But the Level 0 did not fall down. Facing the massive attack that looked like it would swallow him, he protected his vital points and advanced forward.
Thump.
Accelerator felt a chill down his spine.
Until today, Accelerator thought the most frightening thing about Level 0s was their resourcefulness when facing high-leveled espers. Charging in head on and then taking advantage of the small thing the powerful esper missed to deal the decisive blow there.
That was the most terrifying.
Yes.
With the resolve that refused to give up no matter what happened, the enemy that charged towards him right now was the most terrifying existence. The strongest esper of Academy City finally noticed this.
And as proof:
“(That last attack…)”
Accelerator gulped.
“(Even the weakest of those attacks hold destructive power that isn’t possibly something a human body can handle, right?!!)”
Those things didn’t matter.
The source of his terror was not those superfluous theories.
What was most important right now was ‘the most terrifying enemy’ closing in.
At this time, Accelerator remembered something.
Before, in the cargo holding area fighting the Sisters during the ‘Experiment’, the same kind of clash had happened.
Wasn’t the most terrifying thing about that teenager being that he never gave up, and stood with his own two feet under circumstances where that could not possibly happen?
“Just choose already…”
The Level 0, just like back then in the blood-covered cargo holding area, charged towards the Academy City’s strongest esper. “Do you want to keep protecting with your hands? Or do you want to give it all to someone else and run away? Or do you want me to give you a hand in choosing!!”
That fist,
Clenched to the point where it couldn’t get any tighter.
“Whether it be pride or whatever, for whatever can make you hold your chest up high, just choose already!!”
A roar exploded out.
The sound of the Level 0’s fist struck surely onto Accelerator’s face.
After stepping onto the path of ‘Evil’, the power gained after many coincidences, the black wings do not work against that teenager.
No,
Actually,
The thought of that it is necessary to step onto the path of ‘Evil’, was that only a shackle? No matter what, what he had to protect at any cost was Last Order’s smile. This had nothing to do with where she was located. If someone truly wanted to protect her, it didn’t matter if he himself was ‘Good’ or ‘Evil’, he didn’t even have to surpass people like Kakine.
The kind of person whose shadow he had been chasing all this time was probably an existence like this. It was not because of ‘Good’ or ‘Evil’. And it was because Accelerator didn’t consider this, that the ‘pure Evil’ Accelerator could not reach him. If that was the case…
Accelerator thought even as he fell backwards.
The fantasy that had occupied his heart for all this time had shattered.