Toaru Majutsu no Index Light Novel Volume 20/Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Now is the Time to Strike Back    Heros_Congregate

Part 2
After throwing a large boulder and wrecked the back half of the truck Touma is in Accelerator attacked Touma. Accelerator is only attacking Touma because if “someone that exists to stop tragedies” like Touma can be killed off easily, then he can truly believe there is no more meaning left in this world. Even in his current state Accelerator knows blaming Touma for not saving LO is not right, though he doesn’t care anymore.

Accelerator then blasted one wing spanning 100m down at Touma, with force enough to cleave a skyscraper into two with one blow. Touma blocked that with one hand. Accelerator didn’t expect his 1st attack to work to begin with.

Accelerator then sweeped a wing horizontally across towards Touma, as if to wipe out everything in this world from his sight. Touma blocked that as well, though he stumbled a bit.

Accelerator knows Touma can erase any ability, and though he doesn’t know the mechanisms of that ability, he knows if he can bring overwhelming power down on Touma he can’t negate it totally. After he thinks that he feels extreme pain in his head, as if something is tearing the left and right half of his brain and splitting them apart, wanting to jump out of that gap.

Accelerator then fired another wing at Touma, with the wing splitting into several dozen spears and turned into an area attack on Touma. White snow and black earth blew up to 10m high, and cracks covered where Touma stood. Some far-off city would’ve felt that with a Richter scale, and any one of the spears have enough force behind them that just the blast waves is enough to crush a human easily. A single right hand can’t possibly block all the spears.

This should have been the end, with Accelerator losing all hope in this world.

However,

In the dust consisting of white snow and black earth, Touma slowly stood up. His clothes may be covered in dust, his head have a bleeding gash, and his center of gravity is tilted – he still stood up. Even so, Touma stood up, defiantly standing there against Accelerator.

Accelerator smiled slightly. Though how Touma got out of that is unknown, it is impossible to have blocked the attack with just one right hand. Accelerator smiled widely, as he’s truly happy that the theory of being able to defeat Touma like that is overturned so easily.

That is it.

The symbol of being able to step over and above the unconquerable fate so easily.

Accelerator laughed wildly, and poured more power into his black wings. The sickening sound in his head grew louder. On the other hand, the Level 0 clenched his fist and walked towards Accelerator.

This time they won’t just play around anymore.

The true conflict between the two has begun.