Accel World Vol 1 Chapter 1 (2/2)

“Do your worst”

After his ain The school net avatar doesn’t have «i inappropriate conduct, a student cannot touch another student’s avatar Of course, forcing so out is out of question

The cat avatar, after extending its sue out to the limit for a Be~[2], shouted

“Link Out!”

Instantly, leaving behind a light vortex and bell like sound, the cat disappeared

The noisy one finally disappeared, he blew a short sigh frohtly lonely, at that moment

Bang! A serious kind of attack hit his head and the surrounding view disappeared Froht, he returned to the real world’s scenery

While feeling his heavy weight, Haruyuki desperately blinked, trying to focus

Originally a rey door in front of hi

“You Why!?”

Standing ile female student The color of her blazer and ribbon showed that she was a similar first year student

She was se was raised on the right side with a blue hairpin Cat like ser stared at Haruyuki

Her left hand held a sht above Haruyuki’s head, in a s that, Haruyuki finally understood why he had been suddenly disconnected from Full Dive The female student had hit his head with that fist, and the shock activated the Neuro Linker’s safety causing an automatic Link Out

Nor the shoulder or a loud shout, but for sensitive girls, if anyone gets within a meter of them, they were set to Link Out The reason Haruyuki didn’t notice the intruder until he was hit on the head was since he was hiding in a toilet stall, he set his safety level to the lowest

“Why you!!”

Surprised and airl in this school that he can talk to without panicking

“What were you doing! This is the men’s toilet! The door was locked are you an idiot!!”

“You are the idiot”

Haruyuki’s childhood friend while wearing a skirt cli person is Kurashi+ in a sulky voice, she pulled back her right hand and unlocked the door behind her

With a light movement, she jumped out of the stall Haruyuki’s eyes narrowed froht reflected from her chestnut-color hair, Chiyuri finally had a small smile on her face, and added

“Hey, come out already”

“I got it”

Sing his sigh, Haruyuki stood up as the toilet seat cover creaked While chasing Chiyuri as heading to the exit, he had another question

“How did you knoas here?”

The reply did not co her head out of the men’s toilet to check outside, Chiyuri slipped into the hallway and tersely said

“I was on the roof too So I followed you”

That means -

“You saw”

Haruyuki stopped after putting one step into the hallway, and whispered

Looking like she was trying to find the right words, Chiyuri leaned her back on the far wall, then finally nodded

“I won’t say anything uys Since Haru decided that was fine I have no choice But you should eat your lunch It’s bad for your body”

With a forced smile, Chiyuri held out the basket in her left hand

“I h”

- So ht

His heart trying to find feeling beyond compassion in Chiyuri’s words and actions, ithout a doubt pitiful

Because Chiyuri had a genuine boyfriend In many ways opposite of Haruyuki, their other childhood friend

His ely flat voice issued, Haruyuki heard it

“Remains of what you made for Taku?”

Chiyuri’s face suddenly beca into her eyes with raised eyebrows, Haruyuki looked down at the hallway

“That’s not true, Ta-kun has school lunch This sandwich is ht”

Haruyuki extended his right hand to push back the white basket that entered his view

However, the slow real body moved in a different way from his control, the sudden movement knocked the basket fro the floor the cover opened, frole cut sandwich fell out and broke apart

“Ah”

He wanted to apologize on reflex, but the inside of his head became hot and the words he should have spoken could not take shape He could not raise his head, and stepped back while cowering, then he shouted and turned around

“I don’t want them!!”

He wanted to log out froht, but of course that’s impossible He should at least run, but his real body became unbelievably heavy, he could not escape from the small voice behind him

In the worst mood, he passed the afternoon lessons and home room, and fled out of the classroom

He pushed the voice in his head aside that told him to wait for Chiyuri at two classrooms next to his, or in front of the school, or on the way hoize, and went to his other hidden place, the library

Originally, the usefulness of places like the library were gone However, soht that in a school, children need the same paper media books to learn, so with a waste of material and space, brand new hard cover books lined the shelves

Mostly due to this, he has an important personal space within the school, so he can’t coe and went into a reading booth near the wall, he pushed his body into a tight chair, and went into Full Dive with a volunizable by the Linker

Since it was only a few minutes after classes had ended, the school net was still quiet He should go right now to hide in his usual place, he quickly passed by the grass field then climbed the tree

The virtual squash corner of course was devoid of people Honestly, he did not want to sio into a bloody battle where he can bloay the fuzzy feeling in his chest as soon as possible, but without a global net connection and inside the school where games were not allowed to start, it was impossible

His empty stooing hoht away If he met Chiyuri on the way home, he had absolutely no idea what expression toshould be fine, but he did not have the confidence that his mouth would follow his intentions

- It’s the same as that time

In the past, heto rehtly closed his eyes He ed in

He groped for the racket and held it, then turned his body to face the court

Opening his eyes, he was going to hit the falling ball with the s -

Haruyuki’s full body froze

“Level 166!?”

His level that had just increased a few hours ago, yet now more than 10 levels had been added

How, the score is stored with the student ID, after an instant of thought, he understood That ti out because Chiyuri hit his head, the game was kept like that That ed the score However

Who else other than himself could make this kind of ridiculous score!?

For Haruyuki’s pride that was on the blink of collapse, his support was his VR ga quiz and board gae decided the outco and action race games, he had the conceit that no one else in the school could beat him

He wasn't showing off The reason why he did not stand out was that he learned fro eleht up to this point - who ame’s fearsome score

At that time

Behind him, there was a voice It was female, but wasn't Chiyuri's A much lower tone, a sound as smooth as silk

“You made that absurd score?”

He fearfully turned around, standing in front of him was

A silver-studded dark dress Staff, or sword like parasol poked the ground Pure white skin and jet black eyes - «Kuroyukihime»

Even though an avatar, she didn't have a digital feel to her, an extrehtly, the school’sa sound

A slight smile appeared on her red lips, the only place in her body with any color, and Kuroyukihi

“Do you want to «Accelerate» further ahead, boy?”

“If you are interested, coe at lunch time tomorrow”

Leaving just that sentence behind, Kuroyukihied out

Her avatar was in Haruyuki’s view for less than 10 seconds Was it a local network server bug? If it wasn't an illusion, then what’s left was so that won’t happen in a thousand years, however, the fearso in the court was real

Haruyuki didn’t feel like challenging a new high score any booth while spacing out Inside his ears, the three lines of speech repeated in an infinite loop Kuroyukihime’s expression was diverse as apresenceno one had, it’s partly why she was ultra popular with not only males, but females as well

He eventually left school on fluffy legs and headed home, his body mostly on autoht and sound ation, he would have been hit by cars two or three times

Returning to the eh-rise mansion home, Haruyuki heated up a frozen pizza and ate it with a soda drink His parents divorced long ago, he was now living with his ht, and he only sees her for ato school

His empty stomach filled with junk food, Haruyuki returned to his room Normally, he would check his patrol course in the Global Net, then he would bustle about the battlefields around Europe for a few hours, while his reth would be for homework and then sleep, but just today he didn’t feel like doing anything

Since too s happened today, his brain felt heavy like it ollen Haruyuki changed his clothes, removed his Neuro Linker and then fell heavily on the bed

He wanted to say his sleep was very peaceful But drearoup’s scorn, Chiyuri’s tears, and Kuroyukihi, it made him toss and turn

Do you want to - «Accelerate» further ahead?

Inside his dream, instead of Kuroyukihime’s avatar, it was the real student council vice president’s shape He should not have seen her other than on the stage of school assembly where she kept a detached and expressionless face, but why in his drea him somewhere, and whispered in Haruyuki’s ear ‘Come here’

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