Mana didn't quite understand why he didn't encounter a difficult monster along the way, but why he trapped people in a labyrinth. Kirito vigorously opened the monster in front of him, and countless "frogs" died under his sword. Shingon picked up the frog leg that Kiritto had dropped to kill the "frogs" and looked at the information panel, which turned out to be written with ingredients.

"Can this really be used as a dish to eat?" Shingon held one end of the frog's leg and swayed the other end up and down. Yui's eyes also curiously followed the frog's legs up and down.

Asuna glared at the frog leg in Manyan's hand with disgust and said, "Manyan, are you really going to cook with this thing?"

Mana carefully examined the frog leg in his hand, then collected the frog leg that had fallen to the ground with Kirito and said, "You can give it a try." ”

"Asuna, wait and go back and try to do it!" Before Mantra could react, Kirito sent the frog leg to Asuna, and as you can imagine, Asuna threw away all such disgusting things.

"Stupid couple. Mantra looked at Kirito and said.

"What is a stupid couple?" asked Yui curiously, leaning over to Manat.

Shingon smiled and crouched down so that Yui could look directly at him, then pointed at Kirito and Asuna and said, "They're stupid couples." ”

Yui turned to look at Kirito and Asuna, while Yuriel on the side laughed. Apparently Yui prefers Yuriel's smile to the dumb couple. The few of them didn't stay on this level for long, and they made their way to the place pointed out by Yuriel.

"It's supposed to be here. "As soon as I saw the safe zone mantra, I used the Enemy Seeking skill to see the players in the safe zone. Kirito, who was opening the way in front, also stopped and stared at the room with light not far away, and at that moment, a figure also appeared in the room. After confirming that the person was Koka, Liel rushed over. Another figure gradually flashed from behind the pillars, and a huge scythe swung at Yuriel from the air. The mantra pulled out the demon moon to block the scythe, but he didn't want to be shocked aside because of the too strong force. Yuriel was pushed away by Kirito and protected under him without much damage.

After being shaken away, Mantra was stunned, and when he recovered, he found that his health bar had dropped by a quarter, and the death-like monster was raising its scythe for the next attack. Kirito and Asuna also made a defensive stance, but still did not block the attack of the Grim Reaper. The same Kirito and Asuna also get the stun debuff.

"Look for the right time to get out of the war. The mantra of relieving vertigo stood in front of the two of them. Mantra wasn't sure if he would be able to block the Grim Reaper's attack, but if he didn't, the two of them behind him would die with one blow when they were stunned and defenseless. The Grim Reaper didn't give Mantra time to hesitate, and Death's scythe fell in the moment Mantra hesitated.

"Yui!" Yui, who was supposed to teleport back with Yuriel and the others, was now in front of Manga. The moment the sickle touches Yui, a system pop-up appears on Yui's head. Yui's movements didn't stop, she picked up the great sword that appeared in the flames and slashed at the god of death, and in an instant the god of death turned into a ball and disappeared in place.

"Indelible object?" Asuna stared at Yui in surprise, and Kirito looked the same as Asuna.

Only Zhenyan was not surprised, but his eyes kept on Yui and muttered, "Sure enough..."

"Sure enough, Shingon know this?" Kirito, who was closest to Shingon, asked rhetorically with a slightly excited tone when he heard his muttering. At this moment, Kirito and Asuna's vertigo was lifted, and when they got up, they stared at Mana.

"Have you added Yui friends?" said this, Kirito and they realized that neither of them had thought about adding friends, "I added Yui friends today, but the system prompted that you can't log in as friends." NPC…… non-player?character has only this explanation. ”

After a moment of astonishment, Mantra walked to safety. Yui stopped talking all the way, and just after reaching the safe zone, Yui walked to a piece of black marble in the safe zone. Yui ran her hand over the marble, then sat down on the marble. Yui introduces himself to Kirito, and as the mantra says, Yui is indeed an NPC, but it is a system AI. Yui exists to ensure the player's mental management, but in this version of SAO, it can't interfere with the player.

"The current SAO uses the original version of the system, and the ownership of the system cannot be updated independently in the hands of Akihiko Kayaba, and Yui's AI happens to be in the self-management system. That's why Yui was locked up in the system and couldn't come out to contact the player. Mantra said, leaning against the wall.

"In the past two years, the emotions of players around Kirito and Asuna have been relieved. That's why I wanted to go to Kirito and Asuna's side. The mantra is also influencing everyone in its own way, although some of them are not for the better. Yui was really happy with everyone during this time. Yui smiled but her voice trembled slightly, "But this is also a false feeling, just a system-generated feeling." ”

"Yui, you have feelings too. You can think for yourself, you're already an independent being, it's not a system!" Kirito said as he walked up two steps to Yui and put his hands on her shoulders.

"I wouldn't say that Kirito is so numb, but Yui is happy and unhappy is something you can feel yourself. Such feelings will not be fake. Mana said as he straightened up and said to Yui.

"So it's okay for Yui to be willful, and we will listen to Yui's wishes. Asuna stepped forward and hugged Yui.

"If only I could spend more time with everyone. But...... Not anymore. Asuna felt the tears dripping from Yui's face. Asuna pulled away and saw Yui turning into transparent shards little by little, "The system has already detected me. A new copy of the mantra that has been manually updated is opened by a scroll in the lower room of the underground labyrinth. Get the scroll and go to the 54th floor of the Temple of Zeus to open it. ”

There wasn't more time for Yui to finish her words, and her body was all gone.

"Dad, Mom, and Shingon are really happy with Yui during this time. ”

As the sound faded, Yui completely dissipated into the air. Leave behind the still glowing marble console. Kirito quickly tapped the keyboard projected on the marble. The programming code is displayed on the opposite side of the marble table.

"Do you want to separate Yui's system? "Mantra isn't a tech nerd now, and he doesn't know the code of this era, but with the memory of his previous life, he can more or less understand the code that Kirito is typing now.

"Don't think you'll be in control of all this, Akihiko Kayaba. At the moment when Kirito finished programming the last row of instructions, he was ejected by the system and the whole person bounced away.

"It worked!" Kirito smiled and sat up, handing Asuna the blue crystal item named Yui's Heart. Then he smiled and looked at Mantra: "I won once." ”

"I'm really convinced. Mantra smiled bitterly, whether Kirito was intentional or not, he was motivating Mantra. Shingon looked at the marble platform and looked back at the blue crystal of Asuna's phone with a wry smile, "Can Yui recover?"

"I'll try my best when I get back. ”

"Are you going back...... It's really not good to come out with you. ”