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Kirito felt that his life was pretty good considering. He had a good job, loyal people that actually listened to what he said and the actually worked towards a common goal. His new aide was not the lazy, whiny excuse maker that Rosalia had been and made his work very much more organized and all around more tolerable for him. His boss gave him plenty of chances to really make his division shine. To make matters better the more they did the easier it was for him to find evidence against Heathcliff. In a few more floors he would have an air tight case against him, and there would no chance for him to escape. Heathcliff was actually helping him by leaving the symbolic bread crumbs for him to follow. He wanted Kirito to expose him, and having their final battle. But he was not going to make it easy either, where is the fun in that so he told himself. Make it easier but not easy, leave clues but not make him think hard to decipher them.

Kirito had to step up his training program after the last floor boss, and so did his troops. This made them silently curse their luck, some even joked that Kirito's training would be the death of them long before the game. Those that knew better did not even joked, if Kirito had to step up their training program, they could only imagine how hard was his. Kirito lead his man with not only his word, but with example. If he made them kill a few hundred monster is because he was killing a few thousand of the same monsters or hundreds monsters tougher than they had to kill. Asuna was as always very professional in all the meetings with the council, but as soon as they were alone together she would drop the cold behavior and would take him in her arms. She was seriously worried that her beloved husband was pushing himself too hard. Yui had take to miss lunches so that she could try to get enough evidence on Heathcliff, cardinal had decided to take also a hand on approach to helping Kirito. Mysteriously a black crow would sometime appear out of nowhere and dropped a package on Kirito's lap and disappeared just as fast as it appeared. It where coded messages that he had to give to Yui to decipher. He could figure out the basic message, but the details were in language that was a little confusing. Yui explained that it was not a message the parts that he found confusing it was the code for a recording. Who ever had that crow familiar was sending him coded video recording of Heathcliff. Cardinal did her very best to keep these packets deliveries out of the logs or any other way that Heathcliff would find out about it.

It took nearly 2 years and Kirito losing 20 of his division for him to ask Heathcliff to organize a multi-guild task force to deal with the 85th floor boss. This boss had figured a way to separate the players and picked them off at it's leisure. He needed to find out who was doing this, and put a stop to it or he would be the only one left in his division before long. This floor boss was just that tough and that smart. He and Asuna decided to do some scouting of the floor to find the boss room. They had gone through most of the floor and had mapped 90% of the floor, so it was pretty easy to figure out where the boss room was. He decided to take a break and Asuna was happy. She had made one of her homemade picnic baskets, much to Kirito's joy. Kirito was glad to have married a loving, understanding, considerate, and tender young lady. But secretly he was also glad that she was a terrific mother to Yui, a lover with a bright mind and imagination, and last but not least could cook like there was no tomorrow. He never ever would complain about his beloved wife's cooking. His own monster mother used to joke and tell him that maybe she should ask her to teach her a few recipes. His father simply joked and also told him that it would make his retirement that much easier if she did.

"So Kirito do you think we have done enough for today? or do you really want to check the floor boss to see what kind of weapon he uses?" It was tempting but he did not want to risk his beloved Asuna, he knew that if some poor idiot tried to solo it, that she would just jump in and try to save the fool. "Maybe if I knew we were alone on this floor, but that is unlikely. These monsters provide good exp and col after all. I would really love a day off so that I can spend some more time with both you and Yui, not to mention that I really want to spend some quality time with you in our bedroom if you know what I mean." Asuna blushed at her husband. "We have been married for a while now, if you really want me to and we were alone we could make love right here." Just ask Kirito was about to answer a group of red armored players appeared, looking like they had been walking all day. He finally recognized the leader, Klein had formed his own guild by the looks of it, and it was a rather small one. "Kirito, still alive I see." Klein said smiling and walking to where the couple had been sitting. "Klein, can't believe you are still alive. Are you working hard or hardly working?" Klein was looking at him and laughing. "Still as antisocial as ever I see, and who is this beauty. Hi my name is Klein i am 24 still looking for a girlfriend." Kirito grabbed him by the neck and made him look at his glaring face. "Would you kindly not hit on my wife! That way I won't have to beat you till your armor breaks and leave you here unconscious and naked for a monster to have his way with you!" Klein was surprised by the sheer venom that he was hearing from Kirito he could tell he was not kidding. "Wait a minute, this beauty is your wife? How lucky can one guy get a great paying job, respected by almost all serious players here, and a drop dead beautiful wife. Some guys have all the luck." Kirito dropped him and he fell on his rear. "Maybe if you put it the hours of work I do you might find someone for yourself too." Klein got up laughing and told him where was the fun in being a workaholic in a game.

As they were about to call the day over and their final monster had been destroyed Kirito began to feel a familiar sensation deep within his heart, it was almost like a his brother was watching him from somewhere nearby. The funny thing was his brother was indeed watching him. "Well I sent him the most high level monsters on my floor, and he still won. My brother was not Captain of the Red King's guard for nothing. I wonder who that female invader was, it was almost like my brother found himself a new mate, after Velvet I was sure that he would never love anyone else. I guess you learned to forgive and move on. Too bad for you that I am the floor boss of this floor. You could never bring yourself to hurt me before, I wonder if you manage to get pass that too."

The blue eyed fiend was watching him, and when he saw Kirito leave the floor returned to his post in the boss room. He sat there waiting, and wishing for Kirito to hurry up and get into the room. He wanted to see how strong his brother had gotten. He was sure to put him through a real test, not unlike what their father had done. "If he wants to defeat me he will have to stop using that ridiculous disguise and use his full powers. I will make him see reason, and stop shaming our family by pretending to be one of those filthy invaders. He is a fiend and he should damn well behave like it!" Seeing his brother the one that he was so proud of look like the weak pathetic invaders made him feel sad, angry and ashamed. He would knock some sense into him, and he would regain the brother he was so proud of. His singular purpose was to make his brother regain his sanity. He consider his brother actions to be a form of dementia. What is a brother to do but try and help his brother out. His parents had tried to make him see that Kirito was as much a proud fiend as the rest of the family, regardless on how he looked like. His warrior heart and mind was intact, even if he looked different on the outside. The next fight would prove who was right, his parents or him, either way he was doing it to help his brother so what could be wrong about that.