Chapter 193: Chapter 192: Epilogue
At this point, Accelerator had already determined that AFO was no longer worth observing.
The kinetic energy produced by trampling him would spread throughout AFO's body and beyond, with Accelerator adjusting the direction to ensure precision. The resulting power could increase by dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of times.
Against someone like AFO, a mere increase of a few dozen times would be enough. After all, he didn't want to affect All Might, who wasn't far away, or Class A behind the wall.
A powerful tremor followed, along with Accelerator's signature maniacal laughter, echoing throughout the Kamino Ward.
In that blood-filled pit, several meters deep in the ground, AFO's body was barely recognizable as human.
"Hey? Don't give up."
"Open your eyes and take a good look at your sorry state. You talked so big, but you can't even hold on through this? That's just too boring."
"A real man would turn the tables and show me what he's made of, you scumbag!"
An indescribable pain, like a parasitic worm gnawing at his bones, was constantly eating away at AFO's mind.
Accelerator, who completely outclassed AFO, continued to mock him.
"Hey! Get up!"
"Keep playing with me for a little longer! This just started, didn't it?"
AFO didn't respond, nor was he dead.
He had stopped using the [Vector Manipulation] Quirk, and the reason was simple—he wanted to survive. How could he give up resistance and die here?
For someone as proud as AFO, that was absolutely impossible.
At this point, AFO believed there was still one way to defeat Accelerator.
That was to wear him down, waiting for the moment when Accelerator reached his limit.
After all, AFO had [Hyper Regeneration] and [Self-Restoration].
Even if it turned into a humiliating endurance battle where he became nothing more than a punching bag, AFO was determined to defeat Accelerator and survive.
In the pool of blood, the once mighty AFO coughed up blood miserably, but still laughed.
"Even if I can't steal your Quirk, so what?!"
"If you can't kill me, you'll run out of strength eventually!"
"And once that happens, everything you care about will turn to ashes."
Without a doubt, fighting an almost unbeatable opponent like Accelerator was the most grueling battle AFO had ever faced.
It was as if Accelerator mocked AFO's ignorant thinking with a sneer.
"Oh, with your [Self-Restoration] Quirk?"
Accelerator spread his arms wide, as if trying to embrace the entire night sky, laughing wildly.
"From where I'm standing, that's nowhere near enough!"
If AFO could heal himself with even a drop of blood, then the solution was simple—don't leave him even a drop.
It was a method Accelerator had once come up with during a fight with someone else, but he had discarded it due to its many flaws. However, in this situation, that terrifying power had evolved again.
"—Boooom!"
With a deafening roar, the flow of wind began to form a new vortex.
In an instant, the wind from the entire Shinjuku district, and even several nearby blocks, converged on a single point.
Unlike before, when Accelerator barely managed to control the wind of Academy City, now things were different.
Thanks to a strange change and an increase in his calculation ability, this destructive power had also evolved.
The most obvious change was that the time it took to compress the air had been significantly shortened. With this as the tipping point, he could now calculate the wind's flow model more perfectly and accurately.
At the time, someone clearly remembered it had taken about a full minute, but now it took less than fifteen seconds.
This was the strength gained from an increase of just one-tenth of the calculation power on his path to becoming an absolute power user.
Even the Dark Emperor couldn't help but change his expression when he saw this AFO vortex. That fear he felt was as if the world itself was about to deliver a divine punishment upon him, sending chills through his entire body, as though his spine had been frozen.
Next, the storm gathered at a single point, and a blinding white light like the tip of a welding torch appeared — plasma.
When it truly descended upon that distant world, the black night was completely exposed under this pure white light.
It was an intensely compressed, scorching sphere, with temperatures reaching tens of thousands of degrees.
Just the heat waves from the outer edge of this sphere made All Might, who was closest, feel like he was being burned.
Although it was only about thirty meters in size, the explosive power contained within was far from simple.
It was as if a hole had been forcibly opened in the atmosphere of that distant world. This blazing sphere, which moved at a considerable speed, was poised to strike, a 30-meter-wide object of destruction singing joyfully as it was born.
The move itself was the same, but if there was one major difference between that past battle and now, it was the level of control.
This time, Accelerator could control it freely with just one hand.
In fact, the shortening and control were unimaginable progress.
It was a secondary physical phenomenon that even the [Imagine Breaker] couldn't erase, something far beyond what human abilities could defend against, comparable to a nuclear-level weapon.
Because of his past experience being interrupted, Accelerator had specially written a formula this time.
It was a formula specifically designed to counter any interference from the enemy.
Bathed in the plasma, AFO lost his life during what felt to him like an eternity of pain.
In the end, what he thought of was how he had believed he'd already given Accelerator enough attention, only to realize that it hadn't mattered at all. How ironic.
After fulfilling its mission, the plasma vanished into thin air, as if it had melted into the atmosphere.
Accelerator gazed at the Shinjuku area, a hellish scene of crystallization he had personally caused, while the existence known as AFO was reduced to ashes.
Not even a single cell remained, and the battlefield had fallen completely silent.
The white demon stared in the direction where AFO had disappeared, lost in thought.
Meanwhile, the [Symbol of Peace], barely maintaining his muscular form, walked over to the young man with complex emotions and quietly offered his thanks.
"Thank you, kid."
"You're already a hero who can stand on his own."
Accelerator responded with a slightly twisted smile.
"I'm no hero."
"I just can't stand that bunch of trash."
All Might, his once powerful face now frail and thin, smiled with a sense of relief and replied,
"That's more than enough."
=====
You can read 20 advanced chapters at my patreon.com/YeyeQiu