"Kirito, Yuki, we're back!"

With the light of the transfer crystal, Keita walked out of the light curtain and greeted the two people browsing the forum.

It's a bit loud, but it's not noisy at all, so should I say it's due to his charisma? Because it's stupid.

In response to the word 'we', Tetsuo, Dakar, and Sasamaru also appeared in the next light curtain.

"That's true, Keita, you run first. ”

Tetsuo joked while laughing.

"In case you scare Kirito, be careful to be scolded. ”

"Ahem!"

Signaling the other two's intention not to continue to participate in the topic, Keita, who is the head of the union, walks to the edge of the table in a rare serious posture.

Pressing his hand on the long table, the small sound caught Kirito's attention.

"Keita, is there something going on?"

Kirito stopped the forum materials he was reading and was about to take another sip of warm tea.

'Bang bang!'

With a slight explosion-like sound, a dazzling brilliance burst out instantly.

"Ahem! ahem!"

"What is this?"

After subconsciously wiping the corners of his mouth, Kirito strangely picked up a ribbon that fell on the top of his head.

- [Small Fireworks]

- Producer: The squirrel that landed on the ground

"Officially celebrate Kirito's arrival in the 'Knights of the Black Cat on a Moonlit Night'!"

In an instant, the four of them spoke in unison.

"Everyone. ”

Perhaps it was a long time since he had been treated so sincerely, and Kirito, who was only 16 years old, was suddenly speechless.

"Whew! Keita !!"

Xing was very excited, and quickly rushed to Keita to question.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

With a very troubled expression, Keita smiled and touched his nose and said.

"Forgotten. ”

"Huh?"

Nameless anger filled his heart! Yuki raised his little fist.

Continued beating————。

"It's really hard. ”

Tetsuo said this by putting his hand on Kirito's shoulder at some point.

And looking at the luck that is different from the past, plus the reaction of others who have long been normal. Somehow, Kirito smiled slowly.

And on the side, suddenly realized the luck of Kirito's sight.

He became restrained and eventually stopped beating altogether. Ends with a 'hum!'.

"Speaking of which, Keita. ”

"What, Kirito?"

"What the hell is this?"

Picking up the fragments of the streamer that hadn't disappeared yet, Kirito asked Keita.

Next to the name and producer, there is a line of numbers that are constantly changing, and they are constantly decreasing.

"Oh, this. ”

Keita said as he operated from the system interface and sent a photo taken by the screenshot function.

The photograph shows a floor plan of the first floor with a red dot on it.

"Engineering items sold in quantities at a mysterious shop in the Town of Beginnings. Mine was given by an acquaintance. ”

"Don't worry about that, it'll disappear when the time comes. ”

And just a few seconds after Keita finished speaking, the decreasing number finally returned to zero.

The colorful fragments that had been scattered all over the ground shattered and disappeared after a burst of illusion.

"It's incredible. ”

Looking at the last missing fragments, Kirito sighed.

On the other side of the warm life, Poison Island is encountering an unprecedented crisis.

As on the forum, she broke through the twenty-ninth floor with great speed. However, when she passed through the maze's waypoint, she did not appear at the waypoint on the thirtieth floor.

It's a different place, an illusory space.

A 'pure white' space made up of nothing but senseless light. It's as if even the Creator is too troublesome to shape the space itself.

There are even doubts about whether there is a 'light' or not.

At the end of the day, it's just a fake world of data. Isn't it?

Eventually, there was something unusual in the pure white space.

At the top of the indistinguishable space, a little bright red first oozes out, and then drips.

As the scene appears in the Town of Beginnings, the blood swells and turns into a giant human form. And that ID name is also a matter of course Akihiko Kayaba.

The moment that name appeared, the figure of Poison Island Tsuneko disappeared.

Instead, he appeared behind the blood-colored cloak and drew his sword.

Bite!

The blade is blocked by an indestructible system emblem and emits a clear sound.

"Wait!

A chaotic voice shouted from under the cloak.

But Poison Island didn't stop, or there was no need to listen to such a stranger.

Without stopping, he attacked more and more quickly!

If you can't do it from behind, you can find a gap again, and with the help of Kayaba Akihiko, she uses the system to lock on to several breathing poison islands that have issued simple attacks, and attacks more than twenty times in a row to different positions.

After judging that it was really 'indestructible', the attack was temporarily stopped.

Standing in front of Akihiko Kayaba.

"Poison Island Tsuneko. ”

Akihiko Kayaba, who was about to express something, didn't have time to formally express it, and was suddenly blocked by a sentence that followed the words.

"Chairs. ”

"What?"

Kayaba Akihiko's words stopped, and there was an incredible silence in the air.

"Are you telling me to give you a chair? ”

"Do you want someone else to stand when you ask someone to do so?"

Everything is of course like that, although the figure in front of him is huge, but it seems that Poison Island is in a high place.

After a chair suddenly appeared behind him, Poison Island sat down without hesitation, and while the upper body was propped up, the thighs were simply overlapped.

"Alright, Poison Island Tsuneko. Now it's time for us to talk. ”

"Drinks. ”

—-——-—。

"There was only tea and simple juice in it. ”

"Well, don't do it. ”

Kayaba Akihiko seems to have known the intentions of Poison Island Tsukiko, and simply lifted the incarnation without even saying a word.

Approached in a white research suit.

"Can we talk about it now? ”

"Or should I be more sincere in 'sitting down'. ”

"Well, I won't stop you if you want to do that. ”

Under the posture of the superior, Poison Island Tsuneko's words are full of sharpness.

"So, what is it? The creator of SAO needs to ask others to do it. ”

"Creator, huh?"

Akihiko Kayaba said these three words bitterly.

"Indeed, it was I who created SAO. It was I who developed the precedent of next-generation games, Nervier, which allows humans to enjoy more of their senses by eliminating the five senses. ”

"It's always been like that. There is such a world in another uncharted territory, and I really look forward to such an adventure. That's why I'm using the technology at hand to improve and nurture that world. Then, I created it. ”

However, just as everything that is conceived by humanity itself is discarded by humanity itself, there may not be a game that lasts forever. So I planned this open beta to tie 20,000 players into my world and wait for them to give me the best show. ”

"That must be the supreme adventure!"

Speaking of this, Akihiko Kayaba's expression became very awkward for a moment.

Then, he continued.

But things are shifting. I had neural chips implanted in my heart and brainstem, and the main server and other facilities were physically isolated, and there were complete measures on the Nervier. I've held a large number of players hostage, so much so that neither the government nor public opinion dares to oppose me. ”

"But lately I've started to notice something wrong. There are traces of changes to the database, and the actions of the AI are also abnormal, and I have made several changes before gradually reverting later. And now, except for holding the highest login authority, I don't have the slightest ability to grasp this world. ”

Probably, Tsuruko Poison Island did understand the meaning of his words.

Even if he himself may not have understood at all, there is a very conscious 'demon' who has entered this world, and is gradually grasping this world in the visible and invisible. And this is where the fantasy cry for help comes from, and if the chapter of the Sword Art Online ends in just this paragraph, then nothing will happen next. Kirito and Asuna and everyone else will not wake up from the game. Fantasy must be weakened by the constant blood while maintaining this world.

Resources, skills, and the attention of people will be absorbed in a stealthy way, and eventually forgotten by humanity, until the world itself.

However, there will be no sympathy for him. So far, everything he has done has been self-inflicted.

However, Akihiko Kayaba's words are not over yet.

Or rather, he deliberately delayed for a while before finally speaking.

"That was until I read the memories and system records of several players who showed abnormal behavior. ”

Bang!

The chair she was sitting on was destroyed by a tremendous force, and Poison Island pulled out the sword that was different from other usual knives that had soaked her blood.

Fiercely pumped at the standing Kayaba Akihiko himself.

There is no doubt that even if it is a nerve connection, as long as it is shattered by the power of the long-hating sword, the purifying power will go straight into the soul and tear it apart.

After all, with what this man is saying now.

But she who behaves abnormally is also included!