Laughing Coffin

Beware young adventurer for Aincrad is a dangerous place

When you enter with the threat of permanent danger you are graced

The towns are safe, but think twice about going to the countryside

For in the wilderness a most devious guild hides

Laughing coffin is their name and people say they're quite insane

The towns and cities are safe, but in the wilderness it is they who reign

Assassins, thieves, murderers and the criminally insane if you go against the coffin those you will face

Keep out a watch and stay out of their way for they can make you disappear without a trace

Skilled in stealth and fans of the drug mixing art

They are quite skilled in arranging your unfortunate and painful depart

With player killing skills these men and women are graced

And with them they shall lay their enemies to waste

Laughing Coffin laughingly spreads fear and hate

Their enemies they guide towards their horrid fates

Towards its members however it spreads something else

A sense of belonging which makes their band of outcasts feel quite swell

Enemies of all, but friends of each other

They treat each member as a fellow twisted sister or brother

All for one and one for all

With that line of thought they will gladly charge into their final brawl

Author Note:

Greetings everybody, I first and foremost hope that you enjoyed this poem. This is the first of a small serie of poems I will write about Laughing Coffin. The reason for this is that I have noticed there being terribly little poetry on the SAO page of fanfiction and I believe these guys deserved some poems. This is my first attempt at poetry, so I seriously doubt that there isn't at least some constructive criticism that can be given for improving. I base these poems on the Laughing Coffin we know from the anime as I haven't read the manga. I do not know how much different the feared red guild is in the manga, but at least in the anime we get terribly little information about these guys.

I imagined them having at least some sort of close bond due to the fact that whilst they were the biggest murder guild, they still only had around thirty members and it was basically them versus the rest of the players. Above that their fellow guildmembers would be the only ones with a somewhat similar mindset as they themselves.