Accelerator was walking around without a precise destination, since Tree Diagram had closed himself in "reflection" no one was able to talk to him, and he had to spend his day with Last Order.
They were actually pretty shocked for the death of the unnamed Esper, and Accelerator felt that they resembled each other a lot. But it was the past. Kuroko was the one who suffered the most for the boy.
She admired the way he sacrificed himself without protesting, she said that she was going to investigate about the dark voice and whoever actually condemned the unnamed boy to that unjust death.
But most of the City, most of the world was happy for he was death.
They never found his body, it had vaporized because of the heat.
Still Accelerator remembered that he could create a shield of diamonds.
Could a diamond vaporize at that temperature?
He did not know, and he kept reflecting and walking in circle, and the images of the previous day were coming up to his mind.
"Die! Murderer!"
He could feel those words against him, too.
What was he going to do now? One of the "keys" was gone.
Touma was passing his day with the black cat, taking care of it and remembering Misaka.
Until a clone of her appeared next to him, much by his surprise "Misaka greets our new meeting"
Touma was really happy to see her again, they hugged and smiled "Oh, What are you doing here?" He asked, and she replied "Misaka was here to talk with the unnamed Esper to join her cause, but Misaka could not save him from his death, all of the Misaka are in great sadness for him now, said Misaka remembering the face of the boy one moment before the explosion".
Touma nodded "Yes, it was sad, not many know that he was innocent… hey, how do you know?"
Misaka tried to reply, but something in her voice changed, something in her facial expression.
"Oh well, if that's not Kamijou Touma, we did not see each other for a long time"
Touma felt shocked "Who are you?" Misaka expression suddently changed "I'm Accelerator, pleased to meet you again…." Touma then asked him why did he took the control of Misaka "I did not, we share our minds, I'm part of this network since I killed them all" Touma then tried to calm down, but he could feel every single Misaka's scream and cry. He fell and tried to breath normally.
Misaka/Accelerator told him to calm down "Now now don't worry, they were all still alive into this big network, their consciousnesses were saved inside it and I cloned them again to give them a body, we are now sharing our minds in a great network, and guess what? Tree Diagram is our server.
He can store our minds when we die if he wants"
Touma listened to the strange things that Misaka/Accelerator told him, then he asked "Why are you here then? What do you want?" Accelerator's expression turned pale "I was trying to talk with that brat, but he died without even fighting, I know he was brave enough to challenge me, but he did not want to kill those soldiers and I still wonder why" Touma then replied "Because you would not kill Last Order anymore, and he would not harm any human, in the end, in every single "aggression" he made to copy those powers, he did not harm any of his opponents" Touma then asked him what did they want from that boy "We wanted him to join us, and we need you too" He replied, and then he closed his eyes, and opened them immedialy "He is ready" He used Misaka's electric power to merge Touma's mind with the Network.
Touma was now into the white room filled with numbers, Accelerator was also there.
He heard a voice, but it wasn't Accelerator's. "Kamijou Touma, I am Tree Diagram, I am the supervisor of the Misaka Network. As you know we managed to merge each other into this collective consciousness.
We live happily and we understand each other since our thoughts are shared, we don't have even to talk: we just need to think, and everyone in the community will know.
As you can see we are a perfect group, and we believe that by associating every human to our Network, the whole world may become one day a giant collective Humanity, where there won't be misunderstandings, no wars, but collaboration, but reasoning together, sincere sharing of human feelings.
You are the next key to our project, I was not able to repair our recent loss, since the unnamed boy is gone our plan may take centuries to achieve its goal, but with your help we may be faster.
I can feel that your mind is confused and that you don't believe that we are happy, but we are just a mass of puppets, since you believe so I ask you to stay within our Network for two days, if you don't like it then you'll be free to go, but if you like it then I ask you to stay with us and help us to achieve our goal.
So, Kamijou Touma, do you feel ready for this?" Touma reflected for some seconds.
They were powerful, they were an army, Accelerator was with them, they did not seem enemies, their goals was good, their means were good, Misaka Imouto seemed happy and not under control.
"I accept, when will I merge with you?" Tree Diagram made a totally fake, robotic, laugh "You already are, you see we are communicating by thoughts, now you are free to go" and Touma was into his body again "What? Don't you have some kind of task for me?" And Tree Diagram answered "No, actually all you have to do is living normally by sharing your mind with us" Tree Diagram was quiet for a moment in his mind, then he said "I know every member of this Network as myself, and there is someone that really wants to tell you something" Kamijou asked him who he was.
"You mean "she", since it's a girl" tree Diagram then stopped his monologue, and in front of Kamijou Touma was standing Misaka Mikoto, the Railgun.
"H-Hi" she said "Biri Biri!" He laughed happily and ran toward her "W-What are you doing b-ba.."
He hugged her, and she felt surprised at the beginning, then relieved "I'm happy that you are okay, Kuroko was worried about you!" Misaka smiled "Was that hentai missing me?" and he laughed too "She was going to shake this world to look for you" The two of them smiled and walked toward the sunrise.
They shared their thoughts and their feelings, bit by bit.
Where once stood the bridge, where was now a bunch of rocks and ruins.
Between them, suddently an arm broke out and a scream was heard.
