Accel World Vol 8 Chapter 10 (2/2)

Basically—he had chased after them The Divine Beast Suzaku, the protector beast who supposedly would not leave the south large bridge, its territory, was also ascending hi Haruyuki and company

The one re at therave voice reverberated

—Foolish

—You cannot escape fros

At the sas, which were extended out twenty meters from side to side His massive frame steadily accelerated, and the distance between them shortened

“Kk…!”

Glaring straight up again, Haruyuki tried to raise his speed further

However, immediately after, he noticed a terrible truth

His special technique gauge, which was supposed to have been fully charged when he had taken off inside the I to be depleted However, if he thought about it that too was obvious He had continued to fly all-out carrying first Utai, then Kuroyukihie were consumed at a pace even several times faster than that of when he flew solo, it wouldn’t be odd

—However, if his thrust were lost here, they would rapidly be burnt by Suzaku’s flaether And then their respawn point was directly under, basically the altar before the Iate Without a doubt, all of them would fall into the state of infinite EK

While fixing his eyes on his special technique gauge, which was vanishi+ng at a fearsoht Haruyuki examined all the action options he had

Letting just Kuroyukihiht, they would die instantly froe, and before that they would be killed by Suzaku, as chasing them from directly below

Escape south right noith a loop turn? —Ieted by Suzaku, even if they turned, before they ed to reach the surface they would just take a direct breath blow

Having the two of the his special technique gauge charged again? —Ihtly when he received dae

They could only fly

Even if his gauge were exhausted Even if it was proclaireater than this was not per the systeination and overwrite the phenomenon of inability to fly

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The sole and greatest power conferred to the duel avatar «Silver Crow» of «flight ability» had, in the Accelerated World, taken the shape of the emotional trauma that Haruyuki had always continued to carry

His trau his he detested, and wanting to go a place that was high to the ends of the world, far to the ends of the world Wanting to go to a world that shook off anything and everything and where only the speed of light existed And then, wanting to forget everything

However—

At present, Haruyuki was questioning whether that was really «flying»

There was no bird that could continue to fly forever They all ate, slept, and accu to fly Flying to live Those tere one and were inseparable

If so, even without wings at their backs, people in the real world too could definitely fly Carrying what they were ai for and what they wanted to overcos’ realization, and advancing one step, one step at a ti fro fixedly at the sky—the place they wanted to reach so forth When they could do that, people would undoubtedly s flutter and would fly

“…Fly…!”

While staring with all his heart at the sky of the Unli with dark clouds, Haruyuki yelled briefly

Not causing his propulsion-use objects, his so-called y, his so-to-speak special technique gauge—

Making the wings produced fro

In the past, at the apex of the Old Tokyo Tower, Fuuko, who had first initiated Haruyuki into the Incarnate system, had said it That “If it’s you, then one day you may become able to fly in the sky with Mind Power alone However, it will take an unbelievably long time for that”

As both a Burst Linker and a user of Mind Power, Haruyuki was still a fledgling Neither his training nor his experience was sufficient at all

However, if he were to fly, then it was now If he were unable to fly now, then for what purpose had he been born croith the name of «Silver Crow»1?

I the ground and ai for the sky

In Haruyuki’s vision, the phanto twinkled

“—Fly, Crow!!”

At his right side, Kuroyukihime

“Fly, Karasu-san!!”

At his left side, Fuuko shouted

They all h Haruyuki’s body, and cohered at both his shoulder blades And then, with the eyes in his heart, Haruyuki watched the fro shape, and being overwritten into genuine «wings» rese those of birds of prey

“Wh…o…ooooooa—!!”

At the same tiauge ran out However, the thrust accelerating his entire body toward the sky did not disappear

Flapping his wings, which were shi+ning in a glaring silver color, with all the power he had, Haruyuki sonorously intoned the na up from the depths of his heart

“—«Light…Speed2»—!!”

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Pah…his entire vision was surrounded in a silver resplendence He approached the phantohtly ahead, touched it, and assi two duel avatars, with a fearsome acceleration he had not experienced before Haruyuki soared The thick clouds of the «Deht feeling of resistance he rushed into them

The landscape was lost and was blotted out into a ht shone fro them even further The ene The two bodies of contrasting size in flight vertically pierced the sky of the Accelerated World while drawing silver and crimson paths—

A number of seconds later, suddenly his view became clear

An unbounded sky tinged azure that seemed to absorb them Below, a pure white sea of clouds that stretched out to the ends of the world He could no longer even ih their altitude was However, Haruyuki flapped his silver wings still more powerfully

With a sound of impact like a bo, a vast hole was opened in the sea of clouds below Froiant bird clad in fla one eye to the bri the trespassers who had twice invaded his territory to ashes by any ed forth at al with the power of Mind Power

—As you desire…follow me if you can!!

Roaring inside his ination that he had and beat his silver wings

The tint of his surroundings gradually changed From azure to ultramarine, and then to black Beyond, a nuht flickered They were stars

Further vertically in a space separated far froht That was—the «Hermes Cord» It was the low-orbit-class space elevator that went around at a super-high altitude in the Accelerated World It was probably just traveling in the Tokyo vicinity

Before long, his ascension speed gradually began to become dull Haruyuki’s Mind Power had not weakened It was not that; they had reached the lis»

As ination, as long as the propulsion engine extending fros, he could not fly without air That was right—here was already nearly outer space

The deep crimson brilliance below them hot on their heels sharply weakened At the sareat bird swayed the very thin air

While stopping the beating of his wings and ascending leisurely with only inertia, Haruyuki looked down The fla at all times the entire body of the Divine Beast Suzaku, who had closely tailed the three of them up to here, had nearly disappeared It was because the surrounding oxygen was quite thin His feathers, which had becolossy red, were covered in white frost from their tips—

“—Now’s our chance!”

All of a sudden, Kuroyukihime had shouted

“Crow, let go! Raker, you can fly, right!?”

Haruyuki reflexively opened up his arravity, the jet black and light blue avatars drifted lightly Fuuko nodded firmly, and turned her back to Kuroyukihime

“Of course, Lotus!”

“All right!”

Black Lotus securely held Sky Raker’s back with her legs With a turn, Raker changed the orientation of her body and lit a blue light at the nozzle of the Enhanced Ared to the extent where there was an energy gauge

“—Let’s go!!”

Briefly announcing that, Fuuko unhesitatingly opened her booster full throttle

While trailing blue-white flarated avatars aied fiercely Different fros, the «Gale Thruster» that Sky Raker possessed was an energy-jet-type propulsion engine Only she could fly even in space, where there was no atmosphere

While the Divine Beast Suzaku caused his left eye to burn with a dreadful rage, he widened both his half-frozen wings and tried to engage the two However, however s hisforward, he opened his beak and tried to e it seeround

“Too slow!!”

Kuroyukihiave a cry, opened the swords of her two arht backward in the shape of the letter V It was afor the first time Her tords were enveloped in a white-blue splendor that reminded him of fixed stars

“HA…AAAAA…!”

A relentless shout of vigor poured forth, and her arht apiece in nuht; in total, sixteen Accoht that was just like an enormous constellation, Kuroyukihime made her voice, which seenified manner

“«Starburst…Stream3»—!!”

Her tords struck alternately at a speed so great his eyes did not catch them With each blow, a «star» that shone blue-white was fired one at a time, became a meteor, and directly hit Suzaku, as far in the distance Each time, a tremendous impact boomed and rocked Haruyuki’s body

At the meteors, which had ridden even Sky Raker’s super-accelerated energy, were fired into him one after another, even the Divine Beast Suzaku had to strew about a shrill screae body of the eneht red feathers and dae, which was also displayed in Haruyuki’s vision and reached five levels, was being whittled away at a momentum that made him doubt his eyes

“HI…YAAAAA!!”

Without ceasing, Kuroyukihime’s tords flashed and fired forth the un Ten hits Eleven hits A nuh both of Suzaku’s wings, and his torso and tail were also being torn up here and there However, the fla in his left eye did not vanish Even while receiving enore, he opened his bill wide and forcibly tried to discharge a flame breath

“—Ohhh!”

Haruyuki also reflexively roared and drew his right hand tight He scraped an iether froed it into a lance of light—and released it

“«Laser Lance»!!”

The lance, which had becoh the cosht side and hit Suzaku’s left eye without straying from its mark

The breath’s fla released, wavered, and in the momentary chance that was born, Kuroyukihi roar Its light, which soared through the heavens while trailing a tail rese a comet, made a direct impact on Suzaku’s oral cavity and caused the super-intense heat energy of his flae…

A red light stained his entire field of vision

An awfully huge fireball that seemed like a second sun was born, and iy dispersed in all directions

With his outstretched two hands, with all his ht Haruyuki seized the bodies of Kuroyukihime and Fuuko, who had been pushed back by the shock wave He again carried they with the wings at his back, and changed it to thrust It was a phenomenon where it just seemed as if Suzaku hiauges was still about halfway re They should not approach him recklessly

Haruyuki drew a great arc, circled around the fireball, and entered a course descending toward the surface of the earth

The red light gradually faded, and the figure of the huge bird on the brink of death becanity of a «God» had already disappeared; he only weakly flapped his wings, which ounded and were in pieces

—If we’re to defeat him, how about now!?

For an instant, Haruyuki thought that However, iht wrapped up Suzaku’s massive body A triple aura of white, blue, and black As he wondered what on earth that was and opened his eyes wide, before him—a further superphenomenon occurred Suzaku’s injuries were rapidly e, which had lost ninety percent of its total, also began to recover rapidly

“…I surely hadn’t thought that the support of the other «Divine Beasts» would reach outer space…”

At Kuroyukihi The four super-class eneates of the four cardinal directions of the Imperial Palace were e, if the other three were not in thethey would help the one infinitely recover with their support ability

“Chasing him too far is useless, Karasu-san”

In response to Fuuko’s words, Haruyuki nodded Today’s objective was not to defeat Suzaku but to get out of his territory Fluttering his tings, which were still enveloped in a silver Over-Ray, he seized the thin air and switched over to vertical descent The surrounding darkness shi+fted from darkness quickly to ultramarine and then to a clear azure

Before long, they drew near the thick sea of clouds, and they dived in headfirst Passing through the gray veil, they went toward the sky of the «Dee castle enclosed by perfectly circular castle walls and the bridge extending straight out froures of three s their hands at the south end of the bridge

At a hundred ed the orientation of his body and transferred to a leisurely glide feetfirst Prudently s such that they did not jut out to the left or right of the bridge, he aireatest speed possible The tile pattern covering the surface of the large bridge floated up, and its resolution increased—

At last, the tiptoes of Haruyuki, Kuroyukihie’s surface

That was the south tip of the large bridge, basically, a spot one meter from the boundary of the territory of the Divine Beast Suzaku

Before his eyes were the smiles of his three comrades The sht end, had probably also already recovered with Chiyuri’s special technique gauge; she was extending out her restored left and right arht out before her

The three people consisting of Haruyuki and company advanced one step, two steps, and then three steps, and left the bridge

“Welcome back”

Kuroyukihime, Fuuko, and Haruyuki replied with voices in unison

“…We’re back”

And then they finally took another step forward—

Haruyuki and Takued each other with all their strength At the same time, from the skies overhead, at the «altar» in the distance a pillar of red light towered, was absorbed into the ground in that state, and disappeared

At this instant, the «Ardor Maiden rescue operation» as well as the «Iion, Nega Nebulas, ended completely

References:

1Here, his avatar name is written as 白銀の鴉, “Crow of Silver,” different from the customary シルバー・クロー

2The kanji, 光速翼, literally s”

3The kanji, 星光連続撃, literally ht Continuous Attack”