calculating for impossible vectors

“Don’t get complacent. I’ve already analyzed your reflection’s filter. That fraud of a
defensive power won’t work on these.”
“Yeah, maybe this Dark Matter you control doesn’t exist in this universe,” said
Accelerator, beckoning with his index finger. “Textbook laws don’t apply, and light
waves and EM waves that touch those elementary particles go off in vectors they’re not
supposed to. So yeah, I guess trying to use this universe’s vector calculations for it ends
up putting holes in my armor.”
The bloodlust between them expanded.
The center of the busy intersection was covered up with death.
“I’ll just have to redo my calculations to include it. I’ll redefine the universe so that it’s
constructed of particles including your Dark Matter, and then, once I officially unveil
your ‘new world’ to the public, it’ll be checkmate.”
“You think...you can use your vector control on my Dark Matter...?”
“You think I can’t?”
“Hah. You think you’ve got me all figured out, do you?”
“Wouldn’t be much of an issue.”
“...!!”
“And sorry, but I don’t need to know everything about you anyway.”
A sound of an explosion ripped through the sky.
They crossed for an instant.
And thus, the match between the #1 and the #2 was settled.

***

Accelerator looked toward the ground. His crutch was there. It was probably one of the
things that came flying from the direction of the onlookers as a side effect of the battle.
He picked it up and returned his choker electrode’s switch to normal mode. A moment
later, it sounded like the noise from around the busy intersection had gotten closer.
About a hundred, a hundred fifty witnesses. But he wasn’t about to try to hide any of this.
That was for the underlings to do. It was too trivial for him to worry about.
“...”
He turned around.
Kakine Teitoku was lying on his face in the middle of the intricate intersection—the
vectors of the white wings he’d created had been predicted, their control wrested from
him, and then his body skewered. Red blood spread out in the middle of the intersection
like some strange magic circle.
But Dark Matter still wasn’t dead.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 15, Chapter 5 Parts 3-4