Sword Art Online

After The Incident

Chapter 38 – Sugou's Final Fight

~Kazuto's POV~

I growled angrily as Sugou sent me flying backwards away from him with a powerful swing of his sword. I didn't want to admit it but he was incredibly strong. If I compared his skills to the last time my friends had faced him in ALO, he must have had at least risen with 20 levels of experience.

I growled furiously as I dashed forward again and again, slashed at him, shot at him, desperately tried to kill the bastard that had hurt me, that had hurt my family, tortured both me and my friends on a physical and psychological level. I wanted to hurt him just as badly as he wanted to end my life, and no chance in hell I was going to let him hurt any more people.

His defense was impossible to break through though. Every time I tried to slash, he simply dodged. Every stab from my sword or shot from my pistol was blocked with his plasma swords. Sparks of red flew everywhere every time our swords met, and he was impossible to hit.

I became more and more frustrated and panicked. He seemed impossible to beat. How was I going to beat him!?

I was sent flying backwards once again and I growled as I hit the ground, hard. My body began aching all over. We had been battling for about 20 minutes now, and I began to feel how tired I had actually become. In the meantime, he seemed like someone who could take a nap out of boredom at any minute now.

"You are so weak Kazuto" He said with a smirk as he yawned loudly "Come on, give me a challenge! This is way too EASY!"

At easy, he dashed forward with a smirk, disappearing at the blink of an eye. I widened my eyes and looked around, soon feeling all the air leaving my lungs as I felt a blow to my stomach. Then a blow to the back. Then the angle. He was so fast that I couldn't even see what he was doing.

He knocked me around with bone-crushing blows. I stumbled around and tried to find my balance, but every second I felt another crushing punch or kick to my body. At some point I ended up lying on the ground, on my back, and suddenly Sugou appeared over me with a smirk.

"Just accept this fact my friend," He said as a proud smirk widened on his face "As soon as I'm done here with you, beaten you to, at LEAST, near death, I'm going to use you."

I groaned a bit and rolled around onto my stomach, before lifting my upper body up with my arms, my face bruised and bloody from his treatment.

"Use me? For what?"

"You see, it's very simple" He said as he smirked and sat on my back, trying to force me back down to the ground "I'm going to use you in a negotiation, between me and the Yuuki Family."

A great pain began rising in my abdomen and my ribs. He began kicking me in my stomach, my chest, everywhere. I felt how several ribs broke in several places, and I screamed loudly from pain.

"I'm going to threaten them with your life on stake" He said as he pulled up my head by the hair "Either Asuna Yuuki marries me, and gives me all the money that might come with the marriage, or I will kill you. Right here, right now"

I widened my eyes and looked up at him with a shocked expression. My life, against her marrying that snake!? I would rather live in hell for the rest of eternity. Not Asuna! Anyone else but Asuna!

"And do you know the best part?" he whispered in my ear sadistically "I can't even kill you. Not in here"

I widened my ear and gritted my teeth.

"What do you mean by that you piece of trash!?" I growled angrily as I stared up at him.

"The little fact about killing everyone in GGO?" He said with a satisfied smirk "All a bluff. I can't hack, and after what happened in ALO, I haven't been able to hire anyone who can, though that was the original plan"

"H-Huh? The players of GGO is not in danger?!"

"Exactly." He said, chuckling like a madman "It was all a play. I used you and your stupid little brain to use you against Asuna, pretty much forcing her to marry with me. She wouldn't let anything happen to her precious Black Knight, now would she?"

"What keeps her from plugging you out then?! If you can't kill anyone, what keeps her from forcing you to log out?!"

"Well, she doesn't have to know that little secret right?"

He smirked a bit and chuckled before spitting me in the face.

"Now, you lie here while I get everything ready like the bacteria you are" He whistled between his teeth "Maybe you can actually do that."

He threw my head towards the ground and I felt sand and pebbles enter the new wounds in my face, burning. I growled loudly from pain but still smirked. Now I had one small chance to still save everyone.

As Sugou went off to prepare the video message for Asuna, I opened up my own menu, and begged to god that she was still online.

~Asuna's POV, main city~

I couldn't sit still the entire time Kazuto was away. I paced back and forth in front of Sinon and Kyouji like crazy, I had already bitten off all my nails in nervousness, so now I had resorted to grip at my avatar's hair.

"Asuna, calm down. Kazuto can handle himself" Sinon mumbled as she looked up at me.

Yeah right. She was just as worried as I was, given the way she was looking at me.

"I know Sinon, it's just…" I mumbled "What if he doesn't make it out!? He can die in here now you know"

"I don't know, I'm pretty skeptical" She mumbled as she pinched her chin in thought "I thought they had-!"

But before she could talk any further than that, a sudden notification in my inventory's message box popped up on my HUD. I asked her to quiet down before I quickly read the message.

To: Asuna

From: Kirito

Subject: Our Last Option

"Asuna, I need your help. The thing about Sugou killing the rest of the GGO players was a total bluff! He has hacking skills, but the system for the Amusphere is too powerful for him to crack. He can't kill anyone if we force him to log out.

I need you to log out of the game, and pull his helmet off. This will immediately log him out, and pull him back to the real world. Please, it's our last option to save as many people as possible.

I had to read through the message several times before I completely understood what it said. We finally had a chance to bring that parasite to his knees. I gritted my teeth as it hit me. He had upright deceived my boyfriend to a battle he won't even die from.

I clenched my fists and sent a quick reply back before turning to Sinon with a serious expression.

"Alright, I need to log out really quick" She said with a frown "I don't have any time to explain, so please just listen to what I'm telling you"

They both looked at me with an expression mixed between sudden surprise and confusion.

"I want you to find Sugou's character, and spam his inbox" I mumbled as I began finding the log out option in my inventory "I need as much time as I can, so just write to him as fast as possible. I don't have time to explain further than that"

Before they could even reply I had already logged out, and I quickly woke up in the hospital in the real world, looking at my caretaker with a panicked expression.

"No time to explain!" I yelled as I rolled out of bed and detached myself from the machines "What's the number to the head of The SAO Rescue Force?!"

She looked at me in complete confusion, unable to figure out what the hell I was doing. This was a chance to get my boyfriend away from the hell he had gone through the past year and a half. None of us had to suffer or be pained anymore. We could finally have some peace if I could just get through to Kikouka.

Before long the nurse had called Kikouka, and the plan rolled on to the next step. I just hoped Sinon and Kyouji had been able to stall for enough time.

~Sinon's POV, a few moments earlier~

"Do you think we'll be able to find him?"

I looked up at Kyouji's tall avatar with a wondering expression.

"Sure we can," He said with a calm smile "I was temporarily employed by him after all. Of course I would know his avatar name. Besides, I'm motherfricking Deathgun. I can even bring your new boyfriend to his knees"

I could feel the blush rise to my ears and I could practically feel how steam would have risen out of them if it had been some kind of crazy cartoon.

"S-Shut it Kyouji" I glared at him and huffed "He's just a friend okay? You help out friends is all"

"Sure" He said with a teaseful chuckle as he ran through the public player list belonging to this server "Alright, found him. Now to spam the shit out of him"

"What's his name? I have some interesting spam ideas"

"MetalDeath. Apparently he didn't want anyone to notice who he is" He mumbled quietly as he began typing on a virtual keyboard as fast as he could.

"Then why didn't he change his virtual appearance?" I asked him in confusion as I began typing as well.

"He thinks he's a genius, but to be honest he's far from it" Kyouji mumbled with a chuckle "Good thing for Kazuto though. He could recognize him as soon as we saw him"

"Yeah, it's lucky that Sugou don't go into detail"

I sighed quietly and tried to come up with as much spam as I possibly could. Hopefully Sugou would be pissed off so much that he would forget Kazuto for a while, and concentrate on deleting the spam we were sending him.

'Don't you worry Kazuto' I thought to myself quietly 'Your friends are here to help you'

"By the way Sinon, you still owe me that date after all of this has blown over"

I felt the heat rise in my face once again and I jabbed at his arm embarrassed.

"This is really not the time Kyouji!"

"hehe, Sorry, sorry"

~A little while later, Kazuto's POV~

I chuckled as quietly as I can as Sugou stomped around furiously, desperately trying to keep his inventory from filling with spam emails. This must have been because of Asuna.

"Now, the only thing I have to do is stall for time"

About two minutes earlier, he had taken both my pistol and my sword from me so I couldn't do any major damage to him besides punches and kicks, and even if I had tried, he would probably dodge my attacks. He was way too fast for my own good, so even if I tried to kill him, he would probably have me back pon the ground in no time at all.

His behavior about the spam from the strangers who I would think was either Kyouji or Sinon that was messing around with him, was rather comical to me. He mostly reminded me of a huge spoiled child, a child that couldn't get the last piece of candy like he had wanted. He stomped around angrily as his message bar kept plinging with new messages. It almost reminded me of when I emptied my email box for spam.

I couldn't help but laugh slightly at his comical appearance and that only served to piss Sugou off even more.

"Shut the hell up you worthless piece of trash!" he screamed as he kicked my rips again, managing to break another one "It's taken care of by now anyway, so get over here!"

As he was about to grab the collar of my armored coat, another window popped up in front of his face, though this time, unlike the many spam messages he had just received and tried to delete, there was a bright red warning triangle popped up along with a warning message.

"Huh!? What the hell is that supposed to mean!?"

I smirked a bit as he looked bewildered down at the, for him, disheartening message.

"VR helmet disconnected, reconnection essential… Automatic log-out process initialized!? Kazuto you bastard, what have you done!?"

"Hehe, I've done nothing" I mumbled as I stumbled back on my feet with a smirk on my face "I just pulled a few strings to get you logged out is all"

I chuckled quietly and stared at his shocked expression as I walked over to pick up my weapons, which Sugou had simply thrown to the ground a few tens of feet away from where I had lied earlier. I could barely stand from the many injuries he had inflicted upon my body, though I didn't care about those right now.

He glared at me angrily as his body began to glitch out and turn transparent.

"It's called karma. For what you've done to Asuna, to our families… To our friends… You're goiong to rot in jail for the rest of your life. And this time, you're not going to escape"

His eyes widened as the realization hit him. He wwas going to get logged out and he was going to be arrested as soon as he woke up in the real world. And the biggest disappointment of all, he couldn't take me with him in his fall.

"You bastard…" He growled angrily "Why must you always take what is mine!?"

I frowned and stared at him, unable to understand him at all. He was unbelievable.

"Asuna, and her money, was never yours to begin with" I frowned and began to walk towards him as his body glitched more and more and his hips disappeared, leaving the stumps of his legs and his torso to fall to the ground in a comedic way. I couldn't help but chuckle darkly as I stood over whatever was left of him.

"You know, I really want to hurt you right now" I mumbled with a grim expression as I activated my plasma sword "But the fact that you can't feel pain in the game, makes it not worth it"

He looked up at me with an expression mixed between intense anger and angst, but in contrast to how he acted when Klein beat his ass back in ALO, scared and pissy, this time, he no longer said anything, but just stared at my plasma sword.

"And if I ever see you anywhere near my family again," I mumbled as I sat down on my knees to bring my face closer to his "I don't care what happens to me. I will kill you, do you understand? And trust me, when I find you, you'll wish you had never, ever, imprisoned me. Do you understand Nobuyuki!?"

I could see how his anger rose. He still didn't get it, but I still had a feeling he was going to take my threat seriously. I stepped away as his head was the only thing left of him, before he was completely logged out.

I sighed quietly as the fail in the system quickly affected and glitched my character as well, before sending me back to the main city of the neutral area. When I opened my eyes and took another deep breath, I felt a wave of relieve wash over my body.

It was over. He was finally caught. No more incidents, no more hatred. No more fear and no more pain. I could finally lie down and relax, knowing that Sugou would be locked up forever and ever, and that I would never see him again.

I could finally begin to focus on my future together with Asuna, and how, like I promised to her, I was going to bring our virtual daughter into the real world to us. This had been a personal wish that Asuna had strifed for, for a very long time now, and I wanted to make sure that I was the one who was going to make that wish come true.

I could finally focus on making her happy, instead of going off to safe everyone from danger. I could finally focus on what she wanted, rather than what the world outside forced us to do. We could finally live in peace together, something that I had looked forward to do in ages now.

When I spawned back into town after a local system reset, I was immediately greeted by Sinon and Kyouji, who both wore wide grins on their faces. The plan had worked and I presumed that Sugou was already going behind bars, if everything went smoothly.

Since I wanted to meet up with Asuna, and tell all our friends the good news, I quickly logged out of the game after telling the both of them how they could contact me in real life. After logging out I slowly lifted my upper body from the ground. I don't think the sanitary smell of a hospital could ever have made me feel so relieved, or so alive then that point.

Immediately when I raised my head from the pillow, my upper body was immediately tackled by a crushing hug from Asuna, who had patiently sat by the bed edge to wait for good news. She pulled me towards her without any words and I smiled a bit as we met each other in a passionate and long-lasting kiss, one that would officially mark the end of the terror that was Sugou Nobuyuki.

As we parted from our kiss Asuna cuddled up towards me with a bright smile on her face. I smiled and kissed her forehead as I hugged her closer to my body, feeling the ecstatic heat radiating off of her.

We had finally won. And no one was going to take this happiness from me anymore. Never.

A/N

Hey guys! Thank you for taking time to reading this weeks chapter!

I hope you guys loved that sweet lovey-dovey ending between everyone's favorite couple. I personally liked it so feel free to comment what you thought of the ending, and chapter as a whole.

I think I'm going to dedicate the next few chapters to some fluffy lovey-dovey time with family and friends before picking up on action or drama again. I think Kazuto and Asuna both deserve it, don't you? ;)

Anyway, hope you guys enjoyed this weeks chapter, and thank you for the support. I really appreciate it.

See you next week, and stay awesome guys.