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Accel World - Volume 25 - Chapter 8




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Haruyuki, in the form of his pink pig avatar, popped out with some force into the clear blue world of the initial acceleration space. After bouncing once, he stood up and looked behind him. Kuroyukihime, Niko, Haruyuki, Utai, and Fuko were lying with their eyes closed on two futons.

The acceleration of time in the Unlimited Neutral Field and the initial acceleration space was the same ratio of one thousand. But since his acceleration had been a second later, Kuroyukihime and the others were about seventeen minutes ahead of him. It would take time to meet near the Castle and go over the strategy, so they wouldn’t have started the battle yet, but he couldn’t dawdle here.

He thought for a second and then opened the sliding door and stepped out of Utai’s room. He dashed intently down the long hallway on his short pig legs and went out the front door.

The Shinomiyas were a family of Noh actors of the acclaimed Kanze school. Thus, they had a proper Noh stage on the large grounds of the house. He ran over to this, bowed neatly at the entrance, and stepped inside.

The stage was made up of the main stage and the Kagami-no-ma connected by a hall called the Hashigakari. He had walked into Kagami-no-ma, basically a preparatory space. As a general rule, the Blue World of the initial acceleration space was composed of video that could be captured by the social cameras, but places that were outside the view of the cameras were recreated based on video captured by the Neurolinker’s camera in the past, supplemented with estimated details.

The color of the Kagami-no-ma was blue, but the furnishings he’d seen just once in the real world were basically perfectly recreated. A room with wooden flooring, about four meters squared. To his left was a door that led out to the main stage, and on his right was the door to the dressing room, while immediately ahead of him was a massive mirror, nearly two meters tall.

Haruyuki took a few steps forward to stand in front of this mirror. Three years ago, it had fallen down on top of Utai’s older brother and parent, Kyoya Shinomiya. The sharp fragments had sliced into him and taken his life. In that moment, Utai had lost the ability to speak, and the pale pink hakama trousers of Ardor Maiden had turned a deep crimson.

Even in the Blue World, however, a mirror functioned as a mirror, and Haruyuki’s avatar was clearly reflected. He stared at his pig self and began to speak to the person who might lie within that reflection.

Kyoya…Mirror Masker. I can’t even imagine how much regret you must feel. I can’t take your place. I can’t ease Utai’s pain on your behalf. But my desire to help her is real.

Right now, she’s taking on what might be the most difficult fight since she became a Burst Linker, even more painful than the battle against the God Suzaku three years ago. And that’s because Utai knows how terrifying the Gods are now. She knows and she’s attacking the overly powerful foe who put her into an Unlimited EK. For my sake. To save me now that I’ve been captured by the White King.

So I want to help her. Even if it’s just the tiniest bit, I want to be there for her. If your spirit still lingers here, please guide me.

Haruyuki prayed to Mirror Masker before slowly crouching his pig avatar down and readying his left hand in front of him and his right at his hip. He clenched his black hooves and focused his mind.

When he revived Seri Suzukawa, he had accessed the Highest Level like this. But he’d only connected for a mere instant then. This time, that wouldn’t be enough. So far, he’d only been able to shift completely to the Highest Level by borrowing Metatron’s power or by swinging his sword in practice in the Unlimited Neutral Field for a dozen hours, but he had to do it now under his own power from this initial acceleration space.

A focus surpassing all limits. That was the key to breaking the wall between worlds. The ultimate concentration, enough to put an excess load on Haruyuki’s quantum thought circuits, which the White King called his “light cube.”

With Seri, his pummeling fists had only just barely touched the wall between worlds. This time, he needed to smash it.


He didn’t have enough time to try again and again. If he couldn’t break the wall with his first blow, he was probably never going to be able to, no matter how many times he swung his fists. He might have managed to make it there if he kept swinging for dozens of hours like he had in the Unlimited Neutral Field, but by that time, the attack on Genbu would be over. And more to the point, he could only stay in the Blue World for half an hour.

Focus.

Focus.

Focus…

With his right fist at the ready, Haruyuki tried desperately to increase his powers of concentration.

And then, abruptly, he heard a voice in his ears.

Light.

I feel a light inside of you. Just like when you protected Utai and those others from the darkness launched by the god of the end. The photons locked up in the light cubes and Main Visualizer continue to vibrate eternally. If you sense that light and become one with it, you can go to a new stage. Take the power of the Incarnate even further.

“Light,” Haruyuki mouthed, then closed his eyes.

When he’d discovered his Incarnate technique, Light Shell, he thought he’d uncovered the light given to Silver Crow as an attribute. But perhaps that light was not inside of his duel avatar, but rather himself. Maybe the same light existed inside the heart of every Burst Linker?

Light. Focus. Light. Focus your mind and become one with the light. Don’t put a load on the light cube. Fuse with it.

Haruyuki had fused with the world—the outside—through the Omega style Whole Blade’s Gou. He had fused with his mind—the inside—through the second-stage Incarnate technique, Light Shell.

Do both at the same time. Outside—the Main Visualizer. Inside—the light cube. They were connected by light, and when they became one, a new door would open.

A pure white light rose from inside his pig avatar. It became a wave and surged out to fill his body. The self reflected in the mirror melted into the glow.

Haruyuki took a step and thrust out his right fist. A blow that was totally different than it had been when he went to Seri, an almost gentle feel to it.

A fist of undulating light touched the enormous mirror. Silent cracks raced outward along the surface, and the mirror began to shatter from the inside. On the other side, an endlessly starry sky spread out like the Milky Way.

You have to help Utai.

The voice he heard once more was drowned out by the squeal of acceleration.



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