Accel World Vol 5 Chapter 5 (1/2)

Chapter 5

“Hey, hey, heeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!!”

That shout resounded throughout the entire battlefield

At the saine Then a shrill squealing sound, and another shout

“With such a cheap wall, you’ll never stop the great me!!”

“No way!?”

Haruyuki frantically looked at his surroundings Faded buildings, characteristic of the «Weathered» stage, were collapsed everywhere, therebya barricade of rubble The ones who had destroyed the a little further away They had detere’s characteristic of having very fragile geographical features, and filled in the surroundings roads with their rubble

The objective of this was to weaken the mobility of the biker-user «Ash Roller» in the three-player tea side of the territory battle Their aier any routes that would allow him to move on his bike from the current front line to the position that Sky Raker was protecting at the back—is how it should have been, but

“W-Where are you!?”

Haruyuki desperately searched for the source of the roaring engine sound

After several seconds, he quickly found it However, Haruyuki didn’t move immediately, but instead fully opened his eyes and ht

A gunht to left on the opposite side of the one-sided two-lane main road However, its speed was too slow That was not because it was avoiding the rubble covering the road, but rather because it was iht of the rubble reached up to nearly twocarried instead

The huge ht shoulder of a short-statured avatar not even half as tall as the bike, who stepped over the rubble barricade with great effort Ash Roller wasthe seat of the bike as it swayed on top of the shoulder and repeatedly gunning the accelerator

“……T-There’s no point to revving the engine like that!!”

After instinctively letting out that retort with all his strength, Haruyuki finally noticed that this wasn’t a situation where he could sit back and watch Their aim was to cross over the mountain of rubble and reach its base It would becoot there

“I-I won’t let you!”

Shouting that, Haruyuki charged towards the opposite side of the lanced at him, and immediately after—

“Big Bro Ash!+ Forget about o—!”

While shouting out those somehow excessively cool words, he threw the bike forward It was an incredible feat of physical strength compared to his size

Leaving aside the fact that Ash Roller seeer brother at some point, the American bike he rode crossed over the su a particularly shrill exhaust sound

“Your heart, is Giga Buuuuurning!!”

Along with one of his usual incomprehensible shouts, he landed on the asphalt andout white smoke from his rear wheel

Saturday, June 8, 5:30 PM They were in the inaa Nebulas» side consisted of Haruyuki, Taku side consisted of three ion «Great Wall» led by Ash Roller

There was a considerable gap in level co levels of 8-5-5 and the eneame where that kind of difference could be easily overturned with a singlelet that «single h the barricade, Haruyuki tried to chase after the fast bike —However

“I won’t let ya pass here!!”

Along with a cry that made Haruyuki wonder whether that kind of tone was for constructing a certain character or was simply natural, a shadow jumped down in front of him It was the avatar that had carried Ash Roller’s bike

His nareen armor He was shorter than Silver Crow by several centiive off that iely-developed arms His overall silhouette made one think of a certain kind of priround when he bent forward, but even so, he wasn’t an opponent to be ht of

Haruyuki responded back while glaring cautiously at those two huge arms pointed at him

“…Guys that say lines like that are never able to hold others back!”

He then quickly bent forward and went into a super-low dash

Bush Utan was a brute strength-specialized avatar that poured all of his potential into his two huge arms If Haruyuki received a direct punch froe equal to a 2 level difference, but Utan’s speed was not that great Besides, Haruyuki didn’t intend to fight here in the first place

After instantly shortening the distance between theallop, Haruyuki juth, since the enes for only a e, and then passed over the ene

Utan tried holding his hands up frantically, but he couldn’t reach hi this scene, Haruyuki had the time to mentally comment to him, ‘You should have shortened the distance between us yourself and reduced my options You should actively control the distance between instead of si…’

“——wait, owah!?”

The surprised shout that leaked out from Silver Crow’s mouth was overlapped by a thick male yell

“Uhohoho! I’o——!!”

What had happened was that Bush Utan’s arms had extended It wasn’t simply that his elbow joints had cothened up to three tirabbed Haruyuki’s ankles with his huge palms—

“Funnuuuussu——!”

Since he was about to be thrown right to the ground, Haruyuki fully opened his wings reflexively and released all the propulsive force they contained

“Nuooh!”

The state of equilibriu Utan was, his actual weight was still in the light-weight category Haruyuki flew up blindly while having the pris Since it had turned out like this, he thought of ra him, but at that instant

“Uho!? S-Scary!!”

After hearing a pitiful cry, the speed of his flight weakened with a jerk When he frantically looked down, he saw that Utan had released only his left hand fro’s roof instead Since both his ar to the limit, it was as if the pri rope

“You, l-let go!”

“N-No way!”

Haruyuki tried flapping his wings desperately, but the grip on his left ankle showed no signs of loosening at all Takuht have been able to cut off Utan’s ar the third member of the enemy tea could be heard from there intermittently

While reluctantly continuing this tug of war in the air, Haruyuki cast his gaze around and looked at the western side of the main road At that instant, he inadvertently blurted out

“Oh no…!”

The big American bike had already dashed e into the small plaza at the end of the road There was a circle that epole at its center installed in the plaza The black color on its flag was proof that it was the «base» of Haruyuki’s team

Bases were selected spots that dotted various places on the territory battle field, and if a teaes could be recharged endlessly within the circle In other words, territory battles in Brain Burst consisted of nothingone base after another and assaulting the enemies’ bases

The base Ash Roller was ai protected by Sky Raker As a Level Eighter, her ability was naturally guaranteed, but her unique fighting style could be a huge advantage or disadvantage depending on its compatibility with the enemy

And according to Haruyuki’s diagnosis, the wheelchair-user Sky Raker and the bike-user Ash Roller were part of the saed that Raker was at a disadvantage Her wheelchair’s abilities as a vehicle-type Enhanced Armament were naturally outclassed by far in nearly all aspects by Ash Roller’s bike

Heading towards the delicate silver wheelchair that stood alone in front of the plaza and the graceful feing and roaring loudly

“Masteeeeeer!”

The skull-headed rider let out a yell, which was for some reason mixed with tears

“Today…I will…surpass you, master[2]……!!”

Haruyuki gaped his mouth open in the air Certainly, Sky Raker was Ash Roller’s mentor and «Parent», but his words just noere the kind only spoken when on the verge of the final battle after many twists and turns This was still only the third time that Ash Roller’s team had participated in the territory attacks today, and moreover this should have been the first tiht head-to-head

On top of her wheelchair, Raker was s her long sky-colored hair

“You’re a hundred years too early, Ash”

And then, she held out her left hand straight in front of her andher palers

“Toooooo!!”

Ash responded to that with a sharp yell He juht foot on the handlebar and his left foot on the back end of his seat This was—the original technique where one controlled the bike like a surfboard called «V-Twin Fist», named by Ash Roller himself

Although Raker showed no signs of panicking even when she saw that ain This put Raker at even e Since Raker couldn’t stand up froer reached up to Ash Roller’s body And a bare-handed attack against the bike would cause dae to herself instead

“Master! Giga-Thank you for everything until nooooooooow!!”

He used the sole of his boot to push down on the full throttle lever, and the bike went into one final burst of acceleration while gushi+ng out flarey front tire was on the verge of hitting the wheelchair hard—

Raker’s left hand gentle brushed against the silver wheel on her left side at a blurred speed Raising sparks froround, the wheelchair did an extremely fast and sudden back dash

—It’s iet away!

Haruyuki inwardly shouted that at Sky Raker, as his h the wheelchair, which could only beits wheels by hand, had incredible dashi+ng speed due to its ultra-light weight, it only lasts for abackwards and send her flying

At the sa that outcome

With utter abandonment, Sky Raker stretched herself forhile just barely dodging the bike’s front wheel, and touched the bike’s handle bar with her left hand—

And then lightly grasped the bike’s brake lever

Although it looked like a casual action, Haruyuki could tell that she had put unbelievable strength into it, as terrible sparks came out from the front wheel’s rotor disk What would happen to a bike that had only its front brakes locked and with such force as well?

“O-Owaah!?”

Faster than Ash Roller could let out a yell, the entire American bike instantly went into a handstand on its front wheel and shi+fted into the so-called “jack-knife” state[3] It rose up with the , until it crashed into the wall of a building ahead

It seemed that the shock of impact exceeded the durability of the Enhanced Arnificent flames

However, Ash Roller hi on his seat, been thrown up in the air without being engulfed in the explosion

“Noooooooooooooooooooooooo—!?”

He reached the peak of his ascent with a screa back down And right beneath hi forith her wheelchair again

“Make that two hundred years”

Along with that s comment, she shot her left palm upith so much force that the air burned The palht the back of Ash Roller’s dark leather rider jacket, and released an impact that could be felt all the way up to where Haruyuki was far away

Due to the critical blow dealt to the core of his body coauge quickly disappeared

“As expected of ”[4]

Leaving those mysterious words, the skull rider avatar burst and scattered into pixels Haruyuki and Bush Utan simultaneously murmured as they watched Sky Raker dust off her hands

“S-So powerful……”

“Way too strong……”

They exchanged glances Since Raker had splendidly repulsed Ash and protected the base, there was no longer anyof war

Without saying anything, Haruyuki suddenlyhis entire re force this produced rate

“T-That’s useless! Burn, my biceeeeeeeeeeps!!”

Utan pu handrail and his right ar Haruyuki’s ankle, and tried to pull back Haruyuki with pure physical strength—and at that instant

Haruyuki changed the flight direction of his silver wings by 180 degrees, and went into a diving posture Inevitably, this caused Utan to pull Silver Croards hith

“Wha…hey, wait a minute”

His words were erased by the sound of being hit by a violent dive kick

Like that, the two of theround like heavy lurip on Haruyuki’s fro way to go before he could fight Haruyuki at point blank hand-to-hand combat

As his HP disappeared in a rush, Utan exited the stage with parting words of surrender just like that of his big bro’s

“I-I’ll pay ya back for this tomorrow~~~~~!!”

……Tomorrow?

Haruyuki had a bad feeling about those words so and hurried over to the front lines in order to assist Takumu

Fifteen minutes later in real world time—

Having protected the First to Third Battles Areas of Suginaathered in the center of the field that had served as the stage for the last battle, and congratulated each other for a good day’s work

Sitting down on a nearby slab of concrete, Haruyuki let out a long breath, feeling coued, and spoke to Sky Raker next to him

“Even so…I didn’t think that Ash Roller’s bike could be taken down through such a method…”

In the past, Haruyuki had defeated Ash by lifting the rear wheel of his bike and cancelling its propulsive force, but thethe brake lever while it ran and then blowing it aas farand cool

However, Raker shook her head with a wry smile

“Unfortunately, that ht on his bike”

“Ah…I-I see…”

Certainly, a rider’s hands usually do not separate frohtful huhter in her voice

“Before that, if you don’t synchronize your speed with the bike using a Raker-class dash when you touch it going at full speed, you would receive dae instead”

“Ah…I-I…see…”

As Haruyuki dropped his head, Chiyuri and Takuhed for a while, but then added, “But, well”

“Perhaps if you flew at full speed, youas Raker You should look into the possibility”

“Yes!”

After Haruyuki energetically nodded, the legion leader looked around at her subordinates and spoke

“If there’s nothing else to discuss, let’s talk about the matter of toe with an outline of it froain here”

“U-Understood”

After frantically standing up and facing the four other people sitting down side by side, Haruyuki started explaining the outline of the big event to Race»

He explained about hoas not necessary to specifically go to the Sky Tree, and that if they gathered and Direct Connected together at Haruyuki’s home, the «Transporter Card» item would teleport them to the bottom station of the space elevator

About how they couldn’t change the driver of Shuttle-1 since Silver Crow had already registered for it, and so the rest of theers that protected their shuttle or attacked the shuttles of the rival teams

About how, since their HP gauges were locked while in the race, the Level 9 Black Lotus would not be in danger either

After so over his words, Haruyuki suddenly hesitated He wasn’t able to decide on the spur of the moment whether he should istered for Shuttle-2, and how she was looking forward to ain

However, he immediately decided to ree between Leopard and Raker could only be understood by the two of them

Therefore, Haruyuki sucked in a deep breath and then finished with “That’s all!”

“Good work”

Kuroyukihime said that and then immediately stood up in Haruyuki’s place as he sat down

“You should have learned this from Haruyuki-kun’s mail as well, but an event known as the «Grand Castle Capture Race» also occurred one year ago as well I think Raker already understands, but…”

Suddenly stopping her words, the Black King struck her right hand’s sword on the ground

“Back then, I was co fros, so I felt veeeeeeeeeeryable to participate

“I truly did too I sent a bitter call of resentment all the way to the Grand Castle from on top of the Old Tokyo Tower back then”

Raker s Kuroyukihihten their backs nervously While sharing the thought of «Raker-sensei is truly scary», they wouldn’t have been surprised if several duel avatars had actually becoe and e back then

“Anyway As a result, I would like to dispel last year’s regret in tomorrow’s race without fail Takureed to enter, and above all, Haruyuki went through sothe possibility of a new stage appearing and going all the way to the distant Sky Tree I will allow no excuses for putting this to waste”

After Kuroyukihime spoke, Haruyuki frantically shook his head and hands

“N-No, really, I uessed the location and time of the portal’s appearance was senpai…”

“That idea was very ih the ten participation slots were apparently all quickly filled, it seeht an expensive piece of information at an NPC shop in the Unlimited Neutral Field There were only one or two people besides Haruyuki-kun who realized it on their own”

“H-Heh…So that’s hoas…”

Then, that NPC information htly delayed In that case, Haruyuki, who guessed it from scratch by himself, and probably Pard-san were the first people to reach the Hermes Cord

In that case, he was really grateful to Chiyuri for inviting him to the shi+njuku Governone there, the news about the space elevator would probably not have corateful to Kuroyukihi their Dive Call It truly was good to have coht that—

“……Wait a moment, Lotus”

Sky Raker lightly raised her hand, and moved her wheelchair forward as its wheels squeaked She turned the wheelchair around with a sion members