CHAPTER TWO: Point of View – YORK
Heads up! The entire "Crime" system in this SAO works differently, while in a town, only "seen" crimes will count against the player. If either an NPC or a player views a crime, the player cursor will change to orange.
By the time Seth and I had left the Starting City, we had met a lot of new people and learned some more mechanics of the game. First we met Sasha, a woman who was trying to get all the small children to a safe place. She was a small, brown haired-woman with green eyes. I liked her personality; she seemed nice and had a good head on her shoulders, but I had to make sure she was actually going to protect the children so I sent one of Seth's friends to keep an eye on her. We actually managed to find a lot of Seth's friends, except his neighbor; we still couldn't find her. Together there were five of us: York, Alex, Sara, Sven, and me. Sven was busy watching Sasha, so there were only four us.
All the people around me were shocked, terrified, and scared, but I knew that would help nothing. The only thing that would get us out of the game was to clear the top floor, so for the time being we needed to focus on leveling up and finding the first boss. I turned to Seth and told him, "Get your guys and head to Ceret Town, I'll be there after a quick detour." He replied, "What are you doing man?" "I just have to look into something, OK?" He started to look worried, "Fine, but don't do anything crazy, everyone is still so confused, and nobody knows what to do, it's up to the natural leaders to get things started, and I really don't want my first VR friend to get killed by some level 1 boars or something." It was kind that he was concerned, but I had to leave now," Don't worry Seth, it'll be an hour at the most. He nodded and turned to his friends in default armor, "Come on noobs; let's get to Ceret Town." And just like that I was alone on a floor with 10,000 players.
I wandered around aimlessly. How could this be happening? Me, York Justice, the best and brightest of my whole school, trapped in a fantasy VR world. When I looked in the mirror today and saw the blond, tall, and lean teenager I never thought this was how I'd spend my Friday night. While I pondered around my situation, I saw a huge asshole bullying an attractive teenaged girl. "Hey sexy, why don't we make the best out of this situation and head to an inn?" She looked at him with utter disgust, "Back off dude, I want to sulk in peace."
I like this girl. She's got a sarcastic tongue.
He grabbed her on the shoulder and shoved her down "Too bad you're gonna come with me anyway." At this time I had saw enough, I sprinted to the thug and tackled him. I looked at the piece of shit and muttered, "Don't you fucking dare, grab a woman that way, or I will crucify you on the bones of your family." He tried to slug me, but I quickly dodged it and kicked him in his head and with that I saw the debuff "Unconscious" appear above him. She looked at me with an appreciative smirk and said, "Well, my knight in cloth armor has arrived to save me. What is your name sir knight?"
There was that sarcastic undertone again. I was really warming up to this girl.
"The name is York", I said with a cocky smirk. She looked me in the eyes, "Well still, thank you. I appreciate your kindness; I'm so scared right now." I sat down next to her and placed my arm over her shoulder as she sobbed into my chest, "Come on, unnamed female, I have some friends for you to meet."