Accel World Vol 2 Chapter 1 (2/2)

“Ugyaaa - !!”

The girl’s scream overwrote his shout She stumbled around, then froed to escape out of the bathtub She picked up the bath towel on the floor, fled to the change area in high speed, then showed just her face

“I will beat you to death”

When he heard her footsteps head towards the living rooht in a daze

‘- I saw and touched’

‘- Not that That girl was probably an assassin fros With that word and action, she will probably be back later to challenge him to a duel’

Then, should he remove the Neuro Linker to prevent that? However, she is probably an eneht be better to obtain infor once won’t cost him too ht not lose that easily

With about 80 of his thinking processes in confusion, the reirl said earlier pop up in his brain

«Scarlet Rain» He probably hasn’t heard of it For the color circle, it’s probably «Long range red» type, with that, he thought she ion He would find that out when they duel, but he wanted a bit more information

It will take soirl to put on her Neuro Linker, start the OS, and finish the quantum connection check While he sat in the bathtub, he issued a voice command

“Command Voice Call Number 01”

At that istered address nuue appeared in front of his eyes He instantly answered ‘Yes’

With two rings, the opponent answered

“It’sat this time”

With that sround sound likewater was heard

‘Ah, is senpai also taking a bath’ While thinking that and other things, Haruyuki talked to the person he called - one of the strongest Burst Linkers, Black King «Black Lotus», also known as Kuroyukihime

“Sorry for calling this late I want you to tell ”

“Oh, what is it?”

“Well, senpai, do you know of a Burst Linker called «Scarlet Rain»?”

The answer to his question, was a bit long silence

“A, ah, what’s wrong?”

“Nothing, sorry You are seriously asking that right?”

“Seriously of course I won’t make a prank call at this time”

“I see H only so haven’t told you their names However, «Silver Crow», you are also a bit short on study”

“Eh? What, does that mean”

Haruyuki’s tilted head heard running footsteps in the hall, on top of that was Kuroyukihime’s cool voice

“- «Scarlet Rain» That person is also called «Ieneration Red King”

Huh?

In a daze, with both eyes and hts stopped

Right after, the bathrooain appeared

She must be really furious, since she only wore underwear on top and botto anyh, and arms crossed in front of her chest

Heshe had on other than underwear, then stared at it Around her slender neck, a glossy pure red shone

The girl showing a violent smile, shouted with a cute yet forceful voice

“Burst Link!!”

Viiiii!!

- That fa sound reverberated in his world

Instantly, his five senses were cut, in the darkness «HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!!» words burned Right after, his view returned

However, there was no longer his home bathrooh up in a aparte open space

Haruyuki had already accelerated his thought with the Neuro Linker, and fully dived into the virtual world created by the duel fighting ga world, was es from Social Camera Net all over japan, a virtual «Duel Field»

However, nor Haruyuki’s home did not have a social cauess work - that is the software built it up with the structure This ti built The concrete littered floor had steel pillars here and there

In this bleak space, Haruyuki and the girl faced each other in their real form for about half of a second

However soon, both their body color and shape started changing Towards their other self, the combat use «Duel Avatar»

Haruyuki’s round limbs were covered with silver from the tips and at the same time twisted smaller and smaller What appeared was silver are reached his body, and his stoo When the slender ht covered his head, and became a slippery round mirror helmet

While he was transfor to his duel avatar «Silver Crow», Haruyuki continued to stare at the girl a few meters in front of him

The doll like delicate arht circle moved up, the places it passed were transformed to a ruby colored ared to be covered by dark grey and ruby mixed half transparent armor, and with a last flash, an android like head appeared

A mask that only had bead like eyes Front hair shape tail shaped antenna

The twin pigtails wiggled, and a deep red light shone from both eyes

‘- This is the «Red King»?’

Haruyuki stood still and looked at the Duel Avatar a few meters in front of him

Sht only around 130cht waist

“E, err”

He unintentionally opened his mouth, and under the mirror helmet, a metallic effect voice leaked out

“Are you really”

‘Accelerated world’s only seven level 9 Burst Linker, highest cos»?’

He wanted to ask that, at that moment

Suddenly, the space behind the cute girl avatar became twisted

Four brusque blocks shi+ning pure red appeared fros Then thick ar the elegant body

“What the”

Haruyuki looked with a daze at the red avatar that becao

However, the addition of armaments did not stop there

With low Gon Gon sounds reverberating, huge hexagon pillars, cylinders, and plates kept appearing behind and connecting The height soon reached for the ceiling, coht was 2 meters more, 3 meters more

A few seconds later

When silence finally returned, what stood in front of Haruyuki’s eyes, was a tank, orbetter called a fortress

Like an extension of its original are cannons were slowly lifted up, and white steam came from various heat release valves

In the center of the ar red eyes peeked out just a bit

“No way”

At the sa font, «FIGHT», shone, then blew apart

‘I should run away first!!’

That was the first thing Haruyuki thought of, he wanted to turn around and quickly dash away behind, but stopped when he thought that would be dangerous

The enee fortress like duel avatar, nodistance attacks In addition to the ht side, the containers on both shoulders were probably missile pods, and the short tubes in front should be so to distance himself would be foolish

With that detere to stand still, then the fortress avatar «Scarlet Rain»’s red eyes focused on him

“Huts”

The

“I, I as won’t move”

Haruyuki replied with a pitiful sound, then he desperately looked at the Red King’s different parts

Nore armored boss enemy, is to attack the thin area weak point in a blind spot Attacking froht is probably covered by those ht behind If he could dash at full speed around to the back side

Unknown if she knew of Haruyuki’s thinking or not, Scarlet Rain laughed

“You said a cute thing♪ But, you didn’t forget, right?”

“Eh? About what?”

“That I will”

Guin! With that sound the right ht at Haruyuki

“- beat you to death, you hentai[1]!!”

“That was beyond my controlll!!”

While shouting back a reply, Haruyuki kicked the ground hard Hespeed, then made a sharp turn for the back side

Scarlet Rain who turned while chasing Haruyuki, was surprisingly quick for such a huge size, but even so, Silver Crow - is a very specialized speed type duel avatar, so she could not catch up to his dash

“And you were the one who came into the bathroommm!!”

With another shout while turning, Haruyuki finally saw the enemy’s back and rushed forward

As he had predicted, the back side had large heat releasing fins and vernier like things lined up, but he did not see any armaments The armor looked thinnest at the connection between the ht fist aimed for that -

‘Vernier?’

At the saht of that, four black exhaust holes let out fierce jets of flame

“Uwaa hot -!!”

He had a strong feeling of heat when he was covered by the flae dropped

However, Haruyuki did not stopforward

The dae to him, was not an amount to be feared The metal color Silver Crow has heat attack resistance

“Fire won’t work against this Silver Crow!!”

‘- It’s decided’

While thinking that, Haruyuki put all his strength behind his punch against the back armor in front of him However

“It’s not that easy, brat!!”

Fuhahaha, with a roar that he could almost see the words, at the same time the containers on Scarlet Rain’s shoulders opened their covers

From those, numerous smallthat

‘Wait here, the building inside’

Right after, the concrete ceiling, floor, and steel pillars were all covered by red rose like explosions

Haruyuki desperately ducked when aabove his head, breaking it up

“No way”

He dangerously dodged a huge slap of concrete that fell down, it hit near his feet and the floor abruptly sank

“No way - !!”

With that shout, Haruyuki dashed fiercely This was no longer the ti distance with the eneround If he was caught in the collapse, his HP would be gone in an instant

The originally Haruyuki’s ho with only floor and pillars, so tens of meters ahead he could see the outside space He jumped around the broken floors and used his fist and head to break falling concrete fragauge

The dae that he dealt and received did not ae destruction points, his gauge was at about 20 with a green shi+ne With this -

He could fly!!

Haruyuki took a deep breath and exerted force on his shoulders

On his back, folded metal fins started to make a crisp sound

With the fins’ high frequency vibration, Haruyuki’s dash speed also increased

“Fuooooo - !!”

With that shout, Haruyuki ai up in front of him and dived head first

Haruyuki’s ho That , he could see all of the streets from Kouenji to shi+njuku

The superb panoras were siments with steel pillars This is probably the «Weathered» stage Its properties are: easy to destroy, dusty, and occasional gust blowing

While thinking of s' speed and hovered in the air

He checked his special attack gauge, there’s still a little left With that, he should be able to fly continuously for three minutes

He turned around -

That was about the sa split almost in half and collapsed

“Ah, ah My home”

He whispered unconsciously Of course that was just polygon data created by the system, but this was the first time his home was destroyed in a «Duel»

“That was reckless”

While shaking his helmet head, Haruyuki looked down at the rubbleseemed to be buried in her own destruction, and could not be seen At that rate, probably even a fortress avatar won’t escape unscratched

‘What was she thinking’, he shook his head and started to descend, right after

Haruyuki noticed so and became horrified

Scarlet Rain’s HP gauge - did not decrease To be exact around 3 was lost, but that could not be called dae

And then, her special attack gauge, was flashi+ng at 100

It would be like that With the destruction of that huge environe bonus must have been added That meant, her recklessbehind her, nor was she trying to trap him in the destruction

Suddenly

Froht appeared from cracks At the same time, a sharp shout

“- «Heat Blast Saturation»!!”

With a sharp squeal and explosion sound, a crimson flame extended from the wreck of the apartment, Haruyuki who saw that screamed

“Hiaaaa!!”

Heas fast as he could, and tried to avoid with a spin dive However

The flae He was unable to completely avoid the flaht, and the wavering hot column touched Silver Crow’s left hand, and below his elbow ca sound

His HP gauge lost one fifth, at the sa attacked him, but Haruyuki almost did not notice it

Because, the heat ray that went by hie, hit shi+njuku city far away, and blew up everything above 300 meters in that area

“No way”

The not sure how many time in this battle, shocked voice leaked from Haruyuki

While his mouth flapped under the silver face plate, he e

At that ’s majesty appeared

The full body beautiful ruby arle scratch The back and lower verniers glowed red from exhaust, and white steam came from the slits on the left cannon

“Ooh, he’s flying♪”

Fro’s two round eyes looked up at Silver Crow and said in a sing song voice

“I wanted to try it once, like anti-air cannon fire? In SF movies and others, when they let it all out seems to be very fun”

Clink

With that clear metallic sound, the ht uns in the front changed angle

While tre, a certain anime movie scene played in Haruyuki’s brain A s to infiltrate an enemy fortress filled with anti-air weapons - however, he was shot down like a s

‘Ah, then it would be Kuroyukihih, it’s e to say her real name’

While repeating escapist thinking, the ene sound From the containers, around 100 s

Co a city, Haruyuki’s own gauge only had less than 5 left He only had tens of seconds of full strength flight probably It was not his habit, but he ht have to bet on a simple banzai attack in this situation

“I have to say this, huge war shi+p is supposed to be shot down by a single robot, it was decided in the past!”

With a loser like retort, Haruyuki took a dashi+ng form in the air

“As if a robot piloted by a hentai can be that active, idiot!”

The Red King shouted those very nasty words, then continued with a loud shout

“ - «Hailstorm Domination»!!”

Giyudoaaaapapapapaundaridaridari, those three attack sounds reverberated, uns fired at the same time

This is truly, a huge e anti-air attack» that Haruyuki was having long time trouble with The previous week, and the week before that as well, Haruyuki was chased by one tenth of that firepower and was shot down

Then why did he now, have no wish to give up, or feel any fear?

Since the ene a ‘so-what’ attitude However Haruyuki, for once in a long while, his whole body was covered by the heat of his boiling blood That was, the excitement of «Duel»

“Zuoriyaa - !!”

With that roar, Haruyuki first dashed to the right in the air, avoiding the h heat beam If he was directly hit with that, he would be burn to a crisp instantly The beae hole in park tower and NS building

However, the enemy seemed to have predicted that move Numerous small missiles ca

Taking a deep breath, Haruyuki started full body ultra high speed movement

He flew straight and pulled a group of rees sharp turn While he wavered froet, the next group of ed

He zig zag in the air like an UFO, and left numerous explosions as Silver Crow continued to fly

Strangely, he could clearly see the un bullet paths If this was result fro in that white room, he could not tell

While doing unliainst himself

Why couldn't he do this kind of et shot by just one rifle and his legs - no wings shun and he stopped flying? If it was because of pressure, then his one on one fight with the one called «Red King» should be way more fearful

‘- I am this fast I can fly this way Then, why in the moment when it matters I was so cluer Beco, raise my level, then that person’

“!”

While he strongly ground his teeth under his hele route trace was missed

In front of hiroup Behind hiun bullet shower And below hi, and started tracking him

“Sh it!”

Haruyuki right kicked the missile that came in front of hied his angle and dived straight beloever, in front of his eyes, the left main cannon’s hole waited -

At that time, a fierce wind blew in the battle field

It was the «Weathered» stage’s geological effect Froe sand storrey The surrounding et and exploded one by one

‘This is it!!’

Haruyuki opened his eyes, ai just for the ruby color in the sandstorm, and did a rapid spiral dive

In the middle of his path, thejust air

“Oooooo!!”

With that roar, Haruyuki changed his position, the sharp front of his footleft kick, aimed between Scarlet Rain’s twin ht be a chance for him yet -

- However

“!?”

Right before the sword sharp feet hit, the huge fortress avatar broke apart at once

The containers and main cannons split apart, and the armor plates too opened up all around

Froirl avatar appeared, and looked up at him

With an unbelievable speed, she slid one step, and dodged Silver Crow’s kick

Blaround, he fell clu up, he saw a sirl avatar, held a criht hand, and ‘hold up’ Haruyuki

‘- When that kick was easily dodged, I lost’

Even acknowledging that, Haruyuki said while not knohen to give up

“Do you think that toy like gun can penetrate my armor?”

Then, on Red King’s ht smile showed

“If I said this gun was est weapon, would you believe it, onii-chan?”

Haruyuki took a deep breath, then blew it out, with both hands - his left hand was one - held up

“I believe you You win, Scarlet Rain”

Then, the Red King smiled once more, and said

“Then, will you listen to my wish?”

“Eh? Wish?”

It wouldn’t be betraying the Black legion right? That would be iotiation

While he panicked inside, the ansas beyond his expectation With a sudden threatening tone, the girl haughtily said

“- I want to meet your «Parent» In the real world with our real selves”

References

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