"You're right, I'm Akihiko Kayaba." Kayaba Jinghiko simply admitted it directly, and said, "It's better to say, I should have been waiting for the final boss on the hundredth floor. ”

Akihiko Kayaba's script is really good. If Kirito hadn't discovered Akihiko Kayaba's true identity, how surprised they would have been when everyone had reached the hundredth floor, and found that the final boss was actually the leader of the Blood Alliance Knights who led him along the way.

It's a pity that such a script will never come to fruition.

"I can't compliment you with your taste...... The strongest player has become the most vicious boss......" Kirito said.

"Pretty good script?" Akihiko Kayaba said, "However, this unexpected development is also quite good now. That's the fun of RPGs. ”

"You, you actually put our loyalty and hope ......" Suddenly, a member of the Blood Alliance jumped up, "all trampled on!" In the air, he raised the giant sword in his hand and slashed at Kayaba Jinghiko.

However, Akihiko Aoba unhurriedly swiped open the system menu, and then clicked the button that I don't know what it was.

The Blood Alliance member, who was still in the air, suddenly froze, and then fell directly to the ground.

On his head, he was marked by a paralyzed state.

Not only this one member of the Blood Alliance, but all the people present, including Chu Yue, Xing and others, all had a sign of [paralysis] state on the top of their heads.

With the creation of this state, everyone except Kirito and Kayaba Akihiko collapsed to the ground.

"What do you want to do?" Kirito asked, "Do you want to kill everyone here?" ”

"It's possible." Akihiko Kayaba said, "I wouldn't do such an unreasonable thing. ”

As he spoke, Kayaba Jinghiko glanced at Chu Yue, but Chu Yue shook her head.

"I will wait for you in the 'Ruby Palace' on the top floor." Akihiko Kayaba said, "But, until then, Kirito, I have a reward for you. ”

"What?" Kirito asked.

"Give you a chance." Akihiko Kayaba said, "As long as you defeat me here now, this game will be cleared." All gamers can log out from here, how about that? ”

Kirito was stunned for a moment, this is a unique opportunity!

"Of course, I'll revoke my system protection and fight you once in a dignified manner."

"Don't! Kirito! However, at this time, Yuki shouted: "Now, now I want to retreat!" That's an opponent that Chu Yue couldn't defeat! And, still, ......"

"Yuki-......" Kirito glanced back, only to find that Yuki was already full of tears.

I've been with Kirito for nearly two years.,The understanding of Kirito is unmatched by anyone.。

When Akihiko Kayaba said this reward, Yuki had already guessed that Kirito would definitely not refuse.

However, Yuki also knows that Kirito can't win. However, it will still promise, and in the end, death.

Although he guessed Kirito's decision, Yuki couldn't accept it......

I also know that no matter what I say or say, it's useless, but Yuki still can't watch Kirito die in front of him like this.

"No, please, Kirito ......" Yuki's tears blurred his vision.

Kirito gritted his teeth, and after a moment, said to Akihiko Kayaba, "Okay...... Let's take a break. ”

"Kirito ......" Yuki lay on the ground and wanted to crawl towards Kirito to stop Kirito, but she couldn't move at all in her paralyzed state, so she could only keep letting tears flow on the ground.

"I'm sorry...... Luck. Kirito said, "I'm sorry, but I have something to ask you about before I start." ”

"What?" Akihiko Kayaba asked.

"If, in case I die." Kirito said, "For a while, I hope you can restrain Yuki and not let her commit suicide." ”

"It's really touching love." Akihiko Kayaba said, "No problem. ”

"Chu Yue!" Kirito stood up to Kayaba Jinghiko, but neglected to call Chu Yue's name.

"Kirito!" Chu Yue also said loudly: "Don't die! ”

Kirito just smiled, and then said, "Thank you, Chu Yue......"

After saying that, Kirito stared at Heathcliff.

This is not a duel, but a life-and-death battle in the wild, so there is no need for the system to submit a duel application.

Heathcliff also bowed slightly, holding the shield in front of him, staring at Kirito.

Ignoring it, Kirito yelled and rushed towards Heathcliff.

This battle is almost exactly the same as the situation in the scene that Kirito simulated himself.

Although I now know that Heathcliff is Akihiko Kayaba, and know that all the sword skills in the game are designed by Heatscliffe, Kirito, who has long been accustomed to using the in-game combat assistance system, has no way for you to fight out of this combat system in a short period of time.

In other words, all of Kirito's swordsmanship has been seen through by Hizcliffe and Kayaba Akihiko.

Even if there is no second sword stream, Kirito's strength is still at the level of the top players in SAO. But as long as he is still in the SAO, it is impossible to defeat Akihiko Kayaba.

Unless, of course, Chu Yue is not an ordinary person's physical fitness.

So, the final result was just as everyone thought, Kirito's HP continued to decrease until it turned red......

After parrying Kirito's attack one last time, Heathcliff unleashed a shield counter, which Kirito didn't have time to dodge because it was too close.

The shield counter-produced a brief stun effect, and Kirito couldn't move for a while.

"It's a shame. Goodbye, Kirito. Heathcliff said, raising his sword in his hand.

The sword glowed reddish, and it seemed that it had used a sword technique.

If you hit it, you won't be able to survive if you're already red-blooded.

Sorry, fortunately......

I'm sorry......

Kirito's inner apology was not over yet, and he saw a figure suddenly appear in front of him-

That's luck, I don't know why, but luck suddenly stood in front of me.

Kirito forgot about anything, and reached out to catch Yuki after being attacked, and then saw that Yuki's health bar dropped to zero.

"......" Kirito's eyes widened: "Liar, right...... Luckily......"

Yuki was still in tears, reaching out to wipe away tears for Kirito that even Kirito hadn't noticed, but ......

Kirito's face, which Yukito's hand hadn't touched yet, exploded into pieces along with his body.

"Wow, wow, ——!!"

Kirito collapsed.

"It's amazing." Heathcliff looked surprised and said, "The player shouldn't be able to get rid of the paralysis on their own." ”

Although he said so, Heathcliff looked at Chu Yue on the other side.

It's just that Kirito has a nervous breakdown at this time, and he doesn't notice where Hitzcliff is looking.

Kirito suddenly clenched the sword in his hand and suddenly rushed towards Heathcliff again.

But......

Heathcliff shook his head and pointed his sword directly at Kirito, without moving.

Kirito rushed straight to the sword, and the sword in his hand slashed towards Heathcliff at the same time.

However, such a sword, which had no skill to speak of, was easily blocked by Heatscliffe.

Kirito watched his health bar drop to zero, and the system popped up a prompt box in front of Kirito: You are dead.

Then, Kirito was reduced to pieces.

However, as soon as these silver-blue fragments dissipated, they immediately converged in a golden form again, turning back into Kirito, and in his hands, he still held his own weapon!

Not yet...... Kirito said to himself inwardly.

This time, finally even Heathcliff didn't expect it, and took a step back in surprise.

It's not over yet! Kirito continued to say to himself.

The translucent Kirito struggled to raise the sword in his hand, and then stabbed forward with all his might!

Pierced Heatscliff in the chest without any deviation.

However, what Kirito's didn't notice was the upturned corners of Hizcliff's mouth before he died.

Seeing Heatscliffe's health bar drop to zero, Kirito finally smiled and closed his eyes.

That's it...... Okay......

The translucent Kirito and the health bar turned to zero Heatscliff, turning into silver-blue shards.

Every player in Ayn Grant suddenly heard such a system voice message:

Complete the game.

It was a simple four words, but everyone was stunned.

In each of the players in Aingrant, the body disappeared from the game as if the TV was turned off.

Suspended in the air, the huge castle of Ayn Grant, also began to crumble.

When Kirito opened his eyes again, he found himself standing above the clouds.

Swipe through the system menu, and you can't do anything, there is only a rotating loading animation on it, showing 54%.

"Kirito?" Kirito heard Yuki's voice.

Kirito was stunned for a moment and turned around.

That's a blessing indeed.

After a moment of silence, Kirito smiled wryly and said, "I'm sorry, I'm dead too." ”

"Stupid ......" Yukiya frowned and smiled, and then rushed into Kirito's arms.

The two held hands and kept warm for a moment, only to find that under the feet of the two, the huge hundred-story Ayngrunt was gradually collapsing.

"It's a nice view." Kayaba Akihiko said suddenly.

It's not Heathcliff, it's Akihiko Kayaba. He was wearing a white coat and looked exactly like in real life, dressed as a scientist.

"Now, all the memory devices of the SAO host, which is located on the fifth basement floor of the ARGUS headquarters, are performing a complete deletion of data. In another ten minutes or so, the world will disappear completely. ”

"What about the others?" Yuki asked.

"Don't worry." Akihiko Kayaba said, "All of the more than 7,000 players who are still alive have logged out. ”

"Well, the dead ......" Yuki asked a little weakly.

"Those who die, die forever." Akihiko Kayaba said, "Death is the same in every world. ”

"Why, do such a thing?" This time it was Kirito who asked.

"Why...... I've forgotten about it for a long time. Akihiko Kayaba said, "Why......

"Maybe I'm just a kid who has been obsessed with castles in the sky...... "Forget it, let's not talk about it." Congratulations on clearing the game, Kirito, Yuki. ”

"......" Kirito and Yukito looked at Akihiko Kayaba.

"After you go back, thank you for some Chu Yue." Akihiko Kayaba said, "Then ......"

"Wait!" Kirito was stunned for a moment, and immediately said, "Chu Yue? ”

"Oh? Turns out you still don't know anything? Kayaba Jinghiko smiled and said, "However, time is pressing, if you have any questions, after returning to the world over there, you can ask Chu Yue in person." ”

Yuki looked at Kirito, too, in surprise, but then, it went dark in front of him.

Kirito was the same, his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.

After Yuki and Kirito left this space, Chu Yue and Yui's bodies appeared together.

"Dad......" Yui said, grabbing Chu Yue's hand.

Chu Yue looked left and right, and immediately noticed the collapsing Ayn Grant under his feet.

"Is the data being deleted......" Chu Yue said.

"Yo, Chu Yue." Kayaba Jinghiko said to Chu Yue, "Is everything as you expected?" ”

"Where am I so godly?" Chu Yue turned her head and smiled at Kayaba Jingyan and said, "However, the ending is still like this." ”

Chu Yue's meaning is that the current situation is the same as the ending in the anime.

However, in Kayaba Jingyan's ears, everything really did not mean what Chu Yue expected.

"Since Chu Yue, you are so smart, then, why don't you guess where I am in the world on the other side?" Akihiko Aoba said to Chu Yue with a smile.

"It's not difficult at all." Chu Yue shrugged her shoulders, "It's been three years since SAO was launched, do you think I'll just think about it?" ”

"Oh? It is worthy of Chu Yue. Akihiko Kayaba said, "Well, let me hear your conclusions." ”

"Since you have entered the game like us, it means that you in reality, like our bodies, are fixed in the NERvGear."

"Although you have the permission to log out safely, in order not to show any flaws, you should always keep the Hitzcliff ID logged in, and never log out once."

"Since you showed us news reports from the outside world on the first day of the service, it means that you have a connection with the outside world, at least a channel to obtain information from the outside world."

"Real-world reactions, you don't have to extrapolate to know." Chu Yue said, "ARGUS should have gone bankrupt...... You are really ruthless, you obviously left everything to you in the board of directors, but you did this kind of thing and bankrupted the company. ”

"Among my colleagues, except for the two of us, everyone else should have been imprisoned by the state authorities, but after being investigated, I am afraid they will all be released. It was just the two of us......"

"You and I are both core game developers who are still in SAO, and I'm fine, after all, I'm still underage, and I'm not the main offender. But you're ......."

"As the murderer of this accident, you should be locked up in a very tight basement by the state organs, and monitored as a high state secret."

"Hehe......" Listening to Chu Yue's words, Kayaba Jinghiko couldn't help but smile, "If Chu Yue, you reach my age, I'm afraid you will be able to achieve higher achievements than me." ”

"I don't have the bad taste of locking 10,000 people in a game." Chu Yue said teasingly.

"Next......" Akihiko Aoba said suddenly, "next, I'll conduct an experiment." ”

Chu Yue was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted: "Oh...... It's ready ......"

"Looks like you know." Akihiko Chewba said, "However, the success rate of this kind of thing is less than 1 in 10,000. I don't know what the outcome will be. ”

"It's going to work." Chu Yue said.

"Thank you......"

"Ah, yes!" Chu Yue suddenly remembered something, and opened the system menu, and like Kirito, there was a rising percentage value on the system menu: 68%.

However, because Chu Yue is an administrator account, all other operations have not been affected. Chu Yue opened the inventory and swiped down.

Because the database was destroyed, many items in the inventory have a question mark in their names: "? ", or empty, or even garbled characters.

"Ah, I found it." Chu Yue finally found what she was looking for, and then took it out, "Fortunately, it hasn't been destroyed yet." ”

"This is ......" Seeing the props that Chu Yue took out, Kayaba Jinghiko was also stunned.

It is the cornerstone of resurrection, a legendary resurrection item.

This resurrection item SAO is only dropped by the annual Christmas boss. The resurrection cornerstone in the first year was lent to Kirita by Chu Yue to take it to resurrection, and the resurrection cornerstone in the second year was exchanged for Chu Yue by Kirito as a thank you gift, but Chu Yue has not used it.

As for the third year...... It's only November, and it's not Christmas yet.

"Didn't you even use it...... "It's a shame that this world is about to disappear......"

"So, Akihiko Kayaba." Chu Yue said, "I'll use it again in the future, right?" ”

"In the future......" Akihiko Kayaba said strangely, "what do you want?" ”

"Resurrection Cornerstone, what is the use of it other than to resurrect players?" Chu Yue said with a smile.

Kayaba Jinghiko finally understood what Chu Yue meant, and couldn't help laughing.

"Hahahaha! Chu Yue, you are really, I don't know how to describe it. ”

"Looks like you agreed." Chu Yue also said with a smile.

"I can't help it." Akihiko Kayaba said, "After all, it's a world that you have created, so how can you refuse to use the props you have created." ”

"Thank you......" As soon as Chu Yue finished speaking, the resurrection cornerstone in his hand suddenly became blurred, and then turned into a snowflake and disappeared.

It seems that the resurrection cornerstone item has been deleted from the database.

"Luckily, it was used at the last minute." Chu Yue smiled.

"It's almost ......," Kayaba Akihiko said suddenly.

Looking down from the sky, Aingrant has already collapsed most of it, and what is left will soon disappear.

"Dad......" Yui said with a complicated expression and grabbed Chu Yue's hand.

Chu Yue touched Yui's head and didn't speak.

On the system menu in front of Akihiko Kayaba, the progress has reached 76%.

"Chu Yue, from the beginning to the end of this world, I care about three things the most." Kayaba Akihiko said suddenly.

"......" Chu Yue did not speak.

"The first thing is to rely on yourself to get rid of the paralysis, Kirito's wife, Yuki."

"The second thing in the house is that he is dead, but he relies on his soul...... Let's call it a soul.,Continue to do things beyond the scope of the game.,Kirito.。 ”

"The third thing...... It's this kid, Yui. ”

"Sure enough......" Chu Yue sighed and said, "This kid, even I didn't expect that he would grow to this point." ”

"In SAO, everything is fine." "However, if you go to the other world, you should know better than me what kind of measures will be taken. ”

"I know." Chu Yue nodded.

"......" was silent and saw Chu Yue hugging Yui, and Akihiko Kayaba said, "Well, after all, you are Yui's father, so I don't have to worry about it too much." ”

"Hmm." Chu Yue nodded.

Database deletion progress: 85%.

"So......" said Akihiko Kayaba, "one last thing." ”

"Huh?" Chu Yue looked at Akihiko Aoba.

Kayaba Akihiko stretched out his hand, and a golden, bizarre egg slowly descended from above.

It is said to be an egg, but the shell is translucent, and an unusually beautiful structure of indescribable color is surrounded by a golden core inside.

This thing, beautiful, doesn't seem to belong to this world.

"This, for you, Chu Yue." Akihiko Aoba said this and handed the egg to Chu Yue, "You should know it, right?" ”

"The Seed......" Chu Yue said, "You really did it, compressing such a huge world limit into such a small amount of data......

"In the past three years, I haven't been idle." Kiyoko Kayaba smiled, as if he had finally regained his confidence as a quantum physicist in front of Chu Yue.

It's a pity that Akihiko Aoba was shocked by -

"May I not want to?" Chu Yue asked.

"Huh?"

"Seeds...... It's not a good thing to hear. Chu Yue said.

"Why? Why do you want to refuse......" Kayaba Jinghiko obviously didn't realize that Chu Yue actually wanted to refuse!

"Because, it's not good for me, and I don't need anything for that." Chu Yue said, "Why accept it? ”

"But, but...... This, this is the culmination of my life's science......" Kayaba Akihiko was anxious, and her words and actions began to panic.

"emmmmm......" Chu Yue still hesitated.

"Look, how pretty, isn't it?" As if introducing his child's parents, Akihiko Kayaba said, "Not only is it pretty, but if you implant him in different servers, you can grow up in different worlds!" There are countless types of worlds that are randomly combined! It's magical! ”

"Heh, hahaha......" Chu Yue finally couldn't help it and laughed.

"Huh?"

"Just kidding." Chu Yue smiled at Kayaba Jinghiko, "How could I not know the value of The Seed?" I just wanted to see how you reacted. ”

"Whew-" Akihiko Kayaba finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Geniuses are all monsters! Kayaba said in his heart.

But I'm not qualified to talk about Chu Yue.

Database deletion progress: 92%.

There was not much left of Ayn Grant, and all that was left was the almost infinite sky of the moment.

"So......" said Akihiko Kayaba, "it's time for the end." ”

"After all, it's still a game developed by yourself...... Chu Yue sighed slightly, "It's just gone, it's very distressing." ”

"Me too." Kayaba Akihiko also said with a wry smile.

Database deletion progress: 95%.

"So, the last of the last." Akihiko Kayaba said, "Let's witness the disappearance of this world together." ”

"Hmm." Chu Yue nodded.

Database deletion progress: 98%.

The clouds have disappeared and the sky is rapidly turning black.

Database deletion progress: 99%.

There is nothing left in this space, only the account perspective of Chu Yue and Kayaba Akihiko. It's just that what you see from this perspective is nothing more than a black and empty world.

Database deletion progress: 100%, the task has been completed.

Finally, even the last world was gone, Chu Yue felt that his account had been logged out, and all the nerves in his body had finally reconnected with his brain.

Chu Yue opened her eyes and saw the unfamiliar white ceiling.

"Chu Yue ......"

Shen Wu lay on Chu Yue's body and said to Chu Yue in her emotionless voice:

"Good morning."