Accel World, Vol. 14: Archangel of Savage Light by Reki Kawahara

Author:Reki Kawahara
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yen On
Published: 2018-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

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Suddenly, Haruyuki felt like he’d heard a faint sound. He opened his eyes a crack and saw the lone door being closed. Someone had left the room.

Lifting his head slightly, he looked around. His comrades were scattered around on the floor of Fufuan, which was larger than he had remembered, all asleep for the time being. And naturally, all still duel avatars.

Niko was using Pard, who was curled up like a cat, as a pillow. Lying on her side, Fuko was holding Utai tightly in her arms. Shuddering and flickering beside them was Akira, her flowing water armor rolled up in a ball. Takumu was asleep with his back against the wall, and Chiyuri had her arms and legs splayed out next to Haruyuki.

But there was no one in the room’s only bed.

The right to use the bed had been unanimously presented to the Black King, who looked like she would have trouble sleeping on the floor, given her variously tapered form. Which meant it had been Kuroyukihime who had left the house seconds earlier. If they had been in the real world, he could have brushed this off with the question “Bathroom, maybe?” but in the Accelerated World, no matter how much you ate or drank, no such physical needs were generated.

“…”

After wrestling with his sleepiness for a few more seconds, Haruyuki slowly sat up. He stood, being careful not to make a sound, and then stealthily tiptoed across the wooden floor. When he touched the doorknob, the door opened outward, and he slipped through and closed it carefully. Perhaps the sound he’d heard before was the whisper of wind sneaking in during the door’s opening and closing.

Outside the house, the world was still wrapped in the same vivid dusky light as when they’d arrived. When he checked the continuous dive time in his Instruct menu, it seemed that he’d been asleep for about five hours, but apparently, the Change had not come during that time.

He made the menu disappear and looked around to find a silhouette sitting on the bench at the western edge of the tower’s outer circumference. From where Haruyuki was standing, it overlapped perfectly with the red evening sun floating on the horizon. The sharp form of the black silhouette was nothing less than heroic on the battlefield, but it now felt ephemeral for some reason, like art made of glass, and Haruyuki stared soundlessly in that direction for a while. The wind blew up again, causing faint ripples on the surface of the pond, and this spurred him to start walking.

Perhaps she had already noticed that Haruyuki had been the one to come out of the house. “Sorry. Did I wake you?” Kuroyukihime asked quietly, once he’d gotten about two meters away from the bench.

“…No, I slept plenty already.”

Without a word, the young woman slid over to the right. Haruyuki took another five steps to come around to the front of the bench from the left, and then set himself down in the empty space.

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