Accel World Vol 3 Chapter 10 (2/2)

“I thought aboutyou once, Silver Crow”

“Wha ah, th, thank you”

He lowered his shoulders whiledrifted by, the sky color avatar quietly continued

“Seven years passed since the beginning of the accelerated world, «Flight type avatar» finally appeared When I heard about you froely shocked, and was also interested What kind of soul what kind of wounded spirit, could ravity, I wondered”

“No, that so, sorry My,important”

Shrinking his body htly

“Fat in the real world, being bullied, and s, calling theht”

He was having doubts about why he was saying those kind of things to a first met, and furthermore could be said to be near eneely words freely dripped from his mouth

Hearing that, Sky Raker again smiled and shook her head sideways

“After installation, the Brain Burst program that read the owner’s consciousness for the duel avatar’s resource, «Wounds of heart», does not always er or hatred”

“Wha? Th, that is, wound ht?”

“That’s right, but not only that Having large negative thought, for exaer as a source, ithout exception create a duel avatar whose power leans towards pure destructive power For exah the accelerated world, that «Chrome Disaster»”

Hearing that name, Haruyuki took a sharp breath

Seeing Disaster Armor, Chrome Disaster’s fearsome attack power, had shaken hio For sure, that enhanced arht

“And then also, avatars that use grudges as a source obtain curse-like indirect attack power, and avatars e the enemy, a kind of self destruct type But, not all of the avatars have that kind of destructive pohich you already understand right?”

“Yea”

It was exactly like what she said Haruyuki’s wings were not direct attack power, and Ash Roller’s bike also However, then, «Wounds of heart», ould it ——

“Wound,important”

As if reading as inside Haruyuki’s chest, Sky Raker quietly answered

“Holding the hollow hole, and having anger, resent with ones' hand held out high That choice determines the type of avatar”

“The hand reaching out?”

“Yes That is «Hope» Wound of the heart, is also the flip side of desire”

After affir eht at Haruyuki’s eyes from under the white hat

“Silver Crow You, above any Burst Linker that appeared, should have th of will ais Listen you did not fly because of the wings It’s the oppositeSo that you can fly, you s materialize”

“So that I can fly”

He muttered that with raspy sound, and repeated that—— then Haruyuki’s face under the silver mask distorted, and he sharply shook his head

“That is foolish If just willpower can fly, then those wings, are so only for looks”

“Ultih soht were objects, and «Flight ability» in the systeht ability, your willpower, has not been robbed Since to rob that, no matter hat kind of special skill, is impossible

“Lie it could not be, that kind of talk!”

Then, he grabbed his knees and deeply hung his head

“Even if my heart, has the will to fly in the sky, that is just a trigger Brain Burst read that, and created those wings and flight ability Then, in this world, as I thought that ability itself should be the essence! Unless that that was taken back, I will, never”

Holding his hands tight enough to break his fingers, Haruyuki said that in a moan

For a while, just the sound of wind blowing through at 300 ht in front of his eyes, at the garden’s edge extending to the sky, flowers that he did not know the name of swayed, and the petals flew apart without a sound

“That is, you want to say so like this?”

Sky Raker’s sound that reached hier shout, was calm as usual, no only that, it contained an echo of amusement

“In this accelerated world, soless Set by the system, only computed numeric data determine different kinds of phenomena”

“Since, it’s like that right This is inside a VR gaital data, what else can you say is there”

“This wheelchair”

The sudden unrelated words lured Haruyuki’s face up

“Look carefully This is not an enhanced armament Just, as seen, an object made up of chair and wheels However earlier, you saw that this wheelchair ht?”

While confused and unable to grasp the realof the question, Haruyuki answered

“Ye yea It has soht? Like a motor, somewhere”

‘—— There must be one Since, earlier it moved by itself Probably in her hand a small controller’

While thinking like that, he extended his neck and stared at the elegant silver vehicle

And then, his eyes becae shock

Nothing Small axle, hub, rim or any motor like parts could not be seen Then maybe jet propulsion equip like that did not exist anywhere

“Bu, but, since earlier, by itself, it moved”

In front of Haruyuki whothin hands for hi like that, there was not any sign of it

In that posture, the fully stopped avatar riding on the wheelchair ——

With a ‘squeak’ wheel sound, slowly backed away

“No, no way”

‘Squeak, squeak’ The chair rass, suddenly spun around Furtherure skater on a sheet of ice, it slid front, back, left, and right in gracefula few seconds of dance, the chair stopped at its earlier position without a single inch of difference

“Hoas that?”

“Hoas that you said”

Trembles shook Haruyuki’s shoulders, as his eyes opened to their limits

—— should not have ram, could be said to pursue reality as if it was another reality itself Different kind of machines need motive equipy For exaasoline in the tank, and the drive wheel was connected to the engine with chains so it could be turned That hen Haruyuki lifted up the rear wheel in that duel, that bike could no longerlike the drive system would not matter, and even the front wheel could dash by itself, without a doubt

That’s why, this wheelchair,by itself without any drive systeht was ——

“Not possible It should not So that chair?”

The question that Haruyuki gasped out

The sky color haired duel avatar, with a graceful smile on her small mask, answered

“It is Will”

“Wha!?”

“It was moved with only willpower”

This time he was hit with a shock that almost made his soul leave his body, as Haruyuki shouted ly like a broken sound file

“Bu, but But, but th, that is, as if As if it is movement by will!! Th, thatlike that?”

Here Sky Raker’s sely shook her head

“Fufufu, that is not it This world Normal Duel Field, or Unliht in the accelerated world, anyone can have the same power”

“Wha what!?”

“Please think about it You could freely fly when you had your wings Isn’t that right?”

“Ye, yes”

“But, how did you s? Since the real you, did not have experience with using wings or anything like them”

He had not thought about that before, so when asked he blinked in surprise, then Haruyuki involuntarily moved his shoulders as he hesitantly answered

“Th, that wasaround the shoulder blade area”

“If you just did that, then you would not be able to use soht? Please remember it even if you are not conscious of it, your will power controlled the flight path Isn’t that right?”

“”

While speechless, ‘Now that you ht Indeed Silver Crowstart, he could i inAt that ti his body —— he could not answer

But, he also could not s Sky Raker’s explanation, so he said while shaking his head slightly

“Will power But, then, that, how is it read? The Neuro Linker having that function should not”

After those words left his mouth, inside Haruyuki’s ears, he heard an echo of Kuroyukihime’s words from her speech

‘—— The Neuro Linker, has the power to access things other than sensory cortex and motor cortex in the brain’

But that, should be about the earlier talk of «Wound of heart» related conversation Then he could understand that far Because he could interpret it as wounds equal to uous like «Will power» into data?

“Will, instead of that, would you understand if I say «Ie Power»?”

Sky Raker’s voice, made Haruyuki lift up his head suddenly

“Ie?”

“That’s right You can also say it as the power of iination From then on, how you wanted to accelerate, turn, and slon, you should have strongly iht The Neuro Linker read that, and e Power! That is truly, us Burst Linker’s secret true power This wheelchair,is how it is controlled Itime for this however, it is not impossible Definitely”

Again, the right wheel slightly turned with a squeak, then Sky Raker and her wheelchair faced Haruyuki

Her words that were issued next, somehow contained echo of majestic, mysterious, and divine revelation

“Hidden inside the normal avatar control of «Action come power control type», called this power like this Will from the mind —— that is, mind power[3]”

A pause

“«Incarnate[4] System»”

“Mind power?”

It was a word he had not heard of in the accelerated world or the real world

However that echo, had so power feel to it, which Haruyuki repeated many times in his mouth

What Sky Raker said, he could not understand ih the principle of Neuro Linker is a different existence from old era VR machine, and Brain Burst is an unknown super application, still the process of «Changing the dive person’s ie to data» or whatever, exactly what kind of mechanism would make that possible

However, the elegant wheelchair made with silver did not have any propulsion systerass That alone was the truth

‘—— Accept it’

Haruyuki closed his eyes tight, and whispered that inside his chest

It’s circular, but if will —— belief has real power in this world, and if he believe Sky Raker’s words, then he felt that without doubt it would become truth for him

“That means, that means”

So and hot was stuck in his throat, and Haruyuki with difficulty changed the words ahead

“If I can use that «Incarnate Systes is, is that right?”

He stared at Sky Raker’s face as if trying to devour it, as Haruyuki waited for the ansith searing craving

A few seconds later, the quietly released words, however, was so that was neither confirmation or denial

“Earlier, I showed you how I ht? However, even without the difficulty of straining i sithat is possible to do with nor to use mind power for the incarnation of a phenomenon that is normally not possible, between thee exists For exa one bullet with another bullet It is physically possible, however it is hard to do Extremely”

Sky Raker looked away from the speechless Haruyuki, and casually looked up in the sky

And then, there was a sereneindescribable

“I could not do it Threay ht of, and still could not cut off this world’s virtual gravity Earlier, I said it right Even if wanting to fly, but could not fly Burst Linker, that was me”

“Ye yea”

After he nodded while drawn in, the sky color avatar extended her supply right hand straight up, and returned the nod

“Close, but could not reach it —— Fro, round and get close to sky However, that was soht With just a h juht”

“”

Without being able to say anything back, Haruyuki just held his breath

Once long ago, he checked to see how high Silver Crow’s flight ability could rise to The Normal Duel Field’s four side «Area» borders were surrounded by half transparent walls, but hoould the sky be like, which he wondered

The result was, even using up a full tank of special skill gauge, Haruyuki’s finger could not touch a wall The height at that tiht of shi+njuku Metropolitan Governovernht of 500 ht of over 1500 meters, and furthermore that was just done out of a whim

‘—— I, did not even think about the iven’

Feeling the saret that he had while on top of Ash Roller’s bike, Haruyuki shrunk his body even smaller, and Sky Raker’s sound continued to reach his ear

“One day, I was taken by the desire to go higher, and fly farther I used various level up bonus to enhance juet more points The few friends I had, and even my «Parent», became dissatisfied with ion I belonged to at that time understood, and cooperated with ht shoulder to shoulder for a long, long ti that bonus would not be enough to ht», when I realized that my desire became a deep rooted delusion no, became madness”

“Mad ness”

Looking momentarily at Haruyuki hispered that in a raspy sound, Sky Raker showed a very faint smile, and deeply nodded

“I in order to th frohest attack pohich were s I asked that person as friend and master to cut them off with her sword She tried to stop er even understood how she felt I threw cruel words at her, however she only ranted my wish”

Sky Raker’s right hand gently caressed her knee, and calmly concluded

“Spent all the bonuses, trained er walk after all those, the height li value However, I could not reach the sky It barely reached the top of this old Tokyo Tower, then I finally realized it The wounds of heart that was my avatar’s source, my hope and desire, did not have that kind of power «Raker»the sky at the top of a parabola that was the absolute liiven toimportant to me”

With the shadow of a smile on her mouth, Sky Raker asked Haruyuki

“How about it, Silver Crow After listening to words of this fool, do you still want to use «Incarnate Syste? Probably, it would be 99 impossible, with that will you still try?”

“”

Haruyuki hung his head, and bit his lip

‘—— Could not possibly do it If it was impossible for this person who reached powerful level 8 Burst Linker rank, then what could the crybaby, coward, and full throttle underdog me do’

‘—— My wings, would not be forever lost even re two years As for Takumu and Kuroyukihime, I would make up some kind of reason for excuse, lie about it, and continue to secretly pay points to Noumi as tribute for two years would be fine At the tio for half a year like that? As for Chiyuri, if I desperately begged her, then she should endure being used as a pet in duel fields That should be fine, shrinkdown is fine’

“For me”

It’s impossible

Haruyuki wanted to answer like that He wanted to answer, stand up, and turn towards the portal behind to return to the real world

“I, for me”

However, so inside his chest stubbornly resisted, and would not let him say as ahead As if, the avatar called Silver Crow itself refused to speak that Now that he lost the wings, the avatar was just a sticke head on top, but it still had so important, as if it wanted to tell Haruyuki that

He breathed in a lot of cold air into his tre chest, and held them

Then Haruyuki said with his head deeply lowered

“Foryou Please teach me how to use the «Incarnate System»”

Sky Raker again faintly shtly tilted her head

“It will take a long, long time”

“It doesn’t matter”

“More than you iht come to, the «Point of No Return» for a Burst Linker”

Theof those words, Haruyuki somehow immediately understood

Haruyuki knew of two Kings —— Black King, Black Lotus, and Red King, Scarlet Rain Those girls’ speech and action, had parts far removed from their real world appearance The reason was, they spent a long tiap was created between their actual age and e

For him also, the time for that choice finally arrived Haruyuki shuddered, but still took a deep breath, and nodded

“I understand I beg you, Sky Raker-san”

“Fine then”

With a ‘squeak’, the wheelchair turned, and the accelerated world’s hermit looked at the sky

“Right now, the real world tier over there can you keep on diving?”

“Let’s see tomorrow is school day, but three or four ”

Before, Kuroyukihi would make the real world ht there would be no need to worry about that this tiet about Nous Absolutely, he would not

“Fine”

Holding the fingers of both hands together, Sky Raker turned back towards Haruyuki

“So then, ill rest for today”

“Ye, yes!?”

“Your s You can not trainlike that in this state Since it is already night here, have a good night’s sleep, then ill start to There is plenty of time”

“Go, good sleep you said”

Haruyuki inquired while dumbfounded

“Si, since, if you fall asleep during full dive, the Neuro Linker will detect the brain wave and autoht?”

“You don’t have to worry about that during acceleration Recently a as ania artist right?”

While puzzled by those abrupt words, he still made a small nod

“Ye yes I a fan”

“He is a high level Burst Linker All of his sleep is taken here, and while going to school is putting out a weekly series, that kind of unreasonable thing is being done”

‘What, that natural hitmaker is a Burst Linker? Now that youlike that before’

While a slight sense of Deja Vu spun around his head, Haruyuki chased after the wheelchair that started htly

After being invited in, the inside of the white wall and green roof house, was unexpectedly wide

Even saying so, there was only one room In there, only a small kitchen, table, and bed was setup

Sky Raker’s wheelchairstove set at the kitchen side, and took the lid fro sounds At that moment, a soft nice smell expanded in the house

While Haruyuki looking on in a daze, she quickly put so like steooden bowls, then with both hands holding dishes, this ti similar wooden spoons beside them, she said to Haruyuki

“Don’t just stand there, how about sitting down?”

“Ah, ye, yes”

After he unsteadily sat in the high back chair, he looked down at the stea white stew, and Haruyuki muttered inside his mind

‘No, but, how to say it, here’

“Is inside a duel fighting gaht”

After he carelessly said that, Sky Raker nodded with a composed face

“That is right Is there a problem?”

“Since, that, eating dinner in a fighting game”

“Oh, the background of a certain fighting ga ramen”

“Th, that ht be true but!”

At the sa to scratch his head, Haruyuki realized that he was fiercely hungry Even though he had eaten pizza just a bit ago in the real world, where did this e come from?

Even that kind of metaphysical question was instantly cleared up when Sky Raker said “Please, eat up”, and Haruyuki quickly held the wooden spoon

And then he hesitated again

“Ah, bu, but, my, mouth”

Silver Crow’s face was covered with a mirror like silver helmet, without any eye, nose, or esture, he hesitantly scooped up soht it to his mouth Then ——

With a light hu sound, the bottom of his helmet slid just a little upwards As he used his left hand to touch in amazement, he could definitely feel aanymore, Haruyuki muttered “Let’s eat” and closed his mouth on the spoon

—— It was delicious

More natural than any coine, the fine tastes spread in his mouth, then Haruyuki scooped up potato, small onion, and chicken one after another and cra hiantly moved her spoon said with a smile

“I am happy that you like it, Karasu-san Please fully taste it while eating That memory, so that it will be remembered for some time”

“Yes?”

After e for breath, Haruyuki finally thought about theof those words just noever, without the ti the dishes into the kitchen shelves with flicks, so all he could do was bow his head and said ‘Thanks for the food’

When he noticed it, outside the south facing , it had becaht around the Odaiba area, and the swaying reflection from the black sea surface could be seen from afar

Sky Raker’s fingers sounded with a snap, and either from house function or «Mind Power» movement, all the curtains closed shut The wheelchairsounds to the side of the sht hand for support lightly moved her body on top of the sheets

“So then, it’s a bit early, but we should sleep”

What

Sleep she said

There was only one bed There were two avatars This means —— ould this mean?

Haruyuki thought in high speed for an instant, but that was cut apart by the pillow that was thrown to hiht ‘Yea it should be like this as I thinking I a himself, Haruyuki lay his silver avatar on top of the floor Since his whole body was covered with hard metallic armor anyhether it was bed or board beloould not make much of a difference

After putting her hat on the hook on the wall, and quickly taking off her one piece and throwing it, Sky Raker lay flat on top of the bed, then snapped her fingers once uished, then the inside of the house was covered with light blue darkness

“Good night, Karasu-san”

‘—— As expected of her being that Ash Roller’s Parent, this person is not someone ordinary’

While impressed, Haruyuki also answered

“Go, good night”

At the same time in his mind, he shouted ‘As if I could sleep in this situation!’ —— but

Unexpectedly, at theto a sleep position beside the table, the base of his head i As Sky Raker said, thedrain on him mentally after all

Of course, he would not forget the huht nohile inside this house in this world, he felt that the black things were driven away Maybe that was, because the inside of his stomach was filled with delicious steorth cup of happiness feeling, or itof the pretty realistic food

Resisting the sleepiness that want to close his eyelids with violence like heaviness for a bit, Haruyuki very light whispered

“Ah, Sky Raker-san A little, can I ask you so?”

“Go ahead”

Since he heard that sound ilance towards the bed, and asked while facing the graceful curved silhouette

“That is Ash Roller-san, has he already learned the «Incarnate System»?”

“In earnest, not yet But I just gave hints, and that kid devised various things”

With that answer, he understood so the bike while standing on top seee control He gave a small nod on the floor, and asked the next question

“Since you are his «Parent», are you also in the Green King’s legion now?”

The reply this time, took a bit of time

“No The legion I belong to, before and from now on, there is only one”

“Then that is”

While involuntarily lifting up his head, Haruyuki asked the question that he really wanted to

“The naa Nebulas»? And then, the person you asked to cut off your legs is”

“«Black Lotus» Stronger, more noble, and kinder than anyone, my one and only friend”

The so like beautiful echo answered, and htly

“It would be that I thought You somewhere, towards that person”

“That is an old story”

As if to cover Haruyuki’s words, those short words descended from the bed

“Long, long ago old story There sleep already, Karasu-san Tomorrow is an early day”

As if to refuse anyover

‘—— I want to hear more Of old times, about that person’

Even with that kind of feeling, however at that tihted on Haruyuki’s face

He left his body to the visiting warm darkness, and Haruyuki sank down into the abyss of deep sleep

The next moment, his head hi