Accel World Vol 2 Chapter 6 (1/2)

Chapter 6

What ca, was of course, a heavy rain of long range attacks

Even in the «Yellow Legion», of course not all members are yellow type - that is made up of only indirect attack type Burst Linkers The 30 or so ene the crater, with at least 10 red type people, released beams and explosive ammo that could be appropriately called a concentrated bombardment

Most of that firepoas directed at Niko, which, the Red King, when coile back dashes However, one blue beaeted, ai Kuroyukihime and was immobile

“Kuu”

He soed to twist his body and avoid it, but his left shoulder was lightly scratched ‘This can’t even be called daly said in his mind at that moment

“!!”

Fro sensation and sharp pain on his shoulder, Haruyuki involuntarily leaned back

For Brain Burst «duels», at the saiven at a level unlike other Neuro Linker applications However, the pain Haruyuki was feeling right now, is double the intensity of normal duels

That means, it could only be like this in the Unliainst the benefit to gain points without the risks of dueling, the special rules of «Unlimited ti dae pain sensation doubled

To Haruyuki who momentarily stood up, over his head, in just short moment, many small missiles would arrive

“Oooo!”

It was Takumu who roared He stood in front of Haruyuki and Kuroyukihi equiproup

‘Click!’ With that metallic sound a sharp steel pile was fired out, and from the blast wave, most of the enemy missiles exploded However a few missiles remained, and hit the blue armored body here and there Flashes Explosion sounds

“Guaaa!”

Even though , Takue body and shouted shortly

“Haru, run!”

“Un understood!”

‘Sorry’, while he apologized to his best friend in hisKuroyukihi to, was to Niko who had pulled her gun fro at the enemy formation on the east side of the crater

If they don’t get out of this encirclement first, then they cannot retreat nor counter attack Fortunately, since the enemy completely surrounded the 100 meters or so diah the enclosure with a charge attack, and hway, then Sunshi+ne City with the Leap Point would be just ahead

While Haruyuki held Kuroyukihis on his back After he was hit by the earlier attack, his special skill gauge recovered a little bit It is possible to slide dash just to the edge of the crater

With Niko’s continuous fire, there was one point of opening in the east enclosure Staring at that, Haruyuki used all his strength to kick off the ground

At that ti, Yellow Radio’s crisp yet somehow squeaky voice loudly echoed

“«Silly Go Round»!!”

Special attack skill!

‘But it’s too late! The crater’s edge is right in front - ‘

“Uwaaa!?”

The phenomenon that abruptly occurred made Haruyuki stood still

The world began turning No, to be precise, with the crater’s edge as a dividing line, the inside and outside rotated in different directions The buildings in the background, and the eneh speeds froht

Further when it started, from the area around him many hazy yellow toy horses appeared and started toway Also, in his ears, a cheerful country style - however somehow the notes were a bit off kind of BGM could be heard

Losing more and more of his sense of balance, Haruyuki knelt down on one knee there Looking around, Niko as right in front of hi their best to stand fir

“The fi field is, turning?”

To Haruyuki who said that while du

“It’s just you seeing it turning! Nothing is actually ! Close your eyes and run!”

“But where to!?”

Actually, he could no longer tell which direction was the east side he was ai farther fro back

“That way!”

“This way!”

At the same time, Niko and Takumu pointed in the opposite directions

At thatimmobility -

Fro lines ca

‘We cannot avoid this’, was Haruyuki’s direct feeling as he looked up at thecurvature of the paths, were just fro, Yellow Radio’s illusion attack, they just seem to be curved

While thinking of at least protecting Kuroyukihi to cover the ss

However faster than that, Takumu shouted once

“Get down!!”

And then, his two strong ar down

“Ta”

Opening his eyes wide, the words co from Haruyuki’s mouth were erased by tremendous explosion sounds His vieas coated white, and his cheeks were seared by the heat - right next to his ears, his best friend’s suppressed screams sounded

“Guuuuuu!!”

Right now, on Takue attacks are raining down Just one hit’s scratch gave him that much pain What would be the total amount of pain sensation forced on Takumu’s nerves? If it’s like this, then wouldn’t this be above the pain level Haruyuki felt in his selfroom -

“Stop Taku, stop already!”

Haruyuki shouted, as he tried to get out from under Takumu

However steel like arth held Haruyuki still, and at the saht next to him

“It’s okay, Haru To you what I owed, just this, kind of thing can’t pay it back”

“Nothing there isn’t anything! How many times do I have to say it for you to understand, Taku!”

His shout was desperate, but the reply to that wassounds leaked from cracks in Cyan Pile’s mask

Mixed in the nu’s detestable voice reached them

“Unsightly Burn that wooden puppet up”

Many firing sounds responded to that, however Takumu did not fall

Probably, the red type Burst Linkers in the eneainst those, Cyan Pile is not just level 4, but a blue type, furthermore with stamina as the main focus That meant, he can take that all that concentrated fire without falling and continue to resist But that alsowould last longer

Haruyuki could no longer say anything Takumu was deter’s special attack, «Silly Go Round»’s effect time ends

Maybe she also realized that, Niko who is next to Haruyuki said shortly

“I take back what I said about you using your brain only, Cyan Pile Just 30 seconds more”

“Under stood, I”

‘Gasuu’

That unpleasant sound echoed at close range, and Takumu’s sound scrapped off

Haruyuki saw three shi+ning sharp pieces ofhim, and looked at them while dumbfounded

So area has stopped As the Go Round’s cheerful strange BGM flowed, Cyan Pile’s huge body was lifted up not by his own movement

Standing right behind hih for equipht arm was lifted up The end of that arm became three atrocious claws, and those were buried deeply in Cyan Pile’s chest from behind

That was one person in the waiting close cooggle on his head that is like a previous era CRT monitor shone, the avatar let out a loud sound

“I heard you were pretty good in the young «Blue» You are just proud of being a hard wall, Cyan Pile”

Lifting the skewered Takumu up, the heavy equipment type avatar lowly sneered

“Heehe, before you die, remember this The one who defeated you is, Sakkusu”

“Your stupid name I have no interest in it”

Takumu who ht ar hole at the center of his own chest

“«Lightning Cyan Spike»!!”

With a weak yet firm shout, blue white flash is sent from the back end of the hole

At the sa that was shot out, passed froht arm, and then extended in a line to the square head and shot through With ‘crackle’ sounds, Sakkusu sole was blown apart, both of them floated in the air for an instant, then fell with an explosion

With the Go Round illusion in effect, even if the enemy close in there was no way to aim accurately However, that is a different story if the ene that arm in a line, the enemy’s body is always there

“Ta Taku!!”

Haruyuki shouted

‘Incredible, after all you are incredible You are far stronger and smarter than me - a best friend to be proud of’

That feeling rose in his chest, but he did not have a chance to put them into words

“U gyaaaaaa!!”

To the screa his face with left hand, Takuth to hold him still

Fro sound leaked out

“After I will leave it to you, Haru”

Then both of his arms firmly held down the enemy -

“«Splash Stinger»!!”

Between the two that is close together, un like continuous fire sounds and flashes continued to appear

The eneht ran on both avatars

An instant after, two different blue pillars towered up froments dispersed froer there

At almost the same time, the Go Round illusion attack ended, and the world returned to the original state

A moment of silence filled the crater that was south Ikebukuro park

The long ranged attacks fro have already stopped, and only distant sounds of thunder and wind echoed

For duel avatars' long range attacks, beam types overheat, and actual a forever was not possible However even taking that into consideration, this silence is strange They were probably taken in as well By Cyan Pile and the other person’s over dreadful display of their attacks on each other

‘This is our chance to escape’, Haruyuki thought It’s the tiht with his life However, somehow his feet could not move While he was on one knee, Haruyuki’s small avatar shook

A feeling that he could not explain himself, roared in his chest

The feeling of helplessness as he could only be protected by his best friend Anger at the Yellow King for setting his despicable trap and playing with others' hearts And above all else - the feeling toward the person he held in his right arth as if poas cut -

“Senpai senpai”

Fro out

“Kuroyukihi up”

“It’s useless, Silver Crow”

It was Niko who murmured that

With a strong ‘Crunch’ footstep echo, the Red King stood her delicate body up straight

“«Zero File» Right now, the power signal froirl’s soul that is sent to the avatar is zero A Burst Linker with no fighting spirit cannot move a duel avatar The reason is that a duel avatar’s source of power is the heat froth to face your wounds, you cannot even stand up That is the «Brain Burst» gairl, too, understood even if she does not want to But it’s a proble about even if you understand it”

After saying that in a low voice, Niko took a quick glance at Haruyuki

“Sorry, even though Cyan Pile sacrificed hi away I do not have the discipline to just quietly escape here You are fine, just take that girl and retreat from here”

Haruyuki thought he saw that the cri to burst into flames

No, it was not an illusion The area around her foot that took a step forward, he actually saw slight flames flare up

‘It’s reckless The enemy formation is almost totally unscratched There would be no way to win’

While he thought that escaping is a sensible choice, Haruyuki did not move If he left Niko here and ran away, then to himself, and also to Kuroyukihi, so he just crouched there and replied in a low voice

“I a away I don’t want to run away and leave a comrade behind!”

“Comrade - A hardcore fool Then, do as you like”

After a short break of speechlessness, Niko said that while dumbfounded, then took another step forward

Extending her right hand straight out, she pointed her finger at the Yellow King standing on the crater’s west edge, then the Red King shouted

“Yellow Radio! Before your cool appearance, your sneaky filled special attack gauge should now be eet, if you are defeated by me, you will at that time be forever retired!!”

As if being pushed back by the pressure, the Yellow King’s clown type avatar backed off half a step

On the other hand, Niko took another step forward, and extended both arms wide

“Come Enhanced Armament - !!”

With a ‘Gou’ sound, flahtly floated up

Fro space, armament made up of flairl from all sides Missile pods on both shoulders, thick armor skirt, thruster on the back - also in place of both are main cannons

Then Red King Scarlet Rain who became the shape of her other name «Immobile Fortress», landed on the center of the crater with a heavy tremor, and put out white steam all over her body

Fro them, Haruyuki felt that they ion’s territory is on the east side of Tokyo, they did not havethe west side in Neri a chance to battle Niko directly is a matter of course, and there should not even beat Scarlet Rain’s true shape, the first thing that happened was to be scared out of their wits froe size that could not be a duel avatar The same as Haruyuki the other day

As Haruyuki sed his saliva, in his ears ca effect added

“Hey, Silver Crow Sorry to ask, but take care of just the close combat opponents that stick to my behind”

“Un understood But senpai is”

“They won’t lay a hand on that girl, before they defeat me, that is If I aether with Lotus”

“”

«Taken down» - in this situation, it would mean that Niko’s Brain Burst would be forcefully uninstalled

Before Haruyuki could reply with soh above shouted with his usual poisonous voice

“There is no need to fear! That thing is just a stationary turret, if you close in it’s just a lump of steel!”

Then he held up his right hand

“Close coe team, support them! - Go!!”

With yellow light reflecting, at the sa down -

With ‘Uoooo’ battle roar echoing, froing in

As if in response to that cry, the missile containers on both of Niko’s shoulders opened with a crisp metallic sound The few tens of seeker heads exposed shone red, and right after, they were fired hite s them

The ht up, did a half circle curve and fell down airound So e slackened

Two of the standing ones, were instantly aimed at by the main cannons from both arms

With ‘Kuooon’ high pitch resonance sounds, the released ruby heat rays sed the unfortunate two duel avatars Instantly, ball shaped energy lurew created tremendous explosions here and there

They next became tall fire pillars with the saes were blown apart and disappeared

‘- In one hit!’

Haruyuki was terrified At the saht

However, ie attack avatars who had finished recharging began firing There would be no way that they could e that it cannot move, so they were sucked by the crimson fortress

Her whole body was covered by flowers of explosions, but the Red King did not seeuns towards the outside and showered them

Against long range attacks, they can do nothing but withstand thely, and placed Kuroyukihime’s avatar there

According to Niko, when you lost to the wound in your heart, then the Burst Linker will no longer move

Haruyuki himself also experienced that

Three o, when he knew of the existence of «Accelerate» for just a bit, to protect Kuroyukihiht his best friend Takumu - Cyan Pile Then he was beaten up to s ser stand up beside the unconscious Kuroyukihime’s avatar

If at that time, Kuroyukihime’s voice - illusion sound or they actually communicated - did not reach hier Then he would not have awaken Silver Crow’s hidden potential «Flight Ability» and would probably have lost everything

That’s why right now, seeing Kuroyukihi unable to er

But he was sad

He did not understand the reason why, but he was very sad

Haruyuki blinked his eyes hard, removed his hand from the deep black avatar and stood up, then turned around and ran straight forward

What he was ai in behind Niko Color is olive green, with oversized long and fat ar U-shaped metal at the tip

The opponent saw Haruyuki co in from the front of his path, and yelled in a deep voice

“Out of the way, small fry!”

Then he aimed the left U-shaped hand at Haruyuki, and continued with a shout

“«Magnetron Weeeeeb»!”

At the sa was sent out, and it caught Haruyuki However it did not do dae it pulled Silver Crow’s small avatar with tremendous power, and stuck him to the U-shape with a clank

“Hihiii, metal color is easy to suck in!”

As the olive colored guy shouted, he used his right hand to excessively beat Haruyuki While Haruyuki used both arht calmly

Fronetic attraction Then it should have a time limit Furthermore, since it is a skill that can completely hold an opponent, then at most 10 seconds

Haruyuki suddenly extended both hands, and covered the opponent’s goggle shaped eyes Then he expanded his wings, and left the ground all at once

“Hey, you, let go of your hands”

With the screanet, Haruyuki went up soh into the air

Right after, the purple waves generating the netism disappeared, and the opponent shoved Haruyuki aith his freed left hand

“Just covering e on hey whattt!?”

Haruyuki ignored the screa opponent that found out he was left in the sky with nothing to hold onto, and started a full speed descent He passed the ht foot,forith a sharp cone

“Uoo!”

At the sah the back of the drill equipped avatar that was about to juround with a loud i his left hand the area at the back of the neck

“Aaa Gaaa Aaa!”

After breaking two spinal bones, Haruyuki ju enenetic avatar fell down fro shock, this one too could no longer move

As Haruyuki was juht cheek was suddenly forcefully hit

He was bloay in a flashy way, and tumbled around Sharp pain from his broken inner teeth made him see sparks in front of his eyes

Haruyuki forcefully ignored that and ju in A four corner body as if carved froht blue martial arts robe The mask reminiscent of a Moai[1] statue was humorous, but he knew the power of those rock like fists from one hit A very close contact type with no weapon, but these orthodox types are very fearsome

Maybe a veteran, the martial artist not only silently attacked, he slid up into range and suddenly released a right front kick

Silver Crow is fortunate to have a very thin body, he soed to avoid a direct hit, and the left flank that was scratched gave out sparks and his HP bar was cut He used a left punch for counter attack, but that was stopped by a huge wooden like right arm

‘- When you get into a situation of close coous to metal color’

Suddenly, an old lecture from Kuroyukihime akened in his brain

‘- Don’t guard or counter attack in panic, try to floith the enemy’s attack and use its power It is possible with your reaction speed Listen, no matter hoerful a punch is, it’s slow coet’

“Zeryaa!!”

The ht punch with a large psyche

The fist ca in with a blue aura, as Haruyuki pushed down his fear and watched ‘While falling back behind, left hand under the eneainst the enemy’s stomach’

“Raaa!!”

At the sas on his back for just an instant with all his strength With the lift generated, Haruyuki kicked his right foot up, and then with his own punching power as a catapult, the brusque martial artist danced up into the sky

“Niko, above!”

Hearing Haruyuki’s yell or not, Scarlet Rain’s shoulder missiles fired, and all of them hit the martial artist in the sky Sed by round trailing sht went up and disappeared

“H so delicately built, Silver Crow”

“Why thank you!”

After shouting a reply to Niko’s badthe next enemy, from the side of his eyes, Haruyuki looked at the deep black avatar laying a bit away

‘- That person, Kuroyukihime, is definitely not a super woman that’s totally perfect A irl that is easily hurt’

That thought, when he saw Kuroyukihi froet However even with that, the admiration and worshi+p inside him did not reduce even a bit

Not against strength

It’s the will to beco The soul that continues to shi+ne while resisting different adversity, Haruyuki is absolutely drawn to it

‘- That is why, you should be standing up again I don’t knohat kind of relationshi+p you had with the previous Red King, but you should get pass that ht!!’

At the same time as Haruyuki’s desperate silent shout under his silver mask

The ion attack restarted fiercely

The re close co froe fire came down like rain

“Don’t underestimate meeee!”

Niko roared, left and right

Then all of theht he heard a strange sound

A high frequency sound that could only be called noise shook the air At the same time, his view of the world doubled, and tripled

The missiles released by Scarlet Rain suddenly spun in the sky, and flew in different directions Even the e attackers outside , with explosion sounds echoing

“shi+t it’s ja!”

Niko shouted in a low voice

“It’s not that Radio guy one of his yellow color underlings! Find him!”

“Un understood!”