Kamijou's vision flickered in and out.
He was still lying atop the iron bridge and he could see Mikoto standing blankly on the other end of his vision.
Her electrical attacks had stopped.
Mikoto stood still as tears overflowed from her eyes like a child.
(Think…)
He thought as if he were desperately trying to hold her heart in his arms as it was about to break.
The girl before his eyes had not said that she wanted to die or that she might as well die. She had said that she had no choice but to die.
That was all.
She did not wish for death. She merely had no other option available to her.
If you were given three options and forced to choose one but they all merely said "suicide", you would have no choice but to choose "suicide". It was horribly wrong to force that choice on that girl and then force all the responsibility for her choice on her as well.
(So think…)
If all three options said "suicide", then you just had to prepare a fourth option. If there were an option that said "I'd rather live", the girl who had no choice but to die would surely choose that new option.
(I need to think up a fourth option…)
He needed to come up with a dreamlike option where Misaka Mikoto did not have to die and the experiment would still be stopped. An option where no one had to lose anything and the Sisters would be saved. That girl had said something. She had not said it with words, but she had definitely said it.
She had said that she truly wanted to live, but she had no path left but to die.
(If I can't find one, then I'll just have to make on…)
If Accelerator killed Railgun 128 times, he would shift to Level 6.
They could not prepare 128 Railguns.
As such, they had prepared the Sisters, deteriorated copies of Railgun.
Killing 20,000 Sisters would produce the same result.
The experiment was based on predictive calculations by Tree Diagram.
Destroying the laboratories just led to another research institution picking up the experiment.
To stop the experiment, the researchers had to be convinced that the experiment would not produce any results.
(Huh…?)
Kamijou felt an odd out-of-place feeling.
But in the next instant, his consciousness that had been battered by the high voltage shock quickly sank into darkness.