AN: Fourth chapter! Enjoy guys! Hopefully it's longer I just wrote and wrote and it turned out like this.

P.S. I will be doing frequent updates on previous chapters so please bear with me if there are sudden language changes. I'm still…"working on" my style of writing.

Gadget boy: Thanks again for reviewing. I'm trying to add more Asuna in but I'm afraid that I'm not good at writing fluff or whatever it is...here you go.

I was walking back after the morning's events, determined to take a long nap for my hard work today, when I heard a shout. Now shouts were common here, but I had heard enough shouts to know that this one was not normal. Picking up my pace, I dashed with newfound speed around the corner of the next intersection, intending to head towards the source of the shout. After taking another sharp right in the alleyways, I got to a dead end with an interesting sight.

All I could see in front of me were four to five guys. They were facing towards the dead end, seeing as how they WEREN'T facing towards me, so I assumed that there was something of importance at the dead end. Taking extreme care not to alert them to my presence, I activated my pro-incoming-found «Hiding» skill and blended in with the wall next to me. Well, it's not like they could've seen me anyways if they didn't turn back, but it never hurt to be careful. Worst case, they could take it the wrong way and well...rumors galore in the Daily Argo.

Sneaking up on them as fast as a slow crawl-walk, I slowly tip-toed my height up to where I could see what they were looking at. Fortunately, they were crouching, shaking in obvious lust, so it wasn't hard at all to get above their height to see what they were staring at so intently. Moving my gaze downward, I slowly got something in my field of vision. It turned out to be a...sword.

A damn sword, that was what they were lusting over. I shook my head and prepared to leave when it caught my eye. It looked vaguely like my «Anneal Blade», so it might be-

It IS an «Anneal Blade». Well, that changes a lot. I can understand now why they wanted it so much. On the first floor, a sword as great as this can sell for fifteen, no, TWENTY thousand col. Easily. Knowing them, they were probably arguing for it amongst themselves like the-

Paying more attention to them, I could tell that it was indeed the group that assaulted me earlier. Knowing Kibaou, he would probably make them give the sword to him like the sniveling cowards they are and they would probably get nothing. Well, all the more need to get the sword now for me to sell, eh?

I jumped over them in one fluid frontflipping motion and swiftly deposited the sword in my inventory before jumping back behind them and running out the alleyway, all like a pro. Hearing no sounds behind me, I could guess that they were even all too busy arguing to notice-

Multiple screams were then heard as well as sounds of a scuffle. Well, it seems that they did notice. Not that they would ever find me anyways. Behind me, I could hear irregular footsteps, obviously footsteps of greedy men who would push each other away for a prize even though they were on the same team. Their reduced speed would mean me getting away ten times easier than normal and me leaving them in the dust. Oh ho ho, I wonder how they will explain that incident to Cacti. If they're actually smart though, they wouldn't report it to him. But they probably will. Hell, does anyone even fucking care about what happens to them? I for sure don't.

After getting sufficiently out of range, I navigated myself to a restaurant run by an NPC and seated myself down at a table to examine my new piece of loot. Waving away the NPC when she asked me for my order, I set to work taking the sword out of my inventory and placing it on the table. Most people at this time of the day were out grinding so I shouldn't have to worry about people nosing in on my business with my sword.

Tapping on the sword lightly, I could see that it was a very high quality «Anneal Blade». Being a +8, 5 Sharpness, 2 Durability, and 1 Speed, or 5S2D1S, it was indeed a blade worthy of being wielded by me. My own «Anneal Blade» was only +5, with 3 Sharpness, and 2 Durability. Chuckling at my insane luck, I checked the other stats of the weapon. It was at almost full durability and best of all, had only one failure. Seeing how many upgrades it had on it, it was indeed a miracle that it made it that far. It even had one more upgrade slot sitting just for me, being the boss I am. Cardinal the god must be bestowing good luck on me right now for me to be this lucky in finding this blade, let alone in a safe zone IN AN ALLEY. I put the sword on my back, replacing the one that I currently equipped, and prepared to set out to test this new blade out on some low-level mobs.

Taking the south entrance out of the town to get out, I walked along the dirt-beaten path for several minutes, before getting to the entrance to a forest. I looked deep into the forest in thought before unsheathing my sword to test it out. Walking into the forest, I heard numerous mobs spawn behind me in search of a meal...err...I mean in search of a player to kill for no reason. Holding up my sword in a classic stance, angle bladed forty-five degrees towards the air, I prepared to meet whatever charge came at me.

It turned out to be just one measly monster. A «Little Nepent» Well, at least it was one monster, right? With a quick «Slant» to its wide-open stalk, it burst into polygons and a Congratulations window opened in front of me, showing my experience gained, col gained, and items gained (Which happened to be nothing.) Holding my new sword in my hand, I felt much more at ease. The new sword seemed to fit my hand much easier than the old one, and the weight distribution was almost perfect to me. It was almost the weight distribution of...a...kendo stick.

Yeah. A kendo stick. No wonder it felt familiar. At a young age, I had much experience in kendo, participating in even national championships and swinging the wooden stick in the air numerous times when there was nothing to do. It was normal for muscle memory to join me in SAO, so I was lucky for the added real-life experience into my sword experience. I sheathed my sword back on my back and set off walking back to «Tolbana».

Walking back, I encountered no more monsters for some reason. Maybe it was because I was too high-leveled, but no more «Little Nepents» seemed to spawn around me. I shrugged my shoulders and continued my leisurely pace, aiming to enjoy the great scenery here before I *supposedly* died in the boss battle. By three, I had arrived back at the town and was ready to relax back in my inn room. Taking the short route unlike usual, I arrived back at the inn I was residing in within minutes. I didn't really care about attention this time anyways, though many people recognized the sword on my back and gave me jealous looks.

Taking my time up the stairs to the second floor, I pondered what I should do with my time before I go to dinner. By the time I got back to my inn room (It happened to be number 206, so it was towards the end of the stairs), I had settled on swinging my sword using sword skills in preparation for whatever was to come. If what that girl Asuna had told me the first time we met was true, my strikes should get stronger if I willed my body to move instead of just relying on the system assist.

Stepping into my inn room and shutting the door, I set to put that idea to the test. First, I wanted to activate a «Vertical». Simple enough, but I had something else to test this time. The first time I swung the sword, it was fast. Fast, but slower than that girl Asuna's strikes were. Even though she was equipped with a rapier instead of a longsword like I was, her strikes seemed inhumanely fast. Settling into another stance, I set this time in my mind the movement of the sword. Swinging the sword again, I could feel the difference. With the sword bouncing off the ground with a loud *CLACK*, it rebounded up and settled back sturdily into my hand. This time swinging the sword, I could obviously feel the difference, The sword moved much faster than normal, and the «Sword Skill» that I was executing reached much farther than when I had done it by itself without any outside assistance.

I smirked and sheathed my sword back on my back, happy that I had learned one more thing useful today. Who knows? Maybe I could even sell my newfound information to Argo-

A loud knock interrupted my thinking. Just as I was about to rest again, more knocks came. Sighing quietly under my breath, I opened my door, expecting that rat Argo-

It turned out to be Asuna, my "fellow" clearer.

Looking at her, I could see that she had gotten a considerable upgrade to her gear since I last saw her at the boss meeting. I could feel the same determination in her eyes from the time in the amphitheatre burning into me.

'Well, I'm screwed.'

She stomped into my room. I was prepared to end my life right now and there before she could get to me and kill me for-

Again, something totally unexpected happened. I must really suck at predicting things for stuff to happen twice in a row completely unexpectedly.

She stared at me and let all her tension out in front of me. Seeing her visibly deflate like a balloon out of air, I let out a sigh of relief, knowing that she probably won't kill me.

"Well, is there something you-" I started, aiming to squeeze her reason for her coming to my inn room *right* out of her.

She interrupted me right then and there with a sharp "Hmph!", not letting me talk any further. Damn. SUCH a spoiled girl. In defeat, I sighed again and sat down on my bed, ready to hear whatever she was going to say.

Asuna slumped down into a chair in sheer exhaustion, much to the surprise of me. She seemed to have so much energy back when she was at the door, but she just like, melted once she got into my room. Before I could say anything more, I looked at her and her eyes were closed.

Looking closer, I could tell she was asleep. How she didn't even bother taking off her clothes and chang-

'God dammit mind shut up go to sleep or something leave me alone.' For the second time that week, my mind agreed to shut up, though I knew it wouldn't be for long.

I decided to leave her alone for the time being, and I laid back down into my bed, ready to take another nap after the day's events-

I opened my eyes to the ceiling of my inn room yet again. Seeing that it was already 6:30, I sat up and swung my legs over the bed to regain my bearings before going to dinner. Preparing to walk to the bathroom in my room, I stopped in shock when I heard the shower already running. And a certain girl's voice humming while taking a bath.

I tried to resist the urge to open the door. Seeing that Asuna was a complete noob at VR games, especially SAO, I bet that she didn't know that the door wouldn't lock behind her when she went into the bathroom...she didn't own the room, after all. I owned the room.

Playing a mental mind game against my brain, I finally made up my mind and walked into the bathroom, against my personal will. Starting to open the door, I squeezed my eyes shut and took my first step in. It seemed safe. Knowing that, I took another hesitant step in. Seeing that the path was clear, I started to open my eyes.

'Wait, where did the humming go-'

I felt a sharp sting on my cheek as a hand slapped my face, forcing my eyes fully open. In front of me was Asuna. Feeling a tinge of red flush upon my cheeks, I tried to back out of the bathroom but was unsuccessful when Asuna slammed me against the wall in a fit of rage, face almost close enough to touch but also close enough to see the rage in her eyes.

'Well, I guess she did learn of the door being unable to lock...'

I managed to crack a tiny smile at that remark but quickly stopped when she raised her fist in front of my face. Though I couldn't get physically hurt in a SAFE zone, it would still hurt like hell, and with my past experiences with Argo, I knew that she could smack me as much as she wanted to without me dying. I grimaced in pain and prepared to virtually die.

She sighed and threw me out the door with a shout, before stalking out herself, fully clothed, to continue killing me. 'Just how many points did she put into strength?' I thought. Being able to push me, with a high strength stat, was barely possible, but being able to throw me…

'Maybe it's just because I was unprepared for it. Yeah. I wasn't that prepared for her to throw me. So she can't really be that high level, right?'

Invisible eye lasers boring into my head, I tried to scoot away from the oncoming wave of pain and hurt. A few seconds later I bumped into a wall, and cursed my small inn room. She stalked towards me with a menacing face until she was a few inches away from me and then stopped.

"So, WHY DID YOU FUCKING GO INTO THE BATHROOM WHEN YOU KNEW I WAS IN IT!?" she screamed at me. I could see the fury in her voice, and I tried to make a meek excuse without saying the complete truth to her.

"Err...well…" I scrabbled at my brain, trying to make a suitable excuse so that I wouldn't get pounded into the ground.

"Yeah." I had finally gotten a hold of one such excuse that she would probably not know about. It might just work…

"You see...I didn't know that you were in there, and the shower was on, so I wanted to see-"

Oops. Wrong response. She glared at me further and for the second time in five minutes, smashed me against the wall. The wall didn't break and the «Immortal Object» status popped up, signifying that it was unbreakable. Well that was a shame. I was perfectly ready to jump out of the hole in the inn and run for my life.

"As I had learned from a certain...someone, showers don't work if someone isn't inside."

She smirked as she found her way through my lie, and leaned closer to me so I could see more of her menacing face.

Damn. I should've known that she would go to Argo for information.

"So what's the REAL reason for going into the bathroom?" she asked.

I scrabbled at my brain for another excuse to give her before finding out that I had none. I...err...was forced to go through with the half truth.

"Well…" I started, trying to get her to calm down a little before she would kill me. "Teenage tendencies. Yeah. That's what it is."

I was confident that I had won when I saw her smirk, but then went back to those broken eyes when she told me the next part, mischief evident in her veins as she pondered what to do with her new information.

I widened my eyes in horror when she told me her plan to sell the information to Argo for much much many col, and increased friendship with her. If she got the information I would never hear the end of it.

'Note to self: Avoid Argo and Asuna at any costs.'

Inching to the left, I finally got far enough away and jumped to my feet, before running and getting my «Anneal blade» from the floor. I then ran out of the inn as fast as I could and took many winding turns so she could never find me again. I could never be a clearer again. I could never get a wife anymore after this. I could never-

Somehow in my running I had run out into the main square. I felt multiple stares pierce my veins, some of hate because of my beta-tester status, some of confusion, and some of...oh god.

Well, Asuna was fast in getting to Argo. Argo probably went thrice her speed to get to Asuna for that juicy information, and then probably distributed it with the newspaper as well as sending a message to her friends, which numbered many.

I could feel people looking at me with disgust, and people with kids moving them away from me. My life was forever over with that fact now circulating, and I ran again, knowing that I was forever a renegade, and forever "him".

Running randomly, I found myself again back at the inn by pure luck. Rushing up the stairs knowing that people wouldn't even come out to look at me because of the awesome sound-proof walls of the room, I dashed into my room, locked the door, and jumped into my bed, covering my whole body including my face and shivering with the news.

My world is now over.

AN: Haha I added some Asuna in there, Kirito is really screwed now. He's forever a pervert and he will never get any girls anymore :P

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(Is this how you do a disclaimer? I have no damn idea.)