You must be Silver Crow.
Nice to meet you.
My name is Sky Raker.
I'm glad I could meet you, Crow-san.
Uh...
Well, master. I'll uh, get going.
Wait, what about me?!
C'mon, Crow.
I dunno what's goin' on, but your wings ain't so important that y'need to give up straight away without 'em.
If you give up, all of us who've been watchin' you fly this whole time will...
Tch.
I dunno how to put it, but just do somethin'!
But what can I do?
Crow-san.
Ash thinks I might be able to help you get your wings back.
Huh? Help me?
But isn't Ash-san in the Green Legion-
Don't get this the wrong way!
I'm just puttin' you in my debt.
Like, it's a plan.
It's a secret operation t'make you like me better so you'll betray the Black Legion, bastard!
Yeah, I'm mega cool!
That's rude, Ash.
Whoa! Sorry, master!
Ash is a pretty good kid despite being stupid and having a bad mouth and appearance.
Sky Raker...
She was once the Burst Linker closest to the sky in the Accelerated World.
Um... Is it really true that you can help me get my wings back?
I'm afraid that's impossible.
When you lose something from your duel avatar, there's always a reason why.
There's nothing I can do to get rid of that reason.
So it really is impossible.
Yes.
No matter what we do in this garden, you won't get your wings back.
I never said you couldn't fly, though.
Hateshinai sora wo yuku
I fly up to the boundless sky
Mienai tsubasa ga michibiku
My invisible wings will guide me
Haruka kanata bokura wo matsu
The faraway place awaits us
Mada minu mirai e to
We head towards an unseen future
Mada minu mirai e to
We head towards an unseen future
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Always samekitteta
I was always wide awake
Hayasugiru Day And Night
The days and nights pass too quickly
Toumei na yami ni kakomare
Enveloped in the transparent darkness
Toumei na yami ni kakomare
Enveloped in the transparent darkness
Daremo nita wa no naka de
We are all in similar nets
Daremo nita wa no naka de
We are all in similar nets
Found You ano hi no kaze yureugoita Passion
I found the wind that day with trembling passion
Found You ano hi no kaze yureugoita Passion
I found the wind that day with trembling passion
And All Of My Past subete kimi ni au tame no Process datta ne
And all of my past is a process to meet you
Slowly Open Up My Eyes Within The Blackness
Kanata kara kikoeru yokan ni
I want the premonition I heard from afar
Kanata kara kikoeru yokan ni
I want the premonition I heard from afar
Kodou furuwasete itai kara
To send my pulse racing
Kodou furuwasete itai kara
To send my pulse racing
It's Unlimited, It's Unlimited
If I Can Believe Myself Again
Hikari no naka mezamete yuku
I wake gradually within the light
Shinjite kureta kimi to nara
If I'm with you, who had faith in me
Never Let It Go, Never Lose My Way
Koko de umarekawaru keshiki
The view here is born anew
Kizu sae ima hokori ni naru
Even past wounds are now my pride
Dakara kimi to Burst The Gravity
So together, we'll burst the gravity
I've been very interested in you for a long time.
An aviating avatar finally appeared 7 years after the Accelerated World was created.
I wonder what kind of soul you have and what mental scars you bear
to give rise to a power capable of defying gravity.
S-Sorry to disappoint, but I was just bullied in real life.
It's a little much to call them mental scars.
Your mental scars are your avatar's resources.
They aren't just indications of how strong your anger or hate is.
Huh?
A scar indicates something is missing.
You lost something important, and there's a hole in your heart.
Having that empty hole can lead to anger, hate, or despair,
or it can make you reach for the sky.
Your decision determines your avatar.
They're basically your hopes.
Your mental scars are your hopes turned upside down.
Silver Crow.
You longed for the sky more than anyone else,
and the strength of your will gave you your aviating ability and your wings.
It wasn't your wings that made you fly.
In fact, it's the opposite.
You had wings because you could fly.
What?
So you're saying my wings were just for show?
Ultimately, yes.
No way!
I may have had the will to fly, but it was Brain Burst that sensed it and gave me my wings and aviating ability.
So you're basically trying to say...
...that willpower means nothing in the Accelerated World?
Did you notice something about my wheelchair?
It has no motor or controls, but...
No way.
Brain Burst strives to resemble physical reality as much as possible.
But...
What... What is the power that moves your wheelchair?
Willpower.
And nothing else.
But like... is it some sort of psychokinetic ability?
No, it's not.
Every Burst Linker fighting in the Accelerated World has the same power.
You don't believe it?
You'd probably understand it easier if I called it image power instead.
Image...
I firmly manifest the image of my two wheels turning and use incarnation to control this wheelchair.
I'm sure you subconsciously do the same thing to control your wings while you're flying.
Image power.
That's the true power hidden within us Burst Linkers.
As for what we call the power of Burst Linkers who can exert control using images...
It's the will that stems from the mind,
or the will of the mind.
It's the Incarnate System.
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So I can fly again if I learn how to use the Incarnate System...
Is that what you're saying?
Look.
No way...
Did someone take away your legs?!
No.
I wanted to cut them off and had someone do it for me.
It was an act of incredible pride, egotism, and madness.
But at the time, I went ahead with it to maximize my will of wanting to fly in the sky.
Did you manage to fly?
No.
My will significantly increased the height of my jump,
but I never quite managed to fly.
Well, Crow-san?
Now that you've seen these foolish scars, do you still wish to train to fly using the Incarnate System?
I...
I still...
I still have a lot of things I need to do.
Please teach me how to use the will of the mind!
It'll take a very, very long time.
So long that it might as well be a point of no return for Burst Linkers.
I understand.
Please teach me, Sky Raker!
Very well.
Okay, let's rest for today.
This is for you.
Um...
Is something the matter?
Um, I don't have a mouth...
I-I'm digging in.
It's really good!
Please enjoy the taste so you can recall the memory later.
Um... Can I ask you something?
Yes.
Is Ash-san doing incarnation training?
Not for real yet.
I've given hints and Ash seems to be working hard.
Since you're his Parent, are you in the Green Legion too?
No.
There's only one Legion I've been in and ever will be in.
Yes, you probably have the right to know.
Let me tell you a bedtime story.
About a foolish Burst Linker who longed for the sky, and her one and only close friend.
Okay, it's time to start your incarnation training.
Y-Yes, I'll do my best!
The key to incarnation can be expressed in one word.
Anyone can use it once they understand the word.
Just one word?
Yes.
Please tell me!
I can do that.
However...
I'll save it for the next time I see you.
I should've known the training would be Spartan.
I guess she wants me to climb all the way to the top.
That's insane...
I'll climb it!
I've had plenty of practice in climbing games.
Watch me!
I'm pretty high up.
My crow body is slim, smooth, and has little air resistance!
I shouldn't be blown off that easily.
All right, I'm almost there.
I'm sure Raker-san'll be pleasantly surprised I could climb it on the first day...
A Transition?
Oh no!
The Demonic City stage.
It's pretty hard.
Ow!
Do I wait for the next Transition?
What's this?
Thanks for the food!
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Incarnation is image power.
At the time, the thought of being blown off never even crossed my mind.
If that was the work of the Incarnate System...
Have faith!
It's just a program object.
There's no reason I can't break it!
Ow...
All right!
Imagine.
Think of your fingers and your arm as a blade!
It's working!
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That would mean I already know everything I need to know.
But I get the feeling I'm missing something...
Got it?
Image power.
That's the true power hidden within us Burst Linkers.
Haruyuki-kun, you're faster than everyone else.
You'll be faster than me and the other kings.
Speed is a Burst Linker's greatest power.
Princess Snow Black definitely knew about incarnation at the time,
and she said speed was the greatest power.
The image should come from speed and not power.
Control via an image.
Be as fast as possible...
Bring it as close to the world as possible and assimilate it!
All right!
Fight on
All right.
I'll climb up once more...
...to the very top!
From the start, my avatar had a certain Enhanced Armament.
With just a tiny bit of propulsion, I could jump a modest 100 meters high.
But soon, I was consumed with the desire of wanting to fly higher.
I fought many battles to increase my avatar's jumping power.
I reached Level 8 before long, but when I realized jumping did not equal flying, it became an obsession...
No, it became a madness.
In order to lower the weight of my avatar and strengthen my incarnate soaring power,
I decided to get rid of my legs, my biggest weapon.
So I asked the only person who understood my obsession, a friend and the master of my Legion then,
to cut them off with her blades.
No way, was your friend...
Black Lotus.
She was stronger and nobler but also kinder than everyone else.
She was my one and only friend.
She tried to stop me, but I said some horrible things to her.
Still, in the end, she quietly granted my wish with a sad look in her face.
The maximum height I could reach was 350 meters.
After barely making it to the top of the old Tokyo Tower, I realized something.
Seeing the sky for an instant at the top of my jumping trajectory was the absolute limit to my powers.
But I...
...want to go higher!
I want to fly...
...to the ends of the Earth!
Welcome back, Crow-san.
You've returned much quicker than I thought you would.
I can see why she chose you.
It was an impossibly long distance, but I knew that I'd make it.
If that's the power of incarnation, it's not about controlling.
It's almost like overriding reality.
That's exactly it.
Override, or the overwriting of phenomena.
That one word is the key to incarnation.
Override...
Image control was just supposed to be a means of support,
but when the will began producing faster and stronger images,
they exceeded the constraints of the program.
The will of the mind can overwrite phenomena.
I have nothing else to teach you now.
But I still can't do anything...
Didn't I tell you?
I couldn't reach the sky in the end.
But I...
I want to fly!
No, I have to fly again!
It's so I can fight beside her!
Don't worry.
I'll give you wings.
My Enhanced Armament, Gale Thruster.
But...
I'm sure you'll be able to use those wings to reach greater heights than I could.
Morning, Crow-san.
G-Good morning.
Morning.
U-Um, how did you know it was me?
The power of incarnation.
Huh?
Just kidding.
Junior high students don't usually stand alone outside a fast food restaurant at this time of day.
U-Um...
I'm really grateful for all that you've done for me.
Also, thank you for coming all the way out here.
Don't worry about it.
The only way to transfer an Enhanced Armament without using a shop is through cabling in the real world.
Burst Link.
Is that the Gale Thruster?
Can I really master it?
But soon, I was consumed with the desire of wanting to fly higher.
Artificial legs?
She's the one who really wishes to fly.
I just wanted to run away from nasty things.
Yet she gave her wings to someone like me...
You're a kind person.
I'm not. I'm really not.
No, I mustn't cry.
Don't cry.
Listen, Crow-san.
I'm not helping you because I pity you,
and I know you won't pity me either.
Your tears are proof that a truth of your very own exists in the Accelerated World.
A truth?
Those who use Brain Burst for their own selfish purposes in the real world would never cry like that.
To them, duels are just a means of getting points,
and the Accelerated World is just a hunting ground in which to trap others.
But we know.
We know it's a place where you can find truth, friendship, love...
...and bonds.
Right?
Yes.
Yes!
My foolishness caused me to lose such a bond in the past.
I don't want you to make the same mistake.
I want you to fight for things that need to be protected.
Things that need to be protected...
I will!
Thank you so much!
I'll fly again for sure using my own power.
When the time comes, I'll return these to you...
Your wings!
Okay.
Good luck, Crow-san.
Okay! See you!
U-Um, I don't think your bond with her is lost.
I'm sure she's still waiting for your return!
Nobashita te to risou wa tooku
My ideals are well beyond my reach
Aoginagara nanimo tsukamenai mama
I was unable to grasp anything as I looked up
Sagashimotomete ita kotae wo
I abandoned the answer I had been searching for
Okizari ni shite minai furi wo shite ita
And pretended I didn't see anything
Hitorikiri datta watashi wa mirai no
I used to be all alone
Imi wo machigaete ita hitei shitemo
I misunderstood what the future meant, even in my denial
Kimi no ude wa atatakai yo zenbu
Your arms are full of warmth
no ude wa
Hontou no ai hontou no yasashisa dakara
Because it's all true love and true kindness
Kimi no ishi ni kotaerareru no mo zenbu
I can live up to your will
no ishi ni
Hontou no omoi hontou no tsuyosa dakara
Because it's all true affection and true strength
Kono kimochi wo tsutaetai
I want to tell you my feelings
Next stage: Fragmentation.
A fragmenting future and a torn hope.
Haruyuki finally gets back on his feet.