Accel World Vol 5 Chapter 1 (2/2)

“I-It’s nothing L-Let’s get on!”

An astounded voice he was used to hearing followed after Haruyuki as he jumped into the train

“Hey, there are only two stations, you know!”

Arriving at the govern on the pathway that extended out froround west entrance of shi+njuku Station, the two of them jumped into the direct connect elevator that went up to the viewing platforhest floor

GUGU Aof acceleration hit theital floor indicator on the wall changed nued frolass, and Chiyuri immediately fleard and raised her voice in exclamation

“Uwah…arey…”

“You can’t really see ith the rain…”

It was expected, but the view of the evening landscape of the huge metropolis that spread out to the south was obstructed by the incessant curtain of rain andlike a haze coiled around the glass as they went farther up and further obstructed their view

The elevator slowed down as a floating feeling gently went through his body, and then finally it stopped with an announce doors was dyed all in white

Rebuilt in the 30s, the Tokyo Governht The only other building of such a height in Tokyo, or rather in all of japan, was the Su platforhest floor here at the government office was actually the closest to the sky in the center of Tokyo

Running out of the elevator, Chiyuri spoke as she placed both her hands against the hugeglass at the front of them

“Uwah……A, it’s pure white…”

“Rather than raining, this place is already within the clouds”

While s bitterly, Haruyuki stood next to Chiyuri Thesimply shone a milky white color as if the other side was covered in thick cotton

“It’s unfortunate that we can’t see the sky”

Saying that, Chiyuri becah the , but she soon turned around and smiled

“Well, it’s fine Thanks to this, we have this place all to ourselves”

Certainly, no one would care to go up to the viewing platform in the middle of such bad weather and furthern of anyone on either side of the passage Chiyuri suddenly latched her left arht ar

“Since it’s rare to have it empty like this, let’s do a once-around!”

“Uh, s-sure”

Recently, Haruyuki was also able to somehow talk normally with Chiyuri in person like he used to in the past, but whenever she got a little too close, hisas she saw Haruyuki like that, Chiyuri began to walk clockwise along the passage that ran along the circu floor

Naturally, the view outside thedidn’t change noto the glass, there were only surging lumps of white clouds Even so, Chiyuri did not make a dissatisfied face, and moved her feet rhythmically

His relationshi+p with this childhood friend of his had been hard to grasp for a while now Ih and painful battle two o had finished, Chiyuri had wrapped her arms around Haruyuki and Taku, ‘I love you two’

Since then, she had continued trying to talk carefreely and come into contact with both Haruyuki and Taku to rewind time back to those days when the three of them played every day until it became dark

“Ah, that’s right, Haru”

Haruyuki raised his head when she suddenly called out his name

“W-What?”

“If we’re going to duel anyway, let’s connect globally If we do that, the sightseeing guidance tag will appear on the other side of the

“Ah…I see”

The two of them were currently cut off Neuro Linkers from the Global Net They did so because, since the shi+njuku Ward was the territory of the Blue Legion «Leonids», they didn’t knohen other Burst Linkers would suddenly intrude on them while they were connected

For exaerous if they «waited for a duel» while on the road, but now that they were in the viewing platform where no one was present, there wouldn’t be a problee Haruyuki nodded, and first opened the console for «Brain Burst» and made a team with Lime Bell With this, it would be clearly written on theteae theroups After that, he connected his Neuro Linker to the Global Net si with Chiyuri

Is appeared in his vision These were the guidancethat would have commanded the view outside if the weather had been clear When the two of them turned towards the east, the names of the nearby shi+njuku Station and Southern Terrace, and Kabukicho[6] beyond them also appeared

“…Like I thought, it’s no fun to see only the tags”

When Chiyuri said that with a bitter smile, as if the God of weather sympathized with the two of the view of the center of Tokyo spread out suddenly beneath their eyes

Letting out a shout of joy, Chiyuri flew over to theHaruyuki also hurried over next to her

As they looked down froh with their naked eyes, the metropolis was laid out chaotically beneath them as if it were a tapestry with 500 years of history woven into it As he thought of how the laly, the shi+njuku Gyoen National Garden and the Akasaka Estate[7] that hadn’t been changed at all since the last century were sunken in dusk within those streets

And furthere black hole that existed in the center of that galaxy, a vast space that was an even deeper black—the Imperial Palace

It was a place that, of course, Haruyuki and Chiyuri couldn’t enter in the real world, and they hadn’t experienced virtual ies of the palace’s interior as Burst Linkers either That was because that space’s security system was not connected to the social camera network, a very special exception in present-day japan As a result, the Imperial Palace in Accel World’s «Unlimited Neutral Field» couldn’t have its actual appearance reproduced froes like other place, and instead it always existed as an evil fortress-like original structure

However, what if the opposite was done?

The Brain Burst Progra, confirmed to be able to hack into the entire social caenerate a field from it It extended as far as even the Okinawa prefecture that wasn’t connected to the mainland, and Kuroyukihime had once even covered the whole distance from Okinawa to Tokyo on the Unlimited Neutral Field —In that case, what if there were also places under social camera surveillance outside of japan as well? Would Burst Linkers be also able to «go» there…?

“…Hey, Chiyu”

Haruyuki whispered while gazing absentmindedly eastward

“Hmm, what is it?”

“About the recent talk on the export of social cay on the news…”

Did you hear about it?

Haruyuki was not able to finish saying the question at the end of his sentence

BAshi+ A familiar sound effect struck his ears, and at the same time his vision blacked out Automatic acceleration—in other words, some Burst Linkers in the shi+njuku area had discovered the tag tea list, and had instantly applied for a «duel» Within the darkness, the flahtly

The excitement of a duel in an outside area for the first tihts

References

↑ ”Arcade” here refers to overhead arches or ceilings that are placed above a street, not the ga establishment

↑ Ossu: japanese greeting that basically inal

↑ The “Kuroyuki” here is not a mistake; Chiyuri leaves out the “hime” (princess) when she refers to Kuroyukihi her “Black Snow” instead of “Black Snow Princess”

↑ Piano black is basically a very glossy kind of black

↑ Basically lish

↑ Kabukicho: Red light district in shi+njuku, Tokyo

↑ Akasaka Estate (Akasaka Goyouchi): a large forested tract of land that contains the Akasaka Palace