Me: Oi!
Kirito, Asuna and Yui: Hey there!
Kirito: Is this chapter going to make me cry?
Me: I don't know. If it does, I didn't intend for it to be sad.
Asuna: Why didn't you!
Yui: It's not easy to make that kind of stuff.
Me: Thank you, Yui. Anyways! Enjoy!
I sat awkwardly in my seat as Victoria and the members of the guild were celebrating our victory… It's been two whole months since we've joined them, and if you add two more weeks to that number, you get the day we started this game. Now, we're on the sixteenth floor… None of this would be possible without Victoria. Her knowledge of the game is what got us this far… But we even weren't ready for this boss. We lost half of the guild to this boss… So I honestly could understand why we were celebrating. We lost six people, we should be mourning. Not stuffing our faces with food Sophia made. Sophia is the only girl in the guild aside from Victoria. She's small, but don't let that fool you. Under her dyed red hair is a violent, aggressive, high strung little devil. Speaking of which, where was she?
"Hey, You alright?" I jumped up and turned to whoever was talking to me. Turns out, it was Victoria. I sighed and sat back down.
"Don't scare me like that." I said bluntly. The room at the inn was pretty small. It painted a light brown color. The table we sat at was small and round. We needed a lot more money until we can get our own house. So we stayed here.
"Well sorry. I was just checking to make sure you were breathing." She snapped at me sarcastically. I ignored her and put my head on the dark round table. "Ugh. Fine, mourn over the dead, news flash! That's not going to make them come back!" Did she really just say that? I lifted my head upwards and stared at her. She stared back at me with same intensity. I felt the air in the room get cold as Victoria and I had our stare down. So I decided to warm it up a bit.
"Tyler, Samuel, Ranses, Colby, Aaron, and Erik all lost their live today, and I'm just supposed to accept that and move on? They were our guild members. Heck, Aaron and I were like brothers. Now his mind is lost with the other thousands of people who died. I really don't understand why I'm at fault for feeling sad." With that, I took my leave from the inn. I walked through the small town in rage and frustration. Other people were outside celebrating as well.
"The seventeenth floor is open!" They all cried. It only made me want to get out of there even faster. After sprinting for a while, I found myself at the edge of the town by a coast. Floor sixteen is a coastal floor full of aquatic monsters and human and fish hybrids that squealed like banshees. But I would have gladly taken my anger out on them if I saw one. Just to my luck, there weren't any. So I climbed a tree and tried to cool off. The wind helped a bit. It was calm and soothing. But every now and then, a large gust of wind would come around, to remind me that I was by an ocean. I looked beyond the trees and saw the shore. There, the human-fish hybrids were attacking a small girl with bright flaming red hair. At first I thought it was Sophia. Then I realized that was Sophia. She was over matched by the amount of monsters, her only resolution re-using sword skills over and over again. So I followed my gut and jumped in to help her. I ran through the trees and tumbled onto the sand with my sword in my hand. I Stabbed a Iwak (Fish Human Hybrid) clean through the chest, and watched it disappear in a million polymetric shapes. I looked back at Sophia, who was staring at me in disbelief. I jumped over her and cut through two more Iwaks effortlessly. After I finished the last Iwaks off, I sat on the sand next to Sophia, who was obviously upset about something.
"He-" I was cut off before I was able to say anything else.
"Go away, bastard." I sighed and placed my hand on her head. "Don't touch me." She snapped rudely. Ignored her and began to rub her head tenderly. She didn't object anymore after that. I would usually pet her when even she was tense, or feeling down. She's like my cat. But with an attitude.
"You like like being pet, don't you?" I asked playfully. I heard a few soft moans coming from her. So I guess that's a yes.
"You should really stop doing this... You're spoiling me too much." She said after a few minutes.
I petted her more slowly. "I'm just petting you. It's no big deal. If you want me to stop, I can." She didn't say anything else after that. So I assumed it was ok to continue.. Alex..." I stopped petting her in response. "Why do you think the creator did this?" I removed my her head.
"That's a good question. I think he wanted to make a point."
"Make a point?" I nodded at her.
"Why else does anyone do anything? You played this game on your own will, right? To let everyone know you wanted play. Well, It's not too different." I looked from her and at the ocean. "He wanted everyone to know, we're at his mercy." I thought my speech would have shown some light on the situation. But all it did was drive Sophia to tears. She fell on to my shoulder and began sobbing.
"I don't want to be at anyone else's mercy but my own! I want to live in the real world again! I want to leave this place..." She cried on my shoulder to the point when my arm was soaked. But I didn't mind. I wanted to cry too that day. But I didn't. Because I had Victoria to watch out for me. Who watches over Sophia?
"Sophie... Don't worry. I'll see to it that we get out of here in one piece. Though... I can't promise that everything will go back to the way it was." I guess that was enough to calm her down. She stopped crying and say back up. Her red face was covered in tears. It didn't get in her hair because it was a ponytail, and her eyes were also a bright red. I smiled lightly and began petting her again.
"Let's go back and celebrate." She said through a smile. I nodded and pulled both of us to our feet. 'Hey, Thanks." I nod again and gave a thumbs up.
"No problem!" I pat her on the back, telling her to go. She started walking off in the direction of the Inn, and I walked beside her. Sophia…. Aaron's Younger Sister, is now alone in this world. It's my job to take care of her.
Kirito: ...
Asuna: That was... Ok... I guess...
Yui: I Liked it.
Me: Thank you again, Yui.
Kirito: ...
Asuna: Why is he like that?
Me: This probably reminded him of Sachi.
Asuna: Who's Sachi?
Kirito: She's a girl... I use to care about very much...
Asuna: CARED ABOUT VERY MUCH!?
Me: Oh boy... Anyways! You know ze drill! Sayonara!
Kirito: -Runs away-
Asuna: -Chasing- THE SAME BED!?
