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Chapter 1: Link Start

November 6th, 2022, was supposed to be a day of celebration and excitement. A day where gaming would take gamers into the very games they played with the release of the NerveGear helmet using FullDive technology that allowed players to enter games designed for it. Excitement had spread all across Japan when the day arrived for its release and millions had flocked to stores to get their hands on the device.

For the parents of Hyoudou Issei, it was the greatest nightmare either of them had faced.

Their Son had personally been saving up to buy the device, and his mother had supported the action, believing it would give him a much-needed distraction from his less than innocent hobbies. She had personally driven him to the store days before it was released and constantly checked in on him as he stayed days after, camping the store out to be one of the first to buy NerveGear.

The look of utter joy her child had on his face as he dashed to the car with the box containing the gaming device had warmed her heart. She had not seen her boy be so excited about something in a long time, and that included all the things he bought for his other interest. She had happily helped him hook the device up with his friends who had come over once they learned Issei had obtained a NerveGear and watched him as he entered the game, watching his actions from a monitor they had hooked up to the device to see what he saw.

Then it came.

Emergency Warning broadcasts and taken over every TV across Japan, telling people of the danger of NerveGear and how removing the device would kill the wearer, and that users had no way of logging out. Mrs. Hyoudou had been confused before the realization set in that her son was currently wearing one of the death machines she and several million others were being warned about.

Matsuda and Motohama had to forcefully keep the hysterical mother from ripping the helmet off their friend's head when she dashed upstairs to try and save her baby boy.

Mr. Hyoudou had immediately left his work and raced home when he heard the news. He arrived to find his wife crying her eyes out as his son's friends trying to calm her down. In his bed, Issei looked peaceful, but on the screen they had been watching him on, he was running across a field as fast as he could.

Mr. Hyoudou wasted no time in calling the ambulance to transport his son to a nearby hospital after it was announced special care rooms were being set up for victims of the now dubbed "SAO Hostage Incident."

He stood, holding his crying wife in his arms as the ambulance with his son sped off into the distance. Across the street, he saw the Kirigaya family doing the same, only the mother of two holding onto her crying daughter as their adopted son was taken away.

Sirzechs Lucifer had never seen his wife so angry before.

In all their time together, he had not once experienced her anger, mild irritation from his antics sure, but outright rage?

So this is what it feels like to be so small. He couldn't help but think as his wife, Grayfia Lucifuge, towered over him. The massive amount of blood lust mixed with her demonic aura she was releasing made even him shrink back in fear.

"I told you... I told you not to buy one of those accursed human devices!" The scariest thing about her was she did not shout a single word at him, nor had her facial expression change beyond a neutral stare. The small twitch in her hand told him it was taking every ounce of her iron Will to keep from lashing out at him. Doing such a thing would typically be a forbidden and borderline heretical action, but in this case, she had every right to lash out at him.

"Grayfia I-" The Maou Lucifer's mouth clicked shut the instant his wife held up a single finger. He fought down the urge to shudder as the fire in her eyes grew in intensity.

"I am your Wife, I am your head Maid. I will listen and follow every one of your orders without question, carry out all your desires to the best of my abilities." She spoke, her voice soft but firm, anger just on the tip of her tongue. "But more than any of that, I am a Mother. A mother of one, precious, little boy who we were blessed with after many, many, years of trying. And now our child is stuck in a death game we cannot save him from!"

Sirzechs quietly looked to his left, his one and only son laying on a bed, looking to be peacefully asleep despite the numerous medical Devils hovering over him, moitoring all his vitals. They had attempted to use magic, initially believing the human device to be just that, a human device. That's when they got a special warning from the device itself.

[Any further attempts to release the wearer from their NerveGear by means of Magic will automatically activate the electromagnetic microwaves transmitter

and kill the user. This is your first and final warning.]

Sirzechs frowned as his wife moved away from him, her menacing aura disappearing completely as she moved to their son and took his motionless hand. He would be lying if he said he wasn't angry with himself.

Millicas had heard about the new Human device that allowed people to enter a game (Sirzechs didn't understand it much himself at first, but he assumed it was like an illusion one could interact with) and had asked to get one. It had been one of the few rare times the young boy had ever asked for anything, so naturally, Sirzechs was going to get one for his son. Grayfia, however, had put her foot down and told them no. She had been acting as a mother at the time, not Maou Lucifers Queen and servant, and told him to not buy the device for their child, saying she had been getting bad feelings about it.

As always with her feelings, she was right.

How he wished he had listened to her. He had gone behind her back and bought it as a surprise for their son, he had even helped the lad set it up (in truth he just sat there, trying to read the instructions as Millicas had easily begun setting the device up) and watched as his son entered the game after uttering the phrase "Link Start." He had been disappointed to learn he couldn't view his son's actions within the game, not without some sort of screen hooked up to the device. Though looking at the device, it seemed the feature had been removed entirely despite what the print said.

An hour later he learned of how his son was now trapped in the game called Sword Art Online, held hostage with 10,000 other players with no way to log out, and where dying in the game meant you'd die in real life.

Grayfia's anger was the only thing that kept Sirzechs from going to the human world and personally hunting down the creator of the NerveGear, Akihiko Kayaba, and burning him to ashes.

"L-Lucifer-sama!" The crimson-haired Maou stood up as a female in a maid uniform burst through the door, out of breath. "I-It's Leviathan-sama! S-She's trying to go to the human world and find Akihiko Kayaba, he's trapped her sister!"

Could today get any worse?

And done!

Hehe, this story is inspired by Punitor567's Devils of Aincrad. If you're looking for a good SAO/DxD Fic I would suggest going to check it out! Gah! I want more of that fic, gimme gimme Punitor!

Not a lot to talk about here. Probably will start working on the first bit of the next chapter after this. Will be Issei focused, kinda, at least that's what the initial plan in my head is saying!

See ya next chapter everyone!