Ch. 2: Executing the Plan

My gleaming daggers… Always so reliable, and without emot-

"Victor!"

Someone had barged into my office, if you could call it an office. Only one desk with a rolling chair, in a cavern with a dripping roof.

"What do you want, XaXa…" I said, annoyed. "Can't you see I'm working here?"

"On what?" He motioned to my desk. "Polishing your knives?"

I pulled out my notebook quickly. "No… I'm, uh… working on the new long-lasting paralysis serum!"

"Oh really…"

Suddenly XaXa's avatar flashed, and before I had any time to react, he had opened my notebook to see a doodle of a man peeking over a fence.

He snickered and stepped back.

"Well anyways, Kirito, the black swordsman, has joined the KoB!" he told me.

"What does this have to do with me, exactly?"

"Have you forgotten already?"

"Forgotten what…?"

"You know, Johnny's plan?"

But… What does murdering Heathcliff have to do with Kirito joi-

"As you probably know," XaXa interrupted, "Kirito has been the #1 enemy of our guild since he showed up on the radar. He has singlehandedly taken down an eighth of our guild and gotten half of our plans busted."

"Yeah, so?" I was getting tired of XaXa wasting my time.

"The plan, if your recall, is that we take control of the KoB by killing Heathcliff and having him transfer leader to one of our members, and using his head as an example."

I rolled my eyes. "I understood when Johnny explained it."

"Yes, but now that Kirito is in the KoB, we can have him work for us, and take control of the most powerful guild in SAO!"

I ponder this.

If we fail, our guild could be cut in half, but… if we pull this off, Laughing Coffin could be back in action!

…

"That is the best idea I have ever heard!" I exclaim, standing up from my rolling chair.

The next few days were a frenzy. We had to pass the plan through PoH, (Not a pleasant man, you know.) and make him gather forces for the ambush of Heathcliff. Our disguised players, including the Lightning Flash Asuna, gathered high level equipment. This was the first large scale guild raid LC had ever pulled off. There was infighting over 76 times, with 12 resulting in injury. It was a wonder nobody got murdered the first few days. All of our preparation had gathered to this crucial moment.

We stopped behind the greenery of Floor 8, looking at the guards marching around the perimeter of the town and wondering what the heck such a high leveled character such as Heathcliff would be doing on a Floor 8 patrol.

Maybe it's to rally the forces, or to give morale to the people…

XaXa shook me by the shoulders.

"Victor!" he whispered. "Go! He's separating from his group! It's our chance!"

I didn't have to hear any more. I silently dashed toward Heathcliff and hid behind a bush as I saw him open his menu. Ding! Went the resounding menu noise.

My jaw dropped.

Tens, maybe hundreds of windows were floating around the leader of the KoB. He brushed through them flawlessly, selecting options and pressing buttons. Hundreds of sound effected fluttered through the air like butterflies.

While I was being mesmerized by the sounds, Heathcliff was talking to himself.

"He wants to duel me…" he muttered to himself as he pressed a button. "I have to disable my-"

I shook myself out of my trance-like state, popped out of the bushes and totally surprised him with a martial arts skill.

He went out cold, but his menu was still open.

Lucky me… Maybe I'll be the one to PK him… I thought, just as I looked at the menu.

My jaw dropped all the way to the Town of Beginnings.

His main menu had an only admin level feature…

SYSTEM LEVEL IMMORTAL OBJECT CONTROL PANEL

Yay, I finished the second chapter! Thanks for all the support, (Shoutout to AkamenoZaza for my first review!) and again, thanks for reading! Peace out guys!

- SwordArtSurvivor