one way road

“Aha-gya-ha! Thank you very much for that low-angle shot you’re givin’ me!!”
An explosion rang out. Accelerator stomped on the broken asphalt again and blasted off
into the sky like a rocket. He hadn’t only changed the vector of the force his legs exerted.
Behind him, there were four powerful, whirlwind-like bursts of air connected to him.

Oddly, to Musujime, it made him look like an angel ascending into heaven.
An angel who had fallen into the pit of the earth, utterly disgraced and defiled, baring
his fangs toward paradise above.
Accelerator tore into the layer of glass rain between them. Then, with a terrible cracking
sound, he broke through it all at once. There wasn’t a wound on his body as he launched
straight toward Musujime like a bullet.
His fist was already clenched.
He crushed in his grip the walking stick supporting him and it fell away from him like a
multistage rocket. The demonic fist came for Musujime Awaki’s face with the speed and
weight of his whole body behind it.
“......................................................................................................???!!!”

There was no way for her to remain calm in this situation.
She’d renounced her calculations, and now she abruptly moved the luggage between
them to protect herself. Accelerator’s fist, however, plunged through her measly
defenses, shattering them. The luggage’s outer case broke apart, its antishock padding
flew away, and the contents, rigidly fixed inside, met their end as a mess of parts and
fragments, scattering before Musujime’s eyes like a blizzard of cherry blossom petals.
“Sorry, but from here on, it’s a one-way road.” The corners of the esper’s lips turned up.
“Meaning you can’t come in! So tuck your damn tail between your legs and crawl back to
wherever it is you came from!!”
Musujime’s throat let out a strange breath of air.
The tightly balled fist, ignoring the mere luggage, collided with her face at a ridiculous
speed.

Musujime Awaki was sent flying even higher up at an angle, high into the sky. She flew
toward the edge of a building roof, coming at it from diagonally underneath, then she hit
the metal fence meant to prevent people from falling off of it. Several of the fence’s
braces pulled out of their roots like a forcefully kicked soccer ball breaking through a net.
Finally, she came to a stop.
Accelerator, having transferred all his momentum to her, stopped dead in the air. Then,
drawn by gravity, he began to fall back down to the dark ground beneath.

- Toaru Majutsu no Index Volume 8, Between the Lines 4