursued by people who might be comrades with the black-clads, he let Last Order escape ahead. He can't find out if Last Order is now safe, and he can't get in touch with her. Since he can't decide whether or not the crisis aiming for her has gone away, it would be better to safeguard her quickly. Those are what he said.
With the black-clads' activities and Last Order's location, the [Hound Dogs] would be easier to catch.
The possibilities of traps is increasing more and more.
But at the same time,
(...Yup, indeed that's the way for that brat.)
["Hey. Perhaps you're that [Acquaintance] that child's been talking about?"]
"Most likely."
["Thank goodness you're safe. So too, is Last Order, and should you two meet up please go hide yourselves."]
Accelerator returns on track as it looked like the talk was getting off topic.
"Where did you two get separated?"
["The prefectural road in the Seventh School District... that's all I know. That's the name used among us here. And I wonder if it has a formal name?"]
Silence continued for a while. Perhaps he's looking for a signboard.
["Got it. It's written as No. 39 Konoha Avenue. It's a Spanish cuisine family restaurant named Olla Podrida."]
He has an idea on the location.
Those parts are basically bustling with activity, but there are places not far from the large avenue where there are alleyways that wouldn't be noticed by unaware eyes. With contact points with the visible and the many invisible, there are many people who were dragged in.
"What's her escape route direction?"
["I dunno. She ran away with all her might from the building to get outside. Perhaps, I think she might be along the avenue. It's been quite a while since we've separated. Honestly, I can't predict where she is now."]
I can, thought Accelerator.
With final curfew past, there is nothing to board on in a bus-less and train-less Academy City. Even if she found a taxi, probably none of them would conscientiously stop at such an obviously penniless and completely wet brat if she were to raise her hand.
Last Order can only walk.
What's more, whatever she's doing on her own, her strength has now been weakened since she struck water from a high altitude when she escaped from Kihara's reach. If that was not the reason, then it would be because of the downpour. Quite some time has passed; perhaps Last Order has almost stopped moving and should be recovering as much of her strength as possible in some building.
For the voice on the phone, he could possibly managed it now, somehow.
Even with a trap, there's a possibility of progress after that.
"Got it. I'll deal with the recovery later. Throw away the phone and get back to the public at once."
["The hell're you talking about! I want to help too!!"]
Truth is it's easier to move alone; put it another way, the situation wouldn't be thrown into chaos by an awkward amateur. Even so, he is unexpectedly joining in. Trap or not, he's a mad bastard, thought Accelerator as he said with a bored tone,
"I see. Then head for the large railway bridge in the Seventh School District. That's our regrouping point at this time. Even she is heading in that direction."
[Got 'ya,] the reply came back, filled with some willpower for some reason.
Of course everything is a lie.
["Watch yourself. Somehow, Academy City is a bit strange today. Some strange woman has come invading in from outside town, and what's more, the Anti-skill and the entire town populace has went down like flies."]
"What?"
Accelerator frowned.
An invader heading for Academy City and a great number of people dropping like flies is something he heard for the first time.
["Apart from the invader, is the town's strange behavior more intriguing? Anti-skill, and well, even the black-clads look like they've sustained damage. Even the restaurant guests have collapsed. As if made to physically and immediately faint from a hit to the guts from someone. It's an atmosphere where people walking around would suddenly flop down. Can't confirm this every time, but I thought the surroundings are eerily quiet."]
"..."
What is the meaning of this, Accelerator ponders for a bit.
Kihara Amata would probably go and do this to that extent. Accelerator is bothered by his lackey [Hound Dogs] even collapsing; however, if it's Kihara, he probably won't hesitate killing subordinates.
He is smelling trouble, but he'll put it off for now.
For now, recovering Last Order is his highest priority.
["It looks like quite an indiscriminate attack, you too, should be careful!"]
"What a bother..."
The two each exchange arguments, and went silent for a while.
Finally the other party on the phone told him,
["My bad. Truth is, that child shouldn't be left alone."]
"...Same for me. It's because I completely left that kid alone."
The phone went dead.
After looking for a bit at the mobile phone in his palm, he jammed it into his trouser pocket.
Gripping on the shotgun that serves as his cane instead, he faces the hospital exit.
Right now is the critical moment.
The original beyond-epic attack:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuze=KAZAKIRI:
"THINK YOU CAN MONKEY ME AROUND!? THE NERVE OF YOU, MESSING WITH MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!"
He screamed.
And flicks on with his fingers the choker-type electrode on his neck.
An enormous controlling ability rushes back.
Accelerator is standing in a narrow alleyway, with nothing but concrete walls in every direction.
Even so, he didn't care.
He can certainly obtain the target's location info from the absolute coordinates. He widens his eyes. Accelerator knows; because his body is surely soaked in the darkness. Of the direction where it is erected,
(The enemy's Academy City! Controlling them is the general board chairman!!)
**The windowless building—**
**—Is the shelter for Academy City's board chairman.**
Accelerator thrust his hand into the nearest concrete wall. Due to vector control, it totally looks like his arm is buried in tofu. As Accelerator screams to the point of blood coming out from his throat, he disorderly swung his arm about that's buried in the wall.
He brings together and controls all the vectors.
A *BOOM* thunderous roar echoed throughout.
In that instant, the Earth's rotation on September 30 slows down by about 5 minutes.
His arm, having took away the enormous energy of the planet's rotation, converts it via vector control into a single demonic attack.
The forcibly gouged-out concrete wall was blown away at a horrifying velocity. Accelerator is standing on an alley corner that surrounds a building, but the several buildings that serve as an obstructing space between him and the [target] were being destroyed as if they're waste paper.
Such thoughts (allowance) like concern for the surroundings and the involvement of civilians were all gone in an instant.
By the time he noticed, it was already unleashed.
The distance towards the [target] was almost over two kilometers.
The windowless building.
The world's most hardened shelter said to be the castle of Aleister, the general board chairman of Academy City.
Towards a gargantuan structure said to be unyielding even against a shockwave of a nuclear weapon.
The attack directly hit it at a horrifying velocity.
An enormous swirl of noise exploded. Nevermind if the distance is over two kilometers. Blowing away two or three buildings one after the other ahead, like an uninhabited bank and government buildings, shooting through the avenue separating building and building, tearing off an electronic scoreboard from the side of a multi-story building, and then going into the target at once. The fact that no human casualties had occurred on the way is only a miracle. He really did not take this into consideration.
Ashen dust scatters, temporarily blinding him.
The listlessly hanging dust continued on for a while.
Before long, his vision slowly recovered.
Spreading out in front of Accelerator—
"..."
—was nothing changed in the world.
The windowless building remained unmoved even when it bore the brunt of that attack that even took the energy from the very Earth's rotation, and wielded at full strength by Academy City's strongest ESPer.
The results were obvious.
The walls were too massive.
"G-GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
Crumbling down, Accelerator pounded his fist into the dirty water puddle. No matter how much he did, he cannot reach Aleister. By some unknown technique, the attack was being dispersed, and there's even no guarantee that it was there in the first place. Everything could be a dummy. It didn't matter. It really already didn't matter.
For they've taken away Last Order.
As far as he can consider, that's the worst situation.
What he wanted to protect was being torn to shreds, leaving nothing.
(I'll kill him.)
*Click*, switching back the electrode to its original setting, he silently thinks.
Thoughts like getting in touch some way or another to Yomikawa or Yoshikawa completely vanished.
(I'll kill Kihara Amata. I'll definitely kill him. Against that shitty bastard who I can't be satisfied killing him even a hundred times, I'll turn those hundred into one strike and kill him with it. I'll have to do this or anything and everything is not worth considering.)
Unsteadily he stands up, using the shotgun as his cane.
He turns his awareness into the mobile phone in his pocket.
There Kihara's number is recorded. Even for a dummy number, it's worth investigating. If it cannot be investigated with normal methods, better to take up abnormal measures. If there's no future for Accelerator, and even Last Order's future is being taken away in the process, there's no point in restraining himself. If the standard databases of Anti-skill and Judgment offices aren't worth considering, then breaking one by one into the general board of directors' hideouts would give him complete access to the Bank, and to hell to those twelve big shots. He can crush their heads and hearts if it's necessary.
He's willing to kill by setting the entire town on fire, burning it down without leaving a single cell alive.
Muttering as if declaring it, he began to walk slowly back into the back alleys.
His back is once again vanishing into the deep, deep darkness.
Kihara vs. Accel START:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuse=KAZAKIRI:
"HAHA, HEY, THAT'S AWESOME! JUST WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?"
In the currently unused office, Kihara Amata was cheering.
Several hundred meters ahead, large numbers of [wings] flew out as they level down buildings here and there. He can only see [wings] from his window, but as Kihara glimpses at them, the word [angel] floated up in his mind without knowing why.
The moment he injected a virus into Last Order's head (who's been lying on top of an office desk) and restarted her, that [angel] manifested. The name of the virus passed from the top brass is very straightforward: [ANGEL]. Any way he slices it, it's unlikely that it's unrelated. It's an existence alien to science, but it manifested due to science. From the start, Kihara did not deny that unscientific situation. On the contrary, he was amazed that at last science has tread its feet upon even this domain.
Academy City's general board chairman, Aleister.
Even he thought himself mostly as a mad scientist, but that bastard's more than that.
"Shit, this is frustrating! And damn it's flying, Aleister!! Even I can't understand the logic behind the theory—!? You're a scientist and yet you reject science, what scientist are you, OI!!"
The five lackeys surrounding Kihara, unlike him, seem to be bewildered. Whether it's okay or not to treat the spectacle before their eyes as something that exists in reality, it seems that with that stage they are already at a loss.
"Using **that** to beat down Academy City's enemies is the objective!! Surely, as long as that thing is prepared, most bastards can do only shit about it. We don't know who the fuck is stuck in the outer part, but too bad for them! Look, you bitches! We've fucking brought out an angel, this is no racket against the three nonnuclear principles!! Hey, since when did the Bible become a pop-up picture book!?"
Their brains unable to process information, the [Hound Dog] lackeys sluggishly follow Kihara's words and look outside from the dust-ridden window.
However, not one of them caught sight of the far-off looking [angel].
Because they soon saw a sky-flying Accelerator just before he kicked down the window.
The *CRASH!!* sound of glass screaming exploded.
ESPer mode is already released.
The black-clad nearest to the window took the full blow of Accelerator's dropkick and was blown off to the opposite wall. The [Hound Dog] crashed mercilessly into the soft inner wall, and tumbled down onto the floor as his armor shattered to pieces.
Accelerator didn't care if he's dead or alive.
His bloodshot eyes are rapidly swaying, but nevertheless he accurately acquired his target.
"KIIIHARAA-KUUUUUUUUN!!"
As he screamed, he aimed the shotgun's muzzle, and unhesitatingly set his finger on the trigger.
He's aiming all from the chest to the gut.
His mind is on a total and certain kill.
And, Kihara pushed his nearest lackey towards the front. As the man let out a goofy [Uwaa] voice, he jumps out just as Kihara's shield.
Then, countless shells go right through, splattering the blood of the [Hound Dog] as he rolled away. Kihara didn't even flinch. He's bursting out in laughter, his face seemingly being destroyed.
"AIM AND FIRE PROPERLY!! IT'S TROUBLE FOR EVERYONE IF YOU DON'T!!"
Accelerator ignores his blatant provocation.
His gaze zipped towards the flustered black-clads whom were readying their weapons in hot haste,
(Damned pesky shields...)
And *snap* gnashes his teeth with all his might,
(Bring it on! Don't say you're trying to spit out lines like [we were only following orders, please spare us], right?!!)
Manipulating his walking ability vectors, he changes his aim from Kihara to the [Hound Dogs], and thrust something into one of them. It was his five extended fingers that did not use the shot gun. On the man's armor, knives and handguns were attached. Four hand grenades were prepared near his shoulder.
He's aiming for the grenades.
Using four fingers from the index to the pinky, he pull the pins of all four of them.
He immediately kicks the abdomen, sending the man to the other [Hound Dogs], mowing them down like in bowling. As the topmost man in hot haste reaches for the attached hand grenades, the human bomb exploded.
The fragmentation grenades scattered about blood and meat.
With this, the remaining [Hound Dogs], except Kihara, is reduced to one.
"Hii!?"
The final target, being glared at by Accelerator, immediately grabs up something lying on top of an office desk. It's Last Order, limp and unconscious due to inclusion of unreasonable processes from Testament.
In Accelerator's hand is a shotgun, ineffective for minute aiming.
He's probably thinking that with the human shield, Accelerator can't fire at him.
However,
"―"
Accelerator's eye color had changed. An explosion *BOOM!* has been produced. His walking ability vectors manipulated, he directly closed the distance in an instant.
It's certain that Accelerator won't attack with the shotgun.
Instead, he full-swings the metallic gun barrel that's over a meter long, smashing the face in of the [Hound Dog]. From the sheer impact, the shotgun was smashed into pieces. Small springs and cylindrical shells that were inserted into the magazine whirl about in the air. After making a dull sound, the man's body whirls about on all fours like a taketonbo, and crashes onto the floor where it moved no more.
Supporting the separated and airborne Last Order with one hand, Accelerator gently places her body on top of the table.
And then throws a look at the ringleader, Kihara Amata.
So far he exterminated the escort unit defending him.
However, Kihara is guffawing since that only made him all the more carefree.
"COOOOL!! YOU'VE SHOWN YOUR TRUE SELF, AND I'M LOVIN' IT, ACCELERATOR!!"
The two villains' screams shake the room.
Opening once, then clenching both his slender hands, Kihara then rushes for Accelerator while licking his own lips.
Accelerator knows that [Reflection] doesn't work on Kihara, but he is already unfazed.
He opens up his ten fingers and starts running.
Remaining time for his ESPer mode is sixty seconds.
Touma finds FUSE=Kazakiri:
Spoiler for volume 13 fuze=KAZAKIRI:
Kamijou Touma was in the center of an explosion.
It was at a corner in what used to be the Seventh School District. The tall buildings are nothing but buildings of famous companies or rather high-class student-oriented department stores, and the restaurants included in the department stores are frequently referred to in magazines. He could not visit it every day since it's off from the school zone, but even Kamijou would take Index there for dine-outs (of course there are no moods at all).
At the Seventh School District where the high-class [campus] atmosphere and the popular atmosphere like those of Kamijou's dormitories coexist together, when pressed to talk about that corner, it tightly fits into a high-class area. Practically during the day, many girls garbed in Tokiwadai Middle School or Kirigaoka Girls' College uniform should be walking there.
It was a space built not only for children, but a single peculiar class of well-groomed adults.
There,
Just like a castle being built in the sand pit being destroyed, it completely changed into wrecked ruins.
"..."
Everything from ground zero up to a 100m radius all around was mowed down and destroyed without leaving a single building standing. It doesn't mean that it was a thorough crater where it left not even a single fragment. It was a mess of a disaster, quite like each building had been plucked off by some giant's arm. But on the other hand, the obliquely-inclining buildings and department stores with only the foundations remaining are strangely shaking Kamijou's freshly-scarred mind.
Vento of the Front.
Many people rendered immovable because they took her special attack should be in there.
And during that time, on top of it, this large-scale destruction occurred. Just how many people are buried in that mountain of rubble? For Kamijou, it's hard to imagine. Rescue is late in coming, but should they come, he's hoping many people might be rescued.
His nerves have gone numb.
Kamijou, with staggered movements, looked towards the center of ground zero.
There is a solitary angel.
Its real form is as tall as a normal human being.
On the other hand, the scale of the wings is too big; it quite looks like this person is being swallowed by the wings.
Her wings give off a dazzling light, seemingly blowing away everything, even the ashen dust and the heavy rain. Their total lengths vary from 10 meters to 100 meters. Lots and lots of these non-uniform (like those weeds disorderly stretching out) and sharp-pointed gigantic wings are connected to the back of the diminutive girl.
The [angel] located close to 100 meters from Kamijou slowly moved horizontally relative to him. She should only be walking on two slender feet, but every time the girl advances step-by-step, a low *rumble!* shock is transmits back.
The girl.
Kazakiri Hyouka.
She was a long-haired girl. Pretty-haired with a mix of small quantities of light brown hair among the jet-black. Most of her hair reaches onto her back, but a bunch of it is tied by the side of the head and left hanging down. Along with glasses that seem to hide her timid looks, she has a school-designated blazer that did not even mess with the skirt length. And accenting them is a red necktie.
She's the girl Kamijou is sure he's acquainted with.
A girl who should be a crybaby, and even hesitant to hit rascals.
However,
What Kamijou is looking at now is obviously different from such an image of Kazakiri Hyouka. Her head is loosely hanging, her tongue is partially sticking out from her half-open lips. Her opened eyeballs were rapidly and irregularly shaking as if they're following the small letters of a machine lens. The face-wetting rain water and her drool are mixing together, stickily soaking her uniform by her breasts. However, Kazakiri didn't twitch, even as she received that sticky shine and texture.
Several gigantic wings. The unworldly atmosphere. The walled-off presence.
Those resemble Misha Kreuzhev's.
However, the giant angel before his eyes is more unnatural, more warped than even she herself was.
There is no emotion on her face.
There is no flowing teardrop from her ominous, staggering eyes.
Even tear-shedding was prevented.
By some kind of constraint.
Above her head floats a halo about 50 centimeters in diameter.
The halo changes its rotational velocity to match Kazakiri's limb activity, and its diameter repeatedly expands and shrinks. On the exterior of the halo are pencil-like rods appearing infinitely, appearing and disappearing at a *gasha!gasha!gasha!!* rapid pace.
Kamijou Touma remembers this.
In Kazakiri Hyouka's head, a triangular prism-like part is set in. Her limbs were moving in accordance to that triangular prism.
He thought he saw something in there.
Lots of electrodes were stabbed into her cranium and are controlling her, it was a chilling scene.
(Kaza...kiri...)
At the extreme sight, Kamijou immediately averted his eyes from Kazakiri's face. It might be better to see it as a corpse.
I have to end this, Kamijou thought from the bottom of his heart. Reasons be damned.
"KAZAKIRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!"
Kamijou instinctively shouted.
The feet of the randomly-walking and looking Kazakiri suddenly stopped.
Her head slowly tries to turn toward Kamijou's direction.
However.
The angel halo above Kazakiri's head rotated at high speed, along with a metal-grating *gagagari!!* sound. The pencil-like rods packing closely outside of the halo simultaneously *shaga!!* stab into it.
A screaming sound can be heard.
Kazakiri's head movement forcibly halts, and it *gigigi!!* shakes. Like the gear-like eyes being blocked, her neck turns back to its original orientation. Her head unnaturally twisted, Kazakiri again slowly sets off.
An electric spark-like sound echoes.
Looking up high overhead, each time the gigantic wings close the distance between them, a pale light blinks. It quite appeared like it's confirming the state before firing.
The strange light *blink!* flashes on and off at Kazakiri's surroundings. It looks like it's timed in tune with the angel's halo. And then, Kazakiri's body is forcibly being moved, guided on by that light.
Even though in truth she doesn't want to do anything about it, she is really really worried sick about it; she looks like she's intimidated into moving towards there at all costs.
Like as if worrying about the main gas stop.
Like thinking the dirt won't come off, even as one washes his hands many times.
(...looks like a severe case of OC neurosis.)
He feels it vaguely. Even though there's no reason to decide on the rules, she can't help but having to check on it no matter what. It's the same with that light. With the [important points] hurling one after the other, it mentally guides Kazakiri's movements.
However,
If that kind of situation continues on forever, the nerves wearing down is unavoidable. For this is like leading a person to the maze exit, and said person is blinded and has a heated iron plate pressed onto their back.
That was an act that completely ignored the mind of Kazakiri as a person.
It was only like pouring scorn on a person's back who is clumsily tumbling down.
(Shit...stop messing with her!!)
Kamijou instinctively tried to rush over to her, but his feet froze.
How to get near to her?
He cannot touch Kazakiri's body.
For his Imagine Breaker would destroy even the illusion called Kazakiri Hyouka, no questions asked.
"Dammit...!!"
Kamijou gnashes his teeth, and punches his useless right hand into a collapsed wall.
He cannot save the people buried here, and he cannot even save Kazakiri who has been struck down by an unusual phenomenon like this. He was too small, and helplessly miserable.
That person hears a new set of footsteps.
The bad luck in front of him is again beckoning in a different kind of bad luck.
"Oh my God. I wonder if you're about to lick each others' wounds, fellow mortal sinner."
Kamijou turns around.
Standing there is a woman with her face full of piercings, and her body clad in a dress of a very antique pattern. A member of the organization [God's Right Seat], she came to knock out Academy City's town facilities and calmly walk during that time to kill Kamijou.
Vento of the Front.
She's holding in her hand a gigantic hammer wrapped in barbed wire.
It must be an illness, or some other reason aside from it, but red blood is dripping from Vento's mouth, staining her rain-soaked clothes here and there. Even so, Vento's expression is unchanged.
Vento, whose facial balance is beginning to collapse due to her numerous piercings, smirked at the weapon in her one hand. It's a smile full of contempt and ridicule unlikely to be aimed at a person.
"Though I considered with great trouble about putting it off, you've come to be the first one to be killed. Perhaps you want to be crushed first, since you don't want to see this wretched being any further?"
"I won't let you kill Hyouka."
"Oh really? You have feelings even for such a being. You're one kind of a philanthropist. Even for a blasphemous symbol even more unclean and corrupted than the [Great Harlot] that will come on the Apocalypse. I believe that pervert, as expected, won't accept that."
"You bitch!! Back off!!"
"For what? Perhaps you intend to say that it's out of the ordinary? Nonsense, today's the first time I've seen it, but I don't believe that the head of Academy City would create a harmless and useless being by manipulating the entire town. This has enormous worth and war potential. Instead, I think what you saw up to now is an incomplete and imperfect irregularity.
The head of Academy City.
For the science side, he's the person who's in complete control of half the world.
If Kazakiri Hyouka is an existence created to make use of the AIM diffusion fields of the entire Academy City, surely that person is top on the list of persons (probably) controlling her. She was not created just by accident; if there is some reason in creating her, surely credibility arises even in the words [incomplete] and [imperfect].
"As a member of [God's Right Seat], I won't let that monster pass. Well, we're not even a decent group, but even we can't approve of that monster. That's a blasphemous lump to be crucified and be sneered at by all — a being that should be exterminated!"
A thunderous *spark!* roar struck Kamijou's ears.
(...!? Not again!!)
He turns around just as a light that looks like lightning flashes from the gigantic wings connecting to Kazakiri's back. Sparks bridge across the gap between wing and wing, and the sound scale is changing rapidly to a high-pitch. It looks like it'll overflow and fly out for the outside anytime soon.
Kamijou was a bit silent, considering everything so far.
And then he says,
"Just this once, I'll repeat myself."
"What?"
"**Back off, shitty bitch.**"
Heh, Vento happily laughs.
"How unexpectedly noble of you. Fine then, I'll consider your feelings. Either way, I have plans to kill both of you one after the other, so I'll happily kill you both together.
That's probably the best compromise for her.
But from Kamijou's view, it's a condition so bad he wants to spit on it.
"Perhaps, you're appealing for help from that monster? Forget it! You can't win against me, even if you join forces."
Vento informed him with a cheerful tone.
"Did you know? From the start, [Angels] have no free will of their own. They're God's perfect tools!"
Vento informed him in scorn.
"When it malfunctions and messes up other command systems, it turns into what we call a fallen angel. One famous example is the rebellion of [Light-Bringer (Lucifer)]. When this machine was dragged into [malfunction], it caused chaos to one-third of all the angels deployed in heaven, and this resulted to war."
"Well then," she says while she grinds and scrapes her hammer on the asphalt.
On making eye contact with Kamijou, she says,
"Is that monster sacred? Or is it corrupted?"
"..."
"There's no need to say it! That's a mere bastard of a fallen angel!! That's not even a running amok angel created by God, it's a man-made doll attached with misshapen wings that's confused, a pitch-black bastard of a sinner with crimes piling up!!"
Vento lifts up the hammer from the ground with one hand, and points it at Kamijou.
"I don't know what kind of plans there are in Academy City! Did they fail in trying to create the perfect angel, or were they trying to create the depravity in the first place!? Either way, we won't approve what you bastards are doing!!"
With those words, only its emotions are enough to beat up a person.
It was a voice that totally denies the existence of Kazakiri Hyouka.
"I didn't think that monster would now pass as my [favorite]. In the first place, I don't know if it holds a soul just like a human being. Even so, I will kill it! For that defective [fallen angel], even with my insufficient powers, I'll make it destroy itself by introducing interfering magic at its internal combustion control systems, similar to a mid-air explosion!! I'll blow that monster away with monstrous powers!!!"
Kamijou took in those words.
Gritting his teeth, he looks at her straight in the eye, and his mouth moves,
"...I won't let you."
The battle conditions were bordering on the impossible.
In other words, Kamijou takes on Vento even though he doesn't know how to win against her in the first place, all while protecting Kazakiri. And to top it off, even that Kazakiri is not necessarily harmless. And with those horrific sparks being unleashed from the wings, it only takes one striking his back.
Even so Kamijou Touma strongly clenches his right fist.
He then says,
"...on top of being made to experience this because of Academy City's big wigs, they stained her forcibly guided hands and feet with blood, even preventing her from crying or seeking help. On top of this, she's now being treated as a monster and about to be killed by the likes of you, coming in from the outside on their own?"
It doesn't matter whether or not those are sent to [that girl] now. Kamijou has since decided on defending Kazakiri Hyouka. And to accomplish that, he'll stand in Vento's way, and keep taking on conditions that are disadvantageous to himself as he gets beaten by the downpouring rain, and the giant wings right at his back.
"Enough with this shit! And enough with that shit you're trying to pull on a person's friend!!"
I agree that it was WAY TOO RUSHED. Especially that scene with Accelerator attacking the windowless building - what the hell happened? Wasn't it supposed to be him taking the energy from the earth's rotation and concentrating it into one extremely powerful attack? Why did it turn into him throwing a building?
I think thats a bit too epic and anime watchers only will be WTF! Even i was like WOW! with him throwing the building alone
Way too rushed, but still epic, especially when Accel beat the crap out of those Hound Dogs.
Somenthing funny, when FUSE=Kazakiri's wings appear, it reminds me when Setsuna used Trans-Am Burst in Gundam 00 xD.
Personally, I didn't found this episode rushed. Yes, there were some parts that I personally wished that had given more attention (Accelerator building throwing and Touma finding Kazakiri), but other than that I believed they handled the plot development pretty well.
My complains this time are all regarding animation quality, which dropped significantly if compared to the last couple of episodes. The most blatant defects can be found in Kazakiri and Vento.
i wonder what was the point of changing and rushing things up?maybe theyre worried about that bill thats coming to tokyo in mid-year and how that would affect a possible 3rd season.
Ahe-gao... Wow, that was so hilarious, it won the episode.
In general, the episode felt weak/rushed/unexplained (wait, the third one is the usual...), but the part where Accelerator broke in was cool (as always, the police/soldiers around are all so weak...).
Apart from that Accelerator scene, yeah, the ahe-gao...
People say Touma = Shedinja, but isn't she Shedinja?! The thing on her head. (Joking...
PS: Majustu...
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