Accel World Vol 3 Chapter 13 (2/2)

“Ta Taku!”

Hearing Haruyuki’s short shout, Takumu held up his left hand thumb to say “Leave it to me”

At that ly felt his own ss to hurt his best friend because he did not want his and power, even so Taku his intelligence and spent points to make this duel possible

“Taku”

While strongly holding his fists tight, Haruyuki felt asha to resolve the situation while hiding everything He evenin the Unlimited Neutral Field for that purpose, and Haruyuki released a shout from the bottom of his heart

“Taku, Win! Not just for th, win!!”

“I in For taking back your wings, Haru”

With a nod, Cyan Pile who took a heavy step out, thin blue flaht foot and made the air waver

Dusk Taker as the target of that spirit, turned his head away as if disgusted, and lowly spat out

“Aah please don’t oosebu to believe in illusion like «Voluntary Friendshi+p», looks like only blissful people can do it with a straight face”

Here, the blackish purple avatar that finally fully appeared froe of the hole, and s away the , he looked at the much taller than him Cyan Pile fro the tentacles released frohtly touched the two curved horns extending fro membranes

“Return what I obtained unfairly? Don’t joke withI rob once, is forever mine Until I a to like these wings so until Arita senpai finish paying the two year loan, I will get the most enjoyment out of it”

Feeling huge rage and disgust in the bottoether

However before he can say anything back, Takuh heat flame sound whispered

“No, that’s wrong No th will never beco you produced, polished, and trained, there are no other way of obtaining it”

“Oh ugh sos like that”

While showing the gesture of covering his ht hand, Noumi taunted

“Since talking anymore will make me puke, it’s about time I accept your points and leave The test only has five minutes left too”

And then the diminutive avatar lowered his waist a little, and held his hands in front of his faceless mask

On the other hand, Cyan Pile took an i stance like in a kendo ht out

In the upsurge of fighting spirit, Haruyuki took a step back and quickly shouted

“Ta Taku, that guy’s tentacles can revive even if cut! The right hand cutter also has a lot of cutting power! Also, if you are bound, and get hit with a black beam from the mask, it will rob ability or enhanced armament, be careful!”

Even if it was bad ive advice to one dueler, but of course in this situation there is no reason to be reserved Haruyuki’s sound, lance ——

Right after, Takumu moved

With a ‘Gashuu!’ ruiant flew out at a speed that made him hazy

So not possible for a heavy type body, a fierce frontal dash Furthermore, with no ht hand pile driver that poked the ground behind hiatory» which round into hard ed straight into dash power

Maybe uard, the slow to react enee fist with a howl

Dusk Taker gave up on evading, and took a position to guard with both ar from above, made the battle’s first attack spread out bluish white flashes

An impact sound like hammer smashed onto iron plate roared, then the di It looked like he would crash into the school building behind him like that, but he coiled his left hand tentacles around the protrusions on the ground, and slowly braked as if with a rubber band

Dusk Taker who landed with one knee on the ground, even though he guarded, his HP bar was cut over 5, showing Cyan Pile’s huge power

“Hmm, isn’t that very different from that time in kendo? That means that body, represents Mayuzuh you are that se masochism[2]?”

To Nou While he reloaded his right hand pile, he carefully closed the distance Nouain continued to spit out words led with mockery

“Or was it, froht handpenetration oh, what’s thea bit scary?”

“Stop stop it, you coward!!”

It was Haruyuki who shouted If he was not just a gallery, he ht line punch

Duel Avatar, was born fro that any Burst Linker would know

However, that was exactly why, no matter what kind of opponent, thus far Haruyuki especially avoided bringing out that conversation topic As for Taku what’s inside their heart To be sure, Cyan Pile’s «Pile» should be a representation of so However, Taku that openly as a weapon That would ht with his oound daily

“Noumi! You too your avatar also, is the shape of some kind of «Wound» that you don’t want to talk about either!!”

Hearing Haruyuki’s sharp words, while Dusk Taker kept facing the front, he sneered with ‘Kuku’

“That’s no good, Arita senpai Didn’t I already say it? My wound is «Being Robbed» That means this Dusk Taker has the power to «Rob» It’s pretty clear, about the saht!”

The end of that speech, wascut sound

The three tentacles dangling on the ground flashed snake like, and the thing held in each tip soo, were thrown in a direct line towards Takuh the air, were raphical effect of the «Purgatory» stage They were mostly just unpleasant and harmless imitations, but when various kind of them are crushed, different poisons spill out

The three insects that Noureen colored Without taking his eyes off Cyan Pile as closing in for even an instant, and able to talk to Haruyuki at the sarabbed and threw the poisonous insects, was not a feat that could be done without considerable far-sight

‘That guy, is unexpectedly fa’

At the tiht that, Cyan Pile’s left armcrunching sounds, the insect shells broke, and poisonous looking mucus was scattered Different parts of the blue body arave out white smoke

“Kuu”

The HP bar decrease was just a bit, but the unexpected attackthat mohtning bolt

The tentacles that were extended with a whine, restrained Cyan Pile’s pile driver in the blink of an eye Continuing, the right hand bolt clipper thrust out towards his throat

His neck is going to be sandwiched —— before that was shown, at the last rabbed one of the cutter blades

However, the thuo unnoticed by Noumi He instantly pinched that thuradually munched on it

“U Guu”

To Takumu’s low moan, Noumi sneered from the low position

“Aah, didn’t your rab opened scissor blade? See, it becomes like this”

With a ‘Bachin!’ frightful sound echo, Cyan Pile’s left hand thuulp, and at the salop ——

“You also, did no one tell you that ht hand is not my only attack power?”

Right after saying so with suppressed sound, Takumu tensed up his chest, and shouted

“—— «Splash Stinger»!!”

With a cutting sound, froered holes lined up on Cyan Pile’s chest, the face of small missiles poked up, and fired all at once

Dusk Taker showed iuard stance, but even so he was hit at point blank range with one needle missile after another, and flower of explosions blooht backwards, and this ti, half buried in the metallic wall

“Oooo!”

Not letting that chance escape, Takuround, his left shoulder forcefully s wall crumpled towards the inside, and the two avatars were thrusted inside the school like that Haruyuki hurried ran, since he could not dae himself, he went in from an entrance a bit far away

The long first floor hallas transformed to a weird shape like the schoolyard The slits carved in the iggled sinuously, occasionally spitting out stea down, and dripped down the hallway in drops

In that hideous scene, were the shapes of those two that already es, Cyan Pile had more than 80 On the other hand, Dusk Taker’s was decreased down to 60

“Noumi, you have already lost”

Takumu’s low sound announced

“Huh? Is that so?”

“That’s right With your power, you cannot destroy the Purgatory stage walls The exit is behind me And then in this narrow space, there is no chance of winning for you as a speed type”

Actually, he thought it was like what Takuht Cyan Pile in a building hallway like this before At that time he desperately avoided Cyan Pile’s attacks, escaped to the roof and soht now, behind Dusk Taker were many dead end hallways

The two reddish purple eyes made a tiny blink —— abruptly, the slender avatar sped forithout any startingit for spite of Takurabbed hold of the wall pole so that threw his body forward

With his posture lowered to the liive up, he planned to slip pass Cyan Pile’s feet and escape from the blind alley

But, Takuht foot stepped on the floor with a ‘Blang!’, and created a vibration wave specific to heavy class avatars, that caught Dusk Taker’s feet To the stu opponent, his left foot kicked forward to attack Nouain blown back towards the depth of the first floor hallway

Holding his ar, Takumu added

“It’s useless, you can’t get around behind ht started inside school, the winner would have been decided earlier After this, if you don’t want s to Silver Crow If you do that, then I will at least not interfere with you So how about it?”

Nou his wounded body with his right hand, continued to be silent for a while

Eventually he took a breath, and said while shaking his head left and right

“If it is Mayuzumi senpai, then he would probably keep this idiotic verbal promise with honor Geesh in this world, no, in the same school, there are people with this much different sense of values”

After he spread both hands wide in exasperation, Noumi whispered a short command he had not heard of before

“«Remove all equipment»”

And then, his left hand tentacles and right hand bolt clipper,enhanced armament can be done with voice commands recorded previously in the «Install Menu» Those frank words that were said, were probably keywords chosen by Noumi

‘—— Does that s —— that Noumi Seiji would?’

Haruyuki beca to checkain impressed

“Taku”

‘You did it!’, when he was going to shout that, at that time ——

Noumi’s empty hand and wounded avatar took a low posture And at the same time causally said

“Not really, I a Just, with both hands full, I can’t use this «Trick», only that”

“Tri ck!?”

To be sure, before also —— right before his first duel with Haruyuki ended, he also said that At that tiht it was just an insult —— does he really, have so else

At the same time that Haruyuki took a deep breath, Takuht hand at the enemy

“If you still want to continue, then I won’t hold back, Nouht you And then knock you down Is that fine with you!!”

The response, was thesound up till now

“Geesh, I don’t like that Being that serious I don’t want to pronounce the special skill but, well, I guess there’s no choice when it came to this”

Dusk Taker le in front of hi, incantation —— or curse like words were quietly released

“Toru Eru Tsukamu Kezuru Ubau Ubau, Ubau, U, Ba, U[3]”

An ‘iiiiIIIIIN’ vibration sound was created, and that soon changed to a high frequency metallic type And then Haruyuki saw it Noumi’s two hands, were covered by thick blackish purple wave

It even shook the air in the hallith sparks running in a wide range ‘Special Skill!?’ He thought that for one instant, but soon canceled it with not that With this e should be decreasing even before any attacks start But Nouhtly

The logic for this kind of pheno other than special skills, Haruyuki only learned of it recently

That was —— iination

Its other name was ——

“Ta Taku! Don’t worry about ht now!!”

Haruyuki screamed

“—— «Lightning Cyan Spike»!!”

After Takumu hesitated for an instant, he sharply shouted

Cyan Pile’s half full special gauge disappeared in one gulp, and at the same time aura like back flare spilled out from the «Pile Driver»’s rear end ——

The air was burned with a ‘Shaa!!’ sound, and the iron pile that becaht was released towards Dusk Taker

At that distance, it would be impossible to evade Taku’s level 4 special skill —— it should had been However

‘Snap’

With that dense gas being popped sound, the tip of the shi+ning iron pile stopped without penetrating anything

What stopped it, were just two fingers

Dusk Taker’s purple wave covered left hand index and reatest special skill as easily as if it was a cylinder made with paper

“Wha”

Right after Haruyuki’s raspy sound leaked out, with the sound of hot ht pole itself was sucked into the pulsating wave, and disappeared without a trace

Lowering his hand listlessly, Nouhtly, and looked at Cyan Pile who stood while dumbfounded

Up till now, this would be a scene where words full of insult would be released with suppressed laughter

But, while Dusk Taker reers of his both hands were curved to like claws, and producing even stronger purple vibration, kicked the ground

It was a fearsos fuzzy About double the speed of when he used the tentacles earlier The over ten meters of distance between him and Takumu was closed with less than an eyeblink, and Dusk Taker who cae arc from bottom up

The purple crescent onally across Cyan Pile’s thick chest ar i, was deeply gouged out

From the wounds left by the five claws, after one instant of delay, with a ‘Splash!+’, bluish white sparks bundle sprayed out like blood

“Guu”

Even though theback Takumu himself was probably more shocked than Haruyuki, he immediately counter attacked

Towards Nou to near his right shoulder, Takuly ——

‘Clank!’

That sound of firing echoed, however, Nouer there After a short teleport like speed right slide to easily evade the pile attack, this tiht the base of the iron pile that was extended the furthest right after firing

Again, with that strange wet sound echo, the pile was crushed

No, to be exact, the part grasped by Dusk Taker’s purple shi+ning hand instantly disappeared While showing mirror like sround

‘—— So, I was not mistaken’

It was the «Mind Power Attack» The ie from Noumi Seiji’s consciousness interfered with the systerasped in his hands disappear Denial of existence Overwriting event

Takumu probably did not know about the existence of the «Incarnate Syste shock in his whole body, he still bravely tried to counter attack Maybe he saw that Nou jump to distance himself, then released a kick attack

It was an awesoht roundhouse kick that seem to burn the air If hit, even a heavy type avatar would be blown flying

However that kick, calculated with the avatar weight, plus arth, plus muscle parameter, only contained numeric data

On the other hand, faster than Takuh the motion control type systee type control The result ——

‘Thud’

With that dreadful sound, the kick was again stopped by only the left hand The force that should had caused dae, were all sed by the purple wave, and canceled That wet echo, was the sound of Nou al shi+n portion

“Ua!”

Takumu’s suppressed painful sound leaked out

As if he was tor iggles, here Noumi finally released his whisper

“ Mayuzu about e’s walls?”

And then, dragging Takuht, he walked towards the south wall

Dusk Taker’s right hand that was thrust out casually, buried up to his wrist in the Purgatory’sany sound

Like that, as if pushi+ng aside jelly, a large circle was drawn on the wall

“Honestly, I did not want this to be seen Well, even though you would not understand it by just seeing This skill’s logic is known to six no, seven kings and their aides, and then only us, it should be But, you are a s this much of a difference in power, you should have understood”

While the words flowed, a close to two meters diameter trench was carved in the wall With one kick from Nouht shone in

“That you people no longer have any choice, this means While I am enrolled in this U asschool period, this also means”

After finished saying what he wanted, Noue body out of the hole Without giving Haruyuki even a single glance, he also moved out to the schoolyard

The inside of his head was numb, and while Haruyuki shoulders shook in small spasms, he stood in the dim hallway for a while

‘—— Why Why did that guy like Nou that you could find the existence of by yourself It should be a technique that could not be learned without being directly guided by someone’

What pulled Haruyuki back from his stupor, was Takumu’s low moan echoed from far away

Haruyuki quickly lifted his head up, and hurriedly started running Going through the hole that Nou fro, he also jumped outside

Almost in the exact center of the wide schoolyard, were the shadows of two intertwined avatars

However they were not fighting That should already be called one sided ravage

Cyan Pile as spraying large a wounds, even had trouble standing Even so he still continued to bravely attack with both hands, without even scratching Dusk Taker The dusk colored avatar avoided the punches with dance like jumps, while his claws carved shallow scraps from the opponent’s armor

Cyan Pile’s HP gauge was cut to only 20 left With his broken pile driver ained shone emptily

“Ta Taku”

Haruyuki wrung out a broken sound

What he should say to his best friend as not giving up under overwhele, he could not find the words for it Probably against Nou physical attacks, the pure «Close Range Blue» Cyan Pile would not have the skill to counter it

After tens of wounds was carved on his mask, Cyan Pile eventually fell down to his knees

In the nore was half of unlimited field, but even so, ifthat can be endured Noumi without doubt went after that, and deliberately repeated small attacks

Taku the virtual pain torturing his nerves, was kicked by Nou

Dusk Taker’s sht on top of the fallen Cyan Pile’s mask

“500 seconds reht, Mayuzumi senpai You have more talent here than kendo”

After a ‘Fufufu’ laugh, Nouh The cyclic, concentric circle of purple wave increased in strength

“So then, I will take the pay 13 second of my real time From your Burst Point, pain, and then humiliation”

On Takuht before that ——

“Wait, Noumi!!”

From as close distance as a vieas allowed, Haruyuki yelled

To Dusk Taker who stopped his hand, and glanced at him with his round visor, Haruyuki continued to desperately throw his voice

“Wait if it’s points I will give you ht with you, Taku used up a lot of points! I still have extra, so if you want to rob, take it from mine!!”

Half of it was his true feelings

—— However, the other half, was Haruyuki’s plan to bet on a slight chance

He suddenly kneeled down there, pushi+ng the face of his hel with insects, and Haruyuki said with a sound close to crying

“As you see, I beg you, Noumi!!”

Kneeling down on the ground ungracefully, was of course his first time in the accelerated world, but that was not so in the real world

Last year, before hefrom three boys in his class Whenever possible he was extorted buns and juice, and when he did not have theon the ground like this They were huht at this moment, he use all those ti his head on the ground

“Uwaa, that’s the worst The worst in many ways, Arita senpai”

Noumi’s appalled sound echoed

“Going that far for so like friendshi+p is a sickness, are you still a Brain Burst owner? Not acting like that in the duel field, even I feel that way”

“You can think whatever you like I will of course pay next week’s points as well, please I beg you!!”

“Yea, yea, I understand So inability from this person as well”

In the sound filled with large dose of disgust, he heard the sound of Nou Taku the install h the HP bar

Then, with a sharp warning sound, a ed up in his view It was a confir this field froallery included «Battle Royal Mode»

Haruyuki lifted his head up slightly, then after looking at Nou his head in exasperation, and Takumu as still fallen, immediately pressed the YES button

With that, if Takued to where Haruyuki will be a dueler instead of gallery That’s right, without waiting for next week, he would be able to fight Dusk Taker

However, although it was expected, Takumu did not press the button for a while Naturally, Takumu also should have believed Haruyuki’s words at their face value, so having his points that was going to be taken away shouldered by so that his pride would allow

Fro Noumi barely could not see him, Haruyuki stared at Takumu with all the power he could put into his two eyes

‘—— Press it’

‘—— I have not given up yet I want to fight hiht him That’s why, press the button, Takumu!!’

The screaht have actually reached him

Takedarm —— and touched a point in the air

After a few silence filled seconds, suddenly the various data display in his view vanished Right after, with a ‘Glop!’ sound, Silver Crow’s HP gauge extended in