Hey, thank you for reading A Certain Scientific Counter. Also, I'd like to thank my new Beta-Reader Graeskog for helping me edit this chapter. I always wanted to write this chapter for the sole purpose of watching Accelerator beat the holy right out of a Saint. And to commemorate this occasion I ask that you play Toaru Majutsu no Index III OST Volume 1: Black VS White, during part 2 since it's what I was listening to when I wrote that scene. Without further ado Q&A
Linkjames24- Don't Worry there will be, the only reason she's not here is that she lacks the ability, not to be crushed to death by falling buildings.
Linkjames24- Yay Junko.
Fortitude501- Good play by play, And yeah her job isn't as easy as it looks.
Anti-Mage 29- Thank you, and yeah his ability is kinda cheating, and you'll see soon enough.
BlueJack22- Thank you, I've been leveling up my writing skills as of late.
Awardedall- No problem.
MarkGib- Thank you, and the story will only deviate more as they en-counter everything.
Aminadab Brulle- The long wait is over my friend, here it is, Accelerator and Kanzaki talk out there differences chapter….No wait don't do that Accelerator…...oh my goodness!
Savior555- In district 2, planning something for another arc.
Savior555- Thank you, and maybe … Now we enter the final chapters of the Index arc.
Rajarshi Sarkar- Thank you for the compliment, also the only reason Misaki can't be in every chapter is that she's underpowered, not much she can do against an AIM Burst or a Saint, and I foreshadowed Sogiita's involvement when he said he was hunting down Touma to test his GUTS! By the way, Academy City invasion arc won't occur sooner since Stiyl said it best, It's just a failed science project.
Nguyen Thanh Long- WOOHOO indeed, and he does have Tsuchimikado's number it's just that he doesn't know that he has ties with the magic side.
Graeskog- Yeah I agree it was a long chapter, it's just that I wanted to get to the next arc as quickly as possible. The return of the Queen you say…...I forget.
Dragonrails- Glad I can bring a laugh to your day, and a good idea! I'll probably message you if I ever run out of Touma and Misaki Omakes.
Guest- It is, and here you have it.
Chris-Thank you for the amazing overview of my story, and don't worry there will be shonen action baby! Thank you for the Complement and here you go!
Science vs Magic 2: My Science name
July 24
Part 1
As Kanzaki looked over towards the boy that not a few seconds ago she had thought cornered she could immediately tell that this wasn't planned, in fact, the boy seemed more nervous now that he was here.
Kanzaki narrowed her eyes against the posturing white-haired boy "You must be utterly mad or a complete imbecile to think you can even stand against a Saint."
The maddening grin on the boy's face never faltered, "Nah I'm the sanest guy you'll ever meet, though I can't say the same for you two, thinking you actually stand a chance against me, pretty soon that's gonna be a sin."
Kanzaki did not want to fight the boy, not because she didn't think she could beat him, but because of the blowback that this might cause on the church. They were already in deep enough waters as it was when it came to engaging one Level 5 and she didn't want to add to the blowback by adding another one. "You only live once boy, you shouldn't waste it on something like this," she then gestured to Touma, "We don't wish to kill him, all that we are trying to do is save someone that he has misguidedly taken."
It was this moment that the boy lowered his arms and stopped smirking for a moment as it seemed as though he was thinking about a few seconds, something that felt like an eternity for them in the battlefield, he spoke, "First thing you don't live once clown, you live every day until you die, something you're gonna be all too familiar with, Second I heard what you said before about Index".
Kanzaki's eyes widen for a moment before returning to normal, "So you know what we're doing here is just."
The boy then raised a hand to stop her, "Have you ever actually read a book that didn't have to do with 'that'" he then pointed out their exotic wardrobes.
"Yes, I have" She responded.
The same grin that he had on before appeared on his face once again. "Glad to see you aren't letting your abysmal education stand in the way of your ignorance."
"What did you say!?" She growled.
"How retarded do you actually have to be to think that a fucking brain works like that? You have to be the biggest dumbass to think that the human brain worked the same way that a fucking phone does."
Stiyl then stepped up clenching his fist in anger at what he was saying, "What do you know! You didn't have to watch Index as she was suffering!"
The white-haired boy then tilted his head slightly and had an indifferent look on his face, "Then it was probably something else, there no way that anybody could die from brain stress," The boy then straightened up slightly, "Even if someone had perfect recollect, there would still be no way that anyone could die like that," Accelerator then grew a slight smirk, "Though I think you just wanted to believe that because it was a better excuse than admitting that you couldn't help her."
The look on both the saint and witch hunter's face said that they wanted this boy dead. "You little piece of artificially colored garbage! How dare you even imply that I-"
Ignoring the clown's tirade Accelerator thought the situation over in his head 'The second people lose themselves the easier it becomes to tell what they're going to do next.'
Before anyone could take any more drastic action, the misfortunate boy decided to jump in front of all of them, the distance between them was only 10 meters, and yet he felt as though he could feel their very breath. Kanzaki who never once took her eyes off the boy was slightly surprised that he stuck around since the most logical thing to do in this situation would be to run and inform his friend of their impending attack. Although maybe he knew that it would have been pointless since she could easily intercept him before he was even able to leave the block.
The misfortunate boy stood in front of his impromptu ally and holding his right arm close to his chest, raised his left at the two, "Stop please! You guys we don't have to fight we all want the same thing, I wanna help Index as much as you guys do so why don't we all work together and-"
"Pretty words idiot, too bad they're not gonna do you any good here" Accelerator then pointed at Stiyl who was currently brimming with rage. Even if Touma would've been able to make a convincing argument it wouldn't have matter in the slightest if the person listening had no intentions on seeing the other side with any form of respect. This was only going to end in one way.
Stiyl, in a fit of rage, threw a card towards the boy and yelled: "BURN!"
*TAP*
Before the card even traveled an inch from the magician's hands Accelerator used the vectors in the ground to launch Touma in the air before whatever this clown had planned could take effect.
*BOOM*
The card suddenly exploded, and a wall made up of pure red-hot fire suddenly appeared before Accelerator. Normally he would just take this attack head-on and let his reflection do the work for him. However, he felt like showing off today, and because of that, he raised both of his hands in front of him. And then by manipulating the Vectors in the very air itself, spread out his arms.
*Whoosh*
The wall of flames that had towered before Accelerator not a moment ago had been parted. The scene was somewhat biblical, akin to how Moses parted the seas in order to make a path for salvation, however, this path was going to be used for someone's damnation.
The look on everyone on the battlefield immediately turned into one of shock. Before anyone could even make a move, Accelerator propelled himself at high velocities to get to Stiyl.
While shooting himself through the parted fire Accelerator noticed that he was feeling hot. This was strange to him since his reflection should've been able to reflect any heat that came his way, but this….it felt as though the very heat itself was being transferred through a different medium than normal.
Before he could think about that any longer he had closed the distance between the two of them and was only a few feet away from being able to end Stiyl.
While Stiyl was a mere mortal and had a reaction speed and strength of one, Kanzaki was not, she was one of only 20 Saints, people who were born with superhuman attributes far above what any human could ever hope of achieving. He would've been dead had it not been for Kanzaki yanking him by the collar and throwing him out of the way.
Kanzaki while being able to see and react accordingly to Accelerator's speed had to purposely slow herself down while moving Stiyl. If she wasn't careful, she would've broken his neck while moving him. So, when she finally did she noticed that Accelerator was only a few inches away from touching her, it seemed as though he had planned on going after her this entire time. A clever but foolish attempt. Within milliseconds Kanzaki was able to grab hold of her sheathed Katana and bring it down on the esper's head. She didn't unsheathe the blade solely due to the fact that he was moving at such high velocities that even a small brick could end his life. While the katana was heading straight for the esper's head she had to properly adjust her strength accordingly, so she didn't snap his neck with the whiplash. As Accelerator was drawing ever closer to her, she finally properly adjusted her strength to hit him with the intention of knocking him out.
*DING*
Kanzaki could feel her very wrist about to snap, it felt as though her arm was about to rip out of its socket as it shot right back towards her. She couldn't understand what just happened it was as if he was able to reflect her attack at her with even greater force.
Right as Kanzaki was about to jump back to retreat, she felt something touch her chest.
*BOOM*
Kanzaki coughed up blood as she was sent barreling down the street. She couldn't properly think since the pain was so immense it felt as though her manubrium had been completely shattered preventing her from breathing properly, that's why when she finally hit the building behind her she was momentarily paralyzed in pain.
As both Stiyl and Touma watched what just occurred, they both could feel the difference in their power. It was something akin to absolution, not only was he able to bypass Stiyl's flames, but he managed to damage Kanzaki, something that Stiyl had rarely, if ever, seen before.
Touma, on the other hand, could feel the difference between Accelerator and the other Level 5s he had met before.
Never before had he ever seen something so concrete something so absolute as that power, it wasn't anything flashy and you wouldn't even be able to tell if he used it or not because it was just there. Something so definite that it was intrinsic to the universe. He could see the stark difference between him and someone like Mikoto or Sogiita who's powers generated something instead of manipulating them. When you generate something you're limited to the amount of energy you have, but when you manipulate something, something as intrinsic as vectors there was basically no limit on what you could accomplish.
While both of them were gawking at Accelerators show of strength, Accelerator had something else on his mind, how she wasn't dead.
Normally whenever he touched someone he could affect all the vectors in their body, but this time he was only able to affect a small area of her body, it was as if she was being held together by some foreign dark matter that he could barely reverse calculate. If it wasn't for him increasing the magnitude, chances are that she would've gotten up by now.
The second Kanzaki hit the building and Accelerator landed, they both realized something had to be done. And that's why Accelerator generated an earthquake to propel himself towards a nearby car and why Kanzaki began to speak her Magic name.
Right as Kanzaki's manubrium healed itself she began to speak.
"SALVA-"
*DING*
At faster than the speed of sound the 10,000-pound piece of metal launched itself at Kanzaki causing the very air to form a vapor cone around it.
"RE-"
*CRASH!*
Before she could utter another syllable, she was crushed by the car and was completely incapacitated at the sudden whiplash from of her head hitting against the concrete of the building behind her.
Finally, both Stiyl and Touma landed on the ground and to their amazement and horror, had realized that the fight had only lasted a few seconds.
Just then both of the two heard a maniacal laughter "HAHAHAHAHA! I'll give you this, you're more durable than most of the windup dolls I'm used to fighting! What happened to all your confidence from before!?"
Stiyl could barely process what just happened. "S-She lost?" He could barely stop himself from shaking.
Accelerator seeing this began to approach him. "Yeah, though I guess I can't really blame her she was up against me." As he began getting closer to Stiyl the very earth around him started to crack with every step he took. "I hope that you'll be slightly more entertaining than her, weren't you mouthing off how you could beat a Level 5, well let's see it!"
Stiyl started to step back in fear. He couldn't think properly, it was true that they did have a method in defeating a Level 5, but he wasn't sure if it would even work on a monster like this. Right as he was about to run, a memory resurfaced in his mind.
'Those who will harm Index, I won't even let them even come half a step closer!'
As Stiyl regained his composure, he remembered the promise that he made to Index just a year ago. He would protect her. Even if it was a one in a million shot, he would do anything to save her, even if it meant that by buying Kanzaki enough time to heal herself from that injury, even if he had to die. He owed that much to her after everything they took from Index.
With a newfound determination, Stiyl stood his ground against this monster.
"Oh, did you finally grow a backbone, or did you just finally accept your fate?" Accelerator mused.
Narrowing his eyes Stiyl took out a specially designed rune card covered in black and yellow design that had the symbol for Prometheus and spoke what he thought was going to be his last sentence. If this didn't work, then Kanzaki and Index were as good as dead.
"Fire of the original sin, send your curse of the black to send this sinner to damnation!" Suddenly the card that was in his hand transformed into a ball of black fire.
Accelerator's eyes widen in shock not because he was actually scared, but because he's never seen black fire before. "Cool fire, maybe I'll use it to light your funeral pyre."
While Stiyl was about to throw the ball of black fire at Accelerator, Touma was running straight towards Accelerator knowing that something was off, he didn't know much about magic, but from what he did know you could never be too careful. "Accelerator! Don't let that thing touch you!"
His words fell on deaf ears, Accelerator had no intention of evading this attack nor did he have any intention of blocking it as he did earlier, what he wanted was an absolute victory. That's what he always wanted.
Right as the fire was about to touch Accelerator he knew that he had made a terrible mistake. While the fire itself dispersed as it came in contact with his reflection the heat and the immense pain that came along with it did not.
"AAAAGGHHGHAGHAGHAAGH!"
Accelerator could feel his very skin start to burn off and collapsed on the ground rolling in pain in a vain attempt to make it stop. After the first second was over he could feel it getting harder and harder to breathe, as he went look at his body for the damage he noticed that he didn't have a single burn mark on his entire body.
It was at this moment he started to feel his very organs start to bleed internally, and he started to cough up blood.
*Shatter*
Once Touma finally touched him, Accelerator could feel the pain go away. While it still lingered in his body there wasn't any more being added on him at the very least.
Touma then went to hold Accelerator to check his vitals "What did you do to him!" Touma demanded as the Flame magician stood there with all the confidence in the world.
"Prometheus curse, Infection magic to be more precise. I was never any good at any school of magic differing from fire, but I knew that I would fight an Esper, so I would have to learn. The spell is a reflection on how Prometheus was punished for giving fire to man and was cursed to be tormented endlessly," Stiyl then started moving closer to them, "I knew that your power would've been able to negate the curse but even you can't fix the damage that has already taken place that thing just had both his lungs and liver damaged."
"Stay here." Laying Accelerator down Touma walked up to defend his friend. "You were going to use that curse against Mikoto weren't you!"
In truth, Stiyl had modified the curse so after 3 seconds it would stop damaging the body. It wouldn't have killed an esper so much as put them in a coma which was their intention from the start. Once he used it on her they would've brought her to a hospital. However, he had no desire to tell this boy that. "So what?"
Touma grit his teeth as he was filled with rage "You bastard!" He then charged at Stiyl.
Seeing this Stiyl simply sidestepped him and tripped him causing him to fall down on his arm.
The pain was bad, Touma could feel himself begin to feel woozy.
Towering over him Stiyl began to mock him "Was that really you had! How could ever expect to save Index when you can't even land a hit on me without having someone else to help you do it?" Stiyl then began kicking Touma in the gut, "That's why I'll never trust you with Index, someone who can't even fight by himself has no chance in safeguarding her!"
In between the pain of having his gut destroyed Touma had to admit that he was right. Could he have really defeated Stiyl before if it wasn't for Mikoto's help? Did he truly have no chance in saving Index? As Touma was about to give in to the pain and drift off he started to remember the look on Index's face when she asked him to go to the depth of hell with her.
"It's over brat" Stiyl then stopped kicking Touma and raised his foot in order to stomp Touma's head to knock him out. The moment Stiyl foot was about to land on Touma's head, Touma rolled away and scrambled back to his feet. Touma then charged Stiyl once more to hit him with his left hand. The moment he dodged Stiyl saw that it was a feint and Touma whipped his right fist at him smacking him straight in the face and knocking him to the ground.
"AGHHH!"
Touma felt as though his bone was about to pop out right through his skin.
Stiyl quickly scrambled to his feet and summoned flames into each of hands and simultaneously threw them at Touma's side right side. Suddenly the same monster that Touma had faced before appeared right before his eyes. Innocentius. The monster towered above Touma and the heat it emitted when it was summoned told him that if Stiyl had summoned him even a foot closer he would have had been badly burned.
"Innocentius! Attack the white-haired boy!" Stiyl was no fool, he knew that if Innocentius didn't work on this boy (before) that it was a lost cause to use it against him again. Instead, he wanted to use Innocentius for its speed, he knew that Touma couldn't catch Innocentius before it got past him.
The monster quickly skidded across the road avoiding Touma's attempts to touch it with his left hand and made it behind him.
As Accelerator laid on the ground recovering he saw it. The fiery beast he only thought possible in a video game. He wasn't scared per se, it was more like he knew that this was going to hurt like hell.
Right as Innocentius lifted its giant cross and was about to take a swing at Accelerator he heard it.
*REVERB*
The beast started to disappear, the viscous material that made up the core of the creature started to swirl before his very eyes and after 10 seconds he saw Touma clenching his left fist where the beast was originally.
When Touma's gaze finally made its way to Accelerator, he asked him something, something he never thought he would hear again "Are you okay?"
Before Accelerator could register this, he saw Touma collapse onto the ground, left hand still balled up in a fist.
It all went according to plan. Stiyl knew that Touma could catch up to Innocentius, but he also knew that it took him 10 seconds to fully absorb Innocentius, more than enough time for him to get behind him and deck him out.
"Struggling will only make this worse," he then raised his foot yet again to stomp on Touma's head until he heard something that made his entire body go numb.
"What the hell do you think you're doing!?" When turned his head, all that confidence he had from before all but vanished. There he was standing before him with bloodshot eyes and blood smeared across his mouth, Accelerator.
Before Stiyl could even say a word, Accelerator raised his hand and forced the surrounding winds to congregate to a single point creating what seemed to be a twister and shot it straight at Stiyl.
*Boom*
This Twister slammed Stiyl in the chest firing him through a glass window of a nearby department store knocking him out.
Once that was over Accelerator went over to check on Touma who at this point looked as though he should've been dead.
"Oi Oi, can you stand?"
Touma responded by weakly trying to stand up by himself which prompted Accelerator to help him stand.
"I-I-I'm fine." Touma weakly replied.
"Tch! Don't fucking lie! You're about halfway to be put into the ground." Accelerator shot back.
"S-Sorry. I shouldn't have gotten you mixed up in this. Are you okay?" Touma said despondently.
"Tch!" In truth Accelerator wasn't, for the first time he could remember he felt pain it was as though his guts were on fire. What made it worse was that he found it increasingly hard to even breathe. If it wasn't for him forcing his very lungs to process the oxygen, he very likely would've passed out by now. "I'm fine."
Suddenly the both of them felt an enormous pressure coming from the car that Accelerator threw at Kanzaki. That's when the two of them heard it.
"SALVARE000 — Be the salvation of those who cannot be saved!"
The car that once covered Kanzaki was rocketed off of her like it was nothing revealing her. She was emitting and immense and powerful blue colored aura around herself. It was like the one Sogiita emitted only this time more refined. While all of this was going on Touma handed something to Accelerator.
Narrowing her eyes at the both of them she asked in a cold voice. "Where is Stiyl?"
Windowless Building
"What do you plan on doing about this Alister?"
"Nothing. This fight has a 95% likelihood of ending favorably for us, and in the unlikely event it doesn't we still have a backup. For now, just extend the radius of the combat zone."
"Understood."
Accelerator who was currently helping Touma stand pushed him back onto the ground. "The redhead? No clue though, I think I saw a twister take him to Oz."
Her gaze turned murderous. "Where?"
"H-He's there." Not wanting any more fighting Touma pointed in the direction of the department store where Stiyl had landed.
In less than a fraction of a second Kanzaki appeared inside the department store kneeling over Stiyl. She then turned her head towards them. "Which one of you did this!?"
Accelerator raised his hand. "Guilty."
She then slowly walked out of the department store, as she walked the aura she emitted started to crush the surrounding area breaking all the glass that unfortunate enough to be in her presence.
Accelerator then started to walk towards her trying to increase the distance between himself and Touma as much as possible. "You should've seen the look on the guy's face, he looked as though he was about ready to piss himself."
The aura around Kanzaki started to fluctuate almost as though it was a reflection of her very emotions, "Don't you dare talk about Stiyl like that, all he was….No, all we were trying to do was safeguard Index!"
Accelerator then smirked. "And look how well that turned out."
*BOOM*
Kanzaki launched herself at Accelerator hitting him in the gut with the end of her Katana sending him flying, concrete and asphalt-covered the air as he made his way to the building.
*Crash*
As Accelerator tried to get up he noticed two things. First, he had a slight burn on where she had hit him, and second even though he consciously reflected everything even light and sound from him, it still hurt like hell.
'What the hell is that? Is it dark matter? No, even if it was that still wouldn't account for the fact that it needs a medium to travel through and I know I reflected the direction, but it still hit me anyways. Damn it, think! Why can't I figure out her formula!'
While it tempted Accelerator too just throw the building that he was on at her, he knew that it wasn't the smartest choice for a multitude of reasons. First, there was no guarantee that it would even take her down, and he didn't want to have to deal with Academy City coming after him. Second that idiot was still there, and lastly, it didn't sit right with him knowing that there was someone out there that could challenge him because if there was then his dream would be impossible.
Level six Shift.
"What do you want?"
"Why do you think I want something?"
"There are only two types of people who come up to me people who want to experiment on me and" Accelerator then gestured to the multitude of thugs scattered around him with an assortment of wounds covering each of them, "Idiots who just want to prove themselves"
The scientist simply smiled. "Just think if you gain even greater power than you have, then what would your life be like?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I'd like to talk to you about an experiment."
I'd suggest playing
Toaru Majutsu no Index III OST Volume 1: Black VS White
Part 2
When Accelerator got back on his feet he saw Kanzaki jump 20 meters in the air and land gracefully on top of a department store roof.
From that height, she looked down at Accelerator. Something that he couldn't allow.
Controlling the airflow, he made four tornadoes behind him which carried him to the roof opposite to where Kanzaki was standing.
"So, mind explaining to me what the whole light show was there?"
Still clutching her sheathed Katana, Kanzaki pointed it directly toward Accelerator, "I spoke my Magic name, it is my duty to carry out the meaning of my name."
"!?"
"Haha, aren't you a bit too old to be believing in Fairy Tales,"
She narrowed her eyes towards him, "Whether you believe me or not is none my concern."
Accelerator then grew a large grin on his face "Hmm I guess I'll play along. If you're the self-righteous Saint, I'll be the Villain who kicks your ass back to reality."
Accelerator swept his arm in front of him and slashed through the air.
*Boom!*
A hurricane with wind speeds of a 120 meters per second blasted towards Kanzaki.
Within less than a fraction of a second, she unsheathed her blade and brilliantly blue light emanated from it.
"Nanasen!"
The hurricane was then diced into by what seemed like pure energy to Accelerator.
'Apparently, she can manipulate exotic energies, so I guess regular formulas aren't gonna cut. Then again where's the fun in that.'
*BOOM*
Accelerator launched himself at Kanzaki bringing with him all the glass that had just shattered due to the incredible force he'd just used. A hurricane of glass and assorted scrap metals shot themselves at Kanzaki, who just kept slashing them away.
*BOOM!* The buildings around the two trembled in the face of these two clashings. They were constantly bombarding each other with attacks moving down the road at high such velocities that the surrounding area was being devastated, street lamps were unearthed with the sole intention of impaling Kanzaki and Kanzaki cutting every last one of them to bits only to have them thrown right back at her with the occasional hurricane. It eventually got to the point where they lapped the entire block destroying everything in their path and ended up where they started. Looking across from each other on top of the buildings.
*TAP*
The roof that Accelerator was standing on just became ammunition, glass, concrete and whatever else was littered there shot itself towards Kanzaki at the faster than the speed of sound.
Once again Kanzaki moved only this time it wasn't to defend but it was to attack.
She rocketed herself off of the building and while midair motioned her katana.
"Nanasen!"
As she moved forward she carved a path of destruction that utterly destroyed every last piece of debris that was sent her way.
Using her new-found position, she found herself face to face with Accelerator, with only a mere foot of distance between.
To Kanzaki, every move that Accelerator made was telegraphed. The downside to being so powerful was that you never had to face a challenge, never had to feel what happens when you made a mistake.
As Kanzaki closed in Accelerator lunged for her leaving his chest wide open.
Just as she about to hit him, Accelerator opened his hand revealing a cheap phone, using his reflection he immediately repelled the phone from his hand at double the speed of sound directly at Kanzaki's face, at this range she had no chance of dodging.
*CRACK* *BOOM!*
Once the phone smashed itself against Kanzaki's face, the punch that made its way to Accelerator was softened, although he was still sent careening down back to the ground creating a crater a meter wide in the asphalt.
65% This was how far Accelerator had come to finally breaking down her formula.
After seeing that technique up close he could finally see what she used a medium to make the exotic energy move like that.
Wires
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
From the roof, Kanzaki brushed off the fragments of the phone from her face and could see the boy laughing like a madman. "Why are you laughing?"
Accelerator let out a wide grin while picking himself up from the crater. "Why? Isn't obvious?"
Kanzaki raised her eyebrow in suspicion. "What are you talking about?"
"Well I'll gladly tell you, but first let me show you how a first-class villain does things."
*TAP*
The moment Accelerator tapped his foot on the ground the very foundations of the build that Kanzaki was on started to crumble.
Naturally, she jumped off. And landed safely on the ground moments away from attacking him until she realized something. The building she was standing on housed Stiyl.
"STIYL!"
She charged headfirst in the collapsing building disregarding the fight in its entirety.
However, the moment she entered she knew it was too late.
Stiyl was no longer here, somehow the boy managed to move his body without her knowing.
*CRASH*
Once Accelerator saw the building collapse on top of her, he wasted no time in sealing her fate.
*TAP*
Cracks started to form around the building eventually fully circling it, once that was done the building was swallowed up by a giant chasm sinking everything and everyone inside to the ground.
Accelerator's plan was simple, bury her alive.
He didn't have much time until his body gave out on him and he had to use this opportunity to end it.
Accelerator then started coughing furiously. After he finally managed to force his body to stop he noticed he was coughing up blood.
'Damn this isn't good I got maybe less than a minute left until I can't breathe, a war of attrition is out of the question, just what the hell is this bitch even made of?'
Accelerator still couldn't grasp the concept of Kanzaki's powers, he knew that they used wires to act as a medium to travel but he still didn't understand the energy only way he could, would be if he were to actually touch the energy itself, using energy calculation algorithms he could finally find a way to control the energy itself.
Though even this isn't guaranteed everything that Accelerator had done up to this point was 'guess and check work', continuously shifting through billions upon billions of different equations until he found one that would work on this energy.
"Accelerator!"
He quickly turned his head and saw that same idiot, "What the hell do you…..ahc!" Accelerator was at his brink, he was only a few seconds away from losing consciousness if that happened all of his brain functions would revert to keeping him alive.
"I think I have an idea."
Part 3
The chasm while a nice effort, did little to hold back Kanzaki for little more than a few seconds.
Once she emerged she was covered in bruises, dirt and cut marks. The surrounding area was enveloped by the dust storm that had been a result of her unearthing. She then finally caught Accelerator in her gaze.
"Where is he!?"
Accelerator then swiped his arm to the left pushing away all the dust in that area to his right side revealing Stiyl completely unharmed save for the damage that Touma inflicted on him previously.
Kanzaki narrowed her eyes. "Why did you spare his life?"
"Uh, can we just fight?"
Immediately Kanzaki noticed the blood on his hands. "You don't have much longer do you?"
Accelerator then grinned "You're right, but I only need a second to beat you."
Kanzaki immediately grabbed her Katana and Unsheathed it, she wasn't planning on killing him, as much as she was knocking him out with the sheer force of her attack. From her perspective, he was able to negate all physical damage but like all espers, he had no magical defense.
"Nanasen!"
It was at this moment that the fight was going to be decided.
In a blink of an eye, gashes appeared on Accelerator's shirt.
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*DING*
!?
Kanzaki staggered back in pain as she noticed she was covered in deep cut marks and was bleeding profusely, "H-H-How?"
Accelerator then wiped his hair away showing him grinning victoriously "Hahaha, finally cracked your bullshit formula! You told me about your Magic Name, right? So, why don't I give you My Science name? I'm Accelerator!"
In one last ultimate gamble Accelerator relocated all of his processing ability in order to decode her formula. In that time his body was completely defenseless as he had to turn off his reflection as well.
Blood ran down Kanzaki's body as her wounds started to catch up to her, "T-That's impossible an esper can't use magic!"
What Kanzaki failed to notice was that once he learned the formula to her magic, he also learned how to decompose it.
The steel wires that she used in order to perform her attacks were no under her control and whipped right back at her at decuple the force then she had originally used, if it wasn't for her superhuman durability she would have been sliced to pieces.
"Let me put it in words I think you'll understand, You're Fucked."
Reeling back from hearing this she was almost about to run away, but something didn't feel right. If he were truly at such a huge advantage why wouldn't he come to her and finish it? Suddenly she figured out why this was.
Kanzaki launched herself at Accelerator and instead of attacking with her sword she gut-punched him.
"Gah!"
Accelerator crumbled to the floor no longer having any strength left to stand.
"I see, so you weren't actually able to control my magic simply disperse it and when you do manipulate it you're vulnerable to a counter-attack, so when I attacked you right now you had no way off blocking did you?"
Accelerator was silent.
She was spot on. While Accelerator did have a basic layout of the formula solved, something about it was constantly changing and as such there was a lag in between where he could control the exotic energy and control regular Vectors. If his calculation ability weren't crippled by having to dull his pain, he would've been able to reduce the lag time to a nanosecond.
"I'll give you this esper, you were honorable in your own way." She took note of the fact that even though they were on opposing sides he only fought to protect his friend and while he had the chance to kill Stiyl he didn't take it.
As she leaned in closer, she heard him whisper something before passing out. "A-And I thought he was the biggest Idiot"
Kanzaki realized that she made the biggest mistake ever, she had completely forgotten about the other boy.
A Few seconds Ago
"What!?"
Touma nodded
"Why the hell should I even go along with that stupid plan!"
Touma simply looked up at him and grinned, "You said it yourself didn't you. You wanted to see it in action."
Current Time
"I don't how much MP a Pope Level Spell has," as the wind pushed the dust away there he stood Kamijou Touma, pointing his left fist directly at her.
"But I'd assume doubling it is more than enough to take down a Saint with your HP" Kanzaki immediately tried to move but soon realized that her wounds had finally caught up to her making it so that she was unable to move in time.
Accelerator still barely conscious looked up and grinned at her. "Told you, you were fucked"
The moment he began opened his hand they both could see a brilliant bright white and yellow energy emit from it. The last words they heard before blacking out were-
"CounterStrike." *BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!*
In one moment, the entire battlefield illuminated from the beam of pure golden energy that blasted out of Touma's hand. Kanzaki had been completely engulfed by the energy and was sent careening down the block demolishing everything in her path until finally getting pinned by the building at the end of the street.
Energy continued pouring out of his hand, it seemed as though the building that ceased her movements was about to give way to the immense pressure that the beam was emitting, it was at this moment Touma clenched his left fist.
The fight was finally over.
WINNER: KAMIJOU TOUMA
Windowless Building
"And our 'Gemstone' is the last man standing, Although, that was your plan all along wasn't it?
"..."
"Well, I think I see what your planning to do and I must say Bravo."
Part 4
Battlefield
Touma found himself once again in an impossible predicament. While beaten bruised and broken he had to carry not only himself but also Accelerator to the hospital.
Seeing that he had a broken arm and possibly a broken rib, he had to improvise. Luckily for him, he was in the middle of an empty shopping district with stores everywhere and no one inside to stop him. Normally he'd feel guilty about stealing, but he quickly got over that when he realized everything in this block was going to get repaired anyway. He decided to go into the Medical store all the way down the street in order to get his hands on a wheelchair to help him get Accelerator to the hospital.
As he made his way closer to the street he realized that this was the location where Kanzaki's body was. As he got closer he could finally see where her body had landed, she was face-first on the sidewalk, and from what he could tell she was out cold and was covered in minor bruises and burns.
Walking past her body Touma went inside and grabbed everything he'd need.
When he exited the building, he was pushing a wheelchair that was full of medical supplies and immediately went towards Kanzaki.
Touma wasn't much of a doctor, but he played nurse to himself enough to know how to give basic first aid to someone. As he kneeled and gently moved Kanzaki's body, so she was lying on her back. Using a bag of cotton balls he had taken he used it as a makeshift pillow, so she could be more comfortable. He then proceeded to open a bottle of Mentholatum as soon as the lid came off her eyes shot open.
"AHH!" Touma fell back unsure as to what was about to happen now that she was awake.
"Wha-Wha -What happened?" She gently turned her head in order to get a better view of her surroundings. The entire area was in disarray, buildings were on the verge of collapse and so much of the ground was unearthed it seemed as though a carpet bomb went off.
Kanzaki then tried to move but found herself unable to, she had taken far too much damage and her body wouldn't listen to her anymore. "So, this is it." Kanzaki closed her eyes accepting her fate. "If you're gonna kill me at least have the dignity to end quickly." She had resigned herself, she always knew that this day would come. She only wished that it didn't have to come at the cost of her friends.
It was at this moment Kanzaki truly felt regret. She had failed not only herself but Index, because of her she was going to die. When she went to open her eyes, she saw it a fist coming towards her. This was the end.
*THWACK*
"What the hell are you talking about! I'm not gonna kill you!"
Reeling back from having her head smacked, she looked up at the boy who was currently kneeling towards her. "Why? I tried to beat you to a bloody pulp and take Index away from you, I attacked your friend, so why? Why won't you kill me?"
"You're right. You did all of those things. You attacked my friend, you beat me until I thought I was gonna die, but even so, I still won't kill you."
Kanzaki tried to force her body to move, "Why!? That doesn't make any sense. Don't you care at all for Index? If you really did, you would eliminate the threat to her-"
Touma raised his right hand that was still in a fist to stop her.
*SHATTER*
"I do care about Index, and that's why I won't kill her friends."
"H-How did you-"
"That look on your face all but confirmed it for me. That look of helplessness, unable to do anything to help the one you care about. I've seen that face too many times to know what that's like."
Kanzaki tried to look away but found herself unable to. "I-I failed her." Kanzaki sounded like a child about to burst into tears.
Touma put a hand on her head to consul her, failing to protect someone was something he always dreaded.
"Why do you think Index lasted as long as she did. The organization I belong to is Necessarius They are afraid of her. Everyone is."
"Is that why they wanted you to erase her memories? Because they were afraid of her."
"NO!" Denial rather than accept logic, she simply denied it. "We did it to save Index, S-She was so sick." Kanzaki then tears streaming down her face remembering that day. "We waited until the last possible moment trying to find something, anything to help her. We promised to make memories, so she would never forget, and we made journals and photo albums to help her remember, but in the end, we failed her. She forgot everything."
Touma sighed deeply he understood how they felt, having to say goodbye to someone like Index was something as painful as losing someone you love, but having to do that year after year had to be hell.
To protect Index, they made the ultimate sacrifice. They would stop being Index's friend and instead be the villains in her story. That way when she eventually did have to lose her memories, it wouldn't be so bad.
Touma looked at Kanzaki. "I can't possibly understand what you went through. I couldn't imagine what you felt when you had to do it, but in that whole speech of yours I never once heard you talk about how Index felt."
Kanzaki grit her teeth, "Then what were we supposed to do!?"
"Not give up! I know it must feel like absolute hell when you had to lose her, but even so, you can't give up. Even if I failed 10,000 times, I would still try 10,000 more because Index is my friend!"
Kanzaki simply stared at the boy unsure at what to make of him.
"Do you even understand what it's like to lose your memories!? The hell you put yourself in because you think you're broken and don't have all the pieces to fix yourself up. People looking at you expecting, you to know who they are! The look on their faces when you say 'I'm sorry but, who are you!'"
Kanzaki then realized something "Y-You lost your memories too, didn't you?"
Touma nodded. "I got lucky, I got the chance to try to put myself together. I had people around me who helped me, even though I still might be missing a piece here and there, it's not as bad as it used to be. I got the chance to rebuild and make new memories with the people I cared about, but Index will never get that chance if you keep doing this!"
Kanzaki then put her head back on the ground ashamed. "I-I didn't know that's how she felt. All the times I and Stiyl would try to show her the pictures of us to try to get her to remember, Oh god." Kanzaki had tears streaming down her face unable to wipe them.
Touma then grabbed her shoulder trying to shake her back into reality. "Look at me, Look at me!" Kanzaki acquiesced. "What you did, you can never take back, but you don't have to keep going along with it."
"What do you expect me to do!? Let Index die!? I can't, I lost too many people like-"
"Put your trust in me."
"What?"
"I promise you that I'll do whatever it takes to get Index out of that hell."
"C-Can you really say that? What if you can't do it in time, there are only a few days left until we have to erase her memories, what if you don't figure it out in time, what if-"
Kanzaki then stopped when she noticed Touma tap her lightly on her forehead with his right fist. "What if I do find a way? If you always keep thinking about the worst-case scenario you'll never be able to think about the best ones, mine is one where everyone comes out of this smiling." She then saw him give out a warm smile.
It was at this moment that Kaori Kanzaki had truly lost to Kamijou Touma.
Battlefield
After treating Kanzaki's wounds with some minor First Aid, Kanzaki found herself able to stand once again albeit with a bit of trouble.
"Are you sure you'll be alright Kanzaki?"
"Yes, I don't think I'll be at 100% anytime soon, but at least I can move again."
"Okay then, I think I kept Accelerator waiting long enough."
Kanzaki motioned to stop Touma, "Kamijou-san, I'm truly sorry for what I did to you and your friend, but know that, if I see that you can't save Index then I will stop you".
Touma nodded and left her to go pick up his friend and take him to the hospital.
From the outset, he looked completely healthy albeit for the dried blood that was on his face.
As he pushed him throughout the battlefield he made sure to be on the lookout for any falling debris, unlike Accelerator when debris fell on him they did not get reflected. As he traversed through the streets he looked through every alley he could only to find they were all blocked off due to the falling debris. Their only way out now would be through the main road.
Once the two of them were about to leave the battlefield and go back onto the streets he saw it.
The way to the Main road their exit was being blocked off by a building that had collapsed.
"GODDAMMIT!" Touma didn't have much time to waste, he had no idea if Accelerator would survive if they had to take a long way around. He wasn't a doctor but even he knew that whatever Stiyl did to him was killing him.
Then suddenly right before Touma's eyes he could see the building start to levitate off the ground, no not levitate it was almost like it was falling upside down. He didn't know how to describe it.
Touma then ran down the now clear road while pushing Accelerator, hoping that whatever was clearing the way for them would do so for a little longer.
Right as they made their way across the Main Road, the building that was once blocking their path came falling down.
Touma had no idea what happened, so all he said was.
"Thank you!"
"…."
A Certain Hospital
Right as Touma walked through the doors to the hospital he was greeted by his doctor, almost like he knew that he was coming.
"Doc I need your-" Touma then passed out unable to bear the pain any longer.
Just then a team of nurses went to lift Touma and Accelerator and put them on stretchers.
A Certain Hospital
Epilogue
July 25
"Huh!?, What where am I!? Where's-"
"Calm down, everything's alright."
Touma looked up he saw the frog-faced doctor looking over him. "What happened to the guy I brought with me?"
"Well it seemed you brought him just in time, his liver looked as though it was developing Cirrhosis. I've usually only seen that with people with a history of alcohol abuse, and his lungs didn't look any better."
Touma then had a nervous look plastered on his face, "I-Is he gonna be alright?"
The doctor simply narrowed his eyes at him, "Who do you think I am?" He then had a sincere smile painted on his face, "He'll be fine, Lucky enough for him I was able to operate just in time before any of those injuries could become permanent."
A wave of relief then rushed through him, "Thank goodness."
"Though he's still not out of the woods yet."
"W-What do you mean?"
"I don't know how he did, but somehow he was able to block off certain neural impulses from reaching his brain, and as a result, his body is paying the price."
"T-There gotta be something you could do right?"
"There's no need to worry, he just needs time to wake up on his own."
"Do you know how long that'll take?"
"Mmmh, hard to say, but if I had to guess anywhere between 3 to 7 days,"
"That long!"
The doctor shook his head, "Normally the process would be reduced to 2 days, but because of his ability normal treatments won't work. Physically he's perfectly healthy and that's why his ability is working normally, but mentally he still needs some time to heal."
Touma sighed in relief, "Thank you so much for taking care of him".
"There's no need to thank me I was just doing my job. By the way, in case you were wondering the reason you passed out in the middle of the lobby was that one of your ribs punctured your lungs."
"WHAT!?"
The doctor nodded his head, "If you were even one minute slower you would've suffocated to death."
Touma immediately started to sweat as he knew where he was going with this, "D-Does that mean…...you had to call"
The doctor solemnly nodded as he went to open the door, "Good luck."
With all the grace in the world, in stepped through the door none other than the Queen of Tokiwadai herself, Shokuhou Misaki.
"H-H-H-How's it going…"
Misaki remaining calm cool and collective turned to the doctor, "Can you give us a moment?"
Before Touma could protest the frog-faced doctor was already gone.
TRAITOR!
Now alone Touma says the one thing that he shouldn't have, "How was your day?"
Omake
The True Battle of Magic vs Science 2
Index: Pfft, Do you honestly think you could beat me Flower hair.
Uiharu: Oh please, don't get ahead of yourself Index-sama it'll only make it look that much worse when I win. *CLAP* Uiharu initiates her Thermal Hands
Saten: Okay in 3...2…..1….Go!"
Both Index and Uiharu launch themselves at their parfaits as they are having an eating contest loser pays or in this case if Index loses Mikoto pays.
Shirai shakes her head not knowing how this went so wrong so quickly. "I hope Kamijou-san is having a better time than us.
Mikoto in between laughs: "Oh, please how much trouble could he have possibly gotten himself into."
Battlefield
Touma: Achoo! GAH! GAH! GAH!
Stiyl while kicking Touma in the ribs: "Stop sneezing you, cretin!"
Author's Notes
Accelerator had his Calculation abilities crippled due to the fact that he controlled the neural impulse to his brain so that he wouldn't feel pain anymore, thus slowing down his processing abilities significantly as he had to reject more and more neural impulses to stop the pain along with controlling the air to his lungs.
Also, the only reason Accelerator went along with Touma's plan was because he figured out Kanzaki's formula, if he didn't he never would've gone along with it.
If Accelerator was a more strategic fighter he would've cleaned house with both of them. But that's not the way he rolls.
By the way, the reason why Touma's countershot out pure energy was because magic is based on a belief system so what Touma did was change the spell to its base form, Mana and shot it.