Accel World Vol 8 Chapter 11 (1/2)

Chapter 11

At the sas returned to their original metallic fins They were folded automatically and were stored in the interior of a cover-shaped protuberance After softly casting words of gratitude in the back of his s, Haruyuki looked at the faces of his comrades anew in order

As if they had seen through Haruyuki crying on the inside of hiskindly with smiles However, just now it seemed that there was no need to look down to hide his embarrass in front of hie miracle

That was right The «world-destroying conflagration ate of the Imperial Palace in the Unlimited Neutral Field over a period of two years, had been released at last now At this rate, if they h the portal established in the inner court of the triangular building—the real-world Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Utai would be able to return to the real world noro

“…You’ve done it, Haru”

The one who had said that aneith a s at her eye lenses, which were filled with transparent drops, with an effort Haruyuki returned some words

“Unh —Thank you, Chiyu Thank you, everyone…”

That ht out fros and sink to the floor there, but hurriedly he replanted his feet It was too early to feel exhausted There still res he needed to do

First, the purification of the «Disaster Ar within Haruyuki If they succeeded in that, the fear of being designated with a bounty by the Six Kings would also disappear At the sa disaster cycle would also finally be cut off

When the purification ended, the joint training with Sky Raker’s «child», Ash Roller, who desired to acquire the Incarnate systeine what kind of Mind Power Ash would embody, but no doubt with a showy technique he would cause everyone’s nerves to—…

“H, huh?”

Having thought that far then, Haruyuki finally noticed that the skull face of that end-of-century rider did not exist before his eyes Shaking off the tears bri, he turned to Fuuko and asked

“What’s happened to Ash-san? He inaht? …Ah, surely he didn’t get cold feet fro…”

He had added the end of his sentence thirty percent in seriousness and seventy percent as a joke, but however Fuuko did not laugh Far froly anxious tint rose up in her eye lenses

“…About that, the truth is…ere not able to meet up with that child”

“Eh…hat do you mean…?”

Ash Roller should have dived fro lot of Haruyuki’s real-world apartment house The horizontal-direction distance between them was nearly zero It see

Takumu explained it to the bewildered Haruyuki in a reserved voice

“About that, Haru In front of the apartly left behind by Ash Roller’s bike; no matter how many dozens of minutes aited, the person himself didn’t appear…”

“Tire tracks…? Then, did he et lost on the path somewhere…?”

“No…that’s difficult to consider”

This tihtly shook her head

“That child should know the route froinami to the ie is also easy to understand; it seeot lost”

“Besides that, Haruyuki-kun We tentatively did try to follow the tire tracks assouth from the apartment house”

Kuroyukihi the swords of her arh, that was out of the ordinary If one were to head for the iinami, then even if one went south one would have to turn to the east soon

Suddenly—

An apprehension that see assaulted Haruyuki

Ash Roller did have his whiuy to stand someone up In the first place, histhe people he had arranged to meet Even if he saw small-class enemies that seemed easy to defeat fro like chase after them with his bike

In that case—«so by in the underground parking lot Due to a situation so urgent he could not even wait to join up with Fuuko and the others, Ash had run south And then, there a further so had occurred

Also, two and a half hours had already elapsed since Haruyuki and company had dived into the Unlimited Neutral Field And then if Ash had dived a mere , it would a already spent ten-odd hours in this world

“Uh, u to look for him!”

Driven on by an ineffable unease, Haruyuki again widened the e, which had been charged again during his battle in space with Suzaku, he lightly floated up

“Haruyuki-kun, operating solo is dangerous! If we’re to search, then together with everyone…”

“I’ll be fine, if I find so I’ll return! Senpai, you and the others, please wait in front of the Metropolitan Police Department’s portal!”

Interrupting the words of Kuroyukihiher altitude

“…Haru, if you don’t return after we’ve waited for an hour, we’ll pull the cable on the other side!”

While giving a forced laugh at Chiyuri’s words, Haruyuki nodded, shouted just “Understood, I’ll leave it to you!”, and rose to a greater altitude in one go

Presu that Ash Roller had headed south from Koenji, he should be southwest of the Iround, he tried to strain his eyes, but there were e, and he could not see through While raising his altitude further, he began to move slowly

Froaseki, Haruyuki , he scanned with all his ht, but all that ht about interrogating ene parties if there were any, but perhaps due to the fact that it was a weekday night, not a single sound of combat reached him

Even if he strained his ears, he could only hear the sound of the wind blowing across the stage However, that stillness further stirred Haruyuki’s anxiety Although he was flying at the barespeed, e decreased And being able to use his new Incarnate technique that had just spiritually awakened a while ago, «Light Speed», was very unlikely in this state of mind

“…Guess it can’t be helped…”

Resolving hi discovered by hostile existences on the ground and raised his altitude Before he are of it, he had reached Harajuku Ahead here was already Yoyogi Park1, and south of that was shi+buya

And then—at that moment

Smack-dab in the middle of the wide intersection where Meiji-dori2 and Inokashi+ra-dori crossed, he had the feeling that soain, there were neither Burst Linkers nor ene

Haruyuki, who had landed on the blue-black surface of the road while being cautious about his surroundings, reached his hand down to his feet and picked up the thing that seeht

At first glance, it was an unidentifiable object There was an orange hemisphere-shaped clear lens fit in the silver disk about four centi from the side of the disk, but it seemed to be snapped halfway

“…What the heck is this…”

He murmured and twirled the ht of the Dee color

That moment—Haruyuki noticed it

This was a bike winker To be precise, it was the very winker part that Ash Roller had made blink in order to pull a feint on Haruyuki in their duel conducted thison the Loop 7 road

In the Unli fro time compared with those in the normal duel field Some accident had probably happened when Ash Roller’s bike was passing by here, and the blinker had been daain with that conviction, he discovered soe tracks burnt black on the surface of the walls of the buildings lined up along the south side of the road

The orientation of the attacks was from north to south Basically, Ash had driven from Loop 7 to this place via Inokashi+ra-dori, at that point had been attacked by someone, and had turned south at the intersection…?

Still gripping the winker part, Haruyuki kicked the ground and flew up The level of the dread filling his heart had already reached the area around his throat

At the bare speed such that his gauge did not decrease steeply, he flew south along Meiji-dori In doing so, in a ht his eye He descended to the ground and made sure of it

There was no longer the need to be perplexed about what that was A hub and riray, thick rubber wheel It was a bike tire From its width, it was the front wheel

The sao were concentrated on the surrounding ground It seee, its front wheel had fallen out, and its experienced rider had headed south furthermore with a wheelie However, that trick play would not continue forever

“…Ash-san…!”

Haruyuki let out a hoarse voice and looked out to the far side of the road that extended south

A faint sound of impact rocked the air at that time

The surface of the walls of a s about a hundred reen color The hard sound and the brilliance were not the explosion of an object or an attack effect It was the death effect of a duel avatar

“……!!”

Haruyuki, who had reflexively begun to run, switched to flying s and took a shortcut past the road, which gently curved left The instant the road in the neighborhood of Miyashi+ta Park3 in the shi+buya ward entered his field of vision, a profound shi+ver assaulted Haruyuki’s entire body His wings stiffened and arbitrarily hovered about twenty h in the sky

What his eyes caught straight aas the ine, frame, and muffler were strewn about that previously used to be a ray American bike

A bit ahead fro Of course, there were not any hom he was friendly; there were hardly even any whose names he knew What was co from their whole bodies The Over-Rays of Mind Power The sources of their energy were—the «eyes» glittering red like blood in the center of their chests The «ISS Kits»