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The time for peace had come to an end for the criminal guilds, or at least the time for them feel real fear had finally come. The Knights of the Blood Oath took to their arms and went to systematically hunt all criminal guilds. In 1 solid month the guild had trapped, captured or outright killed entire criminal guilds. The laughing coffins was the very last guild. They were definitely feeling the pressure. They knew that it was a matter of time before they found out where their organization called their headquarters. Kibaou being the foul man that he was he was sure that he could end the threat by killing Kirito. Without him the rest would be too afraid to do anything. PoH was not as foolish as Kibaou and knew that if he was so easy to kill, someone would already have done it. No he needed to make his records within the guild disappear and make sure his connection to the guild was severed and he was safe. He even thought about sending the location of the headquarters and guild defenses if they would offer him immunity. But he knew better than that. He knew that Kirito was not one to forgive or forget criminals. His ruthless efficiency was one of the things that made him respect Kirito after all.

The thing was that they already knew where their headquarters was. Rosalia being the overconfident fool had been the perfect way to find the guild headquarters of every criminal guild. Kirito and his division just showed up when they would have their regular meeting and either they arrested the people or had to kill in in self-defense. Yui still had some administrator privileges thanks to her original training as a mental health coordinator. She could in theory know everything that the players felt and did, and had access to every player in the entire castle. She was perfect in scheduling the little surprise visit by Kirito's division. The criminals ranged from plain greedy to absolutely psycho. The greedy players loved money and the ability to someday return to their normal lives way to much to even put up a fight. The real psychos loved the chance to kill someone more than they cared about a minor thing like life. The worst of the worst had an absolute belief in themselves, that they believed that either they were the hand of god or that they were so powerful that no one could defeat them. Pride comes before the fall, or so the saying goes. It proved to be true. Kirito alone killed his fair share of these psychos and did not even feel a bit sad or guilty.

The last surprise meeting of laughing coffins had a few dozen heavy armed Knights of the Blood Oath, and PoH was unusually missing from the meeting. Kibaou did his best to make it sound like, he was more than enough to deal with a brat like Kirito. He simply jumped on top of the desk where the officers of the guild were about to hold their meeting. He made a simple and effective bet, if he beat their best fighter the guild members surrender and goes to prison till the game was cleared, if he lost he would die and the guild would be removed of the list of criminal guilds. Kibaou overconfident demanded that Asuna and Yui become his personal sex slaves if he beat Kirito. The member's of his division saw the look that he had on his face when the idiot said it. They had been sure that Kibaou was idiotic, but to say something like that to Kirito he was also suicidal. It did not matter who it was, no one messed with their leader's family and did not pay the price.

Kirito simply waited for the idiot to try and attack him. The duel was agreed to by his second in command. The leader only made it a duel to the death. As Kibaou took his weapon in hand and charged him, Kirito took out both of this swords and they began to glow. When they were bright and Kibaou was very near Kirito was heard screaming, "Star Burst Stream!" He launched into the motions and attacked Kibaou in a long and quick combo attack. Kibaou went from smiling, to frighten, to crying, and finally to the face of sheer horror. In a matter of 1 minute Kirito had struck him with a 50 hit combo, destroyed his armor, weapon and he was only in his underwear as he collapsed on the floor after the combo was done. "No way in hell." Kibaou was heard whispering as he slowly began to shatter into pieces and in seconds there was nothing left of him. Kibaou's defeat caused the entire guild to surrender. They might be killers but they were not suicidal.

Kirito walked to where the people where gathered and Sachi used the teleport crystal. She had heard about sending some criminals to the wrong prison by mistake. The players were sent into the processing cells of the prison. Thinker and his guild had become the perfect guards, incorruptible, absolutely loyal, and with not an ounce of pity or mercy towards the prisoners. Thinker himself saw that these criminals pay for their crimes, by reducing their assigned food intake to a bare minimum. Hunger was a good way to make people obey the prison rules after all. To those that disobeyed too many times they were assigned a number of floors they had to clear in the underground dungeon. After one prison described the horrors that were in that dungeon. The times they had to do that were rare, but they did have to do that. It even caused the death of one of the prisoners believing that he would be able to keep the items he obtained, and make better gear for himself and his fellow criminals. This was set right by Thinker explaining to the surviving friends of the fool. "The items are sold, and the money will go towards your victims. You will not be allowed to keep a single col or item. If you try and hide it we will know and will not be allowed to exit the dungeon. So try it and you will end up like that fool."

Heathcliff was happy, and I mean really happy. Without criminals now was the time to focus on clearing higher floors. The time for the final fight against Kirito was drawing closer. This made him really happy and excited. Most people believed that he was excited to finally clearing the game and saving the players from the death game. Kirito had a full network of information brokers and merchants look at every action Heathcliff did. He would unmask him soon. Yui also helped by proving a log of all the man's activities to her daddy. "No matter how hard someone tries to hide it, the truth always comes out." He had earned the loyalty of his entire division, and thanks to Asuna he was seen as an incredibly honest and honorable person by the other divisions. The last details were being prepared. He pretty much just needed a place to catch him by surprise.

Heathcliff announced to the entire guild that they exploration and floor clearing operations would resume immediately. Thanks to the training by Kirito the guild was expected to clear the 80th floor by the end of the month. That was only 9 days to finish a lot of hard floors. Kirito knew that Heathcliff would put on the pressure to clear floors fast, but the amount made it clear, he intends to get rid of some of the members to prepare for the fight he would organize as the final battle. But Kirito was not going to let him get away with it. He decided to try and expose him somewhere in the 80th floor. It was going to be before they even reached the 90th floor for certain.