In a class room all that is normal, a young man of medium height, badly coiffed brown hair and black eyes wearing a college uniform and sunglasses on his forehead, copying the course on a virtual keyboard of his neuro-linker while he receives an e-mail. He opened it calmly and a violent explosion of smoke arrived without surprising him in his interface revealing a message saying: "At the lunch break, you bring us two noodle loaves, one with melon, and strawberry yogurts on the roof. If you're late, do you get the portrait back?!" At the mere sight of the message he gritted his teeth.
Later on the lunch break and he found himself with food asked in front of a man taller than him with red hair bristling with two henchmen wearing the same uniforms as the young man who this time was wearing his sunglasses over his eyes.
"There's only one noodle bread, you do not care about us." Said the one with red hair.
"He had sold everything." Replied the young man simply.
"You mean you're not fucking doing the shopping." Said one of the henchmen.
"Well, if you're not happy you went there alone." Said the young man before being hit in the stomach by the second henchman.
"Remember that if we do not hit you to death it's because we need you for food. In addition we are in the blind spot cameras no bowl." Said the red-haired one.
"Are you going to fuck all three, Araya." Said the young man calling the red-haired man by his name, standing at an iron bar.
Araya left with his henchmen as the young man tried the blood on his mouth and removed his glasses revealing that his eyes became red before becoming black again and he let go of the iron bar that was compressing where the young man held his hand. He then left in a part of the visible roof of the cameras to be quiet and sat before closing his eyes before placing his glasses.
"Direct link..." He said calmly.
For him reality changed and he appeared in a fantastic world with his appearance completely changed to that of his avatar. He now looked like a kind of pink humanoid snake with a strange red belt with various objects on it.
He walked calmly as various people stared at his monstrous, expressionless appearance. For him it was a habit. This monster that favorite people avoided him despite his passive attitude and never seeking trouble. He walked up stairs to where he heard a girl talking.
"It's the Vice President!" She said excitedly.
Out of curiosity he climbed the stairs until he saw the vice-president of the student council in his avatar. He looked like his version of the real world. Namely a beautiful young woman with long black hair and hazel eyes, with the difference that it is equipped with a pair of pink butterfly wing with black contours, a serves a head with butterfly antennas and door a black dress exposing the center of her chest, black gloves reaching up to her elbows, and always with her an umbrella that she holds in a distinguished manner. No one in the college knows his name. She is called Kuroyukihime by all students except her friends who called him only Kuroyuki.
She represents for the young man his feminine ideal. Beautiful, kind and intelligent certainly, but she has something that he coveted in each of his schools. She is accepted by others.
While many girls asked her questions about how she did so well with the texture of her avatar, she noticed the young man's avatar looking at her with a mixture of jealousy and lust before leaving as dry.
"I do not have to think of myself. All the gossip about me had already come to his ears." The young man said to himself as he went to the room of a game whose aim was to hit a manikin dodging the knocks as quickly as possible.
He went all the time when he could to this game. It was his kicker so to speak. I was one of the only places where he could not show restraint and fully expressed the violence he kept in him every time he saw Araya.
He played this game so often that despite the random movements of the mannequin he arrived at the anticipated and hit even stronger to the point that at each game his score was triple the precedent while it is the highest ranking.
"They say I'm not like the others, that I'm a monster. All this because by hitting a criminal hang a hostage at once in the belly he died. They can say what they want but it will never change one thing..." He said to himself as he hit the manikin again and again after launching the game and that in one fell swoop the mannequin broke. "It's that if I were really a monster they would all be dead. "He finishes before suffering a forced disconnection caused by a violent punch on the top of his head by a girl barely younger than him with light brown short hair with a bar representing a cat on the left and two bars in cross shape on the right.
"How'd you know I was here, Chiyu?" The angry young man asked before getting up.
"I saw what happened a few minutes ago. I tried to talk to you but saw that you went live link I had to use my forced link out technique. You should show the emails he sends you to the headmaster." The girl said as Chiyu.
"It will not help. Why the shit's personal would believe the guy who killed someone with a punch without wanting to." Said the young man exposing his point of view on his situation.
"It does not work like that, Etsu." Chiyu said giving the boy's name before handing him a basket she had been holding for a while. "I've done a lot. You only have to take one." She said kindly.
"Thank you." Etsu said taking a sandwich before sitting down and crunching a piece. "And you know you're probably keeping your boyfriend waiting?" Etsu asked with an amused face as Chiyu realized that she had almost forgotten her boyfriend.
"Oh, that's right, thank you later." Chiyu said before running towards the stairs.
"It's too easy. Direct link." Etsu thought before reconnecting and went back to the game room.
Once inside he looked at the scorecard to see to his astonishment that someone was doing the equivalent of ten times his score just before he was forced out.
"How is it possible to do that in five minutes?" He wondered, puzzled.
"Did you make that crazy score?" Asked a person behind him.
He turned around and saw that it was Kuroyukihime. He was very surprised to see her here but also felt a mixture of disappointment and disgust because the first time they are face to face is facing this monstrous avatar he can't change despite all his attempts.
"Don't you want to go faster?" She asked, winning a nod from her interlocutor. "Come home during the lunch break tomorrow." She said before disconnecting.
The next morning, Etsu came into the foyer at the lunch break and caught the attention of every second year in the foyer, judging him with a glance that he had nothing to do here as he walked casually up and down. two students do not block it.
"So you came. It's me he came to see. You'll excuse me, but can you let it pass?" Kuroyukihime asked the two students as Etsu reached for his glasses, ready to put them on his eyes.
The students moved aside and he passed by removing his hand from his glasses before taking his seat in front of Kuroyukihime. She took out a cable and hooked one end on her neuro-linker before giving the other end to Etsu who took it before finally speaking.
"Seen that there are only the couple who do that, do you realize the rumors that it will trigger?" Etsu said wanting to prevent him from losing his popularity.
"I am aware of it. Could you plug it in, please?" Kuroyukihime asked what Etsu answered by plugging his end into his neuro-linker.
"Thank you for taking the time to come here, Etsukazu Asada. You know how to express your thoughts?" Kuroyukihime asked.
"Yes, do not worry about this level." Etsu replied a little surprised that she knew his full name. "Can you explain to me why you wanted to see me? Because if it's to make fun of me I promise you that would make a carnage." He asked, making sure he had answers to his fears.
"In a way, maybe yes..." She made some movement with her hand showing that she was using the interface of her neuro-linker. "... because I send you an application in your neuro-linker." She said finishing sending the app that came into Etsu's.
He then received the application whose icon is a square with a "B" on it ignited with a message saying "Do you want to run bb2039? ".
"If you accept it, your reality will be destroyed and recomposed in a form that you do not even imagine." She said so as to convince him to accept it.
After a short thought he accepted the application and the full name of the application "Brain Burst" was displayed with an installation bar filled in a flash. Leaving a message saying "Welcome to the accelerated world".
"What is the accelerated world?" He asked.
"You installed it very quickly. It's quite surprising. I was not mistaken, it seems. In your place I hesitated almost two minutes before accepting. The speech I had planned to convince you will ultimately be useless." Kuroyukihime said before a more unwelcome voice was heard by everyone.
"Damn, Asada!" Said the voice catching the attention of Etsu who was looking in the direction she came from to see Araya. "You came here to you, junk! Where are my melon breads and my strawberry yogurts, not to mention..." Araya said before being interrupted by Kuroyukihime.
"Are you alright... Araya, right?" Kuroyukihime asked, drawing his attention. "Etsukazu told me about you." She said as Etu wondered where she was coming from. "He was wondering if you had not been transferred from the zoo to this college by mistake." Kuroyukihime said as Etu remained neutral and standing between her and Araya.
Even though he wondered how she knew about his situation with Araya, he knew where she was coming from.
"You dared to say that. Bastard". Araya said getting ready to give him the hardest punch he's ever given.
"Now say "Burst link"!" Kuroyukihime shouted from the neuro-linker.
"Burst link." He said calmly as if he was waiting for the punch.
For him his body and all the surrounding space was frozen in time and gained a blue tinge as his avatar was expelled from his body and he saw and could act through him.
"Bloody hell..." he said Etsu overwhelmed by what is happening.
"It is impressive, right." Said Kuroyukihime standing behind him, also in his avatar. "We are just in the field of cameras. This is one of the functions of the brain burst program. We are in accelerated mode. It's the accelerated world. This is where we live the burst linkers." Kuroyukihime explained as Ettsu leans back on the table where Kuroyukihime's real body is facing his.
"What is this sect?" He asked with a little humor so quietly that she did not hear him as she walked over to him and put a graceful hand on his shoulder.
"The environment seems to be stopped, but in reality, it is not the case. This blue world has been recreated in 3D from the images captured by the cameras that are located in this focus. We see them via our neuro-linkers. Thanks to the acceleration of bones thought by our brain." She continued to explain.
"Basically our thoughts are accelerated and thanks to our avatars we can see everything around us and this trip." Etsu summed up.
"Yes. The acceleration rate of 1000 times the normal speed. In other words, one second of reality is 1000 here, it's 16 minutes and 40 seconds. And as you can see by using this power, while you are about to be hit, accelerating at this fateful moment, you can take all your time to analyze the situation and think." She said, exposing the fun side of the acceleration.
"Convenient. I could find the best place where hit." Etsu said looking at Araya with despite the inexpressive side of his avatar an undeniable hatred towards him.
"I do not advise you to do it. Why not take the opportunity to let you send in the decor." Kuroyukihime said as if it were obvious.
"Seen what he and his mate bastards make me give me a reason to let him do it." Etsu said angrily.
"This is the opportunity. Until now it's safe from the cameras that he did that. But there, he was fooled by my provocation of a lot of camera and people. This will be your only chance to make him pay." Kuroyukihime advised him.
"You are right. I already killed someone with one punch without wanting to. It would be too stupid to start again." Etsu said looking at his hand before feeling Kuroyukihime put a hand on his cheek.
"Wise decision. Left to act, as far as the effect is maximal. As soon as you get hit, throw yourself back. Even if I'm behind you, I'll maximize the effect, right?" She asked.
"Okay." He replied.
"Burst out." She said before her avatar disappeared.
"Burst out." Said Etsu in turn and the effects of the burst link disappear and he is found again in his real body being caught in the head and propelled back with a good enough timing to believe the blow has the cause.
He then found his head on Kuroyukihime's left shoulder, which ended up against a wall with a trickle of blood running from his head as everyone in the foyer panicked and called in guards.
"It's okay?" He asked from his neuro-linker taking advantage that the cable is always connected.
"Not moving. And do not worry, I just cut myself a bit. I told you, we had to aim for maximum effect." She said as supervisors pray to Araya to bring him one knows where. "After that he willn't bother you anymore." She said before she really spoke but in a low voice so that only Etsu could hear it. "I'm counting on you to never give up, Etsu." She said, tracing a small circle on her leg making him blush. "Coming out leaves your neuro-linker off until you arrive at school tomorrow. And most importantly you do not have to connect a single second to the global network. Under any circumstances." She said before they were both brought to the infirmary.
He did what she told him and kept his neuro-linker turned off until he got home. Once night fell he found himself in bed and fell asleep in a second.
However instead of dreaming of the famous day that sealed his reputation, he dreamed of a completely deserted planet with a storm of red sand, a tower whose walls bathed in a red with a black hole above the one here, and a mirror leaning on a rock from where he could see the reflection of a man in a kind of armor made think of the old tokusatsu from 2010 to 2020 which he seemed to see through the eyes, while the planet seemed more and more dying.
He woke up with a start seeing that the day came up, he decided to start his morning routine before leaving for college forgetting to let his neuro-linker turned off the light for his journey. Once outside his house in his eyes the world changed into a post-apocalyptic version and found himself in armor similar to that of his nightmare with different color missing a penalty at the pelvis.
He also lives an interface with two bar of life written below that of the left side "Kamen Rider Evol" and below that of the right "Ash Roller".
"Look at this, my opponent is a pure newbie..." A voice said before he turned around and heard a motorcycle man wearing some sort of biker armor and a skull-shaped helmet.
"What's this shit?" Etsu wondered as the biker jubilated.
"The mega luck! But for you it is, the big bad luck!" Said the biker before he dashed on it with that bike and knocking him down causing him to lose all his life bar.