Accel World:Volume SS1 Chapter 5
Chapter 5[edit]
The Black King, Black Lotus—Kuroyukihime was attentively watching the state of the battlefield from the roof of a building slightly separated from the other members of the gallery.
Reading the actions of the boy Haruyuki, who was her «child», she had turned automatic spectator mode on at the same time as she had returned to her hospital room. Although since she had switched the battlefield following function off, there was a need for her to move on her own.
Even when a four-car train had passed through the spot where Silver Crow was joined to, Crow’s health gauge was still in good shape, so the members of the gallery began to make a clamor. His duel opponent Jade Jailer also looked around at his surroundings, but on the rail only the fragments of his handcuffs and his halfway-severed chain were stretched out.
However, before long he noticed as well.
The silver crow[1] circling about while glittering a brilliant silver in the skies, at a distant height. The voices of astonishment reached even Kuroyukihime’s ears.
“How……how did he manage to cut the chain!? Didn’t it seem to be no good at all!?”
“So, somehow he accelerated suddenly, didn’t he……as if he had ignited a booster……”
“I was watching. That guy, didn’t he fiddle with his instant menu right before the train came?”
“All the same, he wouldn’t power up all of a sudden……I mean, he doesn’t have anything like an Enhanced Armament either, and in the first place if it were an Armament he would’ve been able to call it out with a voice command……”
After the conversations of heated arguing had continued for a number of seconds, at last one person reached the truth. How Silver Crow had obtained enough thrust to sever Jade Jailer’s chain.
“Ah……ah, ah……! I’ve got it! That guy……that Crow bastard, he obtained his level up bonus, in the middle of the duel……he strengthened, his flight ability!”
While both the other gallery members and even Jailer stood stock still, dumbfounded, Crow made the shining sunlight bounce back at them and turned. The figure of him stretching his sharp feet straight out, drawing the trajectory of a flame in the blue sky, and descending rapidly was truly that of a midday meteor.
“…………How was it, Maiden, Curren. Raker, and Graph too. Was it visible……”
While narrowing her eye lenses, Kuroyukihime murmured softly.
“That is the «child» I chose. With his twin wings, he will definitely open the door I was not able to cut open with my twin swords. He will definitely fly to the distant place we were not able to manage to reach. That is……what I believe.”
(Fin)
References
- ↑ Here, the word used is 鴉 and not クロウ, so I translate it as a common noun, i.e. the bird crow and not the name Crow.
