The copy boss is FIVE

"Shock!Accelerator, the chairman of Academy City, actually sneaked into the girls' dormitory in the middle of the night!Is this the corruption of the teacher's morality or the loss of morality! "

——If there is really anything that can describe Accelerator's current mood, it is probably the news headline that suddenly appeared in his mind when he groped and climbed the wall to go to the balcony of Yuriko Suzuke's dormitory.

Can vector operations be invisible?

Accelerator didn't know, he just regretted that he forgot to take a cloak in a moment of excitement, and now he finally sneaked into the dormitory area of ​​Tokiwadai, facing the wall of the girls' dormitory, as if facing a towering mountain of morality... Then he gave up thinking.

Ayako heard the movement on the balcony, looked up and saw a handsome white-haired man who climbed over the railing and landed on the balcony.

She was still wearing a nightgown, but it was not uncommon for her to be seen wearing a nightgown when she was a neighbor, so she naturally went over and opened the French windows: "Long time no see, please come in."

Accelerator felt an indescribable sense of disobedience.

But he still put his hands in his pockets and calmly entered the girls' dormitory with a cool and handsome face.

"Where have you been for the past 11 years?"

"Time travel."

The white-haired young man suddenly put his hand on the girl's shoulder.

"What about your vector operations?"

"No more." Ayako pointed to the soul gem on her chest, "I came here this time for this."

"what?"

"The soul gem, the materialized item of the soul, is my body. The body you see is just a corpse. The soul gem will absorb the pollution and cause pain. When it is completely polluted... maybe I will die."

The amount of information is too much, but Accelerator's first reaction is——

"I haven't seen you in 11 years, you are so lazy??"

The guy who pressed him and beat him suddenly turned into a dying trash. Before Accelerator had time to savor his shock or other emotions, he lost the ability to think for a short time.

Because the girl suddenly embraced her.

She wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered in his ear: "I said, this is a mission. If you succeed, you will live, if you fail, you will die."

The warm breath hit the pinnae, Accelerator subconsciously wanted to push the other away, but thinking that the other party was so weak that he was about to die, he subconsciously held back all his movements.

"you……"

"Something is watching me, let me make a long story short."

"That thing is called Chubby, which is designed to satisfy the girl's wish and then turn it into a magical girl, separating the soul from the body. The soul gem will absorb the filth, and the child can't bear the pain, so he can only hunt the witch to get the purification of lamentation The soul gem, if you can't beat the witch, if the witch doesn't drop the seed of lament, if there is no witch...all will lead to the collapse of the magical girl, and after the collapse, she will become a witch."

"Whether it is the collapse of the magical girl or the killing of the witch, when the soul gem and the seed of lament change or shatter, a huge energy will erupt. It is for that energy that Chubby will look for a deceitful contractor. My current The body is a disabled person without calves, and his wish is to get both legs. I just completed the contract tonight, so I don’t know if Chubby is watching.”

It was obviously a very serious matter, but Accelerator was only made agitated by the heat blowing in his ears.

"I've heard about the case of missing girls outside Academy City." Accelerator didn't expect the legend of magical girls to be true, "What do you want me to do?"

"Use the scientific power of Academy City to analyze the soul gem."

"Capture Cupid and analyze its essence."

"They are incubators that can transform emotions into energy... The researchers of Academy City will definitely like it."

"What's your purpose?"

"End the existence of Chubby and magical girls."

"Can you possibly die?"

"Even if I die, I will return again. Maybe I won't keep this memory. At that time, please tell me the ins and outs and the progress of the mission, Accelerator."

"What's in it for me?"

"The conditions are up to you."

"Then keep it for now. The outside world is requesting Academy City's support, are you going?"

"Coincidentally, there are no witches in Academy City, and I'm about to go hunting."

"I'll give you a pass later, and I'll ask Misaka to pick you up."

"It's really good, it's exactly what I want."

"So how long are you going to hug?"

Ayako chuckled, and let go of the stiff white-haired youth.

"Shall I invite you to stay and sleep together?"

"No need!!"

Accelerator, who still wanted to say something, turned around and left angrily.

It wasn't until he quietly left the Tokiwadai campus that Mr. Chairman realized——

What is he running for?Why did he run away because of a joke?What kind of innocent high school boy is he? Damn it!

Too bad! !

Ayako watched Accelerator leave.

Without Six Eyes and no system, she couldn't be sure if Chubby was there just by relying on all the surveillance cameras around her.

Pretend it's not there now, whether it's there or not.

It's not time to tear your face apart.

Cupid was waiting for her to get filthy from fighting the witch.

Or maybe it doesn't care about the possibility of being studied by humans?In short, Ayako hoped that it would not care, and be more arrogant, so that she would have enough time.

Ayako received a notice from a research institute in a certain area of ​​the academy the next day.

"Need to be assisted by a person with wind ability..." - this is the reason why even if Chubby finds out, he can't find the problem.

After she got on the tram, she felt Chubby's presence.

It was a special connection, and Chubby told her that she could communicate with other magical girls through it, so when she went out and met other magical girls, she could make friends and fight together with confidence.

The "pacification" of the contract object is probably also part of Chubby's work.

It's like the effect of panic erupting in the crowd far exceeds that one plus one equals two. After meeting and supporting each other in a wonderful way, the magical girls not only have to face their own doom, but also have to bear the burden of "dividing away". The seeds of lamentation are equivalent to stealing the vitality of teammates." Such a burden on conscience will make the blackening worse.

"Really, I'm really looking forward to it."

After entering the research room of the institute, that connection suddenly disappeared.

"What did you do to this laboratory?"

In the spacious white room, there are only various research equipment and two people, one tall and one short, wearing standard researcher coats.

The white-haired young man put his hands in his pockets, and there seemed to be some kind of power field around his body that was stirring the air to vibrate.

"how?"

"Qiubi seems to be able to monitor my situation at any time, but after entering here, the sense of surveillance disappeared."

Accelerator smiled happily: "It seems that the effect of using vector operations to lay an electromagnetic barrier around the room is not bad."

"As expected of you." Ayako turned to another person, "Sister Misaka?"

Sister Misaka held the notebook and tablet in her hand, bowed slightly and saluted: "Hi, I've known you for a long time, Misaka 10032 is very happy to meet you. By the way, the Commander is madly jealous, poof."

Because she was worried that the last work would be involved in danger, she was left in the chairman's office building, relying on Misaka's live webcast, and she is currently expressing her miss for Ayako and her dissatisfaction with Accelerator.

"Help me convey my apology for the last work, and hope that she will never reveal her relationship with me before the matter is over. So, how do I use these instruments?"

"The chairman is temporarily unable to move freely, please follow me."

Sister Misaka took Ayako with her and briefly introduced the function of the instrument and the purpose of their next experiment.

Analyze the Soul Gem.

Detect the distance that the soul gem can leave the body.

In the state where the main body and the soul are disconnected, what will be the result of stimulating the soul gem and the body separately.

……

All kinds of things, Ayako responded.

This information will only be kept in the minds of sister Misaka and Accelerator, and will never appear in Academy City's electronic database.

Can human beings feel the existence of their own soul?

Generally speaking, no.

The soul is an existence beyond common sense. For ordinary people, it is more like a concept than a real thing.

Although "my soul" is often used to refer to "self," many people don't actually believe in the existence of a soul.

Even if you believe it, if there is no special method, you can't verify it, right?

But that's not the case for Ayako.

She often exists in the form of soul fragments. Although there is a body wrapping to hide that important fragment, she has faced all of them in the black mud.

The memory of facing the administrator for the first time was suddenly opened when the body and soul were separated.

She saw her soul.

The golden, shining, true self, as if naked, without the wrapping of the body, just appeared so naked and straightforward, grabbed it, and confirmed it.

【You remember it. 】

[...A curse? ]

[It's next.Do you need help? 】

[......]

[Please rest assured, some of the fragments below have long been integrated with your soul, abandoned your "self", and completely become yours.

Although it is not as powerful as the main body, it can be used as a key to the root, and at least it can guarantee your safety in times of crisis.And, even in the state of impurities, it's "reasonable" now, isn't it? 】

[......]

When the girl lying on the operating table opened her eyes, she was a little dazed.

"Today's test is over, Suzuna-sama, do you have any discomfort? Misaka is really curious about the feeling of separation of soul and body, please let me know! This is also the need of the experiment, Misaka tried to emphasize!"

Ayako's eyes lost focus and she grabbed the soul gem on her chest.

There was a trace of black impurities in the transparent gemstone, and she could vaguely perceive the surroundings even though she hadn't opened her six eyes.

It's not six eyes, it's...

Vision?

After losing the system, six eyes, sidearms... all the cheats, Ayako is in a very complicated mood when she suddenly gets the considerate help from someone she has forgotten about at the bottom of her card pack.

At the same time, there is also a kind of... rare steadfastness and warmth.

She had already prepared for the complete destruction of the vest and soul fragments——

In order to avoid leading Chubby to her world, even if she dies, this piece of her will not return to the copy zero world.

Even if it's just a fragment, even with absolute awareness...

If it hadn't been for the sudden appearance of this darkness, she would never have realized that dying alone was such a cold, cruel thing that could make one be crushed in an instant and make one want to cry.

She suddenly understood that in the world of Qisan, when Youni finally planned to sacrifice herself to resurrect the Rainbow Son, she suddenly shed tears, hesitated, and reacted with fear.

"If you don't see the light, you don't weep for the darkness."

Ayako raised her soul gem, staring blankly at the slowly floating darkness.

Worthy of being the most difficult manager ever.

She has to admit that even if she understands what the other party has done to her soul and mind, she will never be able to go back to the time when she was absolutely fearless and free from distractions.

But she felt a wonderful sense of peace of mind in an instant.

It seems that the soul that is floating higher and higher, unable to see the earth clearly through the clouds, is suddenly pulled back to the world.