Floor 50:
Algade
"RIN!" I jump up at 3:15 am, I look next to me and see Akane looking panicked. "What's wrong...?"
"There's someone here..."
"What do you mean?"
"In the living room"
I look at the bedroom door and slowly sneak out, I see nobody. I'm confused for a second then I hear a cheerful cry from my dog: Xibalba.
"Akane it's just Xibalba calm down."
"...oh I forgot he stays everywhere he goes with you..."
I pat her head "go back to sleep"
"Okay"
Next morning
I get up and go to the front door not caring that I'm wearing only pants and I collect the newspaper. It says the front lines hit floor 55, surprised I almost drop my coffee. I hadn't been in the front lines in days, almost weeks since I had 3.5 people to be with... And I'm not letting my dog die so that should explain that, I know how everyone is trying to beat the game to get out of here but I have a life here... I have a girlfriend... Bacchus and Kaiba... Xibalba... I can't leave all this behind... I'll only get two of those four things irl. And that is a lot to lose... And who wants to leave This beautiful Aincrad... Here I'm a well known person... Outside of the nervegear I'm a motherboard builder for Corsair who gets paid minimum wage. Now it's not important.
"RIN"
"WHAAAAAAT?!"
"KAIBA WANTS TO MEET YOU, GO TO AGILS SHOP!"
I get dressed, and walk to Agil's shop where there's Kaiba and some dude from knights of the blood oath...
"Kaiba what's up with the shady looking guy?" The guy looked in his 40s and like a Disney villan. "All High ranking officials of the guild must have a bodyguard."
"Oh... So I gotta tell you something let's discuss at my place... IN PRIVATE."
The guard then looks at me with hatred
"MASTER KAIBA, YOU CANT GO, WHY ARE YOU GOING WITH A SHADY ASS ASSASSIN!?" I look at him as he was following us into the crowded street.
"Shut up... N00b"
I wanted to see his reaction and he drew his two-handed sword. Laughing I walked up to him and bitch slapped him. Everyone stopped to look at the K.O.B. Get humiliated. Hell, even Kaiba's ass was laughing. Then surprisingly he challenges me to a duel, I accept and draw my sword, ready to fight. We have 15 more seconds to prepare so I swing my sword in the air, getting ready for him to charge. The match starts and he charges at me, I side step and trip him. He gets up and throws a knife at me. I combat roll and dash towards him, I hold my sword upside down and slice his legs using a sword skill. He then gets up and chases me, I run to a wall, run up it and backflip. Yes I did that it took 2 months of practice. And I stabbed him in the back, literally. The duel ends with his Health going to yellow. I sheathe my sword and nod Kaiba over "let's go."
"Okay" followed by him laughing his ass off. I lead him to the fields to get some col and exp. We are fighting some monsters when he asks me "What's the plan? I haven't seen Bacchus in a month... I think something is wrong since he's alive but hasn't moved in a month..."
Some guy overheard us
"Oh Bacchus? I heard he went to jail for killing 10 players... Only one of them were red and that dude was in laughing coffin."
I look over and see Klein.
"What the hell Klein you mean..."
"Yup.."
Esteban looks panicked "W-well for how long...?"
"He's been sentenced to Death."
I felt like someone ripped my heart out and crushed it. I knew Cristian since third grade...
"Esteban let's go."
"Wait now...?"
"Yes"
I hold up a teleport crystal
"TELEPORT: PRISON"
I teleport to the prison area where the npc guards aim their bows at me. I throw knives at them killing them. I run into the prison cells where I see Bacchus and a shit ton of guards. I hear a dynamite explosion and I slice the cell door open.
"C'mon bud, let's get you out.."
I open my inventory and hand him a Katana I found. We ran out and I stop to see the Knights Of The Blood Oath... Half of it in front of me... Including Heathcliff, the leader of K.O.B. He's said to be the strongest man in Sao. I open my menu and grab the strongest sword I have: the Crime Rogue. I look at him and he looks straight back at me. He's said to have a unique skill where his attack and defense are maxed out. I look to his side and see Asuna... Lightning flash is what everyone calls her. And you do not want to fuck with her but I had no choice. I look around the prison, there's forest and a path leading to the Town of Beginnings. I lead Cristian down the path while we run for our lives. We hear twigs snapping all around us, they want to kill us badly. A guy jumps in front of us, I kick him away and run. This isn't like normal video games with quick time events where everything slows down, we are in a video game we can't escape. I then get knocked off my feet by heathcliff's shield. He looks at me.
"You are Rin... Am I right?"
"Yea so?"
"You were a very strong player on the front lines, why'd you leave?"
"I had to protect my friends."
"From what, exactly?"
"Everything..., have you logged on with friends or alone?"
"Alone."
"Then you don't know what it feels like to have your best friend on the brink of death."
Heathcliff smirked. "Tell you what, I'll let your friend free if, IF you come back on the assault team."
I look at Bacchus and he shakes his head. He'd rather die than me go on the assault team.
I look at Heathcliff
"I'll do it."
End of chapter 3
