Kadang, Kadang.

The white wooden rocking chair makes a brisk sound under the eaves.

The soft sunlight of late autumn shines through the cypress treetops, and the evening breeze across the distant lake blows onto you.

The girl who rested her cheek against my chest for a moment snorted slightly.

The quiet time full of golden colors passed gradually.

Kadang, Kadang.

I rocked my chair and stroked her black hair quietly. Even in her sleep, her lips smiled slightly.

At this time, a group of small squirrels were playing in the front courtyard. Stew was boiling in the kitchen behind me. I sincerely hope that the elegant world centered on this small house deep in the forest will continue like this forever. But in fact, I know very well that this wish is impossible to achieve.

Kadang, Kadang.

Every time the feet of the chair make a sound, the hourglass of time keeps passing with it.

To resist this, I was ready to hug the girl lying on my chest hard.

But the two wrists could only hold the air emptyly.

I opened my eyes suddenly, and the girl who was on a skin-to-skin relationship with me one moment disappeared like smoke the next. I propped myself up and looked at my surroundings.

The colors of the setting sun are getting stronger and thicker like a stage set. The darkness that crept close engulfed the entire forest.

I stood up in the winding cold and called her name, but received no answer. After the squirrel colony disappeared, she could not be found in the courtyard or in the kitchen behind it.

At some point, the neighborhood was completely surrounded by darkness. The furniture and walls of the room are like paper crafts, constantly falling and disappearing. Soon after, only me and the rocking chair were left in the dark. No one sat on it, but the chair still swayed.

Kadang, Kadang.

Kadang, Kadang.

I closed my eyes, covered my ears, and shouted the girl's name with all my might.

Because my cries were so real, even when I woke up, I didn't know if it was just a dream cry or if I was really screaming out loud.

Still lying on the bed, I closed my eyes for a moment trying to get back to where my dream began, only to give up and open my eyes a little later.

"Ichiya-sama, are you awake?" ”

The voice was not hers, and when the maid's fair face became clearer and clearer, I finally returned to reality.

"Need coffee?" She asked softly.

"Plain water is fine, thank you."

The white water that was taken from the head maid had a hint of sweetness, presumably honey had been added. This woman was always so gentle, so gentle that no one could bear to reproach her, and even my mother, who had always been strict, never showed her fierce side in front of the head maid in my memory, but seemed to me as a common thing.

As her mother's adopted daughter, she can always complete the tasks assigned by her mother well, which is one of the reasons why she is trusted by her mother. But for me she has a deeper meaning, the age gap between us is not very big, I can't remember whether she was two or three years old, but she has a maturity far beyond her real age, some people say that the more pain a person endures, the more mature she becomes, I can't guess how much pain she has experienced.

She has been my exclusive maid since I was a child, and in the face of me who thought she was superior, she forgave me again and again for my willfulness, so that when I had just entered adolescence and the ignorant love began to sprout, she became my first target, maybe in her heart she really regarded me as a younger brother.

My mother said that she had been taking care of me for the two years I had been trapped in Al Grant, and it was hard to imagine how much it would take to take care of a person who could not take care of herself, but I only knew that it was warmest to go to her when I was sad.

"Ichiya-sama?"

Well, it's a bit distracted, you have to pick yourself up, there's a lot to do to get that plan done.

"How's the matter of Nobuyuki Sugo bailed?"

"The bail has been lifted because of an attempt to break out of prison."

She flipped through the notes in her hand, a hint of regret in her tone.

That bastard is a guy who can't even be dealt with by a child, and it's a real headache

"What about Dr. Zavos's team in charge of cloning?"

"The news has just come that the second batch of clones has been completed."

"Well, let them hurry, the agents around there have been getting more and more active lately."

This is probably the best news of the day, as I lost two of my most important men three years ago to the SAO farce, and now I have to challenge the law in order to resurrect them.

If you want to resurrect those two people, you probably need three batches of clones, because of the restrictions of the law, the in vitro cloning technology of the human body is not mature, which has led to the appearance of many defective products, but a certain part of these defective products is perfect, as long as the best part is removed from them, the most perfect body will be pieced together, but only the body is not enough, to achieve complete resurrection, they must integrate their original consciousness into a new body.

"Another thing, the Sukawa family, who also expressed interest in this plan, is that the current president, Mr. Kazama, personally intervened, and it is said that the former president was furious about the loss of his most beloved grandson."

"There will be many such things in the future, and those chaebol families will more or less have people left in that world, but we can't promise it yet, don't give them an answer for the time being. Wait a minute, if the Sukawa family is willing to help bail out Sugo Nobuyuki, we can let them join the program, but they have to provide the human samples themselves, and we are not responsible for digging graves. ”

"Okay, let's get the Sukawa family to join the plan," she scribbled in her notebook, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, "By the way, the news from the customs said that Akihiko Kayaba's girlfriend, Rinko Kamiyo, has returned to Japan. ”

"When you're finally back, send someone to keep an eye on her, and say hello to the Metropolitan Police Department, you can use extraordinary measures if necessary, but you must not let her leave Japan again. Is there any new progress in the hunt for Akihiko Kayaba? ”

"Our team is trying to search the server where he often appears, because he can escape anywhere because of the data, and if he escapes to the dark web, I am afraid there is no way."

"It's okay, now that Rinko Kamiyo is back, it's only a matter of time before he catches him. What about Dr. Kitagawa, how is the data recovery from SAO progressing? ”

"The recovery of SAO big data has been basically completed, and now we are trying to restore the player's consciousness, but it seems to have hit a bottleneck."

This is the most difficult part.,Although we got the original SAO server.,But among the three people who are developers.,Kamiyo Rinko rejected our conditions.,Kayaba Akihiko has become a pile of data.,Now the only thing that can be used is Sugo Shinyuki in prison.,But this idiot actually canceled my carefully arranged parole because of his own stupidity.。

"Would you like to inspect the SAO's laboratory?"

"No, let's go to the cloning lab first."

"Okay, I'll arrange it."

Leaving the Tatsuya family's villa, a black sedan is fading away, while clones are being produced beneath a dilapidated warehouse in the wilderness west of Tokyo, and the mother body that provided the sample cells has been laid to rest forever in the dark.

Wait for me, and I will definitely bring you back to life......