Accel World Vol 2 Chapter 2 (1/2)
Chapter 2
The following day, January 22nd, Thursday, 12:05pm
While looking bleary eyed due to lack of sleep, Haruyuki walked towards the student cafeteria on the first floor of Umesato middle school
Last night, Haruyuki eventually slept in his own roo» who faked being her, slept in the living rooe to sleep properly in such situation
What was the goal of the Red King anyway? Why did she pretend to be a sweet i and even bake cookies, and then want to
He wanted to think about that and other things seriously, but his brain kept replaying that bathrooht really be a hentai, since I am a troubled 13 year old boy, however I already have someone called Kuroyukihime’
With that kind of worry it beca as sleeping deeply, ate cereal for breakfast then left his home quickly
He so classes with the help of the Neuro Linker alarm to keep him awake, however when the noon recess neared, he was excited aboutKuroyukihime today too, so he was partially awake, and at the same time as the chime sounded, he rushed out of his classroom
Haruyuki stepped into the still al tables that were lined up, and jue that was on the other side
A circular area with elegant round tables, at the farthest table inside With the winter light shi+ning through the glass wall behind her, was a black clothed hu with an aura, Haruyuki stared at her while forgetting to breathe
During the past three months, he had seen the sa in his chest never seemed to wane That this picturesque scenery exists today too, he thought was a miracle
Looking s a large book on the table - Kuroyukihi black hair that flowed down her shoulders, shone in the soft sunlight
“Ah, good , Haruyuki-kun”
While feeling happy that the somewhat low and smooth silky voice called his name today too, he recalled a little bit of his recent clumsy battle losses and felt shameful, Haruyuki walked to her table and bowed
“Good , senpai That is to”
‘Today too, you are beautiful’
He had the a that one day, but he did not have the skill to say that with his hu else
“Today too, you are early I have never gotten here before senpai”
“That’s of course The first year classroom is on the 3rd floor, and the second year on the 2nd floor”
She shrugged with a composed expression Haruyuki pulled out the chair beside her and sat down, then retorted
“Th that’s reasonable, but Even though, that’s everyday”
“That, I like waiting for youfor me In this precious time, I can store in memory from the moment you enter”
Again, she s
Those words and smile was aimed at his fat and clumsy self, that made him felt equal parts of happiness and wither, he blew out his momentarily stopped breath slowly
- It’s absolutely unbelievable That the ephemerally kind senpai, and the Sparta demon instructor in the accelerated world were the same person
For Haruyuki, he wanted to spend more tiranted today After he explained the situation froht that continued today, the kind «Kuroyukihie into the scary «Black death water lily»
He wanted to spend even one secondinto each other’s eyes, while Haruyuki was thinking like a girl in love, Kuroyukihiht’ and opened her mouth
“Last night’s phone call as that? While I thought you went silent during the conversation, then suddenly you hung up after ‘good night’ So» was mentioned”
“Ah well that”
‘In that one second of silence, I dueled with the Red King herself’
If he had said that suddenly, she would not have believed hiht normal duels to earn Burst Points to level up, so they rarely appeared in battle fields
So Haruyuki voluntarily told her everything Everything starting with ‘Welcome home, onii-chan’ - he was not able to avoid the problematic bathroom scene
A few minutes later
Kuroyukihi breath, and held her hard right fist in the air
‘You fool!’ Blam!
That angry roar and slae, solanced at Haruyuki and Kuroyukihiht to them, the unbelievable expression still always showed on their faces, and they sat at tables a bit away from them
Unlike Haruyuki, Kuroyukihime did not seem to notice the other students’ looks, she held her fist about 5cm above the table and repeatedly breathed hard, then eventually lowering her hand onto the table
“Why did you not notice when you first met her, I would like to say that very , also, the «King» herself co is beyond expectations”
“Ye, yea, isn’t that right?”
After avoiding Kuroyukihime’s violent eruption, Haruyuki rubbed his chest and nodded
With her final expression heading towards a large bitter smile, Kuroyukihime shook her head many times and said in a low voice
“Well there’s also your unexpected success fro», is an important experience that no aeneration «Red King»?”
“Absolutely unreasonable One hit bleay half of a city my home was totally destroyed”
Thinking back on that transcendental firepower hed
“That is the power of «very specialized ability» I heard that «Scarlet Rain» put all of her level up bonuses into enhancing her long range firepower That’s right in your duel, did the Red King move?”
“Huh?”
Momentarily unable to understand the question, Haruyuki blinked
Soon, he understood what Kuroyukihi to ask
That’s right - thinking back, while the Red King Scarlet Rain changed to her duel avatar in front of him, she was covered with that fortress like armament She destroyed Haruyuki’s apartment home, and finally shot all that anti-air fire, but she did not move even once
While he was shaking his head, he suddenly stopped
No, to be exact that’s not right At the duel’s very end, to avoid Haruyuki’s full speed descent attack, the Red King moved just one step -
“Ah she moved Just for 50cm”
Hearing that, Kuroyukihiether
“Oh, that’s impressive! One of Scarlet Rain’s naiven not because she could notto rueneration Red King, she did not move even one step from where she appeared and destroyed around 30 people”
“Wow”
Haruyuki unconsciously let that out Fighting that kind of person head on, being ignorant was scary
“If if I heard of that before, I would have surrendered at the start Or », I would have instantly rejected the duel Since it is called «Pure color six kings», I just thought the Red King would be «Red so»”
Hearing that, Kuroyukihime said with a smile
“That’s why I said you were short on study on the phone In the accelerated world, the Red crowned, is the one and only «Red Rider»”
She said till there
Then stopped abruptly
As Haruyuki looked on, her smile slowly disappeared Her white flesh lost blood, and seem to become pale as ice
“Se, senpai?”
After Haruyuki asked ide eyes, Kuroyukihi’ in a completely dry tone
With a completely blank expression, Kuroyukihiht hand that was on the table trehtly, Haruyuki finally - way to late, realized the reason for Kuroyukihime’s reaction
The previous Red King «Red Rider»
It was the first time he heard of that name from Kuroyukihime However, he knew the reason why the Burst Linker with that name left the accelerated world
Two years ago, Kuroyukihi - Black Lotus, cut off his head with her own hands
However it was not in a nors’ conference She sneak attacked hi a speech
For level 9 Burst Linker duel, a cruel rule existed that made them lose all their Burst Points even in one defeat Without needing to say, those who lost all points is the sa Brain Burst itself
Looking at Kuroyukihihtly clenched white hand on the table, Haruyuki half involuntarily asked
“Senpai perhaps, the previous Red King, to you”
‘- Instead of just a friend, did he have some kind of special place in your heart?’
That question, instead of being concerned for the person in front of hierously noticing that, he abruptly stopped what he was going to ask Right after, he lowered his head trying to hide it
“Sorry, I ay too insensitive Last night’s phone call and the question noell I am sorry, really”
“No it’s okay, don’t worry about it”
That reply lost all luster and was faded
“It’s the path I chose Having this kind of reaction ht I had o that all other Burst Linkers are foes, that is set as «eneuard, this is way too ridiculous”
With Kuku low laughter, Kuroyukihime tried to put her hand back on her knee
That hand, was held by both Haruyuki’s hands that involuntarily reached out It seemed like with a breath, she tried to pull her hand back hard, but Haruyuki became stubborn and resisted
Even though she was bathed in the sunlight from the , she was as cold as a statue He almost could hear her tendons that were strained to the limit
While he tried to concentrate as much of his body heat into the cold hand as possible, Haruyuki opened his mouth
“I I am”
The ie of what he wanted to say was in his head, but he did not have to ability to convert it into language Not even noticing the stares of e, Haruyuki desperately moved his mouth
“I will absolutely not fight with senpai Never become your «enemy» Senpai is my «parent», and I aht?”
The silence continued for a while
Eventually, Kuroyukihime raised her head to look up at Haruyuki, and slowly nodded
Her lips contained a light smile, however, Haruyuki saw that it was
“Let’s change the location”
Kuroyukihiht hand back
After that she got up s her hardcover book, Haruyuki chased after her and inquired
“Wh, where to?”
‘To a place where we can be alone’
That was not it, Kuroyukihime’s response was business like
“How to deal with «Scarlet Rain», we can’t just decide that for ourselves This kind of thing, o buy sandwiches”
“Ah Th, that’s right”
While a bit disappointed, he was relieved that Kuroyukihime’s manner had returned to normal, so he nodded
The Black Legion was called «Nega Nebulas»
It was a large scale na of a dark star cluster, but they were an ultra sion with only three members, the last member responded to Haruyuki’s email with ‘on the roof’
Haruyuki shrunk his head from the outside cold hen he opened the iron door, he looked around, and found so on a bench far away
While he quickly approached, what he saas different froh to hold his sight
Slender butin the light breeze was gentle and sharp like a japanese sword Leaning forward slightly, his right hand fingersa holo keyboard, that posture looked like a sa position
When the saed boy noticed their foot steps and looked up, Haruyuki raised his right hand to wave to him
“Yo, sorry to interrupt your studies But, you don’t have to study in such a cold place right, Taku?”
Hearing that, Haruyuki’s childhood friend and brother in arms, Mayuzulasses and smiled
“Doesn’t the sunlight feel nice today? Haru, you should bathe in sunlight once in a while”
Then he stood up energetically and deeply bowed to Kuroyukihime as behind Haruyuki
“Good , master”
“Un, good , Takumu-kun”
While nodding, Kuroyukihi wry smile
“I have said it ion master, you don’t have to always call me that”
“Sorry But that is the best way for me”
With that reply, Taku on with his left hand With another wry s ss Then she raised one eyebrow and inquired Takumu
“Excuse us, but Haruyuki-kun and I will be eating lunch here, how about yours?”
“Yes, I have already eaten”
Looking around, Haruyuki spotted a properly wrapped lunch box on the bench Haruyuki remembered the cross colors, and made a jab at him
“That, is ether!”
Hearing that, Takumu also had a wry smile and answered
“We don’t have a relationshi+p like Haru and master, where we can have a public lovey-dovey time in the cafeteria”
“I-it’s not love!”
“It’s not love”
Haruyuki and Kuroyukihihed while pushi+ng his glasses up with a finger
“You two look at each others eyes every day in the lounge while exhibiting a pink aura I've heard that rumor even inhasty Bit by bit, I will pay back what I owe”
“I see”
Haruyuki made a serious face and nodded
It was only teeks ago, during the start of third school term, that Takumu had transferred to the local Umesato middle school from the school that he went to for seven years in shi+njuku
The original school that he went to included grades from elementary to university When Haruyuki reet in, he tried to stop Taku it was such a waste However, Takumu’s decision was firm
Even though shi+njuku is the territory of «Blue Legion», it was not that passive of a reason For Takuirlfriend Chiyuri’s Neuro Linker to break the accelerated world’s rule for hunting Kuroyukihime, were too much for him As atonement, he decided to use all his time to further her cause
Basically, he will stay by Chiyuri And then, defend «Nega Nebulas»’s territory, the Suginami area till death
Put it in another way, Haruyuki thought that the glasses he started using this winter, was part of that decision
In the year 2047, using glasses to correct vision had lost its originaland became a part of fashi+on This was because the Neuro Linker worn byvisual supplement
However, Takulasses were not a fashi+on iteree lenses That is, Taku paperthe Neuro Linker as visual correction
Even for the Neuro Linker, it could not correct the actual light receptor pins in the flesh eyeball Instead of that, the fuzzy ihtedness is coitally corrected in real time That is, people in the world that use Neuro Linker as replace virtual ies created by Neuro Linker processors
Taku the real world with his own eyes The real Chiyuri, Haruyuki, and the real himself
Taku will eventually reach Chiyuri, who continued to behave in an aard manner And Haruyuki his
That hat he wanted to say, but it was very difficult Going back on his oords, Takuht
That’s right, he had eyes similar to Kuroyukihi
Haruyuki threw off histhe lunch bag he held
While he ate his cutlet sandwich, he again explained the situation to Takumu who leaned on the fence in front of them
After the wide eyed Taku, he mumbled a short ‘Hmm’
“What do you think, Taku”
“H wanted to say to ed to continue fooling you for three days”
“Oh!”
“Oh”
Facing Haruyuki and Kuroyukihilasses’ lens flashed while Takumu continued
“With Haru’s personality, he would have warmed up a lot to the «Imouto» that he lived with for three days Then, if that «Imouto» said ‘Actually, I am a Burst Linker But since I aion senpai with force I beg you, onii-chan, coion and protect me!’”
“Hey hey, that’s unreasonable”
Kuroyukihime shouted in an amazed tone
“No one would fall for that easy to see through trap On the other hand you can easily see that you would lose all your points Even Haruyuki-kun, won’t go that far”
Then she glanced at Haruyuki,
“That far”
And was speechless Since she noticed that Haruyuki’s eyes were already ith sympathy
“Ar, are you an idiot!”
“B, but bullied, so pitiful”
At that moment, she extended her left hand, pinched Haruyuki’s cheek and pulled
“Wh, wha ar yo doin?”
“Hey, let me say this now”
Kuroyukihi eyes and murmured
“Mo your «I, that kind of cool act is impossible”
“Huh? Wha do ya mean?”
Nega Nebulas’ legionhis cheek
“You haven’t forgotten right? About how Takuion ram ended up?”
“Err, well I think they lost all their points that is, their Brain Burst was forcefully removed as punishment, I heard”
To the head tilted Haruyuki, Takumu added from the front
“That «all lost», it’s not fro duels till all their burst points were taken Actually that’s impossible to accomplish After the first duel, when acceleration is canceled, if you disconnect from the Global Net or remove the Neuro Linker, then you can escape After that, it will be similar to master’s situation, where you will be chased with a reward on your head”
“A, ahaa I see”
“However, without going through soion » subordinates”
“Wh what!? I have never heard of that!!”
Hearing that for the first time, Haruyuki turned his head to look at Kuroyukihime beside him
The coesture and opened her right hand
“It’s clearly written in the application docuion, it was your fault for not reading it Anyway, I won’t execute you Of course, when you are unfaithful to irls, that’s an exception”
Smile
While being looked at with that affection full sht