Chapter 58

As night fell, Accelerator, the newly minted Level 5, was very interested, so he arrived early at the experimental site, which was a container terminal with stacks of containers everywhere.

"Tch, not here yet? Didn't you get scared and run away?" Accelerator was getting impatient, even though it was still ten minutes before the agreed time.

On the other side, Tsukiyono was also getting ready to leave. "I'm going then."

"Tsukiyono, we're waiting for you to come back."

"You must come back, bzzz—Misaka Natsumi prayed in her heart."

"Haha, then pray, I'll come back."

Waiting in place, Accelerator saw no one arrive and became even more impatient, "Coward." Just as he thought his opponent would definitely give up and was about to leave, a voice came from behind him.

"I can't ignore that, coward, you want to run before the time is up?" He turned around to see a man with white hair, but unlike Accelerator's slender build, this man looked very muscular.

"Is it you? Volunteering for this experiment?"

"Yeah, from today, the throne of the strongest will change hands."

"Tch, you're after the throne of the strongest too, then come on, let's see how long you can last!" Accelerator stomped his foot, and countless pebbles flew up, hurtling towards Tsukiyono with tremendous kinetic energy.

"Indeed, you are strong, NO.1, but," as Tsukiyono raised his hand, an ice wall rose up, blocking all the pebbles. "It's useless against me!"

The pebbles left dents in the ice wall, but none of them could penetrate it, let alone harm Tsukiyono.

Ice flowers appeared in mid-air, turning into ice blades that shot towards Accelerator. Tsukiyono knew these wouldn't hurt Accelerator, but it was still annoying, and the main goal was to drag Accelerator into a trap according to the plan.

Some of the ice blades hit the ground, leaving scars, while those that hit Accelerator turned into ice powder and scattered in the air.

"Huh? Is this your attack? Weak and powerless!" Before Accelerator finished speaking, countless ice pillars emerged from the ground, but with a stomp, they were shattered.

For Accelerator, these attacks had only a slight effect, merely slightly obstructing his vision. His ability meant he couldn't be injured by such attacks.

But Tsukiyono was also hard to hurt. Accelerator's ability required skin contact to be used on a target, so without touching Tsukiyono, he could only add kinetic energy to other objects to attack him.

They threw a bunch of debris at each other: Tsukiyono's ice blades turned to ice powder, and Accelerator's pebbles were blocked by the ice wall. Neither of them achieved any results.

"Tch." Seeing the situation, Accelerator became impatient and glanced at the nearby railway tracks. "Haha, scum, taste this!" Countless steel tracks twisted and deformed under Accelerator's power, then flew towards Tsukiyono. Unlike the small pebbles, the steel tracks finally shattered the already pitted ice wall in front of Tsukiyono.

But Tsukiyono jumped onto a nearby container the moment the ice wall broke, dodging the attack.

"Don't run! Scum!" Seeing the steel tracks were ineffective, Accelerator chose a larger object, lifting several containers and throwing them at Tsukiyono.

"Is this all you've got? The so-called strongest?" Facing the container attack, Tsukiyono used ice to create several giant arms that crushed all the containers, sending flour flying everywhere. It turned out the containers were full of flour.

"Scum, are you trying to anger me? But..." Accelerator showed a sinister smile, "As long as I touch you, you'll die, and you have no way to hurt me! How about it? Feeling despair yet?"

"Weakling."

"What?"

Looking at Accelerator, Tsukiyono said the words that would drive him into a frenzy: "I said, you're a weakling, someone who can't even control their own power."

What was the real reason Accelerator participated in this experiment? Wasn't it because, as a child, he couldn't control his power and hurt others, leading to the idea that "if I become invincible, no one will get hurt"? To Tsukiyono, this idea was so childish, just a form of escapism. Someone who couldn't even face themselves—what else could they be but a weakling?

Of course, Tsukiyono didn't have the right to call Accelerator a weakling either. He had his own issues—like the uncontrollable Frosted Sorrow and his mysterious status as a Heroic Spirit.

But the main goal now was to deal with Accelerator, and Tsukiyono's words hit a nerve.

"Die!" Another container flew over, but it hit another container in mid-air, causing sparks. In the air filled with flour, this directly triggered a dust explosion!

Accelerator suddenly changed his attack method, trying to catch Tsukiyono off guard, but Tsukiyono instantly created a semi-circular ice dome around himself as soon as he saw the container coming.

The flames swept through, but they had no effect on the prepared Tsukiyono. Why was he prepared? Because the dust explosion, which Accelerator thought was sudden, was actually triggered by Tsukiyono.

A few days before the battle, Tsukiyono had replaced all the containers at this location with flour-filled ones. During the fight, he dodged small objects, making Accelerator throw larger containers, and then, instead of dodging, he crushed the containers, releasing the flour.

Then, in the heat of anger, Accelerator wouldn't think about Tsukiyono's诱导行为, and the dust explosion happened as planned. Why did Tsukiyono do this? Because Accelerator was still human and needed to breathe oxygen. If you looked at the entire experimental site from above, the storm caused by the explosion was completely contained within a rectangular structure. Tsukiyono had used transparent, solid ice to encase the entire area, and after the explosion, the lack of air circulation made the oxygen levels inside the site very low.

As a Heroic Spirit, Tsukiyono didn't need much oxygen, but Accelerator was different. After the explosion, he clearly felt difficulty breathing.

"Ha... ha... no oxygen is really uncomfortable, scum, are you dead? You almost hurt me for the first time, hahaha..."

But soon, Accelerator's laughter faded as he saw the defensive wall Tsukiyono had created.