Confrontation soundtrack from Titans Hand's perspective- Dark Souls III Soul of Cinder

Confrontation soundtrack from Kirito's perspective- Adam Jones's You Can Run

There was a pause however brief, that Rosalia desperately tried to fill with her own rhetoric, "You, you used a child as bait in order to draw us out?!"

Kirito snorted at that while twirling her blades between her fingers as she sauntered forward rolling her eyes towards the sky in the process.

"Do I even need to point out the fact that you are more or less openly admitting that you were planning on robbing Silica blind and leaving her for dead before I became a factor in the equation? I mean, fucking really?"

Rosalia, ignoring the hypocrisy of her own statement raised her spear, hands shaking and ground out, "KILL HER!"

In all reality neither woman quite realized who was more surprised that Rosalia's grunts actually obeyed her, not that in the end it really even mattered.

The first man to approach Kirito received a sword to the chest that she left there as she spun about while grabbing her next opponents free arm, cleaving it off in one smooth motion as she spun around in the now opposite direction to smack him in the face with said appendage.

As he fell to the ground and the arm in her grasp blew away into pixels Kirito absently reached behind her and tore her offhand sword from the gurgling mans chest as he fell over catatonic from the paralysis poison she had earlier coated the blade in.

Twirling her swords absently between her fingers Kirito rushed the man wielding two axes and bypassed him by simply cutting off his legs while avoiding his rather sloppy cross blade sweep. She absently kicked him behind her as she approached her next victim in much the same manner as she had her second.

Though this time when she cleaved his arm off she spin kicked it at his partner who let out a cry upon impact that created the perfect opening for her to cleave off his left leg and right arm off. Leaving the screaming man behind her Kirito spun her blades hilts between her fingers before charging forward and simply stabbed the two men before her in their chests with one diving leap.

Completing a perfect followup tuck and roll she took to her feet and approached the last, and now quite thoroughly terrified man she had him dropping his hammer to the ground simply by pointed her primary blade at him while speaking up in a bored drawl.

"You have two options, option one, I kill you, I kill your friends, and that is, as they say that. My people are safe, a threat is forevermore removed, and life moves on. Alternatively, you give me all your items and Col, and in return I give you a teleportation gem that sends you to a prison my coworker Thinker came up with. So it's all on you buddy, near guaranteed death at the hands of a teenage girl, or you cool your heels in jail until we get out of this game."

She grinned as the point of her sword dug into his throat, "So what will it be?"

Rosalia chose that moment to speak up, causing Kirito to roll her eyes as she turned her gaze towards the redhead, "You can't kill them! If you do you'll be labeling yourself as a Red Icon, a player killer!"

Kirito's shoulder shuddered for a few moments, then she broke out laughing as she shook her head quickly before gasping out, "Oh you stupid bitch!"

The stunned and injured player attackers froze, as did Rosalia and the thoroughly terrified Silica as Kirito extended a hand towards the redhead, "If Orange flagged players attack an unarmed Green player thrice they are automatically flagged as Red to that specific player for a half hour. Which means I can kill your boys here anytime in the next twenty minutes without fear of any long term repercussions."

Collecting herself Kirito shook her head slowly as she quietly reiterated her previous statement, "Either you accept my trade for all of your gear and money in exchange for imprisonment, or you die, simple as that. As an aside, I'm sure you all know I at this point have killed before, and will very likely kill again, so, your choice on where you'll end up at the end of this confrontation."

There was a tense pause, Kirito spun a knife between her fingers, then a minute later one of the crippled men began crying.

It was pathetic.

The crying man eventually pleaded out, "I'll, I'll take the trade! Please don't kill me!"

Seconds later, they were all singing the same tune and suddenly Kirito was a lot richer, and Aincrad's prison was a lot fuller. Scoffing she turned back to Rosalia who for some reason stuck around and Kirito could not help snarking out to her.

"And what to do with you..."

"You...you BITCH!"

Kirito could only shrug at that statement while nodding slowly, "Not wrong, and in adding to that opinion allow me to elucidate your current situation. I cannot hurt you, you're a green player after all and I do not wish to be flagged as a Player Killer. Thus so, as previously stated with your group of idiots, I had to come up with a proper solution to deal with you, and I have done so as it ends up."

Rosalia took a step back as Kirito took a step forward all while extending her hand towards the older woman, "Control, that is what you crave over anything else yes? So, unless you take this teleportation gem and spend the next however many years in prison? That's what I'll be taking from you."

Rosalia froze up as her eyes widened in horror, "What?!"

"It's quite simple, really, I can't hurt you so I can't control you but, but, there is always a work around. Did you know that Laughing Coffin is open for hire? That is, players , who are willing to murder other players, and will do so for money?"

"No," Rosalia muttered in horror.

Kirito grinned in reply, "Oh what's wrong? Contract killing is a beat we can all dance to after all!" Her smirk turned into a somber rictus grin a second later as she grated out, "Either you take this gem and shove yourself in a hole so deep into the ground that I'll never have to see you again, or you get the alternative. Prison, or running for your life, for the rest of your very short life, all courtesy of yours truly, of course.

"Your decision."

Hands shaking, Rosalia accepted the trade, and vanished seconds later as she activated the teleportation gem.

There was dead silence for several minutes, eventually Silica approached Kirito who's head was hanging low, and once seeing the older girl shaking, she gently reached out a hand and touched her arm.

This seemed to set Kirito off as she began to laugh out madly, stumbling around she wrapped her arms around herself, eventually tripping over her own feet, and fell to the ground, still laughing.

Silica stared down at the older girl a few moments, then Keiko's eyes snapped open and she giggle snorted over her own words, "Oh, *heheh* oh my god, *HAHAHA* they, they actually fell for it!"

There was more hysterical laughter, and eventually, as in fifteen minutes later minimum Kirito met Silica's perplexed gaze with a wide grin while still trying to suppress her giggling.

After several choked back cackles she eventually wiped the tears from her eyes, and finally ground out what had her so amused, "I...oh my god, I just tricked eight people into arresting themselves! Everything I told them was complete bullshit, there isn't anything like that in the system, they just threw themselves into prison and, BWAHAHAHAHA!"

Silica couldn't help it, she broke out laughing as well.