"Kirito, I'm Akihiko Kayaba."

When the black-haired young swordsman heard the man sitting on the top seat say this, his first reaction was naturally disbelief.

What are you kidding, the leader of the strongest guild, the player who has been fighting on the front line, is actually the one behind all this!?

It's just as dreamy as the plot of the movie, and if you want to talk nonsense, please have a limit.

It's just how Ren Kirito explained and shirked it in his heart, and after seeing the other party's calm and terrifying face, his mood slowly sank to the bottom.

"It looks like you still don't believe it, so you should be able to understand it when you see this."

Finding that Kirito's stiff expression still had a bit of luck in it, Heathcliff pulled down his system interface and showed something.

“——！！”

A purple string of English phrases appeared above his head, extremely glaring.

"Immortal Object" is an indestructible object, and it is something that "players" will never have.

The last glimmer of anticipation faded, and Kirito, whose eyes were round, gasped.

The irrationality is also explained from another angle.

No wonder...... No wonder the man's health bar never dropped to the yellow zone during the battle.

No wonder he never took the initiative to give orders, but left everything to others to handle, watching from the sidelines.

It turned out that it was not a sign of trusting his subordinates.

On the contrary, is there anything more to look forward to for the experimenter than to go down and observe the changes in the 'guinea pigs' in person?

"Ahem......"

A feeling of humiliation welled up in his heart, and when the words reached his mouth, they were deeply stuck, and the corners of the young swordsman's mouth with clenched fists pulled an ugly arc.

"That'...... Now that you've suddenly revealed your identity, do you think, 'This game is boring, it's over'? ”

With a low roar, Kirito glared at Heathcliff, who had a stern expression.

The progress of the strategy is obviously only on the seventy-fifth floor, presumably the final script of this evil man must be to wait until the player breaks through the last floor, reveal his identity in the cheers, and then delight the desperate expressions of the players.

Now that I have this identity on the surface, I must feel that this game is no longer interesting.

Because since the sixty floors, very few players have died in the floor raids, and everyone has gradually adapted to this death game.

"Not really."

I thought my opinion was right, but Heathcliff shook his head and denied it.

"I was originally going to be the last to appear, as the boss of the hundredth floor, the 'Lord of the Red Jade Palace'."

"Tsk, it's really tasteless."

Snorted coldly, and when he heard Kirito here, he couldn't help but sneer.

"The reason why I am looking at you now is because there is a presence in the player that I am very interested in."

“……？”

Heathcliff, who didn't care about Kirito's venting, folded his hands and propped up his chin on the table, smiled.

"Kirito, go and 'confirm' it, you and her, who is the one I expected."

"Use the 'two knife streams' I 'give' you."

“——？？！！”

This is also a matter of course, since Heathcliff is Akihiko Kayaba, then he naturally has the right to assign these unique skills.

But as soon as he thought of "Nito-ryu", this skill that he was proud of was said by this man like a charity, and a nameless fire burned in Kirito's heart.

"No kidding! Do you still think I'm going to listen to you? ”

It's not clear who that 'she' really is, no...... Maybe there is already a guess in his heart, but it is absolutely impossible for him to continue to be obedient.

Because there are only two people now, Kirito's brain is already running fast, hoping to leave Heathcliff as evidence that Akihiko Kayaba is.

Although his influence is not small now, if he is unfounded, it is very likely to cause a split among front-line players, or is this what this man wants to see?!

"Huh...... Of course, I've already thought about that. ”

There are no surprises in Kirito's reaction, as if everything is under control.

"Kirito, how about my quid pro quo?"

A strong look erupted in his eyes, not so much as a condition, but rather that he had seen what the young swordsman would agree to.

His body was a little cold, and Kirito felt as if an invisible net had enveloped him.

……

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In the GM management room underneath the Black Iron Palace, the sound of tapping on the virtual keyboard is crackling.

Dancing his fingers, Yuki's eyes kept flashing the numerical symbols on the analog screen in front of him, combing through the data that was almost enough to blow up his brain.

You only get one chance.

I finally came here with Yui's data body.,I have to cut off the program about the little girl before the system set up by "Cardinal", that is, the system set up by Kayaba.

Of course, if you give her enough time, with Yuki's current knowledge reserve that is enough to become a 'hacker', it may not be impossible to modify the setting of this game world, but this is not realistic.

Not to mention that Kayaba himself is in charge of the highest authority in this game, and the system he designed will not allow her to intervene easily.

If you can't make them vigilant at the first time, you won't have such a good opportunity in the future.

That's why she's waited so far.

Clenched his hands on his chest, Yui also looked at the girl in front of the stone table with a nervous expression.

Obviously she is also one of the "administrators" of this game, but the little girl didn't stop Yuki.

Perhaps, she is also looking forward to Yuki to liberate this sad and deformed world.

（…… ）

(Sure enough, I've been 'broken' since then...... ）

(Mom...... ）

Staring at Yuki's side face, there is a certain warmth in the little girl's heart.

That's not just something that can be explained by intelligent artificial intelligence.

……

(Okay, that's the end of it.) ）

Seeing that the final data progress was completed, Yuki successfully packaged and objectified Yui's program ontology and saved it in his own system space.

Maybe it's because Yui is already an unnecessary program for this game, so the 'resistance' of "Cardinal" is not fierce.

(And then it is...... ）

The procedure of stripping the yui is just one of the purposes of coming here.

Eyes moved to another corner of the analog screen, and as he kept typing commands, the room suddenly began to shake.

Sure enough, it was noticed.

"Mom!"

Yui, who seemed to have sensed something, was thinking about something in her heart, suddenly panicked, and subconsciously shouted out the title again.

(It's okay, it's a little bit close...... ）

Without stopping his movements, a blinding white light began to cover the screen.

(Let me see your 'world', Akihiko Kayaba!) ）

The real battle has just begun.