me, the protagonist

In Misaka Mikoto's memory, this incident has not happened yet.

"Maybe..." Sakura Yamabuki hesitated, walked to a corner where there was no one around, and said in a low voice, "Probably Academy City and Senior don't belong to the same world, and the flow of time is different."

""Time flow rate"? "

"How should I describe it... probably similar to a variable-speed bicycle," Yamabuki Sakura finally thought of a suitable adjective.

When I suspect that the car is malfunctioning, I often change a few different gears to test.Try adjusting the time flow rate - this is also a common method used by World Gods.

When Sakura Yamabuki was a child, the time in her world was adjusted to be fast and slow, which led to the development of "17 years old in three years" for Matsuda when she met Hagiwara.

But the voice of Jiang Guling on the phone did not slow down.

"If it's 'not happening,' maybe it's even worse. "

Jiang Guling paused for a moment: "This matter is recorded."

"Now I can check the report of Misaka Mikoto's exchange in January on the Internet, and there are photos on it."

In other words, this incident only "did not happen" in Academy City, and evidence can still be found in other parts of the world.

"...!"

Sakura Yamabuki in the corner knelt silently and hugged her head.

Couldn't it be the kind of development that "in order to fix 1 BUG, ​​3 new ones were built", right?

Even Sakura Yamabuki, who is used to chaotic time and space, can't figure out what's going on.She fed back the news to the main god on her mobile phone. She didn't know when he would see it, so Yamabuki Sakura decided to go to Misaka Mikoto to observe the situation.

After hanging up the phone, she asked sister Misaka: "I'm going to the research institute now, do you want to go with my sister?"

Sister Misaka: "Execute password confirmation, ZC74A..."

"Okay, okay, okay," Sakura Yamabuki raised her hand in surrender, "I won't ask any more."

After saying goodbye to Kamijou and the little nun, when Sakura Yamabuki entered the elevator and was about to press the button, a girl with short brown hair followed in at the same time.

Yamabuki Sakura: "...Didn't it mean that the secret cannot be revealed?"

"Questions related to the experiment do require password confirmation. Misaka replied pretending not to understand your intention."

Since you said it was "pretending", why don't you say it?

Maybe this is the real radio-type beautiful girl, who is difficult to communicate and has a personality that makes people unable to complain.

Yamabuki Sakura blinked and looked at Misaka-sister for a long time, and the girl also looked back with her big amber eyes wide open.

"...I see." Yamabuki Sakura admitted defeat and pressed the close button, "Then let's go together. Do you still need to use musical instruments for your experiment?"

It's not obvious in the dark, but under the light of the elevator car, it's hard not to catch Sakura Yamabuki's attention to the rather large piano box behind the brown-haired girl.

The dark pink piano case is quite large, and the largest 41-inch guitar may be a bit empty, and the strings look very heavy on the girl's slender shoulders.

"It's a tool for the experiment. Misaka answered you like this."

Yamabuki Sakura suddenly became interested, and moved to Misaka's sister with bright eyes: "Is that it? It's the usual setting in movies where the gun is disassembled and put into a musical instrument box?"

"..."

Miss Misaka didn't speak, she turned her head and stared at her silently with unfocused eyes.

Sakura Yamabuki couldn't bear the feeling of being quietly stared at, her joy faded visibly to the naked eye, and she said: "It's really impossible, why would guns be used in scientific experiments... Is my sister-san going to the first floor too?"

Misaka sister nodded slightly.

So Yamabuki Sakura went to the first floor of the exhibition hall with her.

We went to the nearest station together.

In the end, Sakura Yamabuki looked at her sister Misaka who got on the same train as herself, and the corners of her mouth twitched: "...Could it be that you also got off at the station of the Cooperative Research Institute?"

Sister Misaka: "ZC74A..."

Yamabuki Sakura: ...

She was wrong, really.

What kind of radio system is it to make a phone call close at hand? The real radio system depends on the beautiful girls produced by Academy City.

Sister Misaka also seemed to realize that the highly overlapping action routes were not conducive to secrecy, so she disappeared among the crowd when she arrived at the site.

Carrying such a big piano case and being able to disappear without a sound must be a bit of effort.

Sakura Yamabuki felt emotional, and her desire to share was high for a while, so she found Misaka Mikoto in her contacts and sent a message.

[Salted Sakura: Met Mikoto's younger sister, she has the charm of a female ninja. 】

After a few minutes, the opposite side replied:

【Misaka: Who are you?How can I have my contact information? 】

Misaka Mikoto wondered for a moment whether her memory had been deleted by a psychic superpower, but the electric superpower she possessed could isolate her from psychological manipulation.

Misaka Mikoto faintly sensed a sense of discord.

But instead of pursuing this point, she has more urgent things to do now.

【Misaka: Where did you meet her? 】

Absolutely capable person evolution plan.

In order to create an absolutely capable person (LV.6) who can "be as human as a god", Accelerator, the No. 5 LV.[-], has to kill [-] Misaka Mikotos on [-] different battlefields clones.

The first 9802 experiments were conducted in the indoor battlefield in Academy City.

Considering the disposal of the corpses, the 10198 outdoor experiments that were originally performed will also be carried out in Academy City.However, due to the incident that the experiment was almost smashed by the visiting elementary school students during the school visit this year, the outdoor battlefields were scattered all over the world.

Kagoshima, Sapporo, Spain, Argentina... Misaka Mikoto's clones have rushed to Academy City's cooperating agencies all over the world. Sapporo is already the last experiment in Japan.

Accelerator does not reject this change.

To be honest, after killing nearly [-] Misaka sisters in different ways every day in those places, he was more or less tired.

In contrast, there are new brands of coffee out there, and the occasional interesting result from various research institutes.

More importantly, no one knew him.Things like walking on the street without doing anything, and someone trying to challenge "Academy City's Strongest" to come up and give him a sap will never happen.

The outside world is backward but peaceful.

Before the start of the experiment, Accelerator walked around the exhibition of the research institution twice, and he was in a good mood.

This good mood lasted until he ran into the visiting team head-on.

The cooperative organization shares technology with Academy City. This kind of advanced technology exhibition has attracted wide attention, and there are people of all ages in the visiting team.But even so, children like Edogawa Conan are still rare.

The science and technology exhibition of the cooperative organization is not for the purpose of popularizing science, and six or seven-year-old children are basically not interested in the boring scientific research meeting.

Therefore, Accelerator was a little surprised to see the two little bean dings at the end of the team who were watching the past attentively and discussing in a low voice from time to time.

But this kid was so evil, Accelerator squinted his eyes uncomfortably, and decided not to go shopping.

When I was in Academy City at the beginning of the month, I had just exchanged glances with this kid while I was waiting for the experiment to start, but the kid came out of the experiment site at night and called a few student media.

The dark side of Academy City was almost revealed to the public.

Do ordinary little ghosts hide in the cement pipes of building materials for several hours in the rain when traveling?

ill.

Accelerator gave a short and powerful evaluation in his heart, then turned around and followed a sneaky researcher out.

"gone?"

Conan mouthed Haibara Ai.

Hui Yuanai looked away from the reflection on the exhibition board, and nodded slightly to him.

Conan said almost immediately: "I'll leave for a while, if anyone asks, just say I went to the bathroom."

Hui Yuanai pulled him back: "...you know who that person is? That's right?"

Accelerator, Academy City's number one esper, can be unscathed even if he is surrounded by twenty heavy tanks, he can be called a monster.

"I know," the little boy nodded, and the light from the lighting on the exhibition board shone into his eyes, as if he also had a bright light that would never go out in his heart: "But he is probably killing people."

Hui Yuan Ai was in a trance for a moment, the expression on the boy's face seemed to be the same as that young detective in the newspaper in the past.

Everything in the world may change, but there are always some inner pursuits that will not be affected by external forces.

Dazed at this moment, she let go of the boy's hand, and the boy took out a small communication badge and said, "If there is a situation, we will do as we agreed."

Conan Edogawa sneaked away from the team and followed Accelerator not far or near.

A remote alley not far from the Sapporo Collaborative Research Institute.

Fully armed Jiang Gu Ling was talking with the researchers while reflecting inwardly.

He shouldn't panic.

But there is no way around it, anyone will panic when they find out that the God in charge of running the world is unreliable, and the world they live in is a super-stitched place that may collapse at any time.

The main god received the contact from Sakura Yamabuki, and he chose to contact Rei Furutani first to explain.

"It's like this. I admit that we made a little mistake in our work, but don't those people who run around all day have no responsibility at all? Do you know how many timelines are advancing together now?"

At least ten.

Even among seemingly omnipotent magic, time magic is the second most difficult.The first difficulty is bringing the dead back to life.

Coincidentally, the evolution plan of the absolute capable person takes up both.

When adjusting the timeline in Academy City, Accelerator killed more than [-] Misaka sisters in a short period of time, so the questions of "how many to resurrect in total" and "how many are alive until a certain number" made the main god Desperate.

During the period, there were several crazy situations where the account could not be evened out.

"So it's a rough adjustment in the end," said the Lord God, with electronic products floating in front of him, and He was adjusting some things that seemed to be missing: "I also found something interesting when sorting out, related to you, do you want to see it?" look?"

he asked.

"Kenji Hagiwara died when a prisoner detonated a bomb while dealing with a bomb case seven years ago."

"Matsuda Jinpei died in the line of duty while dealing with a bomb case three years ago."

"Zhu Fu Jingguang, 3 years ago was exposed as an undercover agent in the black organization, committed suicide and died in the line of duty."

"Date Hang, died in a car accident 1 year ago."

"Originally, they should all be dead now, but because of the accidental intersection of worlds——the concept of "countdown bomb" has caused confusion. "The Lord God paused at this point: "Do you understand?Even if ordinary people find a bomb, their first reaction will be that it is a toy. "

"It happened that both worlds were collapsing, and it happened to be her. So I avoided two deaths, and the subsequent development changed accordingly."

"Coincidence among coincidences."