Accel World Vol 2 Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8
Although he ed up by a pillar of fire that reached to the sky and violently tossed around by the ie still had about 20 left, the reason for that was, he did not suffer e
Crashi+ng onto Sunshi+ne City’s big stairs, e crater, Chrome Disaster’s armor - enhanced armament was completely destroyed at that moment Froh concentration of darkness particles erupted straight up, and that cushi+oned Haruyuki’s avatar and pushed himents, with a ‘Butsun’ sound, he felt that the wire on his back was cut
Froht after that, while he was tu inside like a broken scrap, Haruyuki desperately curled up into a ball, and endured the dae Soh heat area, and slowly descended while thin s, he could no longer stand up, and fell to his knees
When he looked up, the orange and black fire pillar finally spread in the at Erey tiles and withered trees, illu the area in red
A deep bowl-shaped depression sunk into the center of the big stairs
Right in theflat, a small avatar could be seen
The cherry pink arht foot was ht blinked irregularly
It was a very helpless and painful shape That avatar was dressed in that brutal ars, it was hard to believe
For Haruyuki as kneeling and could notin frohtly knocked on
“You did it, Silver Crow The rest leave it to me”
Haruyuki silently continued to watch the s as she stepped forward and went down the side of the crater
He thought of standing up and following her, but soon changed his mind Those two people’s final conversation, he felt that no one should eavesdrop
The red and si, exchanged words for a while Eventually, the criht pink boy type avatar, and her broken left ared him hard
She lightly lifted up the handgun in her right hand
And placed the muzzle on the boy’s chest
The «Judgeht were modest However at the h the avatar, a phenomenon that Haruyuki had not seen till now occurred
The boy avatar was disasse scattered Those were all shi+ning small sequences of code All of the information that made up the duel avatar called «Cherry Rook», was released, split apart, and melted into accelerated world’s sky
About ten seconds later, there was no longer anything on Niko’s arm
The crimson avatar slowly sat down there, and looked up at the sky fully covered by dusk
Haruyuki waveringly stood up, and dragging his fairly da towards the bottom of the iht side and stopped, but his chest was stuck with a torrent of different e out
Eventually, Niko slowly said
“Cherry and I, we don’t know our parents”
“?”
He couldn’t understand theof her words He took a breath to ask, then the words were quietly connected
“As for parents, I ain of our copies of Brain Burst The real world’s real parents Previously, Ischool To be exact, it is an «Abandoned children total protection foster school»”
Haruyuki could only listen silently to Niko’s speech that was released while she re
The program where newborn babies were unconditionally taken froan around the start of this era It is part of the ing population, the prograalized around 2030, and in many places shelters that also served as school were built To be sure, the Neri should also have one such school
“I have this kind of personality, so I don’t get along with people around school I’ve always played VR gao a boy two years older suddenly talked to ame, do you want to try it?’ he said”
With ‘haha’ shter mixed in, Niko continued
“That kind of invitationlike a direct connection But you know that guy, with face bright red, was trying so hard with all his e even after I becaht ot bad But in tiht up to his and passed hi like level 9 After being pushed to be a legion master, I was also frantic I did not care about what he thought about and worried about In reality e e”
Niko’s right hand scratched the ground lightly With her head lowered, shoulders shaking, the young King wrung out a small voice
“That guy, wanted to always be my «parent» He wanted ht more power and lost to «Disaster Ar properly that level didn’t e if I said it”
With that, her back beca leaked from Niko -
For Haruyuki, what he needed to say was lost to him for a while
Burst Linker’s «parent child» relationshi+p That weight, he who had the same bond with Kuroyukihime, should have understood However, for Niko and Cherry Rook who did not know their real parents, that must have been the only true bond that they could ht now, Niko cut that apart with her own hands She had no other choice
Haruyuki desperately forced as coot on his knees, then put a hand on Niko’s shoulder
“Niko To be truthful Brain Burst is not just any game But it’s not all of our reality”
After thinking and thinking, he said that, and a very painful throat lowered his sound volume
“I too, was always afraid ofabandoned by that person But I know that person in the real world Face, name, and sound, I know those That bond, no matter what happens, will not disappear Because it’s not data It is carved inside my heart That’s why that’s why, you too, in the real world, should becoain You should be able to do it even though you and I belong to different legions in the accelerated world, in the real world, we are already friends”
Her low crying voice continued for a while, but was eventually bloay by the dusk slight breeze and melted away
With one final violent shake on her back, Niko wiped her eyes with her right hand, and pushed Haruyuki’s hand that was on her shoulder away
“Friends you said?”
The sound was raspy, and shaking, but a bit of that audacious echo had returned She stood up, red lens looked down at Haruyuki, and the young King let out
“Hundred years too early! You can at best becoet carried away!!”
“Wh what”
‘It can’t be like that’, Haruyuki wanted to continue with that, but it was overwritten by a cold echo from behind him
“Hey, who is whose underling?”
Haruyuki turned around with a ‘Hiii!’ surprised sound, in front of his eyes hole body in tatters, but fir deep black avatar - Black Lotus’ shape appeared
And then, steadying her left aro avatar, Cyan Pile
“Se senpai! Taku!!”
While shouting, Haruyuki jumped near those two
“Ar-are you okay, senpai and also Taku, how come”
As he asked, he finally reion, Takumu himself had said it The Burst Linker who died in this Unli penalty, would be revived at the same place as death - which meant, somehow that much time had already passed
“Taku Geesh, being that unreasonable”
With a grumble, Takumu retorted with one hand spread wide
“Now that youChro reckless”
“That recklessness was from his mentor”
After saying so, thatht in front of Niko
While waving her right hand sword tip around, Kuroyukihiant voice
“Now then, Scarlet Rain Isn’t there so you are supposed to say to me?”
“”
After the Red King’s right fist trembled for a while, she eventually turned her face away
“Sorry”
“Hey, just that?! That’s why, this is exactly why children”
“Y-you too, while we battled with hardshi+p, you were just unsightly lying there right?!”
“What did you say?”