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Beside her, Uiharu Kazari tightly covered her mouth, her large eyes filled with tears, her body trembling violently with fear and anger, but she still stood firmly beside Mikoto, looking at Higashino with worry.
"Sister...Big Sister?" Misaka 9999 looked at the girl who looked almost identical to her but was now exuding a completely different aura, and a strange feeling welled up in her heart that she herself was completely unaware of.
The air seemed to freeze.
Inside the abandoned subway station tunnel, only the sound of gravel falling to the ground and the suppressed hissing of electricity emanating from Misaka Mikoto, like a volcano about to erupt.
Chapter 112 What should a girlfriend do when she sees another man on top of her boyfriend?
Inside Tokiwadai.
The atmosphere in Misaka Mikoto's dormitory was unusually quiet.
Shiori sat opposite Mikoto, her small body tense, watching her nervously.
On the tablet screen in front of her, the "Absolute Ability Evolution Project" file, which was encrypted multiple times, was clearly displayed.
"In early spring... you asked me to meet you alone, saying you had something very important to discuss... what could it be?"
Mikoto looked at her friend's unusually disappointed face and tearful eyes, and was filled with doubt. It was the first time she had ever seen Haruhi show such an expression.
She tried to break the silence with a lighthearted tone.
"Did that idiot Yu bully you? Don't worry, we'll go teach him a lesson and make him apologize properly later."
The only person she could think of who would make Haru so heartbroken was Higashino Yu.
Although I don't know what Yu did to Haru, it must have been something really awful to make her so sad.
You absolutely have to apologize to him properly once you find him. How could he have the nerve to bully someone as adorable as Haruharu!
Mikoto thought this angrily and decided to give Higashino an electroshock therapy treatment later.
"No, it wasn't you, senpai. She didn't bully me. That... Misaka-senpai..."
Haru shook her head, denying Mikoto's guess.
"Um...ah, isn't it Yu?"
Mikoto smiled awkwardly and silently apologized for misunderstanding Yu.
"Um..."
She took a deep breath, as if using all her strength, and gently pushed the tablet in front of Mikoto, the screen facing her.
"Please...please take a look at this...I'm sorry...I'm really sorry...I don't know if I should tell you...but..."
Mikoto took the tablet with a puzzled look in her eyes, her gaze falling on the screen.
At first she was confused, but when she saw the project name "Absolute Ability Evolution Project", she frowned slightly.
However, as she read line by line—about "Accelerator," "128 kills of the Railgun," "Alternative: Somatic cell clones," "Objective: Kill 20,000 clone individuals"...
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
The color drained from Mikoto's face at a visible speed, as if all her life force had been instantly drained.
Her fingers, gripping the tablet, began to tremble violently. Her eyes were wide open, but her pupils contracted sharply, churning with a storm of emotions.
"What...what is this?"
Her voice was filled with disbelief; the content made her feel like she might still be dreaming.
How could such a thing happen?! What could possibly lead to the creation of such a heinous plan?
"A prank?...Early Spring...This is...fake...right?"
She looked up abruptly at Chu Chun, her eyes filled with desperate pleading, begging her friend to tell her it was just a cruel joke.
Tears welled up in early spring and finally broke free, rolling down her cheeks in large drops. She shook her head violently, sobbing uncontrollably, "It's true... Misaka-san... it's true... they... they used your DNA... to clone... 20,000... 'Misaka Mikoto' clones... and then... then they had Accelerator... take them... take them..."
She couldn't say anything more, only suppressed sobs remained.
She hoped these were fake, but after finding out more, she investigated further and the truth and some of the pictures made it even harder for her to accept.
Nearly 10,000 clones have already died in this experiment, and if the program continues, the remaining clones will also be killed.
Bang!
The tablet slipped from Mikoto's hands and crashed heavily to the floor.
She seemed to have all her strength drained away, staggering back a step and crashing into the desk behind her, scattering the frog doll and stationery all over the floor.
"My...clone...?"
Mikoto muttered to herself, her voice terrifyingly hollow.
"Twenty thousand... to... kill?"
The thought that her ignorance back then had led to the killing of many clones made her stomach churn, and the intense nausea almost made her vomit.
She suddenly covered her mouth, her body bending uncontrollably, a violent tremor spreading from her shoulders to her entire body.
Rage! An indescribable, overwhelming rage, enough to incinerate reason, erupted within her like a volcano dormant for millennia!
Crackling! ! !
The lights in the dormitory went out instantly, all the electrical appliances emitted blue smoke, and the sockets sparked!
"Accelerator—!!!"
Mikoto sat up abruptly, burning with rage. She now truly hated her own ignorance back then for agreeing to such a thing!
"senior!"
In early spring, she said timidly, but decided to tell her about Higashino going to find Accelerator.
"Senior... he must know something, right? Although he said he was going to find this Tenjo Ayumu, his expression at the time... I think he might be going back to find Accelerator."
"What?! Why would he go? This has nothing to do with him!"
Mikoto stepped in front of Haruharu, her eyes brimming with urgency and panic.
Although the information that Chu Chun had shown her earlier had plunged her into an unprecedented emotional state, Higashino held even greater weight in her heart than any of that information.
She didn't want Higashino to be in danger because of her.
She gripped Chu Chun's shoulders tightly.
"Early Spring! Tell me! Where is he?!"
"I...I don't know the exact location!"
Haru was startled by Mikoto's appearance, but she immediately forced herself to calm down.
"This morning, my senior asked me to investigate the person who attacked him last night. When I found out the person's name, his expression was terrifying... He's probably searching everywhere right now. I... I might be able to find some clues through the surveillance footage!"
"Someone attacked him? No, now is not the time to investigate that. Chuchun, quickly check if you can find him!"
Mikoto has embraced the early spring, but her inner anxieties remain undiminished.
He was attacked after he left yesterday, and You didn't mention it to her at all.
Furthermore, Haruhi said that Yu was going to find Amano Ayumu, but what if she ran into Accelerator? The number one ranking isn't just for show; anyone ranked above him must be very strong in combat.
Yu, who was previously only evenly matched with him, might not be able to defeat him. (That's what Mikoto thinks.)
Not daring to delay even for a moment in early spring, I started searching using my tablet.
She even risked accessing a deeper layer of the surveillance network to track Higashino's movements.
Time passed second by second, and each second felt like an eternity to Mikoto.
She stared intently at the screen, afraid of missing any possible scene where she might see Higashino.
"found it!"
Chu Chun suddenly shouted, her voice tinged with excitement.
"On the edge of the 7th school district, at an abandoned subway station on the Loop Line! My senior just walked past there with... uh, a girl I've never seen before!"
At the beginning of spring, everyone's attention was drawn to Toshinobu Fubuki. They didn't quite understand why their senior was going to find Accelerator, but why he was following a girl.
"Hmm, she's probably an assistant? Look at her white coat, she might be someone involved!"
Mikoto calmly analyzed, "It's impossible that she tricked Haru into going to deal with Accelerator, but actually went on a date, right?"
That's ridiculous. Mikoto knows very well that Higashino isn't the kind of person who likes to make jokes like that.
"Well, I checked the surveillance footage from before, and Accelerator did appear there."
Chu Chun breathed a sigh of relief; she almost really misunderstood her senior.
"Then let's hurry up and go!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Mikoto turned around and ran towards the door.
"Misaka-senpai! Wait for me!"
In early spring, I grabbed my bag and followed without hesitation.
She knew that going with them might be dangerous and could even cause trouble for her seniors, but she couldn't let her boyfriend and friend face it alone!
Sometimes even reason cannot suppress human emotions; the human heart is such a complex thing.
Two figures rushed out of Tokiwadai dormitory at top speed, heading towards the battlefield where Higashino and Accelerator were fighting.
……
When they broke through the billowing smoke and dust and stepped onto the battlefield, the scene that greeted them instantly stunned Misaka Mikoto.
A figure, trampled underfoot like trash by a white-haired youth, his chest stained with glaring blood, his fate unknown, came into her view.
Yu Higashino!
"stop!!!"
The anger, pain, fear, and despair that had been building up to their peak erupted from the depths of Mikoto's throat in a roar!
Without a second thought, her body's instincts preceded her consciousness. She gathered all her strength, and a beam of orange-red light, imbued with endless rage, the Railgun, with a destructive shriek, tore through the air and blasted towards the unforgivable white-haired boy who had his back to her!
boom--! ! !
The roar of the explosion echoed wildly in the narrow space, and smoke and debris fell like a torrential rain.
However, when the smoke cleared and Mikoto saw Accelerator turn around unharmed, his eyes filled with a violent and impatient look of being disturbed, her heart sank to the bottom.
His all-out attack was completely useless?!
Her gaze swept past the passageway and locked onto the figure pinned against the wall.
His once confident face was now contorted with pain, blood constantly spilling from the corner of his mouth, and his breath was so weak that it seemed he might be extinguished at any moment.
"Yu..."
Mikoto's voice trembled with fear she herself was unaware of. She saw his eyes, which he struggled to open, those eyes that always held a smile, now bloodshot, yet still fixed on Accelerator with unwavering determination.
At this moment, Misaka Mikoto's consciousness was replaced by overwhelming rage!
The electric arcs around her were more violent than ever before, and the blue-white light illuminated the entire dark tunnel as if it were daytime. Her eyes, burning with rage, were fixed on One-Way Street.
"Accelerator! Get your filthy feet... off Yu!"
Even if her strongest attack fails, even if she knows she may not be able to defeat her opponent, she will never back down, for there are still people waiting for her there.
Chapter 113 When did you develop that sense of victory, a perception that I never bestowed upon you?
"Accelerator! Get your filthy feet... off Yu!"
Misaka Mikoto's voice was filled with unprecedented anger. The experiment and Higashino's miserable state were all heartbreaking for her.
She had never been so angry before; all she wanted to do was use all her strength to send that white-haired bastard flying!
Violent blue-white arcs of electricity leaped and hissed wildly around her, illuminating the dim tunnel as if it were daytime.
An invisible electromagnetic field radiated outward from her, causing the air to crackle and pop as if it were being ionized.
Accelerator slowly turned his head to look at Mikoto and Haru, who was trembling but trying to remain calm beside her. The violent look on his face, which had been disturbed, was instantly replaced by a twisted excitement.
"Oh? The main character is here too?"