–He ran again?! What a coward! –Accelerator was tired but not because of the battle. The Nian monster was not particularly strong but it was fast. Many lvl4 ESPers managed to escape from it, though it ran from Accelerator's sight. The first time he met the monster was the only time he managed to hurt it, now it only ran away when it saw him. He thought this was going to be easy as it always was, but now he realized what Yuuka meant by practice.
–To predict your enemy's move before they even think of it. Now I see it… –He had to catch it before he ran out of battery though, Yuuka had said she was not going to help. So far he had been able to see where he was because of the radio, he was using his cellphone to be able to hear where the monster had broken in. –It's hard to believe I thought this was going to be like in the movies… A foolish sea monster… Is this truly the monster that comes out in the lunar new year? –A hint now, he kept walking on the streets, his legs started to ache and his arm to shake.
Accelerator noticed that the Nian had caused much destruction in the city, it had killed many, mostly skill outs. Yuuka actually cared more about him learning to predict than the lives of those he had let die. Anyway he didn't feel bad for those methods, it was for the greater good. No wonder why Kazakiri had stopped talking to her, both followed far different philosophies.
See a pattern and deduce the move before it happens, but what was the pattern?
Kazakiri remembered Yuuka prohibited Touma to fight, though she said nothing about her. She hoped Accelerator was enough to kill the sea beast and followed him around to check on him. It was long and tiring, he had a hard time following the beast. It was weaker than its father so there was not much worry about it, though the most time it was roaming free the more people it ate.
Accelerator started to realize how the beast avoided places with light when it became night. Now it was easier to follow it around, big dark places to be inside a city are very rare. It was a matter of time until he found the beast.
He charged against the Nian trying to cripple him, so he couldn't run again but it was too fast. Accelerator gripped the wall of a building and moved it across the street to block the passage for the Nian, then he felt how the Misaka network slowly faded away from his mind, it wasn't like the times where his device ran out of battery, this time the network was just out. Kazakiri had blocked it, her ability to control the aim fields had became better since she started to practice on her own. She was tired of how Yuuka had managed to fool them with a byproduct of her magical power, a fake ESPer who proved that every test Academy City had was full of holes.
Kazakiri saw how Aleister, the man who controlled every ESPer as a pawn was turned into a simple servant to the two ladies of Gensokyo, Yukari and Yuuka. If that was the way Japan was before the cities took over she now understood why buildings were made to be easily fixable before. The natural disasters had names and faces, if this kept on going Academy City would end up destroyed and its inhabitants had to live in farms again.
Accelerator was starting to follow those behaviors too, his power made him too distant to humans. A youkai's life was closer to his than that of a human, Kazakiri could not allow him to destroy the city further. This new incident was not even a month away from the last one, if Yuuka wanted her to take a position she was going to be the one who made sure the city along with the people in it were not treated with such carelessness.
Now Accelerator was crawling on the ground, Kazakiri stepped lightly on his leg keeping him in place. It seemed ruthless but he had to be stopped, meanwhile the building was saved from being thrown down and had just a small crack on the wall. If she wanted this to stop she had to do it herself, clean, calm and quick. She felt around the city sensing the presence of the Nian by the way aim fields of stressed ESPers reacted, to see through their fear. She flown up now holding Accelerator on her lap, making sure he stayed numbed by her disruption to the Misaka network. She could not let the monster take over the city anymore.
There was something Kazakiri was given, something she hated to receive. Yuuka had taught her something by force, in order for her to stop trying to invade her own personal space she agreed to learn one single thing from her. She pointed her hand at the monster and made sure it was well aimed.
She took a deep breath remembering the simple instructions once you got the principle by its inner workings. Once you understand how it works making it happen was very easy. Kazakiri made sure there were no people around the monster when she was going to do it. While shooting concentrate your mind, gently muttering the spell to yourself, aiming at someone you dislike, the Master Spark will be unleashed. She took a deep breath remembering the instructions Yuuka told her (the only thing Marisa stole from Yuuka, the trademark for the instructions).
She was nervous, but she was certain it would get rid of the monster, already aiming her hand, she muttered the words.
–M… –She sighed –Master Spark
–Far away a green haired girl smiled at the sight of a great laser. When it hit the ground blood splattered around the streets, she had followed the instructions completely. The first time it had to be muttered, so one could understand its true power, therefore, later on, how to control it.
–So she had taken the mantle of the guardian… Good it means Accelerator will become the destroyer. –Index stared at the sight recognizing the one who shot the attack.
–Good news for you my friend, she accepted to become an Adyita –Index fainted, it was either that or slapping Yuuka, she had sacrificed so many lives just to make sure Hyouka's fate was sealed to be what she wanted it to be. At least she had gone away from Yuuka in time, that way Hyouka had avoided to get the pupil's curse Yuuka always set on those who followed her.