Description[]
Hello, everybody! I am back once again to give another calculation. This time, I'm revisiting Elfen Lied to calculate this feat that has been glossed over for awhile. Massive shoutout and thanks to Strunton for bringing up this calculable feat!
Context[]
For context, this applies to End of Series Lucy only. Basically, the gist of this feat is that Kaede (Lucy's real personality) alongside Nyuu (Lucy's innocent personality) was able to redirect the vectors the DNA Voice (the personality controlling Lucy during this feat) were shooting towards Kouta with a miniscule distance left. The barrier-looking light surrounding Kouta when the vectors redirect is just an illusion. Also, I'll be re-calcing the speed of the vectors considering that they were implied to shoot down at much faster rates as seen in the page below.
Also, as you would notice, I used another version of this page. This new one has a higher resolution. Sooooo... Here we go!
Calculation[]
We shall re-calc the speed of the vector that shot down from space back down to Earth considering they're implied to shoot down at faster speeds. (Sorry if the pic's low quality... FANDOM won't give me permission to upload the pic in its default resolution... Also, the Earth's inside the circle.)
Diameter of the Earth: 12,742,000 m
587/1788 = 0.3283
0.3283 x 12,742,000 m = 4,183,195.75 meters
For the timeframe, I will use a low-ball, a mid-ball, and a high-ball. For all the timeframes, they will be assumed based on the context, considering TataHakai said below that WPS isn't used anymore.
Lucy (with the DNA Voice in control) said "All of this... is entirely... your fault!!" as the vectors came down in the bottom right panel. A small sentence. Considering this, I have decided that the low-ball timeframe will be 5 seconds. For the mid-ball, it will be 4 seconds. And the high-ball, it will be 3 seconds.
Low-ball vector speed (5 seconds): 836,639.15 m/s or Mach 2440 (Massively Hypersonic+)
Mid-ball vector speed (4 seconds): 1,045,798.94 m/s or Mach 3049 (Massively Hypersonic+)
High-ball vector speed (3 seconds): 1,394,398.58 m/s or Mach 4065 (Massively Hypersonic+)
We got our speeds. Now, to angsize the distance of the vector from Kouta.
Kouta is about my height 5'8" or 1.73 meters. So, 1/8 ratio for the height of his head.
1.73 meters / 8 = 0.21625 meters.
Time for angsizing now:
0.21625 * 1554px /[330*2*tan(70deg/2)] = 0.7272 meters
That's the distance Kouta was from the perspective. Now for one of the vectors. I will assume the average width of a human hand (0.079 meters) for the end of the vector.
0.079 * 1554px /[123*2*tan(70deg/2)] = 0.7127 meters
Now that we found both these distances, we shall now use them to find the wee distance when the reaction started.
0.7272 meters - 0.7127 meters = 0.0145 meters
That's the distance. Now for the time:
Low Ball = 0.0145 meters / 836,639.15 m/s = 0.0000000173 seconds (Relativistic Perception: 19.25% SoL)
Mid Ball = 0.0145 meters / 1,045,798.94 m/s = 0.0000000139 seconds (Relativistic Perception: 24.06% SoL)
High Ball = 0.0145 meters / 1,394,398.58 m/s = 0.0000000104 seconds (Relativistic Perception: 32.08% SoL)
Weeew... Those are some fast Reactions! To try and translate this to combat speed, I will examine the angular distance the vectors traveled when Kaede redirected them. Using the next frame and taking one of the vectors, one of the vectors were redirected by 38.5 degrees as seen here (yes, that's the same vector I am measuring).
The length of the vector I will use will be the same one as the distance from the POV.
So, with this:
0.7127 * 2 * (3.141592654) * (38.5/360) = 0.479 meters
Conclusion[]
We got our timeframe and distance! To divide the values to get a grand total of...
Low Ball: 0.479 meters / 0.0000000173 seconds = 27,637,941 meters per second (Mach 80,577.1, or 9.22% SoL, Sub-Relativistic+) (ACCEPTED)
Mid Ball: 0.479 meters / 0.0000000139 seconds = 34,547,427 meters per second (Mach 100,721 or 11.52% SoL, Relativistic)
High Ball: 0.479 meters / 0.0000000104 seconds = 46,063,236 meters per second (Mach 134,295, or 15.37% SoL, Relativistic)
Wow. Now THAT is an upgrade.