Can block even lightspeed attacks

The girl did not have time to be frozen in shock. She twisted her body and managed to roll a step away from the boy. She swung around her left hand as she could still move that one and gathered power there.
She released a lightning spear from it.

The spear of purple electricity moved forward at the speed of light and held enough destructive force to knock someone unconscious.

She did not think that it would act as a fatal blow.

As long as it distracted him long enough for her to get away, that was enough.

However, the lightning spear she had fired at the boy rebounded and struck her in her own chest.

"Gah…!?"

The girl was knocked back to the ground with a shock that felt like she had been struck in the chest with a hammer.

Her breathing stopped and every muscle in her body moved irregularly.

The girl‘s trembling lips managed to put together a single word.

"Re…flection…!"

"Sorry, that‘s not entirely wrong, but it still doesn‘t get to the essence of what I can do!"

The girl somehow tried to distance herself from the boy, but her body would not do what she told it to due to the electrical attack she herself had fired.

"The answer is vector conversion! Motion, heat, electricity. I can alter any kind of vector that touches my skin. I have it set to reflect by default, though!"

The girl looked up at the boy‘s face in shock.

The 2.3 million espers in Academy City were indeed special humans, but not many of them could defeat even a handgun with their power. And if they could defeat a handgun, you would use a machine gun. If they could defeat a machine gun, you would use a tank, a fighter aircraft, a battleship with submarines, or as a last resort, even a nuclear missile.

There were no espers who could defeat something like that. In fact, it would just be a lot easier to buy a handgun rather than controlling the brain and altering the arrangement of genes in order to create a power that could fight against a gun. It just seemed absurd to create a huge psychic powers development institution that slipped past international law in order to create something on the level of a cheap weapon that could be bought in American supermarkets for about 30,000 yen.

That was why Academy City‘s goal was not to create espers. The espers were nothing more than a type of litmus paper. It seemed what was truly important was why espers had been born and what mechanism brought them about.

Yet the boy before her eyes was different.

That boy could alter all vectors be they motion, heat, or electricity, so he would not be injured even if he were directly hit by that last resort of a nuclear missile. He would just reflect the shockwave that would blow everything away, the heat that would scorch everything, and the neutrons and radiation that would kill everything.

He was Accelerator, Academy City‘s strongest Level 5.