Accel World Vol 3 Chapter 6 (2/2)

—Say what?

And then, at that moment Haruyuki finally noticed that the basic color of the space surrounding them was not blue, but pink instead The slip resistant floor, the slick wall and ceiling, and also the table in front of hireyish pink colored

But, that is, there's no way!!

Haruyuki opened his eyes wide as he screamed inside his chest

For sure, I went into the passage with theThat display was not a wall panel, but a directthem as a prank was not possible Or was it forcefully painted over with soe scale effort

While Haruyuki was turning his thinking gears at full speed on various things, Chiyuri finally seem to have realized her current appearance

As she glanced down at her body, her eyes became round, and the skin up to her ears became blood red She covered as much of herself as she could with both hands, and raised her head again, taking a deep breath—

The loudest screaht before that

Froe, the sounds of a few fe as they approached were heard

Instantly, Haruyuki belatedly realized that this situation could not be explained with just a mistake or a joke

This, is a truly dangerous situation If it was exposed to the school authorities, there would be suspension, or expulsion, no, before that— this incident ht even involve the police

Chiyuri ht have arrived at that realization at the same time, and from her beet red face, all the blood left it at once As the two looked at each other with tense faces, the fe louder and louder

Suddenly Chiyuri's extended right hand caught Haruyuki's necktie that was on his chest, and pushed him with the power of peremptory force into the shower booth she used aHaruyuki against the ith her back, and put her towel on top of the smoke colored door

She took hold of the shower nozzle, set the touch panel terees C, and turned the faucet fully open The spray of water that co hot water, the booth was soon covered with pure white steam

”Don't say a word, stay still!”

Right after hearing Chiyuri's whisper, in the shower room on the other side of one panel, he felt the presence of at least three girls entering

”Ah gee, all sticky with sweat!”

”Yeah, I want to wear summer uniform already”

”I should at least change the Linker pad to mesh”

Probably, they were track and field clubpulled down continued

However Haruyuki of course did not have the rooainst the wall, closed his eyes tight, and continued to stay quiet

With about 90 of his brain taken over by panic, the remain 10 continued to think of the reason why it had become like this

No matter what, he could not have s And since it was is Then, there was only one trick left

Electronic s in his view

Overwriting his vieith the Neuro Linker With sos from male to female, and feram that was put in hiht of the o, the color tones were relatively fresh in the diht

It was still a ot into his Neuro Linker, but the person who sent it was probably that guy

Noumi Seiji

Everything was Nou at the kendo arena Then he was lead to the shower roos wrong, and therefore was plunged into this dangerous area To fully remove Haruyuki, that is the Burst Linker «Silver Crow» from this Umesato middle school

A fearfully vivid, ruthless, and relentless method

Just like, the time that Kuroyukihime removed a student named Araya, or even beyond that

”Ah, Chii? Are you still in there?”

Sudden, right on the other side of the swing door, a girl's voice called out

Chiyuri's reply that was right beside his ear, Haruyuki listen while cowering in fear

”Yeah, I was also covered with sweat”

”Isn't that right, since it's before the district qualifications, the teacher is over enthusiastic”

With a T-shi+rt, white shi+rt, and a blazer on top while in the high temperature steam, Haruyuki's whole body was already covered with sweat, so he could not feel the heat at all Instead, his teeth were al due to the cold on his skin

If right now, the female student playfully opened the partition, then not only Haruyuki, Chiyuri would also be in trouble Even though she was the first peeking victim, she would also be punished the same as Haruyuki

”Hey Chii, isn't the water too hot? There is way too much steam”

”Ah, it feels better when hot It also promotes blood flow”

”Oh no, don't talk like randma”

She and the other students laughed with ”Ahahaha” Chiyuri also laughed, but passing through her back that was in close contact with hihtly

Sorry Sorry Forgivefor the Neuro Linker in the bag, then so like this wouldn't have happened!

While screaround his inner teeth to the limit— at that time

A creak kind of door swing sound, made Haruyuki's body jerked in surprise

However that was, the sound of a girl entering the booth beside Then two more door open and close sounds came after, and shoater sounds all started

A few seconds later, he felt that Chiyuri's body leave him momentarily to check outside

She soon returned, and after turning towards Haruyuki's face, said with only her lips

—Right now, get out!

Haruyuki held his breath, and nodded without even able to say thanks to Chiyuri's quick wit, then unsteadily stepped out of the booth

He only glared at the exit, and desperately moved his tense body in a half bent posture one step, two step forward If he fell here— or soirls came in

That kind of thinking alle, and Haruyuki succeeded in escaping from the shower room After a short run past the U-shaped bend, he reached the separation area between the boy's and girl's sides, then leaned his lost strength back on the wall

Strength left his legs, and he was going to sit down like that, but the sudden eruption of anger prevented that

”bastard!”

After that shout in his ed towards the actual male shower room on the opposite side of the hallway

—However In the pale bluish grey colored space, there was no one there There was no sign of the shower booths being used Probably, at the tiirl's side, Noumi had already left

”shi+t”

With that groan, Haruyuki hit the wall behind hi

About two hours later, in his apartment's 22nd floor's Kurashi+ma house, in Chiyuri's room

Haruyuki pushed his forehead directly onto the floor

”Excuse me, sorry, my bad, really sorry!!”

Not sure how

The owner of the rooe of the bed in her school unifor intent After letting in Haruyuki, who ca, but that was even more fearful

What he had done, was really too true to be funny level of atrocity, he had fully realized that— or supposed to However, the true size of the shock on Chiyuri was so a male like Haruyuki could not fully share or understand

Anyhow, her stark naked body, was seen at a very close distance of at most one meter

Needless to say, this is already a bigger cri a virus in Chiyuri's Neuro Linker It was different than going into the bath at the sa was different The collarbone that clearly stood out, the line of the greater pectoral muscle that connected her shoulder and chest, and the unexpectedly voluminous pure white—

”You are reht”

That sudden low sound echo,position

”No, I haven't remembered, didn't remember!”

”You're lying, your ears are all red Letweird, then till your one, in that as it, oh yeah, «Unlimited Neutral Field», I will make you dive there About 100 years worth”

Haruyuki juain with that

”I-I won't use it, I won't!”

—To tell the truth, if Haruyuki was forced to use «Unlimited Burst» command here, and he was monitored for 1 hour like that, then over 40 days would have passed inside The picture stored inside his brain would have been mostly distorted without a doubt

However, over that time he would be chased around by other Burst Linkers or «Enemy», and other than loss of memory, he would have succumb to exhaustion, so Haruyuki desperately shook his head

”Forgot it, super forgot it!”

”Well, what kind of penance I want from Haru, I will think about that deeply later That, I will put it on hold for now”

With a snorting sound fro fluffy at Haruyuki's head When he glanced up, he saw that it was a large doll cushi+on

”You can stop kneeling, just sit”

”YeYes”

With a nod, he picked up the cushi+on He thought it was an elephant, but the nose was short, and there were three pairs s

”Wh-What's this?”

”It's a waterbear The strongest living thing on earth Hey, instead of that! The reason why you sneaked into the girl's shoas a virus's fault, and the person who put it there was some kid named Noumi, that talk Is it true?”

Haruyuki hurriedly sat properly on top of the strange living thing, and kept nodding

”Wi-Without a doubt For sure I went into the oofy alien I as”

”But, when did he put that in you? You did not even talk to Nouht?”

”YeYeah”

He slowly nodded

Actually, the route the virus was put into him was all a mystery It would be contact with his Neuro Linker in the one week between the school entrance ceremony and today, but Haruyuki himself could not think of any chance for that

If he was able to exaht be able to find the time that it was put there, but no matter how much he checked the physical ra, he found out that right after he entered the female shower room, a trace was left of an unknown file auto that himself, then probably, the virus was activated and reached it's goal— that s, it was set to self destruct

”But then”

Chiyuri's thick eyebrorinkled, and she tilted her head

”If he could do that, then why did he not totally destroy Haru's Neuro Linker OS, or erase the «Brain Burst» prograoal is to stop you from «duels», then wouldn't that be more effective?”

”No matter what, viruses cannot destroy system files The most it could do is use functions for pranks And also, for the Brain Burst program itself, once a person becomes a Burst Linker, he could download it fro the Linker would not be possible Of course, you would have to put the core card in the new Linker”

After that rebuttal, Haruyuki also wrinkled his face

”No, but to tell the truth, if he could use high level skill of replacing sight and sound, then instead of prank level, he could have usedthe road crossing red signal with blue signal, and full sensorycars, then he could even kill me?”

”Ki-Kill?”

After that involuntary shout, Chiyuri held her mouth with her hand to prevent her , and once again said

”Kill, hey you, what are you saying!? Th-That's not game talk”

Here, Haruyuki could only weakly smile and shook his head

”Brain Burst is a gauys like Noumi who use «Acceleration» for status in the real world, they will do anything to protect their power Think about it, if it was not you who cairl, then now I”

”Would be in the police station, right”

With a belated shi+ver on her back, Chiyuri whispered

”But Then, frouy would set more traps for us like that? Not only Haru Ta-kun, Kuroyuki-senpai, and eted?”

”No, I won't let him behave like that”

Trying to sweep away Chiyuri's unease, Haruyuki interrupted with unaccustomed tone

”After understanding that guy's attitude, ill no longer just wait and see Maybe toh it's not my choice if necessary, even with forced direct connection, ill expose the secret of why he did not appear on thelist”

”Haru”

However, Chiyuri still looked depressed as she bit her lips, and her face lowered

”I soame but Haru, Ta-kun, and Nou fun at all”

”Th-That's not true”

He hurriedly shook his head, but at the saht that it was not unreasonable for her to think like that

Since Chiyuri is a rare avatar, that is «Recovery Type», she had not even once experienced the normal «Duel» That field's width and detail, the battle's excite, he wanted a lot to show her that quickly, but that would have to wait till Kuroyukihime returned to Tokyo one week later

”At-At least forBrain Burst I also had a heart to heart talk with Taku, and I feel that one down a little”

After hearing those non-connecting words, Chiyuri quickly blinked, then showed a s

”Well, thatme naked, you would have surely ran away for ato me”

Ugh

At the end of those words, that probleain reappeared inside his brain, so to hide his heated face, Haruyuki again kneeled down

”Excuse me, sorry, my bad, really sorry!!”

”Stop that already!”

Again another cushi+on ca his head

Continuing after that, what a returned sharp tongue, Chiyuri announced in a low tone

”Also, let me warn you That shower room incident, if you tell Ta-kun, then this time for sure I will blow you away I will also tell Kuroyuki-senpai afterward”

”Wha?”

Haruyuki suddenly froze

To be truthful, he did not plan to leak this to Kuroyukihi this to Takuy

”TaTaku also?”

”Of course, ere you thinking of?!!”

While getting hit with the third cushi+on on his head, Haruyuki thought, So it's matter of course But, if it's like that, hoould he explain Noumi's attack? No, he should only report that he had been mislead to the fe about running into Chiyuri there

While feeling so a secret from his best friend and comrade, Haruyuki took a deep breath, and shook that away

Right now is not the ti that shower room incident out

That, was a declaration of war froin, they would need all of their concentration And then if possible, he would like to have this problem solved before Kuroyukihime returned from Okinawa He would not want to expose that level 9 person to danger

While listening to hi that, Haruyuki left the Kurashi+ma house, and returned to his home two floors above

However, Haruyuki was mistaken He did not see that he was already in a situation with no way to turn around

Before he realized that, the war had already begun, and it also ended