Accel World Vol 3 Chapter 8 (1/2)
Chapter 8
[HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER!!]
After the familiar sounds of acceleration, those words were displayed in his viehich Haruyuki gazed at while stunned
«Duel»!? Why now!?
Up till now, Nouistered on theduels So then, why at this tie himself?
Haruyuki whose thoughts were confused by all the happenings, could not immediately fathom Noumi’s intentions With his eyes opened wide, he could only look on as the world e» with dry seismic sounds
The dense grove of trees lost all their fresh leaves at once, and morphed into deep black withered woods The sky becao of dusk
The school building that stood on three sides, slowly decayed into skeletal ruins Froround, with ‘Zubo zubo’ sounds, nurave markers Mossy crosses and toe of his view
At the sae creation was coes extended Under the left side bar, Haruyuki’s duel avatar, «Silver Crow»’s naht side ——
«Dusk Taker» Level 5
He had never seen or heard of that nah
Probably, the person called Nou Set a trap for other Burst Linkers, obtain their weakness, then threaten them to «pay up» Burst Points With that, he could level up without having to fight
In front of Haruyuki as grinding his teeth, finally the large [FIGHT!!] words burned up, and blew apart
After seeing that, Haruyuki finally realized that he had been kneeling on the ground as he had before the acceleration And then, so on his back
“!!”
He hurriedly bounced up, and took a large jump to distance himself As he held his hands up and stared, in front was ——
A strange looking avatar stood there
The silhouette was normal human shape The size was small, not much different from Silver Crow The face was also similar The whole face was a blank visor shape, with only reddish purple eyes sharply floating inside The body and legs were slender like poles
But, just the two arms, could only be called weird
The right one was clearly ears and shafts made up the thick are tool like a bolt clipper
However, the left side, notype With fine rings on the outside, fro tentacles
It was a shape with no sense of unity, but the whole body color was as the «Dusk» name implied, a blackish purple For its color circle affinity, it could be close or long range, but the color saturation was very low
After his mouard, he quietly spit out the deduction that he had finally arrived at
“This ht? To be taken doithout resistance, for today’s «payment», is that what you want to say?”
Nou silent for a while, continued to face Haruyuki with the dusk colored visor
Eventually, his tentacle shaped arhter was released
“At the ot h in the real world you are still stepped on by me”
Ignoring the sneer laughter, Haruyuki immediately retorted
“You also, can you still show me all that composure? Already, I know of your real face and name, now also your avatar name and appearance That, don’t you think it’s about the same deadly information as that previous video from in front of the shower room?”
“Is this what you mean to say? If that video is made public, in return that will cost my «Reality Intrusion», to make other Burst Linkers attack me”
“Do I have any reason to hesitate?”
“Fufufu, scary Well, I will admit that senpai also holds a card But, to accept points, eventually this kind of «duel» is necessary In this case so else, I think I will accept from you”
Theof Noumi’s words spoken with metallic effect, Haruyuki could not immediately understand
“A accept?”
“That’s right Senpai’s, ie, how about a fight? Since this is a direct connection duel, it is a bit lonely without the gallery”
After saying so, the blackish purple avatar held up his right hand cutter, and closed it once with a clank
He could no longer understand Noumi’s intentions
However if it was a fight, he was not going to be beaten up silently Without doubt, Haruyuki also held Noumi’s «Reality» as a card, so if he made that public in the accelerated world, then Noury Burst Linkers going after him Noumi would also want to avoid that
If that was the case, then the winner could only be determined by an ordinary duel Probably, Nouht to steal Haruyuki’s «i», which is his pride, in order to make him submit
—— However
“If you can also win easily in this world try it, Noumi Seiji!!”
With that shout, Haruyuki held his fist, and kicked the ground all at once
The battle field was the «Cee The main features are darkness, and sorab hold of dueler’s feet
The other side was one level higher, but for the duel fighting game «Brain Burst», it was not the sa factor in a lost
Indeed, level 1 and level 9’s basic performance is too different to be overturned, but for 4 and 5, then the stage’s attribute and compatibility could be said to be e, Haruyuki has confidence that he had the absolute advantage
“U OO!”
While ht line, he used his metallic fists and feet to pulverize the tombstones in his path like polystyrene foaauge started to slowly charge up
Nouing in, did not seem to move at all He lowered his waist with leisurely ht hand bolt clipper in front, and left hand tentacles behind
“ChieEEEE!”
Similar to his kendohis left arm, when the distance between them was still more than five meters
The three tentacles that becaht forward
However, Haruyuki had predicted that action About any kind of game, had tentacles that could extend out
He had to face the fairly fast speed of the sharp tips that shone as they ca, but they were still slower than bullets He evade the one ai two he chop away, then Haruyuki came close to Dusk Taker
“shi+ee!”
The bolt clipper that was thrusted out with that short sound, he lowered his body to let it pass by
“Raaa!”
He stepped down hard with his left leg, and the elbow that was thrust out, scored a direct hit on the ene for With the fierce iround was lit up by bluish white light The right side HP gauge decreased with a glop That was the first hit
To the greatly bent backwards, trying to hold his ground Nouht middle kick hit
“Guu”
While Nouered, Haruyuki continued the pursuit, froh kick With the slender body that could not be coht Silver Crow body flashed with lightning like speed, faithfully tracing the commands from Haruyuki’s consciousness that was sent before the last one was over
‘How about that, did you see did you see!!’
While releasing three showy kicks in the air like wire action in a Kung-fu movie, Haruyuki shouted inside his mind
‘—— You who kept running away froe e that could win against me To obtain this kind of speed, do you knohit with virtual bulletup in the toilet, you probably don’t know about that For someone who use dirty infor to reach the peak of «Brain Burst», guys like you’
“Don’t deserve to be called a Burst Linker!!”
The right straight that went out tracing laser like path, s radial cracks into it
After being bloay, crashed into a toe was already decreased to about 30 re
“One more hit will finish this!”
After releasing those intense words, at this tith into his shoulder blades At the same ti like sharp s opened up
The battle up till now, had coe If a dive kick fro HP would easily be bloay Since the surroundings were tole structure to hide in
He lowered his body, before leaving the ground in one breath —— right before that
Dusk Taker as collapsed by a grave marker, his left arm moved without any previouslike so
Hefor his body, but one of theht wrist However Haruyuki did not panic, he grabbed that and pulled, then kicked the ground as planned
He floated at about 50cht up to horizontal, going to pull Dusk Taker along The opponent’s legs dug in to resist, but he started craving groves into the ground
There were many enemies who tried to capture Silver Crohips or wires like this However most of them were pulled into the air while they were linked, or broke up after being dragged on the ground The thrust force that can be produced by Silver Croings, could be said to be unlie is not empty Even the deth beyond «Kings», he won the tug of war against it
“U OO!”
At the same time as Haruyuki’s psyche, white silver aura was sent out froh the to HP with his avatar, he thought so without mercy ——
At that moment
Dusk Taker’s right hand huge cutter, closed on his own left elbow
Without giving Haruyuki the time to be surprised, a ‘Bachin!’ unpleasant sound went out, and without any hesitation, that arm was cut apart
With the tentacles’ pull instantly disappeared, Haruyuki was forcefully thrown back behind as he spun around After two, three bounds on the ground, and breaking numerous tombstones, he finally stopped
After staring at the reddish black dusk sky in a daze for a bit, he hurriedly tried to juround bluish white skeletal arrabbed hold of Haruyuki’s liraphic effect
“shi+t”
While cursing, he tried to shake them off, but the arms came up relentlessly and wrapped around hi on his back, trying to lift off straight up —— however
Right before his body floated up, a shadow that ca with soht shoulder with a kick He was again pushed back to the ground
The one who stood there, was of course Dusk Taker His HP gauge, after cutting his own left arm, was decreased to 20 On the other hand, Haruyuki still had about 90 re, he did not think that this could be turned around, but the dusk avatar’s whole body was strangely relaxed His upper body slowly bend, with the blank hel in on Haruyuki
‘After the Ensnare is gone, I will lift off and settle it’
While thinking like that, Haruyuki quietly said
“You like stepping on someone so much”
“Fufu speaking of that, senpai see stepped on”
Afterleft arm, and stared at the cut surface Haruyuki who looked there as well, noticed that from the cut, three new tentacle tips seeusted
“Regrowth? Just like a lizard’s tail”
“If it is like that, then it should be octopus or sea anemone No, the previous owner said it was starfish”
“Wh what?”
Turning to face Haruyuki as not able to grasp theand inquired ——
Noumi whispered with a sound that had more coldness in it