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Yo u really left us on a cliff hanger there ( an emotional cliff hanger but still )

I was wondering what's your endgame for this series do you have something big planned?
I cant wait to see touma vs accelerator round 2 but were still far away from that

Well I hope your safe and healthy please continue to write this amazing story its genuinely one of my favourite fanfics

As a dub watcher, I really clicked with your writing and whole heartedly agree with you on the issues of the industry and wish people would show dubs some more love, enjoying your writing so far!

You know, I didn't notice for the longest time that this had been updated. I'd been a bit worried something had happened to you. Good to see I was wrong.

Before I get on to talking about the chapter. Have you heard? The powers of all Touma's dragons have been revealed, and they are doozies. Each and every single of them are their own entities. I know the dragons play a pretty decent part in your plans for later, so I thought I'd make sure you had saw, since it was only revealed through a twitter post. But my god, the sheer amount of abilities Touma has to draw from are absurd. I'm quite happy with them myself since it opens up more avenues for me, but, yeah, overpowered isn't enough to describe those abilities. Like one of them, one that has control over ice, is literally as durable as the planet. Crazy, right?

Anyway, moving on to the chapter. Replying to what you said above to my review from the last chapter, I think you finally made me realise just what pissed me off about Komachi's way of trying to say Touma is weak. To sum it up, Komachi is a giant ass nerd who thinks martial arts are super amazing and far beyond any normal fighter not trained in them. Which is quite frankly, not true, speaking as someone who has learned martial arts myself. The only difference between a martial artist and a street fighter is the 'techniques', which don't make some massive difference. Any experienced fighter learns as they go, the best way to move their bodies, the best way for them to hit, the best way to guard. Basically, the basics of any martial art are instinctive and are polished through experience and higher end techniques, rarely contribute at all. Fighting experience and the sheer grit to take hits and the balls to follow through are what's needed.

If you've read Biohacker, which goes into Touma's past, by time he was 12, he was already picking fights with full gangs of Skill Out and by then regularly able to beat down three of them at once. He in fact went around picking fights with Skill Out at that age, because he was bored. It does explain his precognition though if he was literally picking fights with gangs at that age, and shows he has three years at least of combat experience with most of it being against multiple opponents. Hell, at that age, he had already taken down and beaten the first Esper, who had a terraforming ability that put her on the same level as Accelerator or just about, she was an Esper so powerful even Crowley couldn't control her.

Anyway, getting off track. The reason I'm so against people claiming any trained martial artist could beat Touma, is because it's bullshit and fighting doesn't work like that, martial arts don't make that big a difference, especially against a guy who has the reflexes to counter Misaka's Railgun which is three times the speed of sound even as early as the first arc and who never hesitates to fight absurdly strong people enhanced far beyond human means and the absurd durability he has. All in all, I'd honestly call bullshit on Tsuchimikado being a better fighter than Touma. The only reason I don't really mind that fight Touma lost to him early on, is because it was like a few days after he fought Accelerator, and Tsuchimikado's Esper ability is basically minor regeneration, which would make training his body absurdly easy, and ofcourse Touma not being used to fighting high level CQC users after his loss of memory.

Course, Touma is also a terrible narrator that tries to delude himself into thinking he isn't anything special and Kamachi is terrible at balancing his characters abilities and doesn't mind making them all drop their competence just to show off his newly created characters. The Kamisato arc was entirely about that and the worst part of the entire series. god I couldn't stand him and his harem.

Anyway, the Kazakari arc ends roughly the same as canon, not really much to speak on there. As you know since I told you, it's one of my most disliked parts of canon, just for no other reason than I find it a slog that drags on, with a terrible antagonist and just in general suffering for Touma having to put up with the crap of everyone around him.

The highlight of the chapter, is the end of it. Him entering the hospital room that Accelerator and Last Order are in and opening up a whole other slew of plots from the Accelerator manga. We finally get to see him and Yuri hash things out and with Last Order around, the inclusion of the sisters whom are criminally underused in the main series. and with them, so many more options are open to Touma when he see's how the sisters are giving Accelerator a helping hand with his choker.

Can't wait to see how things turn out next chapter. Eagerly waiting for it. And hope you're doing alright in these crazy times. Later mate.

Well I see that Shizuri is soon going to get the information she desires, and Touma is going to suffer. It’ll be interesting to see if Touma reveals to Mikoto that her sisters are helping Accelerator, as from what I could determine from the anime, Mikoto is completely oblivious to that fact (I don’t know when she learns that fact if she has either later in the anime, still not past the Index Daihasei arc, or in the light novels).

I wish I shared Touma’s confidence that no guy would chase after a girl whose taken/has no interest in them.

Slight peeve as a Computer Scientist. A command such as “Eliminate any opponent who attacks.” is actually far from simple. First it requires identifying opponents, which requires object recognition of entities which cause harm. Right now that’s the easy part and it took us decades to learn how to do with ease and still can take a few months to set up. Presumably Academy City has some better general image recognition software available so we can pass over that. Next you have to define eliminate. Presumably your robots won’t have a suite of medical devices nor the time to give a medical diagnosis of death, or comatose, so it’ll have to distinguish between an active opponent and a downed opponent which just adds quite a bit more complexity to the object recognition to not only identify objects as opponents (which in this case will also not all be humans as you’ll have to also potentially contend with security robots, power suits, and anything that Espers can create and remotely control that needs to be dealt with which is large), but also their condition. I suppose you could just say that an object which doesn’t move is downed which would be feasible with today’s technology, though your opponents would no doubt realize that at some point and begin to exploit that behavior. Still perhaps with Academy City’s supposed tech advantage they have really really good image recognition software that they’ve customized for combat use readiness in Academy City. Seems like something they’d do, take a technology, advance it, then apply it to an extremely narrow use and forget all about any other potential uses unless the author decides to bring it back for another arc. Regardless, now we’ve just identified a start condition, and the ideal end condition, none of the actual methods to get from one to the other. To do that you have to give them programming to deal not only with movement on two legs in a top-heavy humanoid suit (which is possible with today’s tech but is difficult), but react to an infinite number of possible attacks, and then select how to best deal with that and take out the opponent. With today’s technology it is technically doable though I’d imagine it’d take several years of testing and training to make it even half decent, and a large large budget (like tens of billions of dollars large if not hundreds), but the result would be something that could deal well against individuals and groups using conventional attack methods and aren’t formally trained or experienced in combat themselves. Against a group of individuals each using irregular methods of fighting, some of which appear to break known laws of physics. I won’t say it can’t deal with it, but the opponents would quickly learn the move set preprogrammed into the suits and what they can do to generate sure-fire kills. To make an actually effective combat robot against a crowd of Espers, you would effectively need a general AI, which opens up so many other technologies if you had it, that it begs the question of why you’re bothering with combat robots in the first place, especially if you have self-replicating medical-capable nanobots, as you could just have your nanobot swarm cover the city and inject everyone with sedatives converted from their own tissue (which if you can effectively recreate human biology plus one minor change using alternative protein structures, you probably can do considering most compounds are made of carbon hydrogen and oxygen combined in some form). Now I know that they’re using Jain who has a human brain (effectively even if it “technically” isn’t human due to being made of different proteins than a standard human, which I find to be the most pointless and pedantic distinction between human and nonhuman that doesn’t have a current real-world counterpart in fiction that I’ve seen), which would indicate that a lot of those computation problems would be solved by using a computer that has millions of years of evolution designing it to solve these problems efficiently and thoroughly, and she like all the Espers would have insane computation abilities in order to do all this, but I still take offense to calling executing that task ‘simple’ even if in theory they are able to simply do it with little hassle. Rant over.

You know, I was thinking, and if they had nanobots small enough to start being used for medical purposes, shouldn’t they realistically be capable of starting to replicate Esper abilities? Aero Hand could be generated by the nanobots acting as tiny turbofans, Dark Matter could be replicated somewhat by having the nanobots assume the shape of what you desire, Electromaster could let you generate electromagnetic fields where you needed, with multiple nanobots aligning their fields to create macroscopic effects. Obviously not every ability such as Teleporter and Vector Manipulation could be replicated as the first requires accessing multiple dimensions (which presumably would be quite a bit more difficult to do seeing as only a small percentage of people with Esper abilities are capable of doing anything with those other dimensions) and the latter requires being able to violate not only Newton’s laws of physics, but also violate Conservation of Momentum and Angular Momentum which again presumably requires magic or Esper abilities. Still even with the limitations, it sounds far more useful as a combat tool than either the Sisters (which ran the risk of either the Sisters living long enough to develop enough self-will to realize the discrepancies in the morals they were given and their existence, or just get tired of experiencing dying, or the network itself developing enough to push the Sisters away from that existence even if no single Sister was emotionally mature enough to overcome their brainwashing), Accelerator as LV6 (like seriously, they’d be lucky if he just didn’t kill all the people involved in the project after becoming LV6 because people who tend to be willing to do stuff like kill 20,000 individuals to gain power also tend to be people who kill all the people who know the secret to their power or how they gained it), or Febri and Jain (which runs much the same risks that the Sisters did, that they’d rebel at some point, because seriously, don’t give a group of individuals all your power then treat them like trash, that’s how you get things like the revolts in the Ottoman Empire). Of course Academy City might not care because Aleister’s goals aren’t developing superior military capacities nor helping the world, but someone outside the city would definitely care and he could definitely become the biggest name the world has ever seen as he becomes the one singlehandedly responsible for curing cancer, old age, most other sicknesses and defects, surpassed Academy City by giving us all superpowers years before Academy City was able to (they might still be popular for being able to provide the more unique superpowers not nearly as restrained by physics as the nanobots could), solved GW (have them build solar panels and batteries and you can easily get all the power the world needs and then we can use the excess power to fix a lot of the problems caused by GW), and probably a dozen other things that nanobots can do in theory given the capabilities shown or implied in that brief demonstration. It is perhaps my biggest complaint with the original series or any of its derivatives, there are so many cool examples of technology being shown, and the city is supposedly 30 years in the future compared to the rest of the world, but the majority of the technology besides Esper development which is just the main setting is never used beyond the narrow purpose it was intended for. I mean the VR room shown in the swimsuit episode would be so useful for combat training to give to the Sisters so they can actually give a challenge to Accelerator instead of just continually verifying 10,000 times the utter ineffectiveness (and detriment) of guns. I’d say it could also be used to train Accelerator except that I have a feeling his powers would break the room, though I also imagine they could in theory create a VR implant and train him that way. Of course in theory the plan wasn’t supposed to succeed at all, but you’d think one of the researchers would’ve thought of some other easier way of doing it and at least submitted the possibility. Particularly because throwing away the Sisters like that is not only inhumane, but also wasteful considering how useful they are as a Network. I mean even if they aren’t LV5, an army of mass-produced clones that can all mentally connect to each other and manipulate electronics would be a formidable force if properly equipped. Once you get past the fact that they all look like middle schoolers, are less than a decade old, and all have been brainwashed to have no regard for their own lives, and all those other pesky moral considerations that Academy City apparently just leaves at the curbside when the researchers enter the city. Not to mention that with the technology they have, they only need a few minor changes and they could in theory back up a person’s mind then when they are killed, clone them and upload that person’s mind into the clone. While it’s argued whether that individual would be the same, (I tend to argue not), certainly some individuals in Academy City would like that option in case their work is cut short by death, so at least they’d know that not even death can stop them from completing their work. The Kihara’s especially seem like the type of people to do that (as far as I know none of them pull anything like that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the author pulled that at some point, though it doesn’t appear that that any of then have done so to my knowledge though you’d expect most if not all to do so given how tenacious they are shown to be). Anyways, there’s my rant on the subject. Keep up the good work!

Was listening to music when Rick Astley’s song came on during the bridge scene, mood was completely inappropriate, but the lyrics kinda fit strangely enough. It was odd.

So they perfected the Polaroid. Truly, the most state of the line technology

I called it with the sister!

If I had to guess, his sister is Mugino, the 4th ranked Level 5. Evidence: 0. You stated previously you had no plans to create OCs so she must be someone we already know 1. She was a level 3 when she disappeared, and it’s been some time so she would have had plenty of time to level up and become quite powerful and at that point there are only two ranks to go and if Level 5 literally only a seven people as possibilities (and I doubt you’re going to reveal Mikoto and Kamijou are somehow siblings considering how much you ship them) 2. When she disappeared her parents didn’t seek to go after her so there has to be a reason why they wouldn’t go after her, her joining a criminal organization is a possibility, though admittedly I don’t know enough about Kamijo’s parents but if they’re anything like Kamijo then I’m not certain they’d ever give up on her even if she did that, so admittedly weak evidence. 3. Her character design is vaguely similar enough to Kamijo’s mother that she could pass as her daughter (of course anime style makes everyone related so I don’t think that was intentional on the original author’s part). 4. Not evidence, but for some reason seeing two different recommended fanfics on the TVTropes page before settling on this one, which both included a ship between Mugino and Kamijou made me get a gut feeling that they’re going to be related in this one, which is odd and feels weird if that’s the case.

When is the next update?!

Ahhh, this is the third time I've started reader this story from the beginning to the most recent chapter. And every single chapter is just as amazing as it was the first time I've read it.

When’s the next update?
And how frequently is this updated?

Why do I have a feeling that the family referred to are the Einzbern?