Well, here it is folks the fairy dance rescue of the girls and I added in two more people in the fight to save the girls and a couple of other things I do hope you all enjoy it thank you for your time in reading this it makes me incredibly happy to see people enjoy my work.
A/N 07/09/2021 Here is another one fyi i have removed the old chapters while i reupload the revises chapters
Disclaimer I do not own Sword Art Online Reki Kawahra does.
: February 6th, 2025, Tokyo hospital:
Kazuto who has almost fully recovered from his time in SAO was visiting Shino, Keiko and Saori they were still trapped in whatever world Sugou put them in.
Kazuto was growing impatient he and his group of friends had not been allowed to full dive till Nurse Aki signed off on it and she finally did today.
Before this they had to rely on Sugu and a friend of hers from school that went by Recon in game to get any information out.
But Recon had a in genius idea of trying to get to the top of the world tree in game and got 10 people to act like a multistage rocket.
He was the last one to get up and was able to snap photos and three he got were of a large cage on top of the tree.
They were able to enhance it and in it you could see three girls locked in it, this is what they needed to move on Kazuto knew that he needed to get to the world tree.
He held Shino's hand in his. "Please hold on a while longer Shino I am coming soon just hold in there." He said as he kissed her hand.
He then felt a hand on his shoulder he looked behind him to see Sugu standing there.
"Come on Oni-Chan we have to meet with the others first, and we need to be careful if Nurse Aki finds out you have been diving before she cleared you, she might rescind the clearance." Sugu said.
She had been helping all of them train for the game by secretly helping them dive into ALO, and now only Recon was logged in and Yui who had been reconstituted in ALO due to it being a copy of the SAO cardinal system was working with him.
They left and headed for Andrew's Café.
Once they arrived, they entered sitting inside was Asuna, Kana, Ryutaro, Ryukotsei, Rika, Kouichirou, Andrew since he owned the place his wife Kathy who have joined them in game as well.
Asuna face looked tear streaked while Kana and Rika were trying to comfort her.
"Asuna what's wrong." Kazuto asked.
She just sniffled her brother who was standing off to the side looked over to Kazuto.
"Our mother has disowned her and threw her out of the house over me and my father's objection, also my father and I have both been removed completely from Rect Progress, seems Sugou's influence goes beyond my mother." Kouichirou explained.
Kazuto was taken back by this.
"Where is your father now Yukki-San?' Sugu asked him.
"He is with Kikuoka-San at the moment with all the evidence we were able to gather from Rect." He spoke.
Sugu walked over to Asuna and placed a hand on her shoulder. "It will be ok Asuna, do you have a place to stay?" Sugu asked her.
She nodded her head. "Yes, I do Sugu-Chan and thank you it just hurts the things she said to me." Asuna said.
Kazuto then looked to her brother he shook his head.
"Kirigaya-Kun I'm sorry I am not going to repeat what was said but it was not pretty in anyway, however we now believe that our mother was his prototype so to speak." Her brother stated.
Kana looked over as did everyone else.
"Our mother might be a little demanding and Asuna most likely told you the story of our maternal uncle and how she cut off contact with him, well just before I went on the business trip that lead to Asuna diving into SAO instead of me I found out that he was the one that cut contact not her she was supportive of it and he was afraid of what he was." Kouichirou explained.
"Then about a year ago my mother started to up the game on finding Asuna a suitor for when she turned 18, Sugou was an old family friend well his father is, so he was suggested by my father, I spoke out against it me and Asuna have known him since I was 10 and I never trusted him." He went on.
"At first my mother agreed with me that Sugou was not to be considered, he found out about this and to say he was not happy is an understatement, three days later my mother having gone to a doctor's appointment came home and completely reversed course, not as strongly at first it just started to grow and grow as time went on till today when she disowned me, Asuna and removed our father as CEO of Rect." He finished explaining.
They all shook their heads Agil was the first to speak up. "Yukki-San you Asuna and your dad have a friend right here I will do all I can to help, but you should know we are almost ready to make our move in ALO we have been secretly training with help from Sugu and a friend from her school." Agil spoke up
"Arigatō Andrew-San and I kind of figured which is good." He said as his phone rang.
"Please excuse me for a moment." He said as he walked away to answer his phone.
The others were talking and those a few laughs happened at Kazuto's expense when he tried to get whisky and was given tea.
Kouichirou walked back over to them with a dejected look on his face.
"That was a contact I have in Rect he found out Sugou is attempting real soon to start the mind altering on Shino and the other 2 within the next couple of days, apparently Shino and they were caught trying to escape using an admin card left behind." He explained this caught them all by surprise Kazuto ran out of the café almost instantly.
"ONI-CHAN WAIT!" Sugu yelled running to the door as she heard his motorcycle take off.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see the smiling face of Kathy.
"I will drive you home Sugu-Chan just make sure he does not hurt himself." She said as Sugu nodded.
After they left the others sat there discussing how to proceed.
Suddenly in walked Kikuoka, Seijirou and an unknown doctor.
"Good evening all sorry to be running behind Yukki-Kun your father is safe within a safe-house of ours also we have some answers on what is going on with your mother and how we can help her." Seijirou stated.
"This here is Kurahashi-Sensei he is in charge of the Medicuboid testing project at the same hospital the girls are at." Seijirou stated as the doctor walked forward and bowed to everyone.
"First thing to mention is that the Medicuboid allows people with serious illness in potential terminal phase to live a pain free life, it causes a full dive into the virtual world and attaches all the way down the spinal column." He explains as everyone listens in.
When Seijirou came to me about Sugou's experiments I knew exactly why and how he was doing this, he is using the nerve gear to alter someone's brainwave pattern and rewrites memories and makes them sub servant to him or someone of his choosing." The dr. stated.
"Since your mother was his first, I do believe hers is not permanent at least not yet Yukki-San if she is prematurely disconnected from her nerve gear while she is in the VR world it should restore her brainwave pattern. He explained that caused Asuna and her brother to smile.
"In the meantime, we have also devised a way for you guys have a little back up I have two girls who basically live in the virtual world via the medicuboid they are twin sisters their names are Kono, Yuki and Kono, Aeki and they have been training in ALO for about 2 months now, they go by the handles of Ran and Yuki in game." Kurahashi stated as they all nodded.
"Listen guys we are going to have to dive in tomorrow if we have any chance of getting to the top of the world tree, we are going to need the whole raid armies of the Sylph and Cait Sith to try and storm the world tree." Andrew stated as they all nodded.
"The others of the Black cats should be ready by tomorrow morning at the moment only Ducker is online right now training, and the others are with family till morning." Keita said.
It had been a half hour since Kazuto stormed off when Andrew's phone rang.
He answered it then came back to the group.
"Guys that was my wife Kazuto already dived in to save Shino and the others Sugu was diving in now to try and help him we need to move now, if Sugou gets wind we are coming he could start early." Andrew stated.
Kana jumped up grabbing Asuna's hand. "Come on Asu-Chan we are the closest at the moment, guys we will dive in and get the Cait Sith army moving." Kana stated as they started running for the door with her brother.
"Ryu message Ducker tell him to get to Kirito asap, Ryutaro you and Rika get to your apartment and dive in, my wife is heading to our home to dive in from there I will be joining her in about ten minutes I got my night staff coming in to cover the café." Andrew ordered everyone as they all nodded and ran out the door.
Seijirou was standing there with the dr. "Kurahashi-Sensei I do believe it is time to get the girls there as well." He stated as the dr. agreed, and they headed out as well.
Leefa was standing outside of the world tree with Recon as she used a potion on Kirito's remain light, he reconstituted right in front of her.
"Oni-Chan we really should wait for backup we cannot do this alone they just turned you into a pin cushion if I had not grabbed your remain light you would have respawned back in spriggan territory." Leefa pleaded with him.
He shook his head. "No Sugu I need to save them I gave them all my word I would get them home before that day, and I promised Shino I would protect her what good am I if I cannot keep my word." Kirito stated as tears came down his eyes.
"Then Oni-Chan let me, and Recon serve as healers if we can keep your life up while you plow through you should make it." Leefa said.
He nodded as they all made their way back in Kirito sprouted his black wings and started to fly straight up as Leefa and Recon started to heal him as he took damage.
Yui was trying her hardest in her sprite form to warn her papa of incoming fire, it seemed like he was gaining ground when suddenly some of the mobs change targets and start going for Leefa and Recon.
"What the hell they should not be targeting us we have not attacked." Recon yelled out as he and Leefa were trying to heal Kirito and dodge attacks against them.
Kirito was starting to take heavy damage as he looked down and saw his sister and her friend trying to avoid taking damage and keep him up.
He went to aid them when suddenly Recon threw his flight controller away and threw his hands in front of himself and started to chant a spell.
Leefa looking at him was stunned by what he was doing.
Kirito was hit three more times by arrows, his HP went in the red at this point.
"What is Recon doing that is dark magic?" She thinks to herself as he keeps chanting and floats into a large cluster of the mobs.
Suddenly there is a massive explosion where Recon was, and it took out over a third of the mobs all that remained of Recon was his remain light which promptly disappeared.
"A self-destruct spell Recon-Kun what were you thinking the death penalty on that is beyond worth it." She thought to herself as she saw her brother take more damage.
She snapped back to her sense and launched a high-end healing spell at her brother bringing his health back to 100 percent.
Kirito flew next to her. "Recon gave me an opening I'm not going to waste it keep me healed Sugu." He said as he flew straight towards the hole Recon formed only to have mobs respawn and close the hole, he stopped short thinking this was it he was not going to make it.
As he reserved himself to losing the battle again there was a large blast of fire on either side of him, he looked down and saw Cait Sith dragoon riders as well as raiders from the Sylph.
Alicia the leader of the Cait Sith flew up alongside Leefa.
"We got here as soon as we could Argo informed us; we are here to help." Alicia explained as she looked around and saw all of them flying up towards them.
Asuna flew up to beside Kirito and looked at him. "We promised to do this together Kirito-Kun." Asuna stated to him, and he nodded.
All the raiders started to open a whole in the lines of the mobs and Kirito and Asuna took advantage of it flying in and taking out some themselves.
Argo and Ducker flew up to Agil and Klein. "Listen you guys have immense strength stats we need you to use your weapons to launch us in front of Kirito and Asuna to help clear a hole for them." Ducker stated as they both nodded.
Ducker crouched down on Klein's sword as he started a heavy hitting sword skill and Argo did the same on Agil's axe.
Just before they were launched Agil said to both. "Go rescue our sisters." He said as they were launched like missiles towards the endless mobs, they both started to glow, and they flew past Kirito and Asuna.
"ONI-CHAN CATCH!" Leefa yelled as she threw her sword towards him.
He caught it and nodded to Asuna they both then launched themselves behind Argo and Ducker cutting a swath of destruction through the mobs.
They did not stop till all for hit the ceiling, they looked under them none of the mobs were attacking them they were too preoccupied by the forces beneath them.
Yui flew out of Kirito's pocket and touched the ceiling. "Papa I do not think anyone was supposed to ever make it here the only way this can open is with an admin card." Yui explained.
Then Kirito remembered the admin card he caught the other day when Yui sensed Shino above them.
"Yui use this to open the path for us." He spoke.
She nodded and did so, as she did, she started to glow and had everyone there touch her they were then teleported to the next room.
They all looked around and Yui transformed into her human form.
"This way Papa I can Sense Mama and Silica-Nechan." Yui said as they all started running behind her.
They finally got out to the branches of the world tree they all looked around till Asuna saw the cage off in the distance.
"Kirito-Kun up there." She says as they start running for the cage.
In the cage is Silica and Sinon while Sachi had fallen asleep not too long ago crying not sure if anyone was ever going to make it.
Silica was crying as well, Sinon was trying to hold herself together knowing that Sugou was going to turn her into a killing machine while Silica might be used for trafficking.
Suddenly Sinon hears a voice she thought she would never hear again.
"Mama, Mama." She heard.
She turned her head and saw her daughter standing there with Kirito right behind her as well as Asuna.
Yui used her admin privileges she got from the card and caused the door to disappear once she did, she ran in to Sinon.
"Mama." Was all she said as she ran into Sinon's arms and hugged her.
"Yui-chan." Sinon said with tears in her eyes Kirito walked up to her.
"Hey sorry it took so long to get here." He said as he placed a hand on her shoulder, and they touched their foreheads together.
"We knew you would save us Kazuto." Shino stated as she hugged him.
Silica and Sachi both jumped up when this all happened and ran to them hugging them.
Yui though suddenly snapped her head to the side. "Papa Mama the admin privileges from the card have been revoked something is coming." She said as she started to float into the sky and disappear.
"Yui-Chan!" Sinon called out.
Suddenly, the five of them fell to the ground unable to stand.
"Well, well look what we have here Titania we seem to have a bug problem in the little bird cage." A male voice spoke out.
"It would appear so my King it looks like my sorry excuse of a daughter has come to get her friends." The female voice said.
Asuna struggled to look up and what she saw frightened her it was her mother standing there with Sugou.
"Ka-San why, why are you helping him." Asuna pleaded.
"I am not your mother abomination I am Queen Titania, and you will address me as such." She said to Asuna with venom in her voice.
Tears started to fall Asuna's face as Kirito struggled to get up with no luck.
"You like It, it is gravity magic we are going to implement it in the next patch it has many uses like squashing a fly infestation." Sugou stated.
" Why Sugou my father gave you a chance why would you betray him and do this?" Asuna asked him.
He then Kicked her. "I am Oberon King of the fairies here freak and why not I found out what I could do using a nerve gear to a person's mind, do you realize how much money I can make selling this to military forces or anyone else rich enough to be able to have complete control over a person's mind." He said laughing.
"I am going to be so rich no one can touch me I am a god he." He started to say only to be interrupted by a kick to his face.
"What the?" He said as he looked around.
All he saw was two new faces in the cage both were using imp avatars one with long flowing purple hair and the other with short bluish hair.
"Hi, their weirdo my name is Yuki also known as Zekkan here, and this is Ran." Yuki said to the now down on his ass Oberon.
They then looked at Kirito and Asuna both on the ground. "Hey Kurahashi-Sensei said you could use some help, so we used the medicuboid admin privileges to get here as fast as we could." Ran said to them while her sister held the other two at bay.
"Listen grab who you can of those three girls and fly out of here as fast as you can." Was all Kirito said.
Ran grabbed Silica and Yuki grabbed Sachi and started to fly when suddenly Ran is hit from behind and falls to the ground bursting into a remain light.
"Nechan!" Yuki yelled as she flew past the door still holding on to Sachi.
"Run now before he kills you too!" Sinon yells as Oberon reseals the door and causes the cage to disappear.
They then re-materialize in a dark void Oberon walks over to Silica and calls down chains locking her up in them he does the same to Sinon and then has them raised into the air.
Kirito starts to get up, overcoming the gravity magic a little this causes Asuna's mother to increase its pull pulling him back to the ground and pulling on Silica and Sinon causing a slight amount of pain.
"Oh yes see the NPC women can't make that face this is why being a god of a world pays off." He says as he walks over towards Silica who has tears running down her face.
He them licks her face. "Oh yes I am going to have my fun with you little one why your heroes just lay there and watch." He speaks.
Kirito yells something towards him Oberon walks over and takes Kirito's sword and jam it into his back all the way through to the floor.
"That should help you know your place roach." He speaks.
He then looks over at Asuna's mother. "My dear Queen please do keep an eye on them while I play with the little one." He speaks.
She walks over and pulls out a sword and starts to stab at Asuna.
"As you command my king." Is all she says.
Suddenly both Titania and Oberon are tackled to the ground by two Cait Sith's that were using hiding magic to escape view.
"No one hurts my ASU-CHAN!" Argo yells as she slashes at Titania with her claw weapons.
Ducker using the disorientation of Oberon and tries to pick the locks on the girls' chains, though this time he fails he feels something grab his tail and he gets swung around and then thrown towards the wall.
The same thing happens to Argo they hit the wall and cry in pain as they fall to the ground hurt bad.
"Do you like that the pain you are all feeling see I turned down the pain absorber but only to level 8 if it goes to level 3 or lower you will be disfigured in the real world." He says as he goes back to Silica.
He rips her top off and her skirt as well.
"Don't touch her you sicko!" Sinon screams she is then slapped hard across the face.
"You will not talk to your king like that wretch, he says you will make a good solider having already killed someone before now wait your turn he will get to you when he is done with his treat." Was all that Titania said?
"This is it there is nothing I can do." Kirito thought to himself.
"Giving up already Kirito-Kun?" A voice asked him.
"I am a prisoner of the system he is the GM I am a player it is the order of things." Kirito responds back.
"If that is the way you are thinking then what our fight meant nothing it, makes my defeat seem cheap don't you think Kirito-Kun." The voice said.
Kirito looked up to see a pair of shoes.
"You two the two who beat the system once can do it again, now get up Kirito-Kun." The voice said before disappearing.
Kirito started to struggle to get up and was succeeding. "Your attacks are weak the blades in SAO were heavier yours have no soul to them." Kirito said as he got up and his sword fell out of his back hitting the ground.
Asuna did the same thing getting up and fighting against the system.
"Hmm still a few glitches to work out no problem I can take care of this." Oberon says as he goes to backhand Kirito in the head.
Kirito catches his arm in his hand and glares at Oberon. "System login ID Heathcliff." He says and then mutters a password.
As admin screens appear around him Oberon starts to back up surprised by what is happening. "System command Enable administer privileges set id Oberon to level 1 set id Titania to level 1." Kirito says as a small screen appears in front of the two.
"What an id that outranks mine how is that possible." Oberon asks.
"I am the ruler here I am this worlds god." He shouts.
"No, you're not you stole this world and it's people you're a king of thieves." Kirito states as the gravity magic disappears.
"SYSTEM COMMAND GENERATE OBJECT ID EXCAILBUR!" Oberon shouted as nothing happens.
"World you will obey me I am your god!" He yells.
"SYSTEM COMMAND GENERATE OBJECT ID EXCALIBUR!" Kirito yells out as the legendary sword appears above him.
"So, a simple command is all it takes to summon a legendary weapon?" He says as he laughs a little and tosses it to Oberon.
He then looks over at the girls. "This is only going to take a few more minutes think you can wait for a little bit more?" He asks them and they nodded.
Asuna remembering what they told her to save her mother runs towards her and launches an attack that nearly kills her.
"Kirito-Kun Log her out like a disconnect quickly." She yells as he hits the command, and her body goes rigid, and she vanishes like someone dying in SAO.
Asuna runs over to Silica and Sinon as Kirito then kicks his sword up and catches it.
"SYSTEM COMMAND SET PAIN ABSORBER TO ZERO!" he yells as the pain absorber goes all the way down.
Oberon started to back away as Kirito pointed his sword at him.
"Don't run away, he didn't no matter what happened, not Kayaba Akihiko." Kirito said.
Oberon's eye started to twitch as he stood there. "Kaya, Kayaba so that's whose id you used no matter what I can't seem to get away from you why do you always get everything." Oberon yelled.
"Hey, I was forced to work for him once after I lost to him so I can feel your pain a little, but I never wanted to be him unlike you." Kirito said.
"You stupid Kid!" Oberon screamed as he started to swing Excalibur at Kirito who just swatted it away swing after swing.
In the process of blocking the attacks he swung and hit Oberon in the face causing a small slice.
"Ahhh the pain." Oberon yelled.
"That hurt huh that was small compared to the way you hurt Shino and Keiko, for that I am going to make you pay!" He yelled as he then swung in an upward slice cutting Oberon's hand off.
"My hand, my hand!" Oberon yelled.
Kirito then swung the sword again cutting him in two his lower half disappeared in a swirl of polygons.
Kirito went over to deliver the final blow when Asuna stopped him.
"No Kirito-Kun let me finish this I have to get him back for what he did to my family." Asuna said as Kirito nodded and backed away.
Asuna then picked up his head by his hair he was screaming in pain as Asuna looked him in the eyes.
"This is for Sinon, Silica, Sachi Ka-San and everyone else I care about that you hurt." She said as she tossed his head into, the air and drove her rapier through his eyeball causing virtual blood to spray everywhere.
He screamed till he vanished, Asuna walked over to Argo and Ducker who were waking back up and told her that they were ok, then they gave Silica Kirito's coat to cover herself up.
He and Sinon then kissed. "I think it is time you guys wake up I'm going to log you off then will head right over to the hospital ok." Kirito said as Sinon, and Silica nodded he opened the menu and logged them all off.
As he went to log himself off Kayaba walked over to him. "Hello Kirito-Kun nice work there." Kayaba stated.
"What do you want Kayaba." He demanded.
"I have a gift for you." He spoke.
"I don't want it." Kirito said.
"Just take it after that you can delete it or let it grow that is up to you." Kayaba said as he handed him what looked like a giant golden seed.
"What is it?" Kirito asked as he took it.
"It is a world seed Kirito-Kun if you let it grow it can make new virtual worlds." Kayaba said and then he walked away disappearing.
The seed also disappeared but something else appeared it was Yui.
"Yui you're ok." He spoke.
"Yes, Papa they tried to delete me, but I hid in your nerve gear by the way Papa a very large file has been downloaded into your nerve gear." She spoke.
"It is ok Yui, but I think it is time I got to Mama don't you." He said as she nodded, and he logged off.
He awoke in his room to see Sugu sitting over him watching him.
"Did you do it Oni-Chan did you save them?" She asked.
He nodded that he did as he was getting up. "Then get to them Oni-Chan lets go." Sugu said tossing him his helmet as she grabbed one for herself.
As they took off for the hospital that had their friends there, Asuna and her brother went to where they say they found her mother.
They got to the small hospital that had Asuna's mother in it after being dropped there by a Rect employee that found her on the ground after her disconnect.
Asuna ran into the room where they said her mother was being held what she saw she was not expecting.
Her mother looked up at her with tears in her eyes.
"Asuna?" She asked.
Asuna nodded her head not sure what do or if Sugou's brainwashing was gone.
"I am so sorry Asuna I remember everything that sicko made me say and do to you I am so sorry Asuna." She pleads to her Asuna walks over to her.
She then embraces her mother in a hug. "It's ok Ka-San it's ok you were not yourself." She spoke.
"Still does not change the fact I said and did those things to you, I know I don't deserve it, but can you forgive me?" She asks.
Asuna looks at her. "Depends, Ka-San." She replies.
"On?" Her mother asks back.
"On how you feel about my lifestyle?" Asuna responds.
Her mother takes in a deep breath. "Asuna I know I have tried to get you to marry men I thought would be right for your life, but I know now that no matter who I choose you will never be happy, your father is happy with your choice as is your brother I think I can learn to be happy with it too all I ask is that I get to meet the girl that stole your heart." She spoke.
"I can do that Ka-San and yes I forgive you." Asuna stated.
"Arigatō Asuna Arigatō." Her mother cried into Asuna's shoulder.
Meanwhile at the hospital where Shino and the others are Kazuto and Sugu arrive, Kazuto parks the bike and runs before Sugu even has her helmet off.
AS he is running, he feels a sharp pain in his arm and a warm liquid flowing down his hand.
He stops and looks he sees that he has been sliced, he looks around and sees a crazed Sugou standing there.
"That was not very nice Kirito to keep me waiting like that, I could have gone and caught a cold." Sugou said as he walked over to Kirito.
He slices at him again and cuts his cheek, this cause Kazuto to fall to the ground Sugou raise the knife above his head to stab Kazuto.
He brings the knife down but completely misses. "Damn my right is all foggy and can't see anything out of it from what you and that freak did to me, but I won't miss this time." He says raising the knife into the air again.
He brings it down again, but Kazuto grabs his hand and holds the knife back as best he can.
"Give it up kid you have no real power out here." He said as he started to overpower Kazuto.
"Yes, he does, and he has something else as well friends." A female voice says as Sugou is hit in the head with a motorcycle helmet.
Kazuto looks up and sees his sister standing there, he then picks up the knife on the ground.
"What a weak weapon too light and no reach, but it is more than enough for what I need to do." Kazuto says as he grabs Sugou by the hair and puts the knife to his throat.
"NO PLEASE NO!" Sugou begs as Kazuto pulls the knife away and slams his head into the van that is parked right next to them causing a large dent in the door and breaking his glasses.
Sugou falls to the ground in pain. "I'm not like you Sugou I will never sink to that level." Kazuto says as he hands the knife to Sugou.
They walk up to the front desk the nurses see Kazuto injured and call for a dr. Kazuto tells them about Sugou, and the police are called.
After they treat him, he runs up to the girl's room and runs in he sees all three of them sitting up with the nurses looking over them their nerve gears on the beds off their heads.
His eyes settle on just one girl she has a small round face with brown eyes her hair once short is now all the way down her back, she looks very thin and weak but to him she is still the most beautiful thing on Earth.
He runs over to her. "Shino." Is all he says as he gets to her bed.
She reaches up a hand to his face touching it she feels the wound on his face from Sugou.
"Kazuto." Was all she said as he hugged her.
"I did it Shino I defeated the final boss it is over finally everyone is home now." Kazuto says.
"I'm sorry Kazuto my hearing is not fully returned I did not hear most of what you said but I think I got what you meant it is finally over we are all home now." Shino said as she returned the hug weakly.
"You did it Kazuto you got us out I'm finally back and I love you." Shino says.
Kazuto smiles. "Welcome back Shino I love you too." He says back and leans in to kiss her.
He then looks over at Saori and Keiko then back at Shino she nods knowing he wants to check on them as well.
He walks over to Keiko first. "Keiko I'm so sorry I did not get to you guys in time." He says as tears are coming out of his eyes.
Keiko slowly reaches and hugs him. "It is ok Kazuto-Niichan you got there as fast as you could, and you never gave up till we were all safe." She says weakly.
"But Sugou was able to." He started to say but could not finish.
"It's my fault if only I was stronger or got to faster you would not have had to go through that." He spoke.
"It is not your fault Kazuto-Niichan please don't blame yourself that evil man did that to me not you please promise me you don't blame yourself we all had hope you and Asuna-Nechan would come rescue us." Keiko said.
Then they heard the door open again as the others started to arrive to welcome the rest of their family home.
: April 26th, 2025, 3:15 P.M. SAO survivor School:
The final bell for the day had rung and everyone was getting ready to leave for the weekend, it had been a long 2 and half months for the 300 that had been trapped by Sugou there was no aftereffects at all.
Keiko with rehab was seeing a therapist to help her move on from what Sugou had done to her and was succeeding quite nicely, though her Saori and Shino were still using crutches to help them walk till their physical rehab was finished.
The Survivor school was doing great to catch them all up on the studies they had missed locked in the death game, anyone that was still in school when trapped went here.
Asuna and Kana were still happily together, her mother has been seeing a therapist to help her move on from the mind control experiments and she was progressing nicely, she had decided to retire from her work early to help her heal.
She had also become very receptive of Asuna and spent a lot of time with both Asuna and Kana, which Kana did not mind seeing as the older woman spoiled her, things have been looking up for all of them.
Shino still resided with the Kirigaya's she had found out from her uncle however that her mother asked the hospital to unplug Shino from her nerve gear, this had hurt Shino, but her uncle explained that her mother's break from the post office is what is the cause of all this, and he hope that in time she will come back around.
Though Shino had no complaints about living with the Kirigaya's seeing as she was dating Kazuto and she had Sugu as well as everyone from Sword Art Online to be with her, and the fact that Midori loves to spoil her and Sugu together when they go shopping something Kazuto dreads and tries to find ways out of.
Most of the survivors still have nightmares of what happened in the death game the clearers more than anyone and the three main victims of Nobuyuki, Sugou, they have set up a plan to help each other with the nightmares.
If during the week anyone of them has a night terror and they need to they can call anyone else to talk it out and it works, and to better help during the weekends they set up one- or two-night sleepovers at others houses.
Though this mostly happens at the Yukki residence or the Mills residence seeing as they have the largest homes.
Asuna's father was able to save his company from what Sugou had done and still helps running it day to day but now his son is CEO, and he is just a member of the board, they also gave Ryutaro a job there as well working with the GMs with the rerelease of the much safer ALO after Kazuto and Andrew released the world seed, building so many new virtual worlds for gaming to happen in.
Rika though she had the biggest surprise waiting for her during all of this, she had found out the reason her father did not show when she awoke or for a bit after was because he was shocked into getting help for his drinking and depression when Rika had been locked into the game.
Rika had been so happy when he was released with a clean bill of health, though she was a little reluctant to introduce Ryutaro to him, but she did and to her surprise her father loved him and that they got along great.
The one day she loved the most was when her father approached Ryutaro had come to pick Rika up for a night at the movies, he approached him.
"Tsuboi-San I never got to thank you for making my daughter happy, I know I was not the best father after I lost my wife, I am just glad that there is a man out there that makes her as happy as her mother was and if she was here, she would approve of you too." Her father said this made Rika finally realize that even through all the drinking he was also depressed because he wanted to be better for her and was not.
Ryutaro was incredibly happy with the turn out and promised that he would always be there for Rika no matter what.
Today though was a special day it was the end of Sao party at the Dicey Café and Kazuto, Suguha, and Shino were being driven there by Midori since it is still hard for Shino to ride on Kazuto's motorcycle.
They all walked in Kazuto was confused because it looked like everyone there had been there for a while.
"Um we are not late, right?" Kazuto asked.
Rika ran up to him. "No, we just told you a slightly later time cause the guest of honor should always be the last to arrive." She said as she pulled him in.
She led him to a small stage that Andrew had there for live bands to play on certain nights.
"1, 2, 3," Rika shouted out.
"Congratulations on clearing SAO KIRITO!" Everyone yelled out as streamers flew about.
Everyone cheered as Kazuto made his way over to the table where Shino was sitting with Sugu, Asuna and Kana.
"Hey Andrew, a bourbon please on the rocks." Kazuto asked as Andrew gave him a glass with a dark liquid in it with ice, he took a sip as was shocked.
"This is oolong tea." He said disappointed.
He heard laughing as Ryutaro walked over. "Still not old enough Kaz old buddy hey Andrew I will take a grown-up drink please." He asked.
"Wait don't you have to work today?" Kazuto asked.
"Nope Yukki-San gave me the day off today for the party." He said as he drank his beer.
As if on cue the front door opened and in walked Asuna's brother with her mother in tow.
Asuna was surprised to say the least. "Oni-Chan, Ka-Chan?" She asked.
Her mother smiled at her and at Kana and her brother walked over.
"I am actually here to talk with Asada-Chan and Kirigaya-Kun about Yui." Her brother said as he sat with them.
Asuna and kana went to get up when he said they did not have to leave and motioned for all of them come closer.
"Listen guys we have finally devised a way for Yui to actually come to the real world and we got the idea from you Kirigaya-Kun, that bidirectional probe idea you have been working on for the Kono girls can work for Yui as well." He said this brought a smile to everyone there.
Including a small pixie girl that was flying around the room.
"So, papa mama this means I can go to other places besides here and your home?" Yui asked as she landed on the table.
Asuna's brother was surprised at this.
"Wait how?" he asked.
Yui and Kazuto laughed a little, then pointed around the room. "They are holographic projectors it allows her to see this who area and to move around though she cannot grab anything, but it allows her to live in our world to a point Arigatō for helping with the probe schematics I sent you." Kazuto said.
"Have you given these items to the hospital yet for the Kono girls?" He asked him.
"Actually, they were the ones that gave me these and the ones in my house I helped as part of a class project I am working on when we would go to visit Yuki and Aeki it allows them to be projected into the room we are in though their projectors make them a lot more solid there, but it is also a work in progress." Kazuto said as everyone was listening.
While everyone was gathered around Asuna's mother took this time to speak.
"Listen I want to thank everyone here for looking out for my daughter during that death game and during my time under Nobuyuki, thank you everyone for showing her love and accepting her I don't think I could have ever found her better friends than she found here right now." She spoke.
Everyone raised their glasses to her.
"Oh, and by the way I do believe the group sleep over this weekend is at my house I will have a feast ready for you all, Asuna has been helping me come up with good dishes so me her and Kana-Chan will have it all prepared when you all arrive." She said this had made Kazuto's mouth water and then earned him a slap from no less than 4 women.
"What I love Asuna and Shino's cooking so when either one does it makes my mouth water." He said in his defense.
Everyone laughed, the party continued for another hour then they made their way to the hospital they all woke up in to make their weekend visit with the Kono girls who have been welcomed into their family as have Recon and Sugu for their aid in rescuing Saori, Keiko and Shino.
Shino looked around once they got to Asuna's house and smiled. "To think 3 years ago I was alone and scared now I have the best friends I could ever ask for, the best boyfriend ever and a true family full of love, and it all happened because a brother and sister heard me scream and ignored rumors about me." She thought as her smile grew bigger.
Kazuto noticed. "Hey Shino, what you are thinking about?" He asked.
She looked at him smiled. "That I have the best boyfriend ever and that I love you so much." She said as she leaned in and kissed his cheek.
Kazuto smiled back. "I love you too Shino and nothing will ever change that." He said as he leaned in for a kiss again.
"Oni-Chan can you do that in private please, come on Shino lets go we girls are going to plan a shopping trip for the weekend and we are making the men be our bag boy's." Sugu said as she mad e devious smile at Kazuto and Ryutaro.
They just stood there deadpanned and said at the same time. "We are doomed."
All right folks there it is yes I brought in the Kono twins and had them help in the rescue and I will expand on them more if you all want another chapter but I will leave that to you guys, you let me know if you want one more chapter in the reviews or PM I look forward to reading your reviews and yes I decided that I need to clean up a loose end or two mainly with Rika and yes she is 18 at this point so there is that, and I decided that Asuna's mom needed to be more receptive of her daughter and made her a victim of Sugou as well.
So, till the next chapter if you want it lol Catch ya on the flip side.