A Certain Scientific Code Vader

Chapter 5 - A Certain Special Sign

"So where are your parents?"

"Since I've been teleported I know there is somewhere around here?" Li-Mei looked around left and right, then noticed a familiar boy slowly sneaking his way out of the shopping district, looking completely uncomfortable, and heartbroken. "... Tedashii?

She tried to get a little better view but the Anti-Skill Officer grabbed her hand, and said, "I know you might be uncomfortable walking with a stranger, so I'll inform you my name is Yomikawa Aiho, is nice to meet you, and you are?"

"... Oh my name is Li-Mei Xiaodan."

"Oh a cute name you aren't around here are you?"

"... No Mam I'm from Beijing China."

"I see, that's pretty interesting, let's find your parents while you tell me everything about your homeland."

"Okay!" Li-Mei smiles and walks alongside with the Anti-Skill lady, as the male officer sighs, putting his riot shield away.

"Good thing, branch 73 offers us some aid in this matter, good grief."

"Hey don't act if you're off the hook they only call them over here Because of the manner of the mysterious traffic jam going around district 23 and you know somebody gotta check that out." The Officer said on the side of him.

"Seriously what the hell is going on with today!"

Around dawn slowly drawing to dark, a batter beating up Tedashii who was spared out of pity finally made his way home and walked carefully into the bathroom sitting on top of his toilet seat. He begins to dig through his med kit that he hid in case of a situation such as this, and patch himself over the wounds.

Tedashii sat there with his mind clear, and empty but overall frustrated over the matter.

"How can I challenge Academy City now? Just making a move and that demonic son of a bitch, would find me. No forget Academy City my whole life is already over now that he returned! Damn it, out of all those damn scientists that we killed, why did he have to be the one out of all of them to survive?! Damn it I wanted vengeance but I can't even do that right! What chance did I have to begin with? What hell was I even doing anyways?!" Tedashii begins to breathe heavily but pauses, clenching his fist, and taking deep breaths.

He open his eyes and said to himself, "I have to escape, it's simple instead of killing him, I'll just fake my death then leave Academy City, yeah I already got a ride, and I can hack my way out and even write in Academy City's database that I'm dead from that incident from earlier. There's already anti-skill members blockading the area as I speak, so I'll need to make this quick even if that demonic son of a bitch read through the trick he won't know where I'll be in the end... yeah this is for the best and besides I've let Academy city ruin me enough I don't need to be killed."

Tedashii hurriedly rushed himself, bandaging himself and taking a few pain killer pills, and quickly limped his way to his laptop that he placed his cell phone next to. That's when he looked at his jailbreak now crack screen cell phone and notice the tracker emulator still on. He clicks on the app, and notices the signal that was triggered earlier the day when Akahana woke up started from his very own room.

"Wow, I've been so alarmed of any possible treat that I didn't realize the signal that I've blocked off earlier was none other than Akahana's Data Mine this whole time. Meaning I left here with Akahana and threw her into enemy hands for nothing... Wait Akahana!!" Tedashii thought back on everything that occurred with the girl Akahana and finally tears slowly began to escape his face. "Damn it I'm so pathetic! I let that evil, demonic son of a bitch and that esper take Akahana. I just ran back home without trying to find a trace to her. I can't believe this, I'm such a coward I have to..." Tedashii paused and thought back on the words of Akahana's observation of his character.

"...Is it not? ... if so the active equivalent indefinite continued progress of existence from when we met is of that of twenty-one thousand, six hundred seconds... You could have or rather impossible for the human mind to gain emotional attachment, not to mention that emotional attachment for machinery is less effective than an actual fully human being... then if I would have to theoretically analyze your vast knowledge and frustration... your appearance at four AM in district 23... and your comments back at the restaurant... I can rather appreciate that you are scared of Academy City."

"Well! Who can blame me! Where all Guinea pigs and we have to deal with super powered monsters on a daily basis and our only protection is a basic police force called Anti-Skill and kiddy judgement, how am I supposed to be safe when I'm a level "0" child Error."

My life, until this point all I've ever tried to do was prove myself my worth. My parents... never met them, left in an orphanage, desperate since. Obsessed with worth. Reaching for value. This city, this land of science... being the esper was the only way. I perfected my studies to ensure that I would become a level five. So how cocky of me to assume...

Level "0" this must be some joke! All the work I've done just to obtain greatness..."

"You're worthless trying to find your role no matter what pipsqueak, ha! But you definitely got that look I fucking like, that look to do sacrifice anything to reach the top of the food chain, alright maybe I can give ya a shot, since we can't risk too much at the moment a level "0" such as yourself is the perfect safe choice test subject at the moment. Then once it works then we could test this out on the Espers."

"They didn't take my soul, I gave it to them. And blame the city, the Espers and everyone else that felt us to me... and now Akahana has to suffer... That demonic son of a bitch is right I'm pathetic little Guinea pig rat piece of shit. I deserve to die... but that doesn't apply to Akahana! She's right. I am scared of Academy City. But she isn't, she accepted what this city did to her so easy!"

Tedashii unblocked the signal and his eyes widened to a symbol of hope his phone was still connected to Data Mine.

Data Mine is a very unique ability I would have to say so myself and so far the only of its kind that I know of. It's similar to that of mental out's ability to be derived from the control of secretion chemicals in the target's brain, blood distribution, and cerebrospinal fluid, instead of controlling bio-electricity directly. But in this style of manner Data Mine allows the user to create and analyze any electronic device on a telepathic level, it expands a radius diffusion field as the signal kinda like WiFi, then once connected each is capable of analyzing the programming language. C programming language, source code you fucking name it all it takes is a little calculation from Hexadecimal formula then. But of course it is a low level 1 esper incapable of achieving such standards at the level it's in.

"You know this is kinda funny I know this was accidental but this signal is a shot at fate it's magical, what am I saying Magic isn't real. But this second chance is!" Tedashii opened up his wardrobe and paused for a set about what he was doing then began to chuckle. "Wow I really lost my mind now I'm gonna risk my entire life for a girl I just met yesterday. Yeah I'm done with this whole villain act, it's cheating anyways." Tedashii puts on his hoodie, and digital coding lights animated from his outfit. "All I have is a signal but it's not enough to save her, but it's a sign there's no way I can gather info on Akahana Academy did everything in there way to keep the public from knowing of her existence, meaning anything can happen to her tonight if I do fail. My pc is useless on the hand but a pc from Anti-Skill or Judgement can do. The safest route of the manner is Judgement, I'll cross paths! Alright here I come!"