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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.
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