II

Yuuka was being followed around by a girl, she didn't really care, it didn't matter if she was being followed or not. The girl in question was a member of Judgement, it was past curfew and a person like Yuuka had to be in her dorm to get ready for next day.

"Return to your dorm" the girl said with a tired voice, it had been a long day for her "What second rate place are you staying at?" the Judgement girl, whose name was Kuuroko referred to the school this girl could have gone, the uniform looked like that of a farmer, like some low rate school attempting a gaudy imitation of a British uniform.

Yuuka decided to ignore the girl, she wanted to keep a low profile, beating someone to a pulp in the street wouldn't allow her to do that.

"Hey don't ignore me! Do you have any idea who you are speaking to? Shiirai Kuuroko of the Tokiwadai school, I am a level 4 ESPer" She said proudly

Yuuka stopped "How many levels are there?" Yuuka asked, she had heard of ESPers, she had seen Sumireko but had no idea there were levels to measure their strength.

"Five of course, you are probably some new transfer student so just please return to your dorm, I've had enough dealing with you people all day" Kuuroko touched Yuuka's shoulder

Instinctively Yuuka turned around and punched the girl, she teleported away before Yuuka's fist connected. "Seriously? Your second rate skills won't work on me, just leave"

And just like that Yuuka no longer cared if she had a low profile, she warped behind the girl, it was not teleportation, it was moving between the dimensions, moving through a dimensional shortcut, whereas teleportation depends on quantum uncertainty in a massive scale.

Kuuroko was surprised at this sudden warp, another teleporter, it is what she thought, this split second was enough for Yuuka's fist to connect.

Kuuroko teleported away a second too late, her mouth tasted like blood, she couldn't breathe out of her nose. She reached for her face and noticed that her nose bent at an odd angle, blood dripped from it in a continuous thin stream. Just like that the pain reached Kuuroko's brain, she held her nose trying to stop the flow of blood. "You've done it!"

Yuuka smiled at this "This is what a four is like? You spoke as if you were stronger"

Kuuroko tried to use her needles, but Yuuka dodged them instinctively, she even figured out Kuuroko imagined Yuuka would warp behind her, but Yuuka did none of that. Kuuroko felt a pain running up her legs, rose vines were growing at her feet, the thorns digging deep in her skin, Kuuroko could teleport away from those but doing it so could cause her legs to be torn apart.

Yuuka used this chance to land another punch this time in her stomach, actually Yuuka didn't want to hurt that pretty face of hers, she didn't expect for her to be caught off guard so easily.

A giant hand made out of iron filings grabbed Yuuka and tossed her away from Kuuroko. Yuuka floated down to land nicely.

"Get away from her you bitch!" It was another girl in the same uniform as Kuuroko, in a makeshift exoskeleton made out of iron filings, the railgun.

"Let me guess you are a level 5! Please tell me the scaling is logarithmic, if it is linear I will be very disappointed" Yuuka shivered, the iron was filings from cold iron, what was cold iron doing in the city?

"Yes… And yes" The girl in the iron suit said "You should have listened to Kuuroko… Now you pay"

"She started it, I just acted in self defense" Yuuka said quite calmly, human law made it so that the one who touched the other first is the one who begun with the violence.

Misaka knew this, she actually saw it "Do not be exploiting loopholes with me! You just messed with Misaka Mikoto the Railgun! The lvl ESPer electromaster!"

"Do you all present yourselves like that? Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a woman of power and taste, I've been around for a long long time. Pleased to meet you, hope you know my name. I am Yuuka! The Flower Master of the Four Seasons" She floated up when saying this.

Misaka saw the warping, the flowers now flight… What was her skill supposed to be? It had to be at least lvl 4 if she could beat Kuuroko to a pulp so easily. She grabbed a coin from her pocket and accelerated it using her electromagnetic current, it reached supersonic speeds very quickly, and the induction heated the coin until it turned into a projectile of pure plasma, the metal vaporized and ionized by the great magnetic field itself.

Yuuka opened her umbrella, the railgun blast deflected as if it were a drop of rain. "Just like tears in rain" She had to actually use her umbrella, this second girl was in a whole another level of power, still not as much as Yuuka would have liked. Yuuka had hoped Sumireko was a level 4 but now that she has seen this Sumireko was a 5 for sure, how long has it been since she has appeared in Gensokyo? Renko was the one showing up now, she was certainly weaker.

Misaka attempted to knock Yuuka out with a bolt of thunder, Yuuka put her umbrella to the ground and used her left arm to receive the hit, the current went in from one and out the other then to the ground. Well this thunder was certainly weaker than what Iku used, then again this girl probably didn't know Yuuka could tank that. Perhaps taunting her would make her actually try "Rain and thunder, are you aware I have an umbrella?"

She threw another bolt at Yuuka, this time it was certainly stronger, but it was still within what a human could resist, Yuuka didn't even try to make the current flow in it. "Is that all you can do? Metal, thunder and the dart?"

Misaka laughed and prepared her makeshift mech "You'll regret this"

"I will take that as a no" That meant Misaka was holding back, of course she was, nobody fights full force at the beginning, but this meant those were all the tricks Misaka could pull off, Yuuka actually wanted Misaka to be powerful enough to pull asteroids from outer space and create bullets to land from the sky, that would had been cool, but so far only one electromaster in the multiverse has been able to do that. Misaka was not said electromaster. If Misaka was not capable of doing that, then she was not worth wasting time on. Yuuka warped close to Misaka and threw a punch, Misaka covered herself in the iron filings but the punch was just a feint, Yuuka kicked Misaka.

Misaka tried getting up but she felt a sharp pain in her chest, her breathing was wheezing.

"Okay girls, don't go around picking fights with people stronger than you… If you do set rules first or this is what happens"

Yuuka walked away, Misaka tried to follow her, but she felt how the lack of air made her head spin, then everything went dark. Kuuroko had called an ambulance already, she was still holding her nose.

It had been barely two blocks when Yuuka was surrounded by humans in black armor. It was mostly that artificial fiber humans call plastic, it is nearly indestructible but some bacteria can eat through it. Probably law enforcement, some task force specialized in cases like this. They were called the Anti-Skill, they were used to fighting ESPers just as Yuuka expected.

Yuuka would pay attention to them, but if their strongest were like Misaka these guys didn't stand a chance, it wouldn't be fun in the least. So she just continued walking, even if they yelled at her ordering to stop.

One of them stood with a plastic shield, the rest began to organize to block her path. Yuuka laughed to herself, a phalanx, modern human law enforcers followed Roman tactics. Well these were not Roman soldiers, they were clearly afraid, take the one who started the formation and the rest will fall. Yuuka punched through the shield and to the helmet of the one who stood her ground. Thankfully she was wearing a helmet.

As expected the others moved out of the way, but others begun firing rubber bullets at Yuuka. Which made Yuuka grab the helmet of the knocked out woman. "Stop it or I crush her head" Yuuka didn't want to kill someone so valiant, but if it is what it took the rest to stop she would do it, her words had no shred of doubt in her words, and they knew it.

Yuuka walked away, but they followed, so she continued carrying her hostage. This happened for about one block, then the humans in armor began to disperse. Yuuka did not let go of her hostage, perhaps they were planning an ambush, lure Yuuka into a false sense of security, that or they were going to throw the equivalent of a bomb, either way Yuuka was in for a treat.

The woman was beginning to wake up, she untied her helmet and moved away from Yuuka. "Why?"

"You all started it" Yuuka replied, she followed the woman, not wanting her hostage to flee, but she wasn't fleeing.

"But you responded with a lot more than necessary" She retorted and laid on a wall, her head was still hurting, she had nausea. It took about 500kg of force to crack the helmets, hers broke in two when she took it off. It had a cushioning polymer inside that dispersed most damage, but everything has limits, Yuuka's hit went past that in just enough to knock her out. The woman realized Yuuka did not want to kill her, she could have aimed for her face and the punch wold have killed her for sure, instead she aimed at the helmet.

"If I do not retaliate with enough strength you will continue to bother me. Attempting to be nice often ends up in more bloodshed" Yuuka laughed "But you understand that, you also understand that not allowing yourself to be intimidated is part of combat, you just didn't measure the consequences very well" She waved her hand at the cop woman, "There you go"

The woman felt her pain had stopped, the nausea and dizziness was all gone.

"Consider that a tok…" She stopped mid sentence as a fist reached her face, the force was comparable to that of an Oni, it took Yuuka completely off guard as she was thrown away like a doll.

"Yomikawa, are you alright?" Asked the white haired boy who had just punched Yuuka with ease.

She nodded "I've felt worse when going out for drinks with Komoe" she had a light smile on her face "Be careful"

The boy nodded, he knew Yomikawa didn't mean for him to be careful for what Yuuka could do, she told him to be careful to not hurt Yuuka too badly.

Yuuka got up, her clothes had some scratches on them. Well finally someone who had managed to land a good hit. She stretched and took a good look at the boy, pale skin, white hair, red eyes, on top of that he had just landed a good punch at Yuuka, he smelled like a human, humans with that much strength are rare, so rare in fact that if you see more than one and they share a physical trait they have to be family.

"Izayoi…" Yuuka said.

The boy stopped, the two character name rang on his head, Izayoi Ryo, that was his name before he was called Accelerator, a name he had forgotten, how did this woman know of it? It was a fatal mistake to prove his strength then stop to think about his name, Yuuka took this opportunity to land a punch right on his face, but really he didn't even move at it. Instinctively he deflected the punch back right at Yuuka.

Her shirt teared as the force of the punch was returned at her. Yuuka rubbed her forearm, it stung, as if hitting a block of stone. "You can change the direction in space… Can you do it with time too?"

Accelerator just noticed that Yuuka's arm was unscratched, just her clothes received some damage. He laughed at Yuuka had said "You figured it out very quickly. I cannot change time, but I can do this" He held his hand up to grab a gust of wind, and then began compressing the air, turning it in a ball of plasma.

He tossed the sphere at the girl stepped on it and used the force of the explosion to leap towards him. She threw another punch, he deflected it which caused so much force a crater formed where they stood, the glass in all of near buildings shattered from the shockwave, though the punch had just enough force to not be fully deflected. It reached his eye, it wasn't enough to knock him out, but he had to close his eye as it quickly swollen.

"Got to admit you have a pretty good natural armor but always assume your enemy can hurt you" Yuuka laughed, she threw another punch, this one connected in Accelerator's stomach, it was stronger than the one before, it was enough to make him fall to his knees, the shockwave was strong, it caused shrapnel fly from the ground.

"Let's see how much you can get through stress" Yuuka kicked Accelerator, then continued to do it while laughing.

Accelerator couldn't help but feel a sense of karmic justice, often he was the one kicking those who were down, of course he had fallen before but he still felt there was much karma to pay, this girl was making him feel that same hopelessness others had felt when facing him.

Yuuka yawned and shook "It isn't that late…" She took a step back and turned around, well secured, holding a bent electrical pole was a tall blonde girl holding a remote.

She saw the terror on her face, her pretty face. A blonde girl with enough guts to face someone like Yuuka. She shook her head again, her thoughts were being tampered with, she liked blondes but not as much to distract her from combat.

Then again she was really cute, Yuuka smiled and walked towards the girl, her mind filled with thoughts of how comfortable her bed was, how good it would be to take a nap. Yes a good nap after an exciting day. Yuuka did not take a next step, she fell to the ground asleep.