On April 13, 2025, on the 55th floor of Ain Grant, the refurbished conference room of the Knights of the Blood Alliance (as for why it was redecorated ask the lark).

"It's not good news that the scouting team is completely wiped out. Kirito frowned tightly, if he could, Kirito turned his head to look at Asuna I only didn't want her to be involved.

"For the upcoming boss battle, I united five guilds to form a team of twenty people to investigate, but as soon as the first ten people arrived in the center of the room, the door to the entrance was closed the moment the boss appeared. Heathcliff crossed his hands and dragged his chin.

"Transferring crystals doesn't work, I already said this problem yesterday. "Kirito said that the psychological month is bottomless, can he protect Asuna in that situation again.

"Then five minutes passed, and the two of you rushed to the scene with Skylark and Ye Chen, but their names had turned gray. After we left, I sent someone to investigate until the door to the room could be reopened, and it was confirmed that all the people who had gone to investigate had disappeared into the world. Heathcliff was very calm: "Even so, we can't stop the progress of the strategy, and now we can only use all the player's power." ”

The core figures of the Blood Alliance Knights sitting around Heathcliff all nodded, agreeing with him.

Kirito clenched his hands and looked at Heathcliff Could he have seen through my thoughts, what he said just now is "use all the power of the player" to focus on all, Kirito held Asuna's right hand tightly and stared at Heathcliff and made a difficult decision, since you have to go to the battlefield Asuna then I have to say ugly words ahead: "Of course I will help help, but now for me Asuna's life safety is the most important thing, in case of a dangerous situation, I will give priority to protecting her than the whole team." ”

The corners of Heathcliff's mouth were raised high, and an elusive smile appeared on his face: "If you have something you want to protect, you can exert power beyond humans, and I look forward to your heroic performance." ”

Walking out of the conference hall, Kirito casually found a pillar to lean on, and looked at the huge banner of the Blood Alliance Knights hanging in front of him and fell into deep thought.

Asuna leaned on the other side of Kirito, shook his hand and said, "There are still three hours to start the official strategy, so what should we do now?" ”

Kirito didn't reply for a long time, and Asuna turned her head to look at the same face: "What's wrong?"

"Don't be angry yet, please heard me say, can you not participate in today's boss strategy battle, just wait here for me to come back." Kirito still flinched after all, he was afraid that he would lose the feeling that he had been swallowed by the abyss once, and he didn't want to face that feeling again, that heart-rending feeling.

"Why say such things. "For a while, the atmosphere became very solemn.

"No one knows what will happen in a place where you can't use transfer crystals, and I'm scared if something happens to you······" I should have told Heathcliff just now, I shouldn't have regressed just now.

"Do you want to go to a dangerous place by yourself and leave me in a safe place?" Asuna's left hand raised and gently stroked Kirito's cheek, and the faces of the two people were so close together: "If Kirito really goes back like this, I will kill myself at that time." He looked into Kirito's eyes with sharp eyes: "There's no point in living anyway, and I can't forgive myself for just waiting here." ”

"I'm sorry I've become weak, in fact, I prefer that the two of us run away together, even if we can't go back to the real world, it doesn't matter, I want to live with you like this in that forest home." "If you can really choose to escape like this, then it's not bad Kirito hugs Asuna tightly, for him now, he can lose everything, but he must not lose the warmth in his arms, for him, this feeling can be called alive.

"If you can, we can be together every day." As if everything was so beautiful, Asuna said and suddenly changed her style: "But Kirito, have you ever thought about how our real bodies are now?" ”

"Hmm!" Kirito seemed to think of something.

"At the beginning of this game, almost all of the players had been disconnected for a few hours in the last few weeks, didn't they? I think all the players were being moved to a nearby hospital, and I don't think it would last many years if our bodies were only on the hospital bed with medical equipment to maintain a minimum of life activity. Asuna whispered.

"In other words, it has nothing to do with whether the game itself can be raided or not. Kirito woke up in an instant, and before that, he knew all the problems of Zhexi: "It's that our real body has been - in a race against time." ”

Desperate, Raiders Ein Grant can't see the end, and his body is destroying little by little with time, and he feels like he is dying sooner or later.

Asuna buried her face deep in Kirito's chest, and tears dripped silently: "I want to be with you Kirito for the rest of my life, I want to have a real relationship with you in the real world, I want to hold a wedding for the two of us, I want to grow old with you, so-"

Kirito silently stroked her hair with his hand: "So now we have to fight." "There is still a little hope in the fight, and if you do nothing, you will really die here one day in the future, and this time will definitely not be long.

"Why do you think Heathcliff wants his ideal world to be like this?" Ye Chen, an old man, was secretly listening to the corner of the little couple.

"I don't know. The lark turned out to be here: "Hmm! What did you just say?" Ye Chen's words gave the lark a hint of enlightenment, as if the switch to decryption could be turned on with a move of his fingers.

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At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, on the seventy-fifth floor of the Corinia Transfer Gate Square, a flash of light flashed Asuna and Kirito walked out first, and then the lark and Ye Chen walked out side by side.

"Why are you two behind me?" Kirito was taken aback.

"It's good to be young. Ye Chen touched his beardless chin and said.

The lark walked over and patted Kirito on the shoulder, didn't say anything, and just turned and left.

"It's too much lark, you should say something." Asuna blushed and hid behind Kirito's back.