Chapter 10
Dec. 28, 2022, 10:29 pm
After introducing Ami to the the guild, I took out to a field dungeon. I needed to assess her abilities. We were now fighting the field boss, gaurding the dungeon entrance. It looked like a desert bandit. Ami uses a two handed sword to fight, much like I did the first week or so of the game. I know how two handed swords work. Right now she was trying to kill this bandit. She dodges, then slices it straight down the middle. I have to admit she is good. Better then I expected to be honest. To me her stats seem like, she has the perfect balance of speed and strength. "Ami switch with me!"
She switches and lets me fight. The bandit swings his sword at me. I block the sword with the handle of my scythe. I shift my weight , and my scythe goes straight in its' head. The boss quickly counters me, and slices me in the side."Ami switch!" I back up and Ami jumps in. She swings her sword at it, landing a direct hit. The field boss shatters into a million pieces. "Nice going, great job Ami. You were amazing! You handle that sword really well. You are really, really good."
She puts her hands over her eyes. "You really think so, cuase I don't. If I am really that great then my friends would still be here. Takeshi, Kuro, and Sakura would still be alive. Maybe I should have died with my friends."
As I thought she is still being effected by her loss. " Look Ami, I know how you feel. You miss your friends, I get that. This is a game, death should not be real. Unfortunately death is part of this game, and we are trapped here. I know death can be hard, But loss only makes us stronger. You survived for a reason. If you really wanna die that's fine, but before you do consider this. Do you really think your friends Would want you like this?"
She looks up me with a sad look."Do you really think your family would want you to die? Do you know why I fight? I'm fighting to stop death, to make sure this game is cleared. To make sure as many people as possible live till the end. I think your friends would want you to live on till the end!"
She looks up at me smiles. "Thank you Mizore, I'm really glad I met you. Your right I will keep fighting. Takeshi wouldn't want me to die. Remember when you met me, i mentioned my boyfriend. Well his name was Takeshi both here and irl. Takeshi always wanted me to be happy. He always told me what a great girl I am. He brought out the best in me, just as I did him. He would want me to live on, to keep fighting.I will see this game till the end. Now let go back town and get some sleep."
Dec. 29, 2022, 8:24 am
I wake up, and look out the window. Someone must have just beat the boss, there are words in the sky. "Congratulations, floor 6 has been cleared! " Its good to see that the floors are being cleared so fast. It means that this game can be cleared.
"Mistress Mizore, when is breakfast? I'm hungry!" Death says. Hmp, typical Death was hungry, She liked eating alot.
" Ok, death let's go get some breakfast. We leave our room and head to the inn kitchen. When we get to the kitchen I see Saya cooking." What are you making Saya?" She turns and looks at me.
" Oh, good morning my lady. I was just making breakfast, do you and Death want some.
"Yes, thank you saya. Death and I would like that very much." She smiles and turns back to her cooking.
"What would you like my lady?" She asks.
"Anything is fine Saya."
After a moment, she turns to me. "Breakfast is served!"
I really like Saya's cooking. It's so much better then the food you get from npcs. I look down at the food. It's bacon eggs and a big stack of pancakes. I savor the flavor as take the first bite. "Wow Saya, your cooking is as impressive as ever." She gives Death a plate of bacon. "I hope you like bacon, Death." She asks. Death makes a noise."She says yes." She grabs herself a plate and sits down. We sit quietly and eat our food. " So, Saya do you like cooking irl?" I ask. "Yes, I do my lady though cooking is not as fun in Sao. To be honest it's kinda boring. But, the upside is I get to eat good. " I sit back in my chair." Ami was having a little doubt about whether or not, she should have lived or died. But I think she is good now, She just needed a reason to go on. "Thank you for the food Saya. It's good, to have a best friend who is such good cook."
Death and I leave the kitchen, to go to my room. I needed to make a few poisons. A poison making skill is useful for all kinds of things. Paralysis, Damage, and some cases death. I only used the deadlier poisons on monsters, not players. I pull the ingredients out of my inventory. It's quite simple making poison. It's really just mixing different herbs and plants with water or other liquids. I grind up a plant I found the other day. With this particular plant, I can make a paralysis poison. This one lasted 15 seconds. I could make it last longer, but right now my skill is to low. I take the plant a ground up. I drop into a cup up of water. I take my throwing picks and dip them in the poison. Throwing picks are useful little tools. They are tiny little needles, that can be used all sorts of ways. I figure it's probably a good idea to take some paralysis poison with me to floor 7. I reach into my pocket and pull out my teleport. I walk to the town teleport gate and teleport to floor 7.
Floor 7, the middle of nowhere, 10:2Oam
I come though the teleport gate and end up in the middle of I look around, i see players killing monsters. "Oh hey Mizore, good to see you!" A familiar voice calls out to me. I look in the direction the voice came from.
"Klein, nice to see you too. How are things with you?"
He puts his hands behind his head. "Yea, I've been good. Hey do you know who beat the boss?" He asks.
"No I don't but, I'm just glad we are on Floor 7 now. It means that, we are one step closer to the end of this death game. We conquered 6 floors. We have 94 more to go. Oh by the way, where's the town?" He looks around the area.
"Yea, I was wondering that too." He replies .
"It doesn't have one, not all the floors do." Klein starts smiling and turns around.
"Kirito, how ya been buddy? Still a solo player, I see." Kirito is a odd guy. He is a solo player, but he extremely good player. Other people who try to solo usually die, but not Kirito.
" Hey Kirito, what's up?" He turns and looks at me.
" Hi Mizore." He turns back and keeps talking to Klein. I Figure I would just let them talk, So I leave.
I start killing monsters on the floor. These particular monsters were oversized desert creatures. Animals like snakes, Vultures, coyotes, and scorpions. I pull out one of my throwing picks. I throw it one of the giant vultures. When it hits, the bird drops to the ground. I have 15 seconds to kill it. I slice the crap out of it and it shatters. Death flies above one and dives bombs it. It shatters before it hits the the ground. I dodge quickly as a snake strikes at me. As it passes,. I activate a skill and slice it through the neck. After a few hours if this process, I decide to go home. I pull out my teleport crystal and teleport to Sunakagaru.
Sunakagaru
I appear at the warp gate and Saya walks toword me. "My lady, where have you been?"She asks.
" I've been up on floor 6, killing monsters." she looks at me, with a look of relief.
" Oh thank kami, I thought something bad had happened!" Saya hugs me tightly. " I'm so glad your safe."
I pull up my menu and look at my clock. It said it was 17:58, it was almost 6 o'clock. "Saya floor 7 has no town, Kirito said so. I trust him, he was a beta tester after all. He would know, better then most people would. Anyway Saya you wanna get something eat?" She nods at me, and smiles. "
Yes my lady, I would like that."
I take the last bite of my spicy shrimp sandwich. " So, I was wondering. Saya, whats your family like? If you don't nind me asking."
She gets kind of sad look on her face." Well, I don't have any brothers and sisters. My mother died when I was a baby. So just live with my dad in Okinawa. Dad said Mom was killed in car wreck. I've seen pictures of her, she was really beautiful." she tears up a little bit. "I wonder if dad is okay. He is probably worried sick about me." Saya's family life sounded pretty rough.
"Saya, I live in Okinawa too. So when we clear this game, I will find you. Then we can become best friends irl too." She looks up at me and wipes her tears.
"Yes my lady, I would like that."