Notes : This chapter is set during Worl War 3 Arc and may contain spoilers.
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Number 1 : Accelerator - Butterfly Effect
One.
Two.
Three…
Ten.
Ten bodies. A round number.
The albino stared at them. Unmarked bodies, empty and cold eyes, devoid of life.
They had finished screaming for some time. They were definitely dead.
And Accelerator knew it from experience. When people stopped screaming, that was the worst moment.
For a moment he felt empty, the sight of the blood on the ground filling him with a mute primitive satisfaction. He shivered.
He trembled hard, until he felt his nails thrust into the flesh of the palm in a ruthless way.
To protect.
Yes, he had to protect.
Protect that silly child, even at the cost of one's life.
Yet why did it hurt so much?
Why had God endowed him with such an extraordinarily destructive power?
A blink of an eye was enough to trigger a hurricane.
Suddenly he felt nauseous. He leaned heavily against the wall of the car, his heavy breathing, his fingers trembling imperceptibly.
His gaze flew involuntarily to Last Order.
His Last Order.
She was lying in bed, between the starched blankets, the handkerchief still on her eyes to hide it from that horror. Because indeed it was so.
That child was his only anchor of salvation, the only shred of purity that made him still human and conscious of his actions.
Accelerator smiled as he approached her and took her hand, caressing her
Perhaps, after all, she was really the key that would save his world from that interminable butterfly effect.
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