Accel World Vol 8 Chapter 11 (2/2)

And then, in the center of the six people lined up in a circle was a single Burst Linker who had curled his body up and was cowering

A sleek leather rider suit Gaudy protectors on his shoulders and knees And on his head, a full-face helmet equipped with a shi+eld that imitated a skull—

“Ash, san…?”

Haruyuki squeezed out a voice unlike one from his chest

Deep scars were carved lengthwise and crosswise into Ash Roller’s whole body However, why he was not trying to e he had received He was trying to protect the s above the road with his avatar’s whole body as a shi+eld

That point of light, which flickered grass green, was the «marker» left at the spot where Burst Linkers died in the Unlimited Neutral Field It was probably the owner of the death effect Haruyuki had felt a nized the hue of the light That was—Ash’s friend as like a younger brother to him, «Bush Utan», without a doubt

In a moment, Haruyuki intuitively realized what had happened here while he and Utai were fighting hard to escape the Imperial Palace

It was probably like this

Ash Roller, who had been waiting for their dive tiround of the real-world apartallery of soe, he had run across Bush Utan, as either a duelist or likewise a spectator There, he had persuaded Utan and instructed him to meet up at the same time in the Unli that needed to be conveyed to Utan as his big brother

That rendezvous place was probably in the direction of shi+buya For that reason, before joining the foursharp in front of the apartment house, he had dived early and headed for shi+buya to bring Utan along

However, the place and time had soallery been leaked to one of the equippers of the ISS Kit They had lain in ambush in front of the Meiji Shrine in order to hunt Ash and Utan as prey Ash, who had taken a surprise attack frootten away this far with all his e, but in the end his beloved bike had been destroyed No, that was not all If he had dived into this world slightly earlier than seven o’clock in the evening, then Haruyuki guessed that over ten hours had already elapsed Basically—undoubtedly, at this place he along with Bush Utan had died and been resurrected repeatedly no few number of times

In the Unlimited Neutral Field, Enhanced Arenerate unless one carried out a relogin4 into the field Even if Ash Roller lost all his health gauge, died, and respawned one hour later, the American bike in which he had invested nearly all his potential as a duel avatar would not be brought back

In short, the Burst Linkers standing in that place had surrounded Ash Roller, who had lost practically all his co hith of the Mind Power of darkness the ISS Kit produced

Again and again Again and again Again and again and again and again—…

“W…a, ah…”

Fro, a husky voice leaked out

Without the sign of even noticing that, one of the six walked up to Ash Roller, as crouching on the road surface His middle-class forht sense of volu that he had caught sight of him somewhere, but he could not remember his name

“Next…it’s ?”

The avatar who had lazily put that into words clutched Ash’s helht hand froed A dull crack! sound reverberated, and his trademark scarface was splintered into smithereens

The aggressor seized anew the exposed neck of the duel avatar who gave off a delicate i his character and who in so boy

With all his strength, he dragged Ash Roller, as still trying to defend Utan’s ht, up from the road The eyes of Ash, who had been forced to face upward, sighted Haruyuki, who had frozen on the roof of a building

His pale green eye lenses opened wide for an instant—following that, they see In Haruyuki’s consciousness, his normally reckless and boisterous voice reverberated in a manner that tended to cut off

-…Heh heh…I s of you and Master…go to wast…

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Glug That blunt sound resounded; the assailant’s left arm had deeply penetrated the middle of Ash’s chest

A pillar of gray light towered, and the thin avatar burst and scattered, rider suit and all

While being showered in his scattered frag at his own Install htly tilted his head and spoke

“Oh, with one more time I’ll be able to level up It’d be nice if he remained till my next turn, huh”

Haruyuki’s whole body trerate His li sound, and underneath his hel repeatedly The voice that leaked out from his throat had collapsed and was cracked in a tone so low to the extent where he himself had never heard it

“Ah…a, a, aaah…AAAAH…”

From head to foot, it seemed as if he were filled with liquid of quite a low teht have even been the super-intense heat of melted iron At the very least, it was unmistakable that a vast eh his entire body in place of blood

Rage

Anger A fury so great it made his view red hot Blackish hatred And then the impetus to destroy

“AH…AA, A, AAAAH…!”

shi+ng

That sharpout froers had sharpened, curved, and been enlarged like the claws of a bird of prey At the sa mirror silver to a chrome silver like a shadow

…You mustn’t!

…You mustn’t entrust yourself to that emotion! You will disappear…!

Someone had shouted far away, very far away However, that faint voice no longer reached Haruyuki’s consciousness

The metallic sound did not stop; Haruyuki’s two ars too That fores were so effective they were atrocious, was far more sinister and looked more like that of a demon than when it had previously materialized at Hermes Cord

Instead of the girl’s voice, a voice distorted by a hout his mind

—I am thee Thou art me

—Passing through a time of eternity, now at last have I been resurrected I am «disaster» I am «demise» I be the one whoout to the world

It was exactly the same as the voice he had heard after school today in the real-world Uarden, but different from that tiative Mind Power’s «overflow» Haruyuki himself had called that awake and had yearned to fuse with it

At the sa, Haryuki called its name

——My name is——

“……«Chrome Disaster»——!!”

That yell, which had ferociously surged forth, was the very howl of a beast that hungered for blood and desired massacre Purple system font traversed the upper left hand of his field of vision froo

【YOU EQUIPPED AN ENHANCED ARMAMENT: «THE DISASTER»】

While releasing a violent s heavily covered hithened out in a slithery way froed into a silhouette like some sort of weapon

A visor in the imitation of the jaw of a beast sed up his s a gap His vierapped up in a thin gray additional layer

In the skies overhead, the dark clouds of the De an enormous whirlpool Froether with a thunderous roar Haruyuki received that with his outstretched right hand

The thunderbolt stayed in his hand as it was, changed shape, and produced an object A long sword possessing a hilt that shone black and a blade that was fiercely sharpened A high ranking Enhanced Armament called by the name of «Star Caster» in the distant past

That very thing was the binary star of destiny that twinkled in a bewitching manner and nestled close to the side of the sixth star «Kaiyou», alias the original of the Disaster Arhth star of the Big Dipper—

Brandishi+ng the cursed sword high, Haruyuki howled

“GR…AAAAAAAH!!”

That war cry was filled with rage and hatred, but as if weeping in sohout the sky of the Accelerated World

(To Be Continued)

References:

1Also called Yoyogi-koen (Kouen, 公園, means park)

2The suffix -dori means “street” or “avenue”

3Like Yoyogi-koen, it is also referred to as Miyashi+ta-koen

4Written as “leave and dive again” (離脱・再ダイブ) with “relogin” in furigana