p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"I cried at the original by xSmokeisintheair. Me and Aiks (Aikoisayokai) asked for permission to use the story in our one shots. The story will also be on Aiko's account, and on our Wattpads and Ao3s etc. Thanks to xSmokeisintheair./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Essie~/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Long, light brown hair fluttered in the wind. The Co-leader of the Knights of the Blood Dath laid down on the grass. A single tear rolled down her smooth pale cheek, marking out a path from her dark brown and amber eyes to the bottom of her chin, where the tear rolled of and fell onto the unnaturally green grass. It had been about a month since... Then... And Asuna still hadn't gotten over it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Everyone had told her that she was handling it well, and she had smiled and nodded. Like the good girl her parents wanted her to be. Inside she was screaming and clawing at her neck, trying to pull away the suffocating grief. Yui had run away. She wondered where she was now. Probably somewhere in the forest that she and Kirito first found her in. Kirito.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"It was a strong group of red players. Even stronger than Kirito. Just one single swipe to finish it off. Straight through the heart from the back to the front. Yui was with her. The image had been burned into her slowly crumbling mind. The image of a sword jutting out of his body, and the image of Yui's face frozen into a scream of terror. And one unfinished word that had formed on his lips before he died. "Asu..." Then the light. He began to glow and then he shattered into sparkling blue and green shards of light. Like a glass mirror, broken. He was broken. And so was she. A black coat flashed briefly before her eyes. A dark sword and a tanned hand to hold it. A single smile that would stay in her memory forever. But.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Kirito was gone./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"And he was never coming back./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Essie~/p
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p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Long, light brown hair fluttered in the wind. The Co-leader of the Knights of the Blood Dath laid down on the grass. A single tear rolled down her smooth pale cheek, marking out a path from her dark brown and amber eyes to the bottom of her chin, where the tear rolled of and fell onto the unnaturally green grass. It had been about a month since... Then... And Asuna still hadn't gotten over it./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Everyone had told her that she was handling it well, and she had smiled and nodded. Like the good girl her parents wanted her to be. Inside she was screaming and clawing at her neck, trying to pull away the suffocating grief. Yui had run away. She wondered where she was now. Probably somewhere in the forest that she and Kirito first found her in. Kirito.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"It was a strong group of red players. Even stronger than Kirito. Just one single swipe to finish it off. Straight through the heart from the back to the front. Yui was with her. The image had been burned into her slowly crumbling mind. The image of a sword jutting out of his body, and the image of Yui's face frozen into a scream of terror. And one unfinished word that had formed on his lips before he died. "Asu..." Then the light. He began to glow and then he shattered into sparkling blue and green shards of light. Like a glass mirror, broken. He was broken. And so was she. A black coat flashed briefly before her eyes. A dark sword and a tanned hand to hold it. A single smile that would stay in her memory forever. But.../p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"Kirito was gone./p
p style="max-height: 999999px; font-family: Verdana, Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14.4px;"And he was never coming back./p