【Fantasy Pass】-Psycho Pass Banquet

Kamijou Touma gambled on an almost miraculous possibility.

After sensing Accelerator's suicidal intentions, he threw the multi-purpose knife in his hand as a throwing knife. The steel nails that spewed out of the muzzle collided with the blade and deviated from the original track. A terrible laceration was made, but the fatal temple was avoided.

This is something that would be ridiculous no matter how you think about it.

But that's exactly what happened.

During this short pause, he gritted his teeth and got up, staggered to Accelerator's side, and grabbed the electric nail gun.

Then, he slapped the face with a blank expression hard.

The slap on the cheek brought clear and hot pain, and Fang Accelerator's head was slapped to one side.

The unexpected pain made him stare blankly at the corner of the room covered with cobwebs.

"Why do you die?" Kamijou Touma grabbed Accelerator's collar and asked hoarsely: "Because the people you hurt won't even get an apology! Those debts you owe! Those mistakes you made! Everything will be paid for." It’s not over, why are you going to die! What right do you have to die—?!”

Following Kamijou Touma's movements, a large amount of blood gushed out from the wound on his abdomen, and the vitality was slowly draining from the small wound less than three centimeters.

Accelerator raised his neck, stared at a faint beam of light breaking through the dim skylight, and smiled:

"But, is it necessary for people like me to live? The sins created by these hands are already too many, even if I spend my whole life, I can't make up for it."

"That's why you can't escape, you can't give everything to death."

Kamijou Touma looked into Accelerator's eyes and said:

"So, live on. Not for anyone else, but for me, live. Go wash away all your sins with your own hands, witness the happy smiling faces of others with your own eyes, and bear the accusations and insults imposed on you one by one, no matter No matter how long it takes, no matter what way it takes, I will be here, always by your side. If Sibyl can't judge you, then it's up to me—to spend my life trying to live, this is my only punishment for you."

"You are..."

There was a moment, there really was a moment.

Kamijou Touma thought that Accelerator was about to cry, but in the end he gritted his teeth and smiled:

"Why don't you give up on me?"

"Who knows. Maybe it's because I don't have the ability to prevent the tragedy from happening, so I should not give up lightly."

A hoarse siren sounded outside the abandoned hospital building. Kamijou Touma took a deep breath and said:

"Hiroki Sakaguchi. Accelerator. In the name of the Criminal Division of the Security Bureau, the two of you have been arrested."

"……Arrested?"

Hiroki Sakaguchi spat out the stagnant blood clots in his mouth, and slowly stood up while supporting the wall:

"Stop joking! Let me live in a cage in this rotten and comfortable society! It's better to let me die!"

The boy picked up the bone chopping knife on the ground and threw it at the two, then ran out the door.

Accelerator dodged the sharp weapon and got up to chase after him, but his legs gave way and he fell to the ground. The sharp pain in his chest made it difficult for him to move, and he even vomited blood.

"...I can't stay here anymore." Kamijou Touma pressed the wound on his side with force, stood up from the ground, and stretched out a hand to Accelerator who fell on the ground: "How about you, can you stand up?" ?"

"You wouldn't say you're going to chase that guy again, would you?" Fang Accelerator didn't hold the hand, but instead grabbed the edge of the hospital bed, barely standing up.

"how come."

Kamijou Touma walked over to give him a hand, and the two supported each other and walked slowly towards the door: "Stay here, or you will be arrested as a prisoner, and I don't know if the outsiders can successfully catch you." Hiroki Sakaguchi, I have to explain to them as soon as possible. Besides, if I stay here and wait for those slow-moving people to search every room, my blood will be drained first."

"Why the task is ranked ahead of me, I don't understand you at all." Accelerator shook his head.

Kamijou Touma smiled cheerfully: "Actually, sometimes I don't understand myself."

After a moment of silence, Accelerator suddenly asked, "Is it really good to let people like me live?"

"Still struggling with this problem? I've already said it, let you live, and try your best to make others smile with true happiness, as a life sentence of life imprisonment."

"Maybe one day you will be scolded by everyone like me and lose everyone's trust. Even so, is it okay?"

"Then wait until that day really comes, and let me regret that day to my heart's content."

Kamijou Touma stared at the rough road ahead and said:

"I don't want to lose you again."

Fortunately, the room where the duel took place was on the first floor of the entire building. As long as you pass through the black corridor full of sundries and garbage, you will be outside. At this moment, the sky is pouring rain, the ground is covered with puddles, and the reflected neon lights make everything look like this illusory.

The person who came to respond was Sanke. Misaka Mikoto, who was about to lead people into the building, was startled when she saw Kamijou Touma and Accelerator walking out of the main entrance covered in blood and supporting each other. She braved the heavy rain and called for first aid. Ban, the first to run to Kamijou Touma:

"What happened? How did it become like this?"

Why do you get rid of your subordinates and take risks alone?Has the culprit of the incident been caught?

Kamijou Touma waved his hand to interrupt the woman's voice: "Sorry, I accidentally let the suspect run away just now, but he was also injured, so he shouldn't have gone very far. There is still time to chase after him now. In addition, the child wearing a Be careful with instruments that may neutralize the Dominator."

"I see." Misaka Mikoto nodded, temporarily suppressing the question in her heart, and called her subordinates to scatter to search for Hiroki Sakaguchi's whereabouts.

"……It's you."

Suddenly, a small figure appeared in the aperture of the searchlight.

Kamijou Touma covered the too harsh light, and it took him a long time to recognize that it was the girl who was kidnapped together with Index. At this moment, her whole body was soaked by the heavy rain, and she was wearing a dress that was too loose for her. men's jacket.

Like a wandering soul that has lost her body, she stands numbly in the torrential rain, muttering to herself:

"My hue is black. There's no going back."

Misaka Mikoto wanted to pull away the girl who asked them for help after meeting halfway, but she lightly shook off her outstretched hand and walked forward.

The girl's eyes fixed on Accelerator, and approached him step by step.

"It's you."

For a while, no one knew how to deal with this situation.

The girl walked forward step by step like this, bumping into Accelerator's embrace as if embracing her long-lost lover.

"—that man said, you are the murderer behind everything."

Accelerator listened quietly to the girl's monologue.

At first, it just felt like being bumped lightly by someone, probably because something slightly cool had sunk into the body, and there was a slight warm and swollen feeling in the abdomen.

There was no obvious pain when the texture was cut off, warm and viscous liquid gushed out, and the hot and humid touch slowly spread downward along the gravity, so clear in the cold rainstorm.

Accelerator subconsciously stretched out his hand to touch it, and his fingertips were stained an eye-catching red. The viscous liquid was instantly washed away by the rainstorm, and formed a small scarlet puddle on the ground.

Got stabbed.

This fact did not gradually surface in his mind until a long time later.

"It's your fault! It's all your fault! It's you who ruined my life!"

The screaming girl pulled out the switchblade that had just pierced into the abdominal cavity of the human body, stabbed it back again, and spit out the most vicious curse:

"Go to hell—! Murderer!"

Everything happened so suddenly, no one expected that such a murder weapon was hidden in the arms of the trembling girl all this time, and no one expected such a tragic scene to happen at this moment.

"Get out of the way! Get out of the way—!"

Kamijou Touma yelled away the first responders who were checking his wounds, and pushed away the girl who was repeatedly stabbing her enemy with the blade.

His legs suddenly lost the strength to support his body, and Accelerator stared blankly at the girl in front of him, and her blood-stained blade fell to the ground without a sound.

See, it always does.

Kamijou Touma caught Accelerator's body before he completely fell to the ground, stretched out his hand to try to stop the blood gushing out continuously, and the black-red hole that seemed to be devouring the man's vitality, and let out a heart-piercing howl :

"What the hell are you doing—?! Are you all blind—?! First aid—! Someone here is hurt—!"

Always, always.

Accelerator stretched out his trembling hands, waved away the rushing emergency responders, and tightly clenched Kamijou Touma's collar as if grasping the world's last hope, trying to sit up:

"Kamijou...Touma..."

"You don't move! It's all right—it's going to be all right—"

Kamijou Touma grabbed the hand that was outstretched to him.

Accelerator's bloody mouth showed a distorted smile:

"Look...that's how life is."

Obviously I didn't have any choice from the beginning, but I always gave me unnecessary hope.

"It doesn't matter if I live or die. No one will give me a choice..."

He went on with difficulty, laughing, laughing, and laughing:

"It has always been a life that no one expected..."

"No one cares about...my feelings, no one cares about what I want-I'm always, desperately, living for others."

"When I want to die... when I decide to give up everything and destroy myself, someone always forces me to live..."

"When I decide no matter how ugly I am, even if I lie on the ground... I want to live, but...someone will always let me die..."

"What is right and what is wrong, I can't tell at all... Kamijou Touma, the person you want to save should never have existed from the beginning."

A large amount of blood spurted out from the wound on Fang Accelerator's abdomen.

"I should have known it long ago—this society just wants to see me live a life that is worse than death."

The light in Accelerator's eyes was washed by the rainstorm to become transparent and dissipated like a pool of blood spreading on the ground.

The hand that clenched Kamijou Touma's collar, leaning against his chest, let go quietly.

"……you win."