thanx for summary and i think this volume well be translated soon cause yen press already caught with the series
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Spoiler for AWV26 part 4:
Chapter 8
Haru wakes up to see Ryou and Airi who were lined up opposite the table had already woken up while Tsubomi and the others on his right side was about to wake up so the five people leading Tezcatlipoca away from him seems to have successfully logged out,but to his surprise,Kyoubu has not woken up yet so Haru thinks he's still in the UNF but the internal time should have passed three hours and he thinks that there's no reason for Kyoubu to take so long to log out,at this time,Tomochika's eyelids slowly opened up,only half of the gray pupils were exposed and they were dyed with a pale light that seemed to be surrounded by smoke and Haru could not read his emotions from his eyes but he is certain that Tomochika is a human like them,the voice "Have you seen it?" after Haruyuki cut off his left arm was indeed full of emotion.Even if Tomochika is the first of the <Seven Dwarfs>,the student council president of Shirakaba no Mori Academy and a handsome guy at the level of a fashion model,it is impossible for him to remain silent here. Haru had to ask Tomochika why he had colluded with Ivory Tower and even deceived Nanako and the others to set a trap for him,but when Haru was about to question him,Tomochika suddenly stood up (which startled Ryou who asks Kyoubu what is wrong with him) and escapes the student council room in a hurry without looking back at Haru and the others,a confused Ryou and Airi asks Haru what happened to Kyoubu,the former recalled that as soon as Tezca's aggro was drawn to them,he said that he was responsible for <Ignorable Zone> not working and went back to the History Museum to get Haru,although he would have preferred it if Kyoubu just admitted everything so they could know why he did this,Haru recaps everything that happened in the atrium of the History Museum except for the meeting at the Highest Level with Amaterasu and Bari.After more than five minutes of explaining,a disappointed Airi laments that Kyoukyou hasn't grown up at all,what he has done was too far and it's even more excessive to run away when he gets angry,Nanako comments that she thought it was out of character for him to go back for Crow when he doesn't even acknowledge him and that they should have let Sneezy go with him but Tsubomi pointed out that they can't cross the sea without Ryou's freezing abillity(which means that Fairy isn't as good as Behemoth when it comes to freezing despite her attack power being superior to him), Haru was releved that everyone was fine but he can't relax his vigilance because other than Megumi and Tsubomi,there may be someone who knows Kyoubu's goal among the other 3 and the one with the highest possibility would be Ryou who belongs to the student council of the same school but Ryou who is probably not aware of Haruyuki's doubts,suddenly stood up from his chair, put his hands on the table,and lowered his shaved head to apologize to Haru in place of Kyoubu who ran away,Haru was shocked and forgot his suspicions of Ryou for a moment,he tells him that it doesn't matter if Ryou doesn't apologize because no one was lost in this incident but Ryou tells him that's not enough at all because as the one who knows Kyoubu for the longest time,it's an unforgivable mistake not to be aware of his intentions and after he finished speaking,Ryou's head was so low that it almost hit the table and Airi and Tsubomi were speechless at this. Haruyuki then asks Ryou as to why Kyoubu would even do this and Nanako tells him in the place of Ryou who was hesitant to tell him why for some reason,that the reason Bashful,or rather Kyoubu,did this is because Cosmos is everything to him,Haru couldn't grasp the meaning of Nanako's words and stuttered,it was understandable to give everything to the Legion Master as a Burst Linker,but it was the White King herself who agreed to Haruyuki's transfer to OU and this time Cavalier's actions clearly violated the will of the White King.Nanako then continues by saying that Kyoubu's action principle only considers how much he can do for the king and whether it can be used for the king so therefore,excluding Crow is probably because he thinks it is for the king's sake.Not knowing what to say in response,Haruyuki looked at the chair that Tomochika had been sitting on,or rather,the chair that had been vacant since the very beginning. Suddenly,Haruyuki remembered that there was no Duel Avatar body inside Cavalier's armor that he had cut through and the explanation Nanako gave just now led to him making a disturbing conjecture that he was hesitant to ask for some reason:that the empty knight armor was in actuality,the very embodiment of Cavalier's trauma and in that case,he should have embodied the <Trauma Shell Theory> proposed by Argon Array more purely than anyone else.Even though he had set a trap for himself and planned to kill him,Haruyuki had a strange sense of resistance to Nanako's harsh words about Kyoubu and says that he's probably obeying Cosmos because he's the student council president of the Shirakaba no Mori Academy but Nanako tells him that Kyoubu became student council president specifically because Cosmos asked him and she gets confused as to why Haru is even defending Kyoubu who deceived,betrayed and nearly killed him to which Haru replies that he doesn't know why he's defending him and that he didn't mean to. At this point,Ryou then thanks Haru for basically not holding it against Kyoubu and shakes hands with him,the latter felt ashamed for thinking that he and Kyoubu were accomplices in this incident,although the possibillity of him allying with Cavalier in future can't be ruled out,his feelings for Kyoubu is definitely genuine. After shaking hands with Haru,Ryou then tells him that today's incident is the fault of the Seven Dwarves and according to the rules of Oscillatory Universe,he has the right to balance the tilted Libra,Haru then understands that Ryou is talking about compensations when a Legion member does harm to another member but he doesn't want to inflict the same damage Kyoubu did to him on Ryou,Nanako tells him that the compensation is can be anything within the scope her authority including BP or Enhanced Armaments which causes Haru to realize that this is an opportunity and he asks Euholt-san(who tells Haru to just call her Nanako) if the rights can be transferred to someone else to which she confirms,Haru then decides to transfer the compensation rights to Tsubomi and Megumi and he signals to them to use it to demand withdrawal from OU,he thinks that Fairy and the others knows about Oracle's betrayal in last week's Territory War and brought both of them for punishment so by giving them the compensation rights,he can save them from being punished. Megumi leaned close to Tsubomi's ear and said something softly.The suspected secret conversation ended immediately and Megumi cleared her throat and said in a serious voice. "Nanako,our request is..." Chapter 9 05:00 PM. Haruyuki was with Tsubomi and Megumi on the sidewalk about ten meters from the main entrance of Eterna Women's Academy,he asks Megumi why she wasted a rare opportunity to make a wish like that,Megumi vaguely tells him that "because it's hot" and Tsubomi just shrugs and tells Haru that although she's very grateful that Haru gave the compensation rights to her and Orchi,it's not possible to use the rights to leave OU because only Cosmos can make the decision of letting them leave or not and she reminds Haru that Nanako said that the compensation can only be things within the scope of her authority,Haru then gets reminded of Cosmos being missing and asks Tsubomi why she's absent from an important meeting because if Cavalier didn't attempt to kill him then they would be doing a Territory War right now,it turns out that the other reason why the Seven Dwarves called Haru,Tsubomi and Megumi to Eterna was because the 3 of them are added to the attack team to reclaim their territory from NN,not to punish Megumi's betrayal(whether the other Dwarves knew that she betrayed them wasn't confirmed),if NN had sent a defensive team to defend the 3rd ward then perhaps Haruyuki would have been fighting his former comrades by now.However,both the strength test and the Territory War were destroyed by Kyoubu and he didn't come back after leaving which caused Ryou's mental state to deteriorate because he's screwing up the scheduled Territory War.In the end Nanako judged that it was really difficult to carry out a territorial war in this situation,so they had to carry out the recovery operation next week but if Cosmos had attended the meeting,Kyoubu would probably not have attempted to kill Haruyuki in front of their king and there was a high possibility that the territorial war would proceed as scheduled. Tsubomi tells Haru that while today's meeting is a fairly high priority from OU's perspective,she tells him that Cosmos is like a person who wears the words "whatever you want" as her clothes.It's common for her to suddenly appear at a trivial meeting that doesn't matter at all or to ignore an important meeting that everyone attends and there must be no clear reason for her absence today.Haru gets baffled from learning Cosmos's attitude when it comes to meetings and he gets reminded of her claim back in Heimvald Castle about how she made her younger sister into a Burst Linker on a whim,since it was just a whim to accept Kuroyukihime who is her own sister as her Child,it really doesn't matter whether she attends today's meeting or not so maybe Cosmos never kept today's meeting in her mind at all and in other words,the possibility of agreeing to Tsubomi and Megumi leaving or using Judgement Blow on them immediately,is equally possible. Sure enough,rather than getting permission from the front,choosing to quit suddenly without informing her would be the best strategy to find a way to escape as far as they can within a month of the White King being able to exercise her right to convict.Although it is also possible to transfer to a powerful medium-sized Legion to expect the suppression effect but in reality,this tricky method probably won't work against the Seven Dwarves,but contrary to his expectations,aside from Kyoubu,Ryou,Nanako and Airi were much friendlier than he expected and Nanako's demeanor was anything but prickly and even allowed everyone to enjoy her cheesecake,but looking at it from another angle,it shows how frightening they are because they didn't even do interrogation or physical examination on him because no matter what Haruyuki did,they had the confidence that they could handle it. Haru then asks Megumi how the 5 of them managed to get a 1 KM distance away from Tezca while baiting it to Tokyo Bay when it can easily knock buildings away,Megumi is surprised that Haru knew about how far they got Tezca away and asks him how he knew about that,Haru then realizes that Megumi has no knowledge about the Highest Level but he couldn't explain the mechanics in 5-10 minutes to her to which she understands and tells him that the MVP was Nanako,she went to the canal first ahead of the 4 and when they lured Tezca to the canal,she froze the water Tezca was standing in with <Brinicle>,Haru realizes that the depth of the canal is more than ten meters and if both feet are submerged in the water,even Tezca can't easily escape and he seemed to see a glimmer of hope:Since the canal in Shibaura can also hinder him,then leading him to Tokyo Bay with a depth of 100 meters and freeze everything from the neck down will seal Toxcatl and Miccailhutontli,and they might be able to focus on attacking his head but Tsubomi tells him that it's no use doing that to kill Tezca,not even Brinicle can inflict a significant amount of damage to Tezca and the shockwaves and gravity waves screwed up their plan twice which curbs Haru's enthusiasm. The car called by Nanako to pick them up using the compensation rights came but Haru realizes when the car door opened that this car is a 2-seater auto taxi instead of the 4-seater they drove in,Megumi tells him that this car is for him because she and Tsubomi are going shopping near Azabu before going home,she pushed hard on his back and Haruyuki could only sit in the driver's seat of the sports car.He hastily opened the window and says goodbye to Megumi and Tsubomi before the self-driving taxi starts driving,Haru then let out a long breath while placing his body on the leather seat that fitted well.It's been tense since he crossed Eterna's school gate and he was almost killed but at least the first meeting with OU officers wasn't a big failure. Of course there are still regrets,Unable to resolve the unstable situation of Tsubomi and Megumi,the conflict with Tomochika will continue,and the lack of information on Wolfram Cerberus.Right now he suspects that Cerberus is a student of Shirakaba no Mori Academy like Tomochika and Ryou.Although he really wanted to get out of the car and rush to their school,almost no students would come to the school during the summer vacation and there was no permit to enter so intelligence gathering is difficult,Haruyuki looked out of the car window in order to suppress his anxiety and looks at the school building of Shirakaba no Mori Academy,he silently tells Cerberus to wait a little longer because he's here now and that he'll definitely see him. Haru then looks at the planned route was displayed on the windshield and gets surprised at the route,while the destination was indeed the apartment in Kouenji,Suginami,but the route was a little different.The shortest route is to turn right at the intersection after that and head to Meiji-dori Street,but now the vehicle chooses to go straight,and even turn left towards Yebisu Garden Plaza.He thinks that there may be a traffic jam on Meiji-dori Street but in this case,there should be a sign for a traffic jam detour and as he wonders about this the car turned left at the intersection in front of the Ebisu Post Office and drove into Shimbashi Street,Garden Plaza is close at hand.Although it's evident that the detour is going to be long he would only be 2-3 minutes late and Haru relaxed his shoulders as the Taxi enters Great Wall territory in Meguro.Even though he had cut off the global internet connection after getting in the car,he didn't have to worry about being intruded.The reason Haruyuki was still a little uneasy might be that he thought he was still a rookie or that even as a veteran,he would feel nervous about standing in the territory of other legions. Suddenly the taxi signaled to the left and slowed down at the same time,the scheduled route extends to Suginami so there is no reason to stop there.The taxis,however, approached the curb smoothly and stopped in a pick-up and drop-off area separated by a LED-marked area. At the same time,a beep is played telling the passenger who is expected to take the same passenger is ready to get on the car and to take the seat on the right.Haru starts to panic,the destination and other settings for this taxi were all set by Megumi and it would take some complicated operations to cancel it,he then considers exiting the taxi in the case the new passenger overrides Megumi's settings but it turns out that the new passenger was KYH who thought Megumi was in the taxi and gets surprised that Haru was the one inside the taxi.As the car starts to go to Suginami,Haru tells KYH that Megumi told him that this taxi will take him to Koenji and asks KYH why she's in Ebisu Garden Plaza to which she tells him that Megumi told her that if she waited here,then a taxi would pick her up,Haru then realizes Megumi and Tsubomi set this up because they knew that KYH would be in Ebisu at a certain time and set the taxi that Haruyuki was in to pick up Kuroyukihime on the way,he realizes that KYH was in Ebisu in order to defend the Territory that was won from OU last week,Ebisu Garden Plaza is not part of the Minato area,so she probably moved there after the Territory War was cancelled. As the taxi passed through the south side of the Meguro Stasion and crossed the Meguro River.A notification sound plays again stating that due to the fact that Yamate-dori on Metropolitan Road No. 317 is currently implementing six-level synchronous driving so it may not stop at the intersection,as the sentence said,the traffic lights at the intersection ahead are all lit up in purple to show <Only for synchronous vehicles to enter> and the vehicles driving in front of the taxi are traveling at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour on Yamate-dori without slowing down at all but even so,no accidents occurred because all vehicles,including motorcycles,were operated by a single traffic management system,TCS.On the windshield,a notification that the taxi's driving authority was handed over from the autopilot to the TCS appeared,KYH comments that she still can't get used to the TCS taking over and Haru adds that although there has been no system-related accidents so far,he feels like something terrible will happen someday to which she agrees,especially after knowing that the manager of Brain Burst is an AI,she then tells Haru that Utai and Fuuko attempted to stop her from participating in the Territory War but they relented after she complained like a kid,Haru thinks that although the second half is a joke,the part about Utai and Fuuko should be the truth,if Haruyuki was there right now,he would definitely stop it.Territory Wars will not affect BP,so the level 9 Sudden Death probably doesn't apply,or at least that's what Kuroyukihime said because this information has not been confirmed. Haru gets confused why she's in Ebisu because they can defend Minato's 3rd district from Suginami as long as the boundaries of the territory are adjacent but KYH tells him that they gave up the Territory rights to the 1st and 2nd districts of Shibuya so they can't do that and that Great Wall will probably take them back again since it's theirs,Haruyuki points out that the territories belonged to the 1st gen NN and that Graph already paid the points to buy it but she reminds him that Graph is part of GW when he bought the territories so they technically never bought it from GW. The taxi drives smoothly along the Yamate-dori to the north.At a big intersection, there are other cars passing by at an alarming speed immediately and although Haru was startled by that,the speed will not slow down in heavy traffic,thanks to the benefits of driving synchronization.There are only a few main roads that implement this model,including Yamate-dori.But even so,there are still thousands of cars driving and he wonders what kind of system is used to make these thousands of cars drive in an orderly and unified manner.Haru then asks KYH on who are the defense team members of the 3rd district other than her to which she tells him that it's Fuuko,Utai,Akira,Shihoko,Yume,Mito,Rin,Seri,Utan and Olive.Chiyu,Taku,Niko and Mihaya wanted to participate but she assigned them in the defensive battle between Suginami and Nerima. Haru gets confused as to why Rin,Utan and Olive are still NN members because he thought they went back after the Territory War last week but KYH reminds him that the final battle is still distant so they're staying,Haru then apologizes to her for mistaking last week's Territory War for the final battle and comments that if the Territory War did happen,his side can be said to be the greatest combat power if they attacked but Haru swallowed his words before he could say "If we attacked",It's a fact that he moved to Oscillatory Universe and he's made up his mind to fulfill his responsibilities as a member of the Legion but even so he's not going to give up his heart to Oscillatory Universe.He clearly thought so,but he was easily stumped just by being served a cheesecake and chatting for a few hours in real life,and Haru reprimands himself for being so spineless. KYH comforts Haru who is in a period of self-hatred and tells him to drink and take a deep breath first.After drinking some sport drinks,Haru apologizes for what he almost said and KYH reassures him that it doesn't matter if he doesn't tell her why,after hearing that gentle voice,Haruyuki's eyes gradually heated up. ——It was obvious that there was no contact for three whole days.I'm obviously worried that I'm going to play nonsense every day.The right to be angry,the right to blame...even the right to convict me,you have all of these. ——Why are you so gentle? After closing the empty sports drink bottle with its bottle cap and wiping the corner of his eye with his right hand,Haruyuki confessed that he's in Minato because Snow Fairy asked him to come with Megumi and Tsubomi to which KYH comments that she figured that would be the case even though Megumi never told her.Haru then continues on that the ones waiting for him was Fairy,Behemoth,Reaper and Cavalier but Cosmos,Tower and the 5th Dwarf weren't,he then admits out of shame to her that the reason he nearly identified himself as part of OU in front of her was because he,Megumi,and Tsubomi had tea and cheesecakes with the Dwarves but even though Cavalier nearly killed him,he found out from his meeting that the Seven Dwarves he met in Eterna including Cavalier who nearly killed him weren't the embodiments of pure evil despite their terrifying strength in the Accelerated World but ordinary children like him. At this point Haru begins to cry and he couldn't hold it back his tears anymore,he thinks of how it has been believed that the culprit of all the tragedies in the Accelerated World is the White King,White Cosmos and that she,the Acceleration Research Society,and Oscillatory Universe are beings of pure evil that has to be wiped out.Haru thought that Megumi,Tsubomi,and Cerberus were the exceptions because of their circumstances but he realizes from meeting Nanako,Ryou,Airi and Tomochika for the first time in RL that he was wrong because everyone in Oscillatory Universe were fundamentally the same as him:with unbearable psychological trauma they became Burst Linkers,found a place in the accelerated world,and defends it with their lives,he couldn't bring himself to hate and brand Nanako and the others as pure evil anymore and unknown to KYH,Haru begins to think that Cosmos isn't absolute evil as well and that she's the same as the other Burst Linkers at her core. Kuroyukihime reassures Haru that she agrees with him,even if the stance and opinion are different,everyone in OU are Burst Linkers at their core so she's not too worried about him because if it was Haruyuki,even if it was a transfer to the White Legion,it would be fine and encourages him to keep being himself.As the taxi is about to arrive at Haru's apartment,Haru asks KYH to come to his apartment for a bit. Chapter 10 After getting off the car in front of their apartment, Haruyuki and Kuroyukihime went to the shopping mall to buy drinks, then took the elevator to the 23rd floor.It's only been eight hours since he left home to take care of Hou,but it's like he's been out for several days.But,in the morning,he never imagined that it would turn into a day where so many things would happen.Thinking like that,the moment he unlocked the door and pulled down the handle,Haru remembers that he declared that he would be on the battle list every day from 10:00 AM to 15:00 PM and thanks to the Dwarves,he skipped the afternoon portion,KYH gets reminded that Utai told her that Haru did dozens of battle every day after the rescue operation,although she won't say battles are bad,it's excessive to do so much.Both of them then enters the Arita family's apartment,his mother who was in bed before he went to school has already gone to work and she will probably come home late at night today.During the summer vacation,Haruyuki was still living a life distant from each other and he feels abandoned by her,but not so much recently and it was a fact that his friends were able to come to the house thanks to his mother's late return. Haru then wonders that in the end,what is it that he was worried about these three days since he was to have a casual conversation with KYH today.If he realized that there was nothing to worry about little earlier,on the night of the end of the Tezcatlipoca campaign,then he would have contacted Kuroyukihime directly.But it's not too late from now on,he has to take advantage of the opportunity created by Megumi and Tsubomi to say what he can't help but say. KYH tells Haru that she has a message from Graph about him apologizing for not being able to help against Tezcatlipoca and that he and Lead will go train,with the latter stating that he will get stronger when he comes back and he tells Crow to do his best,Haru asks KYH where they're training at and KYH tells him they're training at Mount Fuji but given that Graph has always been a wanderer,they'll probably take a while to get there and that freeing him from the Imperial Palace might be a mistake now that Heir is tagging along with him.Haru asks KYH if there is something special in the UNF's version of Mount Fuji,Metatron went there to heal her wounds and Master Sentry also said that there is a fountain where you can drink unlimited sake,KYH tells him that nearly every famous landmarks in Tokyo are set up as dungeons or have fixed public enemies in the UNF and Mt. Fuji is the most famous landmark in Japan so it would be strange if there is nothing.Haru gets reminded that Crococitus's spawn area is in the Minato City Folk History Museum so it would't be surprising if Mount Fuji potentially has Enemies above Beast level living there.Although Haru wants to visit at least once,he definitely doesn't want to get close. Haru then thinks that he doesn't know what will happen to himself,Silver Crow,next.While the territorial battle in the third ward has only been postponed.Next week,as a member of the attack team he'll have to fight the defense team of NN and the possibillity of Platinum Cavalier setting another trap again isn't zero but even so,he couldn't just take the Neurolinker off his neck and just hide because he has to get stronger.When Haru almost apologizes for the Legion transfer,KYH begs him to not apologize for the transfer,if he did,then it will feel like everything that happened has become a given.She's not lying about him doing well even if he joins the OU but she admits that she's scared of losing him to her sister and that it's the first time ever since becoming a Burst Linker that she's this scared.Haru tells KYH that she hasn't lost anything because he will always be her <Child>,one day he may fight against NN but their bond is still intact and it won't disappear because of such a thing.KYH affirms that they're BB Parent and Child and that this will never change as long as they are Burst Linkers but this relationship built an invisible wall between them. Haru gets confused as to what she's saying but then realizes that said wall is a spiritual boundary created from the relationship of BB Parent and Child which set a certain limit in Haru's heart,6 days ago on Sunday,Haruyuki had bathed with Kuroyukihime at his house.Of course,both of them were naked but he just thought that Kuroyukihime's naked body was beautiful and didn't feel any physical desire from seeing it.In addition to being so nervous that she was about to die from Inti's EK and knowing that Kuroyukihime was a Machine Children born from an artificial womb and an experimental subject whose original soul was overwritten by a soul of unknown origin was also one of the reasons. But there is another reason,he hadn't even noticed it until now but Haruyuki had the awareness that he was Kuroyukihime's <Child> and that it created an invisible wall.9 months ago,Kuroyukihime had activated [Physical Full Acceleration] to save Haruyuki who was about to be hit by a car.At that time,in that two-person world that had been frozen in blue,she had clearly stated "I like you",but Haruyuki had never taken that confession seriously. Why is he so obsessed with [Child]? The reason is actually quite clear. It's because he can't believe in myself.When he encounters something he hates,he runs away,and he doesn't have the courage to face bullying.He repeatedly hurts his important childhood friend and he hates that part of him.That's why he relies so much on the reassuring [Child] relationship established by Brain Burst's system. But the time has come.At this moment,it is time to break the hard and thick shell that enclosed him.Squeezing out all the courage he had built up bit by bit in the Accelerated World and the Real World,Haruyuki raised his hands.9 months ago,when he first became a Burst Linker,what Kuroyukihime said echoed in his mind. ——Is this virtual short two meters so far away for you? At that time,he felt that it was as far away as infinity but that was just the distance created by his heart.Haruyuki stretched out his trembling hands, wrapping the right hand that Kuroyukihime had been holding up patiently. "...Senpai" With all his heart, Haruyuki said. "Kuroyukihime-senpai,i like you.Not as a Burst Linker,but as the person called Arita Haruyuki,I like you the most...Kuroha Sayuki." Kuroyukihime raised her left hand on the sofa to overlap Haruyuki's, and said softly in a voice like a plucked string. "Me too. I like you too" Both of them then kissed but Haru feelings became intense enough that he accidentally brought them to the Highest Level by sheer accident. Seriously. Haru gets embarassed that he brought KYH along with him in that situation,but she tells him that she has no problem about going to the Highest Level but she gets confused as to why they look like their RL selves instead of their Duel Avatars and asks him if he knows why this is the case,Haru tells her he doesn't know because this is a first for him as well,he could just call Metatron here to ask her but it would be dangerous if she saw them like this,KYH tells Haru that since they got here,they might as well sightsee Tokyo in the Highest Level. As he sightsees Tokyo with KYH,Haruyuki then thinks about how he had gotten used to visiting Highest Level so frequently lately,but it was a miraculous place that I couldn't reach no matter how much I craved it and the moment he thought about it,the answer to the question that had been stuck in my head came to mind.Nanako said,"To exaggerate, Crow is also a level 3 <Reacher>".That means <People who have reached the Highest Level>.Perhaps Level 1 is the person who must be guided by a Being and level 2 is the person who has to teleport with Being and then at level 3,someone who can teleport by his own power.Aside from this unexpected teleportation,Haruyuki had moved by himself only three times.The first time was teleportation when he continuously slashed thousands of times against the Tungsten ball in the unrestricted neutral space and the second time was teleportation with the assistance of Utai's deceased brother Mirror Masker.Then the third time was the teleportation in the extreme state ravaged by the awakened Tezcatlipoca in front of him so therefore,it is only natural that Fairy would add a sentence "exaggerated".There was no guarantee that there would be a fourth time and as Kuroyukihime said,it would be a shame to waste this opportunity so with that in mind,Haruyuki stared at the sea of stardust. What he was looking for was found immediately,a pitch-black vortex that wanted to devour everything but then he noticed that there are lights representing Burst Linkers in Ueno Park near Tezca's detection range,half of them were talking to themselves.The basic detection range of Tezcatlipoca is about one kilometer so as long as they get a little closer,they will be targeted by the God of the End and unless they are high-level players on the level of the Seven Dwarves,they will be instantly killed.KYH asks Haru if he knows who they are and Haru tells her that if one is familliar with them,you can judge using the color of the light but none of them are members of the Seven Dwarves,as KYH gets curious as to who they are,someone's voice came from above and tells her those Burst Linkers are <Exercitus>'s recon team,Haruyuki then looked up as if bewildered.In the dark and starless sky,a figure covered in phosphorescence came silently.With her soft arms slightly open and her long hair fluttering,she looks like a woman with a fleshy body and for a moment,he thought it was Being,but she didn't seem to have any clothing or accessories like the others.KYH and Haru realizes who she is,this girls has an aura of otherworldliness that wants to suppress everything to the ground.This breath,this presence is—. "...The White King...?" A second after the name blurted out,Cosmos's slender toes touched the invisible ground and Haruyuki stared blankly at Cosmos's exposed beauty that escapes human beings where even in a bleak world,does not detract from its charm.If one doesn't have a slight sense of sight, you will still think she is a Being.Beside Haruyuki whose brain was completely numb,Kuroyukihime said in a calm yet tense voice: "Long time no see, Cosmos - no,Enju" With a loving smile, the White King answered Kuroyukihime's call. "Really.It's great to see you so energetic,Sayuki." Enju introduces herself as Kuroha Enju to Haru who she knows the real name of for some reason,Haru then wonders why she's even here and gets paranoid that she's planning to do the same thing Fairy did to him in V25 to him and KYH but Cosmos reassures him that she won't hurt them for no reason,Haru asks Cosmos what Exercitus is and KYH tells him that it's latin for <Army>,Cosmos then continues by saying that this is the high-level concept of legion in the ancient Roman army.Brigades are assembled to form Legions,and the Legions are assembled to form an army/Exercitus,Haru then deduces that in the Accelerated World,Exercitus means a coalition of Legions if it is based on this and Cosmos tells him that the official expedition was only announced today at noon so there's nothing that can be done if you don't know about it,she tells him that no NN,OU,GW,Leonidz,AO,CCC and Prominence members are part of Exercitus,it is led by the <Night Owls>,<Orvest>,and <Cold Brew> Legions and there are many small Legions and independent Burst Linkers participating in it,KYH asks Enju how many members Exercitus has and she tells her that while she hasn't fully grasped it yet,it has over 500 members. A shocked Haru remembers that 1,000 Burst Linkers are living in Tokyo alone and 500 people is a full half and obviously more than the total number of members of the seven coloured Legions combined.Haru asks her why Exercitus formed all of a sudden and she tells him that it's not,since a long time ago,someone has been forming an alliance that can fight against the Coloured Legions but every time the momentum is stirred up,Chrome Disaster and the ISS kit will come out to disrupt the situation and they will be repelled just like that.KYH accuses Cosmos of making it so that no coalition is formed and she confirms it,she states that as long as Tezca is under the Luminary's control,then medium sized Legions will be too scared of forming an alliance of fear of being targeted,but if it's not,the it's action pattern becomes simpler and alliances gets formed quicker despite its exceptionally strong power. Haru then states from what Cosmos is saying,she doesn't want Burst Linkers to come together and Cosmos affirms it and that unification is what Grandee is doing by distributing the Burst Points earned by hunting the Enemies to the lower-ranking Legions to prevent the intensification of the struggle in the accelerated world and the increase of the number of quitters(Saffron Blossom's Mutual Aid Legion would have the same result in a different way by giving Level 1 Burst Linkers enough BP to get to Level 4 to access the UNF and then trained in PvE training tactics to pay back the BP that lent,thereby creating more Level 4s and decreasing the amount of newbies dropping out early).If it weren't for the efforts of the Green King,there would be far fewer Burst Linkers than there are now and Brain Burst has the potential to end,but then he remembers the final fates of AA2038 and CC2040 who perished because of excess conflict(Too much conflict between players=time accelerates too fast?) and unification(which causes time to stop in an accelerated world) respectively which prompts him to ask Cosmos if her goal is to prevent Brain Burst from perishing from the same excess unification as Cosmos Corrupt which she confirms but that she has another reason aside from that,she has no problems telling him about the other goal and that she was about to reveal it to NN back in his school but Sayuki prevented her from telling it under the accusation of justifying everything she did in a joking tone. Haru then realizes that if it wasn't for KYH,then they would have known Cosmos's goals by now instead of it still being a mystery to them,Sayuki tells Enju that the pursuit of her purpose is pointless and no matter what she says,there's no guarantee that it's the truth and declares that she will eliminate her and the ARS from Brain Burst,even if it means sacrificing the accelerated world as a result of excess peace destroying it,Cosmos then asks her with a saintly smile if she can do it because in the future,Haruyuki might choose to side with Cosmos instead of her,Haru nearly denies it,but then he remembers that he's an OU member and that he doesn't want to betray his oath to Cosmos and taint his sword with falsehood but KYH declares that even if that were to happen,she'll eliminate her,even if it means cutting Haru down along with her sister,to which Enju praises Sayuki's growth,but she teasingly advises her to maintain the balance of her relationship with Haru because they're still students. As Cosmos was about to leave,Haru asks Cosmos if she received Metatron's report about Tezca to which she says she didn't and asks Haru if that child reported to him instead of her Legion Master,Haru gets baffled that she called a 8000 year old Being a child and tells her that it's not like that,he nearly complained to her that it's Tomochika and Tower's fault but surpressed his complaint and tells her that Amaterasu and Princess Bari helped with Metatron's analysis and that the latter mentioned something strange,Cosmos reacted to Bari's name being mentioned and asks Haru what she mentioned to which he reports to her that Tezcatlipoca isn't a Being which shocks KYH and Cosmos,the former pointed out that Being=Enemy and that Tezca embodies the name more than anyone else to which Haru continues that Bari discovered a Portal inside Tezca using her <Wisdom Eyes>,Cosmos gets baffled from hearing this because the previous Tezca didn't have a Portal inside of it and there was no sign of the portal the moment the world was closed,Haru then remembers that Cosmos mentioned that being swallowed by Tezca is the reason she has the possibillity of stopping it and wonders if the last Tezcatlipoca swallowed her and if this is not the first time that Tezcatlipoca has appeared in the accelerated world but the Originators would definitely know about Tezca if this happened. As Haru gets confused by the countless questions,Cosmos looks at him and gives him her first order:get in touch with the other top Beings as soon as possible and make a contract if he can,Haru tells his new king that he doesn't know where the other 4 are,Cosmos tells him that the remaining ones are Xi Wangmu at the Tokyo Dome Dungeon,Ushas at the Shinjuku Metropolitan Government Office,Rudra at the Tokyo Big Site,and Nyx at the sealed Yoyogi Park which can be postponed later,Haru points out that he'll definitely die if he attempts them alone and Cosmos tells him that she'll talk to Fairy and that he can choose the members to form a raid team from OU including the Seven Dwarves,KYH tells Enju to at least tell the purpose of the operation since she's ordering Haru to carry out a huge operation but Enju tells her that she can't tell him because she doesn't even have a way to explain it and that KYH and NN can help out if they want to before going back into the boundless darkness of the sky in a hurry as a baffled Haru and KYH looks on,they never expected being assigned with a rather difficult task by raiding the dungeons of the top Beings except Metatron,meet the conditions to make the second form appear,and build friendships and bond with them who are hard to please.Even if Snow Fairy and the others will come to help,it is impossible to predict how many days it will take to prepare. KYH tells him that when Enju says as soon as possible,it means as fast as a minute and a second but this time she said to form a team and if you want to challenge the four dungeons,you will need at least three groups of 18 people and it usually takes one night to balance the combat power of the number and formulate a schedule so it's time for Haru to show his commanding ability and adjustment ability.Haru denies having that kind of abillity but KYH reminds him that Fairy and Behemoth would be helping him so he doesn't have to do it alone,both of them Burst Outs of the Highest Level with Haru holding her hand to transfer her back to the Lowest Level. |
Thanks for the summary.
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Spoiler for AWV26 Part 5:
Chapter 11
After returning from the Highest Level,KYH wonders where the portal inside Tezcatlipoca leads to and Haru thinks that according to the conventions of Brain Burst,defeating Tezca means that they can use the portal in his body and he wonders what place the Portal leads to that matches the risk of fighting Tezca,KYH speculates that the portal possibly leads to the inside of the Imperial Palace so using the Portal,they can just skip the 4 Gods using it but she acknowledges that this is just empty speculation because there's no means of defeating Tezcatlipoca,Haru brings up Exercitus and wonders what the recon team is planning regarding Tezca,KYH thinks that it's not impossible for them to come with a plan since more than half of the members are Burst Linkers on Level 4 and above,she thinks the existence of Exercitus is good since the accelerated world has been dominated by the Coloured Legions for a long time and the small and medium Legions banding up means the status quo is about to change(unknown to KYH however,while the status quo will change,it won't be a positive change but the worst possible change),Haru gets worried about Exercitus assaulting NN next week(lol) because he can't help them defend Suginami from them and the fact he probably won't get lucky next week when it comes to recovering the 3rd ward so he wishes that Exercitus invades both Minato and Suginami next week so he doesn't have to fight NN. Haru then comments about Cosmos's RL name being rare for someone to be named Enju and KYH brings up the Kamura family having the weird custom of naming their daughters after woody plants and branch families of Kamura names their daughters after herbs,KYH was named after the Early Snow flower in the Hemerocallis genus of herbs but Enju for some reason,was named after the Styphnolobium japonicum tree even though both of them are treated as members of the Kuroha branch family. At this point KYH becomes slightly overcautious thanks to the mutual confession last chapter that caused her to consider that Haru is now her boyfriend and gets a tad paranoid about the girls around Haru,her getting wary of Rin,Shihoko,Fuuko and Metatron is reasonable but being paranoid about Chiyu,Utai,Niko and Heir(who is a guy and has no signs of being a homosexual) having a crush on him is uhhhhhhh,she really should take her sister's earlier advice and calm down because they're still students.Anyway she tells him to face the feelings of the people she listed starting with Rin before she leaves because Haru has to talk with Fairy regarding the composition of the raid groups later on. Chapter 11 Zelkova Verger,a level 6 Burst Linker affiliated with the small army <Gallant Hawks>,folded his hands on his chest in order to suppress his excitement.A super high-rise building in the Higashi Ikebukuro area in the UNG,the roof of Echomuse is crowded with more than 100 Burst Linkers on standby.The same goes for Sunshine City 60,about 300 meters to the northeast,and the rooftops of nearby high-rise buildings.The gathering of so many people in just an hour showed how much Burst Linkers had in mind for the newly formed Legion coalition,Exercitus.The name Exercitus means "army" in Latin and when he first heard the name,Zelkova had the thought of the whole thing being a pretense,but here,that resistance has disappeared because the core members of Exercitus have suddenly launched a ridiculous large-scale operation and it is succeeding. From the 189-meter-high Echomusee,you can see the streets of Higashi Ikebukuro,which is covered with blue water.There are only high-rise buildings with a height of more than 100 meters like "Sunshine City 60" and the condominiums nearby because at 7:00 PM on July 27th,the attribute of the UNF is the [Ocean] stage.Obviously,these 300 Burst Linkers did not gather to watch the rare [Ocean] stage and looking down,everyone swallowed a mouthful of saliva.The water surface with a radius of 200 meters was frozen into a white sheet and a terrifyingly large humanoid public enemy was bound in the center of the water surface. The giant whose chest was frozen in ice was the super public enemy who had plunged the Accelerated World into overwhelming terror for three days,the God of the End,Tezcatlipoca.Although Exercitus was formed with the goal of <Defeating Tezcatlipoca without relying on the Seven Coloured Legions> from the very beginning,it seems that the core members also put a lot of effort into creating this situation.Even the reconnaissance mission that would be killed on the spot with the slightest mistake has been going on for more than a year with the accumulation of internal time and at the same time,the members are constantly researching the strategy method.They sent an expedition to Nagoya,a city 100 kilometers away from Tezcatlipoca's response range,to accumulate the BP needed for combat.Zelkova had doubts about the core legions such as <Cold Brew>,<Orvest>,<Goon>, and <Night Owls> who called for the establishment of Exercitus and wondered if they just wanted to replace the existing seven major legions by themselves but since they have worked so hard,Zelkova has to recognize them. They spent almost all the points accumulated in Nagoya from hunting Enemies to buy a large number of items called <Rain Prayer Dolls> in the Shop and used them to increase the probability of Water attribute Stages(while this confirms that items capable of increasing the probabillity of a Stage of a corresponding attribute exists in Brain Burst,at least the item corresponding to Dark element stages doesn't exist since Grandee and Pound had to camp out to wait for a Hell Stage to show up back in V9 since they could have otherwise done what Excercitus did to make the Hell Stage show up to weaken Metatron) and in the next Transition,the Sea stage appeared and after setting up several traps in Higashi Ikebukuro,Exercitus attacked a small Beast-level Enemy to attract Tezcatlipoca.At the moment when it flew over with his jet ability and sank into the 80-meter-deep seawater,the members of Exercitus detonated numerous pre-buried ice bombs,plus more than 20 Burst Linkers with freezing abilities to froze a large amount of water and finally succeeded in restraining the giant. Tezcatlipoca was locked in a thick ice cell,his boulder-like head bobbing from time to time,but there was no sign of it being able to escape.At this time,the ice envoys stationed on the sides and rear of the giant were also constantly using pale light,freezing bullets and blizzards to strengthen the ice,a smal Burst Linker watching the battle wonder if it can go smoothly and Zelkova states that victory is already sealed.The skinny F-type Avatar who nodded slightly is called Taupe Cape,she is the Parent who gave Zelkova the Brain Burst program but in the real world,she was a first-year junior at the same high school as Zelkova. Zelkova usually speaks in an honorific tone in front of other Burst Linkers but when he's talking to Taupe Cape,he changes back to his original tone.The ex-captain of <Gallant Hawks>,the Parent of Taupe Cape was unfortunately EK'd by an Enemy and exited Brain Burst from losing all of their points last year.Taupe has been sullen since then and Zelkova's efforts to encourage her have not worked.This morning,Zelkova attempted to invite the reluctant Taupe to an expedition to the Suginami area by force to show her how to defeat the traitor Silver Crow who caused the Tezcatlipoca incident but Taupe refused and didn't join him. Zelkova thinks that Crow is one of the "lucky ones" of the accelerated world to draw a rare color and ability(in reality Crow only had Headbutt as his only Special Attack at the start and he only got Aviation and Optical Conduction because of several incidents triggering their acquisition,also it's apparent that Zelkova doesn't know that Duel Avatars are created based on the desires and trauma of a person by the Incarnate System,there's no luck factor in this),successfully entered the large army(2nd gen NN only had him,Pile and Lotus at the start and they only got to near 50 members because Prominence merged with NN),and climbed up without much effort("looks at the numerous life and death hardships and deathmatches Crow had to go through",uhhhhhhh).Large Legions can easily train new recruits by buying Enhanced Armaments in Shops because of their surplus points(2nd Gen NN couldn't even afford to do that for Crow and Bell because they were almost broke at the start thanks to KYH's PFB+Taku's PB addiction and Crow was banned from shopping by the senior members),and their intelligence capabilities are also strong.The weakness of [Conic Smiter] that Zelkova had just mastered—the inability to move during activation and the ability to eat the javelin when jumping straight up—was used by Silver Crow,who must have bought Zelkova’s information in advance(i'm pretty sure Lotus banned Crow and the other junior members buying information so they won't waste their BP though,and Crow didn't even know about Conic Smiter before their duel),or ask his expert companions for his own strategy(the Seven Dwarves never contacted Crow after he joined Oscillatory until after their Duel and Crow came up with his strategy using the memorized information about Zelkova on his own). However,the conditions of today's accelerated world have changed.The Sun God Inti was almost harmless(actually a ticking time bomb that makes Tezca stronger the more it kills Enemies and Burst Linkers) as long as they didn't get close but the Seven Great Legions intervened and released the Tezcatlipoca inside(the whole thing was Oscillatory's fault so they can tame Tezca and kill the other 6 Kings so Cosmos can reach Level 10 that got foiled by Crow).Zelkova then fantasizes that if Exercitus defeats Tezcatlipoca(lol),the authority of the pure-colored kings that they have always believed to be true will plummet.Not only can they demand huge reparations,but they can even be asked to give up their entire territory.Of course,members of the Seven Legions will continue to withdraw(except OU because they're fundamentally different from other Burst Linkers),and if they can absorb these people,it is not a dream for Gallant Hawks to grow into a huge legion that can dominate from Mitaka to Suginami and the surrounding areas of Nakano and Taupe Cape,who takes over as the Legion Master succeeding her parent,will surely be as energetic as before. Zelkova then patted Taupe,who wore a gray-purple cape that shared her name,on the shoulder and tells her that the second stage of the operation is the second stage is about to start.They are a long-range attack group,so the danger is relatively small but the corresponding output damage is still more beneficial than the close range group so they'll try to reduce Tesca's health bar and earn some points.Taupe agrees but warns Zel to not get too complacent and get too close to her.When Zelkova smiled wryly to agree with what Taupe said,the amplified command voice echoed loudly among the high-rise buildings. "The second stage starts in 60 seconds! Groups 2, 3, and 4 are ready for the countdown!" After nodding to Taupe Cape,Zelkova pounced on one of the countless steel cables set up to descend from the roof.He adjusted his grip and slid to the frozen water a hundred meters below.Looking slightly to the east,the back of the head of the imprisoned Tezcatlipoca was covered in hoarfrost.According to the news heard during the waiting time,it seems that the White King's Legion - Oscillatory Universe,which the betrayer Silver Crow belongs to,is the one who provided the core members with this freezing operation advice.This afternoon,while Exercitus doesn't know what happened(Crow's strength test that was actually a trap set by Cavalier and Tower to get rid of him) Oscillatory Universe launched an attack on an Enemy in the Minato area(actually just Crow,the other 6 didn't attack Crococitus) and was immediately chased by the flying Tezcatlipoca(Tezca's aggro was drawn to Behemoth and Reaper who were luring it away from Crow with Milady,Oracle and Fairy).On the way to escape, the group led Tesca to a canal in the Shibaura area and used a special move to freeze the sea water to stop it and Exercitus' reconnaissance team witnessed this firsthand. If the water only reaches the ankles to slow down the movement,and if the head is submerged and completely frozen,the attack ability will be basically sealed——Anyone can think of such an idea,but it is not easy to realize such a thing.Among the core members, the most central role should be the Night Owls in Ikebukuro and their strength should be on a par with the seven major legions.It is worth noting that the main army <Helix>(Prominence's casual rivals from the BD2 side story who has weekly challenges for Prominence's territory) based in the Itabashi area neither participated in this operation nor joined Exercitus.The number of members should not be much different from Night Owls and Orvest,and Zelkova heard that the leader Beryllium Coil is quite strong,so he thought he would join in for granted but he remembers they're on friendly relations with Prominence despite constantly losing in Territory Wars for Nerima so they'll probably just be a burden in this battle and decides to leave them to their fate of declining with the Coloured Legions. Immediately afterwards,both of Zelkova's feet touched hard ice and after a while,Taupe Cape slid off the rope next to it.The members of the other legions were placed in Sunshine City 60 because of their abilities and they should have landed at the same time.Zelkova asks Taupe if he should go with Jim and the others and Taupe tells him not to since they're close by anyway before splitting up to their spots.In the previous battle meeting,some people said that the closer the foothold of the ice surface is,the thinner it is.If one runs around,it may shatter,but the touch conveyed by the foot is far stronger than expected so maybe a group of ice users desperately strengthened their footing. Tezcatlipoca is chained between two avenues,which in the real world are a school playground.Of course,the roads and buildings were submerged in the water of the Sea stage,and now there is only a pure white battle field with a diameter of 200 meters.There was a deafening shout from the right side,Zelkova glanced at it, and saw that more than a hundred people who had descended from "Sunshine City 60" were rushing in in droves. Zelkova and the others cried out in disapproval and on the way forward,the ice envoys who had drained the special attack gauge waved to Zelkova and the others in support.It was less than thirty meters away from Tezcatlipoca and its shoulders and head raised from the ice looked as big as hills. "Countdown to twenty...nineteen...eighteen..." The command voice sounded again.Zelkova and Taupe stepped on the ice and stopped,setting up in the best position 20 meters directly behind Tezcatlipoca,waiting for the signal to start the attack.Although the giant's attack power is amazing,the attacks are very simple.In addition to the physical attack of kicking,there are only three attack methods:the gravity attack released by the right hand, the fireball attack released by the left hand,and the shockwave released by the mouth.Because the left and right hands were completely blocked by ice,only the shock should be noticed now,but this also clarified the scope of effect with the efforts of the reconnaissance team.The front of the face has a range of 100 meters,and the left and right and rear are only 30 meters and 20 meters respectively.That is,as long as Tezcatlipoca doesn't change the orientation of its face,Zelkova and Taupe are in a safe zone and Burst Linkers lined up left and right barely entered the range of the blast wave,and the formation drew a smooth quadratic curve. "Twelve...Eleven...Ten..." Listening to the countdown,Zelkova crouched down on the spot,resting his right hand on the ice.His special attack gauge is of course,pre-charged.The first ten rounds of [Cornic Smiter] were all ready,showing a sense of presence to the leaders who were watching the battle at Echomuse. "Nine...Eight...Seven..." "...Zel-kun." Suddenly, Taupe Cape whispered 6 seconds before the attack starts,Zelkova looked to his side and then followed Taupe's line of sight down to the ice cubes under his feet. Dim,red - light.Deep in the thick layer of ice,a deep red like blood shone and from behind,a "puchi" suddenly sounded.Either on the right or on the left,the same sound is produced continuously.Zelkova Verger looked up and saw snow-white steam gushing out of huge holes in the ice.The countdown continued,but there were confused voices all around.The foothold on the ice wobbled,and the countless criss-crossing cracks did not break open.The crimson light rapidly approached,it was not an ordinary light,but a super-high temperature flame.Zelkova cancels Cornic Smiter before it's activated to grab Taupe's left hand so they can escape. But immediately afterwards, the field of vision was filled with bright red light. Chapter 13 Chapter starts with Chiyu asking Haru for help after he finished chatting with Niko,Fukaya,Utai and Reina regarding Hou's situation,he thought that he would get a reply from Nanako after the chat was over but Chiyu suddenly came in and asked him for help because she needs to go to the UNF and a 30 second disconnection insurance using Haru's internet server was set.Both of them dived into the UNF in the <Wilderness> Stage,Crow asked Bell why she's in a hurry and the latter tells him about her friend in Orvest,Cotton Marten who sent her an e-mail at 6:30 PM telling her that there will be a secret operation in Ikebukuro in the UNF and even that she has to go even though she doesn't want to and that she requests Bell to find her there if she doesn't contact Bell by 0800 PM,Bell stated that she immediately tried to get a reply from Marten but didn't get anything,she hesitated to go alone when it was almost 0800 PM and decided to ask Crow for help to get to Ikebukuro,Crow tells Bell that the operation likely has something to do with Exercitus which puzzles her because she never heard of it,Crow tells Bell that they need to accumulate the special attack gauge as much as they can to which she agrees and they started smashing rocks to build up their gauges,As he built up his own gauge,he thought about how Cosmos mentioned Orvest as part of Exercitus and how they sent a recon team to follow Tezca,combining these facts with the phrase "secret operations" in Cotton Marten's email,only one answer emerges:Perhaps,on the night that the raid group's strategy was established,they had already challenged Tezcatlipoca.If the attack is successful,Cotton Marten should contact Bell but if there is no contact - Suppose it was 19:00 PM when the battle started and it was 20:00 PM now,1 hour in the real world will be magnified to 1000 hours in the UNF which is 41 days and 16 hours. Crow suppressed his unease and kicked the tenth rock to pieces at the same time,filling up his special attack gauge.After he and Bell finished filling their gauge,Bell quickly turned around and jumped towards Crow who caught Chiyuri with a horizontal hug,and then spread the wings on his back while simultaneously equipping Metatron Wings that he only uses in emergency situations to amplify his flight speed,from his apartment to Ikebukuro,it should be about 6 kilometers northeast and it was the same route that Crow used to fly to Ikebukuro during the Fifth Chrome Disaster incident half a year ago.At that time,Lotus was on the right arm,Rain was on the left arm,and Pile was hanging on both legs which took more than ten minutes but by using both Metatron Wings at 50% of its full speed and his wings,he was able to fly fast enough to enter the Toshima district in a few dozen seconds.On the stage of <Wilderness>,the Yamanote Road appears as a huge canyon and the railway also becomes a slender rocky mountain.If you go over from here,you can see two terrifying rocky mountains ahead which is the Sunshine City 60 on the left and the Ecomuse on the right.In the middle of the two,there appeared a huge shadow that slowly moved— An angry voice resembling an earthquake that had been heard before,rumbled and boomed.Although it was still more than a kilometer away,the shock wave from the atmosphere shook Crow's body and he landed with Bell on the Ecomusee's rooftop,they headed towards the edge of the roof and even if it turned into a rocky mountain,there was still a broken wall standing on the edge of the roof.The two first hid their bodies inside, then carefully stuck out their heads and looked down at the ground,even from the top of the eco-museum nearly 200 meters high,"it" is unparallelably huge——flat and blood-colored body,extraordinarily slender arms,head without details—— God of the End,Tezcatlipoca. While Crow and the others were staring silently ahead,the giant raised its right foot high and stomped hard on the crimson earth.The shock wave like an earthquake spread,causing the Echomusee to shake and Crow saw——under the giant's feet,colorful lights flickered and disappeared. "……That is……!?" Immediately,a faint sound came from the ears of the two of them.No,it was a sound full of despair—screaming. The lights are just the death display effects of the Duel Avatar.A horrified Bell realizes what the Death Markers means and at the same time Crow noticed the countless rays of light flickering faintly at the feet of Tezcatlipoca who was in the shadow of the high-rise buildings. This number may actually be more than 100. Crow gets horrified at the sight of over 100 Death Markers but he remembered that the White King said that more than 500 people are involved with Exercitus and if this is the case,it is impossible that only a hundred people will be called to the battle against Tezcatlipoca.He then remembers that there should be around over 300 people in Exercitus that are level 4 or higher and realizes that they kept resurrecting and dying during the 1000 hours of this infinite EK of an overwhelming scale never seen in the accelerated world.Thinking about it this way,in a situation like this,it is possible for 100-200 people to experience the Total Elimination Phenomenon. Crow's fists were clenched to the limit,and an agonized voice came from his throat asking why they're even doing this,if they had been scouting,they would have known that Tezcatlipoca was an opponent they couldn't handle and yet they did it anyway.The giant that was temporarily still in front of him began to move again and stretched out its left hand towards the densely populated area of death markers.On the huge palm,concentric circles with white light appeared.At the moment when the seventh,eighth,and ninth layers overlapped,the concentric circles glowed crimson. Immediately afterwards,more than 20 overclockers were resurrected at the same time and in that instant,a huge fireball,Miccailtontli was launched from Tezcatlipoca's hands.The fireball that hit the ground swirled and expanded rapidly,causing the absolute biggest explosion Crow had ever seen in an accelerated world and the flames reached the halfway up the mountainside of the Ecological Museum,and the rocky mountain shook violently with the roar.The Burst Linkers who had finally been resurrected died on the spot one by one in the flames but 2 of them did not show signs of death,but disintegrated into countless data ribbons and floated into the sky,that is exactly the Total Elimination Phenomenon of losing all Burst Points and exiting from the accelerated world. Bell cries out in despair over the mass EK she's seeing and Crow opened his fisted left hand and grabbed Bell's right hand tightly,he wants to help the hundreds of Burst Linkers who didn't lose their Brain Burst yet,but no matter how he thought about it,there was no suitable way.Whether it was Crow or Bell,once they descended from the rocky mountain and approached Tezcatlipoca,they would be caught up in its attack and die on the spot,falling into the same situation of infinite EK and although he considered temporarily logging out and gathering as many people as possible,even if he is ready,at least 160 hours will pass here during which the remaining Exercitus members will have their Brain Burst uninstalled and the rescue team is likely to repeat their mistakes.Even if there are hundreds of Burst Linkers gathered,no matter how hard they rack their brains and muster their courage,there is no way to intervene,for Tezcatlipoca is the veritable God of the End and Crow was the one who unleashed it on Brain Burst. Tears flowed from Silver Crow's eyepiece and he begs forgiveness towards the Burst Linkers who were eliminated because of him,the giant moved again.A face with only a mouth like a cave,slowly twisted towards the sky and towards there,there was a long and deep sound like an earthquake. Oooooooohhhhhhhh----…… That voice didn't have the desire to kill as before, rather, it sounded like a high-pitched singing after being satisfied. Suddenly. Numerous cracks appeared in Tezcatlipoca. The giant's body stopped and lost its red and black color. The parts that turned into dull black rock collapsed one by one and fell to the ground with Bell and Crow being baffled at the phenomenon they're witnessing and Crow could only shake his head at this:Is it really satisfying? Just let one hundred to two hundred overclocked linkers lose their Brain Burst and the mission is over,and then disappear when here are still 700-800 more Burst Linkers to eliminate? Although Crow didn't think such a good thing would actually happen,Tezcatlipoca's collapse didn't stop:Its head had completely disappeared, and when the disintegration spread to its shoulders,its two arms fell apart.The severely damaged left and right hands slammed violently on the ground and were easily shattered.The collapse of the body extended from the neck to the chest and at the foot of the giant,several Burst Linkers who had been resurrected during this period paid no attention to the falling rocks,and just looked up blankly.It didn't take long for the collapse to progress from the chest to the abdomen,and at that moment— From the depths of the countless cracks that spread across the destruction surface, a bright red light burst out,as the rocks continued to fall,the true face of the light gradually emerged. It was neither a Duel Avatar nor an item.The red light slowly wraps around, forming an elliptical figure with no solid body. "...A...door?" Bell muttered this softly and Crow's eyes were also looking there,but the logout doors set up everywhere in the UNF were all blue without exception. The collapse of Tezcatlipoca stopped in the center of its belly—the lower end of the door. Immediately afterwards, an even more exaggerated unknown phenomenon occurred. On the Wilderness stage,the pale yellow sky was filled with huge hexagons of the same color as the mysterious door,and seven large characters [WARNING] were written on it in unadorned fonts and it only took five or six seconds for the sky from north to south to be filled with crimson hexagons. But this is not the end,on the contrary this should be the climax of this miracle. Convinced of this thought,Crow turned his eyes from the reddish sky to the half-opened glowing door on Tezcatlipoca and from that swirling light,something seemed to appear. The feet - and the hands, and then the body. Someone about the size of Crow and the others stepped across the door into this world and in an instant,Crow finally realized the answer to the question of where the Portal Bari detected in Tezcatlipoca leads to:it was not the entrance that led to the Imperial Castle or other places but on the contrary,it was an exit from an unknown world to the accelerated world,in order to teleport someone. Immediately after the man came out of the door, a new figure appeared——The third person, the fourth person, keeps appearing.These people are obviously not Duel Avatars,they have neither the characteristic translucent armor,nor masks,nor glasses. The first person to appear is almost a living person.Although he looks like a man,he has long flowing hair and does not look so tall,but his body is very strong and is wrapped in a red uniform that fits very well. The second person is huge.Moreover,he is wrapped in robotic metal armor,and there are three lenses on his face that glow with a pale light. The third is female.Her black dress encased a surprisingly slender body,a witch-like three-cornered hat on her head,and a long,curved staff in her right hand. Whether it is the fourth person or the fifth person,there is absolutely no sense of unity in appearance.It's like coming from a completely different world and all the features are messed up. No,not right.These people lined up left and right,although there is absolutely nothing in common in design,it is obvious that they are based on the same concept.The concept is- Hero. The so-called "Superheroes". The eighth,the ninth,then the tenth,and then finally no one came out of that door and above the belly of the collapsing God of the End,under the sky torn by hexagons,the heroes lined up and on the right side of the team,there was a small man with a blue mask covering his entire face,looking at the overclockers on the ground who were looking up silently,and said in a loud voice: "As expected of eight years of perseverance,the facial structure of the person inside is also...Although I don't want to say this,I can't see the face at all." The witch wearing the triangular hat glanced at the blue masked man and complained that he doesn't have the qualification to point that out when his face is also hidden.Looking closely, her feet were slightly floating in the air.The blue masked man tells her that it can't be helped because the king of heroes is the Kamen Rider and tells the remaining Burst Linkers to listen to him.The blue mask protruded from the edge of the upper body,and did not seem to be afraid of the height of nearly 50 meters, and loudly declared to the survivors of the strategy group: "Prototype No. 2 has been discontinued! Those who want to disappear should disappear,and those who want to stay will be guided to the official version of this game,which is called——<Dread Drive 2047>!" Spoiler for Afterword:
-Reki jokes about this Volume starting the White Legion arc despite it actually being the Seventh Artifact Arc since Haru is on their side now. -He states that it's a pity that Haru never met Cosmos in RL,but he hints that the next time he comes to Eterna,they'll have their first RL meeting. -Eterna Student Council Members are: President:???,will appear in V27,so probably the 5th Dwarf? Vice-President:Airi/Cypress Reaper Secretary:Nanako/Snow Fairy Accountant:Tsubomi/Rose Milady The members listed are the Student Council of the middle course of Eterna,Enju is taking the advanced course so she's not part of it but she's the president of the advanced course -Significant timeline stuff from Reki: 1.September 2031 Neurolinker gets released 2.December 2031 Kuroba Enju was born 3.September 2032 Kuroba Kayuki was born 4.April 2033 Haruyuki Arita was born 5.April 2038 AA2038 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2031 and March 2032) who enrolled in the same month 6.April 2039 BB2039 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2032 and March 2033) who enrolled in the same month 7.April 2040 CC2040 program was released,targeting 100 first-year primary school students(born between April 2033 and March 2034) who enrolled in the same month 8.2047 Unknown Month DD2047 program released,target age range unknown -Reki gets worried about the legal age being decreased from 20 to 18 and brings up the stuff from V6 about 2040 Japan's government decreasing the legal age to 16 to attempt fixing the nation's population decline and gets scared because he never meant to predict the future with V6. -Originally the Infinite Burst OVA should have happened in V26 but because Tezca couldn't be settled in that time,so Reki decided to postpone the Nyx raid by a week in the LN's timeframe,which basically confirms that OU's Territory War to reclaim the 3rd Minato district is getting foiled again by Nyx so lol at them trying to reclaim it but gets foiled by Tomochika and Nyx. -He states that the OVA,Infinite Leap,and Return to Eternity has deviated too much from the LN so they're non canon now. -Risa and Nyx will show up in the arc's climax,basically confirming that Nyx is the last Being in the boss rush. -The reason KYH used SSS Order to change her name tag from Kuroha Sayuki to Kuroyukihime was because of the main Kamura family,but the details are unknown. Spoiler for comment:
-When Reki said that bringing Crow into OU isn't a good idea,i never expected for the consenquences to turn out like this. -So i'm guessing that Omega Style is pinpoint attack to maximize damage,Ain Style is SAO Sword Skills,Infinity Style is probably big/wide sword slashing while Femto style is long-range sword slashes. -So if the OU members doesn't know who the ARS members are in RL,then does that mean that no one in OU except Cosmos knows who Tower/Vise is in RL since they're (supposedly) the same person in RL? -Except for Cavalier(whose characterization is still closer to the White Legion members of being somewhat decent people agreeing with Cosmos's cause instead of ARS members and who Haru/Crow still symphatises with despite what he did),the other 4 Dwarves has been portrayed positively in V26 which is pretty consistent with past volumes considering their attitudes as Burst Linkers was actually pretty upright especially when compared to ARS members.Even Tower's characterization is more positive than Vise's since he wanted to painlessly EK NN in V22 using the Brinicle+Last Glacial Period+Imaginary Time+Paradigm Breakdown combo instead of being merciless by using the Devil Class Enemies to EK them and he only did resorted to it because Metatron and Lotus screwed the combo up,and honestly,it's still not certain whether they really are the same person(he refers to Crow using his full avatar name instead of Crow-kun even though Crow knows that they're (supposedly) the same person so he should have called him Crow-kun) or if it's actually Magis using Tower's BB Program to access the accelerated world as Vise. -Assuming the command really was <Remove Core Protection> from Alicization,then AA,BB,and CC potentially has some of the System Commands from Underworld carried over to them instead of just a restricted version of the Incarnate System. -Cavalier's trauma being symbolized as his knight armor having no Avatar body is probably him having an emptiness so extreme that he devotes himself to someone else just to have a purpose and that results in him being able to imitate IS skills because he has no sense of self to deal with his trauma so he can imitate other people's sense of self to use their IS skills but not the advanced ones like Paradigm Breakdown,Light Speed,Icosahedral Insulation,Light Shell,etc. -I wonder if we're getting rotation as to who Oscillatory teams up for the dungeon raids instead of just where it will be something like Aurora Oval for Amaterasu,Leonidz for Ushas,and Great Wall for Xi Wangmu corresponding to the Kings who beat the Seven Arcs of the dungeons and then CCC and NN+Prominence for Rudra and Bali,while Nyx is all 7 teaming up to defeat her,it's also good opportunity for the coloured Legions to interact with the OU members to gradually understand what Oscillatory Universe really is. -Assuming that Dread Driver has the same progression status as BB in its earlier days,then it should have only level 5 Driver Linkers(?) for its strongest players at most with no Level 7 to 9s. -I understand KYH being happy about the mutual confession+kiss in this volume but geez,you don't have to be that overly cautious of the other girls. -The Afterwords timeline stuff confirms that Cosmos isn't a BB Originator because she's not in the target birthdates of Brain Burst's originators,but she does meet Accel Assault's and coincidentally Haru meets Cosmos Corrupt's as well so they could potentially be Originators of Accel Assault and Cosmos Corrupt but the stuff about how Haru used to play FPS with his friends is pointing at him being an ex-Assault Linker instead. -Since Cosmos isn't an Originator(at least not a BB Originator),it brings up the question of who is her BB Parent since she had to get the BB program from someone since she didn't get it from the GM. -The question about how AA or CC's Tezca didn't have a Portal inside of it is interesting because at least some survivors(which could still potentially exist) could migrate to Brain Burst instead of being exterminated if AA or CC Tezcas had a Portal,maybe the GM added the portal to BB Tezca so they could save some of the players by transferring them to DD2047? -The DD2047 players seems to be aware of BB being Trial No.2 so they probably know more than the average Burst Linker's knowledge regarding the truth about the accelerated worlds. |
Any news about the release of volume 26 in english?
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Looks like Yen On Press just scheduled Vol 26 for an August release date.
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There is any news about the next volume (Volume number 27.) of this series Accel World?
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Accel World V27,The Fourth Acceleration will be released in 9th February 2024:
https://dengekibunko.jp/product/acce...307000332.html Spoiler for blurb:
"Trial No.2's Service ends today!" New warriors <Drive Linkers> suddenly appeared in the battlefield of Brain Burst 2039,it was the signal announcing the start of the invasion by the fourth accelerated world,<Dread Driver 2047>. The invading Drive Linkers's vanguard,Eurokion overwhelms the Burst Linkers with overwhelming power. "Crow,use my wings!" In the battle against enemies against an unprecedented enemy,Silver Crow gains a new power! What will happen in the <Interworld War> that will decide the fate of the world of Brain Burst? Spoiler for guesses:
-Eurokion is probably the Kamen Rider Drive Linker who was described as the leader of the invaders. -There should be at least be 1 fight between OU and the Drive Linkers in V27(probably in the Tokyo Subway raid?),given V26's afterwords. -Drive Linkers likely has an game mechanic exclusive to them that gives them an advantage,since it's only been around recently and taking Chrome Falcon's statement of level progression during Brain Burst's infancy,there shouldn't be any Level 6-9 Linkers from DD2047,at best,Level 5 is the highest,also different naming convention compared to Brain Burst. -Given the quote referring to Crow is evidently from Metatron and the mention of a new abillity,<Metatron Wings> seems to have another abillity aside from flight and Ektenia that gets unlocked in V27. Update:it got delayed to March 8th,also Enju is on the cover with KYH. |
Spoiler for bookwalker trial stuff:
-DD2047's genre is a MOBA,but it has aspects of Accel Assault(shooter),Brain Burst(MMORPG),Cosmos Corrupt(Hack and Slash) incorporated into it.
-Kamen Rider Drive Linker is indeed Eurokion from the book preview. -Book begins with a flashback where Zelkova and Taupe attempting to escape from Tezca,they killed a Small-class Enemy and used the special gauge accumulated from it to block Tezca's attack and to dig a hole to hide but Zel sacrificed himself to protect his BB Parent from Tezca's gravity attack so only Cape made it out in the end. -Eurokion does a killing spree of the Excertitus survivors,using an unknown Abillity to break the survivors's body into pieces,Crow and Bell intervenes by attempting a surprise attack but Eurokion had another eye in the back of his head and was about to break Crow into pieces but he noticed a small amount of Overray in Eurokion's hand and countered with his IS Skill. -Eurokion commented that he finally found someone who can use Psionic Power in Brain Burst,it turns out the Incarnate System,for some reason,is called Psionic Power in Dread Driver and given that Eurokion's Overray is barely visible it seems that IS has been completely adapted to DD's game system. -Eurokion stated that DD has level 9s like Brain Burst with him among them,but instead of getting a message from the creator like the Kings,they got a message from the system AI instead,saying that the connection between BB and DD is established the moment they got to Level 9(whether or not Sudden Death Rule is a thing for Drive Linkers is uncertain),despite said declaration however,Crow(he introduced himself as an OU member) noticed that none of the Dread Linkers that invaded BB has the information pressure befitting a veteran player of the accelerated worlds,meaning that none of the Dread Linkers has the same level of experience as the veteran players which makes sense since it's only been released last year. -Eurokion is disappointed that there's only trash that couldn't use Psionic Power in BB but Crow tells him that he's beating up players who are exhausted from Enemy hunting and tells him to let them go which he agrees under the condition that Crow defeats him but then he noticed Crow is only Level 6 so he changes it so that if Crow can last 5 minutes against him,then it's the latter's victory. -Before the fight,Crow asks what kind of game DD is and Eurokion tells the above details to him,which convinces Crow about DD being the official version unlike the 3 Trials,trial ends here. |
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Basically stuff like DOTA,League of Legends,Pokemon UNITE,etc. |
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Does the climax mean that the Light Novel series Accel World will end in the next Volume (Volume 28. of Accel World)? |
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I hope finally get to meet more of the children of SAO cast.
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