Kirito and 9s hid behind the wall of a building that had collapsed and waited for the machines to pass.
"Umm sir" 9s began to ask Kirito before Kirito stopped him.
"Just call me Kirito, having someone call me sir doesn't feel right." Kirito said to 9s who immediately nodded at him.
"Kirito can I ask you something?' 9s said to Kirito.
"You just did so go ahead" Kirito answered 9s.
"If there weren't any more Humans and you were the last one would any of this matter?" 9s asked Kirito.
"Well that came out of nowhere, but yeah it matters"
"Hell not too long ago I went through something like that and I had to find my answer but yeah it matters" Kirito answered 9s.
"But how?" 9s began to ask Kirito only for Kirito to interrupt him again
"9s do you know why I'm out here?" Kirito said to 9s who just looked at him.
"Yeah to secure food and water for your base" 9s answered Kirito who just shook his head.
"No kid, if that was the reason I came out here, I would have just waited for the guilds to send groups out. I'm out here for another reason." Kirito said to 9s who just stayed silent.
Kirito placed the back of his head on the wall and thought about his next words, he wasn't anywhere near a people person so he had to choose his words carefully.
"Look your 9s model right?"
"So I'm guessing that most 9s models look like you... you know what never mind" Kirito stopped himself from saying unnecessary things, the world he had woken up in looked hard enough as it was for him to ask someone he just met that question.
"Here." Kirito said to 9s as he pulled out one of his spare coats from his inventory and gave it 9s.
9s looked at the coat that Kirito was giving to him and while he knew that it was nothing but clothes for some reason he couldn't bring himself to accept it, but at the same time, Kirito had decided to give it to him.
9s hesitantly reached out and took the coat from Kirito's hand before he brought it close to himself and held it, the coat had become something precious to him because no other 9s had it and because even if they all ended up having one he was the first one to ever receive it.
"Screw this I'm done waiting, 9s what weapons do you have on you?" Kirito asked 9s who realized that he had been staring at the coat.
"Just a sword, I don't have a Pod with me at the moment" 9s answered Kirito.
"It'll have to do, if it gets too dangerous well just run away." Kirito said to 9 before standing up and drawing his sword.
"Kirito wait!" 9s warned Kirito before putting on the coat Kirito had given him and running after him.
The machines turned towards Kirito as he ran towards them and swung his sword at the closes one to him, the sound of metal hitting metal echoed through the area and Kirito immediately knew that he was in trouble.
He had made a dent in the machine, but other than that there wasn't any harm, the machine swung its arm, and had it not been for his armor Kirito was sure that that attack would have killed him.
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His help screen appeared in front of him but it was covered with warning signs making it impossible for him to see anything beyond them.
Kirito tries to understand what happened as he moves his hand onto his chest and realizes that his breastplate is completely broken, had the machine hit him with a little more strength it would have killed him.
"Kirito!"Kirito heard 9s calling him as the android cuts through a machine
Kirito struggles to breathe but his broken breastplate is making it difficult for him to do so, with little choice Kirito decides to use a healing crystal and run away, but he notices that his right hand isn't answering him.
Kirito can't help but smile as he starts to realize just how stupid attacking the machine was, but his time is running out as the machines start to surround him and 9s.
With what little strength he has left Kirito raises his left hand and manages to take out a healing crystal from his inventory, the crystal instantly shatters as it fixes his breastplate, lungs, hand, and ribs.
Now that he's able to breathe Kirito does the one thing he can and uses all of his speed to run towards 9s before taking out a group teleportation crystal.
Just like the healing crystal, the group teleportation crystal [G.T.C] shatters and both Kirito and 9s find themselves standing just outside of the resistance village.
9s looks around confused and as he finds Kirito standing next to him, he realized that Kirito must have done something.
"9re you crazy!" 9s says to Kirito who just puts a hand on the androids head.
9s looks at Kirito confused, not understanding what exactly was gooing on and is going on inside the Humans head.
A moment later Kirito lets go of 9s and walk's away from him and the resistance village and leans on one of the buildings before sending a video of what just happened to Asuna and everyone else.
As 9s approaches him Kirito begins to talk.
"You know I'm probably the strongest person in the group and that thing just wiped the floor with me." Kirito turns to look at 9s was now beginning to understand why Kirito had attacked the machine.
"We're no match for those things." Kirito says to 9s as he turns and sees the android's worried expression.
Kirito turns to look at the white buildings around him and for the first time notices that he somehow missed all of the overgrown trees that had taken over.
There were trees everywhere. some were so big that they towered over the fallen buildings or were now holding up the buildings that remained.
"I guess I'm not doing so well." Kirito says to himself as he looks at the world that's in front of him.
"Is this real? or is this another sick game?" he says to himself.
