Accel World Vol 6 Chapter 3 (2/2)

“U, n, no, that”

At this point his eyes could only go black and white Niko’s shady «Angel Mode» was, so, but even knowing that trick, for Haruyuki as an only child since birth, when he was called ‘Onii-chan’ with a smile, he became unavoidably flustered

“Forget everything just now! Ah, I should be heading home! Thanks for the juice!”

While continually shooting with a cute voice various sentences ending with star effects, Niko lightly jumped off the sofa Just like that, she stepped with a s room to cross it

At that point Haruyuki was also able to push away the distraction and stand up, then called to the small backside

“Wa, wait aelse, isn’t there more you want to talk about?”

Hearing that, the slender little girl stopped her feet right before the door Hesitation momentarily leaked from her, then she suddenly spun around The words that followed after another s that he did not expect

“Hey, Haruyuki Onii-chan If either of us et everything about each other right”

“Wha”

—— «Related meo, that was the last rule used on people who lost Brain Burst Even Kuroyukihime, at that time only had rumor level information, and Niko seemed to have learned this truth somehow

After peaking from above at Haruyuki ed a breath, Niko suddenly thrust out her right hand, with her surprisingly ser extended

“That’s why, let’s make a promise If we see an unknown name in the Neuro Linker address book, send out one e that data Then, maybe, once more”

“rita Arita! Hey, are you listening?”

The thick sound calling his fao

He desperately s the pain that elling up his chest After taking ears

“Y, yes!”

While hurriedly answering, he stood up half on reaction, and his legs buave out clattering sounds At that point, he finally realized that this was not his horoup classroom

As he fearfully looked around, he saw that his ho a wry face at the podiu out snicker at Haruyuki’s over reaction

The sounds of those laughter, coh not 0 —— were not that kind of laughter This class’s Haruyuki, even though he was still at the bottoe to obtain a position of «Haruy» Of course he was not unsatisfied with that position On the other hand it could be said to be ideal

That’s why, easy ot him useless attention, was a situation that he tried to avoid with all his ht use this as an excuse to bully hi that he did not want to think about

That’s why Haruyuki made a shy s to sit down

However, so was expected of him, and that made him stop All the expressions fro for Haruyuki to say so

‘—— Wh, what is this at? Did I start an ultra high difficulty hter with a one shot comedy?’

As he was thinking at high speed in his brain, and was going to sweat buckets of cold sweat ——

“Oo, Arita You standing up, is it okay to take it toa candidate?”

That, was an unthinkable sound echo froeno

‘—— Candidate? For what?’

Since he had missed all of the ho to connect the front and back parts The unexpected development made him freeze, so he focused his view behind the teacher However there was nothing written on the virtual blackboard

‘—— Don’t panic, think about it The role you are invited to during long ho school announcement text It should be that 99 of the time’

At the ht of that, his view returned to his virtual desktop Then he saw that there was a document file in the newly received area

Reading with his real voice, was solish classes it occasionally happened, and it was a lot better than saying what he thought up In this situation, instead of saying ‘That’s not it’ and sit down to et cold, it would be a

Haruyuki who had the above train of thought and finished deciding his action, raised his head to eno in the eyes, and replied “Y, yes, I will do it!” in a clear voice

Then —— suddenly ‘OOo!’ kind of exclamation sounds filled the class, and heavy thunder like hand clapping followed

“Yes?”

Wh, as this response? Why was this kind of clapping just for a reading duty candidate?

In front of Haruyuki who froze up again, Sugeno nodded with hums, then said

“Sensi, believed that Arita is soroup and B group will probably be drawing straws, but C group being decided with candidacy makes me truly happy!”

Being hit with a somehow very bad premonition, Haruyuki clicked the newly received file

The document that opened up with a faint effect sound was ——

[Announcement from the new caretaker committee: One person from each of second year classes, for a total of three members to be selected]

That, was lined up in blunt fonts

“Ca, caretaker!?”

Thatsound fros

—— Caretaker That is,the duty to take care of animals?

As he looked around the classroo what he realized in low speed, he saw Chiyuri as shaking her head in arief’ wry smile

“Hey Haru, I know that you always space out”

After school, during the short time before club activities

His childhood friend, Kurashi+ma Chiyuri who came to the front of the desk that Haruyuki continued to lay limply, said to him with a clammy look

“If you didn’t know the situation, you should have at least opened the sent out file! Why did you charge ahead with just that prediction!”

“There, there, Chi-chan It’s not the first tie 2”

That, was froht that was not helping, but could not even retort With his body slowly sliding from the chair, he weakly said

“It’s okay, already I will do it, caretaker or anything”

“If it was forced on you, then I would also have said so I could do”

Chiyuri gave a sigh, then suddenly changed her expression Serious light appeared on her cat like eyes, and the head with light shi+ning on her large hairpin drew close

“But, actually, do you have extra time for committee activity? Since, Haru has within one week”

The continuation to that, hispered in a low sound by Takumu as also bent over

“That parasite must be «Purify», no matter what”

—— That’s right

This week, that was, June 17, Monday to 23rd, Sunday, was Haruyuki —— Silver Crow’s given «Probation Period»

In yesterday’s seven Kings conference, finally two resolutions were adopted

First, for the anization - Acceleration Research Society, was «Continued gathering of infor too lukewaranization was completely unknown so they could not even attack, there was nothing they could do

And then, to cancel out that lukewarm, was a strict decision set down for Silver Croho became Chrome Disaster

If in seven days including today, the Disaster Armor, Chrome Disaster parasite could not be coh reward put on by five Kings Further to be the reward, will be split according to nuainst Silver Crow kind of system

If that happened, the inah levels will attack him, and Haruyuki’s points would dry up in no ti the Armor» kind of just cause There would be no need for hesitation with a large group going after one person

Of course, he could do the sa as Kuroyukihiinami, then even if he connect to the Global net, he could refuse duels, but doing that wouldlevel up, is about sa

In truth, the «Kill cos», could be said to equal to an announcement of death sentence The reason that Kuroyukihime was able to remain alive for two years, was of course due to her iron like willpower to disconnect fro» was important too For Haruyuki, the latter was i

“One week, huh”

Muttering, Haruyuki looked down at his hands laying on the desk

Even without concentrating, freshly shi+ning white silver armor overlayed thee to at any ti able to beco a Burst Linker, did not seem real to him

‘No, that feeling was, because this is the real world? Real for me, does it already exist only in that world? If that is the case, when I lost Brain Burst, where else can I go?’

At the s, Haruyuki finally was hit with a s that irl’s sound awoke

—— Let’s make a promise If we see an unknown name in the Neuro Linker address book, send out one e that data

How serious was Niko who said that in the Angel Mode that should be an act, Haruyuki did not know After that, Niko forcefully crossed with Haruyuki’s right hand little finger, then ran in a clatter to return home

There was no way he would forget Even if his accelerated world et people in the real world whom he had fostered bonds With that deep belief, a sharp uneasy appeared in his chest If he lost sense of reality in the real world ed with «Reality», if they become empty while he did not notice

The suddenly well up fearhis head even deeper, but a small hand came into his view before that, and covered Haruyuki’s left fist

“It’s okay, Haru”

When he raised his head at the gentle sound, Chiyuri’s usual smile was there

“That’s right For sure soon, everything will be resolved”

Taku beside said that decidedly, then extended the hand holding his shi+nai and knocked on Haruyuki’s right fist His two childhood friends exchanged looks, then nodded after confirain looked at Haruyuki

“Also, Haru We conferred and decided Even if one more week passed and Haru is chained by the reward, Ta-kun and I, will supply points to Haru so we can level up at the same pace, that That’s why Haru, you don’t need to worry about anything”

Haruyuki seriously stared at Chiyuri’s face as she said that Then he immediately rose from his chair, and fiercely shook his head

Lowering his voice volume to the limit, Haruyuki said in a half shout

“N no! If you do that, then you till have rewarded heads! Those guys, are waiting for an excuse to put that on all of us!”

“Hey hey Haru, I a points around, I know many of them”

Takue, soon looked to lower right of his view, then raised up as if to seal Haruyuki’s retort

“Oops, I should be heading to club activities Haru, if the caretaker activity takes too long, give me a shout, and I will help hat I can Anyway this week, ill put master’s formulated «Purification Plan» as top priority”

“Ah, sorry, Taku”

After sing various words, Haruyuki nodded

The Disaster Ars conference decided how to deal with Silver Crow, Kuroyukihime made it up while she was resentful, the mission to erase the Chrome Disaster factor It seemed to be made up of three steps, but it was not fully explained to Haruyuki and others While he raising his head, he said with over half for himself

“I don’t know the details, but anyway right noe can only do our best”

“Un, I will also give my full cooperation Bye, see you later”

Takuht knock, then turned around and lightly jogged to the kendo arena While seeing him off, Chiyuri also quickly whispered

“I also have to go to club activities, but don’t be afraid to tellhappens We are let’s see friends, or is it comrades, not that let’s see”

‘—— Faht?’

That kind of sound from Haruyuki’s heart, made Chiyuri stop her e sht hand, then moved to the exit with a clatter

Haruyuki as left by himself, as he wore the satchel on his shoulders, whispered in his chest

‘Real or virtual, it was not that intrinsic of a problem Taku and I, Chiyuri and I, Senpai and Raker-san and I, and then Niko Pard-san, and many other people, e fostered is always «here» —— in my heart’

‘I will protect that I don’t want to lose it For Arita Haruyuki —— and then for Silver Crow’

When he glanced at the tiathering ti to the stairs to first floor, Haruyuki renewed his decision

This one week’s probation, was important time that Kuroyukihime and Niko desperately won and took froement He would absolutely not waste it It was an unexpected committee activity that he carelessly became a candidate for, but there should be soht now, all he should do was to do his best in everything

“All right!”

With that small shout, when he went outside, the rain seem to have stopped