-- Years later, Klein still laughs out loud whenever he thinks back to that day -- and then he's beaten up by a guy with a dull head. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

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"If you don't dislike it, take me with you." Klein heard a deep bass, and he was sure that the dark-haired boy he had just stopped with a dead face had heard it, and he had seen the owner of the voice, the boy with a frightened expression on his face.

What kind of fierce appearance does a person have to make others show such an expression at the first sight of him, hey!

Klein turned his head tremblingly—he saw a man as strong as two oxen staring at them with a very dangerous look.

"First... Sir, you... Hello. Klein felt like he couldn't speak.

"Hello." The strong man replied very indifferently. "I hope that guy next to you can teach me how to play this game by the way, this is my first time playing the game." He nodded affirmatively.

Hey, hey! Is that your begging attitude? Under the pressure of the other party's size, Klein felt like he was going to cry. He couldn't help but cast his eyes on the black-haired guy beside him for help.

"That's... Oh well, I... My name is Kirito, so please take care of me. Receiving Klein's signal for help, Kirito could only reluctantly agree.

"My name is Artoria, please take care of me." A smile appeared on the strong man's face. "I'm sorry, I think my image scared you, but I really want to try it."

In fact, this situation often occurs in online games, after all, it is a virtual world, and everyone wants to try a different feeling, so many people create characters in the game and their own images in reality are very different -- maybe behind the cute girl in front of you is a salty uncle, maybe behind the weak beautiful boy in front of you is a terrifying rotten girl. Of course, the strong man in front of him may be a nerd who is often bullied in reality, so he wants to try his strong feeling.

Thinking of this, Klein felt relieved at once, and he believed that the young man standing beside him, Kirito, must have thought of going with him, because the young man was just like him, and his eyes revealed a mysterious pity when he looked at the strong man.

"My name is Klein! Please advise! Klein grinned and shook his hands with Kiritto and Artoria. But seriously, Altoria, your name doesn't really feel like a good fit for you. ”

"Yes, I don't think so, but your expressions really make me feel inexplicably unhappy."

"What's there, you're thinking too much," Klein snorted. "Kirito-kun, what should we do now? Go straight to fighting monsters? ”

"No, we don't have weapons yet, we'll have to go to the weapons shop at the end of the road and buy them." As a player who has participated in the closed beta, Kirito-kun is very decisive. "By the way, Artoria, why don't you look right?"

“... It turned out to be at the end of this road....... I've been looking for a long time..."The strong man knelt on the ground very sadly.

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Accompanied by a strange roar, the indiscriminately swung tip of the sword just kept cutting through the air.

Immediately afterward, the blue boar, which was huge but agile enough to dodge the blade of the sword, launched a violent dash towards the attacker. Seeing the attacker rolled on the grassland after being knocked away by the boar's flat nose, Kirito couldn't help but laugh.

"Hahaha...... It's not like that. It's the first move that counts, Klein. Kirito kindly reminded. Don't you think it's funny? Artoria. ”

"No, I just think this red-haired man is unusually stupid." The blonde man standing next to Kirito looked coldly at Klein, who was rolling on the grass, with a monkey-like gaze.

"Just... Even if you say so, but... But that guy is going to move. "Mr. Klein, it's a surprise.

"I'm really sorry for your samurai face from the Warring States period." Artoria still left no stone unturned to strike at the red-haired monkeys.

"Who would have such a high level of gaming talent as you! By the way, this is the first time you've played this game! "Klein-kun was overwhelmed by the blow.

For a novice, Artoria's performance is truly amazing, he learned the essentials of fighting monsters at a very fast pace, although he is still a little rusty, but he does master it, unlike some people who are still chased all over the map by slime-level boars.

"Of course it moves, it's not a training scarecrow. But as long as you do make a move to activate the sword technique, then the system will make the skill hit the enemy" Kirito-kun is still kind-hearted, and he made a special demonstration to make a small stone hit the eyebrows of the mountain boar who is about to attack again.

"Action...... Action ......"

Klein repeated a muttering like a incantation as he swung the pirate knife in his right hand briskly.

Klein and his party went to the weapon shop before coming to the grassland where they would spawn blue boars, and used their starting gold to buy their first piece of equipment. When Klein heard that there were no katanas for novices, he decided to choose the same scimitar, while Kirito chose a double-edged straight sword, and Artoria, the blonde man, chose a two-handed heavy sword that suited his style.

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