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Oblivion is owned by urolutze
Kirito had messaged Artemis that he needed a group of two, including himself to get to floor 59. Apparently, according to Kirito, there was a murder in a safe zone. Artemis went with Oblivion to Floor 59 to try and investigate the scene with Kirito and Asuna.
When Artemis and Oblivion got there, there had been a man with a red sword through his chest, hanging on a noose. "Hurry! Pull it out!" Kirito yelled. "Artemis, come here, we gotta catch him." Kirito continued.
"Oblivion, you follow me, we gotta get him off that thing, Asap." Asuna said.
"Well, let's hurry." Oblivion said.
Kirito and Artemis started to run towards the dying man, getting ready to catch him. "Help is on the way!" Kirito yelled.
As the man kept trying to pull the sword out of his chest, suddenly the man stopped, and he had died.
"Dammit!" Oblivion and Asuna said when they got upstairs, as they heard the sound indicating that the man died.
"Everyone! Look for the player with the winner icon!" Kirito said.
There was no one to be found with a winner icon.
Kirito and Artemis walked upstairs. "You guys have any idea how this could have happened?" Kirito asked.
"Maybe a Sleep PK'er? But Sleep PK'ing is a new method so, probably not." Artemis suggested.
"We can ask one of the witnesses down there before we try and investigate on our own." Oblivion said.
The group of four went down the stairs, and Kirito asked the witnesses if any of them knew the man, or knew what happened before the event. A young girl walked towards the group.
"Sorry, I can only tell how frightened you'd be. Could you tell us your name please?" Asuna asked the young girl.
"Sure... My name is Yolko." She said
"Was that you? Were you the one who screamed?" Kirito asked. The girl nodded.
"You know who he was?" Artemis asked the young girl.
"Uh-huh, I knew him. His name was Kains. We were in the same guild. We came in together today, we were going to have dinner somewhere in town. Then we got separated in the plaza." Yolko said, starting to well up in tears. "I went to look for him, then I saw him hanging on that balcony."
The girl started to cry, Asuna went to comfort her as she asked. "Was there anyone else up there?"
"For a second… I'm not sure. But I think I did see someone standing behind him." Yolko said.
"Sheesh, I don't know If I wanna stay and just look at her ball her eyes out like this." Oblivion whispered towards Artemis.
"Don't tell anyone this, but I know that Kains actually faked his death, later Yolko will do the same." Artemis, cautiously whispered towards Oblivion.
"How the hell do you know that? I know you reincarnated, but how the hell do you know that Kains faked his death." Oblivion whispered.
"In the world I came from, there was an anime based off of Sword Art Online, which Kirito and Asuna are the main characters." Artemis quietly replied.
"That's confusing, but If it turns out that he did in fact fake his death, and that Yolko faked her death as well in the future, then I know for sure I can believe you by then." Oblivion said.
"What are you guys doing? C'mon, we gotta walk Yolko home." Asuna said impatiently.
"Alright, let's go Oblivion." Artemis said.
When the group dropped Yolko off, Kirito looked at Artemis and Oblivion as if they were doing something they shouldn't have.
"What were you guys whispering about back there?" Kirito asked.
"Oh, Oblivion was just talking about how he didn't want to just look at a little kid ball her eyes everywhere after witnessing murder." Artemis said.
"Okay? So nothing that had to do with your reincarnation?" Kirito asked.
"Nope, the dumbass wouldn't understand shit about reincarnation." Artemis said.
"Well, I guess that's true, but… Uh whatever, let's just get back to our headquarters." Oblivion said.
Later, Artemis got a message from Kirito again telling him to go somewhere to talk to Yolko, but this time, Artemis was told to go alone.
When Artemis got there, he noticed in the room, there was a man wearing full body armour, which would be Schmidt, across from him was Yolko. Kirito and Asuna were keeping them in check, asking them questions as well.
"Yolko, you still don't look that great, no sleep last night let me guess." Artemis said.
"No, I had barely any." Yolko said, hesitantly, looking around nervously. "All I could think about overnight was-"
"No no, don't say it." Artemis said.
"Uhh, fine…" Yolko said.
"Schmidt, good to see you." Artemis said.
When Yolko finished talking after moving to the window, she soon was supposedly stabbed, and fell out the window. Kirito tried to grab her but missed.
"Yolko!" Kirito yelled.
"Check if there is someone out there. On the roofs" Artemis suggested.
"Hey, there is someone, I'm going." Kirito said, as he went through the window.
Kirito was running across the roofs of the town as quick as he could, before he could get a shot at getting him, he teleported elsewhere.
"Damn it, I lost him," Kirito grumbled as he stopped and began heading back to the inn.
As he walked back into the he saw that Schmidt had left, and Artemis was slightly bruised and Asuna was nursing his bruised arm. She turned when Kirito, and drew her rapier, and yelled, "You idiot! What the hell were you thinking!?"
"What's the point in drawing your sword? I know you won't kill him." Artemis said to Asuna.
"What? Oh, I… Sorry, I usually pull this thing out of anger. But, what the hell were you thinking Kirito!?" Asuna said.
"He- He teleported on me." Kirito said, as he punched the wall.
"Schmidt went to floor 19, get there with a horse." Artemis said.
"Wait, how do you know that? He didn't tell us-?" Asuna said, but being interrupted for a brief moment.
"Trust me, he went there, if I didn't know, I wouldn't tell you." Artemis said.
"Okay, i'll go, Asuna and Oblivion, you try and find Grimlock, while I find out if Artemis knows what he's talking about." Kirito said.
"Floor 19 is where Griselda's grave is, so where else would he go after this conversation?" Artemis said.
Floor 19, Griselda's Grave
"Griselda, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!.. I never thought this would happen, you have to believe me!" Schmidt cried out, before hearing a faint voice, saying 'Oh Really?', letting out a loud gasp after. The voice kept on going for three seconds, until the voice went away for a second. Coming in behind Schmidt was a rabbit, it scared the hell out of him, for a second. He then turned around and gasped as he saw a robed figure.
"What did you do to me, tell me Schmidt, tell me what you did, tell me now," The robed figure drew a sword from inside her robe.
Schmidt immediately groveled, "Ok, ok, the day we voted to sell the ring, I, I looked at my belt pouch and there was a crystal and a note with instructions,"
A sudden male voice came from nowhere, "Who where they from, who gave you them?"
Schmidt looked up, and saw another robed figure step out from behind the tree, a male this time, "Grimlock? You're dead too?"
"Tell me, I want to know who gave you those instructions," the voice demanded.
"I don't know, I swear I don't know!" Schmidt cried, shaking his head, "The instructions told me to bind the crystal to Griselda's room at the inn she was staying at so whoever it was could get in, then I had to put the crystal in the guild shared storage."
"Then what?" The male voice demanded.
"That's all I did, I swear, I didn't want her to die, I didn't want to be part of that! Please, believe me!" Schmidt was cowering under what he thought were Grimlock's and Griselda's ghosts.
"We recorded everything you said Schmidt," He looked up and saw, Yolko and Kains standing in the robes.
"You were, recording ," He looked scared for a second, before becoming resigned to his fate, "So that's who it is, huh? You cared about Griselda after all,"
"Of course we did, but you didn't betray her because you hated her, did you?
"No! I didn't hate her, honest, though I did feel guilty getting money for my part in it but the rare weapon I bought got me into the holy dragon alliance so," He heard a clang of metal beside his ear, and sees a throwing knife by his feet.
He turned to see Artemis facing off against three high ranking Laughing Coffin members, so high ranking, in fact, that one of them was their leader. They then hear hoof steps coming from behind Artemis. As they looked at the horse they saw the horse rear and Kirito fall off the back, falling flat on his ass.
"Took you long enough." Artemis said.
"Sorry, I had to find a damn horse, so I'm very sorry you had to wait." Kirito said with a smirk.
"Oh, don't worry, you came right on time." Artemis said, sarcastically.
"Now, we have 30 people coming from the Assault Team, if you wanna test me and find out for yourself, you sit by that tree, or leave now." Kirito said.
The three Laughing Coffin members decided to leave. Then Asuna and Oblivion came with a man.
"Well we just managed to find the guy, he almost teleported on me. Oh the silly guy you are, huh Grimlock?" Oblivion said.
"Hey, we're not here to try and piss him off, we're supposed to keep him in check. Who's the silly guy now? Huh?" Asuna said.
"Okay, before we get into a long ass conversation, how about this for an idea? Grimlock killed Griselda because he was greedy, not for any other reason." Artemis said.
Grimlock suddenly fell on his knees, scared and confused. "But. How?! I... You figured that out?" Grimlock said.
"Yeah, it was obvious. Just guessed actually, you freak." Artemis said, with a faint smirk.
"Okay, well, we figured out this whole messed up story, you four try and process what just happened. Me and Artemis gotta find out where those Laughing Coffin members went off for some valuable information for our guild." Oblivion said.
As the group of four split up, Artemis and Oblivion quickly caught up to the Laughing Coffin who left. When they got to the point when they could hear them, they quickly hid behind trees, switching from tree to tree to try and follow them.
"Now, we must head to floor 52 to our headquarters, we have a mission to do." The Leader of Laughing Coffin said.
"Quickly, get your teleport crystal, they are teleporting to the main town there." Artemis whispered.
"Got it, let's go." Oblivion said.
When Artemis and Oblivion got to town, as they followed the Laughing Coffin group, Artemis got a message from Wolf.
I am messaging you this because I wanted to tell you that all of our men currently training are almost ready to go on some missions. Though, I'm really concerned about how Nero has been fighting, If you could help us whenever you can, I would appreciate it. -Wolf
Then Artemis sent a message stating the following.
I got your message. Me and Oblivion went to investigate a murder scene with Kirito and Asuna. While we were doing so, we ran into the Leader of Laughing Coffin. They are heading towards their headquarters and we are following them until we either get his username, or the location of the headquarters. When we get the chance to, we will fix Nero's stats, and his fighting. As you have noticed, on our last mission, Nero needs to definitely fix the way he fights in SAO. Plus, we might have to give him a greatsword or something, because that weapon he has, he probably hurt himself with the fucking thing. Anyways, see you when we get back to our headquarters. -Artemis
Artemis continued with Oblivion, stopping at nothing to find the Laughing Coffin headquarters...