Accel World - Light Novel Discussion

[orpheus2]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Breakdown16 released chapter 1 of V8 today on BT. Check it out!

Spoiler for My response:

Being Taku is suffering as usual. I mean, he Lightning Cyan Spike-d himself. Whether that's being a bro, or what, I don't know...

Spoiler for Reply:

No kidding. On the other hand, we get to see Haru's character development here. Although, it would be nice that Haru cure partially his inferiority complex.

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Continuing from Haru which I did here, next is Kuroyukihime. I'll abbreviate her name as KYH.

Spoiler for Chinese Wiki KYH:

Kuroyukihime

Voice Actress: Misawa Sachika [JAP], Luo Xing Fan [HK]
Female protagonist of the story. Born Sept 30, 2032. 3rd year student in Umesato Junior High school (2nd year at the start of the story). Vice-president of the Student Council. Nicknamed 'Snow Black Princess due to her beautiful appearance, called by another nickname 'Sa-chan' by Fuuko and Utai.

Her name is not mentioned in the light novels, but under the author's web name 'Kunori Fumio', prior to winning Dengenki grand prize and rewriting the first volume of AW, he wrote at the end KYH admitted her name was 黑羽雪子（くろば ゆきこ）(Kuroba Yukiko). However there is still a probability author the name has since been changed by the author. Originally she lived in Kouwan Ward [港区] together with her sister, the White King White Cosmos. However after she attempted RL PK on her after being tricked, she was exiled from the house for 'psychiatric recovery', and has a lawyer for her legal guardian. Presently living in Suginami Asagaya Ward.

Due to the large amount of playtime in the Unlimited Field, her mental age greatly surpasses her physical age. Normally expressionless, she has waist-length black hair, and dresses in black all over. Normally earnest and easy-mannered, at times rash and hotheaded. Became a Burst Linker at age 8. Betrayed Six Kings of Pure Colour as the Black King. She took notice of Haruyuki after discovering his extremely fast reaction speeds, and later on developed feelings for him, confessing to him while in a state of acceleration and even giving him a kiss. In volume 9, she brought Haru to her home in the real world and confessed to him again. She has had to use acceleration to break Haruyuki's high scores in the Virtual Squash game, and thus invited Haru to become her partner. She used the command "Physical Full Burst" to protect Haru, and as a result was hit by the car Araya drove and was seriously injured.

While normally prudent and generous to others, when other girls (Chiyuri, Fuuko, Rin, Niko, etc) are physically close to Haru she gets hot-tempered and unhappy easily.

Once, she stayed over at Haru's house upon hearing Niko was staying there. Another time, she stayed over a second time, alone with Haru, giving the reason of 'bad weather.' They were found out by Fuuko the second day, and she too gave an excuse of "sleeping over at Haru's house this month" to stay together with KYH and Haru under the same roof. When she's with Haru, she neglects the people around her, not bothering to hide her love for him. Sometimes though, she gets thrown by some of Haru's words, such as the times he asks her to "stay by his side forever" and "eat dinner with him everyday."

In school, her net avatar is a "Black Swallowtail Butterfly". The body of the avatar is identical to her real-life self, with pure-white skin, long black hair. The avatar's dress is oily black bordered by silver, and she holds a parasol concealing a sword.

{Skipping the OVA part, again I swear there's no significant spoilers here. But the next section has some.}

Black Lotus

Nickname: Lotus. Black-coloured duel avatar, first appeared as a Level 9, and is one of the Seven Pure Colour Kings. One evening at a King's meeting two years before, Lotus executed the first-generation Red King via OHKO sneak attack to prevent the completion of the Enhanced Armament 'Seven Roses.' Afterwards she fought against the remaining Kings, but within the 30 minute time limit, she did not manage to kill another King.

The next day, Lotus and old NN members went to the Unlimited Field in a gamble, they offered to use Burst Points, buy Enhanced Armaments and offer those as an apology (to Prominence), but was rejected. They worked out a battle plan to penetrate the Imperial City, but got thwarted by the countermeasure enemies there and subsequently broke up: the last member was felled by the two-minute mark, most members were caught in Endless Kill mode. The members who successfully escaped lost a lot of BP due to the Four Gods. Lotus, branded a traitor, fled to Umesato Junior High school net to hide and never contacted the rest of old NN members.

The avatar 'Black Lotus' stands 1.70 metres tall, the head's visor is a tilted-back 'V' shape. The slender body is entirely clad in black armour, has swords for its limbs and flower-shaped armour {I presume they mean the skirt}. Lotus is one of the few 'levitation-type' duel avatars in AW. Has earned the nickname 'World's End.'

Lotus has a passive ability called 'Terminating Sword.' Her other special skills are 'Death By Barraging' (Level 4), 'Death By Piercing' (Level 5), and 'Death By Embracing' (Level 8).

In V2, she helped Rain hunt 5th CD and counter-attack Radio who had ambushed Rain. In V4, to save Crow's and Pile's collective asses, she Dived into UNF from Okinawa, tamed the Legendary-class enemy and ran for 15 hours straight to Umesato school grounds cum battle stage, using mind power to restrain Vise. In old NN, she and Raker targeted the West Gate together. During the rescue mission to retrieve Maiden, she used 'Overdrive - Mode Red' and the skill 'Vorpal Strike' to taunt Suzaku and draw aggro. In outer space area, together with Raker and Crow, Lotus used the 16-hit combo Incarnate technique 'Starburst Stream', cutting down Suzaku's last health bar to half full.

The principle idea of 'Overdrive', 'Over-Ray phenomenon', and 'Zero-Fill' are the same, that being of intense imagining of 'Positive Self-image.' From this, Black Lotus, originally an avatar with colourless properties, can set herself into three possible 'Modes':

-Mode Red (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with long-range affinity)
-Mode Blue (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with close-range affinity)
-Mode Green (Imagining the avatar being remapped to one with defensive affinity)

In V12, when describing the first {and lethal} King's meeting at a time several months later, Lotus discovered by chance the Enhanced Armament 'Seven Roses' had transferred to her Storage, and truly understood its meaning and implications after using it.

Seven Roses saga: The White king approached KYH and showed her a gun made by Red Rider, claiming that one of it would be given to every legion, would only be usable when your legion is attacked, and never missed, had infinite ammo and devastating power. She made a demonstration of the power of the gun, and said it was to be a deterrent that would make it impossible to attack another legion, as the defending side would always win, essentially enforcing the truce regardless of the other king's opinions.

KYH kills him with the intention of stopping the making of the other guns. However, after the destruction of NN, while she was already in hiding, she notices that, when she killed Rider, one of the guns was transferred to her inventory, as sometimes happens when you kill someone. The weapon is unlocked, but it won't fire. She realized he made it that way as a symbol of peace. She runs to her sister's room to accuse her, to which she only agrees to everything, smiling. Hime tried to force her into a duel with a box cutter, but her sister tells her not to do that, as she doesn't want to take even brain burst away from her. Hime, realizing she could never win, ends up stabbing her in the hand, and that's how she was thrown out of the house.

Note: The white king is her one year older sister and her Parent. She doesn't possess any physical attack power, and she doesn't appear in front of anybody besides her legions top lieutenants. KYH mentions she used to fight in the very beginning of Brain Burst (implying she is an originator), but that she used something, either an ability or a enhanced armament, that made her enveloped with light so the opponent couldn't see her form (essentially confirming she is the person with Black Vise in the Chrome disaster back-story).

Spoiler for My response:

Well well. In hindsight, the author would have included KYH's name at the end of V1 before he published it again, and thus in the anime and LN it's not there anymore.

The rest of the sections are shorter, thankfully, but I'll do those after I translate some more V11. I quit one of my jobs already, so while I hunt for a better one (or not) 'll be translating more. Expect to see Chiyu next, unless you guys want suffering Taku?

Thank you very much for the translation. We now have concrete confirmation of KYH.

Spoiler for Continuation:

Kuroba Yukiko... Sacchan... Yup, the author changed it. If he tried make a connection with his previous work, the highest probable surname is Yuuki. The reason is that I really can not see Suguha marrying. Please direct your replies to the AW SAO comparison and connection thread of the SAO sub forum.

[Tusjecht]

Originally Posted by orpheus2

Spoiler for Continuation:

Kuroba Yukiko... Sacchan... Yup, the author changed it. If he tried make a connection with his previous work, the highest probable surname is Yuuki. The reason is that I really can not see Suguha marrying. Please direct your replies to the AW SAO comparison and connection thread of the SAO sub forum.

You mean, Suguha marrying legally.

[garf02]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Hm, maybe I should repost the Seven Roses saga after all. Editing the KYH post....

Credits to garf02 for original spoiler, of course. (:

And on a side note, I have no idea but the wiki originally has it as 'Seven Roads'.

what spoiler ??? :/

[rickiminato]

what happen in the vol 13 of accel world?

[orpheus2]

Here's the summary.

Originally Posted by garf02

A longer Vol 13 summary by the hand of an anon on /a/

Spoiler for Vol 13:

Finished reading volume 13 yesterday.
I'm guessing spoilers have already been posted all over anyway so I'll just write a quick summary. I'm not going to spoil tag the whole thing so just skip the post if you don't want to see them.

It picks up back at the stand-off between Aqua Current and Argon Array. They exchange some harsh words that imply there's a grudge between them (at least from Karen's side). Aqua is able to use refraction by manipulating her water coating in order to alter the trajectory of the lasers, but even the slightest graze of the lasers takes out 1/10 of her HP. Haru realizes she is just buying time so he can attack Argon, and using his Optical Conduction, he deflects one of her lasers and lunges at her, only to get hit with a stun special and lose her in the process. Argon declares that fighting two opponents with anti laser abilities would be too hard and just disappears. Before the battle ends, Crow tells the barely alive Cerberus to meet him the real world at a specific spot.
Back in the real world, Haru and (from a distance) Hime go to meetup spot, but Cerberus, who turns out to be actually male for once, shows himself for only a second before running away.
Hime refuses Haru's proposition to search for irl Karen, but before they can leave she shows herself to them. The two girls have a heartfelt reunion and after they all go back to Haru's place.
Karen, who's real name is Himi Akira, unblocks Haru's memories of her, and tells them that the reason she went to Suginami that day was to warn them that she thinks the ARS is going to try to reproduce the Chrome Disaster armor, using the core of the IS kit to accumulate negative IS energy and use Cerberus as a host (who she said reminded her strongly of Magnesium Drake, her old rival who went on the become the second Chrome Disaster). They discuss for a while about what Enforced Armament could take the place of The Infinity, but don't come to any real conclusion.

Two days later Akira is oficially entered back into Nega Nebula and meets with Raker and Maiden. After their tearful reunion they get ready for the week's area battle. Chiyu and Taku can't participate due to school festival preparations, so Haru get's paired with Karen and Maiden, who nominate him as the leader for the day.
The get into a battle with a Prominence group led by Blaze Heart, who are breaking the Prominence/NN truce by attacking them. When confronted, they claim that Black Lotus had attempted to put a ten men Prominence hunting party including Scarlet Rain under perpetual enemy kill state by riding on a legend level enemy and sicking it on them, and had come to take satisfaction with Lotus without Rain's permission.
The are initially in disavantage do to Crow being to slow to give orders, but eventually Haru has a hot blooded confrontation with Blaze that convices them that they really believe Lotus would never do that. The other two get easily taker care of by Maiden/Karen.
Before the battle ends, they tell them that Lotus ran away by melting into the ground and disappearing.

When Haru gets back home, Niko is waiting for him. She apologizes about the attack and asks him about the fake Lotus, who she claimed had a much weaker "data pressure" than the real Lotus "as if it weren't even really there". Haru promisses to tell her the whole truth about Black Vise and the ARS. But first they go make curry together (turns out Niko is actually terrible at cooking anything other than pastry, but they actually manage to make it passable) eat, do homework together, and get ready to sleep. After Haru is already half-asleep she goes to his room and reminds him that they forgot what they were actually supposed to talk about.
Haru them tells her about about Black Vise. Niko says that the objective of the attack was probably to test her strength, and regrets the fact the she used her new ability at the time and was probably seem.She also mentions that she never heard of two avatars with the same color and that "Black Vise" may be a fake name.
She then confesses had often wondered if there wasn't a way to change your color, so she could be a true "Red" like rider, which she segues into a fit of self loathing where she admits she know she can't beat any of the other kings one-on-one, and is afraid that she might not be able to protect Prominence if the other legions choose to attack them. She says that when she first contacted Haru, aside from the CD thing she was also planning to use Haru as insurance to stop NN from attacking them, all of that while hugging and crying into his chest. After a lot of skinship, Haru swears to protect her at all costs (still hugging). She recovers a bit, and kisses him on the cheek before they fall asleep together in the bed.

The next day they wake up and go together to the school festival. Halfway through they meet up with Pard and the two girls go ahead, promissing to meet up at the gate after Haru is done setting up his class' presentation.
Later at the gate, Haru meets up with the Prominence duo and Rin, who quickly figure out the other is a buster linker. Rin grabs Haru's shirt as usual and Niko mimicks her out of jealousy. Haru notices Rin doesn't look too healthy.
General festival stuff happen, they meet up with Fuuko and Akira, and Haru notices some tension between Akira and Pard. They do more festival stuff, Rin and Pard become quick friends due to their love of bikes, fanservice happens, they go watch Taku's samurai dance thing which is pretty much the only time he gets any attention in the book. Rin then faints, and they carry her to the infirmary.

Rin reveals to Haru and Fuuko that she had been infected with the IS kit. They decide to ask Ash directly about it, and Fuuko has a cabled duel with Rin with Haru as audience.
Turns out the IS kit was implanted in the bike by Magent Scissor. It has changed form to the point of looking like a living creature, with Ash himself incapsulated in some material that fused with the bike. Fuuko dodges the bike's enhanced ramming attack with her soupped-up wheelchair, blocks it's double dark shot with her IS ability Swirl Sway, and then uses the Gale Thruster to destroy the bike from below without killing Ash.
They wake him up, and he explains that because the kit is implanted on the enhanced armament and not on him, Maiden's purification and Bell's time reversal won't suffice to remove it, as it requires a will on the part of the host to discard it (a similar case to Taku's, but he doesn't believe Rin has the mental fortitute to resist the kit long enough for them to do what they did with him). He says that he and Rin had come to the festival prepaired for that to be their last memories as BL, and as NN to enlist him so Lotus can use the Judgement Blow to finish him off.
Haru refuses and instead proposes that they go immediatly to destroy the kit core.
They get ready to go with the prominence duo + NN - Karen, when Pard proposes that they use the 7 in-game days they had to complete the plan to first rescue Karen. Niko claims the reason Pard hasn't been leveling up is specificaly in order to rescure her.
They go to the neutral field, where Niko uses her new ability that turns her enhanced armament Invincible into a mobile armed vehicle.
In the end they are riding towards the palace in the Nikobus in order to face the dragon god Seiryuu.



Additional stuff.
-Karen can put part of her water armor into other water bodies, allowing her to use her ability "water auditory" to scout distant locations.
-Karen can use any water found in the stages to replenish her armor, but she need to purify it first, so the more soiled it is the longer it takes.
-Karen's memory leak and memory free use bb's memory erasing system to manipulate other's memories, but it only works on memories that regard her. She also used it on Cyan Pile at some nonspecified point.
-She calls KYH Sacchi, but it is specifically said by Haru that that is mearly a shortenned for of the nicknames that Fuuko and Utai use (Sacchan and Sacchin), and she doesn't seem to know her real name until they meet in real life.
-Rain can measure other avatars "Data Pressure" due to an IS ability called Vision Extention, and it is something it seems only she can do.
-Prominence is the smallest of the 7 legions after NN, with only 30 odd members.
-Very few of the original Prominece members are still in the new one.Blaze Heart and the other were apparently some of those few.
-Niko implies all of the the other kings can use "power enhancement" IS.
-Karen is almost certainly Pard's parent.
-Two of Haruyuki's classmates get introduced: an boy named Oka and a girl named Ikuzawa, who's the class president.
-Niko says the reason female BL's fawn over him is that they are usually afraid of males due to sensing the diference between their avatars and their helpless real selves, but Haru can make them feel confortable. Haru isn't completely happy of being seen as harmless.
-Blaze Heart, Peach Parasol and Ochre Prision are fan submitted avatars.

oh, also, Karen may have know Falcon and Blossom personally.

Originally Posted by tusjecht

You mean, Suguha marrying legally.

My response in the connection thread in the SAO sub forum.

Originally Posted by garf02

what spoiler ??? :/

The one you gave last year.

[garf02]

Originally Posted by orpheus2

The one you gave last year.

what, that Google translated thing about Rider and 7 Roads?

also, just read Ch 1 of Vol 8

Spoiler for corrections:

Almost all the spoilers were true but still some inconsistencies, like Haru didn't equip The Disaster but The Destiny, also Haru don't overpower Taku, just barely survives, and I found surprising then mentioning Magenta Scissor, hell, that name never showed up in any spoiler or thread till Vol 12

[orpheus2]

Originally Posted by garf02

what, that Google translated thing about Rider and 7 Roads?

also, just read Ch 1 of Vol 8

Spoiler for corrections:

Almost all the spoilers were true but still some inconsistencies, like Haru didn't equip The Disaster but The Destiny, also Haru don't overpower Taku, just barely survives, and I found surprising then mentioning Magenta Scissor, hell, that name never showed up in any spoiler or thread till Vol 12

Yes, that Google translated version.

Spoiler for Response:

It showed the strength of Haru's will. I am guessing the spoiler didn't bother adding that detail thinking it was insignificant.

[Tusjecht]

All my energy went to fanfiction and not translation today...
That said, I have a question:

-Where is Jormungand found? I know it's found in a building, but which one? Did it correspond to a landmark in RL? Or at least, the province and ward it's located it.

[Flere821]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

That said, I have a question:

-Where is Jormungand found? I know it's found in a building, but which one? Did it correspond to a landmark in RL? Or at least, the province and ward it's located it.

Random appearance on certain stages. Not limited to any particular province.

[Tusjecht]

Strange though, how would Vise and the others even find it in the first place.

[Flere821]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Strange though, how would Vise and the others even find it in the first place.

Do remember Vice can camp in Unlimited Accel Field for years on end if necessary due to is BIC deceleration, he probably just waited for Jormungand to show up and then asked for Saffron Blossom's meeting.

[Tusjecht]

Oh right. So would have gone like this? Vise picks a suitable building, Dives, and decelerates until it spawns?

[garf02]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Oh right. So would have gone like this? Vise picks a suitable building, Dives, and decelerates until it spawns?

im not even sure how in 1sr place they captures Falcon and blossom (I cant read jap) but in the spoilers its mentioned what stages jormungand appears.

now given that each stage last for 1 week (Crow training IS for reference). and if we think the game works like a normal game so certain monster have spam zones (big or small ones)

Add to that Vise BIC for camping and Shadow lurk skill for mobility,

it should be a an easy job for him to find something as a Legend Lvl Enemy.

Also Tus, would you mind doing a favor?

Chapter 2 and 3 of vol 6 were translates by some on /a/ as request for the Kings meeting, but it stopped half way chapter 3, do you think you can finish the chapter (not sure if you will have to ask BT permission or something


Also here is the bundle of Vol 08 of the anime that will include other side LN, this time is about Niko and her days in Prominence before becoming a king

Fadeless Memories

[Tusjecht]

Originally Posted by garf02

Also Tus, would you mind doing a favor?

Chapter 2 and 3 of vol 6 were translates by some on /a/ as request for the Kings meeting, but it stopped half way chapter 3, do you think you can finish the chapter (not sure if you will have to ask BT permission or something

I can do it as long as it's Chinese and I have the raws for it. Still, I'll go PM Xplorer30, he's in charge of V6.

Originally Posted by garf02

Also here is the bundle of Vol 08 of the anime that will include other side LN, this time is about Niko and her days in Prominence before becoming a king

Fadeless Memories

Hear the sound of my heart breaking. *plink plink plink* JUST when I wanted to write about her past...

Oh well. Back to translation.

[garf02]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

I can do it as long as it's Chinese and I have the raws for it. Still, I'll go PM Xplorer30, he's in charge of V6.




Hear the sound of my heart breaking. *plink plink plink* JUST when I wanted to write about her past...

Oh well. Back to translation.

My bad, the name of the novel is "Locus of prominence"... or thats what google says
http://puu.sh/29aVI

[Tusjecht]

Japanese isn't my forte..yet. Still learning.

[Sunder the Gold]

Exploration into Niko's past? Awesome!

[Tusjecht]

Alright, Xplorer30 has given me the green light for V6 Chapter 3...as long as you guys are fine with me not translating V11. V6.3 will be posted here on AS, and from here I infer: you fellow forumers are not to be uploading onto BT without his consent. He registered for V6, he's even working on 6.3 right now, and he's giving grace too. That okay with you guys?

*Shall start digging for the raws in the meantime*

[Chimurry]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Alright, Xplorer30 has given me the green light for V6 Chapter 3...as long as you guys are fine with me not translating V11. V6.3 will be posted here on AS, and from here I infer: you fellow forumers are not to be uploading onto BT without his consent. He registered for V6, he's even working on 6.3 right now, and he's giving grace too. That okay with you guys?

*Shall start digging for the raws in the meantime*

Wherever You do: THANKS!!

BTW: I not doing uploads to BT or any other without previous consent, but I compromise follow the up posted request....

[garf02]

Originally Posted by tusjecht

Alright, Xplorer30 has given me the green light for V6 Chapter 3...as long as you guys are fine with me not translating V11. V6.3 will be posted here on AS, and from here I infer: you fellow forumers are not to be uploading onto BT without his consent. He registered for V6, he's even working on 6.3 right now, and he's giving grace too. That okay with you guys?

*Shall start digging for the raws in the meantime*

you need the jap raw? I have em all

we only upload Illustrations once translated