Prologue
A boy was on the floor, above him was a bar with just a red dot left, and next to him was a boy dressed in black and a girl with long hair…
"…mi…..do..t…..re…..die….w…..on"
Are they talking to me? …I can't feel my body…..damm….it's funny, that the last boss killed me… so near yet so far…
Really…this world is-really cool…
"ahaha…looks like i… will be breaking many promises… "
My friend had just defeated the "demon lord" and i was dying; Now that I think back…how the hell did I end up like this?...ah! Didnt it all begin 2 years ago?
#Congratulation the player Kirito known as the black swordsman has defeated the Demon Lord and cleared the game, now all the remaining 6,148 players will begin to log out#
…. What? You have to be freaking kidding me! After sacrificing myself for the greater good, I am not a hero! Come on! Kayaba Akihiko! Is it so difficult to add me as a hero?
"damm…..even now I can't beat you Kirito….ahahaha..." I breathe one last time "Sorry…."
The dot left in the boy´s bar disappeared and he became many black feathers that dispersed in the floor.
When I regained consciousness, I found myself in an otherworldly place. Here, the sunset made the entire sky seem as if it was burning.
I was standing on a thick crystal floor. The orange clouds rolled past slowly beneath the transparent tiles. When I raised my head, I could see a sky dyed by the sunset reach as far as the horizon. As it spread outwards, the endless skies faded from bright orange, to a bloody red, then to a shade of purple.
"Uh? Didn't I die? Man, if this is the afterlife I'm kind of disappointed…. Sure the view is nice and all but, I expected some kind of reception by an angel or a demon"
"Then leave me to be the demon that receives you"
"ahahha nice one, Akihiko" Akihiko? I said that? As Kayaba Akihiko? If it is him, it means that….
"Hahahaha looks like we did clear the game, ahahhahah told you, we would win…..anyway, what exactly is going on?"
"Perhaps you can call it… a metaphorical rendering. Currently, the SAO mainframe that's stationed in the first floor is in the midst of erasing all data from its memory banks. In other words, this world will be completely erased."
"And I'm here because?"
"Because the process takes time and I would like to hear about the life that you had in my world, we have nearly 10 hours after all…."
"Ah…..well since you ask so nicely…. but before that, am I dead?"
"Life can't be recovered so easily. A lost consciousness will never return. The dead will disappear— this fact remains true in every world. I created this place only because I wanted to talk with someone-one last time, although I would have liked it to be Kirito, I suppose that I will have to take you"
"Well sorry for not being Kirito, but you didn't answer, AM I DEAD?"
"no, you are not…..I saved you because it was thanks to you that Asuna didn't die and also it was you the one who gave Kirito the chance to defeat me, in a very interesting way you became a Joker, taking any place when needed"
"Uh…..sure, whatever you say….. Anyway you are telling me that you want to hear 2 years of my life in 10 hours? Well that is kind of difficult, after all so many things happened….."
"I don't doubt it; after all I had always wanted to build that castle, a place that exceeded the limits set upon the real world…..and then in those final moments I saw how Asuna, Kirito and you broke the rules of my world…"
"Aww….aren't you quite the melodramatic"
"Maybe is because my world is ending"
"Yeah, it is quite the story….I think everything really began with your announcement about not being able to leave the game….