Wham Line / Accel World

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• Near the end of Episode 6 of the anime, Kuroyukihime calls Takumu to her hospital room. Once he arrives, she immediately shouts, "Burst link!" without any preamble, revealing that she intends on challenging him to a duel to put a stop to his self-destructive ways.
• In the climax of Volume 2, Kuroyukihime finds out Scarlet Rain's connection to Cherry Rook.^note For reference, a "guardian" is the person who installs Brain Burst on a Child's Neurolinker, something that can only be attempted once and requires a close real life relationship between guardian and child to succeed
  Kuroyukihime: Those two... are guardian and child. The Red King... Is Disaster's... no, Cherry Rook's child...
• In the Dusk Taker arc, while Haru and the others had suspected that new arrival Seiji Nomi was a Burst Linker, Haru doesn't realize that Nomi not only knows his identity, but has him at his mercy until Nomi greets him with the following line.
  Nomi: Game over, Arita-senpai. Or should I say "Silver Crow"?
• At the end of Volume 3, when Silver Crow and Cyan Pile get the upper hand against Dusk Taker, suddenly, their mutual friend Lime Bell uses her time reversal powers on Dusk Taker, revealing herself to be his accomplice.
• In Volume 7, Haru is currently in the process of trying to cleanse his duel avatar, Silver Crow, of the Armor of Catastrophe before the deadline, at which point he'll be declared a criminal and ruthlessly hunted off Brain Burst. As such, he's not pleased when Blood Leopard, a member of the friendly Red Legion, says that he may not have that long.
  Blood Leopard: Silver Crow. There's a movement to ask a PK group for your immediate purge.
• Late in Volume 7, Utai describes an incident in which a Burst Linker wiped out four PKers, then identifies the assailant.
  Utai: Fu says it might be... Cyan Pile.
• In Volume 9, Green Grande explains the motive behind his actions, and gives a hint that Brain Burst is not only more than a video game, but not the only one of its kind.
  Grande: It was all to stop Brain Burst 2039- also known as Trial Number Two- from ending in vain.
• In Volume 11, Haru asks Utai about her "parent," who apparently mastered the Theoretical Mirror ability he needs to attack the Acceleration Research Society. Utai then gives some startling information about her past.
  Utai: My parent, Mirror Masker, is actually my older brother. But my older brother is no longer in the accelerated world. Nor in the real world.
• In Volume 12, Nega Nebulus gets their hands on the Incarnate System Study Kits, and gets a surprising clue as to their origins when they see a familiar-looking crest on them.
  Fuko: This crest...is that of the previous Red King, Red Rider.
• Also from Volume 12, Kuroyukihime finally explains the full story behind why she killed Red Rider. One of the other Kings had tricked her into thinking that Red Rider had used his gifts to the other Legions in order to forcibly uphold his non-aggression pact, by giving him the power to devastate any Legion that tried to break it. Kuroyukihime only realized that it was a lie after she'd done the deed. With the following line, Kuroyukihime reveals why she believed her informant, and why the manipulation wounded her so deeply.
  Kuroyukihime: When I returned to the real world from the nearest portal...I was still in half disbelief. Or rather, I wanted to believe—she would never betray me, trick me like that. Because...the White King, Transient Eternity, White Cosmos—in the Accelerated World she is my parent, and in the real world...my sister, older by a year.
• In Volume 13, the protagonists are on their guard during the Umesato School Festival, since the presence of outsiders at the event brings the possibility that someone from a rival Legion or the Acceleration Research Society will attack. Nothing seems to happen at first, at least not in the way the protagonists expected.
  In fact, Magenta Scissor had attacked. And she’d already finished it before the school festival had even started. Haruyuki understood this after Rin Kusakabe, walking behind him, fell forward without a sound as if to lean up against him.
• In the climax of Volume 14, Metatron has apparently been defeated, the voice that had been advising Haru throughout the battle not only reveals that Haru didn't win, but also its own identity.
  Metatron: What you all destroyed is nothing more than half my body.
• In Volume 15, when Kuroyukihime and the others approach the ISS Kit's main body, they see the last person Kuroyukihime expected to see- Red Rider.
  Long-boot armor encasing his feet. Notched spurs stretching out from the heel. And the coloring of both was so pure that it could be compared to nothing else. Red. So red.
• Also from Volume 15. Wolfram Cerberus reveals his third personality, and something about it is uncomfortably familiar to Haru.
  Wolfram Cerberus III/Dusk Taker: We finally meet, hmmm? It's been a while, Arita.^note In the original Japanese, he calls Haru "Arita-senpai," which is what Nomi had called him
• In Volume 19, while Prominence and Nega Nebulus have been on good terms since Volume 2, hardly anyone in the Red Legion is expecting their leader to say the following.
  Scarlet Rain: Prominence and Nega Nebulus are going to merge.
• In Volume 21, Silver Crow comes face-to-face with Orchid Oracle. While her identity is known to the reader, it's still a surprise that they recognize each other.
  Orchid Oracle: This is not the first time we've met. You and I have met before... Haruyuki Arita.
  Silver Crow: Wakamiya?
• Shortly after her identity is revealed, Megumi then shares the reason why she's cooperating with the White Legion, even if she ends up becoming her best friend Kuroyukihime's enemy. She had been told that there might be a way for her parent to return. The following line reveals the Parent's identity- Saffron Blossom.
  Orchid Oracle: She was trying to create a way to avoid total point loss by having a lot of Burst Linkers lend points to one another. So that someday, everyone in this world could laugh and have fun with this game Brain Burst.
• Near the climax of Volume 21, Ivory Tower is shown transforming into Black Vise, the second-in-command of the Acceleration Research Society, revealing that the two characters are one and the same.
• At the end of Volume 21, it seems as though the heroes have failed in their goal of exposing the White Legion's ties with the Acceleration Research Society, but then Shihoko "Chocolat Puppet" Nagi reveals that she'd recorded the battle.
  Shihoko Nagi: I recorded it on a replay card. Ivory Tower’s transformation into Black Vise. Is that…? Would that be proof?
• In Volume 25, White Cosmos finally reveals the nature of Brain Burst's administrator, an individual players could meet by reaching Level 10.
  White Cosmos: The other main reason it took ten years (for Brain Burst to begin operation) was they had to wait for the AI that actually controls the games to reach a level of practical use.
• In Volume 26, the following line not only marks a turning point in Haruyuki and Kuroyukihime's relationship, but also reveals the latter's real name.
  Haruyuki: Kuroyukihime. I like you. Not as a Burst Linker, but as me, Haruyuki Arita. I like you, Sayuki Kuroba.

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