predicts what someone is thinking so much they speak unison

He was Kakine Teitoku.
“…That did not go as well as planned. I never thought he would take out 300 of the meshaped ones in only 15 minutes. Even if they can’t be killed, it looks like he can still keep
them from moving by smashing their bodies open or balling them up.”
No hint of bitterness could be found in his tone as he muttered solely for his own benefit.
In the battle between the #1 and #2, direct damage was not viewed with much
importance.
Kakine Teitoku’s “creation” could replace anything destroyed with a newly created one.
Accelerator’s “destruction” could intercept any attack with his vector transformation.
What mattered most to those two was not the physical phenomena seen on the surface.
It was the calculation patterns, thought patterns, and Personal Realities at the base of
their powers. Coming up with a detailed analysis of what it was that made the two of
them special was what would provide them with victory.
In their previous battle, Kakine had used his Dark Matter which does not exist in this
world to reflect sunlight and shockwaves to create attacks that possessed vectors that
could never exist on the earth.
The first condition for Kakine was finding a way to break through Accelerator’s wall of
reflection.
If one observed the battle while focusing on that side of things, one would finally see the
true path the battle had taken.
“When it comes to your attack patterns and the logic of your reflection, those 300 you
destroyed are like playing a game of concentration. Even failed attempts help you
succeed the next time as long as you memorize the pattern and numbers on the cards.
And eventually you will have a complete view.”
Something white and 5 meters long flew above Kakine’s head.
The object cutting through the sky while slipping through the gaps in the framework of
the experimental miniature radio tower was a giant dragonfly made of Dark Matter that
was used for reconnaissance.
Looking like he was watching a paper airplane he had made fly away, Kakine muttered,
“But this could always come to a pathetic end where you collapse from your battery
dying before that happens.”
♦
“…is probably what he’s thinking,” muttered Accelerator underneath a giant overpass.
He was on top of the complex metal framework that reinforced the overpass. He sat on
one piece of the framework with his back leaning up against an intersecting piece of the
framework. He was lightly touching the switch for the choker-style electrode on his neck.
The choker-style electrode’s battery would only last for 30 minutes.
He had already used half of that.
Kakine Teitoku only had to avoid a quick resolution and continue his attacks to hold
Accelerator in check and Accelerator would be driven into a fatal situation. A certain
situation had led to Accelerator’s brain being severely injured, so he could not use his
power of the strongest or even stand on his own two feet or understand human language
without receiving calculation support from the Misaka Network via his choker.
But…
(That is not an absolute limit. It’s just that the battery is only able to hold that much
power. In that case…)
The overpass seemed to have water pipes and power cables running through it and a
thick cable ran right next to Accelerator. He glanced across the surface of the cable to
check on the amperage and voltage running through it and then unhesitatingly removed
the outer covering of the cable with his bare hands.
He was going to recharge.
The concept was simple enough, but he of course could not use the high voltage current
running through the thick power cable as is. On his way to that overpass, Accelerator
had gathered a few metal plates, wires, and the like. By assembling them, he had created
a makeshift transformer.
If his calculations were off even by the slightest amount, not only would the choker-style
electrode burst into flames, his fingers operating the transformer could even be blown
off.
Yet he did not hesitate.
He quickly attached the transformer to the power cable and used a small cord to supply
power to his electrode’s battery.
(I can’t sit here recharging for very long. I’ll probably only get maybe a dozen seconds
recharged.)
To be blunt, he recognized he was at the disadvantage.
He accepted that fact.
And after accepting it, he continued on.
(But if he is convinced I’ll run out of gas after another 15 minutes, all I need is a few
extra seconds. If I add an additional attack during that extra time, I can tear him apart.)
He had already made the preparations he needed for that.
The monster known as Academy City’s #1 had not consumed half of his battery’s power
for nothing.
He saw the #2’s power as warranting the use of half the battery.
(Now then. Those attacks I intentionally used nonsense calculation patterns for should
have reached him by now. If he’s calculated out an optimum answer based on that, I’ll
be able to defeat that asshole without needing this extra battery time.)
♦
“…is probably what he’s thinking,” muttered Kakine Teitoku as he leaned up against the
framework at the center of the radio tower.
(Since that battery is his bottleneck, he’ll want to secure some extra power and he knows
the vulnerabilities of his reflection better than anyone. He isn’t going to provide an
opening so easily. But some idiosyncrasies will always remain. There is something real
hidden among all the decoy information.)
Once he learned the white dragonflies soaring through the sky could not find the target,
Kakine Teitoku focused his search on areas that could not be seen from the sky.
(The biggest danger is those wings that leave the category of logic altogether. Those can
carry out attacks that overcome Dark Matter’s strength. He would be quite a threat if he
could bring them out at will.)
But he doubted it was that easy.
(I don’t have enough data on them because they have appeared so infrequently, but it is
always when his emotions are at an extreme high or low that they appear. It does not
matter if the emotions are positive or negative. Plus the wings never stay for long. …In
other words, I just need to hold him in check. That’s all. I don’t know what those wings
consume, but just like with his other powers, they will disappear on their own if I buy
enough time.)
He had had as much time to think as he could ever want.
During the time almost all of his organs had been crushed and replaced with artificial
ones and while he had been used by some piece of shit or another to manufacture
weapons, he had truly had as much time as he could want.
(The #1 is fiercely powerful but only in certain areas. An opening will surely show itself.
It is a matter of timing…of finding the peaks and the valleys. Meanwhile, my creation
ability is perfectly stable. This battle will be decided when he falls down into one of his
own valleys. All I have to do is continue doing what I am doing.)
♦
“…is probably what he’s thinking.”
“…is probably what he’s thinking.”
In two different parts of the city, two different monsters muttered those words. They
continued thinking on and on as they worked to grow closer and closer to truly attacking
their opponent.
It is often said that a fight was over before the fists ever began to fly. These two had
already shown themselves to be monsters in that early stage.
The #1 stopped recharging his battery with the power cable and calmly left the overpass
using his modern cane.
The #2 unhesitatingly jumped down from the radio tower when he determined
surveillance from above was of no use.
They headed to the next exchange.
To their next move.
“This will decide the outcome.”
“This will decide the outcome.”
Their voices overlapped as if it had been rehearsed.
They muttered those words in unison as they showed each other their backs from afar.

- New Testament Volume 6 Chapter 6 Part 4