Chapter Sixteen: Code Name Degenerating God

  Upon hearing the emergency evacuation notice, my first reaction was: big trouble is approaching! At this time, should I quickly leave here or even more quickly leave here?

  Just as Touma was about to turn his thoughts into action, he found that his hand had already been grabbed by another soft and chilly small hand before he could even activate the "Dust Wind Step". Turning his head around, it was Misaka Mikoto who had grabbed him.

  "What's wrong with you? Don't you know it's impolite for men and women to touch each other? Let go quickly!"

  "Even now, you still don't want to admit it? I always thought you were just a high school student who liked to play pranks and had a poisonous tongue! Why did you do something like this? If this is also a prank, then that's going too far!"

  When Touma first saw Mikoto's serious and advisory eyes, he already knew without using his own reasoning ability that this guy had determined him as the culprit of the 'Vacuum Explosion' incident. However, that phrase 'preferably a poisonous-tongued dead fish-eyed high school student who likes to play pranks' seems like an unnecessary addition!

  "If I said my ability is only LV2, it's not even enough to meet the conditions for a crime, do you believe me?" Despite having no hope, Touya Aoi tried to explain to Mikoto Misaka why someone as kind-looking as him would be saddled with such an inexplicable crime.

  "Level 2? You think you can fight me for that long and this is all you're capable of at Level 2? Go explain that to the Student Council later!" Misaka Mikoto was thoroughly disappointed with Kuroba Haruaki's explanation, her mind made up to hand him over to the Student Council.

  Upon hearing Mikoto Misaka's response, Touya Aoi was speechless with tears streaming down his face; "Gaiya-san, even if I were to come up with a multitude of butterflies, you still insist on following the script you've written out for yourself? Can't we change the time and location? I, who yearn for everyday life, am begging you on my knees... Please, by all means, turn back the clock and alter the course of that wheel of history that's rolling forward..."

  "Misaka-senpai! Why are you still here?" At this time, Hatsuki Ichinose, with short hair adorned with fresh flowers on her head, appeared in a fluster and asked Misaka Mikoto, who was still there without evacuating with the crowd, in puzzlement.

  Mikoto Misaka raised the other hand she was holding high, gesturing to Hatsuya for the owner of that hand: "Dead fish-eyed high school student," and said, "No need, if it's that 'Empty Explosion' bomber, I've already caught him now!"

  "Wow, wow, wow! Is that so? That's amazing! As expected of the young lady of Tokiwa-so, you've caught the culprit so quickly!" Haruhi Imaizumi let out a visible sigh of relief; then she clenched her fists and placed them under her chin, her eyes shining with admiration for the young lady. Keiichi Maebara thought to himself: "What does this have to do with the young lady anyway? And can't you see that it's not possible? How could someone with such a kind and harmless face be the culprit?"

  "That, that discipline committee miss, just now when we were evacuating the crowd, someone reacted to us that there was still a little kid who got lost and can't be found!" A staff member with a lot of sweat on his head found the only discipline committee member at the scene, Hatsuharu Sakuragi, and anxiously explained the situation to her.

  "Ah, that's no longer a concern now, the culprit has..." Haruhi Suzumiya smiled and was about to explain to this staff member that the culprit had been caught; when suddenly, a familiar-looking little girl with pigtails appeared in front of her, holding a green frog plushie, brought by the rolling wheels of history.

  "Big sister, just now someone asked me to give this plush toy to you." The little bear's face had an irresistible smile as he stuffed the plush toy in his hands into Chūshun Shōri's.

  "Ah, thank you......" Chūchūn Shì Lì was stunned as she took the plush toy from the bear child's hand. Before she could even react to the inexplicable situation, the space on the surface of the plush toy began to collapse inward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

  This is Void Blast!

  At this time, the reaction came too late for Haruhi to only barely manage to throw the stuffed animal in her hand to one side and hug the bear child into her arms to protect it with her body; LV5's Tachibana-senpai subconsciously used the hand she was holding onto to electrocute what she thought was the perpetrator; as for Mune, he was still far away at this point and couldn't make it here in time before the explosion to use his right hand to neutralize the explosive force.

  The initial arrow was subjected to Mikoto Misaka's high-voltage electricity, causing her limbs to convulse wildly. As for the explosion that was about to occur right in front of her, she couldn't concentrate and use her ability to reverse-accelerate the quantum particles in mid-air to stop the explosion.

  No chance in the last life, this life finally managed to cross into a world similar to Japan's anime, and before even going to the sacred place of Akihabara which is just around the corner, I'm going to die because of such a ridiculous reason? This is simply more foolish than any of my own chuuni behavior during my chuuni years! How can this be allowed to happen?!

  A surge of desire erupted in his heart, and for the first time, he felt that he was not alone in this battle! At this moment, he could feel the presence of countless predecessors who had crossed over but failed to achieve their wishes, pouring their unfulfilled desires and resentment into his numb body.

  Accelerator dragged Misaka Mikoto, who had been electrocuting him nonstop, with his trembling body; he managed to reach the plush toy just as it was about to explode.

  Feeling the aluminum product hidden in the puppet constantly moving outward and accelerating heavy particles. The initial arrow of the journey is rapidly rotating its own ability: This degree of quantum acceleration should be within my control range; well, in that case, even now, I can use quantum reverse acceleration...

  "Damn it, aren't you giving up yet at this time?!"

  Unfortunately, just as Kiyota was about to successfully reverse the acceleration of the quantum and return it to a stable state, Misaka Mikoto seemed to have misunderstood something and increased the electric current in her hand again. As a result, Kiyota only had time to weaken the acceleration of the heavy particles to a certain extent before being knocked unconscious by a wave of moderate power and intense numbness and pain with a "gah" sound.

  Before fainting, Kaito Hatsuyuki made a vow to the heavens; he would definitely run away if he ever saw that clumsy middle school girl who only held him back again! Wherever she was, there absolutely wouldn't be any chance of Kaito Hatsuyuki staying in one place for more than 10 seconds! (Although he had thought so before.)

  After falling into darkness, I don't know how long I was unconscious; when I woke up again and opened my eyes, I found myself back in the same hospital room where I first crossed over; should I say that this fate is really TM deep?

  He was about to complain when he found the girl codenamed Misaka Mikoto, also known as the "Electromaster", lying beside his bed; Kanzaki Hitori hastily rubbed his eyes, and after confirming that this wasn't an illusion caused by him opening his eyes incorrectly; all the hairs on his body stood up in shock at this fact!

  Jie Lü slowly and carefully got out of bed, not even daring to wear his shoes, then tiptoed out of the hospital room like a thief, only letting out half the weight in his heart after safely exiting the room and closing the door.

  "Hey, young man, you seem to be recovering well!" A voice suddenly sounded from behind Jie's back, startling him into quickly covering the frog doctor's mouth; he dragged him all the way to the corner of the stairs to make sure that what was being said wouldn't wake up the patient in the room before finally releasing the nearly asphyxiated frog doctor and shouting in a low voice: "Do you want to kill someone in your own hospital? How could you be so loud right outside the patient's door, startling him awake like that?"

  "Oh, you're awake? That child was worried and blamed himself after finding out about the misunderstanding, and he stayed with you at the hospital for a whole night." Dr. Frog took big breaths to calm his breathing before telling Jiaolong this.

  "Huh? Even if that's the case, I won't forgive her! That kind of person who indiscriminately treats others as bad people, humph!" Kaito said with a scowl on his face, but in his heart, he couldn't deny that he felt a slight sense of being moved.