Chapter 1: Discussing Plans
WANTED: GIGAS – Red Player, Murder of 14 or more players – Laughing Coffin Member
I ripped the Knights of the Blood bulletin off the wall, looking down the street in the rich and famous floor of SAO, Selmburg.
It's ironic… They think they can catch me with posters, when I can get deep enough into Selmburg to rip this bulletin in half. Their naïveté amuses me…
Luckily, my mission wasn't to destroy posters with my mugshot on them. Much too boring. I had been sent to extract info from one of our main info dumpers in the KoB. High leveled, I'd heard, and in a good enough rank to give us quality information.
I checked my watch. 9:37… I had to keep walking. Whoever the contact was, they had to be rich to be able to even STAND in the neighborhood. Okay, slight exaggeration, but you get what I mean. My menu beeped, interrupting my thoughts and telling me to turn left, onto a cobblestone street with houses. What was Johnny thinking? This had to be the worst place ever for an info dump. It took at least 5 minutes to info dump the amount we were expecting, even with SAO's automated system, and it would attract attention to have a KoB member swapping info with a stranger, even if I was well disguised.
My menu gave a final beep, telling me to stop at a quaint little home with flower pots and a blue roof. Johnny definitely lost his mind with this meeting spot. Did he expect me to walk in and say hello, I'm the guy from LC that you wanted to talk to? I had already made it to the house though, and there was no turning back. I gave the doorbell signal, one long ring, two short, and one long.
The room has to be bugged, with audio feeds directly to the vice-commanders, and Heathcliff himself. I'm sure to get caught! Wait, Johnny said that this contact was high up, but not enough to disable the audio feeds, is he? Maybe...
The door creaked open slowly, and my expectations exploded into thin air. It wasn't just any member of KoB.
This wasn't the house of any KoB member. This was the house of the vice-commander of the KoB, Lightning Flash Asuna.
"WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" I yelled toward Johnny, before calming down a bit. "You set me up to Info dump with the vice commander of the Knights of the Blood without telling me first? You could have gotten me killed!"
Johnny ignored my comment and smirked. "Did you get the info, Victor?"
"Of course I did! I wouldn't come back without it!" I threw the info scroll at him angrily.
"Do you know why I took this risk?"
"Well, I don't really-"
"Because this is the first step in the path of LC's rule of Aincrad!"
"I DON'T- W- Wait, what?" I was genuinely surprised.
Johnny unravelled the scroll. "This scroll contains all the guard rotations of the KoB, which, by the way, even the leader, Heathcliff, has to participate in." He pointed toward Heathcliff's name under {GROUP OMEGA}. "One of our operatives, coincidentally, is also in that six man group. You getting the plan so far?"
"Yup."
"We use that inside man to help us ambush the group, and take out Heathcliff."
"How is that going to help us?" I ask impatiently.
"Let me finish, Victor. Before we kill him though, we force him to transfer us the position of leader."
"But the KoB members won't-"
"-Obey us, yes, of course, but that's why we preserve Heathcliff's head."
I ponder this… "Well… But…" I can't think of any objections.
"What, you think this is crazy?" Johnny asks.
"It is crazy, but that's not the thing. The craziest thing is that… This just might work."
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