So it's here.

One of the greatest advantages Kuroko enjoyed from her power was speed. She reached the train switchyard in mere minutes.

But she knew the mere minutes could make the difference between a life and a corpse.

As the containers a few hundreds of metres away were occasionally lit up by electricity, Kuroko knew that she was late.

Experiment 10032 had already begun.

Dammit!

Kuroko teleported as quickly as she could towards the battlefield.

'Ding'

The sound of reflection was loud and clear, as Accelerator punched Misaka 10032 onto the floor with his vector manipulation.

'Like I said,' Accelerator proudly proclaimed as he dragged a slaughterer's slow pace while walking towards Misaka 10032, 'Aren't you guys connected? I already revealed a spoiler yesterday, didn't I? Why can't you guys grasp the fact that I'm invincible and just give up?'

'Misaka... cannot... ascertain... the subject's ability...'

'Tch... You are so stubborn.'

'Elimination question then: do you know how to beat another person without hurting a knuckle? Well, you can do this by reversing the reaction force due to the impact back at the person you attack. The person will feel twice the amount of pain, while you will feel nothing at all. Newton's Third Law works perfectly for me! Haha!'

He began kicking Misaka 10032's belly. The clone's wince only made the killing monster, Accelerator, even more excited.

'Come on, come on. Are you already broken? At least entertain me a little more before I kill you, just like the past 10031 times... Haha... Hahaha...'

But the kicking suddenly stopped. Misaka 10032 was expecting another kick when she realised that. She opened her eyes to look up, and her eyes widened a bit when she saw a newcomer.

She was there: a twin-tailed girl wearing Tokiwadai's uniform and a Judgement armband. She was panting as she stared at the two people. Determination burnt in her eyes.

Accelerator forcefully pressed his left foot against Misaka 10032's face.

'Oi, oi. Don't bring uninvolved civilians into the experiment ground! Need I kill her to keep this experiment a secret?'

'Stop your actions right now and come here obediently,' demanded Kuroko.

Accelerator looked up. 'Repeat what you said?'

Kuroko's determination didn't waver.

'In the name of Judgement', she said, almost scowling, 'stop your crime now! You are arrested for murder.'

'...'

'What if I don't stop?' Accelerator side-looked at the girl who dared to talk back to him.

'If you don't,' Kuroko stood on the ground firmly, her stare never leaving Accelerator's eyes, 'then I WILL force you to!'

Winds lifted grits off the floor, causing them to move around. They were marching in support of Kuroko's vociferous manifesto.

'Do.. not... come near... MISAKA... is designed... to be killed... so it's ok for me to...'

'No!' Kuroko scolded, 'No... I'm here to save you, and to ensure that none of you ever gets killed again!'

'No... That's not worth it... We are just products... Priced 180,000 yen each... Residing in a borrowed body is a borrowed heart... You should not risk your life for something like us... Pleads MISAKA... Leave and-'

'And let you die?' Kuroko shifted her eyes away from Accelerator to meet Misaka 10032's soft gaze, 'No... I will never do this for the simple reason that...'

'NOBODY IS DYING ON KUROKO'S WATCH!'

'No... Leave... Says MISAKA as she...'

She felt pain in her heart.

Just what sensation is this, thinks MISAKA as she is confused about her feelings.

And she passed out.

'Hm, nice speech man,' Accelerator finally turned his body to face Kuroko, mocking her with a malicious smirk, 'But do you not know who I am? I'm the one who is the strongest and beyond being the strongest. Accelerator. I am the top one of the level 5s, and I am going to be even more powerful than that! I will become level 6, a person who reaches the will of the heavens! So just-'

'Do you think I care?' questioned Kuroko, who proclaimed, 'You are participating in mass murder! You are guilty, so I must arrest you and stop you once and for all!'

'Mass murder? Hey, don't use such derogatory words. I'm not even killing real humans! Those that I have killed are just what they can produce with the press of a button, so in this sense, they don't have human lives. Therefore...' Accelerator paused his speech as he noticed that the girl was staring at him with even greater intensity than before. Kuroko's eyes were burning with wrath, whose pink colour seemed to glow against the background of the night.

'What's wrong with you, little girl?'

'So... You have killed Misaka Sister this afternoon too? You are the one... who did that?'

The voice was audibly shaking. It resembled the trembling of a dormant volcano.

'Ah, you saw that? Well, who knows there's so much blood in a human body? But that was quite spectacular, wasn't it? I mean, to have blood splattered all around like a post-modern painting?'

'...'

'Shut up...' was what Kuroko managed to mutter after a few seconds.

'Hmm?' Accelerator responded with a suspicious look.

'To think that you have enjoyed killing the sisters...' Kuroko said as she clenched her fists and looked downwards at the floor, 'It's unforgivable. You must be stopped. You will be because right now, I will make sure that you WILL not kill ANYONE anymore!'

Kuroko now looked up. Accelerator wasn't very good at reading emotions but could tell that the girl was full of hatred, fury, vengeance and spite.

'You are interesting for being so confident in front of me...' Accelerator's smirk widened into a grin, so maniac and venomous, 'Beisdes, I was just getting bored, so I guess you will offer really good entertainment, won't you? Haha!'

Accelerator suddenly sprang up from the ground by reversing the force due to collisions of air particles against his foot and magnified them to provide a propelling force which lifted him in the air.

But Kuroko had no time to be amazed. She used her teleportation to dodge the onslaught.

'Oh, so you are a teleporter. I mean that's rare. But then...' Accelerator grinned, 'Are you fast enough?'

Kuroko was surprised as Accelerator quickly turned around. He travelled at such a high speed that he resembled more to a ballistic missile than to a human being.

She took out three metal pins from her thigh belt and teleported them to Accelerator, but instead of hurting him, the pins came back and pierced through her hands.

What? How does he even reflect my teleportation?

'I guess the 11th dimension has been your niche, but... Who says that I can't reflect things at that dimension? How does it feel to be stricken by your own attack? Haha!'

Kuroko needed to dodge him, but she only managed to teleport three more times before Accelerator caught up with her and punched her in her belly.

Sheer pain reverberated across Kuroko's body, which descended to the ground along a parabola and landed with a bang. As her body slid and dragged a few painful metres over the skin-piercing rocks, a trail of crimson red followed Kuroko on the ground

'Argh...' Kuroko moaned in excruciating pain. She looked up and her eyes widened in horror as she saw Accelerator already in front of her.

'So that's all you have up your sleeve? So disappointing!' Accelerator lowered her head to look at Kuroko's face from mere inches away as he spoke.

'Kuroko will not get defeated... I swear...'

'I'm surprised how you can continue to say that when you are in this state, but...'

'I may end your suffering...'

'No... You will not...' Kuroko's stare never softened a bit despite the pain.

'I guess blood flow manipulation was really fun. But what if I reverse your bioelectricity? ...'

'HAHA. I'm full of truly magnificent slaughter ideas!'

The maniac laughter was devoid of human compassion but filled with the thrill of killing.

Kuroko recalled a monster roaming in a prehistoric jungle. The thrill of killing was typical of a hunting predator.

Have I failed?

No... I mustn't... Kuroko must save the Sisters and beat this god-damned Accelerator...

'Therefore, is it my turn to kill you while you lie quietly and obediently on the ground, my dear, useless teleporter?'

...

Useless?

No... Kuroko mustn't be useless... Kuroko is here to...

Save and Defend Misaka Sisters, so that they will never be killed!

Before Accelerator's fingers could touch her, Kuroko used her last bit of energy to teleport to where Misaka 10032 was and teleported her to somewhere supposedly safe.

The next thing she felt was someone pulling her up by her collar and kicking and punching her legs, belly and her face.

'Who said you can move? I said you stay there and get killed, right? Take this, suffer more so that you will know who is the most powerful one thou shalt obey!'

Blood came out of Kuroko's nose, mouth and boy, but she felt almost numb of pain.

At least I have saved her... I'm satisfied...

'...'

'But today's a busy day isn't it?' said the slaughterer, who dropped Kuroko onto the ground.

Kuroko struggled to open her eyes.

Ah... Kuroko thought to herself.

So you are here.

'Leave her now,' said the spiky-haired, highschool boy.

Kamijou Touma-kun...