A/N: Yomi ships Rei and Accelerator, ahahaha. This omake focuses on Rei's daily training routine with Accelerator. Also, I fell sick right before the math competition and had to compete while sick. And then I had to take it easy the following week and a half because I wanted to keep doing my work without missing a day….And then I REALLY fell sick two weeks later so I never went back to writing! ACHOO! I must've caught Rei's illness! I have been gone for basically a month…I'm scared to look at my stats page…

OMAKE III

Rei had recovered the morning after. She was well enough to walk by herself to the train station. Of course, Yomi and Yoshi would have none of that; Accelerator and Last Order would walk with her until she reached her dorm.

"You were really sick last night, we're not taking any chances." Yomi was obstinate on the matter.

"I'm sorry for any trouble I caused." Rei did another head bow, which the four began to get used to and equate as one of her common gestures. "How bad was I?"

"You were delirious enough to sleep in the wrong bed, but that's the extent of your actions so you weren't an actually problem. But…your breathing did seem weird." Yoshi summarized, leaving out whose bed she slept in. "You seem to be talking and breathing fine now, though. But you really should get to a doctor if this continues. You shouldn't overstress yourself anymore now."

Once Accelerator and Last Order had dropped her off-this time with no passerbys questioning their relationship-Rei didn't come back until the next week.

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Rei's phone beeped a polyphonic tune. Sleepily, she reached for her phone and pushed a button, not wanting to get out of bed. She looked at the screen. It was 8:03 AM on a Saturday morning. In a couple of minutes, she would have to go to the bathroom and get ready for breakfast.

She placed her phone on the other pillow and stretched out her arms. She admired the slight orange-turning-yellow light filtering through the white curtains in the guest bedroom.

The door glided open. A cowlick appeared at the entrance: Last Order.

"Good morning, Rei-chan! Misaka Misaka says!" Last Order climbed into bed and sat near Rei's knees.

"Good morning, Mi-chan. Did you sleep well?" Rei looked up at her, too tired to sit up just then. It was okay, she had a few minutes. Her voice sounded tired, but she knew that breakfast and a shower would fix that.

"Un, Misaka Misaka says with happiness! Misaka Misaka wonders out loud how Rei-chan slept."

Rei stretched and sat up. "Rei-chan slept fine and is ready to work hard today in preparation for her level examination." Rei responded in the third person and patted Last Order's head. Last Order looked content.

"Where's the brat?" Accelerator's voice could be heard in the hallway. He opened the door a crack to see Rei's hand hovering in the air above Last Order's head. He narrowed his eyes but said nothing and turned around. The door slowly swung to a close behind him.

Silence. Then, "Misaka Misaka has just noticed that your hair is very messy and Accelerator just saw that Misaka Misaka noticed."

"This isn't even close to the first time, so I give up." Rei tried to hand-comb her hair, stopping when she yawned. During the first few weekends, Last Order would come to her room in the morning, and Accelerator would always look in her dorm for her first. Rei, who would occasionally get the very bad bedhead due to her long hair, would become flustered-especially around her sensei- when someone saw her like that. The only exception was Last Order.

However, Rei soon became desensitized to it all, not even blinking when Yomi or Yoshi came in to greet her or complete a chore. Sometimes Rei would even greet Accelerator first, that's how okay she had gotten to the idea of a casual morning –something she didn't have with Haruhi. The two had their diverging schedules: early morning studying for Rei and making food and doing the chores for Haruhi. Haruhi would handle the cooking and half of the housekeeping-her chores done in the morning- as an agreement between them to never let Rei near the kitchen with the goal of making something edible. Of course, Rei began to learn, but by the time that happened they got used to their schedules.

"Okay, Misaka Misaka merely says. Let's go have breakfast! Misaka Misaka jumps out of the bed and runs out of the door describing her actions."

Rei followed suit and got ready for breakfast.

As Rei entered the main area of the apartment, Yoshi looked at her from the kitchen. Yoshi placed a cereal box on the fridge. "Good morning, Rei-chan. I just put your cereal on the table."

"Thank you," Rei sat down to eat. Accelerator was chewing on what appeared to be eggs across from her. He looked up her and went back to chewing.

Yomi was nowhere in sight. She had a job at AntiSkill to uphold, and she couldn't always stay at the apartment. Last Order was watching TV, fixated on the characters onscreen. Her breakfast was still being made.

"We're going to the railroad area again, right?" Rei asked.

"Yeah." He responded without looking up.

What Rei meant by "the railroad area" was one of the abandoned patches of trains and steel tracks in the railroad district. Accelerator's idea was to strengthen her ability to manipulate objects- the best way to do that was to practice her vector manipulation on dense objects. These places were littered with tracks and trains and piles of trash, making the environment perfectly varied. Best of all, it was abandoned, so no one would really ever care or find out, not that it really mattered to the strongest level 5 in Academy City and his rising level 5 student.

Yomi and Yoshi, for the most part, were okay with this form of teaching. Initially they had one concern in that Accelerator would constantly be going back to the district he was beaten by a level 0 in. Accelerator, of course, claimed not to give a fuck and Yomi and Yoshi had little to argue on after that.

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"Okay, you know what to do. Three laps around this park. Then push ups…I'm thinking…20. Need to increase the number up." Accelerator strectched and sat down on a bench. The snow had been melting, making the ground slushy in some places. The terrain here, though, was smoother than that at the train district, so Rei's warmup would take place here.

"20? Schadenfreude-sensei…" Rei muttered as she started a light jog on the sidewalk around the square park.

"Yep, that's me." Accelerator closed his eyes. It was always so damn early, couldn't he just sleep in on the weekends for once? At the very least more than just the couple of times Rei didn't come because she felt sick or decided to study during New Years'?

He opened one eye to see Rei running her second lap around the park. She was improving, that was for sure. But she would never surpass him. Even if she had the talent and guts to try pulling something that off, he'd never let her. He was a prideful teacher. That or he was just better than everybody, which was pretty much the undeniable truth.

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Shrill creaks and long groans filled the air. Steel tracks were turned into transverse waves; Rei sent one end of a track upward and sent that bump throughout the steel. She was just standing near it, her hands slightly in front of here but really not using her body. Her body wasn't really needed for vector manipulation. Accelerator was off to the side, leaning against a metal boxcart and looking onward.

After another ten minutes Rei went off near Accelerator and picked up her water bottle and drank from it. "Ah," she breathed out, refreshed. "My time's improving."

"Yeah, but the change to the steel could have been smoother." Accelerator looked at her. "Do you want to stay here for some more time or do you want to get lunch?"

"Yeah, let's go now. Are we meeting Mi-chan at the restaurant?" Rei turned and started walking.

During the first few practices, Rei kept the surprise of Accelerator asking her that question kindly, but it didn't take long for her to realize it was because afterwards he could accompany Last Order to lunch.

"Oi," Accelerator called out behind her. As Rei looked back, she saw that Accelerator didn't even move. He was staring at her, still leaning on that red metal traincar.

Then a steel beam gave out a cry and lurched forward, lurching forward to her face.

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"Ahh, Acclerator-sensei. That wasn't very nice…" Rei shook her head. They just got off the subway to head to a sandwich café. Yomi recommended it, and offered to pick up Last Order so they could eat together without Yoshi, who apparently had errands to do again.

"How many times are you going to repeat that. And, now we're even. Gotta be prepared to, so shut up."

"Using the learning excuse for almost everything wears it out you know. Besides, I threw a can at you. And you retaliate with a steel beam? That's extreme…."

"Seems logical to me."

"Accelerator, Accelerator, Misaka Misaka cries out as she sprints toward him!" Last Order's voice shouted, gaining the attention of other pedestrians. She didn't slow down, colliding and hugging his knees at the same time.

"Hey, Brat, don't do that. You're gonna make me fall." He tried to pry her off of his shins.

Yomi was trailing far behind her, not even bothering to catch up to her. She had changed from her AntiSkill gear to her normal track suit.

"Hey there. Last Order, get off of Accelerator. He can't move when you're like that." Last Order visibly pouted but obeyed.

"Let's go in," Yomi motioned her head to the store.

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"So how was practice?" Yomi asked, sipping on her hot chocolate. Rei and Last Order had ordered the same, but Accelerator had to be a rebel and order iced coke. Their sandwiches were on the way.

"Nothing out of the ordinary. Except, of course, Accelerator threw a steel beam at my face! Tell him he can't do that!"

Yomi's face gave an alarmed expression. She didn't know what to start talking about. The fact that Accelerator aimed- he probably didn't throw it- a beam at her or that she couldn't really say anything to stop him.

"Whatever," Accelerator said to nothing, sipping his coke.

"'Whatever' to you, mister! We're going to be practicing even more after this as punishment! My system scan is less than a month away!"

"Isn't it more punishing to you? I mean, we all know my training regiment…." He smirked to himself.

"Er-Whatever! I should just call you Schadenfreude-sensei from now on…" She mumbled and sipped on her drink."

"Here you are, do you four want anything else?" A waitress brought them their sandwiches and mac and cheese for Last Order.

"No thank you," Yomi spoke for the group. She chomped down on her sandwich. "Delicious! So, Rei, do you have confidence in your ability to become a level 5?"

"Nope." A blunt response. "And neither does Accelerator, but we'll see. I'll work hard for it!" Rei clenched her hand into a fist. "Of course, working hard doesn't necessary translate to success…"

"Oh come on! You're doing fine!"

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Reika was on her way back from a relative's house. Geared up in a coat and scarf, her warm breath condensed into fog. Although she preferred anything but her own legs as transportation, the subway was busy today. It was lunch time, adding to the crowd.

What a bother. It's less boring and faster on a subway. She looked through store windows, passing mannequins and books and food.

As she passed one café, she saw four people sitting at a table. One adult in an odd bright green track suit, one child with light brown hair, and two teens- one gangly boy with white hair and the other a girl with long chocolate brown hair.

"Ah? Rei-chan?"