Accel World Vol 8 Chapter 3 (2/2)
“At that tih Raker-san’s «body part loss» was still within four tis didn’t return It was due to her unconscious Mind Power that she had continued to deny her own legs Surely the ISS Kit also will refuse destruction with its own Mind Power…”
“If that’s so! —If that’s so, I will too!”
Chiyuri looked alternately at Haruyuki and Takumu, then shouted
“I will undergo the training for the Incarnate system too! It doesn’t matter how many years I spend in the Unlimited Field, I will acquire the power to be able just to erase the ISS Kit from Takkun!”
“You can’t do that, Chii-chan!”
Just at that moment, Takumu had shouted Without a moment’s delay Chiyuri also retorted
“Why not! Senpai and Nee-san both said that one day the time will come for me to find my own Mind Power and cultivate it! Why can’t that be now!”
In opposition to that, Takuan to open his mouth
However, there his words were stopped Haruyuki, who had distinctly sensed what he was about to say and why he had stopped short, leaned forward and softly touched Chiyuri’s slender yet graceful arm
“Chiyu”
Gazing at her large, catlike pupils, which were looking right back at him sharply, Haruyuki spoke slowly
“…Chiyu, your Citron Call is an aest ability within Nega Nebulas But, that’s undoubtedly…an ability that yearns for the past I don’t knohether you’ve noticed, but the sound of the bell you hear when you activate the technique…it’s exactly like the after-school chime in the elementary school ent to…”
She herself probably had been noticing that For an instant, Chiyuri opened her eyes wide, then immediately covered her face Haruyuki spoke even more to his silent friend
“Of course, ly bound to the past However, at the very least Taku’s technique is an incarnation of the will to cut through the past and advance forward That’s why I…and undoubtedly Taku too, want you to see the future when you undergo the Incarnate systeh we don’t knohat kind of powers you will develop…we think that it’d be nice if it were a power like facing the future and reaching your hand out as far as you can…”
For a while, none of them opened their mouths or even stirred their bodies
Only the thin second hand of the wall clock approaching eleven o’clock was rotating s on dehumidification mode hummed in a low tone; frolass, the noise of EV tires coht faintly reached them
At last, Chiyuri, who had suddenly relaxed her entire body, smiled placidly while her eyes were moistened
“…That’s true”
She whispered, then nodded, then ain
“That’s true, isn’t it If it’s a technique set by the system, then anyhow…if it’s a power that I have to find withinlike being able to reachlike Haru’s”
“Nah…erated as that though…”
“Uh-unh, I love «Laser Sword» just as much as «Cyan Blade»”
S, Chiyuri continued in a voice that had regained its cheerfulness
“That’s right, Ia that can blow both Haru and Takkun away!”
“Ugh…”
The two boys exchanged glances again In truth, Lime Bell’s potential was still unfathohtened with an Incarnate technique that easily surpassed both of their techniques
“P, please go easy on us…”
After Haruyuki said that, this tiether merrily
Tomorrow they obviously had school, and after that the «I for them, so it would soon becoh-resilienceroom in the order of Haruyuki, Takuo when they were small, when they had their afternoon nap at soht’s leading role was Takumu
If there were the apprehension that the ISS Kit would interfere with hi his sleep, then the three of thehter—that method was also considered, but Takumu had immediately dismissed it, as it would influence the «Iy» toent probleo «Silver Croas in a sealed state in the Unliether with the purification ability user «Ardor Maiden» by any means; if he was not purified of the «Disaster Ar on Sunday, he would have a top-class bounty placed on his head in the Accelerated World
“It’s okay; if both of us are at your side, then you can sleep in peace until ”
To Taku sideways on his pillow, Haruyuki replied while also nodding back
“Hey, if it seeht away, ‘cause we’ll knock you awake”
“I’?”
“Uh, uhh…sleep talking…”
While feeling a sleepiness that caused his eyelids to gradually becoed those words, froers
“That’s right! Hey, since you can’t block the interference anyways even if you remove your Neuro Linker, why don’t we sleep with the three of us joined by direct connection?”
“Huh!?”
Haruyuki blinked, and Chiyuri agilely lifted her head and continued to speak
“If we’re directly connected, even if we’re sleeping our thought voices are transht be able to notice it with that”
“Ahh…I see, I didn’t notice that…”
He exchanged glances for an instant with Takued their willingness to try it They got up once, and the three of them simultaneously equipped their Neuro Linkers, which had been in thewirelessly on top of the sofa set table They prepared two XSB cables, and this time they lay doith Haruyuki in the middle The reason was that only Haruyuki’s Neuro Linker was equipped with two direct connection terminals
He made a direct connection with Chiyuri on the left terht one The tired connection warnings disappeared, and only a small connection icon remained in the tip of his vision
While pulling his blanket up until his neck, Haruyuki tasted a strange feeling
No matter whom his partner ith some difference in scale a nervousness always accompanied wired directions The sense of vulnerability fro his Neuro Linker’s defensive walls and the instinctive sense of iether inevitably made his heart flutter
However, right now Haruyuki only felt a quiet tranquility The feeling ofprotected by his childhood friends, hom he had spent more time than anyone else It was just as if from the two cables, a sense of security fro his heart…
Before he noticed it, Haruyuki was closing his eyelids The home server AI detected that the residents had went to bed and autohts Froentle darkness that had visited, two voices reached him
—Good night
—Good night
Without even knohether those were their real voices or thought voices, Haruyuki also softly murmured
…Good night…