Hey there, nolife here, with my first story for y'all. This story will be a partially genderbent AU story. Some character backstories may be different, so who each character knows may also be different. There will be some triggers in this story. Enough of the intro, here's the story.

TRIGGER WARNING: attempted suicide, suicide, abuse, rape, PTSD, etc. in later chapters

Disclaimer: I don't own any part of raildex. If I did, I wouldn't be writing fanfics about it.

Prologue:

Academy City

Academy City, home to 2.3 million people, with about 1.84 million of those people being students. Built in 2020 on the outskirts of Tokyo, it was a city built on the foundation of learning. Because of this, Academy City has made astronomical breakthroughs in technology, with its technology being decades more advanced than anyother place in the world. Academy City even managed to give people powers, turning ordinary people into what is now called espers. Because of the nature of their research, Academy City is off limits to everyone except residents.

Many religious cults and organizations despise Academy City because they believe the city either is the physical incarnation of sin, killed a loved one, needs to be forcefully recruited into their ranks, contains someone they want, is free territory, insults magic, sorcery, or alchemy, or is a combination of those.

But in 2049, beneath all of the technology and academics, lies corruption. Academy City has a tendency to experiment on the students of Academy City, at times with lethal results, crime is prevalent, and tensions are high between residents. Tensions and crime are high because of the Power Leveling System. Espers are ranked between levels 0 through 5, with 0 having no powers, 1 having some proof of powers, 2 having powers that are conveniences, 3 being useful in combat and other areas, 4 being the elite for most, and 5 being one man armies, almost gods in their own right. 0s, 1s, are normal, 2s and 3s are the most common, 4s being rare, and 5s being so rare, that there are only 7 of them. Some espers of the higher levels at times abuse lower level espers. Lower level espers are also low priority citizens as well, which mmakes tensions even worse. These tensions have gave birth to many gangs, the most prominent being the gang Skill Out. In order to combat these gangs, and any other criminals, 2 organizations were formed, Anti-Skill and Judgment.

Anti-Skill is the armed, non-esper adults of the city. They mostly deal with intruders and highly lethal criminals. Judgment is the unarmed, esper students of the city. They mostly arrest delinquents, stop robberies, clean up litter, guide traffic, etc. In short, Judgement is the police force, Anti-Skill is the SWAT team of Academy City. Of course, when you give powers such as the ability to levitate, teleport, control fire, ice, electricity, or any other powers to children and teenagers, shit hits the fan very hard, and very frequently. In almost every occurrence, at least one of the 3 individuals are almost always involved somehow. Either they caused it, participated in it, stopped it, or some combination of that. Those 3 are Kaneki Saiko, the highest esper in Academy City, Mikano Misaka, the third highest esper in Academy City, and Toka Kamijou, the lowest level, and most unfortunate, esper in Academy City.

End Prologue

AN: So how was the prolouge? Sorry for it being so short. I just wanted to give a little insight on the Academy City thst I'm using in this story. I decided to give Accelerator the name Kaneki Saiko since in the manga, he stated his name was 3 syllables for his given name, and 2 syllables for his family name. Both names are references to 2 other manga series. The first one should be easy, but if someone can guess the second one, i'll make a story of your choosing. If you have questions, please ask. Anyways, please review, any advice, questions, and jokes are accepted. Please remember that this story will touch on sensitive subjects and will have some dark parts. Also, if you favourite, follow, or both, please PM me so I get to know who you are.

Until next time, hasta luego.