The wound, one that should have killed anyone instantly, had healed in a blink? How was that even possible?!

A psychic ability? Physical regeneration or something similar? No, that couldn't be right! ... This guy was clearly an Electromaster, that much was certain; a single person couldn't possess two abilities at once... So, what exactly was going on?

Accelerator found himself unable to comprehend the situation.

"You can't kill me," Lin Luo stated calmly, gazing at Accelerator with deliberate provocation.

"Tch! You bastard..." Accelerator’s face hardened. Lin Luo's taunt felt like a crushing blow to his own dignity—the dignity of Academy City's strongest esper was being ruthlessly trampled!

"You... just how many people do you think I've killed up until now? I know exactly what it takes to end a life... Why are you still alive!!"

Accelerator was certain that his previous attack—the iron rail piercing the opponent's body—had absolutely pulverized his internal organs. The heart must have been pierced. With injuries like that, even if he possessed a regeneration ability, it would be impossible to activate recovery under such circumstances!

"Who knows? Maybe I'm immortal."

"Immortal... Ha ha ha!" Accelerator stamped his foot hard against the ground, instantly rocketing forward. In the space of a breath, he was already in front of Lin Luo, his face contorted into a look of fierce, crazed, stark-white candle—a supremely twisted smile—appeared, "If I can't stab you to death, I'll just crush you!"

Accelerator thrust both hands toward Lin Luo's face. His thought process was simple: his right hand was called 'Aversion' and his left 'Poison Hand.' Once they touched human skin, whether it was the opponent's blood or internal bio-electricity, every vector could be reversed, causing instant explosive death... If destroying just parts of the body couldn't kill him, then surely destroying the entire body would suffice. Such a thing as immortality couldn't exist!

Although Accelerator's logic was simplistic, it was fundamentally sound.

If he could dismember and smash Lin Luo's body to complete oblivion in an instant, then no matter how miraculous Lin Luo's Sacred Healing Art might be, it couldn't resurrect a dead man to full status on the spot... only a certain Brother could manage that kind of feat.

However, Accelerator forgot one crucial thing, and he remembered it the instant he extended his hands—his expression immediately shifted!

Damn it!

The anxiety brought on by the unknown had caused Accelerator to briefly lose his composure. He forgot that his reflection mechanism was ineffective against the enemy, and that the enemy's reaction speed was faster than his own. Once they were in close quarters...

"That's great. I was wondering how I was going to get close to you, but you came right to me. Well then... I guess I have to reward you with a punch!"

Lin Luo ducked slightly, avoiding Accelerator's grasping hands, and unleashed a tightly clenched fist upward with a thunderous impact!

Bang!

Lin Luo’s punch landed squarely on Accelerator's abdomen, launching him high into the air... Accelerator felt a violent churning in his gut and opened his mouth, spitting out a mouthful of bitter fluid.

"It's not over yet!" Lin Luo yelled, quickly diving beneath Accelerator and smashing his fist upward again.

Accelerator’s Vector Control required physical contact to trigger. But at this moment, suspended in mid-air, he could borrow no vectors other than the wind. Controlling the wind, however, required his continuous calculation. A piercing noise sounded, and the wind force he had just gathered was instantly canceled out... Accelerator could only watch helplessly as the opponent's fists rained down upon him.

Lin Luo’s strength was 1.5 times that of a normal adult. Although stimulating his bio-electricity could grant him a significant boost in reaction speed, his actual strength did not increase. Furthermore, due to his shota transformation, his bones and muscles were somewhat weaker than an adult's. Calculated together, his strength was only equivalent to an average adult’s. Such strength might kill a person if directed at a vital point, but striking the chest or abdomen was barely sufficient.

Of course, Lin Luo now had the opportunity to strike Accelerator’s vital areas, like the back of his head or his temples. But he couldn't guarantee that a single blow would cripple Accelerator. Moreover, if he struck such an area, Accelerator would surely land, and his combo chain would be broken.

Between one ultimate move and an infinite series of small combo hits, Lin Luo naturally chose the latter... Setting aside everything else, given that Accelerator had nearly killed him moments ago, he certainly deserved a thorough beating to vent some steam!

"Aaaahhh..."

Accelerator was pummeled like a punching bag, unable to fall to the ground. While Lin Luo's punches weren't enough to kill him, they were agonizingly painful!

Beyond the physical agony, the sheer humiliation of being treated like this was intolerable to Accelerator... Who was he? Academy City's strongest Level 5 esper, standing at the apex! And now... the immense sense of shame nearly caused Accelerator to faint.

"Cute Girl Special Finishing Punch, 100-Hit Combo Complete!"

Lin Luo shouted as he struck, "Accelerator, don't you dare collapse yet! You killed over ten thousand Misaka Sisters, so I'm going to hit you over ten thousand times to feel satisfied. You still have over nine thousand punches left to endure!"

"Misaka Sister Poker Face Punch, 200-Hit Combo..."

Accelerator coughed up blood from the assault.

"Misaka Sister Scheming Punch, 300-Hit Combo..."

Accelerator’s eyes spun like pinwheels.

As he continued his barrage, Lin Luo suddenly felt a flicker of surprise. Besides his immense psychic power, wasn't Accelerator himself just a frail youth? Why hadn't he lost consciousness after three hundred-plus blows? This seemed irrational. When had Accelerator's physique become so powerful?

Could he actually possess some kind of attribute? Getting stronger the more he was beaten?

Of course, Lin Luo was unaware that the situation wasn't due to Accelerator’s physical prowess, but rather for other reasons.

The primary reason Lin Luo could keep Accelerator airborne wasn't just his superior reaction speed; more importantly, it was Accelerator's reflection ability. Based on the principles of Kihara Goshinken, Lin Luo’s punches, upon striking Accelerator, were instantly reflected. Accelerator was thus wounded by his own reflection. If both were standing on the ground, that force would be entirely absorbed by Accelerator.

However, Accelerator was currently airborne, and besides the wind, he had one other force he could borrow: Earth’s gravity. Although Lin Luo’s interference prevented him from reflecting gravity directly, when Lin Luo attacked him, a small part of the gravitational reflection activated out of instinctual bodily defense, causing him to experience a brief upward float.

Because of this, only a fraction of Lin Luo’s attack affected Accelerator's body, while the rest pushed him upward, accounting for about eighty percent of the total force.

In other words, Lin Luo was only truly damaging Accelerator with about twenty percent of his power.

This minimal force was essentially just fancy posturing. Beyond the humiliation, the actual substantive damage inflicted was pitifully small, though... it still hurt.

"Misaka Sister Cuteness Punch, I swear!"

After landing over four hundred punches consecutively, Lin Luo was rapidly tiring, while Accelerator seemed hardly fazed. Seeing Accelerator’s expression of 'blissful enjoyment' made Lin Luo realize this was a Pyrrhic victory—injuring the enemy by eight hundred while injuring himself by a thousand!

Inevitably, a slight slackening occurred in Lin Luo’s attacks, and it was in this tiny gap that Accelerator seized his chance. Reflecting the wind, his body rapidly shot forward.

But at that exact moment, an unforeseen event occurred that neither of them anticipated...

Just as Accelerator's body began to fly forward, Lin Luo’s attack connected. However, because Accelerator had moved first, the location of Lin Luo’s punch shifted minutely... The fist intended for his abdomen, by sheer coincidence, struck him right in the... crotch!

Lin Luo froze instantly. The stable Accelerator, having flown back, also froze. The two stared at each other, and the atmosphere of the battlefield suddenly became exceedingly strange.

...The reason Lin Luo was stunned wasn't because he had attacked Accelerator's lower body, but because in that very spot, where something should have been, there was... nothing??!!

Nothing? Accelerator had nothing down there?? What in the world was going on???

In an instant, Lin Luo’s mind conjured three possible answers: First, Accelerator had practiced bone-shrinking techniques to pull it inside. But this wasn't a Wuxia world, so that possibility was slim. Second, Accelerator had once undergone some kind of procedure, achieving this current state of profound mastery... well, it wasn't entirely impossible.

Of course, the above two theories were too outlandish and unlikely.

Which left the final answer... Accelerator wasn't Accelerator (, Yifang), but perhaps Accelerator (, Ippou)... a girl??!!

Thinking of this, Lin Luo instinctively glanced at his own hand, then back at Accelerator, his curiosity burning fiercely. He couldn't help but blurt out, "Um, Accelerator, I have a question I need to ask you."

"What?"

Accelerator countered in a deep voice. His expression was utterly composed, showing no trace of embarrassment or shyness about the groin attack... or was it shyness?

"That is, I want to ask... Is your name... Shirai Yuriko?"

Crack!

The moment Lin Luo finished speaking, the ground centered around Accelerator’s feet cracked open in radial fissures. The violent tremor shook the entire space!

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