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Monad said: Vento was kind of disappointing in this episode. For all her cocky talk i expected to see more than that, although i do understand that some unknown factor seems to have affected her.
At least accelerator went on a rampage making-up for it. The episode was generally quite good even if i expected something more.
I can't get over the stupidity of the whole thing though. Seriously Vento, if your main purpose is to kill Touma then throw away that stupid staff and get a fucking gun. Let's see his magic hand trying to stop a bullet.
Yes all those magic users may do well against other people with guns but in Touma's case if the catholic church wants him dead then the usual sniper assassin with his gun will make a lot better job. Touma gets out of his apartment one morning, our hired gun sits on the rooftop of the building across and as our dear Touma walks you hear a sound and then Touma's body falling over lifeless with a bullet threw his head. Can't get more simple than that. Actually that fucking shit will work on most of the people in this anime so why to they send all this magic bullshitters that are only good at making a lot of chaos but suck at getting results.
Fuck it, leave Touma to me. I don't even need a gun to kill the little twit. Is so easy to kill him that is ridiculous. How incompetent can they be?
That doesn't happen for the same reason no one ever just shoots Bruce Banner in the face when he's not hulked out. Just how these things work.
Accelerator, being as awesome as usual, mercilessly shooting a woman on the face and decided to crush her. Seriously, I love him too much that you could call me a masochist <3
And, heck, what the hell did he do to them?! He's seriously way too amazing.
And talk about masochist, Vento is one hell of a sadist, though she was god's right seat xD And I missed Tsuchimikado <3
Misaka and Kuroko ruined the whole awesome fighting scenes T___T
LOL'd at Kihara's plain-ness of ordering his men to kill someone so easily xDDD
Aezile said: Answer no. 1 : It's a portable anti-tank missile, nobody knows about the details but most likely it suited for combat.
If anyones still interested in what was, I looked up anti-tank rockets on wikipedia and found this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust_3Pretty cool, so much for me thinking it was something else at that time. The blast was kind over the top from how it looked like but then again it was just my vision interpretation. This is really cool because this anti-tank RPG can be fired from a lot of spots that would not be possible since the recoil of it is minimal to 0.
Aezile said: Okay here comes the questions;
Please if you're going to tell facts and it wasn't showed in any part of the anime, put it under the spoiler, that's why there's a spoiler button
Answer No. 2 on Q1: It wasn't stated on the novels but you can imagine what happened in there, don't apply any science theories or speculations here, remember that she's from the Magic side.
So she just dispelled it? OK but still to have a blast engulf her only to use magical properties to dispel is quite interesting itself.
Answer No. 3 on Q2: Her ability/power as a member of God's Right Seat
Divine Punishment
Yeah some people have said that apparently that power just be thinking of her as bad makes you fall unconscious. Come to think of it that is pretty bad. Someone else may use that to kill of anyone as they are in that state and cannot use any esper ability.
Answer No. 4 on Q3: It's some radar detecting equipment, they're doing….
Acid cleanup(Acid spray)…. A specially weak acid is sprayed, destroying fingerprints, bloodstains, and DNA information,' says Misaka as Misaka takes out information from a manual on evidence destruction."
OK so I see. That is pretty crazy that such a machine exists only to detect what you want to tract down by smell. Usually only dogs IRL have that kind of power and even so I am not sure they are as effective as that machine is. So that's why Accelerator used a solution to get rid of all his smell. Although I wonder how long will it effective.
Answer No. 5 on Q5:
It's Crested Ibis, i bet some spoiler-proof people will explain this.. and the white thing, it's probably a magician coz' at that time some outside organization was also attacking Academy City
Crested Ibis? From what I understood in the subs is that someone can use magic to make these pillars that in turn can kill anyone unconscious by piercing through them without them causing any form of resistance.
REMEMBER, PUT IT UNDER SPOILER!
OK then I will answer in bold format under those spoilers
Yumekichi11Feb 26, 2011 11:02 AM
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Crazy episode! Lots of blood, gore, and action. Something we haven't seen much in this series, so it was nice catching a bit of that. On the other hand, I felt like everyone got cut short at some part and now I'm left asking a billion and one questions! The preview looked just as grimy and intense as this episode, so I have my expectations! Looking forward to the next!
Crested Ibis? From what I understood in the subs is that someone can use magic to make these pillars that in turn can kill anyone unconscious by piercing through them without them causing any form of resistance.
You misunderstood it, it clearly showed in the anime and said in the subs that someone set it and people who's just standing still will be stabbed by it, it's already an ingenous attack for people who doesn't know magic, precisely AC residents..
about the white thing, it can be explained through more Tsuchimikado scenes which surely be showed next week, i think?
Accelerator is going to be my new fav char in this series. That point-blank headshot was beautiful.
A Vento vs Accelerator showdown would be nice indeed as Touma is not skilled enough to serve Vento's punishment...
Okay, I've put together a bunch of quotes from the novels with important details that weren't included, or in some cases that are just much cooler in the novel and/or weren't adapted very well, for anyone interested. Bakatsuki seems to be down, so I used the copy on my hard drive. It's a few edits out of date.
So, Touma first discovers the unconscious members of skill-out.
Kamijou ascends the stairs and ends up outside the underground shopping complex.
"Oh!? It's raining --..."
Kamijou instinctively grumbles as he looks up at the night sky. The small, pattering raindrops darkly wet the road surface. As expected for the end of September, even the air around him is quickly getting cold.
...I'm thinking the futon didn't get dry. Did Index close the windows properly before coming out? Well, for now, I'm about to begin to search for her.
And glancing towards the night sky covered with heavy clouds, Kamijou unenthusiastically keeps on walking. It's raining, but it's probably not that strong to warrant an umbrella. The student dorms are nearby; he's thinking about the umbrellas piling up at the umbrella stand due to convenience-store ones being bought and carried back during rainy times, but he's also undecided on whether to go back to the underground shopping complex to get some rain gear.
...Even so, it seems there are lots of Anti-Skills here...
It could be due to either the time period or the weather. There are strangely no students in the darkening streets. Only Anti-Skills are walking here and there.
The Anti-Skills, fully armored with laminated plastic and shock-proofed urethane bolted in, are loitering around. Their gear by nature is probably waterproofed, but they look a bit pitiful patrolling in the slightly chilly rain with nary an umbrella in sight.
Hmm. If I go about at this late a time, I might be accosted by them. Ilk like me knows how to slip by them... but it looks like it's not good for Index. She might worsen the arguments and be brought to the station.
Before this gets troublesome, I must take her back home quickly, thinks Kamijou as he averts his look from the Anti-Skills.
Just before that.
He heard a strange *gotori* sound.
"...?"
Kamijou stiffens.
Just ahead from where he stood, the fully armored Anti-Skill suddenly crumbles to the ground without any prior notice. Their bodies, tumbled face down, are getting drenched in the puddles that make the road wet. Even so, they remained motionless. This is no normal reaction even with waterproof gear- would there honestly be idiots wearing raincoats that jump into puddles?
...No way, their consciousness?
Kamijou doesn't know how comfortable the work gear they're wearing is.
But then, if it's similar to those mascot costumes, it's possible that their condition is close to dehydration and heatstroke. As far as Kamijou is concerned, it's slightly chilly, but it's possible that it wouldn't be the case for people laden with such bulky equipment.
This is not good.
Kamijou scans his surroundings.
There are no ordinary students- only lots of Anti-Skills.
Even so, Kamijou goes to the downed Anti-Skill, just in case.
At that moment,
This time, it's from here and there.
A *clink* sound strikes Kamijou's hearing. The sound of a person going down reverberates- and it's not only one. A long sound clattering over and over again is being made up.
"Wha..."
As Kamijou is looking around him dubiously, his gaze stops there.
The night-patrolling Anti-Skills were all brought down. They didn't take some kind of attack- they just mysteriously tumbled down. And yet not one finger of their bodies was shaking. Only their faraway looks made it clear; their consciousness were being completely cut off.
"Wait, what is this! Hey!!"
This time, he sprints in haste.
He went to the first downed Anti-Skill. Lying face-down in the puddle, it appears it's a male. Even in this state, he might suffocate, thinks Kamijou; for now, he moves him out of the puddle and lays him face-up.
The man's body is quite heavy.
He can't tell whether it's due to the man's body mass or the man's gear.
The others...
He runs here and there, but it seems there is no one suffocating. If he could, he would bring them all back to the underground shopping complex, but he doesn't have that much strength; a person's mass and a sandbag's mass were about equal.
Even calling for help might be difficult.
In this vicinity is a quite wide avenue, but in Academy City, basically an aggregation of campus districts, most functions shut down along with the sunset- with the exception of the teachers-only entertainment district. Even now, the lighted stores are limited to convenience stores and restaurants which were approved to run late at night. After the final bus and train trips, not even one car remains on the roads with three lanes on each side; this discouraging fact has no equal. But even though there are really so many people down, there's nary a sign of disturbance occurring. People nearby are probably better off abandoning any thoughts of doing something for them.
Originally, the Anti-Skills should be here for this kind of situation...
Kamijou peers into the Anti-Skill's face.
Since the Anti-Skill's body is mostly fortified with non-metal parts, it's hard to find out how serious the injuries are without taking them off. But at least the clothes have no bright red stains on them. Imitating those actors in movies and dramas, he touches the man's neck with his hand and checks the pulse. The pulse that conveys the life beat returns a strong signal to Kamijou. Holding his palm across the mouth, he feels a stable breathing.
Looks like the man's in stable condition.
But if the man's unhurt, what could be the reason for this?
Sleeping gas...? Nah.
That wouldn't explain why only Kamijou ended up unhurt.
In any case, even naively leaving them might be a bad call.
He can only call an ambulance.
Kamijou takes out his mobile phone, and after pressing three digits, he was connected to a call center. He's nervous just dialing such an emergency number, but it's not the first time for him to report. His head is a bit fuzzy, but he somehow manages to explain the situation.
He snaps shut his folding mobile phone.
After standing up again, he puts away his phone into his trouser pocket.
At that moment,
"...za, zaa..."
He hears a noise near his feet, so Kamijou lowers his gaze. The downed Anti-Skill remained motionless as before. Noise like radio static is jumping out from the shoulders.
"Za, *static*, n, Intruder alert! I repeat... *static*!! ...gate is destroyed! Intruder is towards downtown --- is anyone listening? Our unit is also under attack by an unidentified- gaah!?"
A *click* TV cutoff-like sound echoes.
The sound was from the radio. The other party must be the Anti-Skill from another place. He's worrying about those desperate words, but only a steady static noise came out from the square equipment. In a flash, he looks at the unaffected mobile phone, but it's probably constructed quite differently. He even loses his will to touch it.
What was that now...? thinks Kamijou as he closes his eyes.
Kamijou recalls the words mingled with the static noise that came out from the radio.
...Intruder.
From that word, it's clear that someone did come in from outside Academy City. It's not clear whether it's related to the downed Anti-Skill in front of him. But whether or not that's the case, coming to Kamijou's mind is,
I wonder if Index is alright...?
Just because they're Academy City's enemies doesn't mean that they would all be from the magical side of the world, and even among magi, there's no rule that all of them are coming for Index. But still, she was the first thing to come to his mind.
This is not good, thinks Kamijou as he changes his mind.
Just to be sure, even with the significance of confirming her safety, it looks like he'd better join up with her quickly.
And then,
"?"
A small shock *bump* runs through Kamijou's gut.
Someone is probably striking him... thinking upon it, the place where the surprise shock hit was low. Not on the torso- the shock impacted where his stomach is.
He looks downward.
Beating on him was a small child. She's shorter than Kamijou, her height not even reaching his head. Probably about 10 years old. Her blond hair somehow reaches her shoulders.
If he's not mistaken, her name's...
"Last Order?"
Uuuh, she groans.
The muffled reply came from the tiny face pressing onto Kamijou's shirt. It's more like she's almost clinging to him rather than hitting him. Her shudders and tiny quivers, the severe coldness in her body due to being battered by rain- all of that goes beyond even his shirt. She is so wet, it's unthinkable that only a light rain did this to her.
I wonder what's wrong? Kamijou inclines his head sideways.
"Help..."
Last Order, grabbing onto Kamijou's shirt by the stomach, raises her head.
Her large eyes were bloodshot, and clear fluid flowed down those cheeks.
Even when battered by the cold rain, that fluid down her face was immediately identifiable.
She,
She is crying.
"'Please, please help that person...!!' says Misaka as Misaka tries to beg earnestly!!"
Two girls cross over, and the paths towards two people's abilities converge.
Two completely parallel paths never intersecting is by all rights indisputable.
When those paths focus toward a single point,
The true story begins, with Academy City as the stage.
Accelerator sends Index off for the battery.
"From here on I'll have to search for that brat. At the worst, it looks like it can't go back to the house on it's own feet. So we'll part ways here.
"Can I join, too, in the search?"
She didn't even look away for one moment from Accelerator's scarlet eyes.
"But, I realize that you're worried. If Touma were here, I think he would have said the same thing."
"Hmm."
Accelerator uninterestedly turns his glance away, and called out to the driver.
"Stop there."
The man, accepting the order from Accelerator who's literally holding his life, stopped at the road shoulder.
Accelerator looks at Index.
"Help me out."
"Okay. What do you want?"
"There's a large hospital nearby. About 5 to 10 minutes by foot. Go there, and find the doctor who's face really looks like a frog. If you meet with the doctor..."
Accelerator stops his words there, and taps the side of his own neck.
"Tell him to prepare a battery for the Misaka Network connecting electrode. Tell him that. The battery's important. I can't do any searching without that battery. So when you get that battery, run back here. Got it?"
"Understood. Battery for the Misaka Network connecting electrode, right?"
She flawlessly repeated it.
Of course she may not understand the meaning when she said it on her own, the 'Misaka Network connecting electrode', but damn she's unexpectedly smart; without giving Accelerator time to think of that, Index grabs the tortoise-shell cat and went out unhesitatingly onto the road.
"You'll be waiting, right?"
"Hah?"
"Can't you wait until I come back?"
"...I'll be waiting. Just get on with it quick.",
Accelerator answers.
Index looks back at him twice, thrice; soon she's off running, stepping through *splash splash* the puddles. That tiny back then disappears into the heart of darkness.
"Shithead."
Instinctively spitting out, he leaned onto the back of a seat.
There are no replacements in the hospital. The electrode itself is a prototype. Besides, the battery in question is a unique item, so it hasn't been mass produced. Otherwise, Accelerator would have jammed a large number of batteries onto his pocket on the onset.
It's an outright, simple lie.
With the exception of going to the place where the frog-faced doctor is.
There's no denying that there's danger everywhere one goes, but the worst case is that sister going solo. Better go to a place where there are many people to up one's survival rate even for a bit. That frog-faced doctor's place is quite a worry, but it's probably better than nothing.
What begins from here on, to put it simply, is a battle with Kihara and his [Hound Dogs] for Last Order. While his fighting power is deficient, he won't last even under normal circumstances seven minutes of full battle, going against that enemy burdened with a baggage named Index is madness. That's why she parted ways there.
The burden has returned to the place where she's won't be a burden.
No more than that.
That much is better.
Gonna move to some unnecessary but cool ones for a moment, then coming back to stuff I'd consider important. So, first is Aleister's reaction to the call from Vento.
The [Person] Aleister was in a room of a windowless building.
He's floating upside-down, nourished in a cylindrical life-support system in the middle of that quadrangular space. The filled red liquid penetrates through his mouth and nose, causing chromatid interference in every cell.
The norm is for lighting, yet there is not even one- just tiny starry sky-like lights emitted from the pilot lamps of the machines that filled every direction of the spacious room; currently, the intermittently blinking red warning lights illuminated the vast space.
The real nature of the red lights are from an assembly of countless errors displaying from every monitor. In other words, only an abnormal situation is currently undermining the entirety of Academy City.
Just because of a single magician.
Just because of a single name: [God's Right Seat].
This Academy City was not shaken even at that [Croce di Pietro].
"-------"
In just minutes, already a little less than 70% of the keepers of Academy City's public order- the Anti-Skills- turned to victims. As far as life signs go, it appears no one is dead, but if this town falls before they awake, there would simply be no chance of rebuilding. News of damage reports and requests for reinforcements are coming in from around the streets; even answering them one by one is too annoying.
The town is heading for death.
However,
Even so,
Only a smile rises onto the face of the [Person] Aleister.
An unexplained smile that was applicable as a human emotion, yet not applicable at the same time.
"This is interesting."
He murmurs.
"This is most interesting. This is why life cannot be stopped. Even on our part, our chance to use *that* has finally appeared! It's too early... but under the present conditions bound by plans, irregularity for sure is the greatest amusement."
As he toys with those emotions as if rolling them in his mouth, Aleister at the same time sends out countless commands from inside the life-support system towards an instrument. Interfering with a single radio equipment and sending out the frequency and authentication codes, he connects with people squirming about in Academy City's darkness.
"Hound Dog ---- Kihara Amata."
Accelerator has a talk with his driver before separating.
"It's useless..."
It's a cracked voice.
The man's strength is ebbing away, very much like he hasn't drank water for how many days.
"When you meet that person directly, you will understand. Kihara-san is [Absolute]. You, you who had had lost your touch from that peace-loving, you're no opponent who could go with him with your pretensions."
"------ You, *you wanna play?*"
"Th, that might be fine, you know."
The man's voice was contrary to Accelerator's expectation.
"I don't wanna die. B, but then, even I know of Kihara-san's terror. Better that we'll never find out. I, I'll never see the next sunrise again. That person has no mercy. No mercy, not allowance. I will not be helped. If I'm unlucky, p, *perhaps he'll not have me killed*. Th, that Kihara-san, whether to break Guinness records or to add one more world-wide major incident, is one person who manages to do them without qualms..."
"The hell, you're yapping, noisy bastard."
Accelerator interrupted in a disgusted voice.
Grabbing with his five fingers the steel weapon skewered into the driver's seat,
"Or perhaps I should say you're a too much of a bother. Kill me, you don't have to say it vaguely. Guess what, I'll churn and mess up your bowels! I'll make you vomit from your mouth your day's lunch along with clots of blood, you shitty bastard!!"
"Hi, Hiiiiiiiii!!"
With the loud voice let out near his ears, the man's bluff was easily defeated.
With just a shout close to his ears, the man's bluff was simply destroyed.
The gibberish of the man who does not actually feel [death], it's the only worth for this degree.
The driver screams as his eyeballs shake irregularly.
"Shit, you son of a bitch!! Cut it out! I don't wanna die here!! You bitches are both monsters alike! I don't wanna be involved with this again!! I'm going back home, take a shower, and scan recorded programs while drinking alcohol!"
What only remained were hideous hopes.
Without even discerning his own situation, it turns out that he's poking his own head into a dispute between two big game like this.
Accelerator, sitting behind the driver's seat, calmly raises his voice at the rattling and shaking [Hound Dog].
"You hate dying?"
"Y, yeah"
"You wanna live as is?"
"Yeah!! So what are you doing!! I wanna live also! Stuff like 'you'd better die' is not how one lives! I wanna live a proper normal life with my dignity! Isn't it crazy!? Aren't I the most idiotic of all!? The hell you're talking about, that sort is probably not a problem!!"
This person is probably being driven to the wall until the last moment.
Unless this happens, the talk which had emerged thus far wouldn't have come out.
"You did not understand it well."
A mouth-rending smile floated on Accelerator's face.
The driver, having confirmed that on his rear-view mirror, *hii* gulped in air.
"You think there's a remaining way out for you now? Living in this kind of world, you trampling people with impunity, and to top it off piss off both me and that bastard Kihara, you still wanna live happily? Don't spout off such bullshit, you idiot."
"Uh, uwaahhh..."
"Shitty bastard. How many you've killed until now?"
"...F, fourteen."
In a voice that sounds like it's being squeezed out.
But Accelerator, upon hearing that, seems to instinctively lose his momentum.
What's with that count?
If that's the case, will that make one less of a man of peace than even himself.
Is the me, who's thinking about that and [man of peace], not quite the monster?
"Choose! You die here from too much blood loss, or get turned into an laughably inevitable corpse by Kihara Amata's hand."
"N, no! I don't wanna die! I definitely don't wanna die!"
"Sigh. So it's the hospital then."
The Level 5 continued while smiling.
"You not going to die. You're not going to die that easy. I'm not allowing that to happen. You think I would easily let go of shitty bastards who are not happy even if they kill 100 times? I'm so gonna prolong your suffering. You're going to continue to live forever on the road with no relief just to relieve myself of my own stress."
"Shiit..."
Even though he was said he's going to be treated, the man gnashed his teeth and grumbled.
"I'm so dead. Kihara-san will follow me to the ends of the earth. No one can save me now..."
"The shitty doctor I know isn't probably the kind of person to at least abandon his own patients even against that. Isn't that a tear-inducing story? Well, think you can live even for a day?"
"Y, you have nothing assured."
"Is-that-so? Then for the meantime I'll probably be gouging out Kihara's heart."
The man went silent for a bit. He's thinking that if Kihaha is really killed by Accelerator, then perhaps he might be saved.
And then he said,
"In any case, we're no match for Kihara-san."
"Could be, somehow for me and impossible for you." skipping over some needless stuff
"W, where are you going?"
"Hmm? To crush Kihara and save that brat!"
The man was dumbstruck at his seemingly troublesome reply.
"Why, why aren't you giving up! No matter where you go, Kihara-san will come to crush you with a smile. There no spare time for stuff like battle preparations. The initiative is totally taken by the opposing side. You're willing to do it even with that situation?!"
"Of course."
"...What's your grounds when you can answer promptly! You're immersing yourself in someone else's world, did you realize how much you are at a disadvantage yourself?"
"The hell if I know."
Accelerator spat out.
He set his hands onto the door-less rear-seat entrance, so he can contact the frog-faced doctor,
"I could have gone dull with this peace-loving madness."
Heaven Canceler's badass speech.
Again dropping in coins, this time he dials a different set of numbers.
The ringing sound continued for a while.
An elderly female nurse answered after it. Accelerator instructs her to get the frog-faced doctor.
The doctor took over at once.
["What kind of business do you have at this time?"]
"Trouble came up. A big one."
["Did you listen for the general situation from the Misaka Sisters for once? Information exchange is probably done through the girls' electrical network, you know."]
I know, they have that aside from telephones, Accelerator agreed.
But for him who only borrowing a substitute operation, it means he's unable to utilize the network.
"So the story is out. Give me the info they knew so far. What happened to that brat?"
["It appears that up to now she's being followed by a [Hound Dog] squad, you know. She's on the run together with an ordinary person who's totally there by chance. It appears that she's still not captured…but to tell you frankly, it looks like it's only a matter of time."+
Looks like after Last Order appealed for help at the neighborhood after being separated from Kihara. The problem is that the appealed had none of the expected ability.
Accelerator tut-tutted.
"Location?"
["She herself appears to be uncaught. However, it appears that she is in some family restaurant, right?"]
He thought for a bit; as expected, identifying a specific place with just that is impossible.
Even the Sisters should be out in search for Last Order, the frog-faced doctor added. Of course the problem is that the ten of them present in Gakuen Toshi currently undergoing bodily adjustments, it would be a while before they would be allowed to walk in the rain.
It's annoying, but now it's his to complete the work itself.
"Has the brat with the white habit arrived there?"
["She's now in the waiting area. How did she know those substitute operation matters?"]
"None of your business."
*"…Perhaps you're in a state that you really need a new battery?"+
"That ain't it."
Accelerator continued to spit out.
"Later, watch over the brat that's been screaming about that battery. It's possible that for the next twenty-four hours her life should be on someone's cross-sights. Don't take your eyes off her."
["Yare yare. Is it a problem that you can't leave to the Anti-skills?"]
"What can those pacifist teachers do? The enemies' levels are different! If they don't want the body count to go up, they'll just simply have to change their mind-sets."
*"…Ah, that. Don't tell me, it has come to a difficult situation where one protects the lives of others who are non-patients, right?"]
"If so, include the patients too. In a short while, a man stabbed in the back will arrive. If you treat him adequately, get ready for an attack. How's your battle strength there?"
["Battle strength, not that very dangerous topic, right?"]
The frog-faced doctor was, as one would expect, taken aback, but Accelerator never messes around.
For time is of the essence.
"You've managed to grasp the situation at hand through those clones' network, right? In that case, I should know that you'll not be saying sweet words. Now spit it out fast. You hesitate and the death rate will spike up depending on how much you hesitated!"
["Good grief, you're just like that lad too, having a penchant for injuries and hospitalization, no?"]
A sigh is heard from the other end of the phone receiver.
After some silence, the frog-faced doctor answers,
["There are about 10 of the Sisters undergoing adjustments. Do you think that the weapons used in the [Experiment], the Metal Eater MX anti-tank rifles and F2000R [Toy Soldier], will be suitable for them afterward?"]
Accelerator thinks for a bit.
And then shook his head.
"With that extent they will be eaten up completely. In the first place the clones in their present state have no battle strength. It's flawless but probably futile. Can you evacuate all the staff and patients in your hospital?"
["Me leave my post, you say? Do you know just how many beds are in this hospital?"]
"About three hundred."
["Seven hundred,"] the frog-faced doctor answered promptly. ["Newborns, the critically ill, and the physically restrained number fifty-two, you know? It maybe safe to say that there are no patients undergoing surgery, but even I can realize how unreasonable is this large-scale movement."]
"……"
["What will you do when I'm out and an emergency case pops up? That problem exists too, you know."]
On frog-faced doctor's words, Accelerator could not think of a poor excuse and appreciation.
He has no time for that.
"Can you do it?"
["Probably."]
A quick reply came back to his question.
Frog-face's tone changes from his habitual aloof one towards a completely different one.
["Using a warning flare, this would be viewed that a fire has broken out. If this is linked to some terrorist act, this would probably be a good justification for forcibly evacuating everyone, you know. There are patients that have to be restrained for safety's sake, but guarding them is my duty. I'm willing to do it by all means."]
"So you probably really cannot do what I've demanded myself?"
["I've told you 'I'll do it'. You yourself haven't thought of talk that skillfully changes like this? There are several plans even in emergency case matters. Various plans like distributing them in other hospitals, right? Otherwise I wouldn't have nodded."]
"…Sorry."
["Well, you people using me in conflicts is honestly annoying, but I treat all patients equally. I pull out all the stops when I say I'll protect the patients being transported."]
An ambulance's siren passed through.
Perhaps that [Hound Dog] person was already loaded into the ambulance and is being brought to the hospital.
As Accelerator listens at the siren, the frog-faced doctor suddenly said,
["And up to what lengths do you intend to do about it?"]
"Kill Kihara. Crush [Hound Dog]. And then recover that brat uninjured."
["That's impossible!"]
An immediate reply too.
Accelerator frowns at the all-too-frank cool-headed voice which is unsuited for the frog-faced doctor.
["Given your constrained condition, you have too much objectives in your arms. And so you absolutely cannot achieve them all. How many have you managed considering you have goals to aim at while taking side trips here and there?"]
"…When did the doctor start spewing out nonsense for a lip service? You from that world, don't talk as if you knew of the darkness!"
["Are you saying there is a misunderstanding?"]
The frog-faced doctor was unperturbed.
He continues with the plain truth for Accelerator.
["I have seen hells far worse than yours. Do not take lightly a doctor's business. I believe perhaps I've seen more blood and tears than you have. It's unavoidable for tragedies, you know. I was called the [Heaven Canceler]. That's about the gist of it, in a few words. Our differences are simple. You who had stayed there, you can go back respectably. That's the only difference."]
The doctor opened up for a bit.
And then he continues.
["I'll tell you some advice as a senpai who knows the darkness as well as you do. Whittle down your objectives to just one. Kill Kihara? Crush [Hound Dog]? You can deal with those boring pursuits later. You should have one that should be done right here and now. Can you realize that now?"]
"As expected from a doctor that prefers human life. But then, saving that brat uninjured and smashing down Kihara and his gang is one and the same. Omitting either of them—"
["That's not true."]
"Hah?"
["Rescue Last Order uninjured? Are you saying such a thing that you cannot do as of yet?"]
[———————]
Accelerator's blood froze.
Just who is this person on the other side of the phone?
["I've said this a while ago. I've heard the direct story from the Sisters who were exchanging information via the Misaka Network. I intend to some degree to understand your circumstances. With that in mind, what's your say?"]
The frog-faced doctor said this with a slow, yet powerful voice.
As if he's sermonizing someone.
["Take a hard look at the reality. Would you realize that you cannot do that by the time you're groveling clumsily? Listen, you're losing even at the best of circumstances. Towards an opponent where victory is even difficult, what will it amount to even when it is matched furthermore by a hope with such a dream. Compromise, Accelerator. Last Order is already beyond rescuing uninjured. No matter how lofty you've prepared, she'll definitely get injured."]
The mood turned into something like a blow that was driven in from a psychological blind spot.
While unconsciously, that much indicates it had relied on this doctor.
"…Shithead. Can't you see me saying that since I don't wanna admit that, I'll kill Kihara even if I have to crawl on mud?"
["I don't know. Were everything turned out well as had expected, I wouldn't be a doctor in the first place. I'd have shut myself up in a mountain and meditate for 365 days. But because that
way I couldn't save a person physically I became a doctor. I'll say it plainly. Your assertion is nothing but egoism of a child who has ignored the possibilities."]
"Then what should I do? Thanks to that shitty bastard Kihara, I saw that brat in tatters, is it a happy-end if I say 'Good, good' with a sweet smiling face?"
["That's right. There are doctors for that reason."]
Even when excited, Frog-face remains unperturbed.
Smoothly, he fluently continues with his words.
["Broken arms, flayed skin, damaged internal organs, if you bring her before me alive I'll certainly cure her. I'll save your important person in perfect shape, mental care included and without leaving lifelong scars. Doctors are there to answer those expectations. So Accelerator, you must place absolute importance only to saving Last Order's [life], without the unnecessary and futile aiming for the stars. That's the most important one. That's the only thing that a novice's skill like mine cannot recover, right? If it were different, I would have tried to say right here right now something more important than that child's life."]
No, he cannot think of anything.
At this situation, due to the adults' circumstances, a child is going to be deprived of its life.
And now.
He totally understood his own situation. He knows for sure that panicking or shouting will get him nowhere. He'll be fighting earnestly as a [doctor].
["Kihara? [Hound Dog]? Quickly finish such a trifling skirmish. And please quickly send Last Order to me and let me start the decisive battle."]
Later, Accelerator was taught where to hide himself should the doctor be temporarily out of the hospital. This is for the case when Last Order was recovered.
He puts back the receiver.
And leans back onto the glass door of the pay phone.
(…Beyond rescuing uninjured. No matter how lofty you've prepared, that brat's going to be certainly get injured.)
Accelerator once breathes in, and out.
[Hound Dog] is using a scent sensor. He himself would of course used it in looking for Last Order. Even at the best of circumstances when she's in a dilemma, the devil's hand is more and more stretching out at an increasing rate.
There's no room for error.
So he's preparing himself.
"Bring it on...."
A smile remained after everything has been accepted.
An incredibly dreadful smile that tears at the corners.
The woman we saw Accelerator kill (one of my fave accel moments alongside his escape from hound dog earlier)
Within the darkened factory, Accelerator is holding his breath.
For this operation, even as he prepares for his first move, he's on his own from here on.
Accelerator grabbed a few items from inside the minivan. One is a shotgun that he uses as a cane substitute, the other is a small wireless radio.
These, too, were used in this operation.
Currently the enemy group is in the dark, fearful of friendly fire, and scrambling to contact each other by radio while each of them is loosely scattered about. Accelerator is playing the confused, noise-ridden voice of an [ally], moreover perform nonsensical information exchange, and break the enemy coordination. It appears that the opposing side is instantly aware that Accelerator is disturbing them, but there is no method that can distinguish comrade from dummy in incoming voices. As a result, the lot are going to intensify their misgivings on [all voices].
Unless they use radio, they can't figure out their comrades' current position.
Even if they find a shadow of a person, because of [fearful of friendly fire (or fearful of being killed by friendly fire)], their target-aiming speed is weakened, and cooperation among allies is being interrupted. In response, Accelerator only has nothing but to act as if [all shadows are enemies]. As far as he is concerned this is a huge advantage for him.
The threats from [Hound Dogs] are [small arms] and [groups].
It's not a cause of concern since with his current move the opponent has almost lost both of them.
For Accelerator, unable to use his ability, today was his first time using this kind of fear-inducing tactic, but the opponents were amusingly caught in it. As he thought, fear is the common denominator for mankind. At the back-alleys, he ruled as the very symbol of fear even though he did nothing. Just by concentrating and using a bit of seriousness in that exchange, there are a lot of great results.
They are no longer enemies.
They are just mere moving targets.
(Well then...)
By means of radio and fear, they have been torn loose to pieces, with each of them helpless. Even if he runs amok here, there is a margin of a few minutes until reinforcements rush in. Worrying about the surroundings is in a word, unimportant.
A smile was stuck on Accelerator's mouth while he lurks in the dark.
In his sights is a big game, separated from its peers and nervously searching alone for an enemy.
(You've crammed yourself full, you plump, fat brute.)
The target's range is about 15 meters.
A shotgun's effective power increases at short ranges. That said, this distance isn't yet the best; even so Accelerator leans back on a wall, raises his staff from the floor, aims appropriately and fired.
A shoulder-breaking shock came along with an ear-splitting roar. As expected, the shots scatter about before it hits the target. But in the surroundings are hard concrete and metal plates. Several shots ricochet from them like pinballs and crash into the black-clad from different angles.
A scream reverberates.
In the darkness, liquid is being scattered, and the human silhouette whirled down just like in action movies. Accelerator, after confirming it, approaches towards the black-clad with his shotgun as a cane.
It seems it hit their arm.
Their right arm was hit by the shotgun shells, and because it fell down onto the floor as it whirled, their other arm was probably already twisted.
The sub-machine gun they held was sliding a distance away. It seems they're trying to pull out their spare handgun, but because both of their arms were crushed, they couldn't take up weapons as much as they want to.
It was an unsightly, hairless caterpillar.
Accelerator braces his one hand against a nearby wall and presses the shotgun's muzzle at the side of the black-clad's cheek.
"Y, you're joking, right...?"
Unexpectedly, the voice was high-pitched. Observing very closely, he realizes that it's a feminine line even though it's a black-clad.
"Joke? Yeah."
Whatever, Accelerator appropriately omitted,
"A new one."
He pulled the trigger.
Accelerator's body uncontrollably tumbled back at the *dobam!* dull recoil shock. Not a gun to be fired one-handed, he thought. Getting up as he shook his head, the black-clad woman in front of him was writhing.
"Oo, oohu, buuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!?"
She's grabbing onto her mouth with both her broken hands, but both of them were strangely getting into the inside her face. For everything below her jaw was blown off sideways by the shotgun. Were those hands out of the way, one would find out that only her upper jaw was lining up in a row.
Accelerator noticed something warm sticking onto his own cheek.
Moving it with his tongue and holding it in his mouth, he chews it along with his saliva. It has the taste of flesh.
"Aha..."
An unintentional smile escapes from his lips.
There's no point in sparing infinite time with a battle-incapacitated woman. Accelerator has to leave his place immediately. Other [Hound Dogs] would turn up should they hear the gunshots. He doesn't prefer to be found by them and be shot at directly. The best way is to lurk to the very end in the darkness, crushing the big game one person at a time. Better that I leave, Accelerator thought; as soon as possible.
But then,
Using the shotgun as a cane, he staggered up to his feet.
He has become somewhat happy.
Even though he thought of it as useless, he cannot suppress *the feeling of freedom* as if it had burst open.
As he messily and sloppily chews with his mouth, he stands in front of the woman whose jaw was blown off.
"...Oh hoh hoh, so your face turned to something good for a fuckin' pacifier."
*Snap!*, the woman whose lower half face disappeared looked at him.
Now what kind of face do I have, Accelerator cannot even imagine that.
"And how dare you still live!! You've got to be kidding me, bitch!!"
In any case, he started to kick on the groveling woman's stomach.
A thick *dongongaki!!* sound occurs in succession. As he gives five, ten, fifteen, then twenty kicks, the woman's body suddenly disappeared into the dark.
Looking closely, it looks like a machine press for metalworking use.
Acting like a cliff, metallic objects fall in and is brought from here via conveyor belt, probably to be pressed and tempered; it occupies about 3 meters in depth, and ten meters spread in every direction. Considering that empty cans and steel rods are already turning into mountains, it might be actually deeper.
The woman was struggling three meters below.
She was an unsightly human, with both arms injured and the lower half of her face blown off.
Even as he looks at her, Accelerator felt no compassion.
He throws a fleeting glance towards the corner of the pressing machine inlet. Almost all of the equipment should be controlled in the control room, but there must be a device for tentative manual operation. There was indeed a probable one, a large button on the side wall.
Even the woman must have understood what Accelerator is looking at.
She's pleading for something while looking up overhead at the inlet.
"Afee, afuhee, farahahe..."
"Too bad."
Accelerator quickly apologized to interrupt her.
"You know who you're messing with, bitch."
*BAM!*
As if slamming his palm onto the wall, he pressed the giant switch.
There was absolutely no mercy in that action.
A *koum* dull sound of a motor operating resounded inside the facility.
"Well then..."
Already ignoring that spectacle, Accelerator resumes his loitering as he lets out a fervent sigh.
"My next game, where did it lose its way...."
There was only a gaping, face-tearing smile on his mouth.
And now back to an important one. A scene that was left out, with one of the surviving members of the platoon of Hound Dog's that were hunting Accel.
In the dark, sweltering factory, the sound of short breaths echoed.
Vera, a [Hound Dog] hiding under cover, was a woman who might be told from anyone that [they can't imagine why she would go down into such a place].
She's cheerful and sociable, and yet she doesn't fail in gauging her distance with other people. She can handle both physical and mental work together well. She is that kind of person.
Even she has some girl issues, but she has the knack of skillfully talking her way out from those who are interested in those kind of matters.
In any case at the dubious-looking group [Hound Dog], Vera who had some good sense, requested for cooperation with others. Such acts don't belong in that group where one despises the other, but at least Vera wanted to put up even a little trust with her [comrades].
Even so,
(...What a noisy radio)
She's been continuously hearing screams and appeals for help from it, but Vera's reaction was that of seeming annoyance. She doesn't even know which among them is real or a trap. Since then, she can't contact Caines who said he's rescuing comrades and took independent action. There's the danger of carelessly replying.
Already she cannot trust anyone.
What she thought to be slowly built was all crumbling away now at this place.
Instinctively Vera let out her sobbing.
At any rate she had better leave this facility and start over. Even Rod said by exit there's a trap at the exit, but on the other hand that kind of alert report is suspicious. Is that really Rod? She ought to leave, even if she has to take some risks. Even leave behind her [comrades]. All to avoid being annihilated.
(This is the worst... This is the worst day...!)
With staggering and uncertain steps, Vera started to look for the exit. She had already lost her will to fight. The excessive mental stress is all the more wearing down her concentration and thinking.
And then, she noticed something.
(A radio...)
Before she's aware of it, from the only source of noise that is the radio was sending back nothing but a fixed *zaa--* static noise. Because she thought she can cause unnecessary chaos to the place she maintained radio silence up to now, but upon coming here she suddenly felt insecure. Vera presses the switch and draws it to her lips.
"This is Vera, Vera. Request for status. Over."
There was no response to her request.
Cold sweat burst out from her. The worst thoughts flashed through her mind like should she kick away that sham for her radio or, on the contrary, surely all of they have become Accelerator's prey.
(Well that, or else.)
Vera, thinking for a way out, is struck with a different idea.
(Others like me, all of the survivors must have on one occasion took refuge outside. Because of the facility's massive walls, there's a big chance that no signal passes from outside to inside. If everyone were out, my signal should have reached to them.)
In that case, Vera would be abandoned by her [comrades], and also they would consider that she abandoned them. Comparing these to the fact that her [comrades] were annihilated in this garbage processing plant,
(That's right. There's no way the [Hound Dogs] would be deceived that easily. The darkness tactics Accelerator took has no effect unless it's totally dark. With the moonlight, we can distinguish friend and foe even without radio. In that case, it's more efficient to deal with going out from the facility.)
With that understanding, better that she leave for the safety outside.
As Vera drew up her own conclusions, she looks for the exit with a some more reassuring steps.
She still has hopes of her own.
If everyone were gathered once more, even Accelerator wouldn't be that scary. Simply because she thought it so.
Until the moment she saw her own comrade being crushed by the pressing machine.
Vera's thoughts turn around, collapsing at once into that of a panic situation.
Strictly speaking, Vera cannot directly see her [comrade being crushed]. What is plain to her eyes is only equipment that presses scrap metal into lumps. It has a section about three meters deep dug into the floor. The total length must be about 10 meters.
The massive iron pressing plate went down.
Nevertheless, a groan can be heard from the opposite side of the plate.
(...Nancy-!!)
Because of her reckless thoughts for her comrades, Vera can see who that is with only a weak voice. Meanwhile, a creaking sound is produced as the massive place slowly continues to go down.
"U, uaaah. uaaa, aaaa, aaaahh!!"
In a state of near panic, Vera slammed her palm onto the button at the wall. Along with a *gagun* sound the pressing machine's movement finally stopped.
The groaning still continued.
There's no way that the human flesh can endure the pressure from this iron plate. Nancy is alive, perhaps because of the metal scrap for pressing scattered inside. Nancy's body is sinking into a cushion-like mountain of metal scrap.
Even so, there's little doubt that she's nearly dead.
This may be as harsh as dying a horrible death.
By pushing another button on the wall, the iron place returns up.
And perhaps Nancy can be rescued.
But then.
On the surface of that button, something thick was sticking onto it. A blackish mucus, just like those seen in garbage bins beside vending machines. It is necessary for Vera to make contact with the mucus to push the button.
Even if the true form of the dirt is human meat and bone.
Even if it is bits of human skin and meat along with crushed bone sticking to the button.
"-----a, huh?"
Her fine line with her consciousness was cut off.
She thought she heard a soft dripping sound.
"GAAH!? GYAAA!! GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"
Vera lets out a shout with throat-tearing vigor, and fell backwards at full power. She could not endure this any further. She surely got the feeling that what she built for herself up to now is crumbling down. She thought that she would die from shock even if a single drop of water hits her skin.
In such a situation her foot caught on something and Vera fell on her backside along with a slimy feeling.
Looking at her feet, a soft and flabby handful of human meat is clinging onto it.
It was pulpy, but that was a human lower jaw any way she looks at it.
"UAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!"
She tried to shake it off and run for it.
But as she tried to move her sights at random, she met her other comrade. Well, one never knows if 'met' is the right expression. In front of a person who's been boiled up after been hoisted up by fat wires and is made to bathe in high temperature steam from severed steam pipes above it, whether that word is appropriate for this is a mystery.
Both vomit and shit have spouted from her.
Because her face-covering mask serves as a block, nothing else was leaked outside. Mucus and gushing water are leaking from both her mouth and nose, but Vera is in no condition to notice it. Not that much.
"HII, UAA, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA..."
A soft drawn-out voice is leaking out forever from her own mouth.
Vera looks at the silent radio.
So that was it.
The meaning of the silence being shown is simple. There is no strategy. And there is no change in plans for rallying. Perhaps not even one of her colleagues ever got outside of the facility. Each and every one, all of the [Hound Dogs], were just like the wind annihilated and dragged
into a ghastly attraction of the Third Resource Recycling Processing Facility. Perhaps just like her now, they were driven into psychological instability, even their common sense was taken away, and then were handled to be toyed around just as they were about to stand still in total shock.
Vera lost her grip.
Her radio and sub-machine gun falls with a clank onto the floor. Even Vera herself fell down onto her knees.
Just who was she fighting against?
So far Accelerator has especially not used any weapons. Nor does he consider the terrain. With only just his ability he mows down every obstacle in his way to move forward. Consequently, with his ability restricted now, he can only think of bringing down opponents as much as he likes depending on the strategy.
But it was already different now.
He uses weapons. He even utilizes the building. He reads the opponent's minds, weaves the most efficient method to derange them and executes it. By not entrusting to mere anger and beating opponents to death, but by giving them the maximum psychological damage, even he starts to adopt non-killing options.
His mental growth rate is formidable. This is not for children who rely solely on their abilities. This is for those who use everything they have to kill a person. Even at present, Accelerator, with plenty of threats on his own, is perhaps speeding up further. Up to the point that it goes out of someone's control and smashes up the world.
Under extreme shock, Vera's nerves were paralyzed.
Even the capability to feel fear was taken away.
He's a monster.
Unwisely, the [Hound Dogs] gave a hand in breaking off its shell.
*clank, clank*
Soft footsteps echo right behind Vera.
She didn't turn around, and was laughing softly as she lay crestfallen.
I'd also strongly recommend reading the Vento fight to anyone who will listen, as they turned one of the more awesome fights of the series into one of the crappiest, but that was more material than seemed appropriate for a single post.
Seeing a anime of JC staff get so bloody is surprising normally there pretty innocent.
About this episode it was great i really enjoyed watching it.
Tho the episode was mostly filled with violence tho Not to mention the bloody ending.
Accelerator seems to be back to his old self again and is seriously pissed judging by the way how he took out his opponent's.
His way of getting in that car was brilliant and i like the way how he abused that driver, he didn't seem very thankful for Index help tho.
Even if it wasn't much.
The doctor giving him a warning and telling him about what his objective should be was also interesting to see i didn't expect that reaction from the doctor nor that reaction from Accelerator.
The fact that Accelerator became a wanted criminal brings bad news and i wonder if he can get away with what he has done, he got a way with it in the past but that doesn't mean he can get away with it now.
i think he will run into Touma at some point during this arc and i think it could be very interesting i hope they end up working together.
I wonder if Touma will be able to catch up with Last Order since he sent her off for her own safety and the threat has stopped for the time being.
His fight with Vento was pretty nice and seeing Imagine Breaker at work never gets boring plus the sound is awesome.
It seems that Vento's magic takes a heavy toll on her body which makes me wonder how much she sacrificed to option that power.
I think that personality wise Vento is allot like Accelerator that obsessive insanity the joy they achieve from using there powers when fighting others and the laugh they make with it.
It's just very similar which suggests that both of them really don't have allot of enemy's they fear or need to fear.
A form of power unmatched by most people.
Tho there personality's are also there downfall ones they face a opponent that does match there power or knows there weakness.
There personality is partly there weakness.
Last order being able to open security locks that easily proves that she shares allot with the Misaka network even tho she is never around them.
And seems to have a different personality from them.
It also proves that she is very useful to have around and not just a useless brat like Accelerator claims her to be.
CkretAznMan said: So anyone who looks at Ventus of the Front will be unconscious? Excuse me while I go unconscious.
Everyone who looks at her with ill intent. That's why she was amused that Touma's Imagine Breaker allowed him to remain conscious even though he wanted to punch her square in the face.
Crested Ibis? From what I understood in the subs is that someone can use magic to make these pillars that in turn can kill anyone unconscious by piercing through them without them causing any form of resistance.
You misunderstood it, it clearly showed in the anime and said in the subs that someone set it and people who's just standing still will be stabbed by it, it's already an ingenous attack for people who doesn't know magic, precisely AC residents..
It still goes back for this to have the purpose of killing someone while they are KO. Someone setting them up just goes back to his purpose of killing people in Academy City.
Aezile said: about the white thing, it can be explained through more Tsuchimikado scenes which surely be showed next week, i think?
I am hoping it will.
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Note to self if your in Hound Dog don't pick a fight with Accelerator if you value your life even one bit...Why the hell did Vento retreat, is she reacting to something that makes her cough out blood...odd.
Nibbles335 said: Note to self if your in Hound Dog don't pick a fight with Accelerator if you value your life even one bit...Why the hell did Vento retreat, is she reacting to something that makes her cough out blood...odd.
She ran away because Accelerator was looming behind touma. He's just a bit slow. Hasn't noticed yet:P
Nibbles335 said: Note to self if your in Hound Dog don't pick a fight with Accelerator if you value your life even one bit...Why the hell did Vento retreat, is she reacting to something that makes her cough out blood...odd.
She ran away because Accelerator was looming behind touma. He's just a bit slow. Hasn't noticed yet:P
Ha! So Vento cannot do anything against Accelerator? ROFL!
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Nibbles335 said: Note to self if your in Hound Dog don't pick a fight with Accelerator if you value your life even one bit...Why the hell did Vento retreat, is she reacting to something that makes her cough out blood...odd.
She ran away because Accelerator was looming behind touma. He's just a bit slow. Hasn't noticed yet:P
Ha! So Vento cannot do anything against Accelerator? ROFL!
Personally, I think that if Accelerator fought against Vento, he would lose. People here are seriously underestimating her... not that I can blame them, it's not clearly shown what she can do.
"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain"
Friedrich Schiller
Something like that. Really need a show about Accelerator alone without Index and her annoying magic side messing around like To Aru Kagaku no Railgun.
Personally, I think that if Accelerator fought against Vento, he would lose. People here are seriously underestimating her... not that I can blame them, it's not clearly shown what she can do.
Yes he would lose, but mostly because he can't fight with her to begin with. He would fall unconcious. Also, do we know if Accelerator's shield can reverse magical attacks too? Seriously, people understimate the amount of Deux Ex that is the Imagine Breaker mostly because it's such a simple-looking "nullyfy anything" power. But he can stop ANYTHING, that is overpowered in and of itself.
Leon-Gun said: Yes he would lose, but mostly because he can't fight with her to begin with. He would fall unconcious. Also, do we know if Accelerator's shield can reverse magical attacks too? Seriously, people understimate the amount of Deux Ex that is the Imagine Breaker mostly because it's such a simple-looking "nullyfy anything" power. But he can stop ANYTHING, that is overpowered in and of itself.
Yes accelerator would definitely lose to Vento. Yes touma can stop anything thats "supernatural" though depending on how strong it is or how continuos it is, is a factor also.
IndexFanboy214 said: Yes touma can stop anything thats "supernatural" though depending on how strong it is or how continuos it is, is a factor also.
Ah yes, true enough, it's been shown that a huge amount of spells will result in one of them getting through, plus he can be hit by the enviromental objects that splash around after a spell hits the ground. And he can't stop regular weapons as shown in season 1 when the alchemist cut his arm right off. Touma should really get some weapons. xD
Lol, a weapon developed in the early 90's? I thought for the 20xx year Gakuentoshi he would use something more futuristic :P
Don't fix what isn't broken eh? I'm sure it explodes in Gakuin Toshi as well as it does anywhere else;)
Plus, Gakuin Toshi is only about thirty years farther than us technologically. So they've got lots of futuristic stuff, because they have all the stuff that's not ready for mass production, but aside from their stellar leaps in the field of genetic engineering, it's nothing to get too worked up about.
For example they have all the cleaning robots, but as we've witnessed they still have a whole lot of problems to work past. It's why the rest of the world doesn't have them. It's primarily stuff like that.
Railgun had that robot, and then the robotic exoskeleton, which I didn't feel quite fit with the overall technological level of the city, but even this seems excusable to me since we've only seen evidence of one being built. It's probably a ridiculously impractical and expensive beast she put together for her mad quest. The inflexibility of the robot, its' inability to really be utilized without causing massive property destruction, and the fact that it only seemed to have a single method of attack, which was predictable, slow, and linear, I think supports this. We really didn't see the exoskeleton do anything she couldn't have done with a specially designed gun, so I'm inclined to believe that this wasn't as impressive as its' appearance would suggest either.
Plus, with the controversial nature of how Railgun even relates to the main story, if its' even on the same timeline and such, that single episode can be dismissed pretty easily.
-Vid said: oh. my. god. So amazing. Accelerator. Win. Win win win. His laugh is so awesome, his pwnage was so awesome. All the blood and slaughtering feels so weird in Index, but it'S just so great. gah. :)
Touma's part was a little repetetive, not a whole lot of action in that fight.. but still nice I guess. ;o
Lol. Repetitive and action free. If I wasn't sure they'd butchered the fight before I am now. Sweet mother of all that is holy, how did they turn the high octane fight with civilian lives in the balance, the one that left the area scarred from the force of their fighting, the one in which Touma barely managed to walk out in one piece, and many nearby innocents were severely injured despite his best efforts. How on God's green earth did they set out to adapt this fight, and come out with the results they did. Fucking tragic.
I'm retracting my statement from yesterday, as I wasn't feeling well, but remember to keep the discussion of an original work (manga and/or light novel) in a thread that is meant for its adaptation (anime), to a mimimum. I'm not asking you guys to do it for me; you're doing it for the other users. Thanks. I'm out.
Another great episode.
Why did Index II suddenly get good towards the end of the series? It's like JC Staff thought "Hmm, maybe we should put some work into this adaption now!".
But oh well, I don't think these awesome episodes can save this show. I most likely won't rate it higher than a 6, this season was just so disappointing.
Anyway, 5/5 for this episode. Now, onwards to the next one.
accelerator's powers intimidate me so much that i actually feel more sympathy for a lunatic villain (arguably more deserving) receiving a punch from him than a low level grunt (arguably less deserving) receiving a point blank gunshot from him.
Accelerator was rampaging pretty heavy again. Killing dozens of people and in pretty gruesome ways too boot. So now Accelerator is on the wanted list as well.
Come on Touma, yank that cross off her tongue! Looks like it's going to happen seeing the preview of the next one.
Hopefully Touma and Accelerator will finally meet again in this arc.
people starting to pass out one by one. damn what kind of sorcery is this?!
vento the front appears! it's kind of disturbing because of the cross chained to her tongue. but why is she blood puke (kind of?)? is it because she used magics? that means she is espers? damn kind of confused LOL
accelerator back to his frenzy mode. killing people in those bloody scene. i like him when he is like that wwwww
and the next episode accelerator will be more frenzy i think. versus Kihara!!! the sisters are going back to action!.. plus misaka going to show off her skills. keep watching...
woah, this is a mess . Accelerator went on bloody rampage . I'd somewhat preferred more of screen time with Touma, considering it's almost ending. Also when are those two gonna meet again ffs :D
( Currently interested in OP MC genre. Recommendations are welcomed, preferable those yet not on my list )
hmm why didn't they just cut out that Italy arc and stretch out these eps to show everything (yeah yeah I know then things wouldn't make as much sense and agnase wouldn't make sense, but man these eps are so much better).
Like a lot of people here, I am enjoying this arc quite a bit more than the previous ones. The thing that I like about this so far is that it is involving a larger set of characters than usual. I know that, as the main character, Touma is bound to receive a lot of focus; however, it has always seemed like a shame that they force him to carry the series when there are a lot of interesting members of the cast that are sorely underused. So, it's a nice change of pace to see things like Accelerator get the spotlight and be a very different type of protagonist than Touma.
