"Do you want to practice how to land before you go?"

“…… No need. I will fly very carefully in the future. Kirito replied with an unhappy expression.

"Kirito, I advise you to learn it. Clyde patted Kirito on the shoulder.

"Less... Don't be verbose!" Kirito blushed slightly.

"But then again, why did you come to the tower?

"It's not...... Flights over long distances start at the spire. Because that's the highest place. ”

"Oooh...... I see. ”

"Come, let's go, I hope to cross the forest before dark. Lifa nudged the two of them and said.

"I don't know the location at all, so I'll ask you to lead the way. ”

"Ahhh·····h Clyde only echoed slightly, so that he would not say that he had the ability to go straight through.

But after all, it's here to play, so it doesn't matter if you follow the plot.

"Leave it to me!"

Lifa slapped her chest with a 'bang' and suddenly looked into the depths of the tower as if she remembered something.

The spectacular silhouette of the Wind Elf Lord's mansion emerges from the morning sun.

Lifa had known the owner of the mansion for a long time, a female player named Shuoye, so she wanted to say hello to her for a while, indicating that she would leave for a while, but then she noticed that there was no flag with the Wind Elf insignia on the slender flagpole standing in the center of the building. Although this is uncommon, it means that the lord is not there all day today.

"What's wrong?"

Kirito asked suspiciously, and Lifa shook her head and replied, 'Nothing'.

After deciding to email New Night, Lifa restarted her steps and walked through the main entrance of the Tower of Wind.

On the first floor of the tower is a large circular hall surrounded by a variety of shops.

In the center of the hall are two escalators powered by magical powers, and many players are currently appearing or disappearing from them. Alpheim time is just dawning, but in reality it is already evening, which can be said to be the time when the crowds are about to start to increase.

As Lifa pulled the two of them and prepared to rush into the elevator on the right that had just descended......

Suddenly, several players appeared from the side, two of whom were blocking their path.

Before she was about to crash into them, Lifa spread her wings and stopped.

"Please, it's too dangerous!"

After Lifa finished complaining, she looked up and realized that the tall man in front of her was someone she knew.

The other party has the height that stands out from the crowd among the wind elves, as well as a rugged but quite masculine face. To get this look, you need a lot of luck, or you have to invest a lot of money. The man was armed with slightly thicker sterling silver armor and carried a slightly larger broad-bladed sword at his waist. He wore a wide silver headband on his forehead and shoulder-length thick green wavy hair.

The man's name is Sigroot. He was a member of the squad that had been operating with Lifa for the past few weeks, and he was in charge of the striker in the squad. Riffa took a closer look and saw that the people on either side of him were also members of the team. I thought Reagan should be there and looked around, but he didn't notice his striking yellow-green hair.

Sigroot has always been a strong man who competes with Lifa for the throne of the strongest swordsman of the Wind Elves, and he is not willing to get involved with the mainstream faction like Lifa, and he is also quite active in politics. The current [Wind Elf Lord] - that is, the instructor player who votes once a month and can determine how to use the tax - is served by Shuoya, but Sigroot, who is her assistant, is also quite famous and can be said to be a super active player.

Lifa can't match the various skill stats and rare equipment he has obtained from the incredible amount of time he has spent playing, so when he goes head-to-head with Sigroot, it always becomes a protracted battle for the more athletic Lifa to break through his stubborn defenses.

Because of this, he can be said to be quite reliable as a vanguard when hunting, but the disadvantage is that his words and deeds are always a little self-righteous, which makes Lifa, who hates being restrained, often feel like she wants to escape. Although it is very efficient to earn money and experience points in the current team, Lifa has recently begun to think about quitting.

And now Sigroot, who was standing in front of Lifa with his feet open, could tell from the peculiar angle of his closed mouth that he was showing his strongest arrogance. Now things are in trouble—Lifa thought to herself as she spoke:

"Hello, Sigroot. ”

Although he greeted him with a smile, Sigroot didn't seem to be in the mood to answer, and only responded with a roar:

"Do you want to get out of the group, Lifa?"

Sigroot looked rather upset, and although Lifa had the idea of saying something like 'just go to Arun and come back' to calm his anger, she suddenly felt that it was too much trouble, and when she came back to her senses, she realized that she was already nodding her head.

"Hmm...... Oh, yes. I've saved enough money, so I want to take a break for a while. ”

"It's too capricious. Didn't you think you'd cause trouble to the other guys?"

"Wait a minute, ...... you say I'm wayward?"

Even Lifa was a little unhappy at this moment. In the last tournament, Lifa defeated Sigroot after a fierce battle, and after his defeat, he took the initiative to invite Lifa to form a team.

At that time, Lifa proposed that she could only participate in the team operation when she had free time, and that she could quit at any time if she wanted to.

She thinks she's made her unwillingness to accept restraint very clear—

Sigroot raised his thick eyebrows and continued, "It's well known that you're part of my squad. If you leave without any reason and join another team, won't I lose my face!"

“……”

Hearing Sigroot's arrogant lines, Lifa could only stand speechless on the spot. Although she couldn't speak, she had a feeling in her heart, 'Is this really the case?'

After joining Sigroot's team for a while, Regan, who was joined as Lifa's companion, once advised her with a serious expression that was different from usual.

At the time, he said it would be better not to get too familiar with the team. When asked why, he said that Sigroot might not have invited her to join because of Lifa's prowess, but rather wanted to increase the added value of his squad's brand - to be more realistic, he simply wanted Lifa who had won him to become a companion, or rather, a subordinate to maintain his reputation.

Lifa smiled and said how was that possible, but Reagan desperately tried to make her believe it, and he said- ALO is a rare existence in this high-difficulty MMO, so female players have always had a tendency to worship female players not as combat power but as idols, especially cute girls like Lifa are even rarer than legendary weapons, so it is natural that they will be used to show off, and there are many people in it who have bad intentions at all, but they definitely don't have that kind of thought, they just want to have a pure and real relationship with her, etc.

When he began to get mixed up with some nonsense in a panic, Lifa gave him a liver attack with all the strength of his body to calm him down, and Lifa thought about it seriously.

Although Reagan said this, because she really didn't have a realistic sense of being treated as an idol, and thinking too much about it would make the MMORPG, which already had to remember a lot of things, even more complicated, so she decided not to think about it anymore, and just participated in the squad activities without any problems until today-

Facing Sigroot, who was full of anger and anxiety as she stood in front of her, Lifa felt a heavy thread wrap around her body. In ALO, all she wants is the feeling of being free from all constraints and flying with all her might. The feeling of leaving everything behind and wanting to fly everywhere was her only need.

But is this just her ignorance and naivety?

Is it really just a fantasy to be able to forget about the gravity of the real world in this imaginary world where everyone has wings?

Rifa/Naoba remembers that in elementary school, they often bullied their senior students in the kendo field.

He has never had an opponent since he started.,Once upon a time, he couldn't win in the competition.,Naoba, who is younger than himself and a girl.。 As a result, in order to get revenge, he gathered several companions and ambushed Naoba on the way home, playing some dastardly pranks on her.

The stiff corners of the senior student's mouth at that time were as full of resentment as Sigroot is now.

Is it the same now?

Shrouded in disappointment with nowhere to vent, Lifa's whole body looked depressed.

At this time, Kirito, who was standing behind her and hid his breath like a shadow, suddenly whispered, "Your companion is not your prop!"

"Huh......" Unable to immediately understand the meaning of this sentence, Lifa could only look back at Kirito with wide eyes.

And Clyde also stepped forward, his eyes narrowed slightly, and said, "I have a sense of familiarity, I feel as if I have felt it there······ Brat. ”

At the same time, Sigroot also let out a roar.

“…… You ······ What are you talking about......?"

Kirito took a step forward and stood between Lifa and Sigroot, looking at the big man who was a full head taller than him.

"I mean, you can't lock other players in your equipment slot like your precious sword or armor!"

"And it's a very high-quality piece of equipment that you can show off. Clyde continued with Kirito's words.

"You...... You ······ These two guys ......!"

After hearing Kirito's straightforward speech and Clyde's echo, Sigroot's face instantly turned red.

He immediately rolled up his cloak that hung down from his shoulders and placed his hand on the hilt of his sword.

"Shao Tian, the guard elf who can only dig up some garbage, is shameless! Lifa, don't mess around with this kind of guy! I think the two of them must be [Territory Traitors] banished from the territory!"

"Kirito, I kind of know where that familiarity comes from. Clyde clasped his hands on his chest and tilted his head to look at Kirito.

"Oh?" Kirito raised an eyebrow curiously.

"Do you remember the Tooth King? ”

"Oh, the ······· of [the army]"

"He gives me the same feeling as the Tooth King, arrogant, arrogant, eager to turn all valuable things into his own, although it's a little different, the degree of madness is not as good as the Tooth King's eyes, but it's okay, but the Tooth King guy has not been punished even if he killed so many people~"

"Ahhh~ I haven't heard of it, if only someone could punish him. ”

Kiriti and Clyde sang and harmonized, and Sigroot didn't know how to continue.

And just now these two people also mentioned a word······· 【SAO】！

This made the eyes of the people watching the play around widen.

They never expected that there would be people from the old SAO to play this game, doesn't it mean that after experiencing the death game, they will develop a fear of this kind of game?

It looks like two people like this······

Obviously not!

What the hell is ······ What's going on?!

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