SWORD ART ONLINE: THE VELVET SWORD
CHAPTER 7: THE BEAST TAMER
2 MONTHS LATER
FLOOR: 35, LOST FOREST
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
"Hey Velvet, why are we in this forest? I mean i know this place was pretty good for leveling up, even though it's risky but still, couldn't we go to like the higher floors?" Gin asked as he used the back of his knees on a tree branch to do sit ups.
In the 2 months prior to now, the frontlines had far surpassed this floor, we were here to meet up with someone for an assignment, a mission of justice. We were supposed to come at 5, it was 4:15, we were early.
"Heeeeey, you two made it early!" Kirito called from across the clearing
"Glad you could make it early Kirito!" I groaned to the black haired swordsmen
"Hope I wasn't interupting anything." Kirito gave me a smug look which i just glared back at.
"Why are the two of you making faces?" Gin broke his silence after realizing Kirito and I were having a face battle.
"Um, i'll tell you later." I said then looked over to Kirito "Should we start searching?" Kirito nodded and opened his map to display for the 3 of us the entire forest.
"Kiri, Kjelle, and Sai are searching here." I pointed out to Kirito to save us any extra searching.
"We would have more help if Dex didn't drag Nix away before we could talk." I muttered as Kirito scanned the trails on his map to plot search routes.
"What about Larvatum? Wheres he?" Kirito asked as we all started searching for the nice red player.
"I've literally been sitting in the same place since we got here." He called from beside a tree he was reading on.
*minutes later*
"Stupid searching, stupid forests" I muttered as I was forced to search seperated from Larvatum, Gin, and Kirito.
"Stupid Kirito's plan, stupid noises...AND WHAT THE HELL ARE WE SEARCHING FOR!?" I yelled at a random tree and slashed at another with Crocea Mors.
"Screw that tree in particular" I groaned, i wasn't actualy mad, i was mostly upset.
I kicked a rock that was on my path and heard shouts in the distance, a girls shout.
My first thought was, it could be Gin but his health bar hadn't dropped.
"And why am I moving towards the sounds of danger?" I asked my legs who seemed to be moving on there own, I climbed into a tree to move faster and with the help of Hare's gift i was able to leap from branch to branch, as i did so i made a note to thank Heathcliff for adding shorts to this armor.
Rather than jump onto this branch I caught it in my hands and in the clearing infront of me, there was a girl wearing a yellow and red outfit with coat tails, her hair was light brown and from here her eyes looked colored red. Around her a small blue scaled beast flew but the thing that caught my attention was the 3 large enemies infront of her, Great Apes were what they were called, they weilded large wooden cudgel's but that wasn't why they were so hard to fight, in their off hand they held large bottles that they drank from to heal themselves, this forest was challenging becuase of these enemies.
One Great Ape swung at her and she back flipped out of its way, right when she caught her footing another swing made her back jump again.
As quickly as I could I sent a message to kirito "found" was all i wrote because i needed to save this girl.
Her small dragon flew next to her and opened its mouth, small shiny fragments came from its mouth and healed her, she must've been a Beast Tamer, which was why she wasn't too good in a fight, Beast Tamers mostly focused in support, not offense.
I could see her health bar from here, her dragon had healed her some but not enough, i wasn't sure how much more she could take. She fished into her back pocket the same time i dug into mine and pulled out 3 thowing knives. I looked up just in time to see a cudgel make contact with her chest and launch her at a tree, her kunai knife embedded itself into the floor far away.
As much as I wanted to save her now I wasn't close enough to be certain my daggers would hit the Great Apes, I dropped from the tree and bolted as fast as my legs could carry me.
The girl searched frantically for her kunai and didn't notice me in the distance running to get in range. The lead Great Ape readied its weapon and swung down, I couldn't bring my eyes to close themselves but luckly i didn't need to, though it sounds heartless the small blue dragon flew infront of the girl at the moment before she was hit to take the full impact, there was an abundant sound of bones cracking as the dragon was thrown to the floor.
"PINA!" The girl shrieked, my guess was Pina was the dragon's name, I checked the corner of my eyesight to see my HUD, i still wasn't in 100% range, these daggers needed to hit to kill.
The girl held the dragon as it shattered and she glanced up to the Great Apes that got ever closer to her, she didn't try to move out of the way, sh-she was ready to die. This girl who i had seen once i was certain but never actually met her, she was so ready to die.
A thought entered my mind as i was finally in range to throw my knives.
"Was i like this for you, Oliver?" I whsipered and threw the 3 knives, the trajectory curved and glew lightly with slashing sword skills, each made contact with the necks of the Great Apes killing them instantly.
Footsteps caught my rabbit ears and both Kirito and Gin came running into the clearing, weapons drawn to see the girl who looked up at me with teary eyes then sobbed into a small blue feather in her palms.
"Pina, Pina don't leave me alone" The girl sobbed, i truy felt responsible, if i was faster i could've saved her dragon, i- i was to blame.
"I-Its my fault" I said through the knott in my throat. Larvatum, who emerged from no where, awkwardly placed a hand on my shoulder to calm me.
Kirito walked to the girl.
"What's that feather?" he asked as he sheathed his blade.
"I-It's Pina, my partner.." The girl never looked at any of us, just looked at the floor ahead of herself.
"You're a Beast Tamer" Kirito concluded.
"I-Im sorry I wasn't able to save your friend." I said after getting passed the knott in my throat and walked up to both Kirito and the girl.
"No." Dhe shook her head "I was being stupid, I was stupid to think I could make it through the forest on my own." she obviously didn't have anymore healing items and we were near the center of the forest, this truly was a hard place back when this was the highest floor.
The girl looked up at me.
"Thank you for saving me" She looked up with tears in her eyes, the knott was back in my throat so I only nodded.
"Does that feather have an item name?" Kirito asked the girl, i knew what he was getting at.
The girl tapped the feather and a pop up window showed the name "Pina's heart", again the girl teared up but Kirito swooped in for the save.
"Don't cry, if Pina's heart is still here you can revive her."
"Really?" the girl asked in disbelief
It was my turn to jump in, I had done this before for another Kjelle, her beast had died at one point and with Argo's help Gin, Larvatum, and I found out how to revive beasts.
"On the south side of floor 47, there's a field dungeoun called The Hill of Memories, theres a flower that blooms at the top that revives pet's." I told the girl all this as she looked up at me with a smll smile then her face dropped.
"Floor 47." She whispered, if she was having trouble on floor 35, it would take her some time to become high enough level to brave that floor, and given that her main asset was now a feather, she was in a rough spot.
"If you gave us the pet feather we'd go, but the pet's owner needs to be there for the flower to bloom." I said giving a hint to Gin, he also knew what this meant.
"That information is enough, if i work hard enough that some day i'll revive Pina" the girl's bravery and vigor made me smile a bit but I knew i'd have to shoot down her dreams.
"They can only be revived up to 3 days after death." I said sadly and got out of my crouched position and swipped open my menu.
"You have 3 days, this gear should have enough stat gains to accomidate for about 7 levels" I said as I pressed the trade option on better armor ,gauntlets, boots and a better weapon, the armor I had actually used for a bit then stopped with the plan of selling it, this would put it to better use.
The girl stood up.
"Why would you do all this for me?" she asked, I honestly couldn't really answer that with a vague answer.
"Well um, i've never really had a little sister, and you seem to fit the resume. And I won't feel right knowing I left you like this." I answered legitimatly.
"And you?" she asked Kirito.
"Promise you won't laugh?" He said placing his hand over his face "You remind me of my little sister." This caught all 4 of my ears, Kirito hardly ever spoke about his real life, so hearing him say this to a girl we hardly knew was interesting.
The girl laughed at Kirito's answer
"What about you?" she asked Gin and Larvatum who'd stayed at the back of our group this whole time.
"Well, not only do we follow Velvet everywhere, this can also work for us I guess." Gin said half-heatedly and Larva shrugged but I knew that wasn't his real reason.
"Um i know this isn't enough but-" the girl opened her Col. trade menu, she was going to pay us.
"No need, this is compatible with our goal" Gin smiled to the girl and gave both Kirito and I a look.
The girl craned her neck for a second as if to ask us something but changed the subject and stuck out her hand.
"I'm Silica"
"I'm Kirito, this is Velvet, Gin, and Larvatum." Kirito introduced us and we shook hands with Silica.
"Okay and we'll be departing before more enemies show up." Gin handed each of us Teleport crystal's and we all uttered the same phrase.
"Teleport, Mishe." Mishe was the biggest town on this floor and it was the one Silica had recromenned us to go to. I had spent most of my time in this town during the few weeks the front lines were here.
This town was now populated by lower level players who felt it was now safe. Larvatum tapped my shoulder and told me he would run interference then left.
Silica let her eyes wander as we walked, as did Kirito's, Gin's and mine, but ours were searching for something.
My ears caught rushed footsteps coming towards us, i made our approach signal by patting my right leg twice followed by clearing my throat.
"There's Silica-Chan!" One of the pair's of footsteps called, all of us turned to see two boys, one was a short fat boy, the other was a skinny tall one, quite the contrast, now I knew my memory was good because i recognized these two from launch day, the tall one's avatar was a very pretty girl and the short ones avatar had been an older tougher guy.
"We were worried." Fatty said as he leaned foward towards Silica.
"U-Um" Silica was at a lose for words.
"Let's party up sometime, we can go wherever you want" Skinny offered, I tried not to think how wrong that sentence sounded.
"That's nice of you but..." Silica's eyes darted over to the boy's in our group and she grasped Kirito's and Gin's sleeves as if they'd drag her away.
"I'll be in a party with them for a while" Silica shot down the 2 boys and they death glared Kirito and Gin but when they looked at me and glared I was too clueless as what type of face to make in response.
Silica dragged away Kirito and Gin and I soon followed, I hesistated for a moment then sheepishly looked back at the boys "Errr, Sorry" then ran to catch up with the others.
"Your fans are dicks" I said to Silica just loud enough for the 2 boys to hear.
"You must be popular" Kirito said with a smile in hopes not to wound Silica's pride.
"No...They just want me along as a mascot." The very idea of what she said made me glare back at the two boys, was that all she was to them?
"I got full of myslef when they began to call me "Dragon Tamer Silica." Silica began to tear up.
"Don't worry, we'll make it in time." Kirito swore and placed his hand on Silica's head.
Silica nodded and wiped her tears.
For the next few blocks of Mishe we conversed in idle chit-chat of Silica asking where Kirito lived.
"Oh, if it isn't Silica." I turned when we heard a voice and saw a girl who seemed to adore the color scheme of black and red.
"You made it out of the forest? I'm relieved." Red and black girl, who's username appeared to be Rosalia, seemed to be along with a group of other players, one waved the Silica kindly.
"Are you okay? Is something wrong?" I whispered to Silica when she fell silent.
"N-No nothing." She put on a fake smile for me.
"Huh? What happened to the lizard?" Rosalia leaned forward.
"Pina...died, But I'm definitly bringing her back!" Silica defended against the seemingly arrogant player, this player gave me rather bad vives.
"Eh? Then your heading to the Hill of Memories? But at your level are you sure you can clear it?" Something she said caught my drift, how did she know of the hill if she was on THIS floor still?
Kirito and I stepped infront of Silica.
"She will clear it." Kirito said calmy.
"It isn't that hard to be perfectly honest." I shrugged.
"Ah, are you the new ones shes seduced? None of you look particularly, Strong." Rosalia eyed Gin and Kirito up and down before he gaze fell onto me with a smirk.
"And then theirs you, oh don't get me wrong, you play the innocent girly girl look quite well, trying hopelessly to be something you can never be in real life, right?" I wordlessly placed my hand on Silica's shoulder and nodded to Gin and Kirito.
"Let's go." Kirito led our group all the while Rosalia stared at us with wicked eyes.
Minutes later Silica led us to a small inn, it was NPC owned, unlike Kiri's Inn, we sat at a lantern-lit stall and all placed our orders.
"Why is she so mean?" Silica sighed as she leaned forward in her seat as she thought about Rosalia, that girl obviously had a knack for getting under peoples skin.
"Is SAO your first MMO?" Kirito asked, to which Silica replied "Yes."
"In most online games, players have...split personalities." I tried to explain the truth i was also facing.
"Some players enjoy to play the villain. Our Icons show us as green right?" Gin asked as he folded his arms.
"However if you commit crimed your cursor turns orange, The worst criminals, player killer's are known as Red players." I informed Silica while i thought of Larvatum, he claimed he had become a Red player due to helping others but was that true?
"Y-You mean like murderers?" Silica asked innocently.
"In every other game they could have fun as a villain, but here, if your HP drops to zero, you die."
"Velvet-chan." Silica said as she looked down.
I-I'm sorry." I apoligized not thinking about how she's take it.
"B-But your good people! Y-You saved me!" Silica abruptly got up and placed her hands over Kirito's.
"Seems like she's cheered us up instead." Gin said with a smug look on his face.
Silica's face got red qucikly adnd she recoiled from Kirito's hands and started screaming about how our cheesecake was late.
"I don't see why we have to share rooms" I sent the message to Kirito who quickly replied.
"it's your job to keep her safe, besides Gin wants to be away from you for once."
I closed my menu and dropped onto the second bed in the room i shared with Silica, she had removed her armor and robes in a way alot of people did if they didn't buy pajamas in-game like Gin did, "To feel normal." He claims.
"If i told him i wanted to talk more would he laugh at me?" I heard Silica mutter very quietly, i had to strain with even my enhanced hearing.
"Silica, Velvet, are you still up? I forgot i had more to tell you about our quest." Kirito said rather loudly.
Silica ran towards the door and i awkwardly grabbed her arm and pointed down to what she was wearing, or lack thereof.
She ran around flusteredly until she had her casual wear and awkwardly sat down as i got the door.
"Don't worry, it happens sometimes." I tried to console the girl knowing how it used to happen with Alistar, Kirito, and I on the first floor.
"Silica is something wrong?" Kirito asked, completely clueless of what had just transpired.
"N-No, it's nothing!"
I nonchalantly started to play my harp that I had equipped when no one was looking and sat by the door, I already knew our route, it was the one I had taken with Kjelle.
Kirito activated his mirage sphere which gave us a map of every floor.
He was in the middle of the route plan when I heard footsteps approach our door and stop walking.
Someone was outside.
"Who's There?!" I demaded as i burst through the door, my song from my harp hid some of what we had said and my footsteps but the player must have noticed when i stopped playing at the same beat to get up.
Whoever the person was, they were already down the stairs by the time i looked over.
"Someone heard us." I informed Kirito.
"But unless you knock, you can't hear through a door." Silica said as we closed and locked the door.
"Not true, if your listening skill is very well trained like mine you can eavesdrop unnoticed." I corrected the girl.
I clasped my hand over Silica's mouth as i heard the footsteps return.
"Let's just go to sleep." The nark left.
FLOOR 47: FLORIA
FEBURARY 24TH, 2024
As the teleport gates blue lights disappeared we found ourselves in what seemed to be a garden.
"It's like a dream!" Silica said as she glanced around to all the flowers.
Silica now wore the armor and had the weapon i had given her.
"This floor is known as the Flower Garden, known for the entire floor being one big garden." I said like a tour guide.
Silica joyfully ran up to the first batch as flowers and we let her enjoy the sights for a moment.
Silica most've been thinking up some adoreable thoughts because she blushed at the sound of Kirito's voice before we departed.
As we passed over a bridge Gin handed Silica a teleportation crystal.
"If anything happens and we tell you to warp out, this crystal will send you back to the town." Kirito informed her.
We started our treck to the Hill of Memories in a peaceful silence while our eyes and ears were ever ready to catch wind of any noises.
"U-Um Kirito-Sani-..." Silica was caught off-guard by a floor beast known as "Vile doom" it was essentially a large flower with a mouth and long tentacle like arms. The green arms wrapped around Silica's legs and effortlessly lifted her into the air.
Then it happened.
As she was hoisted upside down into the air Silica grabbed the hem of her skirt to prevent us from seeing anything and started flailing her arms and screaming.
"S-Save me! B-But don't look! Don't look but save me!"
"Thats impossible." Both Gin and Kirito muttered as they held their hands over their eyes.
"Silica! Calm down you already have everything you need to defeat it!" I clasped my hands around my mouth and shouted.
"The power to believe in myself?"
"No, a knife! Stab it!" I yelled and she reached for the dagger I had given her, up til now she was flailing her arms with the blade in her hands but now she grabbed one of the tentacles and cleaved it off of her in one swipe before doing the same to the other and finally unleashing a downward strike killing the Vile doom.
"Did you see?" Silica looked back at us with a timid blush and I looked at the 3 boys who were all covering their eyes but shook their heads.
I walked up to the girl and wrapped my arm around her shoulders and continued our journey.
"Kirito-San, can i ask about your sister?" Silica asked the question that had honestly been on my mind for a while. During launch day Kirito had mentioned his sister to Klein but that was all I had heard of his real life.
It was common knowledge that not many players liked talking about their real life, I didn't mind so long as it was someone I trusted.
"Why now all of a sudden?" Kirito said as Larvatum, Gin, and I all remained quiet.
"You said i look like her. I know its impolite to ask about the real word but can i ask?"
"I call her my little sister, but she's actually my cousin. We grew up together so I don't think she knows, maybe thats why i've been distancing myself from her."
Remembering all that he said now no longer makes me want to use his exact words but his grandfather was a very strict traditional person who made them join and kendo dojo but Kirito stopped attending it thus causing his grandfather to beat him, his cousin would train twice as hard and fight just as hard in an effort to keep their grandfather from hurting Kirito but he always feels that she holds it against him.
"I don't think your sister hates you. I don't think she'd work that hard for so long for someone she didn't love." Silica said in an effort to make Kirito feel better and it really was true.
"You keep reassuring me, maybe your right."
"This is the hill, the flower revival flower is here." I spoke up finally breaking my silence, Kirito looked at me as if he had forgotten I was there.
I led the group to a small metalic pedestal and as Silica approached it a small white flower began to bloom.
She gently plucked it and the item, the Pnuema flower, was added to her inventory.
"This'll bring Pina back, right?" Silica asked and I nodded but looked behind us.
"This probably isn't the safest place to do revive Pina, perhaps back at the inn?" Silica nodded at my idea and we started the treck back to the teleportation gate.
We did still have a agenda to follow.
*Player name: Rosalia*
My Detection skill spotted a name far quicker than anyone else's could in our group, she was hidden behind a tree.
"Wait, do thou eyes beseech me?! Does the great gods of wrath come to claim us? Quickly children we must spirit away before w- oh my god will you just come out already?" Toying with her probably wouldn't make this any quicker but it did make it more enjoyable, humiliation was a fair form of justice in my book.
Rosalia calmy stepped out from behind her tree.
"R-Rosalia-san?" Silica asked in suprise.
"Rosalia, oh my god how are you? it's been so long w- ok let's drop the acts, your not fooling me." I said the first part high pitched with fake excitement then dead-panned the end.
"Ah, saw through both my hiding skill and my act? Your detection must be quite high to have done that, than you must also know im the leader of the red guild, Titan's hand?" Rosalia dropped her hand to her hip in an arrogant pose.
It really wasn't hard to see her, the tree told me her name.
"Titan's hand? I thought you were someone dangerous like Laughing Coffin." I nudged Gin in the side with my elbow, both he and Kirito had remainded silent since we started.
"Whatever, we're the highest rated PK'ers guild on the lower floors, now hand over the Pnuema flower, or I'll take it from you." She said with a threatening tone.
"No thanks, now come closer before I lunge over there and shove my boot down your throat." I said as I let my hand drop near my sword's hilt.
"Ah there goes that innocent girl act you love, you must enjoy it, getting stuck in this game was probably the best thing thats ever happened to you, you can be whoever you want, but there's one thing you can't change...you, sound like a boy." She gloated knowing she knew how to push peoples bottuns.
And she had definitly pushed mines.
"What? No i don't sound like a boy th-thats cra-Thats Crazy!" I said as my shoulders jerked in anger, with each word I spoke I was reminded.
"But you Silica, you are the prey I've been most anticipating, I was so sad when you left our guild, but then you said you were getting a rare item." Through reddened vision I saw her playfully toy with Silica.
"But you three knew that and went with her anyway, are you idiots?" Rosalia looked at Kirito and Gin behind me.
"WE'VE been searching for you too Rosalia. Ten days ago you attacked a Guild calling themselves the Silver Flags." Gin spoke up unaware of my seeding anger.
"Oh, the ones with no money." Rosalia twirled her finger through her hair.
"The leader of that guild went to the front lines and begged us to find you, but he didn't want you killed, he wanted someone to jail you."
"Can you truly take anything so seriously? There's no proof we die in real life if we die here so i'm just gonna be taking the flower from you, your nothing more than shrimps, a little girl, and a man voice." Rosalia smirked knowing she had gotten me worked up.
"Really? How? That'd be a neat little trick."
"True, but whats a performer without her lovely assistants." Rosalia snapped her fingers and several orange players from Titan's Hand emerged from the shadows.
"O-Oh no there's too many! I-I'll back you guys up." Silica declared proudly and placed and hand on her dagger's hilt but I gently placed my hand on her head.
"Aw how adoreable, you think your a threat, I got this. Might wanna stay back guys, the first three rows are a splash zone." I said as I drew Crocea Mors and walked forward while Kirito and Gin stayed close to Silica.
"Gin? Shouldn't we be backing her up?" Kirito asked Gin worried.
"Nah, you haven't seen her when someone called her a boy, Velvet's got this in the bag Kirito."
"W-Wait, Velvet? Kirito? Gin? One-handed Sword Users, No armor. B-Boss I think those are the Beaters that fight on the front lines. The Black Swordsman. The Velvet sword, and The Hired Blade!" One of Rosalia's thugs must've heard the rumors but really? We those the best nicknames we could get?! They literally just put the and sword around my name.
"What would players on the front lines be doing here? Kill her than sort ou-."
"Oh you think it'll be so easy girly? Well c'mon I'll give you the first shot." I let my hands fall to my hips and I calmly flicked Crocea Mors.
"B-Boss I think it's a trap." The man wearing a sleeveless yellow shirt said to Rosalia.
"Enough! it's just one person and there's seven of you!" Rosalia outbursted and her minions charged forward.
I looked back at Kirito and the others Silica looked towards me with fearful eyes, I smiled reassuringly to her then looked back at the squad of murderes.
The one who worried about this being a trap was the closest and I kept my gaze locked upon his until he was a mere yard away and halted my steps.
He approached and with a sword skill charged strike made contact with my shoulder, the usual red streak the represented where a player was struck was very apparent over my armor but I was unfazed.
The next member of Titan's hand that I noticed was encirciling me was weilding dual hatchets, they looked rather bulky and I was curious to get a glimpse of his strength. When he chose to swing with his left arm then release a uppercut strike with his right I was rather dissapointed. With my left leg i curled my knee and raised it and with the flat of my shin I stopped his attack by colliding my leg against his wrist.
When the force caused the man to recoil I rose my left hand and extended my fingers to their full length before releasing a vicious backhand to the man's jaw.
The third and the remaining charged forward realizing they're quickest member and they're vanguard had apparently given them an opening.
They all moved in a very rugged way with little to no form of real coordination.
All the while these rugged men clashed their weapons across my body until they finally all staggered back and were gasping for breath in exhaustion. I had counted about 3 to 4 minutes of non-stop attacks and one look at my health bar?
12,350:12,500 *battle healing* 12,500:12,500.
"I-I don't understand we threw everything we had at her."
"What are you doing? Kill her!" Rosalia lost her full and ordered her men.
"You see, girly, you may think you got me all figured out, but the truth is...my numbers, are bigger than yours." I opened my skill menu and flashed my level.
LEVEL: 78
"Impossible n-no one can be that powerf-!"
"Oh but we can! Funny thing really when you get to a high enough level your basically invincible! We could stand here all the and you'd NEVER beat me! Not, that it wouldn't be fun!"
"Our client spent his entire fortune to pay for this warp crystal, its set to teleport you to the jail on floor 1, your ALL going!" I glared at Rosalia and she readed her spear.
"I'm green so if you hurt me your be red fo-" When she blinked I was gone my blade deftly found its way to a mere inch from her neck and I stood behind her.
"Lets make one thing clear, on the frontlines, I'm far too liked for people to think bad thoughts were they to see me as a orange player for a day or two, so go ahead, press your throat to the blade if your willing to test it." I whispered coldy and she literally dropped her spear right then and there.
*YAY TIME SKIP!*
"Sorry we kinda used you Silica." Kirito rubbed the back of his neck and apoligized.
"I still think your good people." Silica assured us as we all sat back in the Inn room we were at last night.
"Well, what'cha say we revive Pina?" Gin purposed and Silica got up from her seat.
I felt a certain wrenching in my heart as she let the dew fall onto Pina's heart, once Pina was returned, we'd no longer have a reason to be with Silica, we'd be needed back on the front lines.
But for now, we'd enjoy this day.
The day I had a little sister.
*AUTHORS NOTE* HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE! NEWEST CHAPTER! I HOPE YOU ENJOYED VELVET AND HER HARRASMENT OF TITAN'S HAND! AND TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SUBMITTING OC'S DON'T TAKE THIS PERSONALLY BUT THEY'RE A BIT UM...CLICHE.
BTW NEXT CANNON EPISODE IS "DEATH WITHIN THE WALLS" AND "ILLUSIONARY AVENGER" BUT VERY GOOD EPISODES BUT THEY CENTER AROUND ONLY KIRITO AND ASUNA SO I FEEL THAT VELVET, AND GIN HAVE NO PLACE IN THAT EPISODE OTHER THAN TO TAKE KIRITO'S LINES SO THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL SKIP THOSE EVENTS.
